skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classic case of overengineering for no reason, when it has been discovered that the packets can be squeezed by hand and yield almost identical amounts of juice.
Has anyone cut open one of these juice packs? It sounds like it's mostly pre squeezed juice and a bit of cut up fruit and veggies.
Isn't that the definition of a race to the bottom. I have no idea how far away the bottom is, but it seems like once we get there that money might not be all that useful.
I don't doubt the underlying blockchain technology will continue to scale but my question has always been the lock-in effect of Bitcoin and other existing crypto-currencies versus new entrants. As the major banks, payment processors, and clearing houses look into moving in this direction it's clear they are going to roll their own solutions.
Pretty much. And 3-4 other, very similar startups- most have ended the same way in failing to get anything to market. Dynamics has been around for a while with a similar product, but B2B sales strategy, though they don't seem to be getting much traction. Cool idea on the surface, but clearly has some fatal flaws. Just funny to me how VCs are willing to fund essentially the same company that has failed multiple times before... though in this case, maybe their VCs actually did the diligence and that's what led them to back out (total speculation).
A relative of mine is in a union. From what I've seen, it's mostly used to combat times where the management uses their leverage over individual people to get free / unfair work. I'm sure there's room for abuse, but it seems to act as positive force for both sides.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Teamsters-Reviews-E2999.ht...

Here is some evidence that helps explain Teamsters. It's a lot different to have Teamsters come in than this utopian view of a few workers banning together to protect their interests.
If you want people to fight inequality with you, you have to first prove to them it's actually a problem.

It's a bit of a leap to convince somebody that just because Bill Gates is much richer than the typical person, somebody more deserving must have gone without for him to get so rich.
A "copy", in this context, is a file. They can have three of those, which aligns perfectly with standard backup practices. Serving them is distribution, but not copying.
1. DO NOT SIGN IT. You will be signing away your rights.

2. Either walk away, or hire a lawyer to help you make changes. I've worked with Rex Baker (http://www.rexbaker.com/ ) and he is a good guy.
Most passengers don't know that. Lying to someone sometimes works better than punching them in the face.

And flight plans can not only be changed and refiled on the ground, they can be altered in the air by talking to a control tower over the radio.
Would it be plausible that young girls are encouraged to see happiness, and personally fulfilling careers, whilst young boys are encouraged to seek money or a specific career choice?

If this were the case, then the participation of women currently entering the workplace would represent the baseline distribution of inclination, whereas men represent a modified distribution caused by hostile attitudes (e.g. men are classically discouraged from becoming nurses, or teachers to young children).

There's often a view that whatever condition men have is the correct one, and ought to be emulated in the female population. For somethings maybe this is true (yes, suffrage is pretty good), but for things like work-life balance and professional-inclinations, I am not so sure.
I really want somebody to cut one of those bags open - it's almost certainly already filled with juice. It seems unlikely that a person could manually squeeze the juice out of raw fruit this way.
the whole thing reads like a solution desperately looking for a problem.

would've been refreshing to instead read, "this is an unnecessary gadget for rich juicebros-- get over it."
Because that tiny company somehow roped in $120mm in funding. And after Bloomberg did a story on it, people realized how absurd it was.
Because people enjoy stories about Silicon Valley hubris.
Ask HN: Can I get in trouble for crawling using the Googlebot user agent?
A lot of sites have IP crawl restrictions, but add exceptions for Googlebot. Could Google or the crawled site legally do something when they find out?
To expand: depending where you live that may be unenforceable... but that can still lead to a miserable time getting it pushed back in court. And in some places it will be enforceable.
For sure there is a bit of self-flagellation. However, what it doesn't tell you is how cost effective or as they elude to: how improves developer velocity (a stand in for productivity) is.

Those other guys may also be offering streaming, but how quickly can they adapt?
Obama used a few phrases that not only sounded pleasing, but accurately addressed what's happening to Americans:

"Everyone, including the rich, need to pay their share."

"Americans from all backgrounds should have a fair shot at a quality education, not just those who happen to grow up in nice neighborhoods."

He tapped into equality of opportunity, while acknowledging that some will be more successful than others. That should be the rallying cry, not the idea of ending inequality outright.
Day and Night Teslas. Always be playing offense!
Because it's seen as a proxy for the perceived out-of-touchness of Silicon Valley in general
Announcing the AWS Chatbot Challenge–Create Conversational, Intelligent Chatbots
Was Juicero a YC company?
Ask HN: Books Like 'Calculus Made Easy'?
It is surprising that lots of people(including me) learn about this book only now[1]. Have you read any other book like 'Calculus Made Easy'? Please mention in comments. Not only in maths. It could be in any subject or field. I think it will be helpful to many.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14161876
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If Quora is doing "extremely well", then why are they still seeking funding this many years in for a second round with YC?
With dynamic modules support now in Nginx, that practice should end.
1.- The company received tons of funding.

2.- Investors were shocked the machine is not needed.
Anyone else find the article hard to read because the excerpts from the podcast were too manipulative and earnest? It just makes my skin crawl.
Companies like this and Keurig that trash our planet to deliver a sub-par product to people who can't be bothered to do it right all deserve to go out of business. Buy a Breville and go to the farmer's market, god damn it.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-13

If we make a scale from 1 to 4 out of those four panels, I'd say Google is around a 2.5 and Netflix is somewhere above 3. It's tough to assign numbers much past 3 because the technology becomes indistinguishable from magic pretty quickly.
Must be something with the program you are using. I've just opened the file on my WP10 device with ancient Snapdragon 400 and I don't see any problem with reading, scrolling etc.
previous discussion of the response this article talks about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14160191
The killer quote for me is:

"It’s incredible to come to work everyday alongside hardware and software engineers, food scientists, designers, farmer partners, and all our other team members who are committed to building a new way of delivering raw, plant-based nutrition."
How do duplicates work? Just wondering which one should be considered duplicate. I am seeing that this was the first article submitted
And certainly not from something that needs to be masticated to release the liquids - like greens/kale/carrots.
(I think people are somehow totally misunderstanding what I'm saying but I'm not sure how to say it much clearer.)

To suddenly be concerned and have a change of heart about one historical cause of damage to your coast (dredging, etc), but completely ignore for ideological reasons another major ongoing cause that will make any fixes you do to the prior destruction pointless, is, well, bad, dumb, stupid? What should we call it?
Accelerating Iteration Velocity on Dropbox’s Desktop Client, Part 2
I would say there's a difference between being able to read a contract and negotiate one.

For example, one common clause that 'offends' a developer might be something starting any work done whilst under their employment remains the IP of the employer.

It's one thing to tell the recruiter something offends you, but another to negotiate an alternative.

For that's what negotiation is. Understanding why the employer requested what they did, and suggesting something that achieves that reasoning but satisfies your concern too.
From a marketing perspective, good press or bad press. It's still press and it gets the word out.

For every X group of people who don't want this, there will be Y person who will think it's a good idea and they will purchase the product.

Look at the segway, still made the owner millions.
Midway down the author mentions a study that showed most Americans object to "unfairness" rather than "inequality". I've found this to be the case for me personally. If someone tries hard, works diligently, and makes smart decisions, but are still living in poverty, I want to help them. No hardworking, disciplined, motivated person should live in poverty, or have trouble making ends meet, in my opinion.

Unfortunately the lower income people I know do not fall in to this camp. I have a fair number of friends and relatives who make very little money and struggle to keep their heads above water. They make routinely bad decisions or fail to do the barest minimum to be proactive about things. They have watched every show on netflix, or played every video game possible (at $60/pop). They spend money on frivolous things and fail to plan in any way for the future. Their impulse control leaves much to be desired.

But the weird thing is - they mostly realize this. They don't get too fired up about inequality. Whether it's consciously or subconsciously, they seem to realize they are not really giving it their all, and that other people work harder and are more disciplined. They appear to prefer their current situation to the stresses of "succeeding" at life.

Granted, this is all anecdotal, so take with healthy dose of salt.
I was wondering that myself. Root vegetables like carrots and beets would be really difficult to press by hand.
i've never been interested in video game development but one day i saw an article they posted giving a technical overview of their graphics pipeline [1] and i couldn't stop reading.

[1] https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/trip-down-lol-graphic...
The product is expensive, extraneous, bad at what it does, easily circumvented, and the reaction to it by the CEO and investors is hilarious and a very good look at the absurdities of the current app-and-hardware world we have found ourselves in.

People love a good laugh, and some Schadenfreude helps. Whats not to like?
Considering that it's almost impossible to get past any whiteboard interview without an understanding of Big O, I think you're being a bit too harsh on OP here. It's literally CS 101.
> Operating systems are hard, drop Windows and sell your software on Linux. We all know it's inevitable in the long run.

Soo... how do I run Linux on a new Dell XPS or a Surface Book without updating kernel to newest 4.x branch? Because last I check Linux forced me to update to new version (including userspace since new kernels weren't compatible with old userspace) to run on new hardware as well.
Here's a video of the insides of a bag: https://vimeo.com/214030931
Huh. Sorry about that. EBookDroid on my 2013-era Android loaded it fine in about 1 second for the first page.

(I included the link in case anyone was interested in the quality and to prove I didn't just make up the number!)
A guide to building stable UX experiences for chat bots
It sounds like the chunks that have to be later pressed is to present the illusion of freshness. If one wants juice, why can't one have the juice fully "pressed" at the factory, if they insist on the juice being extracted by pressing, and just pour the juice into their cup? (Or have a drinkable pouch, maybe like what is available for baby food, now)
Many threads on D on HN lately. Is it a trend?
The goals/interests of a collection of workers needn't always align with those of every individual worker.

The goals/interests of the workers in a particular collection of workers are not all identical ( even after modding out by certain things like "it is in my interests to receive more payment, but not /inherently/ in my interests that Joe receive more payment, and visa versa for Joe's interests").
The part you are missing is that airlines don't need a law that lets them overbook. They absolutely can involuntary boot anyone for any reason (other than discriminatory reasons that are otherwise illegal). Booting a person would be a breach of contract, but breaches of contracts aren't illegal.

Hell, they could update their contact and then it wouldn't even be a breach of a contract.

The law was written to reign in their behavior. Without it, they have a lot more freedom.
I need someone for United Kingdom...
After having been a "Top Writer" for two years in a row, I stopped contributing to Quora a bit over a year ago. I had several reasons, but the two biggest were:

* A very opaque answer-ranking system which often promotes what I consider really crappy (e.g. factually incorrect or off-topic) answers over better ones. This is not just stupid people voting, BTW; simple ranking by vote count would be far better than what actually happens. This is something Quora themselves, or their algorithms, do.

* A cadre of popular writers who openly flaunt the rules (e.g. don't answer the question, fill posts with meme-y images). A significant subset of these "Slop Writers" are clearly there to peddle their own books with an annoying coda on every answer.

Those kind of things seriously degrade the reading experience there. I honestly don't get why Quora would allow, facilitate, and even seem to promote behavior which drives away both readers and writers. It would only make sense if people were actually paying them to have their answers ranked higher or to be allowed to break the rules, but that would be extremely hard for them to hide so I don't think that's really the case. Considering some of the other problems there, like the site generally being slow/flaky or the random addition/removal of features, I think they're just not thinking very hard about these issues.

I still go back there to read sometimes. So far, I keep finding that the same problems are still there and getting worse, so I don't expect I'll write there again.
Mine Your Photos and Videos on Linode Using Deep Learning and Face Recognition
But to extend the metaphor, fixing your own code is kind of pointless if all the other code running on the box runs unchanged. Fixes need to be made to shared libraries to have any impact. This means promoting politicians who aren't taking advantage of the situation to earn kickbacks from corporations who feel they will be negatively affected by fixing the problem, and implementing things like carbon taxes so that every decision made in the economy bakes in the real costs of carbon.
I think this is the standard "look - something absurd and stupid!" news story that goes viral. All the news outlets are milking it for clicks. I'm pretty sure today is the last day you'll hear about it.
Yes, but at the moment its only Linux
In 2017, 500TB is easily within the realm of colocated bare metal.

There are many build it yourself options, which would involve things similar to this SuperMicro JBOD [0] + some other servers/external RAID controller to handle distributions over the disks. You could also go really barebones and do a couple of home-built "RAIDZilla"-style devices. [1]

For the cost of one month's S3 storage, you can buy a pre-built Backblaze Pod from a third-party supplier [2]. I've found this to be the case with Amazon; the monthly cost is about 50%-100% of the permanent cost for the actual hardware (which will usually last at least 3-5 years). Even if you have to hire a couple of your own hardware jockeys, you're going to be saving 6x.

For a less DIY route, any SAN provider will be able to accommodate 1PB (for redundancy) without breaking a sweat. Of course, this will be a large upfront expenditure, but it should still easily be cheaper than S3 over the long run. There are tons of options and storage engineering is a big field. Look around and I'm sure you'll find something acceptable.

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All this said, I really have to be skeptical that you need 500TB of (compressed!) JSON data. I would look into how much of that data you really need to keep, set up some retention policies, and seriously consider reworking your storage format to make these numbers more reasonable (JSON is obviously not space-efficient), which will not only greatly reduce infrastructure costs but also make the project much easier to handle.

You may also wish to look into modern compression codecs if you haven't already. LZMA provides the best ratio but the compression cycle is slow (decompression is fast). Brotli and zstd are new compression options that are at least comparable to gzip in ratio and much faster. Data deduplication should also help.

[0] https://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Supermicro-SC417-BE1C-R1K2...

[1] https://www.glaver.org/raidzilla25/

[2] https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... (estimates cost of third-party pod at $12,849.40; S3 cost calculator says 500TB of storage in us-east-1 is $12,407.17 without any bandwidth, request costs)
Different components in the Huawei P10: Huawei takes a position
There's more than one possible reason for this move, but I can't help thinking that escaping the GPL 2 with its (hardware and software) patent grab might be the biggest single reason.
If you want to go all conspiracy theory on this, you can go with the "There is no such thing as bad publicity", and this amount of coverage ironically could even get some sales on the product, or some attention on the company at the very least, even if it's in the context of mocking it.

Had it not be for the fact apparently you need the machine for the privilege of buying juice pouches, I would even say some people might see the value of buying the pre-packaged juice and then squeezing it themselves, feeling good for having saved "400 dollars on an expensive machine", while still causing some revenue impact for the company that now has pivoted to selling only the juice pouches, maybe even as a subscription service.
They did this already:

http://gizmodo.com/juicero-ceo-begs-you-do-not-open-our-juic...
What Is Google Data Studio?
Also sent him flying over a cliff to his death, so kind of a mixed bag.
How does this work? I don't see any explanation of the colors.
Sure, but politicians don't go around telling people there is no way even in principle that they'll fail to represent your interests, because nobody will believe them. Instead, they actually try to make the case that they'll do a good job.

Also, saying workers have no leverage without a union is another exaggeration. How much leverage you have depends very much on the circumstances.

It's not a knock on unions for those of us who have found ourselves in a relatively fortunate position to admit it. It means there is room for a more subtle, nuanced conversation.
I find the most interesting aspect of this observation to be the notion that we have a similar present-day blind spot and the associated exercise in predicting what is that blind spot(s).
Another one for Google that's really interesting is their testing blog: https://testing.googleblog.com/
This is the part I do not like:
i) Due to the nature of your duties and your particular responsibilities, you recognise that you have an obligation to further the interests of company “B”.

ii) If you make an Invention in the course of your duties for us, you must disclose it to us at once. That Invention will belong to us. If we obtain a patent for that Invention, however, you may be entitled to compensation for it in accordance with the Patents Act 1977 s.40.

iii) Subject to ii), all Intellectual Property Rights that come into existence during the normal course of your employment or by using materials, tools or knowledge made available through your employment, will belong to us or any of the Group Companies which we nominate. If required to do so (whether during or after the termination of your employment), you must sign any document and do anything necessary to vest ownership in these rights in us as sole beneficial owner. Where ownership does not automatic ally vest by Act of Parliament, you must immediately assign all your interests to us. You irrevocably waive all your rights pursuant to sections 77 to 83 inclusive of the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988.

iv) The provisions of this clause 3 (c) shall remain in full force and effect following any termination of this agreement for any reason, whether such termination is lawful or not.

Any thoughts?
Being three shouldn't have prevented you from being a train. There are plenty of trains older than that (some googling suggests the oldest 'living' train may be 161 years old right now, although admittedly it spends most of its time in a museum right now.) There is still hope :)
Though in this particular case, they were breaking criminal law in the course of intervening in a civil dispute. They were attempting to simultaneously act as police and as private security personnel for the airline.

One cannot serve two masters. You cannot serve the public interest as police and a private interest as a security thug at the same time.

Following orders takes no guts. It takes guts to refuse to obey an unlawful order. The Nuremberg Principle still exists.
I personally disagree that this should be the rallying cry.

Why should someone who invests nothing in their own children get to see their children have equal opportunities to the children of another person who invests everything into their children?

Why should a person who has 10 children get to see each one have the same amount of opportunity as each one of the children of someone who has 2 children, assuming equal total parental investment?

The rallying cry should be equality before the law.
Not a media conspiracy, just a media echo chamber/feeding frenzy. Now that the story's picked up, everyone wants to cover it to get attention. It picked up originally because it's funny and because people like making fun of dumb silicon valley excesses.
I am not opposed to H1b reforms but I am opposed to the protectionist rhetoric that inspired those reforms. If you visit any major Indian cities, you would notice that many of the streets are filled up with many American companies like Nike, McDonald's, KFC, PizzaHut, etc., So much of modern Indian's income goes towards buying stuff from other countries. If we are talking about jobs, what is stopping us from blocking these companies from serving Indian market? Aren't we losing jobs as well? Why is it that trading goods, especially the ones that US excels at, is good, but not trading services that require people to travel to the customer's location?
so...relevant to investors and the few thousand (is it even that many?) owners of the product.

International press coverage in BBC, Bloomberg, Forbes, TechCrunch, etc. seems vastly out of proportion of the importance of this story.

the media response to this has been so rapid and so extreme that it makes me think conspiratorial thoughts, like someone has a vested interest in their demise and pulled some levers to create this media shitstorm.
https://blog.jooq.org/ is excellent if you do any SQL
Can someone explain the following bit from that article to me:

"As the mouth advances southward and the river lengthens, the gradient declines, the current slows, and sediment builds up the bed. Eventually, it builds up so much that the river spills to one side."

I'm having a little trouble understanding it. What does it mean for the mouth of the river to move southward? Does sediment build up and create new land near what used to be the mouth?