skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking for a good geospatial data store that works on mobile devices. Ran into an issue where Spatialite used to corrupt databases larger than 2GB on Android (as in, run md5sum on the database, open it read-only, run another md5sum, notice they've changed.) At the time when I investigated this, the Android support was scattered across both the initial project and a secondary build with a vendored Spatialite, it wasn't clear whose issue it was, and none of the projects seemed interested in claiming ownership or suggesting fixes. The whole experience left me a bit soured on Spatialite as a mobile geospatial data store if your intent was to, say, load large areas for offline navigation. Maybe it'd work better in the case where you're syncing up specific areas, but my interest was in prepopulating with specific datasets for large regions since I was often off-network and couldn't predict whether a dataset would run out in the middle of a dead zone.

Any chance Realm will or does support geospatial data? Couldn't find any indication that it does currently, so if I ever returned to this project then I'd likely suck it up and try to figure out why Spatialite corrupts larger datasets. But having an alternative would be nice.
Fuel cells are energy inefficient. The future of electric air craft is elon musk's vtol super sonic design.

https://medium.com/@andrewt3000/what-do-we-know-about-elon-m...
Hell, the earliest models did a full inversion for every single page turn.

You got used to it after a day or two anyway.
Your comment reads like a parody of public education.

If the smartest kid "failed" because he "didn't hand in his work"... this is a plain and unambiguous confession that your job wasn't to educate, but to make the poodles jump through hoops.
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It didn't work for me at all; the red dot never appeared on my screen, though the face-outline in the preview image did fit my face quite well (when it wasn't detecting my chin as my mouth).
Some of each. It's hard to blame the media for thinking it could be important in light of the press conferences and press releases. The last section of this article gives some details.

http://news.discovery.com/space/opera-leaders-resign-after-n...
Because "people" aren't even aware that this stuff can happen. I actually think it's far more likely that in this situation the other person did a search, but most people wouldn't even consider that a simple search could result in you ending up on a "People You May Know" list.

TL;DR: people don't know because they aren't savvy, and that isn't their fault. Those of us who do know should do a better job, but no, I have no ideas how either.
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There's no way that 26-year-olds can afford a 1500sf house in those areas because the only jobs available are at Walmart. The places where 26-year-olds can get good-paying jobs are also places where the real estate is much more expensive.
I'm not offended. I'm well aware of the perception and reputation of places like St. Louis. You're absolutely right about perception. What I'm arguing is that the perception is erroneous and based on a very limited understanding of what's really going on in the Rust Belt.

The fact that you think "Proof: Ferguson" is a complete thought demonstrates this beyond doubt.

But you're definitely right about the weather. It sucks.

Edit: Just one thing I wanted to point out, not so much for you, but for anyone else reading this. Saying that, "And the crime rate there is known to be very high" about St. Louis is equivalent to suggesting that the South Bay isn't safe because the crime rate is very high in Oakland.

The only difference is that nobody measures the safety of the South Bay against Oakland. But in St. Louis, the whole region is referred to as "St. Louis" even though only the inner core -- St. Louis City -- is included in those crime stats.

You're right about one thing: that's a huge perception problem. The crime rate is "known" to be high here due to ignorance about how the region draws its political borders (which affects how crime stats are collected) and wildly mistaken impressions about Ferguson.

But, I guess as long as you "know" it to be true, it's not worth trying to better understand it.
I don't get how the word "incompatible" can be understood as anything other than both license has aspects which makes combining them impossible. But owell, lets see what the license text actually say:

Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. The Modifications that You create or to which You contribute are governed by the terms of this License.

If you distribute source code, this license means that you must use this license. You can't use some other license, as its not compatible with the distributor deciding what license to use. CDDL license require that any source code distribution use CDDL as its license, and it is incompatible with any other license that has similar condition. CDDL is incompatible with GPL because GPL has similar conditions as CDDL.

If we were to make an identical copy of the CDDL license and call it CDDLv2, those two identical twins would be incompatible with each other. Software under CDDLv1 would not be permitted to be combined with software under CDDLv2 and distributed as source code.
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> My biggest barrier here would be the mouse. My mouse is an extension of my hand. Imagine how hard it would be to manipulate objects in real life if you had a half a second delay on what you felt and saw your hand do?

To test, connect to a remote site with 1Mbit uplink via RDP or VNC. It tends to drive you stark raving mad after an hour or so.
Indentation TABS vs. SPACES
I don't know why it is so common to ban indenting with tabs and use spaces instead but I don't get it. I mean with tabs everyone can set up a good number of spaces which is good for reading, but if we use x spaces everywhere, then it is bad for a lot of people (for example for me, the most easiest to read is 4 spaces as tabs.).
Needless to say linters drive me crazy (puppet DSL, python - 2 spaces!) and I just HATE using spaces.
(Yes, thank you, I can set up my vim - but I don't want to. I just want to use literal TABS.)
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11768955
If I'm a company making $1000 gadgets and then adopt some technology (like robotics) to reduce the cost of my gadget to $500, have I just reduced my country's GDP?
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Incorrectly so :-o

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite#Compar...
The people there are really starting to feel the encroaching mass-automation of low wage jobs then :/

I hope that the spokesperson was speaking the truth when they said that the increased automation would not lead to long-term loss of employment.

But I can't imagine reeducating that much (previously) low(?) skilled employees, rather than hiring a new graduate (of which there are reportedly many) for R&D.
Pandoc does this reasonably well already in my experience. (Assuming you have access to the source tex files, of course.)
Ask HN: Do you (developers) manage your own servers?
I'm trying to get some insight into how common the ask is for developers to also manage servers. Do you have a devops person or infrastructure person for this or are developers handling it? If you are a developer doing this, how has your job changed?
How is this possible even in principle? Location tracking might be one explanation - they certainly have access to the data - but it seems implausible for Facebook to be suggesting you friend every goddamn person you walk past. They couldn't have known you thought she was attractive, so what gives?
Realm is awesome! I have been using it for a year now in a large production iOS/swift app with great success.

Great job on the recent additions to the more fine grain notifications, with this I was recently able to reduce my own code, simplify and increase performance!

Core data is good and a powerful weapon, and certainly educational to learn its approach and how to use it effectively. I sometimes ponder if going through the that first has made me a more competent iOS developer.

Realm is the right tool for the job for me in most use cases. Don't see myself switching back anytime soon, keep up the good work!
The easiest option is to sell it as a KIT where the buyer assembles it and requests certification as an experimental Light Sport Aircraft.

http://www.kitplanes.com/issues/29_3/builder_spotlight/Under...
I'd believe it. He said the electronics screw up, too. He was fixing a control system on one that was just a few circuits in the knob on older ones.
You hand the cashier a credit card, she thinks you're cute, too. Cashier reads name on credit card, wonders "if he's on Facebook", looks you up and there's your connection. Something something Occam's Razor.
> Before laughing too much at the European idea of justice, think of the absurd sentencing that regularly happens in the US: A "60 Minutes" story some years ago reported that a California man was sentenced to life in prison for shoplifting two double-A batteries.

Note that this is not something that "regularly happens in the US", it seems to be an illustration of a failure mode of California's particular implementation of a "three strikes" law under Prop 184 of 1994, which was abnormally severe (not requiring the third felony strike to be "serious or violent", as most three-strikes laws in the US do) -- and it seems to be a seriously misremembered one, at that, since even when this version of three strikes existed in CA, it still required the third strike to be a felony.

Also, this rule was changed to align CA's three strikes implementation with the common rule requiring the third strike to be a "serious or violent" felony in by Prop 36 in 2012 (which also provided a process for after-the-fact sentence adjustment for those sentenced under the old version for a third strike that would not have been subject to the enhanced sentence under the reformed version of the three strikes.)
I once tried out Tan-tan, China's version of Twitter. I was idly swiping away until I saw, on one girl, "you have crossed paths with her twice!" underneath which was a Baidu maps frame showing Balboa Park station.

Swiftly uninstalled.
If you half the cost, don't half the price! Only drop the price enough to get business.

However, if people are laid off and they don't get other jobs then yes that will indirectly lower GDP too.
I'm a self-taught programmer and I'm considering getting a CS degree. I can do quite a bit, but I don't see any storied jobs open to people with only a few months of training. Is the demand really that high? Am I looking in the wrong place?
I'm motivated to get the degree because I actually want to learn the material though, not just because I want to make money.
We're focused more on mobile for now, JVM support is something we want to build. For now we're relying on some Android specific components like the Looper (to deliver notifications) & the Android Context, otherwise most of the API uses pure Java API.
How is it helpful to have a computer tell me who I should be friends with?
Android 4.0, obsolete and out of any form of support since late 2012.

I hope you don't plan to connect this to the internet.
Probably not, due to that the production rate and stability will increase. Also the investments need to be paid off before prices could drop.
It's definitely related to searches. That other person was doing the classic Facebook background check.
Well, for one, supply & demand says you would sell more of the gadget if it was priced lower. If not, you'd keep it the same price and enjoy wider margins.
Got a big payday, advanced the resume significantly and had two children.

I think she should be applauded for those things personally, even if Yahoo was a sinking ship she couldn't save.
Pride and/or poor internal incentive structures that prevent them from acknowledging its failure.
No, because you can still charge the original price to maximize profits.
Since prices online are very transparent, can this be seen as an implicit cartel?
A light airplane often cruises at around 75% of maximum power.

Good point . . . I was probably thinking of larger, heavier, faster aircraft where cruise power is significantly lower than max power. As an extreme, I seem to recall that the Concorde cruised at about 20% power.
Depends on what people will do of their "free" time ?
I used to, but ain't nobody got time for that. Unless it's a three-people shop, in come the devops (developer time is far more expensive than devops engineer time, at least around here, so making a dev wear a devop hat is wasteful on several levels - comparative advantage and all that).
That feels like the most anecdotal data point possible. It's also possible that Meyer was right.
RhodeCode was already Open Source once and it then went "closed source"[1]. That event resulted in creating a truly Open Source fork called Kallithea[2] (GPLv3) held under Software Freedom Conservancy[3] umbrela.

I wonder if they tried to cooperate with SFC, as it seems they have choosen an Open Source license incompatible with Kallithea (AGPL vs GPL3)? Would those two projects try to work together?

There is not much choice if you need Mercurial self-hosting unfortunatelly, so this move is much appreciated.

[1] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/07/15/why-kallithea.html
[2] https://kallithea-scm.org/
[3] https://sfconservancy.org/
It is not easy to make GUI systems that are easy to use. Back before people were used to reading help on the internet there used to be a brisk market in 1000 page books with titles like "How to use Microsoft Word".

Closer to the domain my favorite example of malware is the ontology editor protoge. Every day I see freshers who are highly confused getting started with protoge who are then blown away with how easy it is to write an RDFS ontology in a few lines of Turtle with an ordinary text editor.
My kids don't quite get Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yet, but they enjoyed making a Don't Panic towel to take to school.

https://twitter.com/jimgreer/status/735497227183919104
I'm having trouble imagining what finitism actually is, based on what I remember from set theory. Is it equivalent to Zermelo-Frankel set theory without the axiom of infinity?
If it costs $900 to make a gadget you sell for $1000 and you replace the staff with robots which cost $500 per gadget then there is no effect on GDP as it only tracks value produced.

The only way to reduce GDP is by lowering the price of your goods (assuming demand stays constant), or implicitly by letting your excess profits sit as cash instead of consuming or reinvesting (which both create and increase value).
There we go! That's what I need.
Besides the creepiness, the law around recording people without them knowing (one-party consent) is state-by-state
Oh well. I feel the same way about all the Monty Python movies.

To each their own and whatnot.
your argument is essentially that she'd have taken a pay cut or worked for free. money matters, and most rich people don't get that way not caring about it.
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That's the opposite of my experience when I was using Facebook(a year ago). The app was awful, crashed regularly, and was much slower retrieving data. The mobile version was a much smoother experience.
Yeah, DJI would be a better choice, if you are in the market for a drone.
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Just because the cost of production of a widget falls doesn't mean the cost of the widget to the consumer also has to fall.
Microsoft reportedly launching 'Xbox TV' devices next month
Theoretically, those people who lost their jobs are now free to use their time producing some other product, thus increasing GDP. We'll see if that happens, though.
Increased ads will bring in more revenue. They're not doing this for the sake of it.
That kind of thinking led to blades, Blue Gene's little cards, and later Open Compute. So, yeah, it's probably true. ;)
Good points. I agree completely.

Yahoo has also gone from a genuinely useful and relevant aggregator to a full-blown click-bait shop.

Perhaps this is how she thought Google makes its billions and she wanted to emulate it.

Sad but she will be richer for it.
They did? There's expert analysis on the linked page. More in depth than a newspaper article, but more accessible than legalese.
Considering the audience I think it's fine. I don't think anyone on HN is going to see this title and think "oh the author is serious; this whatever thing that appears to be a file system by name can certainly replace git in its entirety!"
Not only Robots, but software can also replace workers, I know, mine has done that.
As can be seen by anyone watching the price of oil drop by half while airfare remains high.
Great question. The answer is no. This is one of those many cases where thinking in money terms confuses the issue.

If the country had 100 people making gadgets, and now it only requires 50 to make the same number of gadgets, the country can now double the amount of gadgets it makes, or the 50 people can go make something else.

Therefore, a doubling in productivity will not decrease GDP (total production of an economy), but increase it.
some food for thought.

why did the "smart kid" not hand in her work? why did the "dumb kid? work more diligently?

what kind of environment is required to get the "smart kid" to work diligently on a consistent basis?
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> They're only successful because of government protectionism.

Protectionism exists across the board in the EU and the US, especially in agriculture. In fact, it has been stated that if there weren't protectionism in the EU and US poorer countries in the world could trade their way out of debt and in a very real sense the protectionism in the US and EU is keeping those places poor and relying on handouts.

I only _wish_ the EU was more protectionist about tech. Because the EU hasn't been we have home-grown no Googles, no Apples, no Microsofts, no Amazons, … you name it. It's actually smart of China to protect their tech sector from being steamrolled over.

I get it though. When we act in our self-interest, it's normal and reasonable. When others do, how dare they.

> I'd rather pay a little more and buy a DJI

Article states that 4k model of DJI is over $1000, Xiaomi 4k model is $460. That's the first time I've seen 'a little more' mean 'greater than twice the price'.
>> Last week, Microsoft sold off what remained of Nokia's feature phone business while Windows Phone's market share slid below a single percent.

Surely that's impossible! The enthusiasm on geek news sites when Win Phone 7 came out was immense! And then again when it was basically entirely scrapped for 8! Surely all of those developers telling us it was the best dev environment and best user experience ever, months before even a review release was available, couldn't have been shills?

The sad part of all this is that Nokia had lost their way around the time of the acquisition, but they still had huge market share and huge potential. Had they had a new CEO that wasn't the world's most obvious MS plant, they might have been able to rescue themselves and get back to greatness.

I counted the MS takeover as being a done deal from the moment Elop was announced, they took it over from the inside and destroyed it. I just wish I knew why.
That is just PR bullshit.
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Occasionally, yes, though I'd say that 2% of accepted students because people already in the industry have the skills to learn what is needed switch over from say back to front end, or apps to webapps, etc.

Typically these students learn a great deal of soft skills and pair-programming skills while they're here, so I think it's still valuable.
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Would a jailbreak really be necessary for this? Couldn't you just install a certificate on the phone and MitM the https traffic?
It's a childish book, aimed at the young adult mentality. It is a product of world that wasn't bursting with absurdity like the modern YouTube and Onion filled world, and before supercomouters and AI and spaceships were a common place realworld thing.

You might have missed your window.
This should happen based on active request, not passively by snoop-mic.
Good points! It's hard for me to imagine what it would be like as I've not used my Kindle with that in mind—and, of course, the Kindle UI is adapted (at least somewhat) for e-ink limitations.
I don't think you're missing anything.

That quote about "throwing rocks" in the article is misleading - Google has done exactly that and succeeded. Their trick is that they're standing in a quarry and don't have to give a damn how many rocks miss as long as they get the occasional hit. Mayer carried over that philosophy to a company with half a dozen rocks and nowhere to get more.

It's telling that Mayer never really revealed a 'plan' for Yahoo ('content' and 'advertising' don't count). She bought a bunch of things, tried a bunch of deals, and clearly expected value to shake out somewhere like it does for Google. But Yahoo doesn't have the time, revenue, or infrastructure to slot in a stream of experiments and wait for a win - their only attributes were staff and users, and they needed to consciously turn that into money. It's closer to Facebook's monetization task than Google's, and regardless of her talent Mayer's background was an impediment to what needed to happen.
I've tried this in a logged-in session, an incognito tab and even in TorBrowser: in all three cases the first result was a link to openstreetmap.org, and the next few hits linked to subdomains, the Wikipedia article or pages explaining the concept. So i guess it's just you.
Cool idea and opens up a lot of interesting applications. Unfortunately, the demos don't work reliably (on my machine the tracking was completely off the wall).
You're right that the solution is to move into a field that was out-of-reach to beginners. That was actually my entire purpose for going and getting a CS degree. I discovered data mining/machine learning in and figured that the crazy math required would keep it somewhat exclusive.

It didn't. Anaconda or Tensorflow + a book is all you need anymore.

I think the author is exploiting a fundamental fact of programming: smart people make hard things easy. So you're either in the top X% of smart CS people that make these awesome tools that allow everyone to do complex things, or you're on the other side competing against smart people like the author who just leverage these tools to build cool products.

It's like being in a fish tank with sharks and piranhas, no matter what side you go to, somebody's going to eat you up.
> But what should we do when rehabilitation repeatedly fails for a particular individual?

If the system that is supposed to be rehabilitating people is failing sizable classes of individuals (which is the problem -- not a very few isolated individuals -- that broad three-strikes laws, particularly the pre-reform California version, address), one might consider that the problem is with the design of the system for rehabilitation, and ask how to make that work better, rather than progressively subjecting people for whom it doesn't work to it for longer, and then giving up, the way three strikes laws and other ways of taking post convictions into account in sentencing do.
Very interesting project. Was excited to try this but the quality of the tracking is not there yet. The face detection was off most of the time unless I positioned my camera just right. Then the eye tracking was no good. But they are only using a webcam and doing this right (see http://www.tobii.com/xperience/) requires multiple IR emitters and an IR camera.
Haskell's standard vector package supports this: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-0.11.0.0/docs/Dat...