skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And? You think Chinese Gov will spend the time and effort to blackmail some random civilian on the other side of the world? Is this some regurgiated version of the false spiel claming that "all companies are direct arms of the Chinese government"?

When Kunlun Tech's ownership of Grindr was labelled as a national security risk, the U.S. government certainly did not take China's LGBT rights record or the privacy of regular American civilians into consideration. It was strictly about government & military personnel. I applaud your vivid & divergent thinking skills buy I'm afraid you've gone too far from the actual issue.
>I really hope the next big competitive move in browsers is per site saving of zooming options

If you use Ctrl-+ to make the text larger, both FF and Chrome already remember how large you made it and use that size every time you visit that site from then on. What am I missing?
This Adam guy is Israeli, not from the soviet union, his sister got famous in Israel for exposing certain neither regions in the big brother TV show.
So a Libra wallet will be no different than an international 0%-interest checking account, with transaction fees. Seems like FB could have just announced that to avoid being slaughtered by every news outlet and regulator.

They've already shifted their plan by a huge amount from decentralization to centralization and succumbed to the power of governments. No reason to believe it will not continue to happen in the future.

Party's over, goodnight, go home. Maybe Western Union will lose some profits though.

Though I do wonder how rules for international (country A => country B, or country C => country C, where C != the US) transactions will be applied. Since FB is a US company does that mean every single Libra user will be subject to US restrictions - even those which are legal in their country? Will Iranians be able to use Libra? What about Canadians using it to buy marijuana?

They said they will vet the people allowed to mine / process transactions on the network, so it seems like FB could easily be required to shut down a miner if the US government says they're doing money laundering or allowing people in Iran to buy medical supplies or allowing Canadians to buy weed or assisting with other illegal activities.

I'm sure banks have already dealt with this problem extensively. Libra seems like a very non-innovative solution - just another bank, by Facebook this time.
Oracle made a business of squeezing lots of unreasonable corners here, so folks have soured a bit on what would be an otherwise reasonable process. Best would be some kind of random third party CPA firm or something do a balanced audit against standards without the screw you upsell to avoid total destruction on the license fee side.
> Knowing that you just visited Best Buy website 10 minutes ago and searched for a camera is _much_ more relevant to figure out which ad to show you on nytimes.com right now than the content of the article you're reading on nytimes.com

This sounds reasonable. But there is quite a way from that to the current implementation which seems to be along the lines of:

if(male) {
showDumbDatingSiteAds();
}

It doesn't take very many PhDs to come up with that, does it?
It's harder than ever relative to living in the suburbs. Every day the suburbs get cheaper, more spacious, and more enjoyable relative to the city.
Ask HN: When browsing HN, do you click to view the article or discussion first?
Interesting. That is actually something I've been looking for and I do have a msdn sub.

fyi that defaulted to indian rupee as default currency for me (UK based & zero indian connections). Weird
Americans are non-confrontational to a fault, sometimes they'll feign excitement about future plans to avoid "being negative" while you're asking. all the while having no intention to go through (and the defensive body language that goes with). It takes a bit to get used to
If you use a sharded “eventual consistency” database cluster to store the number of reset attempts per interval, then sufficient IPs can be purchased to overwhelm your “eventual” threshold unless each reset attempt compels consistency before evaluating whether the limit is reached. That would qualify as a “race condition” in language terms, even if not being the classical sort of one considered such by programmers, and present the easy described fix (take a consistent read lock rather than an inconsistent one or none at all) when checking the rate limit.
> I don't think for WW1 (unlike WW2) anybody's goal was to expand

Wilhelm II deliberately set the German Empire on the path of building a navy strong enough to challenge Britain's command of the seas and support an overseas colonial empire. The British, quite correctly, saw losing command of the seas as an existential threat to their survival as an island nation, and felt forced into a ruinous naval arms buildup in order to maintain their position (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-German_naval_arms_race). German naval expansion also drove the British to forge alliances with the French and Russians (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Entente) to try and contain the German threat. These alliances would end up dragging them all into World War I.

It was quite counterintuitive that the British and Germans should end up at each others' throats in this period -- the British royal family was ethnically German, after all; in the 19th century both countries had seen themselves as rooted in a common Northern European, Anglo-Saxon civilization; and there was no real economic logic in the idea of essentially landlocked Germany as a colonial power. If Wilhelm had been willing to live with Germany's status as the dominant land power in Europe and leave Britannia ruling the waves, it's unlikely they would have ever come to blows. But he wasn't, he wanted battleships and colonies and all the other trappings of world empire ("weltpolitik": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpolitik) as opposed to Bismarck's more cautious policy of realpolitik (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik). And in reaching for all that he made enemies that would end up destroying Bismarck's empire.
Maybe they should of hosted their "cold take" on the IBM hybrid cloud?
It has always struck me as a very weird practice for colleges to be adjudicating criminal matters like rape.
What you're describing is not optimization the math field, and second _some_ of the example do have basis in mathematics.

> Discovering some API I'm using is particularly slow and finding an alternate one that's faster.
On it's own it has nothing to do with Math, but writing code as components/services/abstract layers with well-defined boundaries/interfaces/types mean it's easier to reason about the code and avoid bugs. Implicitly here I'm saying we should use a language that has strong type support.

> Adding caching.
This is memoization and without the basis that general code functions should behave like their math counterparts this is hard to reason about.

> Reorganizing code to take advantage of vector instructions
These are mapping operations that are well defined in functional languages. The vectorized interface numpy provides is an abstraction of maps.

> Making objects smaller to put less pressure on the GC
This is orthogonal to the actual math basis for the code. For example using enums over strings is a localized change.
That would benefit scammy firms like infosys
As someone roughly your age who moved within Germany, I can say I do not sympathise. Moved away for studying, also didn't return for work.

Productivity (aka where jobs are to be had) was and most likely never will be evenly distributed. That is a fact and one has to face it, whether one likes it or not.

Very informative Freakonomics episode on the topic of geographic factors of economies: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/secrets-german-economy-steal...
>Land has value

Then consider the "value" of an empty lot, the archetype of land in itself. Its _price_ is based solely on the the _value_ that those near it produce. A high productivity region increases the value of neighboring empty lots. The lots themselves have produced nothing and whatever price they command is solely a drain on the productive part of the economy.

>Is a grocery store milking you for food you buy?

Value added by building or improving a resource like food or a structure is fundamentally different and obviously needs to be compensated and encouraged. But profit from an unchanged property is entirely a zero-sum gain moving wealth from productive parts of an economy to unproductive.
So is Subway the good guy or the bad guy in your comparison? I can’t tell based on your phrasing.
"load testing my website INSERT_VALID_WEBSITE_LINK"
A pretty good essay I've recently read that explores this topic.[0]

0. http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
I'd say low earth orbit is qualitatively different from, say, an asteroid somewhere.
git stash follows you around, while a temp commit is bound to a branch
discussion first. because i can then reach the article from the link at the top of the page. otherwise, for example if i'm browsing the latest article, i might lose the article in the next refresh.
Yes, exactly that. IBM has the chance now to repeat history with the tables turned in IBMs favor
- If you're in it just for the money, bounce now.

- Be curious.

- Push your comfort-zone, often. Do hard things: write a C compiler, design a pipelined/microcoded/branch-predicting MICMAC processor, write a kernel module, write a 3D graphics engine, and so on.

- Master the fundamental concepts, data structures and algorithms.

- Dig deep: computer architecture/organization, assembly, Linux from Scratch, source code of OSes/tools, etc. And, there's more out there than just FOSS; some very useful tools aren't new, OSS or popular. Get proficient at debugging tools.

- Don't get stuck, emotional or religious about any one domain.

- Master one or two domains.

- Be ambivalent, healthily suspicious of and open to "new" flavors of tech fashions.

- Practicing and reading books is all well-and-good, but trying to make something is the best teacher.

- Throwing away and rewriting a few times helps.

- Write for clarity, not cleverness.

- Work on something that matters.

- Avoid job security where you can by documenting and writing obvious code, because it will hold you back more than help.

- Don't write useless, giant comments.

- Don't write heaps of uncommented code.

- Literate programming can be awesome for tricky/complicated desired code behavior.

- Don't reinvent the wheel if you don't have to.

- Premature optimization is a faux pas.

- Small changes.

- The only good code is small pieces of low complexity, tested code; fragile, big function, "black boxes" are evil.

- Use mostly standard conventions.

- Have fun, break things and put them back together again :)
Yes, Softbank has total balance sheet assets of approximately $335b, and their total investment in WeWork is ~$6b. But even that overstates it because a big portion of that investment was made via the Vision fund (i.e., other peoples' money).
Hug of death, here is cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R4qm2iW...
Yes, fully agree. I think getting good at algo/DS is essentially the same as doing ICPC. Personally, the limited amount of time I spent on ICPC has probably had the greatest benefit/cost from college in my life so far.
> Search results in reverse chronological order is Twitter's killer feature but, bafflingly, it seems like they've been going out of thier way to prevent that for years now, especially on mobile. Why?

The engagement metrics have got to be better with Home. It makes sense, since the whole idea of an algorithmic timeline is to take the stuff the company knows is getting a reaction and feed it to more people.

Personally I think this is a great example of how engagement metrics mislead companies. The numbers go up, but it fundamentally changes the nature of the experience.

When you're on a reverse-chron timeline you have a sense of people's lives in real time and can have conversations. You only see people you have chosen to follow, so you recognize people and get a sense of their personality. A lot of the content is fairly banal, which gives an (accurate) sense that life for most people is kind of calm and mildly interesting.

When you're on an algorithmic timeline, you're seeing content that is really likely to get a reaction--that usually means it has a lot of emotion tied up in it: outrage, anger, sadness, humor, etc.

But it's also content that is old and choked with replies. So you can't have a normal conversation around it; there are too many people acting too emotionally. And you're seeing content from more people you don't follow--Twitter's Home timeline brings in a higher percentage of tweets that your follows have liked or replied to.

So if your timeline is filled with this kind of content, it creates the (inaccurate) impression that life is full of really extreme moments and amped-up strangers!

I can almost always tell when Twitter has switched me back to home. Suddenly I realize I'm feeling more angry, and the numbers on most of the tweets are bigger. I also see more tweets from people I don't recognize. It's like opening my kitchen door and suddenly finding a loud restaurant with spicy food in my house.
That's pretty interesting because I would argue you got the trend right just not the method.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R4qm2iW...
Would you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? That's what we're trying to avoid here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Would you please not take HN threads further into flamewar? We've had to ask you this before.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ask HN: Recover Stocks Worth $1m
Hello HN folks. I received an email from someone who says they're an asset locator and that they've found an account of mine that has n number of shares of a FAANG stock worth about $1m. I did work for a startup that was acquired by FAANG but I had cashed out completely. They're asking 10% to recover this for me. But if there is such an account is there a way I can recover these without paying the 100K they're asking? Maybe by finding out from the acquired company's finance department? Or some other way?
No, the poor catalogue is the root cause of my antipathy.
Because being anti patriarchy is in vogue
Yeah.... thas weird.... but I sure could go for a gin tonica...

here in brasil people usually don't drink fancy stuff, like pink blueberry, or things like that.

Usually beer, straith licor or things like vodka/cachaça with fruits.

I just drink fancy girly stuff like Daiquiris when I in the mood to learn a new drink, and can drink in peace without other people to judge my frail masculinity.
Either over this:

(define (s x) (* x x))

Which is effectively what the OP does when they write their example. Their simple example quickly becomes unreadable after a few definitions.
Roommates are mostly a side-effect of banning SROs. If the NIMBYs had their way they'd be illegal too. Urban singles needing housing isn't new.
I'll sell you WeWork shorts at a 40 billion valuation. We'll resolve the short 30 days after the IPO.

How much would you like?
When you consider that propagating the species goes hand in hand with future social security payments, this isn't that radical of an idea.
Any university that takes federal funds is amply exposed to the law of an administration wishes to so expose it.
You sure need some drugs to loose a little.
Where I live everybody pays the same % of their income as taxes.
I am not a government, I don't know how much more childless people should pay, you could start with a low,arbitrary number percentage wise(say 2% more if you are childless) -- and alocate those taxes to free childcare or other baby services.
Why would you need an immigrant visa to get married? As soon as you're married you're supposed to apply for a green card. Green cards through marriage are prioritized, not capped and all.
> just make the debts dischargeable in bankruptcy

Okay, and then watch the interest rates on student loans double, all the protections like income-based repayment disappear, and stop guaranteeing the availability of student loans to nearly everyone.

Also, prepare for extra scrutiny in what the student loan money is spent on. Sure, legally student loans are only to be spent on class-related expenses and living expenses, but I knew someone that spent a bunch of student loan money on a trip to Disneyland.

I agree that there's a student loan crisis and that a lot of students were basically swindled into for-profit colleges like ITT Tech, and many people are being told that they can get a degree in anything they want and they'll find a well-paying job with it, but allowing the debt to be discharged in bankruptcy will cause more problems than it fixes.

I'd suggest an alternative like capping the amount of total interest that can be put on the loan.
You don't seem to realize how different world trade was before the end of WWII. Before the end of WWII, a nation needed a navy (and probably colonies) to import significant amounts of raw materials or to export significant amounts of manufactured goods. During the 19th Century and the first 45 years of the 20th Century, Germany was prohibited from trading with the colonies of any nation with a navy because a nation with a navy used it to make war on any manufacturing nation who dared trade with its colonies.
Ray Kroc is analogous to Adam Neumann.

They both expanded a marginally profitable (and hard to grow) business by expanding a few locations than leveraging the capital to buy real-estate, which allowed them to stop caring about the original and individual franchised business success. Using the massive income of being commercial property landlords, even if the franchises failed, they had revenue growth. Now that Kroc is gone, the reference to McDonald's as a corporation is convenient, since the history is understood and available.

The movie "The Founder" might clear things up.
I could see where you would argue that direction though... it makes sense that data persistence shouldn't be so differentiated. The power of brand and the paradigm I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I’m quite good friends with 4/5 of my neighbors. It’d still be rude of me to just knock on their door when I could easily text first to make sure they’re dressed/in the mood for company.

If it matters I’m 40 and they run from 50-70 in age.
You've elegantly stated my point precisely. Thank you!
If it was a dream language, why do you think it died out, and why did COBOL become dominant and survives to this day?
Full disclosure , I work at Red Hat, but IBM buying red hat is a big deal. Just go back 40 years and IBM vs Microsoft. Microsoft bought QDos (which became windows). Now IBM bought red hat, which has openshift and
Acctually what I meant is, young people usually think talking and interacting to strangers is creepy. Like. Ok you can be creep, and is easy to look creep when you talking to a beatfull woman an is an insecure nerd. Been there, done that.
vagrant and docker. I just didn't understand them at first, and wasn't interested either.

next month I'll be joining a new company as a devops engineer. better late than never.
Sure - but I asked because I'm specifically interested in crdb.
If we start with the notion that everything is a model and that some are less wrong, then being as close as possible to math simply means the models are in some sense provably correct. Some models need more rigour in being proved as such.
No! Toys R Us was not at all a “perfectly viable business”, rather a deeply troubled retailer with long history of decline, mismanagement, terrible earnings, and a disaster of a balance sheet! [1] And “if not for the ridiculous debt-load” is like saying Flint Michigan had delicious water except for the poison. Debt load destroys companies unless they are growing revenues and can service and retire the debt.

Thousands of workers lost jobs because the company leadership and market pressures crushed the company; oh, and that debt.

Enter PE and a much needed restructuring. Now Toys R Us is reformed into more of an experience vice pure retailer. [2]

While not as large as it once was there are jobs there now whereas absent the reforms PE brought there would very likely be only some real estate for sale and a footnote in business history. And no jobs.

So yeah, blame PE.

[1] https://www.retaildive.com/news/inside-the-20-year-decline-o...

[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/toys-r-us-executives-plot-re...
Isn't it only true for applicants from India and China? As far as I know (and I may be mistaken, this is just what my immigration lawyer told me a while ago) for all other countries it's not that bad, rarely passed a few years.
it is. it's just passing veeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyy sloooooooowwwwllllllyyyyy....
Curious. Is this a legal trade?
If it's true that they want to kill the public registry, that means I may need to seriously investigate Entropic as an alternative. I almost feel like migrating away from the normal registry is an ethical issue now. What percentage of popular packages are available in Entropic? If someone else's repo is not in there, can I add it for them?
Oh I see, thanks for the correction.
Do not incur more than $7,540 in debt. This is half a minimum wage job so even if you can't get employment and have to live with your parents, you can pay it off in max 6 months with just a min wage job.
Please don't turn HN threads into Nietzschean flamewars.

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Yes. :-)

I may middle-click both, opening them both in tabs.

I may skip either. Sometimes I just want the article. Sometimes I know what is in the article just from the title, so I just want the discussion.
Strictly speaking, probably not. But I don't think the SEC reads Hacker News.
It doesn't matter too much when using normal GPS receivers for mapping because the difference between datums is less than the position error. The main reason I was looking into it is because I was experimenting with a GPS setup that could theoretically achieve high enough accuracy for this to matter.
Facebook was kind of funny when it came around- ostensibly it wasn't much different than other companies... only that the design was better at the time (I can still remember the hideous tangled mess that was myspace at the peak). I can see where you might have thought that though...
The Bush 43 bankruptcy reform act made student loans impossible to escape via bankruptcy. As Peter Thiel said in his recent speech:

> "There is the fraud of university education. Student loan debt is not dischargable in bankruptcy. The government can garnish your Social Security payments when you’re 65 to pay off your student loans."

source: https://medium.com/@bonniekavoussi/notes-from-peter-thiels-s...