skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Or the Pachelbel.
I always thought of it as "skip spaces and accept 1'234,00 if you wait for a number", not what redis does. Liberal != indifferent.
Is there a short-cut to getting fit?
Speaking off the cuff here. I think google wants ideas that might work then put a team on them. Close it down and aquire a company that makes it successful.
The 747 assembly line is just a thing of beauty. Boeing assembly lines are also spotlessly clean, and meticulously organized. The parts themselves are also very well made, just compare them with auto parts.
Is the world reproducible?
If everything in the world rewinds back by a certain time amount T (say 1 year), would the world, after the same amount of time T has elapsed, be identical to what it is now?
> The two places where this would have been useful are camera and battery but there is literally no innovation happening in these two departments...

From what I see in headlines the camera and battery are the two areas with the most innovation. Apple has a major ad campaign featuring photos shot on iPhones. Almost every new phone release mentions improved battery life. (Admittedly, these energy improvements may come more from decreased consumption than improved storage.)

I see most marketing discussing the following features:

1. Camera
2. Battery life
3. Screen size/resolution

This makes sense given that there aren't many other areas to radically innovate. Someone's already tried adding decent speakers, a kickstand, and various exclusive apps.
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I actually have a 2012 Bravia. It has a webcam and a Skype app. When we get a Skype call, a little popup appears in the bottom left corner, and I can accept/decline with the remote. I can then carry out a video call in either full 50 inches or composited with the TV signal. Coolest thing ever.

Digital recording is a great feature too, plug in a USB stick for storage then control and manage recordings with the remote. I actually like to have everything integrated, rather than having to fiddle with my OSMC, which, as an example, in the case of recording would need its own signal input.

My only (yet pretty big) issue with the Sony software is that it is slow to start up. From turning on the TV until it will respond to the remote is easily 40-50 seconds, long after the picture appears. You can't even change the channel or volume.

And, oh yeah, the YouTube app has been broken for years, but I use the OSMC for that.
> Include your own payment processor by default (I would use Stripe, personally)

In my opinion this decision (not only which payment provider to use, but whether to do it yourself at all!) depends highly on the kind of project. Fraud detection, international tax compliance, etc. can quickly become very expensive. Choose carefully.
Thanks for feedback. We do not use WhatsApp in any ways, our button just shows the company WhatsApp number on a website.
any need for design + front end dev? (definitely interested, but I like a mix of both)
> You could keep systems usable for 10+ years

If you change everything but the case and PSU, is it still the same system? Especially in the "golden desktop era" the pace of development was so quick that in 10 years multiple new CPU/RAm/storage standards were introduced, forcing you to upgrade pretty much everything to keep the system modern.

The same applies for mobile: the hardware is so cheap and gets "old" so fast that it's not commercially viable to offer modular upgrades. E.g. if you upgrade display, you likely need to upgrade the SOC as well.

PS. FairPhone is nice effort but not a modular system, they just offer easy repairability and spare parts.
I think this approach creates bottlenecks and ultimately has an inner-platform effect.

Use your RDBMS to the max, they are powerful tools!
This should have been an enterprise play. Delta needs 5,000 devices with a built in credit card reader. Macy's needs 25,000 devices with a built in barcode scanner. Delta doesn't need a massive battery life, Kohls needs minimum 8 hours. GM needs 175,000 phones with the barcode reader, a camera, and a rubberized body for their production lines. The phones don't have to be modular to the consumer - Google just needs to be able to snap a couple thousand together before shipment.

Buy your devices at the same place you buy your software support. It's now just one contract, and the connection between the software and hardware means you have a single point of failure (if the phone borks, call Google) instead of 2.

That it didn't happen could point to Google's enterprise game not being strong enough or the hardware not working out. Or maybe enterprise doesn't net them enough money compared to focusing on consumers.
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Misplaced focus on integer performance, is among the reasons.
> Kinder Surprise (sucks, but somewhat understandable)

I still don't understand this, the explanation I have read is that it's due to the inner plastic being totally hidden, but the potential to swallow a Kinder Surprise whole is very low, unless your kids are _really_ large.
Doesn't a 747 hold twice as many passengers though?
Solid state should be cheap.

The real problem is that LIDAR instead of better "stereo camera data processing" is development in hardware rather than brainware (AI).

There is indeed a lot that needs to be developed w.r.t. brainware. However, I'm pretty sure it doesn't need to be recouped through selling cars. Brainware is valuable in many more applications.

1. Accessing the internet through Google vs Viv. 2. Household robots vs cars. 3. Agriculture.
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It's not the same kind of quantum computer. D-Wave makes an annealer. They also have a history of making grandiose claims.

I think getting to fifty proper qubits will be a much bigger deal than D-Wave getting to even ten thousand "qubits". But I suppose time will tell.
Regarding size, the official memberships from 2014 were ~411,000 (Libs) vs ~248,000 (Greens). You could look at that as either the Libertarians being 66% larger, or them being practically the same as far as order of magnitude and portion of the total electorate. Johnson/Weld are more experienced candidates than Stein, but on the other hand, Ron and Rand Paul never came as close to winning a nomination as Sanders did, either (him being about 98% in line with Stein's positions - I remember his local campaign staff even defecting to her around the time of the DNC endorsement).

Regarding policies, Greens and Libertarians are also 99% in alignment on this particular issue (war on drugs), as well as some others. I know people have their preferences, just pointing out that there are multiple similarly-sized third parties of yet complete opposite ideological natures that would still be optionable for those wanting to vote on this kind of thing. It's even easier to not support this kind of behavior by the DEA.
HORSING AROUND
Intel has 82% of the x86 market, it would be great for Intel to get real competition.
That's just one of the many words that have different meanings in different countries. We Australians take our barbecueing very seriously and it rarely involves indirect cooking. :-) The most common form of barbecueing here involves cooking on a flat hotplate over direct heat.
The company integrating it doesn't have to pay for the connector, for soldering it into the system, or for routing the signals form wherever they are on the main board to the connector. He just solders the chip that would be inside the dongle on the motherboard, in a location that is convenient for him.

A few generations in, he doesn't even have to do that soldering; the functionality will be integrated with something else on a single chip.

That makes the integrated TV set cheaper to produce. Guy A pays more.

Margins are paper-thin for televisions, so that takes most of the market. Eventually, guy A can't even buy that set.
Deprives competitors of talent and there are also advantages in having people doing speculative/moonshot work.
As an engineer, I am utterly astounded that the Apollo launches were so successful. Nobody had bigger balls than the astronauts who got in them.
SDN providers nibbling away at slow-moving MPLS carriers
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Sorry, I can't, we use Debian stable + xen on our own bare metal hardware machines with from 256gb to 1tb of RAM. Never tried to buy a rental VM using the same dom0+PV setup. All of my off site VMs are for testing, some cheap $4/mo type openVZ that are basically glorified jails.
There are other issues with not recieving software updates. How many millions of people will end up with zombie TV's sitting in their living rooms?
Understanding the npm dependency model
Brave Browser Adds Bitcoin Payments
Windyty
What is a "known keys" table?

Is it a table with columns like user_defined_text_1, user_defined_text_2, ..., user_defined_text_10, user_defined_integer_1, user_defined_integer_2, ... user_defined_integer_n ?
Thanks! I hoped it wasn't a per-browser procedure, doesn't seem to work for chrome :/

Edit: chrome(ium) has a cert manager under "settings" that allows editing certificate trust levels
Florida Man Arrested for Hacking Linux Kernel Organization (in 2011)
Loans granted with aid of social media
This, this, this, this. Commented about this issue above but then found this comment here later. I've read about side-project startups that have gone under because they tried to do their own payment stack and lost at the fraud detection game.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10234287

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Since pro accounts initially cost £6 for month, it turns out that this is low enough that it won't send red flags to stolen cards. ... If there's a dispute on Stripe, there's transaction fees for reversing charges. £15.34 in fact. Since I know I'll lose the dispute, it's cost me, £21.54 to allow some shithead to use JS Bin as a stolen card testing facility.

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The 747 brought global air travel to ordinary people. There was a most definite before and after.
The first TV I remember at my parents' place was thrown out after twenty years.

The first TV I bought for my place (admittedly for $999AUD) was thrown out after 5 years - ironically because I wanted a "smart" feature, HDMI CEC. I'm now using a second hand Sony TV that just barely supports the HDMI CEC features I need - enough for it to be driven by a Raspberry Pi, at least.

Our electronics don't last as long but we ask a lot more of them.
> or if loyalty was really just some fanciful meme perpetrated by employers to keep costs down.

That one. Employers who invoke loyalty and passion won't hesitate to unloyally drop if they're costing too much for the money taken in. Which is appropriate. But then they expect individuals to bear the "cost" of working for less at their business, than for more at some other business.

It is to laugh.
I don't understand the down voting. I guess it is shooting the messenger for his recommendation to use "shitty micro payments". But what is the problem with this recommendation? It is just the truth, anything else doesn't work, apart of some statistical irrelevant corner cases.
A Rocket to Nowhere (2005)
They got rejected in India by activism among users and the regulator TRAI. So, I also wondered the exact same thing.
They're also much more expensive, have fewer input options than my current (dumb) tv, and have some remote configuration options that would more conveniently be put into menus, in a consumer device. So...what's the point, besides pigheadedness over not buying a "smart" TV? It's not like there's a way to even go see what I'm buying before I do it.

I'm not a big fan of smart devices, but I'm not going to pay more for a display with "meh" connectivity that doesn't really seem to be optimized as a home entertainment device. Although annoying, it makes more sense to buy the smart TV and ignore the extra features.
Sad to see it go, it was a cool idea.
For me that was the smartest part of this system. I think anyone with a bit of humility wants a few tips to speed up their software adoption, login emails and coupons are always good. I personally hate those "personal" emails, but people are opening them so perhaps you are attracting users interested in your core philosophy if they know you are a startup, etc.
The driving force behind new airliner designs is usually fuel efficiency. The 757 used 35% less gas than previous designs, due to engine and wing improvements. The 787 is about 20% better than earlier designs.

When you think about it, those are enormous gains, but the passengers don't see it other than in the ticket price.
Volume isn't high enough to get reasonable costs.
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Only the Code Tells the Truth
Cool, interesting app, Duet, that is. The 1, 2 or unlimited and the pricing seems pretty reasonable indeed.
Removable battery for one.
Again, volumes won't ever be high enough to make this happen.
Why Your Customer Journey Fails
I don't think it's just a static set, eg. use the PC for 10 years with completely upgradeable components or it's not worth it.

I purchased my current PC case/graphics card, cpu and motherboard 5 years ago, have replaced the CPU cooler, and the SSD drives and added an audio card, upgraded the RAM and added an extra HDD.

I think part of the problem is that despite smartphones being similar to desktops, they're not the same at all and have complementary but ultimately different purposes. One is suited to being upgradeable, the other isn't.
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Hiring process: introduction letter and CV to work(at)akvo.org. Review of online presence (GitHub, blogs, etc). Up to three interviews total, with QA lead, some colleagues, project managers, CTO and HR.

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> all personnel were clear of the pad and there were no injuries

But it still must burn a hole in Musk's pocket.
Frankly, I have never understood the desire to make a plant illegal. If you're a religious person this is something God made. Who are we to question God's creation?

If you are an atheist you probably rest the bulk of your belief system upon science. These policies prevent science from studying the plants and even fly in the face of existing scientific evidence.

One has to conclude that these policies are in the service of money and interests other than the public's.
Can anyone name other modular products in high volume production.
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Rocket Internet posts US$691M loss in H1 2016
I hope they do go for a cheaper SoC - that core module is more expensive than the entire phone that's in my pocket alone. I get that the price reflects ethically sourced materials, but they're gonna have to do something about the price.

I wonder how they'll handle software and retaining data through a cross-platform upgrade - a build for Android for the msm8xxx series won't run on a Mediatek SoC.
That will not be as easy as it may sound. The court (the appointed receivership) is obligated to ensure the best possible price for the assets, so Hyundai is likely to have to bid for the vessels in competition with other actors. What the government might do (a model used in the past) is to offer Hyundai support (guarantees) for the financing of the purchase, which might enable them to enter a winning bid at a de facto lower cost than the competition.
The Killer Shark Caught in the Thames in 1787
I really wish javascript had more array methods of higher level. It would make our code more readable. Now it's always the dilemma of extending the prototype or write the operation inline. jQuery and other toolkit add some, but the language itself doesn't and shouldn't be overlooked (it's not a technical prestige to only include "building blocks" (basic array operations) in a language).
The engineering feats are indeed remarkable! But so were the engineering feats of the desktop PC era. Previously it was unbelievable that you could make a computer small enough to sit on somebody's desk. So those guys were learning how to miniaturize things too -- and somehow, along the way, they ended up building systems that had interchangeable parts.

The current crop of device manufacturers, on the other handed, punted on this goal. Is it really because this generation's engineers aren't good enough to solve an engineering problem? Is it coincidental that failure to solve this engineering problem results in higher profits?

I don't think that's the case -- I think the business planners in the current generation of manufacturers saw interchangeable components as a feature which would results in consumers saving money and buying fewer new phones, gave us the middle finger and never bothered to do it.
It's very concerning considering Homebrew's popularity and its habit of running stuff as your local user. Compromising any application that runs as you with as much access to your computer as yourself is pretty bad.
I just switched to iOS after being Android for a while. Current Android Settings are great, at least in stock Android. They've finessed them over the years. They were poor two or three versions ago for sure.
SILE, a typesetting system inspired by TeX, reaches 0.9.4
123456 is actually a /fantastic/ password if you don't care what happens to the account. If you aren't going to the trouble of using a password manager, and the account doesn't mean much to you, then using weak passwords like this rather than your "good" password is a great idea. Save the entropy for your email and bank accounts.
Unnamed as of yet but I'll send the link your way once live. A week or so.
When we emigrated from the UK to New Zealand in the early seventies we flew by 747, my Aunts who had gone out a year earlier had to make the journey by ship.
Neural Networks for Genomics
What happens when you're on a Skype call on the TV and want to move to another room? I guess it's like with the old wired phones, you don't move. A 50" display is cool but a tablet or a phone are usually better suited to answer calls.

The only smart feature I'm using of my LG TV is playing videos from USB sticks. It doesn't have some audio codecs common in MKV containers, but when it works 40" is better than a tablet screen. BTW, the LG is quick enough at starting up. I usually keep it completely off, not in standby. Switch on the power, push the remote, get the image: 9 seconds. Maybe on par with old analog CRTs.

I never enabled WiFi because of the terms of service. Even if they are not as invasive as other ToS I saw from other manufacturers, they are way more than they should. I should use the TV to watch things, not to be watched. I already have the PC, tablet and phone for that :-) and at least I can fight there with adblockers and the like.

I have a Raspberry 3 connected to the TV and I could do YouTube with that (it's quite OK). Still the tablet is much better. I could chromecast to the TV but it's not worth the trouble.
I hate to add to the wire brush worry, but it's not just BBQ.

So many resturants use wire brushes.

The last burrito I had was a few months ago. It had piece of wire in it. I kept the wire for a few days, and thought about it. The wire was not from a brush. I think it was old copper telephone wire. It that might have fell onto the grill from the ceiling, or wall?

Anyways, I haven't had a burrito since that instance. And tonight, I just got the visual of them cleaning the grill with a big, old wire brush--with gusto. Now I think about it, they had all types of black brushes near the grill.

Those grills are just large pieces of steel, without holes, or spaces. If loose wire isn't caught by the cook it just gets mixed in with the of steak, chicken, whatever.

(They make small metal detectors. My watch parts supplier is always advertising them. They claim they will find watch parts on the ground. I wonder if they could detect those small bristles?)
The human brain also does massive dimensionality reduction on very large amounts of data, and a lot of unconscious processing, with much of it being beyond our capabilities of conscious introspection.

I think eventually, within a couple of decades, we will have AI that correlates well enough with human thought process, and has enough knowledge of the world, to be able to introspect and explain in various levels of detail, in natural language, images and other human readable constructs, why it has reached a certain conclusion. And we will be able to experimentally verify those explanations.
> Include your own payment processor and accept payments on their behalf

What's the benefit to the customer (and you) of this, vs letting them plug in their own Stripe account credentials (and handle chargebacks etc themselves)?

I have a side project and we've let people enter their own details thinking it would be less hassle for us (customers: 3). Curious what I've missed..?
But URLs are encrypted as it's the TCP connection that's encrypted, isn't it?!