skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't a problem with "bad" instant coffee largely solved by Starbucks VIA, which too utilizes a novel tech that produces very decent results? Even the mega snobs of /r/coffee were largely OK with it came out few years ago.

Also, re: this -

Instant coffee is liquid coffee that’s been dehydrated.
It’s normally made with the worst beans ... Next, the
liquid is boiled down and finally dehydrated by spray
drying it with hot air.

From what I remember this is how Nestle was making its first version of instant coffee back in 1930s. It then switched to the freeze-drying method in mid 60s, which is still used to make Nescafe Gold.

It's very cool to see that you made your own brewing/dehydration tech, but twisting facts and bad-mouthing your competitors is not the right way to go about promoting yourselves.
Here is an episode of Lexicon Valley with an interview with David J. Peterson, the language creator for Game of Thrones. [1] The amount of depth that has been put into the Dothraki language is very impressive.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/lexicon_valley/2015/0...
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I work in the coffee industry and saw Sudden pop up last year so was interested in the technique and hacked it out.

Freeze dried coffee is already what Folgers does and sell you. This is the more artisanal version of that since the big brands have big factories that can pump out plenty of instant coffee grounds.

So this is a ramped up volume play on existing techniques perfected by the doomsday preppers. Youtube search for freeze dried coffee and you'll plenty of people explaining how to do it.

The freeze drying machines sell for $600 to $1000 from a variety of vendors. I think I figured out which one Sudden is using, it's the low end consumer version from Salt Lake City. They just have 20 of these in a SF warehouse somewhere.

From there it's just a method of scaling expensive capital costs, labor intensive processes, and maximizing the calculation of yield, and marketing enough to convince people that $2.50 for freeze dried coffee in a tube is a good deal.

That only works when relative to the crazy world of craft coffee people charging $5 or $7 for a pour over with the Keurig pods at $1.50 anchoring the bottom and buying a big can of coffee to make your own at $1 a carafe.
Same for France, the taxes can be handled on Internet (it will become compulsory some day). Everything is filled in and it literally takes 2 minutes to have it done (the gig adverts about taxes show someone who does the taxes when leaving for dinner for instance)
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the Phon and Sone scales i'm familiar with. They're both based on pure-tone thresholds, though, so I'm not totally sold on their applicability to broadband sources.
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Youtube plays commercials? ;-)
Do you think Italian Catholics are as violent or as memetically aggressive as Muslims from the ME?
I should've elaborated further: I'm speaking more to R&D jobs. Think Google Labs vs Google, or MS Research vs MS proper.
That is speculative. Yes, the client side is the one where the problem shows up but it's when the user agent is changed that the problem appears and the client side does not do anything with that user agent, it gets sent to the server. So something in the response from the server or some interaction with the server than causes the 100% CPU load.
Golden powers are nearly integers
tell that to the voters in CA who refuse all development. Right now, every freakin house or townhouse built is within 2 feet of each other.

I wouldn't mind this density if it were at least being used to some advantage: for example mixing up the zoning to make a neighborhood walkable, perhaps a local library, or local grocery store or local cafe. But no. Everything is on top of each other for miles on end, with the same cookie cutter tiny townhouse next to each other with no walkability at all.

And then you have these section 8 areas that subsidize undesirable housing (raising crime) and just raise the cost of housing for everyone else.
Interesting, "Typometer" is a neat tool. But what are the results of editors going through terminal emulators?
There is no need for a browser to download something from the internet. You only need the browser to browse the internet. (hence the name) A simple UI with a list of options was all that was needed.
Thanks for the feedback! Glad you're loving it. I'm Kalle's co-founder/ wrote that blog post, so glad to hear it was helpful.
Your point is valid. It's not clear to me that my claim is true, either. I made it in part because I wondered whether it were true, and I subscribe to the idea that the best way to find out if something is true is not to ask whether it is, but to assert that it is and wait for arguments to the contrary.

But I think it might be partly true, too. As you said, currently "sellers are fine selling at the current prices less commission". When those commissions disappear, sellers who were previously content to get Price - 6%, should still be content to get Price*0.94, since those are the same, and at least in buyer's markets, competing sellers have an incentive to undercut one another in the effort to get their house sold. It seems probable that those would lead to houses moving to a new normal pricing structure 6 percentage points lower than the old normal (less whatever amount the new model is capturing).
That's funny. It's taught me that if you make a rocket long enough, no amount of struts will prevent it from wobbling itself completely apart within 60 seconds of blast off.
I don't understand the constant focus on the upcoming automation crunch. Efficiency improvements (through automation and otherwise) have been happening over the past several decades - more output with less jobs - where the majority of the benefits go to the owners of the clockwork.

Now we're in a situation where we produce most goods that society needs (and a lot that we don't need) yet there are fewer jobs. This is absolutely going to get worse, but we shouldn't be thinking of robots as any different to the market forces that have been going on for years. Something has to give.
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Kamil,

Can GitLab have a hands-on demo at the upcoming DataOps Summit in Boston?
https://www.dataopssummit.com/
More of the R&D side of things, I feel. Perhaps I'm off my rocker? I've seen some cool compiler jobs by fintech firms where they want your SAT score and college GPA (lol).
I got the impression you were talking about the numbers.

In that I agree. You've got basically the same procedure written there for anybody to learn. And a nice tool that runs it.
What you're missing is that passwords don't require blobs. The ContentDecryptionModules used for DRM on the Web are blobs.

For a browser to run a blob, there needs to be an interface between the browser and the blob. Flash and Silverlight blobs used a standard interface: NPAPI. Any browser implementing NPAPI could run the blobs (assuming the blob was compatible with the host OS).

CDMs have no such standard browser/blob interface (note that EME relates only to the Javascript environment not the actual browser code). In fact, the only browsers able to run these blobs are the ones that the CDM provider 'trusts' and is willing to provide proprietary information to in order for browser developers to get their blob working. Your independent Firefox fork will almost certainly never be able to support any major CDM; the CDM provider doesn't trust, nor care about your browser.

Therefore, CDM providers arbitrarily _select_ which browsers can have access to their Web content. This is unprecedented. Content on the Web, in whatever form, has always been accessible by _any_ browser; it was merely a matter of that browser implementing the necessary standards. This is the idea of the open Web. CDMs are literally the opposite idea.
It's true that the DoJ (and DoEd) have paid attention to these problems relatively recently (less than 10 years). I don't agree that perfection is required or that a bar has been set that must be met in some approved way prior to posting content. It's not like every university with publicly available videos has to caption them now "or else," but they should heed the lessons learned from the outcomes of legal cases like this.
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I'd guess it would be more of a question-and-answer session between the computer and the designer rather than attempting to describe the algorithm up front.
I've said this before, but the last time Skype worked reliably for me was on the Nokia n800, circa 2008. I had a subscription for several years 2012-2015ish and didn't have an acceptable quality call once.
Microsoft has a history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Decades old. The GWX consent brouhaha is decades old? Edge (not IE) becoming the default browser all by itself is decades old? Riiiiiiiight. Decades of consistent data, methinks.
I'd try this if there was UK shipping!
>
if Microsoft didn't bundle IE and the user hadn't received a copy of those ubiquitous AOL CD-ROMs which came in the mail/magazines (and sometimes carried the Netscape Navigator installer), how is the user expected to consume content on the web without a web browser?

Go to store, by a CD with browser, install. The age when boxed software was a major thing extended past the point when IE started bundling IE.

Of course, with a TCP/IP stack you can get software from the internet a lot of ways without a web browser, too. FTP was a thing, after all.
> If it was up to Netflix, they would just release their shows DRM-free on Netflix for any platform.

What evidence do you have to back this ? It's not like Netflix's own content is available DRM free. Corollary: If you are a content owner and want your content to be available DRM-free on Netflix, will Netflix make a provision for you ? I hate these generalizations that people make. Just because a company (like Netflix) is more tech-savvy than the average media house and makes a few blogs and OSS projects that run on BSD or Linux, it doesn't make them any better for the end user.
I believe the title is missing "for all paid dynos"

Which somehow changes its meaning .
I used to love Instagram, but since I tried to register an account for a new business (which it blocked before I could even sign in, thus consigning the username into oblivion) I haven't been able to log back into my personal account.
It keeps sending me through a verify phase because of suspicious activity on my account. This leads to my successfully verifying, and then ending up at a 500 server error page, or a bad request 400 error page.[0]
Attempts to search for this on the Instagram help page.. oh my gosh, I get as far as typing two characters into the search box and it locks me out saying I'm too fast. [1] (the search box is search as you type.)
I try and report that as an error using an included link on that page, and low and behold that page is also having problems. [2]

It's a bit of a cluster... in my experience.

I really want to get back into my Instagram account!

I'm missing out getting advertised too, and I'm missing out advertising to others, it's pretty much a double whammy!

P.S. I'd love to prove I'm not a dirty spammer and get into the new business account too, but all attempts to fill out that form with the relevant evidence on Facebook/Instagram has been ignored.

[0] http://imgur.com/UMp6TTV
[1] http://imgur.com/bbQtPPL
[2] http://imgur.com/BTgNLAY
By definition, if a jurisdiction doesn't recognise the corporation at all, it isn't a corporation. If the jurisdiction requires human beneficial owners to recognise it as a corporation, the named human beneficial owners are the owners, even if they're very passive owners who don't have any say in the operations or take anything out of the business (like, for example, the average AAPL stockholder). And we already have a word for software that prevents people with the legal title to assets from using them and pays out to other people instead: it's not "machine owned corporation", it's malware.
Regarding your Keurig comment. I really hated the amount of plastic waste going into landfills so I bought one of those plastic reusable cups. I wasn't impressed with the output or the work needed. I recently found Presidents Choice (large Canadian brand) has K cups for $0.50 a piece. They are compostable and made of spent coffee beans and other plant based material. If you are in Canada, go to your nearest superstore to test it out.
1. most filesystems won't be available on Android anyway, this point is moot

2. most non-fuse filesystems won't be ported to your BSD of choice anyway
Why no one-off purchase option?
Instant coffee can actually be good (although right now almost all of it is downright horrendous).

(sorry, have to mention competing product).
Nescafe Tasters Choice in the single packs I find very acceptable and often prefer to brewed coffee.

So I'm pretty sure good instant coffee can be done. Be very interested to see what can really be done with an even higher quality product as this outfit appears to be doing.

Not crazy about subscription though. Understand it makes business sense from companies perspective but it doesn't from mine. Maybe this will work out nicely to where other distribution models make sense. Best of luck! I'm rooting for you :)
Many corporations have been found guilty of crimes. Rarely did an officer of those companies get sent to jail, most of the times even though a person committing that same crime would end up in jail officers of the company are not charged and instead the corporation pays a fine.

More data on this subject than you can absorb in a few days:

http://lib.law.virginia.edu/Garrett/plea_agreements/home.php...
> huge 3 GB file (3M 1K lines)

I looked into text editors for handing very large files several years ago. For your perusal my results, hopefully not too outdated: [0]

.

SOME USEFUL SPECS to consider

* Performs with %yourmemorycapacity% and %yourdiskthroughput%

* Optionally disable features that multiply required memory capacity and disk capacity & throughput: Auto-backup, temp files, auto-conversion to different character encodings (e.g., 8-bit to 16-bit)

* Optionally disable parsing of data (for any purpose, from syntax highlighting to structured data)

* Load subset of file into memory at any one time

* Begin editing before file fully loaded

.

SOME USEFUL RESOURCES

* http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CategoryLargeFileHand...

* http://www.knudvaneeden.com/links/file/addactivity/computer/...

.

SOME USEFUL SOLUTIONS

* EmEditor: This was very impressive. The speed is breathtaking for what it does, and it can handle advanced functions such as column operations on the full file with ease. We chose this and users were very happy; it transformed their abilty to work with large text files.

----

These were on our shortlist to test next but we didn't get to them due to available time and EmEditor's fantastic results:

* VEDIT: Designed for large files. They charge for it, IIRC, but based on its reputation it is worth the investment.

* The Semware Editor (TSE): Also a great reputation

* 010 Editor: http://www.sweetscape.com/010editor/

* PilotEdit: http://www.pilotedit.com/

----

Also of interest:

* File Query: Treats file as a database, enabling parsing, queries; very flexible and powerful, per reviews: http://www.agiledatasoftware.com/

* PDT-Windows: A database editor which reputedly has a max filesize of 18 EB (exabytes)

* bvi: Binary VI

[0] Some of this is copied from an earlier HN comment of mine
Sorry, i didn't know the whole details. But, if Jon decided he wanted to "take his ball away" tomorrow, could you or anyone else make a new release?

Don't get me wrong, sublime is a great piece of software. I wish it had, like QT used to, the source in escrow, to be released under GPL or BSD if a nominated independent person decides the software is ever "abandoned". I've been burnt once too often by abandoned software.
Hey jancsika,

As Kamil already wrote, the number of notifications, issues and merge requests that we follow is enormous and sometimes something may be missed. I'm doing my best to have eye on everything but this is not always possible.

From my side I can only say that I'm very sorry that your work and work of all people engaged in this merge request was noticed so late. We're working on improving responsiveness in GitLab Runner project so hopefully we will avoid such delays in the future.

Tomasz,
developer at GitLab,
GitLab Runner project maintainer
Nothing, but it's annoying, because it takes 2 transactions instead of 1.
They probably also teach you that any customer can turn into a recurring customer.
This may be an extreme view, but have you ever wondered why DRM exists?

It exists because highly intelligent people designed it, developed it, and encoded it as software, in exchange for money. Period.

Ok - that's a simplification, but it isn't too far from the truth. These people (short of some kind of compartmentalized R&D model where nobody knew the complete picture - which I doubt happened in this case) each were intelligent enough to think to themselves, and even discuss among themselves, where this all could end up. Where it could lead, what the ultimate goal could happen.

In short - had they given it some thought, they would've been able to see the arguments against and for DRM, and how it could potentially affect consumers, users, and everything else...what we are arguing about today, and have been for a long while now.

So - if they could do this - why did they take the next step, then the next, and so on?

Sure - they needed to eat and pay bills, but we're not talking about had they not implemented it, that they would be instantly unemployed in the industry. They could have each said "I will not do this", and foregone the money.

Of course, the industry could have countered with larger and larger payouts; but if you were in the hot seat, and you had an idea where things would lead, and you didn't like that idea - what amount of money would've made you change your mind to sell out the future?

At what point does the money outweigh your values?

If you are someone in one of these positions, where you know or have an idea of what might come down the pipe in the future (or you know someone in such a position), if you honestly disagree with all of that, you need to make a choice, or speak to others, or whatever. You need to say to yourself, to your colleagues and/or friends in the business that "yes - I will compromise my values for this money" (or if not money, whatever compensation is being offered or procured). You need to be honest about that to yourself and others - no excuses.

Or you must resist, and say "no amount of money will make me change my values; my name and reputation are worth much more than that".

Here's a thought - would you shake the hand of the developer(s) of DVD/CSS, or would you look at them quizzically, and ask them scornfully "why?". Would you shake Jack Valenti's hand and tell him "Nice job!"? (yes I know he's dead)

Ultimately - what I'm trying to get at - it isn't an "us vs. them" situation. It really is "us" and "us" only. We continue to support this, as we continue to rail against it.

I'm not saying if we did anything differently things would have changed. Most humans on the planet honestly don't give a crap about others, about future others, about the political and social consequences of their actions, thoughts and deeds in the now. They barely care about themselves. But if -you- do care about this issue (and a myriad of others), you need to ask yourself whether you support it or not, and if not, what it would take to buy you off - and whether you could live with that.
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Mobile VR or Augmented VR could be cool.
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Just in the crust.
You have to call the New York Times to cancel your digital subscription. Why would I trust that some online coffee merchant I've never heard of isn't up to the same tricks?

https://www.nytimes.com/content/help/account/purchases/subsc...
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Merely been installed isn't adoption, if 99% of my web time is using HTML/JS to render content and 1% of that time Flash then do the web browser and flash have the same adoption?.

By that metric notepad would be the most adopted programmer text editor in the world..
Aside from discretionary charging, it's fundamentally possible for a company to be guilty of a crime without any individual officer being guilty of that crime.
> It's only a matter of time until Firefox is just a wrapper for webkit

This tired "Firefox is just turning into Chrome because Australis/DRM/web extensions/xkcd 1172" hyperbole simply couldn't be further from the truth. Mozilla is building an entirely new rendering engine with Servo [1], parts of which will be shipping in Firefox this year [2].

[1] https://servo.org/
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
Clicking through doesn't solve any problems. It's real easy to spam people with links to www.mybank.com.evil.com. Only training the user to navigate directly can even hope to avoid such attacks.
That's great to hear!

If that's the case, then it's basically just supply chain issues that's left. It's still hard to get batches and it's probably still pretty expensive compared to the 8266?
Co-founder here - it's miles better than Via. Sometimes we include a packet of Via in our shipment so you can do a taste comparison (thinking about making this standard). You'll definitely notice the difference side by side.
User: 'Make me a sandwich'

*mighty robot slices up user and places in between two pieces of bread*

Computer: 'You are now a sandwich'
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on most equity exchanges a market order that would result in an execution 30% below the open/last price would be blocked and trigger an auction

"circuit breakers"
that whole thing is so subversion.
And how F# was made by OCamlers.
This makes sense. Telstra's backhaul for fibre and cable customers is very lacking. They have oversold their bandwidth and suffer lots of congestion during peak times.

Take a look at this:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/10/telstras_netflix_do...
If you look at why the application was built I would say it's not as silly as it sounds. It was built as a fun side project for GNOMEs 20th anniversary and was used to test starting a project using GNOME Builder. https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2016/12/02/gnome-loves-to-co...

I doubt it's something they took a serious amount of time on.
Yes, it appears that VSCode is actively being improved, check out:

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