skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're only as lucky as we are because those who came before us weren't content with how lucky they were.
Exploring the decision making of Immigration Officers: a study (2007) [pdf]
Yes Silver Bullet (2019)
Daily user since beginning of this year. Help keeps my laptop in sync with my remote dev environment.
I stopped using Venmo when they removed the ability to send payments to other people through their website.

They're will within their rights to do so, but it's also mega dumb and as such I have the right to not give them anymore of my business.
Way, waaaaay ahead
thanks for the recommendation! In college I took a senior/grad level class on controlled fusion and this was the text book that was used: https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Fusion-Energy-Introduction...
(https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP18/class/ECE/484...)
You will care when someone steals your number, although it likely won't be from the card.

Banks will often make you jump through hoops when something goes really wrong, even when they are at fault.
I think the confusion for me was that there is also a pay-per-word price; then for me the limit on the number of phrases does not feel logical. Phrases as tr() calls for me as a developer also depend quite a bit on how I have setup the translation and differ per project.

I would expect to pay a monthly fee for the online service + a fee for each word. Also, 100 unique tr()'s seem a bit limiting? (even smaller projects for me quickly get > 1000 separate tr calls)
Even if you bought a lot of Apple products I would not recommend getting this card just for the 3% back.

FWIW I almost always use Cashback portals (e.g. check https://www.cashbackmonitor.com/cashback-store/apple-store/) when buying stuff online. Super easy way to get 2-3x points/$ or cashback is that usually at least 3% in addition to whatever cashback you might earn on your credit card.
Quora Ads vs. Reddit Ads; Do They Work? (A $2,500 Experiment)
Innovation comes in many shapes and forms: new capabilities, new production process, new design process, new user experience, new logistics, new sales channels, etc.

Apple is innovating on many levels, but maybe not the most on technical capabilities.
> I don't care if someone steals my credit card number. That's not my problem. It's my bank's problem.

Nothing is free. We all pay for fraud indirectly. Regardless, even if you end paying no money, you still end up paying with your time.
How we built a P2P file sharing network from scratch
Location: Central
Remote: No
Willing to relocate: Yes (Austin, Seattle, Denver, NYC, SF, Stockholm, Oslo)
Technologies: Clojure, Python (Flask, Django), JVM, React.js (open to learn Go, Elixir, Rust, Scala)
Misc: AWS, Azure, & hardware design experience (PCB)
Email: j3elam at gmail

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elamjohn/

Software is play for me, so definitely willing to put in OT making something better.
UT Austin BSEE - understand hardware, but professionally a SWE. Full stack junior developer - C#, Django, Flask. I spend a lot of time learning langs like Clojure. Familiar with big data stacks like Hadoop, python for data science, and front end frameworks like React. Prefer back end data processing pipelines, but open to web/full stack.

Available for side work, but seeking full-time. I prefer onsite work so I can learn from great engineers and have better feedback.
> 19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

Can someone give an example of this for someone who has programmed primarily in java, python, and javascript? What would be one worth learning?
is that supposed to refute in any way that the parent said ? I'm canadian and he's right... we are not sovereign at all.
Do you want to talk to your representative or AG in this case? I also have a wild idea: software engineers can actually lobby this change. They form a non profit organization, make contributions (say 10k each) and go talk to the right politics. This what corps do, but thus is what people can do to.
Rainway continues to impress me.
This article outlines how three engineers built a p2p file sharing network from scratch, and what they learned along the way.

It's a great high level primer if you're curious about how distributed hash tables or sharding works.
That issue bit me in the ass, but my biggest complaint about it was the horrible error message that Chrome gave making it impossible to figure out what the problem was.
India has $60 billion trade surplus with US it is not same relationship when with China, India has $60 billion deficit.

India is not that important for US, it is useful, Yes. Strategically important? Absolutely NOT!

Edit: To Provide Context, there is low scale tit-for-tat going between US and India regarding trade.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/15/economy/india-tariffs-us-trum...
Banks offer sign-up bonus in order to bring more customers and they hope that after a year these customers will stay and start paying annual fee and keep using the card.

I'm sure Apple feels they will get huge interest in their card even without a signup bonus, so there's no need to offer it.
Technically, a capability-based desktop OS makes perfect sense. In practice, the microkernel people have been polishing their kernels and about to start on userspace next year... for 30 years.

(One exception to this is QNX which was killed off by weird business decisions.)
However, you do want to show off the more interesting/higher quality projects, to encourage further work, and get the whole thing jiving (people enjoy competition; it oils the machines)

The problem I think is that judges themselves are incompetent/careless — when you promote a “bad” winner, you just discourage everyone from trying, because they realize there is no value to this kind of promotion; its bullshit.

I had a similar experience in my university — some kind of business project idea competition; we submitted my lab’s current project, and there were other interesting projects involved who I would have been happy to lose to.

Instead I lost to the girl with the contentless idea for edible spoons for developing countries... an idea I’d seen repeatedly in recent news cycles because some NGO in India was doing it for the last three years.

Five minutes of googling would have discovered this, but instead we simply ignored the competition since.

Attending itself was valuable, along with the half-attempt at winning — we clarified the project and ideas, and had an excuse to clean things up — so it would have been a good exercise to do yearly (and probably for the other projects involved), and the competition was healthy.

But it just takes an incompetent judge to spoil the whole thing.

There’s nothing wrong with people trying to game the competition, its a natural function of competing. But the judges are meant to operate as experts, and an expert should have (some) ability to discern bullshit from something real.
Lowest paid employee at the store? How about lowest paid idiot at the outsourced customer "service" centre.
Ask HN: Does the SaaS subscription model work in academic research?
Do you know of any startups that established a subscription model within academic research? I'm wondering if there is a difference between e.g Germany and the US.
I was syncing between OS X and FreeBSD, so sharing a binary wasn't possible.
>> I don’t care much for the immigration debate in our country, but we should be actively recruiting people like this.

Just to be clear, you're indicating that the criteria we should be selecting for is people willing to falsify information on official documents.
> The effects of American slavery linger to this day.

Do they? How?

> has a more direct impact on their lives than foreign labor exploitation.

Apparently slavery that happened over 100 years ago in a first world country where there is relatively good education (a friend of mine is married to a Cambodian woman and she didn't learn how to read until she was 16) is more important than the slavery that is happening all over the world today.
Thank you very much!

> You have any example of a page with comments?

https://epiphany.pub/post?refId=3e123914a88818452d7f2c24fd8a...

> Who is the target audience? (Live coding? Is it mainly for software people?)

This is a solo side project so far, but I really want to turn it into a startup. I started by scratching my own itch. As a tech blogger, I want a platform like medium, where I can connect with new interesting contents and interesting people, and I can have my work pushed to wider audiences. I also like the expressiveness of live programs, such as those on jupyter notebooks.

My initial targeted audiences would be tech bloggers, who could only show static images, prerecorded videos and embedded github snippets on their old platform. I want Epiphany to grow into a community like dev.to. Then I also want to attract academic content creators.

I'm attending YC startup school now. I badly need feedback on this idea to see if it has potential. I will appreciate if you could provide some feedback.

> Social publishing — how does that work? (which features from Medium do you have in mind?)

I wrote tech articles on medium that one day I want to turn into a book: https://medium.com/mlreview/l1-norm-regularization-and-spars...

on Epiphany, anyone can start a "publish" in one of the two forms, a journal or a book. Then other bloggers could contribute to your journal or book. You can select a group of editors to proof read and approve the submissions.

> Is it ok if I ask, does it have a business model?

My initial focus is a digital textbook marketplace. Imagine professionals from all different places collaborate on a book about a latest technology with demonstrations in runnable programs, like blockchain. And Epiphany will be a market place for those contents. Students will subscribe with a monthly fee, which will distributed to the creators.

> Which rich text editor & Markdown editor libraries do you use? I'm thinking about using ProseMirror myself :- )

The current version is based on the Monaco editor. But it's more ideal for programs, not so for writing markdown. I'm remaking the markdown editor with ProseMirror now, which should be deployed this week. The new editor supports realtime markdown, inspired by https://typora.io/ .
the markdown parser is markdown-it.
Did Gates have people quitting in frustration, repeat whole-team turnover? That adds a whole different color than just being a guy who gets fierce, because there's more to employee treatment than volume level.
I've noticed this year that a lot of card system vendors have updated their software to enable contactless on their card machines. I actually use my contactless card all over the place in the US, and I was even shocked and surprised to see that the MARC vending machines in Baltimore/DC supporting contactless to buy train tickets.

The number of US customers actually receiving the cards and being trained to use them is very low, and that's a problem.

As an aside, I actually like plain contactless better than Apple Pay. It's overall a faster transaction, no fussing with phone unlocks. I don't really care whether or not it's more or less secure - that's my bank's problem, not mine.
FFmpeg 4.2
> HPA can be used by various booting and diagnostic utilities, normally in conjunction with the BIOS. An example of this implementation is the Phoenix FirstBIOS, which uses Boot Engineering Extension Record (BEER) and Protected Area Run Time Interface Extension Services (PARTIES).
This comment is so good I want to create another account just so I can upvote it twice.
Buying 5G technology from a benign country like Finland or Sweden seems like a good strategy. Both these countries have no aspiration for world domination and have track records of honest business dealings. I don't think either Ericson or Nokia has ever been accused or guilty of spying or stealing technology.
It's probably bottlenecked by how fast the sensor data can be read.
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi is a great near-future sci-fi read on this subject.
What is impressive here, that it's a "mesh" or that it's a volunteer for driven?

Years ago all Minsk was covered by volunteer maintained local ethernet networks, I was accessing internet through one. Today most of them are bought out by commercial providers, some turned into providers themselves.
And even if you can read them, most people can’t comprehend them.

And even if you can, there can be bits that aren’t enforceable and effectively void.
6400x640?
I recently shined a remote control into my late 2013 macbook pro's camera and I totally saw the ir light. Not saying that you're wrong, I don't know if there are filters but only for certain specific wavelengths or something like that.
That's not what it is about, at all.

It is, perhaps, quite telling that you would reach that conclusion to a post that ponders whether striving to perform your very best every inch of your life really is the utopia.

Being "smart" wasn't even part of the equation yet you somehow ended up there.
We overcame this with a significant amount of Rust-i-ness and effort in understanding the guts of the kernel and how it implements its assurances.

Basically by providing setup, resource management, and communication abstractions that you just can't get wrong because doing something dumb that would be entirely nuts and/or would result in difficult to deal with run-time errors (as the kernel enforces some of its guarantees) ends up being rejected by the compiler ahead of time.
You're right. My tired brain bugged when seeing 30% lower than today.
I hope so! I've had so many software enhancements written off by product owners because the features were, "targeted at power users". It gets tiring explaining that while we might not have any power users before the app is released (besides devs); we certainly will if our app meets with any definition of success.

That being said, I once put my high-expectations into hasty action and found out that my expectations and my customer's expectations can differ in seemingly impossible ways.

I was working on-site at a gold mine in Nevada performing updates to our mining software suite when I became deeply bothered by the fact that the touchscreen panel which we installed in the equipment had a keyboard where the letters were laid out alphabetically.

I quickly coded up a QWERTY version (and even had a DVORAK mode that could be toggled via an environment variable). I pushed the code that night and then went to an operator training session the following evening. More than one person asked why all the letters on the keyboard were in a random order. I barely tried to explain. Just admitted that it was a mistake and rolled back the code change.
I don't want to get into some funky forward contract and would prefer to do it with the consent of my board. But if the problem persist I will likely be interested in the future.
Black Mirror style startup has $1.25b valuation, but no sales
I find it fascinating that price controls are pretty much the only difference between the US and Japanese models (well, that and price controls eliminate the concept of networks), and the Japanese model costs half what ours does for better and universal care.
That would work well if you got to pick your community. But with state borders and inherited wealth the people who get fucked are the ones who were just born in the wrong spot.
A lisp, an assembly language, prolog, a (mostly) pure functional language.
What credit card do you have that:

* gives you cash back immediately after transaction

* and has no foreign transaction fees

* and has no late fees

* and has no annual fee

* and conveniently shows you the location of the transaction

* and has one click access to support via iMessage

It's a pretty nice package of features. Sure, it's not the highest cash back ever, but most people don't have time to be on HN and nerd out over credit card terms all day and this is great card for those people. I really hope they expand to more countries.
Ok, now go tell that to a Syrian, Bangladeshian, or Ethiopian.
> the center of Florence

You are truly a madman (or madwoman).

From what I hear, traveling between cities in Italy by car is pretty convenient. But driving along side all the people walking in the middle of Firenze streets does not sound like the kind of stress I want while on vacation.
I think this is the big hurdle or most people in Manhattan:

To get connected to NYC Mesh, you’ll need a line of sight from your rooftop or balcony to one of our supernodes or hubs. Check our map to see if you're in the network coverage zone. And if you’re not yet in range, keep checking back as our network is always expanding, or volunteer to help us grow towards your neighborhood.

So this means that if you are in a condo you can't use it?
> The CO2 emissions would also only intensify the problem.

Good that most of the places facing droughts tend to get lots of sun. Using increasingly cheap solar power for desalination seems like a perfect fit, especially as water is easily stored and desalination plants can offset power production peaks/demand lows.
Who cares about laptops and tablets? They already have fast ports. You already can put a real NVMe drive into a USB enclosure and get ridiculously fast external storage.

This new form factor would be perfect for cameras that shoot RAW video or high-bandwidth video. Until recently you'd need to buy very expensive and fast SD cards or proprietary RED mags to be able to record high quality high resolution video. BMPCC4K was the first (very affordable) camera that allowed recording directly into a USB SSD.
What’s the difference? If you take investor money you have given up control of your own fate.
Based on your response I'd say my opinion's no more biased than yours!

> All you are admitting here is that the Government can't provide a compelling alternative to a more expensive form of transport.
> Why vote to increase spending on something that doesn't benefit you? People won't and you won't convince anyone. This is an unrealistic standard you expect of other people, plus the high and mighty tone you are using won't win people over.

I really don't get why so many folks insist on positioning Government as some sort of "other" entity, as if its functioning isn't directly affected by voters.
Anyways, why support transit? Because it _does_ benefit you as a car user but you and your leadership refuses to see it. It's well documented that improving alternate modes of transportation helps alleviate traffic congestion by shifting some drivers to other modes, thus producing less wear and tear on the roads(and your car) and helping drivers get to where they're going faster and safer. Sorry, that's how it works.

> No I don't want to have to deal with possibility of violence, nutcases and other general unpleasantness so I won't take the train

I mean, sure. That's your right. But you _have_ an alternative, whereas many folks have no other choice but to risk the trip, so how exactly is not supporting transit not a "fuck you, I got mine" attitude?
I remember making a smart whiteboard with his software back in the day! It worked surprisingly well, even in a teacher's classroom, with an online store bought ir led pen.
That's one of the funny differences I've seen between UK and US. Contactless is ubiquitous in the UK, and less so in the US. But there is no £30 limit on contactless payments in the US. I've used tap-to-pay with Apple Pay to spend hundreds of dollars in a single purchase, no pin, no signature, no problem.
Azure Security Lab: a new space for Azure research and collaboration
Hey that's my site! Thanks for sharing!
I'd hardly say that the free market is the savior, The innovation in renewables was the result of heavy government spending in R&D grants to universities, subsidies on renewable tech, and cap and trade on emissions. Lets hope that the free market can take the baton after government intervention pushed down the initial price barriers.
It's a conductive coating, but applied in an intricate pattern and connected to the controller with some very delicate connectors or anisotropic conductive film.

The bonding process adds a bit more cost.
Right - it's a confusing strategy IMO. In general wealthier people who probably don't revolve credit (e.g. pay in full each month) want premium rewards, which this doesn't offer at all, so my hunch is that this will appear to more middle income/lower income individuals who pay interest (cost of interest negate any rewards), which is a bit strange since the branding/marketing and Apple (+ Goldman Sachs) generally target wealthier individuals.
Being Empathetic Is Not Always Helpful – Why the Greatest Strength Is Weakness
The tokens can be used for authentication. With money you'd need accounts, auth for those accounts, somebody needs to manage those accounts, etc
TensorFlow vs. PyTorch vs. Keras for Natural Language Processing
I’m a fan of my Apple Watch for that. Quicker than getting a phone out, no need to unlock, and I always have it even without my wallet.
I would be happy if people started using more locally sourced info on restaurants and places to sleep. Tripadvisor/yelp etc. can destroy any local restaurant scene. IMO there is nothing more soulless than picking a tripadvisor top 10 restaurant just because it‘s listed there. I usually ask people i know or random locals for tips where to eat. Or look at local blogs. Or you just pick a random place. I feel like some people just don’t do that anymore.
Also did some work ages ago with a safety critical element. Checklist fatigue is real.

Especially in govt compliance areas - a lot of folks have attitude of parent, get over the fatigue because this is "important". I once went to a presentation where they showed someone in handcuffs because they didn't follow the procedure. There are 100s of irrelevant items (yes - 8 track data standards compliance in some docs still) on some of these lists and people know it is total BS.

The authors of the article make a great point, local adaption and implementation. The checklists that work are carefully curated and honed. I currently work in a space with lots of checklists, and I take that approach, do we still need this item? Things change. If you make the checklist useful MUCH higher compliance. That means updating and refining it so it's the reference guide for what should be happening not an endless list of all possible things one could do.
Nope, that’s a 100 pies...
AMD RDNA / Navi Architecture Slides [pdf]
Haskell / F# / Miranda / Ocaml / Reason

SQL / datalog

apl / j / k

Rust

Clojure / Racket / Scheme / Common Lisp

Forth

Julia

Mathematica