skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an argument against being the first major company to ship something; Vorbis has had nobody sue any of the major companies who have been shipping it for over a decade. The longer other major companies have been shipping without being sued the more likely it is nobody else will surface.
Well, Amazon Prime Now was available here first. Especially here in Seattle, hometown of Amazon after all.
If you like them you might like the 1976 Tehran UFO incidence. The wikipedia article is missing lots of detail, but here's a link for the curious:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tehran_UFO_incident
I did not say Vivaldi was slow, just that performance is relevant in UI. I'll give Vivaldi a try.
> I always believed we weren't playing a zero sum game. It's likely that when we are all working for a living and prospering then we all prosper a little more. I don't believe that means someone rich has to lose a little more so someone poor can win.

If you studied economics, you'd very quickly realize that many areas that people compete for and responsible for inequality are zero-sum (at least in the short-run and medium-run). It is more tricky for wealth, since once person owning something more esoteric, like a portfolio does not necessarily preclude anyone else from doing so.

The most notable example, of course, is real estate, especially in the areas where zoning laws prohibit from building upwards. You might also know it as a NIMBY suburban sprawl, which is one of the biggest factors in creating inequality and misery in the US.

Another example that I haven't explored fully is political influence. The attention and decision-making of policymakers is definitely zero-sum by virtue of there being a fixed amount of them.
I thought that music and art would be what we were doing when there were no jobs left, hopefully nobody creates an AI bot that travels for us :)
A book review: http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2014/03/18/book-review-parall...
The worst part about this encoder is it thinks it's dealing with static pictures in plenty of cases. The version on the right simply has no movement while movie continues to play on left. Also, faces don't move when one person speaks. That's a no go even if the picture quality didn't look like crap.
It doesn't say "he bid just that" explicitly.
I think we should create an extension to fix that `search` behavior and using placeholder html5 attribute. Every time I focus on that the text moves. =D
A dying America is raging against the capitalist machine
alternative -> https://elixirschool.com/
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But we are talking about Vivaldi!
Have you considered NoMachine NX? I found it to be more or less comparable in terms of performance and settled on it because I wasn't very keen of the centralized TV model.
I gave a scenario where that doesn't work. It's only rational if everyone else does it. If some people won't do it, then by raising the price early you may induce them to bid higher, which is bad for you.
You seem to ignore the binary blob extensions e.g. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/not-ok-google-chromi...

Also chrome integrates with service that Are closed source. Eg forsync
Click "web" under the article title, click the top result in Google, no paywall.
> and scandalously the FDA is slowing progress in the field by seeking to prevent doctors from harvesting and reintroducing one's own stem cells back into the body.

According to this article, what you're referring to is just the FDA putting stem cells under the same regulatory burden as most drugs.

https://www.statnews.com/2016/02/08/fda-crackdown-stem-cell-...

They have escaped this previously because the stem cells came from the patient, and not much was done to the cells before re-injection, so it's closer to plastic surgery.

I happen to think that that FDA is probably way too conservative (both on stem cells and drugs) and seriously inhibits progress, but I think it's misleading to suggest that they are slowing progress in a way specific to stem cells. The FDA has always had a mission to not just protect patients from harm, but also from being fleeced by useless sham therapies.
Or... they all got wet on the way there, and were exposed to high winds, and got hypothermia. One or more of them started experiencing extreme sensations of (perceived) overheating (see paradoxical undressing) and cut open the tent to escape (maybe the door was frozen shut or covered with a snow drift). So far, no mystery. Then others reaching the same state of deluded panic follow suit and run in search of any way to cool down. Some of them run into the ravine seeking water. a deluded thing to do, but again, see paradoxical undressing. Some fall and get injured. Some not at the same delusional stage go out with their clothes on, trying to find their companions. Eventually all of them freeze to death. Subsequently, hungry animals happen upon the scene. What's left to explain?
This is only a proof of concept, with a very small input size, and very strong compression. The impressive thing is that it works at all.
I wouldn't say that. The president has a tremendous amount of international influence, and they have control over federal departments and the military to direct a significant amount of their behavior.

They just aren't the people that will change campaign finance reform, build walls, or raise the minimum wage. That is kind of what congress does. So you could elect any president and only see legislation they want passed because either they bargained with the other party in congress or their party had a majority in it already to pass the legislation.

It is only force of habit that most people expect the president's party to go with their policy ideas in congress. If Bernie were president, for example, you would not expect the Dems or Reps in congress to ever support him on anything, because hes anti-establishment.
Heh yeah, it's a bit of a contradictory term, but it's the only 'generic' way to describe it that I know of. Most of them are branded with the store's name with a suffix like 'local', 'express' or 'metro'
Since this is the internet, I am free to reply with anecdata. I get 7.5 hours of sleep just about every night, and I fall asleep in less than 15 minutes more than 90% of the time. I am a coffee addict, but I keep it to 2-3 cups per day (usually). Even the occasional after-dinner cup doesn't usually keep me up.
I have purifier with large HEPA filter, purifier with water filter, ultrasound humidifier, but the best result so far is by vacuum cleaner with water filter (Thomas with Auquafilter). Water works extremely well against tiny particles, much better than HEPA.
If you had 350k in savings and decided to quit your job and take a break, you would probably move out of your $2 million NYC apartment.

350k would easily last you a decade in a smaller, low cost of living town. You'll be driving a 2011 Honda Civic, limiting how often you eat out at nice restaurants, and not buying name brand, but you won't exactly be struggling.
Walmart gets a lot of heat but they actually do lobby for a higher minimum wage (which they believe will hurt their less-efficient competitors more than it does Walmart). And really, most retail and food-service companies are no better.

With that said, it's certainly possible to run a retail store without totally screwing your employees. Costco is extremely profitable despite providing very high wages and good benefits, far better than Walmart's warehouse-club subsidiary Sams Club. At the end of the day Walmart is still making a choice to screw over their employees just because they can get away with it, regardless of if everyone else is doing it. Tu quoque is not a good defense.
The 6th District described the practice of police lying about having DNA, "a regrettable but frequent practice of law enforcement was not unconstitutional," citing to People v. Jones (1998) 17 Cal.4th 279, 299 - which allow police deception as long as it is not unlikely to produce an untruthful confession.

http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-jones-31413
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Having separate layers of abstraction is a good approach in general: see "Abstraction Barriers" from SICP (https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/sicp/book/node29.htm...).

Lasagna code is abstraction done wrong, with possibly too many layers or leaky abstractions (like in a real Lasagna).
Great course by the way +1
How about this https://github.com/dylang/shortid/
Different people use browsers differently? We're humans after all.

I never understood people whining about memory usage and having 120 tabs opened - - having so many tabs sounded silly - - now I'm one of those people. I just happened to start using my browser that way.

Different people, different needs.
Unique?

What a joke.

It just loads other websites inside an iframe. That's how all similar web-based apps and web-OSs work. Eg there is also servo with its HTML based UI; there is WebOS with its browser, ChromeOS with its browser; FirefoxOS; etc - totally non unique beside it has a nice UI inspired by the old Opera 6-12 UI.
> "Why did X have an omelette for lunch" is not going to have a Wikipedia article, let alone people talking about it over half a century later.

You are being circular in your reasoning. The OP is saying that for an event that is not so odd or eventful, it receives a disproportionate amount of attention including its own Wikipedia article. He goes on to explain why it's not odd or eventful.

You're saying, "Of course it's odd and eventful! It has its own Wikipedia article."
That's actually the case with lead. Lead is most dangerous at low and or high doses. No one knows why. Perhaps the body starts to fight back at a high enough dose, but loses at an even higher dose?
I read:

A common problem in video games is to calculate the angle to launch a projectile to hit a target. It’s so common I’ve written code to solve it on literally every game I’ve ever worked on.

And thought:

Ballistics as a service.

Has Hacker News warped my brain?
The missing flight is odd. The fact that there are multiple possible explanations and a lack of consensus is not odd.
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As I move into other languages like Go and Swift, would love to see breakdowns of how they store objects in memory comparable to Java.
Nerves is young, but already powers rock-solid shipping industrial products!

Wow. Okay. Can you show us?
Within the sport of surfing, some groups of friends might sometimes have their own small set of hand signs for communicating when verbal communication is not always possible out in the ocean.
Hm... I guess my logic would be, if they don't agree (or at least try to understand) my choices/reasons/morality, then they're not real friends!
Falling down the side of an icy ravine could do that.

And animals could also do further damage both after a fall, and in cases where falls are ruled out.
It's useful for seeing what my friends are actually doing. People are much more willing to share if it won't be indexed and looked at later by unintended audiences. What specifically do you not understand? The UI/UX? The appeal?
Organic and gluten free oil should not be too hard. Locally sourced is pretty location-dependent. Artisanal may take more work; whether one considers petroleum vegan is an interesting philosophical question.

I sense a business opportunity here; perhaps artisanal, organic, locally sourced oil sandwiches?
Indeed. You have to think in terms of "revenue per employee": http://www.thinkinglike.com/Essays/Revenue-Per-Employee.html

Provided your new hires are making sufficiently more than they're costing you, and allowing for a ramp-up period, that should be enough. Perhaps the problem is that the founders have a very unique set of skills that they're selling - which makes for a great business, but is inherently hard to scale without a cloning machine. The business needs to be standardised and process-ifyed a bit in order to make it easier to train new employees, or hand off work from the founders.

"Founder Stakhanovism" is actually somewhat workable. Divide your time in the working day into "key" and "grunt" work, where the "key" work is your unique marketable skills and the grunt work is more routine, then hire someone to follow you around and do the grunt work.
Very cool! I actually think Jazz improvisation would not be very hard to do:

One of the things you realize if you study jazz improvisation deeply, is that it isn't that random. Someone like Charlie Parker learned over 100 interesting riffs or patterns, then learned to play them in any key (transposing as necessary), and when improvising, transposes each into the chord the band is currently playing, and arranges them in a unique and interesting order.

Indeed, this is why many great Jazz musicians learn to improvise by transcribing solos of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, etc, and learning their riffs in every possible key. Transposing is one of the best possible ways to learn to improvise, because it teaches you to listen and hear notes, as well as the patterns/riffs that everyone copies from each other.

There is even a great book called "Patterns for Jazz" that captures many of the most powerful riffs used by these musicians.

The really interesting thing about this is while most of the listening public assumes jazz is pure improvisation, much of it is copied riffs just rearranged in unique and interesting ways. I don't mean to detract from it; jazz is still a great musical style, but like all styles results from derivatives of previous works.

edit: grammar
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Agreed, the premise for this article is ridiculous. That's three times the amount YC offers. Even the 120k YC offers would be critical for me in letting me take several months of full time work towards my project without worrying about blowing through personal savings.
On hotspot ergonomics automatically turn those options on as long as your max heap is < 32GiB.

$ java -Xmx31G -XX:+PrintFlagsFinal 2>&1 | grep UseCompressed
bool UseCompressedClassPointers := true {lp64_product}
bool UseCompressedOops := true {lp64_product}
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There's still a time window for pickup though. So you have to schedule in any case.
It's not bad if they bid higher than you - you being a rational person would know that you'd be unwilling to pay higher than your only placed bid, so you aren't really "losing" anything
The shipment of bananas is interesting. They're transported in either bulk vessels or in containers. During transport the ripening process is prevented (think just by means of ventilation). The transport can take several weeks. Then on arrival they let it ripen, making the bananas turn yellow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana#Storage_and_transport (too brief though)
Somewhat off topic, but all the excitement and hoorah surrounding .NET Core is beginning to fade for me.

It seems that the product is beginning to turn into .NET 5 (Core) instead of the original intentions of leaving behind the legacy chains.

Between the switch back to MSBuild, RC# breaking changes and the promise of even more breaking changes post-release, I've become a little disheartened.

Change in itself isn't bad, but .NET Core was supposed to be about open communication, and the later changes were never discussed within the actual community, instead it was decided by MS alone.

Hell, in this article, it took multiple attempts to get it configured when its in the release-candidate stage. No idea where this was going it was more of a rant than anything apologies for anyone who actually read it.
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I've experienced the transition from being an engineer to a manager, and then from a manager to director, from director to VP, and now CEO.

I can tell you by far the most material impact on my ability to take on more responsibility has been having a great manager (not just a mentor). A manager knows what work you're being asked to do, sees you try to do that work, and can give you feedback on the work that you're doing. A mentor just does not have that context.

It's so important that one of the questions I ask when interviewing people (at any level) is tell me about a great manager you've had. And a shockingly large number of people (even directors or VPs with impressive resumes) will say "I never had one, but I wish I did."

This is a longer-term advice, but I would make it a career goal if you want to grow to try to find a really great manager.
That statement "music has soul" to me merely characterizes the emotional attachment that people put on music. I'm not sure how that could be 100% programmed or machine-learned at this time.

That being said, musicians have been creating machine-assisted composition (sequencer driven, stochastic, etc.) for a long time. I can imagine great art coming from AI, if the composer is there to help "guide the AI tool" in the direction he or she wants. AI as a means to an end, I don't see greatness from that... AI as an instrument, that could be very interesting...
I think the term embedded systems is slightly abused in this context.

From what I understand, Nerves essentially creates a minimal Linux firmware image that boots into your Elixir app. That is way too huge and bulky for most embedded systems i.e. microcontrollers and FPGAs. Furthermore, I don't think that the overhead of the firmware and VM can actually handle the level of realtime control required in the embedded space.

Since Nerves seems to be targeting the IoT space, why not just say "Elixir for IoT"?

Nonetheless, it looks like an awesome project. Elixir is a really interesting language running on a mature platform, and has come quite a long way in a very short amount of time.

Edit: from the ElixirDaze talk [1], Gareth says that the image is around 18 MB in size.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poWoCWDLxRU&t=9m05s
So are remixes allowed, or do you need permission from the original publisher?
It's a base64 string. Out of curiosity, what's your background?
Check out Garth Hitchens' talk about 2:40 in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poWoCWDLxRU
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It's odd that their browser of choice is from a company that was founded by a couple of Jewish dudes.

Also, aren't these the folks who are obsessed with the New World Order, and wouldn't Google be a key player in that scheme?
What odds would you give for it happening to experienced hikers? One in a million? Then it'll happen with some frequency.

It's a common argument with these things that the proposed explanation is improbable. I don't get it. We are looking at something improbable (otherwise it wouldn't be interesting in the first place), the question is just figuring out which improbable thing it is.
If you needed .NET in a production environment I'm perplexed as to why running it on RHEL would be a good decision. The POC is excellent but I wouldn't be serving .NET apps to my clients using this.
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It's bad if, if you wouldn't have bid so high, you'd have been able to win at the end with a lower bid than your highest.
Many of the tools you describe are already out in the field. Ableton Live and MAX4LIVE really opens up whole new sectors of tools for those who might be interested. There is a learning curve for music making software though, and it can be rather steep. That said, Instant Haus [1] does sort of what you describe, though it is targeted more for practicing musicians. I'm a fan of GarageBand's "Drummer" as well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoIcewM8sKY
Try tab tiling: ctrl-select two (or more) tabs and select "Tile tabs" from their context menu.
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The US doesn't really have that class of store for some reason. Even in urban areas, there tend to be either full-fledged grocery stores or "convenience stores" like 7-11 which have minimal fresh food. There are certainly exceptions but they tend to be local one-off markets. AFAIK, there aren't any widespread versions of the express/metro markets like you see in the UK.
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Like any other program - I use it when I need.
I'm one of the founders of ofCourseBooks. Happy to answer any questions people might have.

We built this to help encourage ourselves to, not only be more transparent, but to not just sit in front of the computer all day, as is easy to happen while coding up new features. We also have any updates posting to slack to easily show how people are doing. It's turned into a fun little competition between us founders.
I think there might be some word confusion here. I believe you're using "odd" just to mean "unusual," while others are taking it to mean something like "there must be a weird explanation" or something like that.
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I used to be the only developer at my company, responsible for all of our internal web software and outward facing web software, and developing all custom code. I had 10+ projects going at any given time as well as catching any bug reports/questions for any of our internal web software.

I reported directly to the CEO. I coped with this as long as I could fighting through burn out until I finally let him know we needed to expand the team. I was buckling under all the tasks. I spelled out clearly how it was far too much for any one person to handle.

We've slowly over time expanded the team until we now have 5 developers, which is still less bandwidth than we want but it makes things a lot more manageable, because we now as an organization accept a more realistic view of what we can do with the team we have.

I would say try talking to your manager about the reality of your situation. Have a real conversation about your concerns. If they go unheard or nothing comes of it, then it's probably time to move on.
It may well be a legitimate hack of TV but from a very small pool of thieves.
Yeah, embedded to me is something in the PIC/AVR/Cortex M0|3 space.

Still awesome and exciting stuff.
Yeah, we're an LLC. We structured pay so employees receive competitive above-market salaries and then very lofty commissions above that (which is tied directly to revenue earned from their contributions).

Your point about commitment is definitely accurate, though the 9-to-5 and "content with just my salary" attitude was what a lot of people tend to exhibit, even though they could have 2-3x'd that salary.
Adam Bien. (JavaEE related.)

Sometimes skim DZone.

Edit: and the sandstorm.io blog.
It's all fun to think about but we should be mindful of how falsifiable things are. We should ideally be careful to not give too much credence to non-falsifiable propositions, even if they might be true. This violates most people's intuition, but it prevents us from being bogged down wasting time on problems which we cannot gain ground on. If we are in a simulation, and it is falsifiable, rest assured some physicist will figure it out. Until then I doubt rumination on the subject will get us much closer because unless something is falsifiable you can't actually KNOW.
I have been at both extremes. For as long as I can remember I have had insomnia. It is a miserable disorder. At night I would endlessly ruminate about personal relationships, how I could help others, and the occasional work problems.

Recently I moved to the Bay Area. I work alone and have few friends. With few relationships, for the first time in my life I started falling asleep in under 10 minutes. It's a gift but it comes with a price. When I started mentoring at-risk high-school students, I found the insomnia returned, so I quit being a mentor after a few months.

Perhaps with more conditioning, insomnia won't relapse so easily.

Edit: grammar