skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Netflix have an integration with the ERP? Is the ERP self-hosted, on cloud, or SaaS (like NetSuite)? Very curious to read if G/L is integrated or if transactions are posted manually on an end-of-month basis.

Edit: it seems like the earlier blog post mentions there is a data feed to the GL, but leaves this rather vague. Very interested to read their ERP and data feed setup. What ERP does Netflix use too?
I know what it is, how to use it and all that. I just don't know how to make sense of the specific phrase that the parent asked about.
I'm too lazy to google a source right now, but actually, yes, we could detect Earth out to a few tens of lightyears. Not far in the scale of things, and the only thing we'd really be able to detect are the most powerful radars, but it is theoretically possible to detect ourselves at nearby stars.
I would add one thing to the author's list of admirable behavior: always seek out the truth, no matter where it lies.

IMO a component of the growing toxic atmosphere in public discourse is the "win at all costs" mindset, that fosters the belief that a little white lie here and there is justified by the end goal.
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My general guideline for prerelease OSes is: don't install them on anything you need to actually work. If you have a spare device and want to mess around then go for it, but putting it on your primary phone is complete madness.
> One person watching HD cat videos is going to consume more bandwidth than 20 people doing work.

One HD stream probably uses more continuous bandwidth as those 20 people so just limit that. Allow bursts maybe.

> Prioritizing non-video content is challenging if all content is encrypted.

Good! It's none of their business what I am doing with my bandwidth!
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Civility can also be a powerful weapon in dismantling corrupt power structures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
From a user perspective, Safari is way ahead of other browsers. Much better optimized CPU/memory use, which means everything stays snappier even with hundreds of open tabs, and my laptop battery lasts a lot longer.
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Oh yeah, true that, I thought the signal would be faint several light years out for omnidirectional signals, like FM radio and TV, I just didn't think it would be undetectable. I mean I assume that Contact was pretty scientifically tenable and that had aliens sending back transmissions of Adolf Hitler on television and that was over a much greater distance, but I'm willing to change this belief.

This, BTW, is why I am strongly in favor of optical SETI.
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Anyone seen or worked on a JavaScript-based projection editor?
I mean something like this one: http://projectured.org/

Reason I want something web-based is to make it easier for me to access later (if I have to redo my Virtual Box or whatever) and also easier for other people to play with it. And also because I have been doing a lot of JavaScript in recent years.
It's absolutely true that fat wires will behave at least a little differently from the point-like wires.

But if you are looking for a physical intuition behind the general mathematical form, then the thin-wire limit where you start. Big-wire deviations are an advanced topic, fit for engineers.

N.B. there's a difference between "thin wire" and "point like". I am saying that real wires, with constant-voltage surfaces will _behave_ like point-like charges as they get smaller.
Oh interesting. I'll look into that.
If I were a German politician, I might question the use of German funds to sponsor projects that end up being used by startups in the US as infrastructure.

For example. It might not play out that way, but I don't see it as impossible either.
The PECF doesn't just blindly give out $90 million dollars; it matches up to $90 million dollars of donations, dollar-for-dollar. The third-party candidate still needs to bring in donations to receive money from the PECF.
Funny how not long ago that was one of their selling point.
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Probably don't need any HNers in the room when there are 1,000 scientists with twitter accounts. Should be covered pretty well. =)
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No. I'm exhausted by the growing arrogance of modern people insisting the correct order of words are something to feel offended by.

I know people can feel offended by many words, but unless you stop to try and understand the intention of those words you don't deserve to say you are offended.

This is the crux of all the passive aggression of the last two decades that has finally blown into this out of control ideological debate about being politically correct.

Are you offended? Did you at least make an attempt to understand my motives and intentions?

This isn't to say if words from the offender are in their mind "kind" that it isn't offensive. This is about the listener being a participant in human exchange of communication.
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I actually mean solely abiogenesis. From the perspective of the Drake Equation [0], I think it's likely that ne [1] is quite low, and fl [2] is quite high. I don't think we can speculate on fi [3], given a sample size of 1. Though as we seem to be somewhat of an anomaly across several great extinction events, a low estimate there seems fair as a starting point.

The great filter theory implies that the last two terms are also low, but again, my point was mainly focused on going from no life to basic life. Essentially I think that while there are improbably steps between inert matter and consciousness, abiogenesis itself does not seem to be one of them, though the suitability for abiogenesis likely is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation#Equation
[1] the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets
[2] the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point
[3] the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations)
> Do you really guns are going to help, when the real threat is government overreach and the inaction of the populace? Keep electing "pro 2nd amendment" politicians who also happen to vote for the patriot act and support NSA spying. <

So your logic is, "because politicians have passed Patriot Act and govt spies through NSA, give up your gun rights"??

I see similar argument being made by other people, "there is no way you will be able to fight a totalitarian government with your guns", (even if it were true) the point is that we should give up our guns because we are already doomed? Isn't that even more reason to fight for gun rights?

Quoting again from Federalist Papers #46, where James Madison responds to the argument similar to being made by you (you really should read it, because I am skipping a lot of meat):

>>Let a regular army, fully equal to the resources of the country, be formed; and let it be entirely at the devotion of the federal government; still it would not be going too far to say, that the State governments, with the people on their side, would be able to repel the danger. The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed 1/100th part of the whole number of souls; or one 1/25th part of the number able to bear arms.<<

>> This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than 25 or 30 thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence. <<

>> It may well be doubted, whether a militia thus circumstanced could ever be conquered by such a proportion of regular troops. Those who are best acquainted with the last successful resistance of this country against the British arms, will be most inclined to deny the possibility of it. <<
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Per user limits are not easy to implement, maybe easier to visualize - consider that there are a bunch of packet gateways sitting behind a load balancer and each HTTP session may end up on a different server. There is no entity that counts the live bandwidth usage on a per user basis, let alone control it. Billing and metering is done on a session basis through logs. So from T-Mo's point of view it is much easier to detect a HTTP session as video and just throttle that session.
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Or at the very least allow sponsors to highlight their athletes. (See the story about IOC copyright takedown notice to Oiselle highlighting Kate Grace's Olympic trials.)
Yeah, there's definitely room for refinement there. It's a bit tricky since different libraries support different easings (and the interfaces vary widely).
No webrtc so I need to keep chrome around for calls. Super annoying
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Patching an APK like this would break parts of the app, specifically the parts that are arguably the most crucial to be followed by pinned API calls. For example, in-app purchases via Google Play that validate the app's signing would all fail. Similarly restoring any previous in app purchases would also fail. Finally, you wouldn't be able to install this APK without uninstalling the valid production APK first, again due to signature/signing mismatch.
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What's "artificial" shaping?

The average consumer ISP has an over subscription ratio of 70-to-1.

Unless you want to pay 70x as much for your "100mbit" connection, there are going to be times when packets get dropped.

Isn't it better to drop packets fairly among subscribers? No shaping would result in whoever is using the most dominating everyone else.

This basic principle is still neutral; you don't have to shape based on destination / content provider.
> Still Apple Pay seems to be americo-centric with only supporting credit cards

I don't understand - do you pay for everyday goods and services with wire transfers and direct debits? Because that's the use case of Apple Pay isn't it?

I'm not sure how anything could be quicker than a credit card. A normal contactless transaction from me taking my wallet out of my pocket to being done takes about two seconds. Apple Pay is no different except I take my phone out of my pocket instead of my wallet. Maybe Apple Pay by watch could be quicker?
What irony? There is no connection. What is so "ironic" about a private business being private? Or is there anyone - apart from former Eastern Bloc countries - who thinks newspapers should be state-owned? The topic is privatization of government functions. Private media should not write about it? I don't understand. So in order to write about this topic we need non-private media, i.e. only individual bloggers, state-owned media (China?) and maybe NPR can write about it?
I fail to see how ad blocking on the client side relates to prioritized network traffic.

ISPs are the only ones with control over the system to really hijack net neutrality anyway. Using a browser that blocks/replaces sources by your choice has nothing to do with that.
It's not obvious to me. Example use case:

The last time I wrote a bunch of decorators, I was writing python bindings to a set of C++ classes that each had an internal error state that had to be checked after each time a method was called to see if the method failed. If the error state was set, then subsequent method calls for the same object would fail silently, so it was crucial that the error state be checked. There were dozens of methods per class.

I ended up writing a class decorator that would decorate each method with the appropriate method decorator. The method decorator would call the GetErrorCode method, check if nonzero, reset the error state of the object, and then raise an appropriate python exception if necessary.

Major surgery to change the error handling in the called C++ code was not an option.

Can you suggest a better approach?
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Not all truths are the same size, though. If someone is ugly, telling them so in conversation is both completely truthful and completely unhelpful.

Just because something is true doesn't mean it's necessary to say it out loud, or constructive to building a civil, respectful space.
hacked together something for nix using standard tools: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/autolux

can install with 'pip install autolux'. uses imagemagick, xdotool and xbacklight. please make it better
Agreed, I got stuck on that point too. Leaning on UPDATE like that is a (schema, app) design problem, not a database problem.
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Interesting. Hindi has 3 words for "you": tu, tum and aap.

The first is for informal usage with familiar people, such as friends or relatives, the second for more formal usage, such as in business or with people you don't know from before, and the third is the more respectful one, such as for elders or superiors in business or people of official rank, such as a judge, priest, etc.
Well, there was actually a concerted effort to remove magic (back in pre 1.0, in a branch aptly called "magic-removal".) The problem was that convention-over-configuration was tripping a lot of new people. It was actually the reason I decided to go with Django over Rails.

That said, I feel like nowadays Rails and Django are more or less equally capable, so choosing one over the other might be a matter of language and ecosystem preference over anything else.
If you really want to contact the web designer, there is a 'contact' link in the footer. But as others have noted it's because somebody notable passed away.
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Found some info on this:

> 0.37.8 is actually a 1.0.1 version of Atom so it's not THAT old. The only difference between 0.37.8 and 1.0.0 release is the remove of deprecated API that were not flagged as such in 0.37.8 release. Reason why Atom only incrementally updates electron is to minimize application breakage due to Atom project's size. [0]

> We decide to update to a new version of Electron when there is an enhancement or bug fix that version would enable that would benefit Atom users. Because updating to a new version of Electron is non-trivial, sometimes we skip versions until there is a clear benefit that justifies the cost. [1]

[0] https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/11967#issuecomment-22550...

[1] https://github.com/atom/design-decisions/blob/master/electro...
I'm a user and I find not having service worker support makes web pages load slower for me. Also, not having WebRTC makes it less useful as I have to change browsers to video chat with people online.
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> Provide Options, Don’t Make Lame Excuses

This has helped my career more than any other single piece of advice. The critical mindset of the engineer can quickly lead to cynicism (especially when faced with bureaucracy). Don't get me wrong; cynics make great advisors. But the money is in solving problems, not (merely) pointing them out.
I think 98% of people are really better off in a closed system (excluding piracy). The real issue IMO is getting developer access to any Android or iOS device should be a straightforward and free process.
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