skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You are right, a few good tools out there. This is just our take on it, we like simple things :)

I used to have a really simple way to track time, back in the pre-cloud days: music CDs.

Put on CD, hit play, start working on something billable to a particular client. When the CD ends, put on another. When done working on stuff for that client, add up the total time of the pile of played CDs, and that's the time to bill that client.

That did require manual action, but since I was going to listen to music while I worked anyway it was not really any extra work.
When you 'apt install coreutils' in Termux you get coreutils installed as a multi-call binary to save space. 1556 kB for the package in total (including man pages).
Server hardware is well supported though. To be honest, anecdotally I've found desktop hardware to be pretty well supported too. Not to the level where you'd use it for gaming (gaming software support aside), but for general use it's a usable desktop. In fact I seem to recall FreeBSD working better with WiFi than Linux did, back when WiFi support in Linux was relatively new and often required using a userspace wrapper around Windows binaries.

Obviously there's always room for improvement and people's experiences often differ, but I've honestly had no major issues with hardware support in the ~15 years I've been running FreeBSD.
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There is generally a separate grid connection fee. This is noticeable if you have a weekend cabin in the woods for example.

From my dominion bill:

Distribution Service 15.73$ followed by "Electricity Supply Svc (ESS)" which is based on usage and then several fees/taxes.

Your phone bill probably does the same thing if your regularly calling other countries your paying a connection fee plus a usage fee.
"Integers" is probably better. 26 might not be enough for us :)
And now that your monopolies have guns and tanks and can openly play dirty, good luck for the small upstarts trying to take them down.

Well exactly. That was my point. In the absence of regulation, there might not be monopolies but it would be a Mad Max style business environment.
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> Why does something that is considered to not have any adverse effects labeled differently other than to confuse the consumer?

One good reason might be if there were an unfounded stigma attached to one of the names. Rapeseed has many common names in the English language[0]; what are they trying to hide?! (In large measure, the unfortunate connotation of rapey-ness.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed#Common_names
That's why you don't drive 100 mph, mm away from a line of stopped/stopped cars or next to a crowded street corner.

Your examples are ones of exactly the type of behavior insurance companies are trying to disincentivize. Namely, fail-deadly behavior that puts you in a position where you have to be attentive to avoid a collision when other actors don't do exactly as they should. Your error was putting yourself in that position in the first place.
No one mentioned "Alpha House" with John Goodman & Clark Johnson. Of all the prime original series, it was my favorite.
This can be a good thing too. I worked at a gas station for a few years, and I had a share of regulars who seemed to have no regard for me as a person by the way they interacted with me. Some things that I would encounter from them included ignoring formalities, getting impatient over mild inconveniences, and generally acting haughty in conversation. I wasn't really in a position to act offended, so I would just follow my routine of acting friendly and saying hello and good-bye to them.

Almost every time, after enough repeated interactions like this, it's as though these regulars forgot that they didn't like me. They would see me and light up, or they would eventually thaw out and start putting more consideration into the way they interacted with me.

Whatever their inclinations for acting unpleasant may have been, I rarely, if ever, had anyone not come around and act more personable after enough friendly encounters with me.
I had exact same idea last week and even searched for some approaches today. Thank god someone did it for me though!
> I'm coining a new term for this from now: Alphabetizing.

Having conglomerate and/or parent corporations to organize the different goals of a company is nothing new, even in the world of startups.

If anything, it's surprising that Google didn't make the change earlier, given how unrelated many of their projects are (self-driving cars, search, and mobile operating systems, just to name three).
Again: there is no debate that MSG is stigmatized in the US. You can't draw conclusions from that! All sorts of things are stigmatized that shouldn't be, and there are other things that aren't stigmatized that probably should be.

I'll ask you the same thing I've asked the other two people on this thread who've reported personal experience with MSG sensitivity. Have you tried the things I listed here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10866718

I ask because, again, it would be pretty fascinating to find a sensitivity to MSG that wasn't correlated with a sodium or glutamate sensitivity. MSG instantaneously breaks into sodium and glutamate in liquid (such as in your stomach).
I have no doubt that there are lots of people who falsely believe they have reactions to MSG. There are lots of people who falsely believe they have reactions to gluten, but that doesn't mean that Celiac's disease doesn't exist.

The problem is that it is incredibly difficult to avoid MSG because it is not required to be labeled as such, but can be hidden behind a large number of other monikers such as 'Natural Flavors'.
Building a cache mechanism
Wouldn't simply signing mail be enough?
Is there a term for this type of criticism? That is, when someone points out apparent inconsistencies within a common group of people, as if groups are 100% homogeneous and each man isn't individually accountable for his own personal ideology.
+1 especially neovim
I'm not saying I don't believe you, but I want to see the law that states you can be given a ticket for driving 65 in a 65 just because traffic in the left lane is going 80.
Pluto in particular would be a problem, though, because it is a) very small, and b) very far away. In order to get there in a realistic time, your probe has to be going _very quickly_; in order to stay in Pluto orbit, the probe has to be going _very slowly_.

So, unfortunately, to stay in Pluto orbit, either you carry a lot of fuel with you to slow down (which makes launch incredibly difficult, because you need more fuel to accelerate the fuel you need to slow down, and then you need more fuel to accelerate _that_ fuel, and so on), or you wait a long time to get there.

The bigger, closer planets and planetoids, though, will see a lot more exploration as the cost of launch decreases.
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40% of millennials have used a pawnshop or payday lender
That's a good point. I find it hard to imagine the system not straining after a while within a single state. Perhaps as a reach I could offer Massachusetts and its model health care system as an example. It's a high tax state with a great health care system right next to an extremely low tax state (New Hampshire). Many people who live in MA travel to NH to shop without sales tax, but very few who work in MA live in NH. So if MA instituted basic income, it might have the effect of bringing people to the state to live off the dole, but things are expensive there and some might find it easier to either work to have a higher standard of living than one with the basic dignities of food and shelter, or some people will commute from neighboring states.

UBI has been experimented with in many locations, from Canada to Namibia, and they often showed the same effect: some people dropped out of the labor force, others did so but to be homemakers, volunteers, and so on, and for many of the rest, their incomes improved because they had a reliable safety net and worked to increase their earnings so they could live better, as we all do.

We can consider till the cows come home, but people have put up with debate for too long. They need action.
Orphan Black is great, but it isn't produced by Amazon.
But it's also incredibly difficult to avoid glutamates because they occur naturally in very high concentrations in some of the foodstuffs people find most palatable, so they make their way into all sorts of recipes.

This is similar to the "uncured bacon" phenomenon. Truly uncured bacon wouldn't taste like bacon at all, so producers cure using plant extracts that are naturally high in nitrates rather than in curing salt. The end result is the same, but provides a bogus label that some people take seriously.
Hey Sam, I think it would be beneficial to explain these different areas of YC a bit clearer on the website as right now everything still seems very focused on core. Just a suggestion.
>> Early car trackers had integrated cellular radios, but that can't be cheap

My TomTom 5000 SatNav, which I bought for like $200 has a permanent connection to the internet in all countries of the world with no monthly fee. It has an integrated SIM card and TomTom just paid some fee so that it can connect to the internet and get traffic updates wherever I am in the world. An even cheaper Kindle 3G also had that. So I guess it must be relatively cheap.
At Microsoft, when an email has an internal sender address it will not get delivered unless that email did in fact come from an internal Exchange server.

In 1998 I was able to use SMTP to send an email "from Bill Gates" (only sent it to myself for my own personal amusement), but the trick stopped working later.
Italy is about the same size as New Mexico. Perhaps it is reasonable to expect, if people know Italy is in Europe, that they might also know Rhode Island is in the United States?
Then as info:

- Gradle still doesn't provide half of the functionality of the ndk-build scripts

- Studio still not up to what Eclipse CDT provided

- We NDK users were left dry while they figure out how to provide proper support

For both NDK and SDK, lots of bugs to choose from:

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/list

Then going back to the SDK, any professional Android developer can enumerate lots of issues when you need to get information.

Also I am yet to see a release of the support library that isn't followed by complaints in G+.
You can empathize with their feelings regardless the reason for them. If they are frustrated, you understand feeling frustrated, so empathize. If they are angry, you understand feeling angry, so empathize. The precise reason doesn't matter.
Times when the shame was not due to failure, but success, of their actions. Like the Japanese internment camps in WWII.
Or OVH, where ~$4/mo gets you a VPS with 2GB of RAM.
Script to edit encrypted files (Improvments welcome)
Minor nitpicky editorial: Perhaps put specifically what you manage as a parenthetical around "investment programs" as it may not be clear to a lot of people.
> people still believe the propaganda that we're not in a depression

Is there a source for this? Everyone I know believes that we still are in a depression, so it's probably just my social circles. I'd be interested to see the stats behind that.
Faraday Future Probably Shouldn't Do Interviews Yet
"Characterizing", there are plenty of Chinese characters.
You mean like what happened when we had >80% taxes on the highest bracket of income? Instead of leaving or whining they bought the government and changed the taxes to something they prefer.

Every cent they earned is off the back of the investment the US government and society has put into our infrastructure, workforce, culture, work ethic, etc. If the government that created the atmosphere which allows these people to exist chooses that they get to keep 20% of the obscene billions of dollars they are taking from the poor they should be delighted. If they try to evade taxes we should lock them in jail or confiscate all of it.
These results are clearly hand-picked to leave out complete failures like these:

http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000100-1.jpg
http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/val-imgs/val-000800-2.jpg

When I selected from the validation images, most had these blue splotches that were not shown on the web page. Obviously a model is not expected to work 100% of the time, but I think the link misrepresents the results by not even showing a single instance of this common failure.

edit: further scrolling shows it's less common than I thought.
>I'm personally doubtful we could detect our own civilization today if we had a clone of humanity orbiting Alpha Centauri, and that's still well within our RF light cone.

Why would we not be able to detect a clone of our civilization around Alpha Centauri? They're only 4 light-years away, so we should pretty easily be able to detect their TV broadcasts and other RF emissions at that distance. The main problem with SETI's approach I think is that it assumes RF emissions are strong enough to detect from huge distances (AC is the closest system to ours, everything else is farther), and that the ETs are at a similar level technologically and use strong RF transmitters rather than short-range spread-spectrum stuff, so that's a pretty short time window technologically, combined with the distance (it takes decades or centuries for signals to travel here from other star systems). But for a hypothetical humanity clone in the AC system, these problems don't hold, and we really should be able to detect them I think. The problem is, in all likelihood, any real civilizations are likely to be at a different developmental stage, and also to be much, much farther away than our closest neighbor.
As long as Amazon doesn't allow support for 3rd party devices they aren't "outflanking" anyone. I can watch Netflix on Apple TV, Chromecast, etc, etc. I can watch amazon videos on... amazon devices.
Validate your startup ideas
Obviously not earth-shatteringly expensive, no, but the tracker devices are issued for free, not $200.
"More importantly, the responses reported were inconsistent and were not reproducible."

(These inconsistent results occurred only in subjects who were given doses of MSG 6x greater than what is used in typical recipes, and only without food --- MSG added to food produced no responses at all, inconsistent or otherwise.)
I look at the billionaires, and I wonder if you're right. But then I look at Congress...
Yes, I do believe everyone growing up should work in retail for at least a year. It's a valuable experience (my experience was working for a year in a Toys R Us).
Well... This particular form of shorting China sounds really dangerous. Big firms tend to be the last to fail, and ETFs have a lot of strange behaviors; I'm thinking more in terms of looking for companies that will become more prosperous as their Chinese competition falls.
I think it's more in the increasing centralization of power. The central power is bigger and thus harder to move by sheer inertia, more risk-averse, and also more able to simply implement whatever it likes regardless of what anybody else thinks because it is isolate from the trenches.

I think one of the top-3 issues facing the US right now is we need a lot more power devolved back to the states... not out of a "state's rights" sense of the argument, but out of a sheer engineering argument that trying to run a large and diverse country from one city is not working in practice, and there's no theoretical reason why it should work. Diversity and central control are, if perhaps not necessarily "incompatible" in the strictest sense of the term, still at great odds with each other; the central authority is forever tempted to homogenize diversity to make central control easier.
You "have to comply", but the EU courts have no jurisdictional control over you, so in reality you don't.
Podcast: Do you have a data scientist hidden in your organization?
Honestly, I just went stealth and operate numerous accounts.

If PayPal wants to freeze my funds, let them. Play with fire, your going to get burned.
Anyway, requirements, specifications and programs are just multiple representations of the same thing. Ideally, we would just state some requirements and they would execute.

So the requirements/specification/program complex exists Just Because. Humans decided they want that: for their amusement, for the sake of supporting some enterprise or solving a problem, or to try to sell to other humans.

The complex contains several different representations because that's what it takes to bridge the gap between stating the requirements and making the machine carry them out.

A proof is something internal to that complex: that the specification corresponds to the requirements, and that the program implements the specification.

If we had just one artifact: a specification that executes, then there would be no concept of proof any more.

There is only the question whether the specification that was expressed is the one that was intended in the mind. That equivalence is no more susceptible to proof than, say, the correspondence between the Ceasar salad that the waiter just put on your table (and which you clearly specified) and the idea of whether you actually wanted one, or did you mistakenly say "Ceasar salad" in spite of having wanted a soup.

Plus, there is the external question of whether a specification has unintended consequences. That basically amounts to "you say you want that, but maybe you should revise what you want because of these bad things".

"You say you want plaintext passwords to be stored for easier recovery, and that can certainly be implemented (provably correctly, too) but consider the following ramifications ..."
Good point, added clarification.
That doesn't seem like it would guard against an e-mail sent from "a very similar email domain" like ndespres described.
This seems like a good example of this article posted yesterday: https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.htm...
And they typically have liability insurance anyway. Your contract is not worth the paper it's written on if the accountant is unlikely to be able to ever repay the loss.
>do you get headaches when you eat blue cheese, parmesan, mushrooms, or tomatoes? Those are naturally intense sources of glutamic acid

How much, though? Some quick and dirty math (please correct me if I'm wrong in any of this):

100 grams of parmesan cheese (about a cup) is 1.2 grams of free glutamates: http://www.msgfacts.com/nutrition/what_foods_are_glutamate-r...

Powdered MSG contains 78% free glutamate and 12.2% sodium, or about a 6.4:1 glutamate:sodium ratio: http://www.edenfoods.com/articles/view.php?articles_id=207

A teaspoon of powdered MSG contains 500 mg of sodium (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91dpQqbFZrL._SL1500_.j...). This is about 3.2 grams of glutamate.

So, if my math is correct, a teaspoon of powdered MSG contains as much sodium as 2.7 cups (0.5 * 6.4 / 1.2) of parmesan cheese. As someone who regularly cooks with MSG powder and has seen other people cook with it too (my chinese friend uses a 1:1 ratio of salt and MSG powder), it's easy to load food with way more than 1 teaspoon of MSG per serving.

My point is, I think people who cook with MSG use way more glutamate than people who cook with natural foods like parmesan or mushrooms.
> > It has more than 2M lines of C code. Almost all libraries were written from scratch.

> Every professional security researcher reading this just raised an eyebrow and thought to themselves, "That's a vulnerable application."

That may be true, but substitute "C" with "Python" and wouldn't you have the same reaction? Maybe you would expect it to be slightly less vulnerable, but the key risk that I read in that statement (I am not a security professional) is the "2M" and the "written from scratch". The risk from "C" is secondary.
Cleaner and reliable, but not as utilitarian. NG/LNG rigs aren't as portable, especially if they are tied into a residential gas line. A small gas gen can be moved around by hand, and fed with fuel siphoned out of your car if need be.
Also from the study (emphasis mine):

> The results suggest that large doses of MSG given without food may elicit more symptoms than a placebo in individuals who believe that they react adversely to MSG. However, the frequency of the responses was low and the responses reported were inconsistent and were not reproducible. The responses were not observed when MSG was given with food.

So, the study demonstrated that relatively high doses of MSG given straight to people causes a scattering of inconsistent reactions, but that MSG in food does nothing.
Don't worry about the flames:

Matthew 5:10-12

"Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. "Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. "Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
When Are You Really an Adult?
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I keep on hearing about Elixir/Phoenix. What is the advantage of putting this on Elixir vs something like Rails or Laravel?
Hoover started out doing austerity and raising taxes to balance budgets for the first couple of years, then turned around after that didn't work and started programs very similar to the new deal in his last year in office.
For a second I thought the pics on the far right were the machine-created colors, and I thought, those are amazing! Then I realized it was the middle pic, haha, terrible.
3gb of them? Really? That would be the largest runtime library I have ever heard of, forget any other libc in existence.
So, I think you probably meant to reply to the GP, and yes, directors have a fiduciary duty, but I suspect the director was also an investor or preferred shareholder.

Straight-up malfeasance is pretty rare in cases with professional investors, as there are lawyers involved and people who know what's going on.
To clarify, in these (very small) studies, subjects who consumed MSG did exhibit symptoms. (So positive as in measurable effect, not positive as in good)
There are actually dockerized versions of many (maybe all) of the deep learning libraries. The docker containers can take advantage of the GPU for training. You still have to install CUDA on the box (outside the docker container) but then you can try out different deep learning libraries.

Libraries we've started from in my lab:
Caffe: https://hub.docker.com/r/kaixhin/caffe/
Torch :https://hub.docker.com/r/kaixhin/torch/
Theano: https://hub.docker.com/r/kaixhin/theano/
ETFs and the financial-services industry in general are the real world's magic system. I personally don't want anything to do with them...

(For one thing, ETFs like to buy and sell whole sectors of the market: if Volkswagen has a problem, they sell Toyota. This strikes me as a good way to lose your money -- while not really understanding what's going on.)
"Consider what could happen if just a single state offered universal basic income, for instance."

Roughly the same thing as one country that offers universal basic income but doesn't control its borders, for the exact same reason?

Also, UBI isn't magic. If it would not work in a state individually, it does not become practical by banding 50 states it doesn't work in together. In fact, with the size of most US states, that's just generally true; it is not possible for something to not work in a state due to resource contraints but suddenly become possible when 50 insufficiently-resourced states band together.
Wow, what an amazing advancement in space technology.