skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like databases that don't require you run a specific browser for it to work, but what do I know?

I thought we got over "you must run this browser to have the app work" stuff when we all got off IE6.

I understand the use case is to store the data locally, and I'm sure it has its use cases, but they are probably limited.
"Don't be evil" to whom? Making money is definitely not evil...for Google's bottom line.

This is a silly game. Proof by corporate motto.
I don't even know what's real anymore...
193i immersion steppers,a la ASML have 32x26 as the reticle limit
Who exactly regulates the sewer/water monopoly held by a local government?

I cannot even begin to explain the insidious local politics surrounding the local water utility in the city where my folks used to live and the way they forced homeowners to hook up to the ever-expanding sewer at cost to the homeowners, regardless of whether their existing septic systems were adequate or not, to pad the pockets of the contractors paid by the city and to aid in further annexation of the area outside the city.

A water utility run by the local government as a monopoly is only regulated by local politics, and if you have any experience with local politics you know that's mostly just figuring out who's the biggest good ol' boy.
I'm from Toronto, good senior engineers that aren't working in a sweat shop make $100k CAD or more, you can rent a nice apartment downtown for $2k per month.
Interesting, appears to have been merged upstream:

http://llvm.org/docs/CompileCudaWithLLVM.html

But it still targets NVIDIA GPUs and uses NVIDIA libraries so not that universal yet.
You seem to be trying to build an analogy between a person's right to a material necessity and a corporation's right to a convenient market. I don't think the analogy holds.

(The flip side would be "Are you saying Google should be a nationalized, government-regulated search engine?")
It's a good point... I've gone back and forth on this a lot and I guess it just comes down to the sheer number of customers I can get via Codecanyon compared to selling directly.

Believe me I've tried on many occassions over the last few years to setup direct sales of my various plugins and software. But I can't seem to drive enough targeted traffic to match the income via marketplaces like Codecanyon.
Comparing dense compute platforms for AI – Nervana
Get what to fly?
You're right, it is in the visualization but it's so minuscule I didn't see it.

I guess it's just so efficient relative to the other sources.
Glue – Generate Typed Go RPC Clients
Surely some of them do, and I bet the ones that don't largely don't know that they're leaving money on the table. What are the two companies in question?
"three Os" sounds better than "one A and two Os"...
> "application level errors are communicated via a 200, properly"

Wiki:

2xx Success
This class of status codes indicates the action requested by the client was received,
understood, accepted, and processed successfully

RFC 2616:

10.2.1 200 OK
The request has succeeded

Not really "proper" to use it that way, but if it works for you and your users I guess go for it. Also, I highly disagree with the rest of it (cleaner code, better interoperability, simpler debugging), but those are matters of opinion so there's no point in arguing them.
Any .NET MVC developers here? I always wanted to learn ASP MVC, but never did because I was scared of the deployment situation on Linux. Has anything changed in that regard? Would you say deploying a .NET web app works almost as smooth on Linux as let's say a node.js app?
"And be careful to export the RGB values of transparent pixels when you save to PNG for example, many programs will by default discard transparent pixel RGB data and replace it with a solid color (white or black) during the export to help with the compression."

Here is some information for Photoshop and a plugin you can use:

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/63783/how-...
You're not wrong. 300W, holy shit.
Anyone who enjoys relay computers would probably find electromechanical pinball machines fascinating.

It's quite amazing what they accomplished with mechanical relays!
Cuda should run on both, right?
Unless you're talking about shader assembly or hardware.
I see a dev site but no email? I'd swap those out.
"This is a total non sequitur"

You think it is.

Then try hiring people - lots of people. You will very very quickly learn to immediately disqualify the people that either can't get there on time or can't submit the resume with the required information or can't provide the references by the required date, etc.

I used to be very interested and sympathetic to details and narratives and stories and "this is why I didn't send it in PDF format" or "this is why I called 5 minutes late". Now I see them as the most information-dense data that a prospective hire could possibly provide to me.
Setting up payment and delivery is very simple and I've done it a bunch of times. I wouldn't underestimate the "average WP dev" either, they are getting a lot better than perhaps people on here may give them credit for. I can say the competition is certainly higher quality since when I started a few years ago but this has always been a side-business of mine alongside various startup jobs and other businesses.

The simple answer to why I use Codecanyon is access to a large, targeted customer base that is ready to spend money. That's not an easy thing to replicate. No matter the combination of PPC, content marketing, influencers and direct contact I try.
How so? It's been a while since I've been involved with Android but, for example, Facebook is still the defacto auth service for Android apps.
Reminds me of some Commodore 64 programs running code on the 1541 disk drive to offload computation from the main CPU (both the C64 and the 1541 had 6502s (well, the C64 had a 6510 which had an I/O port) running @ 1Mhz). The original Apple Laserwriter had a 68k running at 12Mhz, while the Mac Plus, which came out almost a year later, had its 68k running at 8Mhz.
As a shorthand, think of REST as about nouns, and RPC about verbs.

/account/1 is REST because the you're looking for an account (noun), the account id is 1, and you're using the HTTP method GET.

/search/hello is RPC because it uses a specific verb (search) to call a remote procedure to search for the 'hello' keyword. You're taking an action for which there is no appropriate HTTP method, so RPC can be used instead of REST.

This doesn't cover 100% of every situation, but it's useful as a quick mnemonic.
Ask HN: What's your favorite non-dystopian fiction book?
By non-dystopian I don't necessarily mean something that involves a post-earth setting (i.e. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy) because that has more of a comedic setup; I mean titles like Strange New World or 1984. Not that those aren't great works, but a change of pace would be nice.
Municipal sewer/water isn't a material necessity, they're a convenience. There are million dollar houses in the D.C. suburbs that have well water/septic.
Do you have macOS at least 10.11?
Previous discussion from Sept 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10197672

I'm sure there's been updates since then, just linking for reference.
Kind of amusing considering the platform you (apparently) prefer. However walled Windows is, Apple is at least as bad, if not worse. At least with Windows development one isn't restricted to a particular brand of computer.
s/sawn/swan/
Regardless of how you perceive making it, the representation is still (nearly always) a color underneath an alpha channel.

If you inspect the image in a full-featured editor like Photoshop or GIMP, you can inspect the channels individually or remove the transparency entirely to see this fact.

I think with most GUI programs, the eraser and cut tool will leave color as what it was before it became transparent.

EDIT: saurik has a good point that I forgot about -- many editors may actually throw the colors away when you export unless you ask them not to.
I'm using it in production and are very happy with it.
Hi there! To answer your first question, it's any of the above :) If you use Hotmail, Outlook.com, Xbox Live, etc. they all are associated with a Microsoft Account. You can also associate your existing e-mail address, which you regularly use with a Microsoft Account, if you prefer that.

As for why, it's really a good way for us to stay in touch with you and keep you updated about what's new, help you get started, and make you successful in general. Visual Studio Community on Windows has the same behavior for the same reasons. Hope that helps!
You are a google consumer/user. You are not a google customer in the usual sense of the word.

Rest assured that if you were a google customer, the IRS would want their pound of flesh from that barter exchange you and google are having.
What makes you think that in RDS you are part of a "shared cluster"? I believe that with RDS, your database instance runs on EC2 instance(s) dedicated to you.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Conce...
I don't know what is this, but it seems you've bundled together a lot of data from different sources.
My name is Michael. There's always at least one other Michael in any large enough group of people.

Usually that guy goes by "Mike", though, so I try to insist on being called "Michael". I honestly don't recognize "Mike" as being my name, which is confusing when people who want to seem friendly shorten my name.
Why the comment of dyjakan was marked as dead?
Is there any plan to support importing the Postman v4 data format?
Awesome! Do you have an simple one page example where you're pulling the lib from a CDN?
Yet another step in the progression in which mass market GPU silicon kills traditional vector and memory bandwidth rich4 HPC/supercomputing hardware. Cray-on-a-chip.

Edit: traditional vector machines like the nec sx still hold the programmability crown because you get a usable single system image, right?
I'll defend REST's utility for simple data retrieval. If I just need a paginated list of comments on a video, being able to quickly hit /video/1093/comments and get that list back is really nice.

More complex use cases, and specifically non-idempotent operations, is where I find REST doesn't hold up as well as RPC.
Thanks for re-posting.

I'll give it a try. It may well be permissive enough for our my clients' needs; though plv8 would still be a blocker (already voted on that one).
For the same reason as around any other CPU or GPU and lots and lots of other chips: buck converter, i.e. 12V 20A DC in, 1.2V 200A DC out.
How long until Tesla sues for trademark infringement? "from detecting lanes on the road to teaching autonomous cars to drive" makes it sound like there is an awful lot of overlap in product function.
Why can't we just shine some radar out there?
It's even worse when Google starts doubting your identity. These days, their Recaptcha system annoys me on multiple sites, sometimes asking me to solve 4-5 different puzzles.
> The point isn't why they use a browser. The point is that they do use a browser.

If you ask somebody why they are using Facebook in their browser, they'll tell you that it's because that's how you use Facebook Messenger. They won't tell you that it's because they want to message and surf the web at the same time. In fact it's terrible for this – Messenger is stuck on the Facebook site, so if you navigate away, it's either hidden away in a separate tab or gone altogether.

People quite clearly don't use Facebook Messenger in a browser because they want to surf and message at the same time, which is quite clearly relevant to the questions of "why would I want this?" and "what value does this have as a product?".

> I know it's a standalone application but the relevance is down to the performance improvements you'd gain from integrating that into Opera

I don't think many people wish for better performance out of their messenger applications, certainly not enough to switch browser over, which again, makes me wonder what the market for this is.
Are the relevant standards bodies just puppets?
Cannes says 2017 is first and last for Netflix unless it changes
Did I say it was the end goal? It's merely a metric for a young company. What it means is that enough people have decided that there is a future that current revenue, growth, and expectations are being met or substantial. Raising $53 million dollars isn't easy. So I can say capital raised is a metric on which to base a judgement.

Your statement that it "absolutely will hurt adoption" is unqualified and nothing but opinion. And what exactly is "more successful?"

The handful of people who won't try this because of the name won't matter to their bottom line. If it's good enough then for even a large majority of those they'll end up using it anyway.
Each pixel is defined by 32 bits -- 8 R, 8 B, 8 G, 8 A. Even if alpha is 0, there has to be information stored in Red, Green, Blue. There can't be "no information", because then a pixel is not defined by 32 bits of information. There is always a "color" (RGB values) for transparent pixels. Some editors will set the RGB values to 0 or 255 when fully-transparent pixels are saved/output. Others don't.

As the author mentions, certain resampling algorithms might be naive or plain ignorant about how to resample images with potentially transparent pixels. Should transparent pixels not count to the final pixel? Should all pixels be averaged? Should the output pixel be the median or mode value? If the image is being resampled to 1/3 its size the resampling can be very cheap if only the middle of the 3x3 pixel cluster is selected as the output value.
"I know someone who was late to an interview because a terrorist attack led to a city-wide transit shutdown."

On the one hand, I must object to the obvious reductio ad absurdum. Even I would be interested in, and sympathetic to, that narrative.

On the other hand, imagine the information contained in the event of the prospective employee that actually made it into the interview that day. There's a lot of information there that should not be ignored.
This is actually a very common problem with 3-D stuff and transparency in textures. This isn't an issue with the colors of the pixels themselves, it's an issue with texture filtering. nVidia has a pretty good explanation as it applies to games and 3d graphics: https://developer.nvidia.com/content/alpha-blending-pre-or-n...

Say you have two adjacent pixels using floating point RGBA values of (0,0,0,0) and (1,1,1,1), and you apply it to a 3-d shape. Because of the rasterization algorithm, you will be sampling weighted averages of the two pixels, either because you're scaling up and need to interpolate, or because you're scaling down and need to average.

The average of (0,0,0,0) (fully transparent) and (1,1,1,1) (opaque white) is (0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5), a half transparent gray. But you'd intuitively expect (1,1,1,0.5), half transparent white. This is the essence of the problem. The fix is to make sure that your transparent pixel was (1,1,1,0) and not (0,0,0,0).
At a minimum, you can say of statements that are self-contradictory that they are self-refuting. Whatever paradoxical class you wish to put them in, they at least are not true.

By the way, the Liar Paradox is not just an academic curiosity. You run into it in pop philosophy a lot. "There are no absolute truths" is self-contradictory in the same way the Liar Paradox is. So is "Science is the only way we can really know what's true".
The Meizu MX7 lets you see your front with reduced bezels
On second thought I’m not sure. Everyone will call it RoachDB
for short anyway, but the full name has more impact. It shocks, which is a good thing. I was so focused on aesthetics that I didn’t even consider strategy.

They can always spin off “RoachDB” as an enterprise option, if they have any problems with selling it due to name.
That issue is fixed now. Thanks again.
Curious about the name. Love Field is the smaller airport in Dallas, Texas, but guessing not related? Just love database fields maybe?
Just want to make sure you are (both) getting your cut :-) A factor of two on retail price seems a bit odd.
Google are a business, not saints, and they do a lot of things that align with their interests and against the interests of their customers.

However, I think this is not comparable to what Microsoft did in the OS business (the story I told, BeOS, DR-DOS, IE Bundling) -- an apt comparison would be if the Google Search Engine had been Chrome only, or mobile Googling was Android only.

Google Earth is a niche product - I don't see how this (or any other less-than-fair Google practice I've ever heard of) can be considered abusing one's monopoly in any way.
Litecoin Successfully Activates SegWit
They're all named pretty differently though.

I mean it's not like they're all called "XCode [something]".
I assume you mean version 4 of the Postman application. Version 4 of Postman can export v1 or v2 formats (the version of the export format itself), which can be selected when exporting a single Postman collection.
> Because installing (frivolous) user utilities should not have the ability to write to critical system files, by default at least.

This is why there was a thing like `$PREFIX`. I have a ~/.local folder, the user-specific equivalent of the system /usr/ folder. All the frivolous software I install for my-unix-account local needs go in there and my OS remains pristine. I currently have my $GOPATH, user npm packages, and even some .desktop applications in there.
I've been waiting for this for a while. Only trouble so far is that the installer comes up in the wrong locale for me (it ignores the language ordering in Preferences and displays the installer in my secondary/input language, not English, unlike fully native apps).
Reminds me of "Is there a reason Hillary Clinton's logo has hidden notches?"
https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/73601/is-t...
I think that's pretty consistent with the One Windows marketing. Personally, I'd rather have a tool that works with some of the features I want, rather than none of the features I want, because they're taking 5 years to get to feature parity. But that's just me.
Another problem is that people want an RPC mechanism, when what they need is a state-transfer mechanism.

It turns out that the semantics of RPC — attractive as they undeniably are — are pretty poor for building real-world distributed systems, while those of REST as a pretty good (or at least better) fit.
AT&T did not become a monopoly by government action. The Kingsbury Commitment was an agreement by the government not to take antitrust action against AT&T, not an agreement to prevent others from trying to compete with AT&T. The Communications Act of 1934 did solidify AT&T's monopoly by basically freezing in place the status quo. But AT&T became a monopoly in the first place by natural means.
The SNES certainly wasn't able to reproduce the arcade experience. The N64 should have been.

Over the years, I have considered buying an old arcade cabinet just to re-experience the magic.

I just need to find the space for it.
That extra capital is extracted from society by impoverishing it.

If you wanted to tax people for research, the government can do it way more directly, without depending on the good will of a few rich people.
What? All Abrahamic religious texts are notoriously ambiguous and self-contradictory. History of religion is the study of sectarian conflict.
Yup, the tpu also, it was just a systolic matrix multiplier, but hey, it's Google, and they called it a "Tensor processor" so let's get a hard on..m
This is common in servlet-container-land (Java) for handling browsers that don't support cookies. The URLs are rewritten to include the session-identifier (usually a cookie) as a request parameter instead.

There's no other mechanism to associate an HTTP request with back-end state (logged-in/out, etc.) except for session identifiers transmitted by the client browser (through cookies, headers, request parameters).
Couldn't a private company just pay its investors excess profit?

Let's just say Google never went public and they have the profits they do today. Couldn't they share this with investors?

Disclaimer: I'm not very knowledgeable about how businesses function in these areas.
It's something along the lines of the film size for the super fancy camera they use in one of the steps. (The silicon wafer would be the equivalent of the entire roll of film.)
Several! I recommend starting out with something not too overly expensive (you'll crash), easy to repair (you'll crash) and sturdy (you'll crash). Oh, did I mention you will crash?

TX: Turnigy 9XR or FrSky Taranis (more expensive, but a good investment since you probably won't crash this one...)

Frame: any 330 size frame will do. This one for instance:
https://www.banggood.com/DJI-F330-4-Axis-RC-Quadcopter-Frame...

Motors: 2212, ca 1000kv will make it pretty sporty

ESC: 30A

This combo set is only 19 bucks:
https://www.banggood.com/XXD-2212-MotorZTW-AL30A-Brushless-E...

Flight controller: Naze32 or CCD3. Doesn't really matter. This one is fine (it's in my latest quad) and is only 11 bucks:
https://www.banggood.com/DALRC-NAZE32-REV6-MPU6050-32-bit-6-...

You'll need extra props, wire and nuts and bolts. 400 dollars is totally achievable!
"I could care less" is an idiom, it means the same thing as "I couldn't care less". (This may seem somewhat odd, but it's perfectly natural once you know it started out as sarcastic.)
Clover Health Raises $130M, Valuing It at $1.2B
Have you looked at ECharts? https://ecomfe.github.io/echarts-examples/public/index.html#...
I'd consider it, but I'm generally happy with the Asuswrt-Merlin firmware, and I can't find a resource that describes things like benefit, risks, and functionality I might lose. Is there such a thing?
Thanks for the love. I'm the administrator of the game's 2 remaining official US servers, which are owned by the two original programmers who developed the code (blakod, Andrew and Chris Kirmse. The two brothers took the game over again in 2010, from the company Near Death Studios - which had been charging players from 2003-2010, 9.95 a month. The brothers released the game for free, keeping all the characters from 2003 still alive (unwiped servers), allowing for an unprecedented social aspect wherein players from a decade (or longer, now) ago can step back into the boots of their old avatars.

The game's source code was released in 2011 and is available on github for old fans and new to create new worlds and game experiences. https://github.com/Meridian59/Meridian59

The population is not what it once was (it tends to come and go with the seasons, one player makes a huge impact in its world) - but it's worth checking out, historically.

There are now a couple, fan-run open source servers that have been doing a TON of work on the game, some offering more PvE, some more PvP based. Old fans may enjoy checking out some of the changes on these servers...or they may enjoy seeing something a little closer to home. Either way, the game is still alive, thanks to the fans. Users are still getting involved in their old relationships or making news ones, with some incredible stories due to the game being out for a virtual lifetime.
> Even with an alpha of 0, a pixel still has some RGB color value associated with it.

Wish the article was more clear as to why this happens. Let me elucidate: this happens because, per the PNG standard[0], 0-alpha pixels have their color technically undefined. This means that image editors can use these values (e.g. XX XX XX 00) for whatever -- generally some way of optimizing, or, more often than not, just garbage. There are ways to get around this by using an actual alpha channel in Photoshop[1], or by using certain flags in imagemagick[2].

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/

[1] https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/png-t...

[2] http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=...
Yes, it is something I have to consciously correct and I was doing too many things at once. I appreciate the correction.
Not using DocumentDB API but you can kinda do joins using graph traversal Gremlin API.