skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well now I'm triggered. I was really only offering you an opportunity to clarify. There is a difference between offering a refund and forcing a refund. This was clearly a retaliatory action and you either didn't understand that, or disagree with the premise.
It's useful to start visiting https://growthhackers.com/posts and reading stuff posted there daily. It's like HN for online marketeers.
I reread 'managing time in relational databases' like 3 times one summer and now every time I mess with time in databases I have a heart attack.

That makes sense, thanks for answering ;)
Look at YCombinator startups, most fail to come up with a product that people will actually pay money for.
Um...no? Please expand your question. I don't know what you are really implying.
You might check out Airtable. They do a good job of this.
London too, apparently.
just because a company like Uber can profit from it doesn't mean that a city can do it themselves for cheaper.

I think you underestimate economies of scale and the value Uber can provide, and also underestimate the cost of DIYing it and upkeep.

edit: like, especially if the town is really small and the app gets low utilization, isn't it better to pay a fixed % on top of each ride (say 50%) to uber than to have to pay someone a full time salary for a year to maintain things.
Related: Wired profile of the author

https://www.wired.com/2013/02/james-hamilton-amazon/
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I could see this becoming a popular website (assuming there isn't something out there already). Including a bunch of standard (countries, cities, provinces, etc etc) datasets and whatnot, links to other sources.....like a one-stop directory for online datasets. Again, if there isn't already something (I don't think there is!?)
And Michael Jordan is not the paragon of nice.
You are right, of course. It is more convenient,
and buses might be driving around almost empty.

Public transport has to cover people with low income though, and just omitting buses altogether would suck a lot if a bus ride was only half the price. If it's the same pricetag, then I get how they came to this decision, from an economic viewpoint; from an environmental and city development viewpoint, putting a town of 36k citizens in taxis is surely suboptimal.
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Wow, I was just getting ready to post this! I read that passage again yesterday and it is eerily, uncannily prescient.
Who says you can't replace the cockpit with a computer?
I don't know. Just a few minutes ago, I was again worried about password manager security. It's handy, but also very dangerous. It's important to have a different system for different security needs.

Because computers are today so cheap. It's possible to run totally separated systems for different projects, to guarantee proper isolation. I've been doing that for a long time. Because security is so hard, virtually impossible.

It's also a major catastrophe if you happen to lose the password managers password. Most of sites you'll probably never recover and for key sites, it'll take a really long time to gain access again.
US divorce rates have declined since the 1980s. Depending on how you look at the numbers, 50% is still a reasonable estimate.[1] Researchers attribute the decline in divorces partly to people being more cautious about marriage.

[1] https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/life-table...
Very true. Sometimes I think Microsoft really shoots themselves in the foot by not rapidly improving the performance of excel (GPU support would be killer). I really think many of the upstarts like Tableau would be completely sidelined by a higher performance excel with a few other features. I think to some degree the existence of PowerBI is basically Microsoft acknowledging they cannot iterate Excel fast enough to compete and thus need a fresh start. That said, I find it's one of the tools I miss the most when not on Windows.
Counter-Point, never having a voice until "The Bobs" show up and do some "consulting" a la Office Space.

>...So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Post Script: Not Everybody Can Afford to Jerry McGuire Out A Gig. This essay? Closer and more real than most claim to be.
Because Mozilla's goal is to keep the web open and advocate for personal data privacy. This article fits nicely there with the rest of similarly themed articles on the blog.
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Find customers first. Then build what they want to buy.
> If the federal government built it

Things working the way they do, the government could not build a system that even approaches a service like Uber.
The problems related to blockchains are very well known. Blockchains have been used extensively at this point, for highly critical applications. They're the most censorship resistant platforms known to exist.
I don't think you and your parent mean the same thing. The client "has to know what to do in advance" in the sense that the human building the application needs to know what user interface they want to build, and know how the API works (in advance) in order to use it to populate the interface.

If you have an extremely dumb interface that just displays fields in API responses, then ok... but that's a very trivial UI that accounts for... basically no useful products ever.
Anonymized patient records, preferrably with information about the doctor performing the diagnosis as well. I've only been able to find small datasets of some tens of thousands of records, I would like tens of millions. You can't learn much from what amounts to one small town's medical records, in terms of finding accurate diagnoses, or identify places and situations that result in better doctors.
I kind of hate how people on the right can cut government funding and then turn around and complain that the underfunded programs are functioning poorly.
The way command-tabbing brings all an application's windows forward always bugged me too. Fortunately, there is LiteSwitch (http://sysbeep.com) that lets you switch to the frontmost window only.

While I'm at it, I'll also plug https://manytricks.com/witch which I find invaluable for switching between windows and just got an update.
1 EUR is about 1.47 CAD, so 2 euro ~= 3 dollars.

Canada has rough winters, and the salt and sand increase the wear and tear on vehicles (so you have to service and replace them more often).

Plus, Austria has a population density of 104/km^2. Canada has a population density of 3/km^2. (Obviously, this varies from town to town -- Toronto is far more dense than, say, Waterloo.) I imagine Innisfil is likely mostly detached houses, and very road-centric.
Nope. I've been using Direct TV's NFL Season Pass streaming only during the football season for two years now. No dish, no service otherwise.
Here are three I like:

https://www.quicksprout.com/university/ (free)

https://moz.com/blog/category/whiteboard-friday (free)

http://tractionbook.com/ (chapters 1-3 are free)
Yes, public transport are heavily subsidized in Austria. My home town has roughly the same pricing as Vienna, in case you overlooked that. It's comparable in size to Innisfil. Perhaps Canadian towns subsidize PT a lot less?
I was thinking of doing something similar actually! That looks pretty cool.

Do you know roughly how big the images that the camera takes are slash do you happen to have any example images?

I have a few more questions that I can't think of at the moment, but I'd be happy to give you a hand with any battery-related stuff (a specialty of mine) if you'd like! My email's in my profile, feel free to reach out even if you don't have any battery questions yet.
Not sure if I should share this, as it is a trivial and obvious thing to do. Recently I created a ramen-profitable on google play with currently a couple of thousand users.

The idea is to look for apps that have low ratings, high downloads and lots of recent comments, then make them better. You can use synonyms and the same niche category to increase visibility on google play. This is where the money is.
Hence the reason for tools like swagger-inflector http://swagger.io/writing-apis-with-the-swagger-inflector/ that allows you to drive routing directly from the OpenAPI definition
The iTerm2 features page[1] has a pretty good run-down of all the extra stuff it can do. Personally, I'm a big fan of the split panes, and I use iTerm2 full screen with two panes.

That said, almost identical behaviour can be had in fullscreen with two Terminal windows sharing a full screen desktop space.

I also enjoy having my terminal be a slightly-transparent black rectangular slate, with no title bars, corner curving, etc., but that's purely preference and has no impact on functionality.

[1] https://www.iterm2.com/features.html
Are younkt from the UK or US? I know for a fact that both countries have funded great work in accessibility and web design when setting the standards for federal government websites.
Austin is a much bigger market than Innisfil. The town has budgeted $100,000 for their pilot; if they hired their own SWE to build a clone, they'd probably need at least an extra $100k to pay for the staff to build/maintain it.
Before I was born, many directors tried to keep as much of the shot in focus as possible. Deep focus is both a technical challenge, because it requires brighter lighting, and an artistic challenge because it makes composition of the shots more difficult. You need to pay attention to the background so there's no distracting things behind the actor's heads, for example. You can't get away with shoddy sets. And it's more difficult for the actors. They can't improvise movement and let the photographer track them, they have to exactly follow their planned movements so they line up with the background correctly. I don't have any statistics for it, but it seems shallow focus is more popular now. But I think shallow focus is lazy and insulting to the audience. If your foreground action isn't compelling enough for me to watch then the solution is to make it better, not blur the background so I have nothing else to watch. Deep focus looks more realistic. In real life I can choose to look at the background details, and I want that option in film.

I want to see more use of deep focus. With the availability of high CRI LED lighting the technical challenge is much reduced now.
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> we wouldn't have terms of service; instead, we would be given a structured 'legal code' file

They're called terms and they're parsed by meat parsers. We call them lawyers and judges. They are more powerful than any computer. The system they've built has been working for hundreds of years. We have lots of people who understand how it works.

If you make the contract the code, you just replace lawyers with coders. You'll still have drafting errors [1]. You'll still have things looking like X but really doing Y [2]. And you'll still need somewhere to adjudicate conflicts.

The law is fine. Our backlog is in the parsers [3]. Replacing lawyers and judges with AI seems more desirable than some "code is contract" society.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_Autonomous_Organ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware

[3] https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-federal-courts-civil-cases-p...
What about making updated documentation a required gate for the release process? Wouldn't that keep it from going stale?
I do not share the

> The Web is the best example I can think of for why we still need net neutrality.

I think the Web is best example of why we need privacy protection as it is a form of communication.

I personally pay for a VPN. And I hope my right to use independently implemented (independent from Google/Facebook/ISPs) privacy preservation technology and de-anonymization-resistant technology is not lost, and instead encouraged by the legal system.

In my view, the so called 'net neutrality' is simply a deceiving name for 'a subjective favoritism' given away (as political/economic favors) to some web-monetization players vs others.

Eg. ISPs cannot favor/unfavor content providers, but yet Search engine company can favor/unfavor/rank content providers.

So ISPs are labeled as 'evil' while search and social networking service providers are the 'good doers'.
For sure.
I have worked in F1 at the forefront, and they are so good despite still being tied to Microsoft and Oracle. The real hard problems are not done on Windows of course. They are using e.g a soft real-time OS - inTime - beneath Windows. Wind tunnel, engine, transmission, vehicle simulations are sometimes cross compiled to special hardware.

But SW development on the other hand if so much easier on Windows, esp now with .Net and c#. I just didn't see real-time c# yet.
Ask HN: Going from full-time to contract?
Hi HN,

Short intro, I've been working full-time at a big company for about three years now. Lately, I've been unhappy with the direction of my department and career and I felt this was a good time for me to explore new options.

I remember reading about a contract worker who only worked a few hours every month to pay the bare minimum of expenses in order to focus on his main project. The idea really appeals to me because I'd like to spend more time on personal projects.

Are there any consequences that should make me reconsider? Here are a few I can think of:

- Health insurance coverage
- Could be difficult to get a full-time job afterwards
- Not being able to save as much money

Thanks
So the naive method is to just remove any information such as name or birth date. However the medical data is still identifiable. So we need to alter that too. However, we did analytics, so altering it might ruin the results. So we needed to design ways to scramble the data so that it wasn't identifiable, but that in aggregate the results stayed the same.
The film was a masterful rendition of Shirow's vision. I have never seen anime brought to live action with such fullness. Batou and the Major look feel and act like the anime characters. The tech is precisely on point. Brilliant work.

That they did not wallow in obsolete philosophical tropes saved the film from bathetic anachronism.
There is absolutely no reason why you can't implement the same REST concepts on top of another RPC mechanism.
Why+did+you+become+a+Freelancer?
At my last company we did tens of billions of sensor events per day into Cassandra and I thank god our engineering team was smart enough to spend manpower on product instead of writing yet another database
First, you need to turn your attitude around and be a lot more positive.

With respect to a project I'll let you in on a secret: if your service does something valuable, it doesn't have to look pretty.
You can work with freelance companies [like https://indiez.io/] This will mean that you can pair up with someone who has complementary skills + not worry about getting the projects yourself.
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I've always believed each tv channel broadcasting games does the players report themselves (either in-house or contracted). Since the games are usually exclusive to a specific station, I can't imagine there's a big enough market for it to be a service.
Many shops don't keep logs around because we want to. We keep them because we have to. You might see things differently someday if you host data for customers and have to follow SOC2 and HIPAA requirements...
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On the flipside, many have cut the cord because of the high cost of cable, partly due to the cost being inflated by being forced to have channels such as ESPN. Amazon purchasing the rights to sports increases the cost for those that do not care about sports.
70 metros translate to many more POPs (also for redundancy reasons).

The metros can be seen in e.g. the 1e100.net hosts in a traceroute. They're usually the closest airport code, so e.g. lhr for London.

Somebody in China reverse engineered the metro/POP naming and addressing for latency reasons. You can see that, for example, there are at least three POPs in Sydney:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1a5HI0lkc1TycJdwJnCVD...

https://github.com/lennylxx/ipv6-hosts
Perhaps REST as the thing you do over http with http verbs won't be around.

But the architectural principle called REST will be around forever because it's essentially the same thing as functional programming.

That REST is cache friendly corresponds exactly to the way that pure functions are memo-ising friendly.
Because the Microsoft driver ecosystem is in a good state...
I think it's okay to fire B2C customers, but refund them before you fire them. Even if you suspect they won't return the physical part of the product.

And do it with less snark. Just state it seems clear you won't ever see eye to eye, and give the money back.
So, good for your past company? What happens when your primary product is the database? More options are never a bad thing.

If there's a downside here, it's that this database is still a little too immature to have a great use-case.
And many companies stay small or disappear because they wasted resources on problems they didn't have.
Sounds very promising, I can think of some professional applications in software development. Signed up.
One argument against Uber would be that all your public transport may break down if Uber fails to get their next funding round.
Was the last part really needed? Let's keep things civil!
What a great idea. If you're not charging, I wonder if craigslist would link to you, there are so many people posting resumes on there that are just hopeless, it makes you feel sorry for them. Some people just can't write well, a service like this could really help.
Forget about technology and focus on business.

First do what @roycehaynes says: Identify needs.
I add: Choose something you can actually do/sell.

And then validate the model with cheap tech: fire some emails, contact your potential customers by phone, use a spreadsheet as CRM, use paypal to charge them.

Unless you are providing IT services, technology shouldn't be your main concern.
I guess it is a good thing this is not a 'smart pacemaker' manufacturer or similar...

But in all seriousness, I wonder at which point the decision to rescind an IoT 'service' becomes unacceptable. Obviously doing so with a medical device or a moving vehicle during operation would be criminal. But how about a smart home lock? A security camera / alarm system?
Thank you! Totally forgot to see if there was a setting for that.
That's called a hybrid amp.
Agreed. TNF doesn't allow teams enough time for preparation and physical recovery from the previous week's game. Especially when the previous game takes place on Sunday or Monday night.

The Redskins had a stretch this past season where they had to play MNF on 11/21, and then TNF on 11/24 -- only 2 full days in between. That scheduling was absurd.
Compare the length and complexity of any of those links to any other random legal terms on the internet. I found the Firefox Terms of Use much easier to comprehend than Visual Studio, let alone quite a lot shorter.
What kind of a cell plan (and pricing) do you use for this?
Sort of like how sometimes when government tries to solve a problem with a certain program and, if the problem gets worse, the solution suggested (and often tried) is to give even more resources to the program instead of trying a different program with different people.
I built a system that relies on humans decrementing a trust rating of peers based on the user manually classifying resources as malicious, so that bad peers can be detected inferentially.

It differs from Eigentrust and Eigentrust++ in that peer nodes don't manually propogate their trust ratings to eachother on their own behalf, nodes just use their own view of their overlay networks when it's time to recompute trust ratings.

Simulation framework with threat models: https://github.com/Psybernetics/Trust-Toolkit

Peer-to-peer caching proxy PoC:
https://github.com/Psybernetics/Synchrony
But then the user has to create a file, in their filesystem. Hard work! They have to remember the name of it, and type things and everything. They have to press enter at the end of lines and keep it all organised. It's so hard.

It's up to you to determine whether the above is satire.
Philosophy tool kit
Primarily, yes. And also for building and trying out ML models.
Exactly, slavery is bad for some(probably most people) but is good for the slave owners(until for some reasons the slave gets sold into slavery and he will change his mind).
The point is GPL is always good for users and is bad for developers that want to control the users, I understand that you don't want to open your code because you need to make money to live but even if you are a developer that must write non free code you should understand that users not having the freedoms is bad and hope that we as a society can find a solution to this issue(say you have a goal for your software and when you reach your goal the source becomes GPL)
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The SL 65 AMG definitely has better tech than any Formula 1 car, but I think that it's also a little important to note that a Formula 1 car is going to be much faster around a track than the SL 65, since it'll be a full thousand kilograms lighter. Example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_test_track#The_Power_...

I'm not sure if having TCS matters if you're going to be slow.
Of course, my idea is wildly simplistic and naïve. But wouldn't it be nice?

I suppose in a sense, using court cases to set precedent is like implementing a regression test: "We found a bug in this law, next time you hit this edge case, treat it like this."
More options dilute talent and stifle innovation - people spend time writing new tools instead of advancing state of the art

But by all means, it's not my money being burned, so I'm not losing sleep over it. I'll just sit here and giggle as people talk about scaling Postgres and in my mind all I hear is single point of failure masters and vacuum to prevent wraparound in high write workflows
Chomsky: Trump Admin Is Aiming to Decimate All Programs to Help Working People
This article violates Betteridge's law of headlines.
They are working hard to get logical replication in for PG 10 (next major release), but there are still a lot of open items: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_10_Open_Items

I don't know if logical replication = multi-master but I know it is a major piece of the puzzle.
In small Austrian towns we mostly have hailed shared taxis, basically a van waiting for people to call, most of the times operated by a taxi company and heavily subsidized. The cost would translate to about CAD4. If they need to, they will take little detours to pick up more people, and save some emissions and time.
It is not a retelling, so the plot doesn't help to refresh. It is an attempt to capture the vision and feel of the action scenarios and art work. In that it was brilliant. I will see it again.
In+the+future+the+Magic+Keyboard+could+have+Touch+Bar+and+Touch+ID