skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you might not know? Ocado has built the backend for a lot of those major supermarkets offering online shopping. Another revenue stream for them as they are shopping the technology abroad too
They have no obligation, but it hurts adoption of their other products since it has happened often.

They should be mindful of that trend since they already have gotten a bad rep because of it. At some point in the future, when they really need it, few people will jump on their new band wagon.
And we have no obligation to expect their next product to stay alive long enough for us to use it properly.
Hitting upvote as hard as I can here.

Sadly this seems to be a common problem; either the teams are siloed, or one of them is in fact outsiders. There's not enough of the tight iterative refinement loop work to put features in the right place. This seems to be why so many companies put out hardware which is handicapped by terrible drivers.
Suppose the next time you're a painter bringing in a painting of yours into the country. Next thing you know they are accusing you of smuggling. Is the solution to hire people with background in arts?
The number line analogy does work for 2/3, in the same way it worked for 9/10.

It represents the repeating trinary number 0.22222... = 1.

But the analogy only corresponds to p + p^2 + p^3 ... = 1 when p = 1/2 because that's the only time the remainder = p.

For 2/3, the number line analogy instead gives 2/3 + 1/3 * 2/3 + (1/3)^2 * 2/3 ...
True, I think Uber and Lyft are very unlikely to do it. As a consequence, drivers are extremely disloyal and many have two phones, one running each app and they pick on a ride by ride basis which app to use.

I think it's getting easier and easier for a new entrant to disrupt the market by offering a platform that better incentivizes driver loyalty.

It's not necessary to force drivers to switch, only to put the new app on one of the phones they are already using.
I find this as the struggle as someone who has traditionally worked with large brands. One of the companies I worked with spent millions of dollars on paid advertising while startups and web companies seem to favour inbound marketing a lot more - which big companies aren't really as good at (or pay as much attention too.)
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I don't understand the difference in this context. The parent gave a few examples of how the Olympic venues in London have been repurposed for long-term use, so... Are you referring to financial sustainability? The sustainability of the Olympic model? What exactly?
We need fewer sources of drama. As long as there are still sources of drama it serves a purpose.
A new President's budget doesn't take effect until around September the year he takes office. Just like Trump isn't responsible for the current deficit right now, it's disingenuous to attribute most of 2008 to Obama.
The Goal of Socialists Is Socialism – Not Prosperity
Of course. Do you have a point?
Hallelujah the [1]missing dropdowns are fixed!

Long live the best WM ever!

[1] https://github.com/xmonad/xmonad/issues/42
Pharma industry, labs with XP machines doing robot automation with IE 8 installed.
I'm right there with you. Long term Google product user here (Android, Fi, Gmail, Drive, Photos, Etc) and I'm winding it all down, except gmail which will remain my spam-mailbox.
That's really cool. Only thing I can really do is install Wordpress. Heh, very minor thing here. If I ever run into a problem I use google.
I found Awesome slightly more mouse friendly than i3, but I still wouldn't go with it if you're not willing to use the keyboard a lot.

I have a friend who used Awesome on a tablet, so it's clearly feasible.
Is she blocked from future US visits for 10 years?

I heard rumors that this will happen, if you refuse and they send you back.
How is Hemera different from SenecaJS?? The API looks similar. Good work!
I'd say it's not so much as impressive as it is fortunate (providential, even) for someone with a certain kind of mind: I would definitely have benefited if I'd found HN a few years earlier than I did (rather than Reddit, ha).
Here's a vid of a laser taking down a drone. Looks expensive compared to a shot gun though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5qKSKsfUPM&feature=youtu.be...
Snapdeal founder's letter to employees. Honest or Fake?
At Snapdeal, we find ourselves at an important point in our journey - we know where we want to go and now is the time to make the choices of how we will get there.
Has our company and industry been going through a troubled time? Absolutely. Did we make errors in our execution? No doubt about that. Over the last 2-3 years, with all the capital coming into this market, our entire industry, including ourselves, started making mistakes. We started growing our business much before the right economic model and market fit was figured out. We also started diversifying and starting new projects while we still hadn't perfected the first or made it profitable. We started building our team and capabilities for a much larger size of business than what was required with the present scale.
Ambition is critical, because that's what motivates us to give our very best every single day - to achieve the undoable. However, a large amount of capital with ambition can be a potent mix that drives a company to defocus from its core. We feel that happened to us. We started doing too many things, and all of us starting with myself and Rohit, are to blame for it.

Full text here: http://pastebin.com/DD5gvgcv
This is incredibly stupid. As I've posted elsewhere here, drones have a chance to outfly and outmaneuver the golden eagles used in the program. Then, assuming the eagles catch up, they still have to deal with blades - with wingtips spinning at hundreds of miles per hour. There's no way they can survive the blades: every bird I've seen that encounters a UAV either was instantly killed or permanently disabled.
I've worked with drones enough to know what will and won't stop them. A bird won't: it'll brush the blades and fall to the ground in a bloody mess. A bullet will. Bullets are tried and true technology, we know how to use them, they're not ridiculously expensive, and they will certainly take down any drone of reasonable size.

This is PR, plain and simple. There's no other explanation for it, unless France's air force is hilariously incompetent, which I would doubt.
That's very cool, but a LOT of production work.

Probably fails the cost-benefit analysis for most people doing Mixed Reality videos for their VR products. However, if it was productised, that'd be a different story.
Honest question: Do you think this wouldn't have happened if you where white?

I believe that when you are referring to rural, conservative areas anyone that is a stranger or strange looking (clothes, hair etc.) would have a similar experience.
Differences between GSS and CSE: https://support.google.com/customsearch/answer/4541888?hl=en

As someone who just finished moving a custom search result site implementation from GSA (discontinued) to GSS this is highly outrageous. No access to the XML/JSON API is a showstopper.
It's true, I forgot to mention Chrome which no longer uses WebKit.
Always the non-technical questions. HR is usually staffed with psychologists, and they try to find questionable personalities, "good fit".

I talked with one hiring lady 30 minutes about movies and surfing.

The technical questions are usually superfluous if you have a proper resume and published work online. Nobody needs that crap.
Virtually nobody in the US would be able to distinguish members of different Indian castes. And we don't have castes of our own here. (One can argue that to a degree race in the US operates a bit like a caste system. And even the most egalitarian people tend to have subconscious biases. But most people denounce the idea of giving people different opportunities based on their ethnic background.)

So the only sort of software team that would have roles linked to caste would be one built by an immigrant (or maybe the child of immigrants) of high caste from India. Which is a tiny fraction of the software teams in this country.

It is possible that families who were of higher caste back in India tend to have a head start in terms of savings and education when they arrive in the US, but once they get here that wealth and education are the only advantages they keep. Which is not to say they are small advantages. But Americans don't recognize caste.

Most US companies would hire a CEO whose family in India was outcaste. And they would do so simply because even if they knew about castes and knew this person's standing among them (which is highly unlikely), Americans don't care one bit about what caste you came from in another country. They only care whether you're the most capable person to do the job.

There is arguably a certain amount of classism in Silicon Valley based on wealth and upbringing. And studies recently have shown that class mobility here is worse than it used to be and worse than in other developed countries. But we don't have rigid classes in this country. Americans pride themselves on being egalitarian, even if they don't always live up to that ideal.

That said, you'll notice that (for instance) African-American CTOs are vanishingly rare despite African Americans representing about 15% of the country's population. If we really want to be egalitarian, we should be asking ourselves harder why that is and how to fix the underlying inequalities that cause it.
Babel is only part of the history, then there is HTML and CSS support levels.

Some of our projects are with customers that still rely on XP with IE 8, require using the "Internet Browser" for pre-Android 4.4 or Windows Safari (!) or IoT devices without updatable browsers.
There are lots of potential reasons. Some things I've considered doing it for (many of which have alternative solutions, but nevertheless)

Different network configurations per browser. This is useful for doing things like checking geo-targetting via VPNs etc.

Better security isolation. Chrome is pretty good at this, but if you want to run a suspicious add-on this is a good way to do it.

Better isolation for scriptable browsers.

I'm sure there are plenty I haven't thought of.
Oh, people have already tried this. Very recently I think someone posted their website on here saying it was amazingly fast etc. Anyone who used the web back in the 90s just remembered it as how things used to be. A Google search was virtually instant over a 56k modem. Now it's noticeably laggy on a broadband connection. If you used Firefox then web pages started rendering the instant enough HTML had been downloaded. None of this waiting for the entire thing and then running over it all with Javascript to generate the "real" render.
This is all 100% true yet still quite naive.

Bad M&As happen all the time. Good ones are the exceptions not the norms.

"Companies" are groups of people, and their leadership.

What the leadership wants very often has nothing to do with the company's long-term future.

This is all observable behavior happening all around us.
Lord Acton comes to mind.
Correct. Dell and others also sell Linux on servers.

Which suggests to me that there are some other reasons for the failure of Linux desktop PCs, and that you really can't just blame Microsoft...
Exactly the same for me, mintty with solarized theme because I use solarized on all my other terminals in Fedora for example.
Like most folk I don't use TC39 modules, just npm/commonjs modules. I guess when/if npm and node (and all the frontend tooling that uses npm and node) starts using TC39 modules they'll get popular.
Common Multithreading Mistakes in C# – Unsafe Assumptions
Ah, I'm still forgetting that Chrome is no longer WebKit.
Paraphrasing Nietzsche here:

"There are horrible [products] which, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all."

Being thin and reasonably healthy isn't difficult...the rest of the developed world does it without much thought. Only in America do we think the solution to an overengineered food and fitness system is more engineering.
Surely some folks will re-implement it :)

I for one am willing to contribute the day wayland becomes too mainstream.
It's due to our poor social skills. Flight attendants successfully lobbied the media and public to refer to them that way and not as stewardesses/stewards to improve the esteem of the profession, but we're so clueless that we don't object at all when journalists refer to us as coders, a term also used for medical clerical workers. Many here will even argue with you that it's not derogatory.
With decent propellers, you won't even need explosives if the bird tries to catch it - so simply use decoy drones, carrying random junk of mass equal to that of the bomb, just like decoys on MIRV payloads.
Thats the second time you've posted this. How about pointing at some evidence?
More like IaaS
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>doesn't show why the p-adic numbers are useful in general

well, you certainly are neither more help either ;)
Using Git to Generate VersionName and VersionCode for Android Apps
How to Disappear Completely is their most depressing song, ever.
The chicken analogy of startups
www.famipix.com
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First Steps in GRPC Bindings for React Native
It is almost as if tools themselves don't do the work on their own.
Ah that makes sense - by the time the parser sees a 'use strict' it's too late to apply strict mode to the default arguments. Thanks!
Exactly... Well at least working there are startups (at least in Berlin) which offers good working conditions, 40h or less and it's even possible to work then apart from the job...
"The military is designing mittens of leather and Kevlar, an anti-blast material, to protect their talons"

Also, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HifO-ebmE1s

Maybe it won't work for all drones, but bullets would drop drones into the crowds below, so the idea catching them in the air is not that stupid. It's just one of the ideas the police is exploring.
Uber co-founder’s startup accelerator expands to Vancouver
pix2pix is has loads of potential! If productized well, this can create some amazing customer experiences.
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Spinning rust hard drives have an air-filled (or helium-filled sometimes) cavity in which the spinning rust spins. If you're building a computer immersed in oil, you generally need to leave that part outside the oil.

Provides great thermal conductivity though.
How BT Parental Controls Broke Ubuntu on VirtualBox
I agree. It's the XXI century. There is Internet. Point any country on Earth, and you can bet you'll find there many software developers and electrical engineers, be it hobby or professional.
> You could repurpose emails and turn them into FAQ content (= small SEO improvements).

I do that, but it also creates support enquiries for competitors products. I rank well for "how to install Photoshop Plugins", which means I get the emails for how to install my competitors plugins too :) Should be great lead-gen, but I've not found a way to convert those visits into downloads/sales of my own plugins.

> Have you thought about turning this into a subscription?

Sometimes, but some customers specifically said they bought my software because it wasn't a subscription. I'm also charging $20 - $25 per sale now, trying to price for at least one support case per sale.
>No, fake news started long ago.

Like I said two comments down.

>You are very confused

I don't think so.
A 3d, force, touchbar sounds awfully like just a row of buttons to me ;-)
I don't think that would be straight forward, because of competing ideas.
It's free labor, and companies love free labor. They claim to value candidates that produce open source, but somehow those who toil night after night on their passion projects never seem to see any job offers materializing as a result. At best they get recruiter spam (for which many here argue they should be grateful) inviting them to submit themselves to a whiteboarding carried out by an arrogant 20-something often fresh out of college and eager to assert their dominance.
Yes. ;-)
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Transcript of Donald Trump UK State Visit Debate: House of Commons
It's almost as if quality of life and longevity are not primarily due to having the latest, most expensive technology; but rather by having access to practical, affordable solutions.
I don't think there's a tiling wm that puts mouse first. I think years ago there was some work on KDE to add some tiling behaviour, but I don't know if it was merged and buried in settings somewhere, or it was a plugin, or a patch. I only remember some demonstration video from years ago.

I'm pretty sure there's also Openbox setup with tiling behavior.

I use dwm with some patches, and some customizations that allow for more mouse use.

For instance mouse wheel on the tagbar cycles through tags, mouse wheel on window title cycles through windows, middle click on window title makes currently selected window master, control + mouse wheel on the window title pushes selected window around, mouse wheel on status text increases or decreases sound volume, middle click on status text kills selected window, ctrl + mouse-wheel-up sends selected window to that particular tag, etc etc etc...

So yeah, it's doable in dwm. It's not "mouse first" but most used actions are also doable with mouse, in addition to the keyboard.

It's not too hard, spend an afternoon, or two and you can get it working that way.
Holy crap, I worked on parts of the UI on that site. No idea it was still online.
Of course not. I'm advocating for humans to stop using sentient feeling beings and risk their lives in their solutions to problems (from diet, clothes, companionship to catching drones). Aren't we more creative than that? Human anthropocentrism at its finest yet I get the scorn.
I have only English in Accept-Language, but Google still displays the page in Polish. Yay. :-|
Even a weak correlation is better than nothing, especially when increasing accuracy seems to require a very well equipped gym and a sports medicine lab.
Perhaps lesser known, but I've heard IOC members mention in interviews on the subject that they thought the 1994 winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway offers one of the best templates for Olympic sustainability. It hosted the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics, too.
Not to Hijack the spotlight that Jess deserves or diminish her accomplishments: However, will happily add Tess Rinearson to the list of people who keep me excited about tech: https://twitter.com/_tessr
No, it is not a new thing.

The US immigration police have behaved like this for decades now. My dad was a US Foreign Service officer. I remember, vaguely, waiting for over an hour in 1962 at Idlewild Airport (now called JFK) in New York while the passport control people questioned him about our passports. They were slightly different from ordinary passports because they said "US diplomatic passport" in the usual gold leaf on the cover, and they were a different color.

The staff there, I suppose, didn't recognize them and thought they were fake. They held us until some supervisor told them to let us go.

Is the ignorance and arrogance of US passport control staff worse now? Probably.

Are other countries getting worse? Yes. That's a standard diplomatic technique, dating from the cold war, called "tit-for-tat." If country A gives country B's nationals a hard time, country B does the same to country A.

I don't have twitter, FB, or linkedIn accounts. But I suppose they'll find me here on HN.
To be pair, our corporations have had free reign to run massive propaganda campaigns to teach them the wrong ways to stay healthy. They even manipulated the USDA food guidelines to get people to buy more corn and bread.
What Might Get Included in Java 9
Broiler startup vs country one
"This sort of fact-checking data journalism mythology, which is really just political ideology masquerading as data-driven reporting" [1]

The speed with which the likes of Mr. Yannipoulous are pre-empting the rise of mainstream fact-checking/referencing is startling. It shows that who stand to lose from more effective veracity-detection tools will attempt to outpace the development of said solutions by rapidly deploying undermining rhetoric.

[1] https://youtu.be/PTxSAjXpnqo?t=1m40s
Here's a guy facing 2 years prison for hitting a dog. I'm not sure your legal argument holds. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/plumber-faces-...
Cpu are more expensive on google cloud than ovh, but that is expected. I'm ok to pay x2 or even x5 for the agility and the power those platform offer (especially when you need autoscaling up and down every single day).

What i don't understand is the network cost factor of x100 to x1000
Thermodynamics. The exhaust temperature of the data centre has to be significantly higher than the temperature of the thing you want to heat, especially if that heat is to be transported any appreciable distance. Otherwise, the heat will not flow in the right direction.

With data centres these days trying to keep chip temperatures as low as possible, this really makes the temperature gradient very low.

An alternative would be to pump in a little bit more energy and use the exhaust heat as a source for a heat pump.
In the UK, RM Ltd launched the original 7in Asus netbook into the education market with two options. (1) Windows XP with normal support. (2) Linux with no support except "reset to factory condition".

Dell UK tried offering Linux with no support, but with the option to buy third-party support from Canonical. The cost of support more or less excluded home and education buyers.
So basically, the Google-character has too low APM. Maybe time to hire StarCraft progamers for executive positions?
Giant sound waves could subdue tsunamis
I've got a few dozen businesses with PFSense with LTE backup, and at this point I'm looking for alternatives. I've considered IPFire, and I've looked at VyOS, Untangle, and OPNSense, but I just recently realized I completely overlooked OpenWRT, which I already happen to have many positive experiences with.

Long term I'm thinking I'll move things over to ARM/MIPS based routers running OpenWRT, and where needed I'll use x86_64 boxes with OpenWRT (eg: Tor Relay at home) as when things break on OpenWRT, its a lot less bad than on BSD.

In particular, I've had issues with BSD taking forever to boot (waited 4hrs at 3am once), deciding it needed an Intel NIC firmware when it had no Intel NICs, thus causing an outage while I drove down there with a WNR2000v3 running OpenWRT, and LTE backup interface handling being poor, whereby the cellular connection will go out (and we'll send a command to the SOAP API on the modem to reconnect), but PFSense needs to cycle the interface for some reason when it already has an internal IP from the modem. Combine that with having to walk customers through any one of these scenarios every few months over the phone, and its a joyous situation.
Hi
we want to create a toolkit which is responsible for everything expect the transport. We don't need overall transport independence. We trust in a well tested system called NATS. The wrong path in error-handling, logging and tracing are one of the reasons why we couldn't use existing solutions like SenecaJS. The API is very similiar to Seneca this is intentional.
Let's be honest, everyone with a long commute using one a self driving car will be asleep. Level 3 was just for legal reasons to even be able to road test a car.
And this fee is paying who for what?