skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I could express a desire rather than a prediction, it's that "undiscoverable" UIs die. I hate having to swipe and tap and generally mess with the screen in the hope of triggering some secret feature. I don't know when it became trendy to get rid of UI chrome but I really wish it would come back.

(I wouldn't mind if the hamburger menu died either.)
I'm not sure such thing exists: "large companies with lots of medical data". Medical data is often confidential and belong to hospitals.
If you hadn't, I would have had to.
But with a traditional wind turbine with 80 meter long blades, the total "footprint" for each one is roughly a 160 meter wide circle. In principle you don't need much space between those circles in a bigger wind farm (but because of turbulence and the wind shadow there usually is).

What is your "wind farm" model? Reserving a kilometer wide circle for each kite pair does not really seem feasible even off-shore.
Any tagged data sets like CCD's with SNOMED/LOINC encoding. Basically anything that is serialized in HL7/FHIR for a large enough population longitudinally. It's the time oriented set of population data for a region, like a major health center over a period of five to ten years or better.
I've realized last week these simple steps to run a Django project, but, as I come from Node, I miss npm start.
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yeah you're gonna have to define low latency here

what are you doing differently to solve the predictable latency problem? having all the processing happening in the compute cluster so that there isn't enough back and forth to the ground to notice?
The NSA having the data NSA does not mean it can be used directly, IIRC FBI and police forces are required to make an investigation to pretend that's how the found out.
Silicon Valley has a pretty drastically different feel from San Francisco at both an industry level (lots of large companies there vs. largely smaller startups in SF) and culturally (San Jose is a largely suburban community while SF is an urban center).
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I don't think it has much to do with strategy or tech hubs. The Australian population is just very centralised -- it makes sense given our geography and demographics.

In Europe "far" away from any big town can mean as little as 50km. Especially in Germany, you are never very far from some mid-size city which once dominated a independent principality.

Rhode & Schwarz, B/H/S and Siemens all have HQs within about 10 minute bike ride of where I used to live in Munich. Other companies in small towns were a somewhat more arduous bike ride away.

The companies I dealt with that were more than 100km from any big city were more into heavy industry. They are the Aussie equivalent of Newcastle or Gladstone, only with many more companies to go around.
Funny - ketchup in the 1800's could be made from fish, nuts, mushrooms, pretty much anything savory. Tomato somehow became the only sauce we now call 'ketchup' out of dozens of candidates.

The 'world's best ketchup' IMHO is mushroom-based.
What if I really don't have one, or someone else created one in my name unbeknownst to me ?
^ when boring is awesome
"Microsoft will move the start menu to a different corner of the screen again."

Aren't they transitioning to a new business model that doesn't incentivize marketing-driven design anymore?
You can turn Siri and iCloud off at first boot-up, and the others are just apps that sit in /Applications and don't really take up much space, and won't bother you if you don't use them.

(The only exception might be Garage Band with its huge sound files, but you can simply find and delete those.)
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That might be mostly true but it's not always completely true. I'll raise your anecdote with my own:

We've been running on the same domain+IP for over a decade. Hotmail block us when we're whitelisted by the original sender and also responding to an email and also have corresponded before. We've never sent even a multi-person email never mind spam, always as a response to an enquiry, very low volume.

We're blocked apparently because Hotmail has an intermediate level warning on a sender domain on another IP address managed by the same ISP; we were un-blocked before but they now say they won't allow our email through - we have SPF but can't work DKIM with our shared status. The only silver lining is they actually responded inside a fortnight to tell us that they're going to continue blocking our [at most] once a week emails to our customers who happen to have hotmail/live/outlook addresses ...

To work around I made a live.com address to send through for customer who use MS email. ~4 days later they started blocking it from remote access ... something like not enough direct website logins for the amount of IMAP lookups (a single client checking every hour or so during work hours). Few log-ins seemed to fix it.

We can pay to have the spam service MS use whitelist us though, apparently.
Why is GitLab even using Github?

https://github.com/gitlabhq
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Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBj8ezqLCOs

Tuiqo - Document versioning for humans

Tuiqo allows you to work on many versions of your text at the same time, from within one document. It is the easiest way to revise your text and organize document versions.
Currently using an IR reflectance sensor and a hole on the spool gear - you can kind of see it here: https://github.com/scottbez1/splitflap/wiki/Electronics

The sensor is mounted on a PCB that can be physically shifted to apply minor adjustments to the home position. The adjustments could easily be done in software, but doing it physically "stores" the adjustment parameter for each module without having to reprogram the controller.
Good questions but frankly not all that original. I get all of these from recruits on a regular basis.

I am more impressed when people ask about overall company direction and current challenges. It demonstrates to me that they're interested in the company as a whole, where it is going, and how they see themselves fitting in and contributing.
No, but they're going to turn away anyone who thinks they're going to outsmart a guy with nothing to do but make your day more difficult by wiping their phone and claiming they don't use social media or email.

If you claim to not use social media, have a top of the range movie device and/or high powered portable computer, both completely clean with no signs of use, and a smug "I don't use social media" response, you're only going to make your trip more painful, and risk getting turned away.
Not having a facebook account makes you a de facto suspect.
I am trying to do an neutral analysis not just favor one side.

Importantly, the gap between an efficiency in Midwest vs. SF is much less money than a 2500 sf house which favors SF. But, people would likely not get an efficiency in the Midwest on a 100k salary because the gap between an efficiency is also small. Or as a young friend of mine said, not being in WV is worth having a roommate in Northern Virginia.

Up-sizing lifestyle to compensate for downsizing culture seems very appealing when you have kids. Further, the closer you get to retirement the less important that years savings become. But, at that point you have already got a social circle in _ which biases as does even higher salaries you can get at 40+.

Still, I think based on behavior companies need to offer higher salaries outside of major metro areas before people stop concentrating in those areas. Yokyo Japan and many other major city's show the same trends suggesting it's not just US government policies responsible.
A billion Hindus would disagree with you.
There's a huge amount of valuable goals that can be achieved from the Ethiopian government training and employing some locally based geospatial analysts to work with satellite-derived data (including helping to solve some of those food security issues)

On the other hand it's a Chinese built satellite with a foreign launch, so there's minimal Ethiopian human capital involved in actually getting the thing off the ground, and so the real question is whether one big outlay to some entirely foreign OEMs and launch providers represents better value than purchasing the relevant satellite data (and continuing to leasing the use of communications satellites) from an increasingly commoditised entirely-foreign-owned and run commercial satellite market as and when they need it in the form they need it. Without access to the relevant financials, it's very hard to know the answer.

Making the data open would be one way they might achieve that big advantage.
The question I always ask is "What did you talk about at your last team lunch?" This gives me a sense for what the team's values are; Is it all social? All business? Is there a common thread or interest they were talking about? Were they talking tech or toys or sports? A whole lot of observations you can draw from the anecdote, and most interviewers will expound on team dynamic from that question.
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As bad as the author comes off in that exchange, Mr. Haitzler comes off worse. Nobody should respond to their customers like that, least of all in a public forum, regardless of the provocation.
OP's point is that most consumers are much more sensitive to price than they are to X years of updates as a deciding factor when buying a new phone. If a manufacturer planned for a longer update timeline and hence charged more, they'd lose business to a competitor who didn't.

Consumer understanding and/or regulation needs to change in order to provoke a different response from the manufacturers.
Structured longitudinal patient data (diagnosis and procedure codes, lab data, step data from fitbits, etc), but with AI unstructured may become more useful as well. This is probably an opportunity in itself.
In the US hospital systems are increasingly huge companies.
I think health insurers know every little medical detail about you from every interaction with the health care system you have that they process a claim for.

The dataset spanning all of them is likely to be in the tens or hundreds of TB range, if not PB.
I did a podcast/audiobook player app ('lectr') with gap removal and had experimental support for what you describe. Roughly, it removed samples if there was no significant difference in the frequency-domain spectra. This was a simple threshold test (the threshold could be adjusted by the user).

It works for some material. Some speakers (usually professional book readers) have even pacing and it's more effective. A simple 1.5-1.7x speedup is also useful there. Podcasters tend to be 'bursty' in that they speak rapidly and then pause, and gap removal was more useful there.

I stopped working on it as my lifestyle changed such that I wasn't using it. There was almost no commercial interest in the project.

I'd love to see a library, especially with MOOCs etc becoming mainstream. Most players provide 1.25/1.5/2.0x options, but between 1.5x and 2.0x is the sweet spot for me, and almost no apps provide that.
I'd rather leave my device behind than go through the hassle of setting up that sort of breadcrumb trail. Even more effective.
That's an interesting critique that is very opposed to my own reading. Do you have specific examples? From my perspective, things like the Sax/Anne debate about terraforming Mars, or Frank's resentment at living in Boone's shadow, or Boone's amusement at/exploitation of being a larger-than-life figure struck me as very well developed emotionally.
I already made that for a client. Don't think users will write stories from their mobile, at least good ones. It was difficult to start with no content, too similar to twitter.
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Yes, that's my point.

AI in real time strategy games all suck, because the problems there are very very hard.

Even with blatantly unfair advantages and cheating the AIs still suck.

No such competent AI exists for real time strategy games. The "decision tree" is a billion times more complex than something like Go.
The Mac Pro was a problem when it went away from the cheese grater tower. It was a good clean accessible tower that looked good.

I do always need a macOS machine around to build iOS apps but the current Mac Pro is too expensive and limited for what it is, non customizable or upgradable really. I also want a pro machine that isn't an iMac, which really is what you have to settle for now, because I want a separate screen that I don't have to toss or I can donate when the iMac dies in 3-4 years.

A major problem is that Apple doesn't even make their cinema displays anymore, they were once the best screens and beautiful. LG is their monitor seller now. Why?

Apple is just missing the Pro users that like to customize their machine and modernize it. I have since moved back to custom PCs for my main power/pro machines and just do iOS builds on the Mac Pro 2012 now. The worst part is the next couple versions of macOS might not even run on that Pro because they are force EOL the hardware in the OS, not because of the lack of power as their hasn't been much progression there at all, just to EOL hardware when there isn't even a good new one to move to. I also feel a little disappointed in the new Macbook Pros. Some people I know are back on PC and just bought Mac Minis to compile their iOS apps.

macOS really is a great unix backed OS out there and the best looking for dev. Macs became so useful in 2006ish when they went intel and started creating the software around that and new web tech (canvas,webkit/webgl/khronos funding) that revolutionized. Unity on Mac pulled me into the Apple world again, for a time Unity was Mac only. Great things were happening after 2006 including the iPhone pushing dev to more macs. Apple has squandered that. They just seem apt to kill all that now and go totally proprietary and machines that are one block. That isn't going to attract Pro users or developers like it did a decade ago. They are losing their developers and pro creative/video/interactive users, that should be scary to them. Pro users are saying to Apple, "we'll believe it when we see it, for now we'll be over here".
Ay yi yi. Maybe we could give this point a rest, y'all.
Yes, a Golem's ICO took place in Nov, 2016.
your display logic should not be linked to your API schema

Why not? The whole point of HATEOAS is to design your API schema in function of your application flow. You know, just like we do on websites.
> The odds that breast implants are unique in causing this peculiar biological response seems low, from a basic science perspective.

which is why i mentioned it!

> but it's so rare that it seemed somewhat sensationalist to even bring it up.

fair enough. although there can be a sensationalist reaction to the news as well. I believe only 9 cases were found? I find it's worthwhile for my own expectations of reality, to respect that nothing is a sure thing, and that much comes with a big asterisk next to it.
Moto seems to put out a new Moto G every year, and I've had good success with just replacing the old ones with the new ones.

Yes, an iPhone is better, but if you're on a budget and don't have those security needs, the Moto G seems fine.
How difficult would it be for him to exercise his options and sell the shares to a 3rd party? Are there any examples of startup employees doing that in the past?
Communist death tolls are mostly due to economic mismanagement, whereas the Nazis were intentionally exterminating people. Obviously many people were killed in the gulags, but that number is far smaller than the numbers killed in Nazi death camps or in the famines which resulted from the aforementioned mismanagement.
The whole phrase "it will implode and it won't be nice" implies some kind of big mess or even the company collapsing or whatever...

Whereas it's just one of the things the company does, not even a profitable one, and at worst it will just fail to catch.

Sure, that "wont be nice either". But hardly the kind of "not nice" to be really concerned with...
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Greedy Algorithm Problems
Definitely don't hear about urban schools doing great.

What I do hear is pretty much everyone I know (and who can afford it, which in tech isn't a small amount) moving closer to the city and sending their kids to expensive private schools (which in turn, probably makes the problem worse).
Forming an LLC. Wyoming vs. Nevada vs. Delaware. And More States
Nodejs download server is down
Can the 83-B election help for taxes? I've done it as a founder not sure about options?
As a native, I would say that Silicon Valley used to mean the area south of SF and around Stanford which includes the headquarters of Google and Facebook - but as tech has expanded North all the way into Oakland and SF it increasingly means everything.
The browser is driven by advanced AI wetware that understands the semantics of the data and can make decisions on what to do next.

I think REST/HATEOAS purists have always overplayed the browser example.

Pure machine to machine interaction is hard to automate.
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how do you guys do things differently compared to MyFitnessPal? I recently started using MFP and it's been useful in that I know how much I'm eating (whereas previously I was just wrongly guesstimating with some mental math).

I love your concept, just curious what sets it apart.
Show HN is not for Kickstarters, we can't try those out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
It seemed fine for me. All of my addons were working.
You know, I hate articles like this. They get you hooked, much like the pilot of a TV series - then say "wait until next week when we find out...etc".

But I don't follow individual sites much - rather aggregators like HN. Most likely, when the follow-up does appear, HN won't have it posted (unless someone submits it - which is a possibility).

I dunno - I understand why this is done from a business perspective (and maybe from a practical perspective - maybe the rest of the write-up hasn't been written up yet!) - but I would just rather wait until its all there, then plow thru the whole thing in one shot.

As it stands - with this and other articles in the past - I might revisit it, but its doubtful that I'll remember.

It's too bad - I like the topic, and it sounds very interesting.
> What does your technology stack look like?

> This allows your to figure out how up-to-date the firm is with technology. Up-to-date here is entirely your definition :)

What? The question is fine, but not at all for that reason. This question allows you to figure out whether you can provide immediate value, whether it'll present a challenge you wish to embrace, or whether it'll present a challenge you wish not to embrace. It'll also tell you whether you think their stack was chosen based on whether it helps address the problems at hand or based on whether it's the "new hotness" or, as this write-up puts it, "up-to-date"

The obvious corollary would be to ask why that stack was chosen for the products and services the firm offers or for those which you'll be working on.
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The question I always ask is "do you like working here?" You can immediately tell by their reaction how they feel - if they hesitate that's a bad sign. Obviously this works for any interview, not just technical roles.
Certainly it's ridiculous. Just offering an alternative to entering with a blank slate device, or a device with all your information on it.