skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Couldn't it be argued that it's "relatively sound" that as long as you get a good balance of calories and macro and micro nutrients, which is exactly what Soylent provides, that you are on a good path?

FWIW, on the topic of healthy weight, the Soylent forum has many anecdotes of people who have used the product to lose (or gain!) weight because it allows them to easily count calories without having to spend time scanning products into MyFitnessPal every day and weighing all of their food.
paywall; didn't read?
About 5 of them are Dyson, seriously where is it already?
MySQL support exists,but no postgres?

I notice that Google has consistently built support for MySQL in all its products...but never postgres.

I don't understand why - is there a massive amount of engineering involved ?
Surely there's prior art on the AT&T one? Might be a bit hard to search for, though.
Good thing the products are labelled as being non-GMO or you wouldn't be able to boycott them!
Someone please spoil my optimism about this. This seems like a game changer in reporting. What do you guys use that make this obsolete?
Where's the innovation at iRobot? Where are the self driving garbage cans and self driving beach coolers? Where's the quad copter that brings you a beer? This is a neat submarine article for them, but it seems to highlight a kind of complacency that other firms can innovate around.
Just out of curiosity, how old are you, if you don't mind?

Your comment makes me assume you are very young or you work at Google. I don't mean that snarky, but your comment is a very different response than the rest of this thread.
Indeed, it's an example of the kind of blinkered identity politics that is infecting so many minds, industries and institutions.
Most of their donors are older and primarily use the radio.
Rimworld is so good. At the same time, no game has made me ragequit more intensely in a very long time. Broken thoughts right when you need the colonists to buckle down...
If we assume a fixed lifetime of n years for vacuums, it will take at most n years to get to 20%.

If we assumed a half-life of n years, then robot vacuums will only ever approach 20% asymptotically and won't ever reach it.

(We could get over 20% if robot vacuums have a longer lifespan than regular vacuums. I'm tempted to write a simulation over different failure curves but I really have better things to do.)
I haven't, but thanks for the tip! I'll check it out!
It's about depth. The world of Witcher 3 might as well be an actual world, with its utterly insane level of detail and scale. It has deep lore, history, politics, drama, intrigue, friendship, love, loss, humor. Everything is believable. No other game I've played over the past 15 years is like it. Skyrim came kinda close but that was after a ton of modding and fixing.
A lot of the EU ban is directly related to lobbying, not actual science.
Your entire first paragraph reads just as well without the word "Christian". One-word proof: Nickelback.

I'm not even Christian, and I found myself enjoying an evangelical Christian rock CD as just good music, until I listened close enough to realize that I didn't agree with many of the lyrics.

Your second paragraph is simply the No True Scotsman fallacy, or the "all gay men are flamboyant" observational-bias fallacy. You are just saying that you don't like things you don't like, and you don't notice the intention behind things you like.
> Not sure where you got that idea.

Like battleships, they are a big dumb target. The same way carriers and their aircraft made battleships obsolete modern anti-ship missiles have made carriers obsolete in a theoretical war between superpowers. Countries still covet them as a status symbol (or a way to spend taxpayer money), but I think that is about it.

> And it would take more than one hit to sink a carrier. These are 100k+ ton ships, and the important bits are armored.

That's why the Russian idea is to just bombard them with missiles until enough they poke enough holes in them to sink or disable them. It seems like a reasonable strategy to me.
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That's a hell of a lot of Earth angular momentum you need to destroy!
Seriously, a DUI is no big deal. 15 minutes in the naughty corner. So any potential employer who sees that as a barrier to employing you is probably too self-righteous for a pleasant workplace.

So what have you been doing since leaving school? 8+ years of doing _____ ?

Becoming a developer is not easy nor quick. The bootcamps only promise otherwise because they want gullible people to hand over a bunch of money. Being a freelancer is like having several bosses, besides you would still need to be able to to deliver in order to get paid.

Perhaps the best strategy is to get a job that you can do right now. Then in your free time you teach yourself a language for which there are lots of jobs in your area. Personally, I would think PHP is not a very good choice. I would suggest that JavaScript is a better choice since it is widely used on both the front-end and back-end. You can start learning it with nothing more than a good book and a recent browser with DevTools.
And I'd add to that: in the USA (with a bit of extrapolation).
> Well, that's a business. Not a big one but still one.

Not necessarily. I don't know the specifics of her jurisdiction but the Australian Taxation Office for instance makes a rather vague distinction between a hobby and a business. The distinction is unclear enough that they actually publish an online tool to help you determine if you are engaged in a hobby or business. Simply earning money is not enough to qualify as a business (according to the ATO).
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Software and API's that will exist in 2 years :(
The comparison is contaminated by the test being preselected for a skill that humans are good at (i.e. the game has been designed to be within the human skill range of someone from a modern society).

I am sure you could design a game around the strengths of modern AI’s that no human could ever win. What would this tell us?
Some GMO plants don't produce spores or seeds at all for this very reason, and because Monsanto, etc have an incentive to keep their IP on a tight leech.
Tesloop has charged their Tesla Model S vehicles to 100% constantly for almost 200k miles, and their batteries have only experienced a 6% loss of capacity.
This Weird Globe-Folding Map Isn’t Perfect, but It’s Close
Did you know you can use your Perl 5 code in Perl 6 and vice-versa?

For example, if you've installed the Perl 5 DBI from CPAN then you can use that in Perl 6 code like this:

use DBI:from<Perl5>;

my $dbh = DBI.connect('dbi:Pg:database=test');
my $products = $dbh.selectall_arrayref(
'select * from products', {Slice => {}}
);

I'm not saying Perl 6 is ready or right for you. But Perl 6 doesn't exactly have the Python 2 / Python 3 problem. CPAN authors don't have to port anything and you don't have to port anything to be able to use existing Perl 5 code in Perl 6 (and vice-versa).
Thanks for providing this. Useful info. That PDF in turn references "The Precautionary Principle (with Application to the Genetic Modification of Organisms)" from 2014.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5787
Why you'd use MySQL rather than PostgreSQL in 2016 baffles me unless you're supporting a legacy application, I feel your pain.
I cook and eat real food, but I'll award you 6/10 for effort.
The Perl 6 project started only slightly more than a decade and a half ago.

Ruby's "DSL" ability is what allowed Rails, in Perl 6 everything is a DSL. Even strings are written a customizable DSL. You can turn on and off string features, and add new ones. It goes even deeper than that, you can swap the parser out with a new one mid-parse. One implementing Ruby for example. ( While it is possible to do this today, this isn't specced yet, as the exact way to do this is still in flux to get it to the same quality as the rest of the language )
So in a sense, all programming languages can be thought of as a subset of Perl 6. ( There would be little point in doing this for assembly though, as it will probably have to be emulated in most cases )
This feature is usually only used to slightly alter the existing parser currently.

That isn't even the best part, many features from other high level languages have already been brought together in Perl 6, in a way that makes them seem as if they have always belonged together.

If you asked a random sampling of people about which feature that they like in Perl 6, you will probably get a different one from each.
How does an accountant end up in "engineering" without going back to Uni and doing an engineering degree?
Additionally, won't most of the efforts & impact be cyber security?

The ole "what good is an army with no orders"
One interesting case with Uber: https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
> I know this is a very unpopular opinion in some parts (perhaps HN), but why must everything be in JavaScript and in the web browser?

> I wish in computer science there were more sanity checks and willingness to make progress, rather than to paint flat tires or more crudely, shine turds.

For the same reason you continue to use x86. It's deployed everywhere and that will not change.

I happen to think that wasm is pretty well designed, so I don't put much stock in assumptions along the lines of "it's in the browser, so it must be slow".
Oy... The generated passwords are a repeating sequence like abCD9?wxYZ7% - the aaZZ9+ pattern repeats and the keyspace is smaller than it should be.
I did not stop programming but I got a dramatically different job of what I had before. You didn't say why you're curious for that question, that might be like me simply for the need to change.

Even with a gratifying job full of technical challenges, I feared I was becoming a 9to5 zombie. So, I got a new job a few weeks ago. I joined a non profit offering free WiFi in the city as the one man army tech guy. Instead of just software/web/mobile development, I also have kind of managerial type of responsibility and more public relation to do. It's something like a safe steady job with nearly startup mindset.

There's still a bit of programming involved, but it's so different from what I know that it's a real professional challenge. And for that I had to accept a big salary downgrade.

It really depends on what's your motivation. Is it salary, challenges that go in pair with your personal growth or simply working in a different context / mindset?

That may be the tasks you do that aren't fulfilling? For some people, manual work is really gratifying. Last week I was setting new cables in a patch panel; there's nothing challenging about it but it's simple and you can be proud of a cleanly done job.
>I rather doubt it in ND since I've seen them all summer doing it at the farmer's market and a cop is parked across the street most times. Plenty of groups still have bake sales.

Yes, they do that here too. What makes you think these people don't have a license?
> a part of the liberal part of the government

It's not actually liberal. In reality it's quite conservative... moneyed, powerful interests shaping the messages that they want the public to consume.

The idea that HRC is politically leftist is a bizarre bit of wizardry that is completely false and helps people who would vote for a leftward leaning candidate believe that she is on their side.

It's arguable whether HRC or George H.W. Bush is further to the right... they are in a similar ballpark... the endorsement is not too farfetched, though normally party loyalty would have prevented it from being made public.
My preferred approach http://withouttheloop.com/articles/2014-10-21-fsharp-adhoc-p...
Good times! Just imagine sharing a controller with someone now to play a game
>but it felt as if I was being told how I should be voting

I've felt this sentiment since slightly before the conventions. Ask this independent voter why he's anxious for this to all be over? It's all the "Do you want Trump? Because that's how you get Trump" histrionics.
The Guardian?
So.. it's google analytics? Or a client for analytics? I still don't understand.

Why wouldn't this just be integrated into their existing platform?
I think tools like this are going to enable more government accountability. Facilitating visualization and sharing of what otherwise would be a bunch of numbers is key.

In Mexico there is only one electric utility company. The price per kWh is supposed to be a function of the median monthly temperature. However, many cities are misclassified on purpose. A map showing which cities are misclassified would be really easy to do and share if it supported maps.
Dominating the robot vacuum market has never been irobots problem. They still haven't figured out what's next.

This is a similar story to Fitbit and GoPro, once you've own the market you're after, then what?
The Economist is doing pretty well. I've been a subscriber for more than ten years. Now I still get my copy delivered on Friday, but for a little less money (no more print copy), to my iPhone and iPad, with audio for every article.
Hey no one dies in Super Mario Bros. The mushrooms get swished and bopped off-screen.
The Sipser book is excellent. It's one of only a handful of textbooks I decided to keep after I graduated from university. And perhaps the only one I kept because of how good it was rather than because the campus bookstore wanted to give me a pittance for it... and I didn't even buy the book until after the semester when I had to return the copy I'd checked out from the library...

I later on picked up the first two editions of Hopcroft & Ullman for $1 each at a used book store. I don't think either edition can really hold a candle to the Sipser book, which is shorter, more thorough, and (imo) easier to understand.

One caveat: it's super-expensive. I'd recommend finding a used copy or even an "international edition" (which will be soft-cover rather than hard-cover, but the content is the same).
I am willing to work for 10$ an hour for full stack development (React/redux and go or firebase, SQL, sometimes node), or Cordova app development, or programming embedded devices (C or proprietary languages).

But no clients so far except for some friends who have promised to pay in the future if their startup gets successful or gets funded :)

I have tried the usual freelance sites but no one really bids on me. The reason is that I am from India and don't have much to show in terms of projects/experience - my previous company had a very strict non disclosure policy, and haven't worked on anything open source yet, don't have a blog, etc.

I am not very serious though and more focussed on a project/"startup" of my own but still looking for pocket money of 20-40$ a day to sustain myself without having to do a job. I am trying at fiverr now. Somehow I just haven't cracked the money nut yet.
>> 1Password also supports TOTP, so you don't need a seperate app for that - although for security you probably should.

It goes way beyond "probably should" regarding security. You're giving a single company not only potential access to your usernames and passwords, but also your last line of defense - TOTP generation. That combination of apps put everything in reach of one company to fuck you over.

Using a password manager that is being coded and maintained by a random everyday software company should be the only concern anyone has over even considering using such an app. That one company has the ability - whether intentionally or via being hacked - to release an update to any of their client apps that sends your entire database, decrypted to plaintext, to any server in the world.

Can you think of any scenario where someone slips in a 2-line commit to one of their client apps that sends your decrypted database to any server of their choice? We're talking about one disgruntled employee who decides they would like access to millions of users' most sensitive credentials. Or perhaps a single firewall opening or social engineering attack away.

It blows my mind that anyone would put this much trust in any for-profit password manager. Every month we hear about yet another major hack against software companies. One day soon, such a hack will happen to 1Password or LastPass, and the majority of their customers are going to have their entire lives (logins to bank accounts, government portals, etc.) exposed.

Such an eventuality cannot be defended against. It will start and end in less than 48 hours thanks to auto-updating applications, and will affect millions.
I went into college for computer engineering but immediately double-majored in journalism (my first love in school) and didn't even bother looking for an engineering job after graduation (though I did fail a Microsoft interview).

Today I do both but I'm extremely thankful I stuck with programming. Not just as a useful job skill but as a different, powerful way to see the world.
You are mistaken, the Perl6 solution is easy: you can use Perl5 code directly (import it). It's nothing like the Python2 -> 3 mess.
I read that, and I see that ceviche is NOT on the list of allowed foods for a Cottage Food Operation.
So it's strictly a Marketing game? There's nothing behind the product? I would have thought nerds would be smarter. Or is it something like a hipster beard and hats when it's warm?
Tetris was a blockbuster hit without realistic interpersonal dynamics.
I found the same about YT history. None of the videos that I view on the laptop are shown in the history, only videos viewed on mobile.

I think it's because I block ip addresses, that track your data, on the laptop.
Private investigators with a good grasp of IT are very rare and white collar crimes, etc are rife. As for the training, much of it is common sense and not above the levels required to get a degree in any other field.
Artificial intelligence, and the rise of the bot enabled agent
>We need to deter a resurgent Russia and China.

. . . as if that has EVER worked. . .
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Ah my bad, online registration and mailed voting which is displayed online.
The scare quotes are pretty condescending. How about removing them?
"Visited [insert all my untracked searches here] at DuckDuckGo"
If an apartment in Manhattan doesn't already have a washer/dryer hookup, it is not getting a washer/dryer hookup, no matter the economics of buying a washer and dryer vs using a laundry service.
Actual title: "Artificial intelligence, and the rise of the bot enabled agent."
It's not as crazy as someone suggesting (from the same leaked emails) that some amount of money spent on pizza was actually for prostitutes because pizza is a codeword for prostitutes. They need to hurry up and get this election over with because it's making the whole world stupider.
Ask HN: How do you manage team timings?
We have become fairly big firm of about 25-30 people. And one of the preassing issue we have is timing.

Given that you can't have fix timing like 9-5 or something, how do you encourage everyone to be in office at around same time.

If not fixed timing, how do you manage interteam communications? How to stop someone waiting on other guy who might decide to walk in at around noon?
My guess is that they are trying to make a data analytics platform for data in general, but the system integrates easily with their other data driven products.
More like 5%.

Let's say there's one vacuum for every 20 people (household of 4 or so, 1/2 households who can afford it own one, 1/2 households can afford it), that's 350 millions vacuums.

They've sold 14 millions robot vacuums to date, let's say 25% are broken/not in use, that's 10 millions.

10/350 is 3%. According to some web page I just googled, IRobot has 60-65% market share, so accounting for competitors that's 5% of vacuums.
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It depends on what you mean by 'better'. The sources I linked are reporting on emails from Wikileaks. Therefore, I think Wikileaks would be the best source for the raw information without any editorializing or spin.

I doubt some media outlets would offer any decent reporting on these leaks as it damaged their credibility (e.g. Huffington Post, CNN, Politico, NYT, etc)
Which ingredient is expiremental? The one that is "generally recognized as safe" by the FDA? Doesn't sound very expiremental to me if the FDA has already fully tested and formulated a rating for it.
Most of us aren't doing millions of writes per second though.
Your links don't match your description of them.
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It's still a cool prototype, and there's still cool stuff you could add. For instance, if I were to use my phone as an extra keyboard for shortcuts, etc., I'd probably have it tethered via USB. USB device identification should be handled in software, so it stands to reason that your phone can pretend to be a USB HID device (similar to what is done in this[0] paper). Having a simple scripting layer would be interesting too. Trackpad wouldn't be bad either.

Another thing that could be cool is having your phone pretend to be a USB webcam.

[0]http://cs.gmu.edu/~astavrou/research/acsac10.pdf
Seems like a very mature library, I can't answer your question before I go through their documentation and code. Also, I find your question a bit abstract, since I am not aware of the details of the problem you are trying to solve, I cannot reason why any library or tool can be better over other libraries. In your case, TBB might fit your requirements and it might be hard to give a reason to switch to another library.
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The Data Studio appears to be explicitly a dashboard service, but for any kind of data (which puts it in competition with services like Tableau). There is some overlap with Google Analytics and its native dashboards, but that's not a bad thing.
What an Expat VC Learned from the US Election
The NYT always offers open access... you just need to disable javascript.
Submission is "Welcome to the Google Privacy Policy", Google's privacy page.
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Then at least link to the emails you find objectionable? Everything I've seen is just the normal process of reporters talking to the people they cover.
Yes, mathematics. After studying computer science problems for a while I fell in love with math.
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> My gripe with most modern games is that they try too hard to tell a story. Designers in the AAA and indie space are often preoccupied with emulating the attributes of other media, rather than exploring the unique possibilities of video games. Any modern gamer is familiar with the "movie with quick-time events" trope, games that shoehorn meaningless interaction into linear storytelling.

The common problem is not with "trying to tell the story", the problem is usually as you said with its linearity. Making a reactive story with meaningful consequences to choices is hard and time consuming.

> A game can (and perhaps should) be a blank canvas rather than a work of art.

It should be a work of art which allows player to participate in a meaningful way. Compare it to a form of art where actor plays a role, but the play isn't set in stone, and you are that actor.

Roleplaying however is just one type of gaming activity. There can be other types of games, more focused on exploration for instance, puzzle solving or simulation and etc. While quite different categories, they all can be enjoyable computer games. Some tend to be more sport, than art.
An extreme edge case is not a counterargument.
Somewhat like Tableau, but in the cloud.

(Tableau may have a cloud version too, I'm actually not sure)
Yeah, this is a feeling I have as well. Unfortunately pretty much any professional career involves long hours in front of a screen these days.
Feels old seeing this on every single thread about a Google product. This isn't something you need to retool your company around and end up screwed if it's canceled. It's a nice analytics dashboard that either provides value for you for however long you decide to use it, or if it has no value to you then you just won't use it.
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