skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were nearly 80 years old, I'd skip the shovel, and either drop it in a natural crevice or dump it underwater. Then mark a blaze on a vertical surface, so that it's only visible from ground level.

Also, 200 horizontal feet does not account for terrain. 2/3 of the way across a football field is not equivalent to 200 feet across a hedge maze.
I wonder how closely the racial breakdown of who gets shot by police matches the racial breakdown of who commits murder.

I also think it's silly to act indignant about a disproportionate amount of police misconduct happening to a group that commits a disproportionate amount of crime.

In fact, if the volume of misconduct matches volume of crime (eg, same number of mishandled incidents for number of calls), that's evidence they arent racist, because you'd expect racists to have misconduct at a higher-than-usual rate for the amount of crime they're responding to.
Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem
> You can have a lower-middle class lifestyle as a consumer advocate.

The same lower-middle class that's shrinking? I personally am afraid of joining the ranks of the lower class, especially if I end up as another rural overdose datum.
it's supported by mainline kernel. it's probably the best supported cheap open hardware of its sort out there. every datasheet for each chip on the beaglebone black is freely available and it can run with no proprietary blobs, unlike the raspberry pi.
it's even supported by the *bsds.
We're getting at least one inquiry a day with regard to franchising, it's something we're looking into, but QoS would be a challenge...maybe. We're trying to figure out something that's one step above a franchisee model, I'm sure there's something there, but I can't quite put my finger on it.
What a great idea, congrats on executing! Some quick Qs;

1) What kind of security exists on the wireless network?

2) Your privacy policy keeps talking about credit cards and Razorpay (a payment processor) yet in this thread you are saying one can hop onto the network using a cash-purchased token. Where exactly do Credit Cards fit in the workflow?

3) Please consider switching your website over to SSL, Lets Encrypt certs are free, other certs are cheap (GoDaddy charges only like $30/year or so) :)
It does that if I try to visit it in Pale Moon or Chrome on Windows, but loaded just fine in Firefox on my phone.
BlackBerry/RIM was to the iPhone was the telecoms incumbents are to Google Fiber.

If you're trying to make it out like there's a contradiction here, I'm not seeing how there is one.
Pg_tmp(1) Run tests on an isolated, temporary PostgreSQL database
That's kinda the problem - why _should_ this be free?

If it matters at all to you, you can host a huge amount for static website content for single digit dollars per year on S3.

If it's not worth that much to you, who in their right mind will build a service based on providing that to you at your price point? And if they _have_ a service where the marginal cost of you not-caring-enough-to-pay makes little difference, you should - as this Dropbox change demonstrates - fully expect that "feature" to go away when the costs or support (or legal problems) get noticed.
From what I've read so far, I get the impression, Gitter was purchased solely for marketing value. And in a lot of ways, is quite ingenious. I would suspect, 80% if not more of the discussions that occurs on Gitter, revolves around repos that are hosted on GitHub.

By tapping into those conversations, they'll probably be better able to identify GitHub pain points and provide subtle hints and nudges, for Gitter users to consider GitLab.com
If you look at the commits / maintainers to the Polymer repos and the WebComponents polyfills, you'll see that it's the same people.
I don't think 4 years is long at all for developing an advanced, distributed database solution.

It is a long time to go without real world use and user feedback, though.
I can see a situation where the USG would want this constellation to exist.

But would they want this to exist enough to pay for any of it or have a hand in maintaining it? Beyond how much they already are by awarding SpaceX government and NASA launch contracts?

And all because muni government sucks.
Anecdotally speaking, also didn't get any notifications about this.

I have an email about the new ToS 12/28, and a research survey request on 12/11, plus the regular login emails I receive, but absolutely nothing about this over the last few months.

I also just checked, and my public folder has been downgraded to a regular one, so I am part of the post-2012 signups.
Cool! What are you working on? What kind of specification are you looking for? Feel free to get in touch info@bela.io or forum.bela.io
Statement‎ About the IRS Data Retrieval Tool
So what? It's certainly still beneficial to present and repeat information in different formats.
For me, this was the most-used feature. "a folder that syncs" was a nice side effect.

(I know - I'm clearly not "their most valuable customer segment" - if I was them I'd probably be breaking my irrelevant-to-them shit too...)
It looks like a perfectly reasonable response to me. What face is there to save? The fact that this was brought up "within the first five minutes" is far better than "after a plethora of interviews".

I had an interview with Parsely a few years back. Took over 3 weeks of back & forth before they rejected me with a reason that should have been squashed the first hour of the interview.
You might find Tolmach et al's work useful:

http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/

They were also doing a new systems language, Habit, before reassigned to better project. Here's that project:

http://hasp.cs.pdx.edu
Dropbox isn't a startup. It stopped being that a long time ago.
I agree. I would recommend "(2012, 2017)" to succinctly clarify that this is somehow relevant to right now and that further investigation is needed.

Note: I have flagged the parent comment so that it shows up for the moderators (and also upvoted it to counteract the impact of flagging). So, nobody else needs to flag it - if too many people do so it might go [dead].
Link to press release: http://ir.tesla.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1017594
Interesting. I've run two campaigns. The first we spent 5k on the video, and did 280k. The second campaign, we spent 2k on, and did 343k. I would say the video was negligible --- but the email list, marketing, product dev, and promos were far more important. As we prep for our third campaign, I'm thinking more about the video quality however.

[1] https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pavlok-breaks-bad-habits
[2] http://indiegogo.com/projects/shock-clock-wakeup-trainer-nev...
Evolution Runs Faster on Short Timescales
If your entire code base is in Kotlin, then nullability works exactly like Options. The difference is sugar. And the Kotlin compiler can handle null checks as well as the Scala compiler handles Options.

The problems arise when you interop with Java. At that point, shit can be null and you just don't know. My point is that it's the same problem in Scala as it is in Kotlin: Java interop adds a measure of unpredictability that needs to be handled at the touch points.
Where Are the Numbers? (2014)
It's pretty common actually, see here:

http://confirmshaming.tumblr.com/
The beta has been in production with cloud and on-premises customers for two years.
Does anyone know the % interest rate on these? It seems to be blanked out.

How can financial markets function efficiently when such basic information is suppressed?
I like Google Datastore alot - I think it is the best of the serverless databases at the moment, assuming you are wanting to build "normal" crud style web applications to store stuff and query it in a way that is reasonably familiar to most programmers. It's great and well thought out.

The weird thing about Google Cloud Datastore is that its essentially got no real search functionality.

I say "weird" because, well, it's Google and you'd think that the search thing would pervade everything.

I recently had need of a serverless database, and I'm a huge fan of AWS and I use AWS Lambda but AWS really lets its side down with its serverless databases DynamoDB and SimpleDB, neither of which, in my opinion, are usable for "ordinary" applications.

So in the end I implemented Google Cloud Datastore in my AWS Lambda functions.

After a couple of days I bailed out on the strategy and installed Postgres on an instance and now I'm using that.

There were several reasons to finally go (back) to Postgres. First, the Google Cloud SDK for JavaScript was huge which was a nightmare for uploading AWS function zip code. Second it made me really nervous that I couldn't do any sort of LIKE or search query, which I need in my application. Third the documentation for DataStore was good but not great and there wasn't alot of third party stuff written on it. Given it was early in my project I decided to retreat to the safety of Postgres to avoid buyer regret.

I still feel that there is a real need for better serverless databases - Google Cloud Datastore has my vote as best so far but not ready yet for the sorts of thing I want to build.
I suspect I was unclear. A permanent flashing yellow light on top of a pole (not a traffic light) will appear next to a zebra crossing, and it indicates "this is a zebra crossing; pedestrians have priority over traffic". A flashing amber light as part of a traffic light may appear if there is a pedestrian crossing also controlled by lights, and the flashing amber light means "the pedestrians are about to be shown a red light; yield to pedestrians if they are present, but you as a driver are about to receive priority and may in any case proceed if there are no pedestrians".

The traffic rules you describe sound… ridiculous. How is one supposed to design a free-flowing intersection if anyone may halt the traffic in any particular part at any time? In the UK, one can almost always find crossings shortly downstream of a roundabout, and pedestrian crossings at traffic lights are controlled by lights.
Indeed, I have never tried it because I always figured it was a work anti pattern. Glad to hear I'm not alone.

I do set a timer on my watch when I am taking a break (grabbing coffee / checking HN), but that's kind of the opposite of P.
I can't edit anymore but just wanted to add that the free shipping is international (I'm in EU, positively surprised), and while they do have some bug in displaying placed orders list, they also have an excellent live support. So maybe I can forgive them the sh*tty password regexp.
That went quickly from denying a capital raise to reality.
Note: The following is complete speculation and probably bullshit. Please correct me!

I can't find the actual paper for this one. But reading an older study [0], also about TMEM106B, it seems they had already established an association between three SNPs and frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) risk.

However, the surprise discovery back then seemed to be the large discrepancy between the controls and the subgroup FTLD-GNR (those with FTLD and GNR mutations) for TT rs6966915 and CC rs1990622. See table 2 in [0], and look at the odds ratios. They are remarkably low for TT/CC, which invites further study that may lead to understand how to protect against FTLD (by understanding possible protective mechanisms, even therapies and so on).

As for listing out those odds ratios for your 23andMe genome, you can do it with arv [1]. For table 1 in the study (unless you know you have GNR mutations):

import arv

genome = arv.load("genome.txt")

rsid = "rs6966915"
gt = genome.get_snp(rsid).genotype # plus orientation
print("%s %s" % (rsid, arv.unphased_match(gt, {
"CC": "CC - OR 0.94",
"CT": "CT - OR 1.04",
"TT": "TT - OR 0.74"})))

rsid = "rs1990622"
gt = ~genome.get_snp(rsid).genotype # minus orientation
print("%s %s" % (rsid, arv.unphased_match(gt, {
"TT": "TT - OR 0.93",
"CT": "CT - OR 1.04",
"CC": "CC - OR 0.74"})))

Again, did I say that I'm a complete noob? Be very careful drawing conclusions from the program (or believing I know what I'm talking about --- I don't!)

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3034409/

[1]: https://github.com/cslarsen/arv
What's the advantage of this over the Bone's built-in I2S/McASP stuff?
Easy lesson here: don't raise a ton of money just because you can. The valuation that was set and the terms that come with it limit their exits by an inordinate degree, and I don't imagine for a second their plans required the amount of capital they raised.

Also, if you're an LP of a16z, don't let Horowitz waste $40m just because he wants to hang out with rappers.
And even if they weren't when the grandparent post was written, they are by now.
Because lobbying for more favorable regulation that makes your existing service more profitable under the premise that it will encourage you to add new service you have no intention of adding is only profitable for major existing incumbents, which Google isn't in the relevant space.
You don't have to use the DOM API for everything as in your example. JSX is very much virtualized template tags which are HTML standard.

> This gets progressively worse as your components grow in complexity. Imagine adding a span around the text in p?

In this case you simply type in the span inside the template tag similar to what you have in the React JSX and then just importNode the contents into your webcomponent.
Tesla is basically taking on a loan in form of a convertible notes.
probably much smarter to distribute their lender among multiple entities than one giant bank that would have leverage on them.

Also, it looks like Tesla would use a portion of the money to inflate their share prices via a small buyback. The after market trading so far make this strategy look successful.

So at the end of a day: Tesla is raising capital without diluting their shareholders and reducing their share values and giving up much control.
Also the maturity date of 5 years is rather interesting. I wonder if it correlates with their internal projections and their ability to pay that money back by then.
If your database is not Open Source then your marketing lingo needs to be more open or else you'll have the same mistake as FoundationDB (which looked like vapor-ware).

As a proprietary service, you are now competing against Cloud Spanner which (while people love the underdog) means your toast because they have Eric Brewer to hand wave away their marketing lingo.

On the flip side, you are competing against Cockroach, but they are Open Source so that puts you in a rock and a hard place. From previous comments of mine, you may know I don't think Cockroach has much of a future either because Globally Consistent databases aren't going to cater to the necessary P2P future of the web (5B+ new people coming online, 100B+ IoT devices, graph enabled social web, Machine Learning, etc. which is what we, http://gun.js.org/ , caters to and we just successfully ran load tests on low end hardware doing 1.7K table inserts/sec across a federated system, we plan on getting this up to 10K inserts/second on cheap [if not free] hardware).

Why are these systems going to fail to pick up the market? Because the best of the best, both in engineering and as an Open Source community, RethinkDB (which I praise highly) couldn't. At the end of the day, the few companies that need globally consistent transactions will trust (for better or for worse) Cloud Spanner, and the others who want to roll their own infrastructure will try Cockroach but ultimately switch to RethinkDB in the end.

So on that note, as others have noted, don't use your /fantastic/ marketing opportunities (top of HN) to make false claims about being "industry first", it won't help you gather a developer community. Use this time to win developers over like Firebase did (which itself now has their community scared of when/if Google will shut them down, those developers are now flooding to RethinkDB and ours, despite Firebase being one of the best - high praise for them as well, like Rethink).
I think that might be a waste since we have better tech than Rust for compilers. Better of doing it in COGENT and Haskell simultaneously. Use tools such as QuickCheck on Haskell part. Production code will be COGENT that's certified to machine code. Once that's finished, use the compiler to compile itself with RTS left in COGENT.

https://ts.data61.csiro.au/projects/TS/cogent.pml
Cannot agree more
Oh man, I loved the keen games. As a young lad in the UK, it always frustrated me how hard buying the full version of shareware software was - the buy screens always had US address/phone numbers for purchasing, and back in the early 90s convincing one's parents of the legitimacy of such a weird foreign transaction was no easy task.

I think I eventually managed to get floppies with the full versions of most of Apogee's catalog through various friends/acquaintances.
Simlink to it?
As an investor of Tesla who bought into Elon's vision I've been getting more and more nervous about how the company is actually run at this point.

A modern car company is as much of a production and supply chain company as it's a product and tech company. I get the feeling that due to Tesla being cutting edge in the tech department it led to all the supply chain/production problems being treated as if they are speed bumps on the way, when in reality they are fundamental core competitive areas for an automotive company. Toyota is not the world's premier automaker because they have cutting edge tech, they are what they are because they build unbelievably number of reliable cars at an unbelievable scale.

The bleeding of cash after so many promises of "not going to raise money again" just shows that their vision is way ahead of their execution ability. Decisions like the terribly executed Falcon Wing Doors on a SUV that delayed production and increased cost and hurt reliability just further gave fuel to all the doubters.

I also have a strong suspicion that Tesla has not been honest with their Auto Pilot 2 and full self driving tech's progress. The current AP2 is an unsafe joke and I have no idea how people are ok with paying $5-10k for a significant downgrade when compared to AP1 because of a non-binding promise that it "might" get upgraded before their lease term is out. Any other automakers would be laughed out of the room for suggesting this kind of sales tactics.

I still believe in Tesla/Elon's end game vision, and I think what they accomplished is nothing short of brilliant, but I think it's a very risky investment at this point and the road ahead is bumpier than many like to admit.

The upcoming Model 3 will be the acid test for Tesla. It will no doubt be a good car, but at this point people should focus less on what the car can do and on how the car will be rolled out, sold and supported afterwards. A wealthy Model S customer may be ok with having the car in the shop after a minor accident for 5 months due to lack of replacement parts, but for an average Joe paying $500/month leasing a Model 3 that would just be the birth of a new BMW customer.
what's the average cost of connecting a sub in this model and what % will pay $70 a month
To start with, this is very much a slippery slope fallacy from my perspective. I'm not saying this to outright dismiss your claims, but that if you want to avoid being seen as a "Chicken Little" on this subject you either need more direct evidence and/or maybe tone down the way you approach it/present it (less hyperbole, a less inflammatory domain name).

Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence and there are clear holes in your logic. Why are gamers particularly subject to "lock down" and "walled garden" as opposed to any other Windows user? Beyond political spats with Valve (which mostly seem to go one way with Valve angry at Microsoft, but Microsoft remaining happy that Steam is a mostly good Windows citizen/sub-ecosystem), what makes you think that Microsoft would break backward compatibility just for gamers when it potentially endangers Microsoft's long standing relationships with enterprise customers that are built on decades of backward compatibility?

Furthermore, can you better explain why a "walled garden" is bad for gamers? A lot of gamers (in fact, the long standing majority) are perfectly happy with their PlayStations, Nintendos, and Xboxes. A walled garden may be exactly what gamers want. Maybe it's not a massive conspiracy to endanger "PC master race gamers" but a company trying to make "I want a good console" gamers happier on Windows?

A rising tide floats all boats and it is better for everyone if there are strong gaming ecosystems on other platforms such as Linux and macOS, so instead of focusing on what you perceive to be Microsoft's problems and behaviors, can you try to focus more on Linux's benefits and be passionate about "Why gamers should love Linux" more than "Why gamers should be worried about Microsoft"?
Solidly great business decision, well done.
I want to second this, we should never ask people to agree to something below the calculator. But of course the applicant and the interviewer might disagree about the appropriate title and experience factor for a candidate.

We have to decline 200 applicants a week at GitLab. We realize that interviewing is very stressful. We send a survey afterwards to get a net promoter score. The current average is 4.2 out of 5 for people that did not sign with us. Most applicants don't fill out the survey, we're not sure how that influences results.
> It's VERY difficult to do TRUE sustained 4K streaming over any kind of distance.

Your calculator is bunk. I've got a dedicated server in NJ, 11 milliseconds away. Gigabit on that end, 150/150 on mine. Your calculator says I should get under 50 mbps for file downloads, but I can definitely saturate my local link with both downloads and uploads.
I would look here:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/features/

and here:

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
The interest rate, conversion price and other terms of the notes are to be determined, according to the press release.
We chose gitter over slack as an open core company. I close leads, hire engineers, and run our team chat all on one platform. (We supplement this with hangouts) . The idea that all of my activity and communications can happen on one platform is pretty appealing. We also don't need many features (aside from better search please!)
https://github.com/mirkix/BBBMINI an ArduPilot Cape for the BeagleBone.
At $9,000 per pound of meat, this is not going to be replacing real meat from animals anytime soon. Chickens are already highly efficient when it comes to converting feed into edible meat. I'm skeptical that cell culture will ever be able to come close to the same level of efficiency.

Cell cultures need to be sterile, the sugars, growth factors, and other nutrients used need to be highly refined. These are not requirements that are likely to change in the foreseeable future.
The site was always great; the business seemed over sold to investors when looking at internal resource investment.

They're frankly turning into a hip hop publication at this point, much to my dismay. I don't find their content very attractive beyond their core competency of verified artists.
Not sure if any of you use "okcupid.com", but a single tab of that site will consume 4-5GB of RAM in a matter of an hour. Eventually grinding the entire browser to a halt, and nearly killing the OS in the process. There is a SERIOUS memory issue on that site, and it's always been that way for me. Safari, Chrome, Firefox on a Mac.
The main difference is that Kotlin can do both: nullable types or `Option` (and you'd never use `Option` unless you are dealing with it coming from Java, obviously).

Scala can only do `Option` since it doesn't have built in support for nullable types.

I fail to see how your point shows any superiority from Scala here, it's the other way around.

At the end of the day, both languages have nullability support but since it's optional in Scala (because library based), Kotlin's approach is superior in that it requires developers to deal with nullability, while Scala developers can ignore it any time they want.