skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Germany also has a list of allowed names. There are always some lawsuits whether it's OK to give a child a certain name or not.
Neither views nor neighborhoods are considered to be property under real-estate law. Basically, no. Just no. Other people do get to spend their own money on property near yours and use it as they please. That's a free economy. If you don't like it, try some form of central planning. I think feudalism might really suit you.
The blog post introducing Britecharts has a good discussion of the difference between it and other reusable charting options: https://www.eventbrite.com/engineering/introducing-britechar....

One other big difference is that Britecharts is compatible with the latest version of D3. D3 V4 underwent a major refactor to increase modularity. NVD3 is actively looking for volunteers to help them get there though - https://github.com/novus/nvd3#do-we-support-d3-v4x.

Disclaimer: I work with the folks who develop Britecharts.
I think there is a lot of potential for sending with electric fields. A lot of animals like sharks can basically see using an electric field. It would be amazing if we could replicate that.
Is the Alta HR slim enough? https://www.fitbit.com/shop/altahr

To get anything on your wrist slimmer than that you'll have to give up heart rate tracking.
The C in PVC stands for chloride. Wikipedia claims it is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer, after polyethylene and polypropylene, which are pure carbohydrates.

So, technically, it is 'most', but chances are fairly good a random selection of garbage plastic contains chloride, too, and that can be nasty.
Ask HN: Will you fund my side project?
"HN Proposition" was: [2013] — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5037694

I'll pay you $5000 to build the MVP of that idea you've been kicking around in your head for the last year. Once you're done (ideally within 2 months), you can go back to earning your full potential. At this point, I'll take over and spend an additional $3000 to acquire enough users/customers for us to evaluate the project's likelihood of success. We split the resulting company 50-50, as equal co-founders.

I have an MVP & am interested in such a partnership. But "HN Proposition" looks dead, as I don't see any updates on the project.

Is there anything similar to this? Or If you're interested in such shoot me an email project36@hmamail.com
There was also Verizon FIOS, which started in 2005, expanded to 5 million customers, then stopped expanding much after 2010. It apparently cost Verizon more than they'd expected.
I partly agree with you, a lot of tests (probably the majority) are bad tests. Many test on memorization rather than comprehension. But tests with a focus on comprehension are valuable evaluation tools, and access to the internet would break that without going to particularly contrived problem sets.

The purpose of an education is to understand the topics (language, math, science, art), not the tools (as in specific mechanical or informational aids). Making them (too) available during evaluations like exams and tests would only show that students were able to put something into Mathematica and get a result, not that they understood what they were doing.
Just added Github Oauth for those who requested it.
I prefer having the choice to self-checkout. Given a free self-checkout and an empty lane with a cashier, I almost always go for the self-checkout: there is no need to interact with someone who is forced to smile and greet me by corporate policy, and I can arrange the groceries in my bags in the way that I like.

Plus - it always feels better to do things with one's own hands. Since the rise of the self-checkout, going to a grocery store that only has human checkout clerks is starting to feel as uncomfortable as driving to a gas station in New Jersey and being forced to rely on a human attendant.
Congratulations to the team on the release. It's exciting to see more companies entering the market.

We built a similar service [0] although from the first look it seems we took a different path. Our approach is to crawl all videos and music on the web, fingerprint the multimedia content and search through the fingerprints.

We just recently passed 4B indexed videos (we run a bit large scale [1]). Thus our results are bit different. Here is an example for gangnam style for comparison [2].

Anyway good luck. Feel free to reach out if there is anything we can do to help.

[0] https://pex.com

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259415

[2] http://i.imgur.com/3KDKHsI.png
No it wasn't! :-)

Michael is a common boy's first name for my generation where I'm from. There was two in my primary school class, two in my secondary school year and I was once in a band with two at the same time!
More like: "Find me the person that stole my lunch from the fridge. The bag was clearly labeled with my name! Come on people, what, are we animals here?!?!"
<insert obligatory Emacs reference here>
If people want to steal your content, it's going to be stolen. You cannot solve that.

Man who say something cannot be done should not interrupt man who is doing it.

We're talking about small producers operating in niche markets here, not the latest Hollywood summer blockbuster, Taylor Swift album or Game of Thrones episode. You can't just go onto YouTube and find our stuff, except on the rare occasions when someone's managed to post a little of it for a short time before we get it taken down.

The downside of this is that I'm writing this from a normal house, not a luxury yacht somewhere nice and sunny.

The upside is that most of our customers don't know how to save/share our stuff, and the few who do stick out like a sore thumb in their access patterns and can rapidly be cut off. The biggest real world threat to us is not acting quickly on those or the redistribution they attempt, meaning we wind up losing other potential customers to rips of our stuff with someone else's branding/advertising slapped all over them.

It's better to spend your time making more content and better content so your paying customers pay more and refer more paying friends.

No, it isn't. The evidence in our case is beyond any doubt. Of course we would much rather be making new content and doing more for our paying customers, but we can't afford to just ignore the small minority of abusers.
The whole issue of Google being a monopoly is silly.

Fact of the matter is that they have a huge influence on the entire economy, and this influence is orders of magnitude greater than any other company.
The problem with that approach is that VC valuations are almost entirely predicated upon hype and future performance, way more so than the public markets. So more VC funding = higher valuations that the Unicorn then needs to meet in the public markets. If they can't match private valuations, alot of people get wiped out; first and foremost the employees and founders.

So it's like a game of brinkmanship until something breaks.
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Lights Out flips the neighbouring cells, this game flips all cells in the same row or column
Elon Musk has already claimed that planet.
Seems mostly a matter of getting used to it. What's a 'gem'? And a 'bundler'? A rake, a rack, a rail, a tilt, a merb?

Make sure to browserify your webpack, take a moment, don't react, have a mocha before, gulp, bowser comes to get you. Wait no, it's fine, it's just bower.
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Did you watch the video? They explain it fairly well.
> If the data is accidently dropped or corrupted, please contact Azure support within 8 hours

Thats sounds less then optimal. :)
What is HA?
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The management engine can talk to ethernet cards directly, without using PCIe or the OS, via SMBus, look at the thing labelled "SMLink0" on Figure 5-2 on page 38 of http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

Indeed, the ethernet controller's datasheet that shows that it can send ethernet traffic over SMBus:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/...

Is there something similar with wireless LAN cards?
Never gets old
See the news about Azure Database for MySQL and Postgresql https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/postgresql/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/mysql
Add maximum latency to that for interactive or realtime use. That tends to depend on memory access patterns.
Doesn't Apple have iCloud photo storage that pretty much all iPhone owners use by default?

I find it difficult to see Google as a monopoly when Apple has an even bigger market cap.
That's the joke, and why it's still quoted.
You're thinking of Reddit.
Yeah, those are fun ones. We [0] are dealing with most of those.

Here are some fun ones based on Shia LeBouf's green screen performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0

- https://vk.com/video-67185996_171327939

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_TuTzzSUb0&t=0s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4ktEzJvaGM&t=186s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLMW3vQV20&t=124s

etc. There is much more we can do, but there are some we can't. For instance phone recorded 3D movie recorded in a cinema from a weird angle.

[0] https://pex.com
How does Google's search monopoly lead them to self-driving cars? This is why I question the Google vs Bell comparison. It seems to me Google wins because they are really, really good at producing technology, not because they have a systematic first-comer advantage.
The important thing is what they do with it:

At Airbnb, we use machine learning to build customer lifetime value models for guests and hosts. These models allow us to calibrate our marketing spend to expected return at very granular levels, down to the user, if we like.

That's scary.
Yes, ByteNet v2 outperforms LSTMs on characters but not on word pieces. It would be interesting to see how our model performs on characters, especially when scaled up to the size of ByteNet (30+30 layers) and also how ByteNet performs on BPE codes. I think that character-level NMT is definitely interesting and worth investigating, but from a practical point of view it makes sense to choose a representation that achieves the maximum translation accuracy and speed.
Somehow I'm reminded of the old adage "UNIX is IDE for C"
"getting foolproof HA straight out of the box"

This is a minimal requirement for any modern database.
The way they butchered what was my all-time favorite arcade game "Killer Instinct" with the SNES port and then KI Gold for the N64.

I have never been able to forgive the company.
At some point someone will accidentally overwrite or delete data and discover that some days later...
> Germany also has a list of allowed names.

There are guidelines, and it's up to the official registering the name to decide if they think it is acceptable or not, ask for additional proof, ... – if they parents disagree with them, it ends up in court, which can override.

There is not an official list of "these are the allowed names", although "this name has been accepted before" is of course a strong positive signal.
Haha, I love his reply. Sounds just like my investor. I've worked with him for 10 years and got to the point where I do my best to send yes or no questions and no more than a paragraph.

I'd spend even more time writing it as I'd try to condense everything critical into basically a few bullet points for him to digest along with his other 200k emails a day.
Agreed that measuring a hypothetical world is impossible, but what do you suggest as a more fair and balanced analysis of monopolies?
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How many of the people who were going to steal it do you think were converted into legitimate buyers when you took down the free source?

I can't speak for Austen, but in our case we've seen people attempting to rip our stuff and use it in such a way that there was definitely revenue being generated. What's more, we know that the people providing that revenue liked what they saw and were looking for more of it, because some of the comments or ratings on some of the distribution channels are public. It's just that those people who were demonstrably willing to support the content were sending their support to the wrong place.

Also, I expect that your book is still available in certain circles for free.

Again, I can't speak for Austen, but in our case those "certain circles" would have to be pretty tight and obscure. As I said before, we operate in a relatively small world, and if someone were leaking any of our stuff on a large scale, we'd almost certainly know about it. And if anything out there is only on a small enough scale that we haven't heard about it, then almost all of our other potential customers probably haven't either. That's a big difference from seeing people putting something up on YouTube or Vimeo or whatever and watching them pick up thousands of views/listens and positive feedback in a matter of hours.
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Hi, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. Our goal with Visual Studio for Mac is to create a native IDE for Mac users with workloads that make sense on macOS. That means "desktop app" development will target macOS and Visual Studio (on Windows) can be used to target Windows.

The core of the IDE definitely has a heritage in Xamarin Studio, but this release has brought in so much more with .NET Core/ASP.NET Core development for web apps/services, Unity support for game development and cloud integration with directly publishing your web apps/services and previews of Docker and Azure Functions coming very soon.

Extensions is definitely another area we're looking to align more over time. Currently, there is an extensions framework, but you're right that it's different from the one used on Windows.

Definitely keep the feedback coming, we're listening and looking to act and prioritize accordingly!
Windows Forms is implemented in Mono. It's… buggy, but it works.
When it was announced here, https://artpacks.org peaked at about 100 requests per second. It's a site that really triggers nostalgia and encourages a lot of browsing.

The site held up very well on a $5 DigitalOcean box, due to the fact that it mostly served small, static files (only routing and archive-unzipping happen server-side). All templates are created on the front-end.

Edit: Just checked and I was wrong—it's a $10/mo DO VPS.

Edit 2: Oops, I forgot to mention that an app launched the same day, which used the same API endpoints as the main site.
It isn't a valid assumption (nor expectation) that MS would design it so that anyone not skilled in Windows development would understand it. If you want to see a nightmare, look at a *nix file system. If it were a contest, I'm sure most people would give the point to Microsoft on this one.
Thanks for the video. Can you please upload the slides somewhere?
This is what a 12-string bass solo sounds like
If you want the full list: 0/0, ±inf/±inf, 0 x ±inf, ±inf x 0, inf + (-inf), (-inf) + inf, inf - inf, (-inf) - (-inf). This list is large enough to make NaN checking inefficient.
Not in a rigorous fashion yet, but we will talk about that soon. I've got a couple other comments on this post talking about performance benchmarking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14308770 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14308903
I feel a bit sorry for people whose name is TOO common. My first name is neither common (e.g. Bob) nor unique (e.g. Attila), so when I hear someone say it, chances are good that they want to talk to me.

In fact, when I meet someone who shares the same name, I almost always say, "Hello, me!" and they seem to get the joke.

My first name does have some (humorous) baggage however, which was a bit damaging psychologically growing up. Said baggage probably contributed to the name becoming rather unpopular after the mid 1960s.
NVIDIA site: https://developer.nvidia.com/gvdb

GitHub repo: https://github.com/NVIDIA/gvdb-voxels
Getting Started with AnyChart JavaScript Charts – 10 Practical Examples
I want a competitor to Google Cloud SQL in Azure.
We're looking into this for couple of years now. We're doing some steady progress, but far from a final result.

The problem is incredibly complex, because Fair Use doesn't have any quantifiable metrics that you can translate into a computer algorithm. The gist of Fair Use is that you have to prove the intent of the uploader trying to rip you off.

As you can imagine, this is a very hard thing to prove and the amount of videos being uploaded every day makes this is even harder to crack.

If you're interested in this problematic, reach out and I will be happy to share more.
Agree it wouldn't work in the modern age of science with all the careers, bureaucracy and funding involved.

But those days were the days of the amateur. And a return to amateurism may well be the best way forward in a number of intellectual pursuits.
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Which markets do they really dominate? I can only think of search and Android.
So how do you feel about Apple? When Google wins it's because they make a better product than the other guy. Apple can deliver a clearly inferior product (e.g. the last 5 years of iTunes) and still win because their customers are using iDevices. Google doesn't have that lock-in and they still do really well which makes me feel like they're not really a monopoly.
How Freshbooks re-invented itself
Anyone who thinks PyCharm is sluggish, needs to reevaluate. I use it inside of VM as my daily driver, the startup is the only "sluggish" thing about it, and even that is negligible. They introduced "zero-latency typing" a while ago.

Also, I'd argue PyCharm has much more than sublime.
High availability :)
It's a way to identify distinct pitches that are usually treated as the same in equal temperament.

For instance, in just intonation 2 (the major second of the scale) has a frequency that makes a ratio of 9/8 relative to the tonic, but sometimes you might want a slightly flatter major second with a ratio of 10/9. So, that note is label 2- to distinguish it from the regular major second.
"For a typical 1-KB item, Cosmos DB guarantees end-to-end latency of reads under 10 ms and indexed writes under 15 ms at the 99th percentile, within the same Azure region."

i.e. 1 KB item; Same Azure region;

This now seems more plausible.

One thing I'm curious about is if they tested load on a single partition, or if they only tested latencies for random access.
Hi! I'm Steve the C++ dev manager in Visual Studio. No, VS for Mac does not currently have C++ support but thanks for the feedback.

One thing you could do is register your opinion here: https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/563332-visual-stud...
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=== Who We Are Looking For ===

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Experience with video and streaming is a huge plus.

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Thanks, Justin
Google didn't enter the photo sharing/hosting market with Google Photos. It entered with Picasa Web Albums and 2006 and Photos was just a rebranding and new UI for that.
This is awesome. Does not compare to touchscreens, but wildly useful for hacking interactive real world objects. Would appreciate a DIY hardware guide from the creators and open source code for processing the signals. The full paper does have some detail but not sure if it's enough to run with.
What does the author mean by this?

"For a company that has attracting pirates built into its DNA, it’s perhaps fitting that it tempted them with the same bait found on pirate sites. Certainly, the company’s history of a pragmatic attitude towards piracy means that few will be shouting ‘hypocrites’ at the streaming platform now."

What is this attitude to piracy that will prevent them from being called hypocrites? I do think that aiming to eliminate piracy while using it is hypocritical.

Unless they needed to use that pirated music to reduce pirated music overall, in which case they did well from a consequentialist standpoint.
I think these exist entirely to squeeze labor costs, but I'm not sure that's a bad thing.

First, allowing grocery stores to operate with smaller staffs means we get more grocery stores. The small, cramped grocery store that recently opened within walking distance of my apartment probably wouldn't be able to operate if it had to provide not just pay, but parking and work space for another dozen full-time employees. That's a food desert in a dense urban core that doesn't exist anymore and a smaller, but still substantial, group of available jobs that otherwise wouldn't be there.

Second, if I were to approach you and tell you I had two plans for a machine. Both are about evenly efficient, but one requires two people to stand at the machine doing boring, repetitive, mindless drudge work for hours on end. I, for one, definitely prefer the one that doesn't require human suffering to operate. Automated checkouts eliminate jobs, but specifically they eliminate shitty jobs that we should probably feel bad about asking anyone to do in the first place.
Sorry, Ringo :-(
For reference, the average salary for a software engineer, in Toronto, is close to $71,000 CAD/year. Taking into account the current CAD/USD exchange rate, brings it to approximately $52,000 USD/year.

Each country has different costs, taxes and otherwise, for both employees and employers. The effects of those costs have not been included with those figures.
Tempered tuning indeed divides the octave into 12 half-steps, but a huge amount of music uses only 7 or fewer of them for long stretches (or entire pieces) with a few exceptions. So think of the lines & spaces as being a compressed representation that doesn't waste vertical space for the tones that a piece isn't going to use.

Me, I love standard notation. Common chord voicings and interval patterns stand out as easily recognizable patterns on the page.
Does this seem familiar? https://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette
Being a monopolist is not illigal. Also in the US Anti-Trust cases need to probe harm to consumer. This is not the progressive area where you can just use Anti-Trust law against any company you don't like.
Sublime Text is a nice text-editor with bolted on pieces that bring it closer to an IDE, but it's not really "integrated" -- PyCharm does this all much better.
Thanks for your response. It sounds like CockroachDB might be an alternative to setting up an RDBMS for read replication once you need many connections.
It's not like you can't get a 95% idea of who is reviewing a paper now, at least in CS. Look up the list of technical committee members (since CS is conference centric), find the two with enough expertise in your area to be the primary or secondary reviewer, boom you have found two of your reviewers.

Typically works when the papers are blind too, people have very different paper writing styles.
Microsoft Launches Azure Database for MySQL and PostgresSQL
Video made it look pretty decent in terms of resolution -- notice the author move his finger around and trace the line. This isn't like 16 points total.