skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banks don't tend to have APIs though. Either you give up your username and password, or you don't get centralized reporting. Those are your only options.

Anyway fraudulent bank transactions are relatively easy to undo, and they have really high penalties and are enforced by FBI agents who don't play around.
As soon as they have author proofs, I'll switch over. The interface of KDP is really nice, trust me, I can't wait to switch.
This sort of thing seems better on a personal blog than that of a company. As opposed to sounding like an enlightened defense of freedom of speech - there's plenty of capacity for doing that in professional writing[1] - it reads like that of someone with an axe to grind, who feels like their favored brand of politics is being tarnished unfairly and claiming victimhood.

Engaging in such victimhood using the platform of your company's blog doesn't sit well with me. As the negative consequences of him writing this will almost certainly be negligible in relative terms for the company, it undermines his argument. If there's a real "cultural purge", we should expect EasyDNS to go bankrupt for defending groups alleged to be "white supremacist", "racist", and "Nazi".

But I gather they won't be. I didn't hear of "#deleteshopify" until I read this post, and I expect I won't hear about it again.

If you're reading this, future people, do me a favor and reply to this thread when #boycotteasydns has caused the company to fold. We can talk about "cultural purges" then.

[1] - http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/01/26/chancellor-statement-on-...
The one you are talking about was designed by Eero Aarnio, a Finnish designer. The Danish one is made by Arne Jacobsen and it resembles a minimalist arm chair.
For the record I didn't publish on Leanpub. (Well, I did but I didn't send many customers their way.)

I just used them to get a nice-looking PDF and sold it myself from my website using Stripe to accept credit cards.
I'd like to add, that with IKEA you know what you can expect in terms of quality, sturdiness and usability. You know it's not the best, but you also know that it'll survive a few years and maybe moving once.

With other brands, your expectation has a broader variance.

* the discount furniture competitor also uses cheap material, but you cannot be sure that you can even assemble the furniture (lousy packaging and screws are missing or you aren't able to grasp the manual, etc).
* the quality brand thing might be amazing, or it might just be an expensive, good-looking piece of bad furniture. Anyone use USM Haller?

I admit: I buy all my furniture at IKEA. And helping friends move their furniture from place to place, I have learned, that IKEA is the choice if you don't want to become a furniture expert. They are sturdier than their reputation, their design doesn't quickly fall out of fashion (like other furniture often does) and overall a rational choice.

Also this seems to be reflected by the their resale value. I had lived a 1 h drive away from an IKEA last time I moved, and was able to sell off a lot of ikea furniture for prices I never dreamed reachable for used furniture. People knew what to expect, what the stuff cost new (because: catalog), didn't want to do the 1 hour drive and then felt like a high price was still reasonable.
Am not OP, and not speaking from direct experience,

but a coworker was using a Pi-2 as a home media server without issue in some situations - basically he did the math on the bitrates per second and determined that the disk/wifi I/O (on the shared USB bus) was fast enough for his use case (IIRC streaming to main TV, possibly 1-2 more devices)

I do know he was looking at upgrading to another mini-arm board with
a dedicated PCI Nic or separate SATA due to the bus contention on
the USB limiting data/network I/O because he wanted to serve
more clients (family of 5 and associated devices)

so I guess the short answer is 'maybe, depending on use case'..
Universities are charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition, paying adjunct professors a pittance to teach classes, and researchers are dependent on grant funding for their research. Where is the money going?
I has similar experiences with Ashley and Bobs. The Farmhouse Store is decent. They ship their orders out to Amish country (or so they say), which is also a good resource. But its solid wood and some hint of craftsmanship. (I've heard Restoration Hardware also, but can't confirm directly.)

I've been through a house fire and needed to replace furniture in most rooms over the past year or so. What I've learned is to pick and choose for quality. Family dining table to last until we move out of the house, where we're going to congregate daily for laughs, tears, homework, meals, holidays? High-quality for this family. Bookcase? Kids furniture? Cheaper the better (Sauder, Ikea) and anchor them to the wall - they're going to get beat up and are potential safety issues.

(edit) Oh, Estate Sales might be the only way to get out of that scale that Danny Bee is speaking of. Get some old furniture, and tweak it to your style (assuming thats enjoyable work to you). Just dont assume if it was made in 1960 there won't be some laminated wood veneer.
So? You're welcome to write your version, if you think you can make a faster one.
I think there is a slight misunderstanding in the turn of phrase used by the lawyer and repeated by me. I understand what you're referring to, but the idea of "looking for a reason to deny" is more meant they're going beyond their stated and written duty and creating reasons to deny entry after establishing they have a valid permit for entry with no other reason. It's not that they are just doing their job, it seems some agents are inventing problems or refusing to accept some conditions as OK once properly vetted. It's the idea behind looking for a problem, trying to provoke an issue
The milk jug is so light and thin already, any more improvement is lost in the noise. Consume (waste) less milk, you're doing an order of magnitude more good.
Member of the European Union, not member of the Schengen Area... UK has always been whimsical and not reflecting the "European" values... thus, UK is not Europe.

They're free to run things the way they like, but please don't keep telling that UK is Europe... especially after they chose and got the Brexit... not a single true european will endorse its mistakes.
What Milo does is one thing. What the "church" does is another.

The "church" has a business model of provoking people into confronting them physically so they can sue them. Basically they really run to daddy when they get slapped for poking someone in the eye.
Factories. I've got a codebase to work with using factories everywhere. Static arrays of them. Classes are given hardcoded enums and there's macro magic all over the palce to join classes to the factories that make them, and to generate all the factories in these static arrays of factories.

Sometimes the static array of factories contains a single factory. Creating a single item. No variation, no types, just one kind of one item.

The item is needed once. In one place.
"N'étant pas en possession d'un document fédéral m'autorisant à travailler aux États-Unis, je suis en infraction. La décision sera confirmée plus tard par son supérieur hiérarchique – que je n'aurai pas la possibilité de rencontrer."

It seems the decision by the officer was actually upheld by his/her direct superior (referring to the original. Translation: "Not being in possession of a federal document authorizing me to work in the United States, I am in violation. The decision will be confirmed later by his superior - that I will not have the opportunity to meet.").
So I would really like to have a helping hand/ employees. The thing is we have around 4 contracts from major companies, but I will only make significant revenue once they get delivered. I also need to work on my SaaS product for non-enterprise customers.

So money to hire or a co-founder to share work would be great help. I am afraid I might burnout working 18 hour days.
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Well, there is the recent innovation in vat-grown meat that supposedly has the same texture as 'real' meat.
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> ""What's exciting about this," he said, "is we can go to as low as 1 percent of our additive, and you get a plastic alloy that really has super-great properties.""

The properties of a polymer are specific to the application intended. "Super-great" doesn't appear on a spec sheet [0]. If you're making plastic for high pressure natural gas pipe, you go with a polymer that is different from a film resin. Plastic producers work closely with the end users to craft polymer that matches very specific applications. It's possible that this additive can be crafted for different applications, but combining polyethylene and polypropylene is already starting from different beasts.

In the world of polyethylene, I previously worked at a plant that made ~50 different grades/resins ranging from low to medium to high density PE for wildly different applications (pipe, blow molding, film, etc.). Of those 50 resins, they were made from 2 different catalyst systems and multiple actual catalysts. All of our end product was nominally "polyethylene". That detail worked to ensure you made exactly the polymer you wanted for the application. It is this specification of properties that prevents recycled material from ending up in the critical high volume applications.

If you're making millions of milk jugs a day, it doesn't matter that a single milk jug is worthless. You're using machinery that is custom tuned to the polymer you are running. That tuning relies on the polymer having specific, repeatable properties. We had customers complain when an identical resin was made from different plants at the complex.

> ""If you could make a milk jug with 30 percent less material because it's mechanically better, think of the sustainability of that," he said. "You're using less plastic, less oil, you have less stuff to recycle, you have a lighter product that uses less fossil fuel to move it.""

Plastic producers can already make stronger polymer that requires less material. Presumably the milk jug folks don't want to pay the premium for it. The same is true of this additive. What does it cost? It's the reason we don't make everything metal out of titanium.

[0] http://www.cpchem.com/bl/polyethylene/en-us/tdslibrary/Marle...
The demo is very smooth, the infinite grid feels impressive. That said, how do you know if performance is great if you haven't implemented animations yet? Did you perform benchmarks?
You are very brave not to use named parameters creating things that could destroy your hearing!

Sounds really cool though :)
Have seen good results from App Academy (in NYC in particular) - they follow the business model that I mentioned above. I don't know the details of all the bootcamp alums on my team, and am also unfamiliar with the tuition structures of different bootcamps. My info is also about 2 years out of date.

IMO these bootcamps are producing a basically undifferentiated product curriculum-wise (which, by the way can be learned via self-teaching on the internet). Only a few have real brand recognition. Drive, curiosity, raw horsepower, etc are a lot more important.

For specific pointers: your cousin should speak to as many recent alumni of various programs as she can to ensure that she has a legit program on her hands. Speaking with hiring managers is a good bet as well; "I've never heard of that place" is bad; "That place is a scam" is worse. She should also ask what the pass/fail rate is for students in the program. High graduation rate + upfront payment is arguably bad (shows they're incentivized to just get you out the door).

Best of luck!
I think this has been garbled, but he's referring to synchronisation across clock and power domains.

Normal D flip-flops require that, at the time of the clock edge arriving, the inputs are not changing. If you violate this you get "metastability" and data loss. Special structures are needed when you move data from a fast-clocked area to a slower. On processors, usually the core is at one (maybe variable!) speed while the peripherals and DRAM are at a lower speed (what used to be called "front side bus").

As to the application for async, maybe he's right and maybe he isn't. There would have to be synchronisation to fixed external bus speeds, but 20% seems very high as a proportion of power consumption.
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I think munnin_ has it right. We once killed a sizeable deal here (at easyDNS) because it included providing DNS for the Westboro church domains. We just didn't want any part of it.

Again - our decision, no coercion.

Westboro has a right to speak (although not to disrupt the activities of others). But nobody has to agree to give them a platform.

The big distinction is: are you acting under your own volition or under coercion.
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One of the things I like about ebooks is the lack of books; when I was just out of college, I had to stop buying books for a couple years because I didn't have any room to store them!

I'll buy books again when I'm in a long term living situation (i.e. not renting), and can fill walls with bookshelves.
I think King is actually telling us to do the exact opposite. The only time he suggests listening to feedback is when everyone is agreeing that something doesn't work. But if everyone is giving different feedback he advocates for ignoring all of it because then it is just pandering.
There are already ways to run an OS as a process (at least, as long as that OS is Linux). There is/was a project called User Mode Linux, for instance.
I like this take on UDP v TCP: https://1024monkeys.wordpress.com/2014/04/01/game-servers-ud...

While agar is a casual clicker the core game experience revolves around sorting out collision conflicts. I can see how high performance would be desirable.
> It falls down because WebRTC is extremely complex. This complexity is understandable, being designed primarily to support peer-to-peer communication between browsers, WebRTC needs STUN, ICE and TURN support for NAT traversal and packet forwarding in the worst case.

You don't need WebRTC's level of complexity to do P2P. WebRTC is an over-engineered Rube Goldberg machine for many reasons, including the fact that it tries to include so many capabilities in a single standard. It's also complex because STUN, TURN, and ICE are overly complex. WebRTC should have used a simpler underlying design. You really, really don't need all that. I say this as a developer of multiple P2P protocols including some that are used in serious applications.

Then there's stuff like: https://github.com/js-platform/node-webrtc -- you don't have to do your whole backend in Node if you don't want, but you could plug something like this in on your servers and speak WebRTC to clients. In P2P a server is just another node and there is nothing the says servers can't talk in P2P networks.

I do believe it would be nice to have UDP in browsers somehow. In fact I think it would have been far better to just add UDP to the browser spec and leave WebRTC out completely. It could have been implemented in JS (and WASM in the future) using TCP and UDP transport provided by the browser. Doing it the way it's been done is like including application software in a computer's ROM. It's the wrong place to put that level of abstraction.
Because there is no middle ground here, like, say, a sensibly labeled checkbox in the preferences, which defaults to on?

As for implications: We're here talking about it. That is an implication. This is not the first time either.

As for uniformly preferred: not futzing around with system level stuff without a preference or notification tends to be pretty much universal.
"why would you create/edit anything if you can't save it?"

https://buddhists.org/buddhist-art/the-symbolism-behind-the-...
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It's an issue of power and organizing. How are workers supposed to build power in a world of ever-high unemployment? How can we build out an economy based on full automation and universal basic income without workers' bargaining power?
> but you start having to have some sort of really weird gravity memory effect in space or something, where space itself "remembers" that it used to have a lot of matter in it and still has a small amount of gravitation in it despite no longer containing the corresponding mass

That's honestly not so "weird" at all. There are TONS of examples of objects and substances having that kind of behavior in nature. If I crash my car into something, the metal "remembers" what happened to it. If I run electricity through an inductor, the magnetic field "remembers" that electricity was being run through that space and doesn't just disappear the moment the electricity is turned off. Momentum is the same thing. Humans remember what happened to them because consciousness records everything that happens to us. What prevents gravity from being something similar? Gravity itself may mean exactly the same thing as space having a kind of memory and operating fundamentally by the law of cause and effect. Things may seem weird only in the absence of such a clear principle.
Prolifiko are doing a great job of supporting writers via its app: http://www.thememo.com/2017/01/04/prolifiko-writing-tool-pro...
Keep in mind that floating soil is problematic. There may be soil in the pouches there.

Step one, discover whether pouches can support plant life in space, with ideal conditions set up beforehand on earth.

Step two, discover whether you can manufacture said conditions in space using in situ materials.

Lettuce is a great way to explore step one. Consider that we're not confident that root systems will behave correctly when water doesn't flow through the strata like it normally does with gravity. There are still fundamental research elements to be done.
I always thought that. I imagine a sci-fi story where someone manages to finally observe dark matter and when they flip the switch they realise that the earth is actually on the equivalent of a traffic island.
Millions of pounds of plastic are made every year for milk jugs. A 30% improvement would not be lost in the noise.
> it would cost between $125 million to $1 billion per mile to build the Seattle to Vancouver line

One of the problems with the American rail debate is you have people who like rail and people who like low taxes. The two don't overlap. Thus, the former sees any opportunity to lay rail as an opportunity to hose taxpayers.

"China’s high speed rail with a maximum speed of 350 km/h has a typical infrastructure unit cost of about $17-21m per km, with a high ratio of viaducts and tunnels, as compared with $ 25-39 [million U.S. dollars] per km in Europe and as high as $ 56 [million U.S. dollars] per km currently estimated in California" [1]. The Seattle/Washington per-mile costs above translate to $78 to $625 million dollars per kilometre.

[1] http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2014/07/10/co... 2014
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Ok, so ask, "Donde esta el agua?".
You can assist conferences with a B1 visa.

"Traveling for a scientific, educational, professional or business convention, or a conference on specific dates" is an intended use case of the visa type. (https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/temporary-visito...)

However, you cannot get paid for it. In addition the conference must not be about recruiting.
I read the French version and only skimmed the English version. Didn't seem anything terribly off to me.
Well, it seemed to work for neutrinos.
TCP gets changed all the time. In fact modern TCP stacks are highly tuned for HTTP.
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What happened to her?
I observed 3 things about women in boot camps that explain this phenomena outside of affirmative action:

1. They are self selecting to jump into the known gender gap in engineering.

2. Perhaps due to 1, they generally came from STEM backgrounds in great universities (Stanford, Michigan, UCLA, etc).

3. They had better final project presentations and projects than average. Perhaps due to 1 and 2.

If they were driven, had a previous math/EE/mech E degree from a top university, and a great GitHub project why wouldn't you hire them?
The problem with this approach is that people pay much more money for limited gains they can exploit than for general gains that benefit everyone equally. Advancing academic knowledge provides gains distributed over a very large number of people, but the current system often does not efficiently allocate resources to this problem.
Is this a different issue, or just a different part of the same thing ?
This is an interesting project, and in one of the areas where almost all businesses could do better. Anecdotally, there is a ton of money left on the table by established businesses that do it poorly, which also leaves lots of room for resume-padding technical experience. So anything that claims to improve the state of the art of automated forecasting is definitely worth watching.

That being said this claim in point #1 baffles me:

> Prophet makes it much more straightforward to create a reasonable, accurate forecast. The forecast package includes many different forecasting techniques (ARIMA, exponential smoothing, etc), each with their own strengths, weaknesses, and tuning parameters. We have found that choosing the wrong model or parameters can often yield poor results, and it is unlikely that even experienced analysts can choose the correct model and parameters efficiently given this array of choices.

The forecast package contains an auto.arima function which does full parameter optimization using AIC which is just as hands free as is claimed of Prophet. I have been using it commercially and successfully for years now. Maybe prophet produces better models (I'll definitely take a look myself), but to claim that it's not possible to get good results without experience seems a bit disingenuous.

As an aside, anybody interested in a great introductory book on time series forecasting should check out Rob Hyndman's book which is freely available online. https://www.otexts.org/fpp
> If a person is unable to manage their own life and requires the government to be their parent

That snide comment is really uncalled for. I hope you will never be in a situation where you require assistance, government or other.

But to your larger point:

Maybe government and other bureaucracy should strive to collect only that personal data that is strictly necessary for them to function and create a culture in their organization which emphasizes the importance of keeping private data private, and public data public.

I'm not saying that there aren't sometimes conflicts between the two, but in general I would like for this issue to be taken seriously, instead of having to fear my information being used against me for petty reasons by these organisations. Whether I depend on them (which makes this a whole lot more sinister) or not.
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Potatoes are an interesting case, but they require rooting around through soil to harvest. (Having grown potatoes in my garden last year, it was a much messier endeavor than my greens.)

I'm not sure we're ready for all that soil to be floating around in the ISS, literally mucking things up. Not saying it isn't possible, but why not use lettuces to solve all the 'simple' problems about growing things in space first.

Also, don't discount the quality of life improvement of eating some fresh lettuce.
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I'm hostile about the deportations of undocumented/illegal immigrants because I think they're the first step on an authoritarian road that leads to deporting or killing legal residents and citizens whom the government considers "undesirable".
It's varies rather extremely. No simple answer to this one. Generally, it correlates well to the interests of the browser vendor.