skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use it most for numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, and a bit of graphing. I use it because there is so much data processing, formatting, piping, munging, and so forth involved in analytical work in data analysis, and I think python brings in the ideal combination of general programming and stats/numerical libraries.

I don't use it for web programming. If I had my choice, I'd still use an integrated system like rails or Django, and bring in javascript sparingly, but unfortunately, that's not my choice, so I end up using a lot of Javascript.
As I said, that makes sense, and I agree. That does not mean it's financially possible.
This is probably as good of a space as any, what do you guys see as politically feasible solutions to our obesity problem? Politically feasible would probably entail not angering food lobbies. Or is taxing corn/soda/meat really the only way?
So it has nothing to do with size, right?
Big Developers Roll Out Co-Living Units to Woo Millennials
> I still haven't chatted to my friend about this, because what on earth do you say?

> But naturally I didn't enquire any further into her relationship with the family.

I just hope I would do the opposite. This is so wrong.
You're comparing a subscription service to a game that you purchased a license for. The former you're not entitled to a copy of, the latter you are. With or without DRM, companies are also entitled to revoke your licenses regardless. You don't own any of it. DRM would also not exist, if it wasn't for everyone stealing the stuff. Do you really think companies want to pour all of the money and resources into this, if they didn't have to? Should games even have keys without DRM? What if I lose the key, and the company folded years ago. Now I can't play the game because they dared to require a key to play. Is your solution making everything openly available to download, and just relying on the goodness of the human heart to pay for it? Good luck.
There's no mention of any pubs within walking distance from this thing. I wonder how these 12000 people will quench their thirst after a hard day work... Or maybe grabbing a beer after work is not a thing there and they all go to gym.
His last sentence should make it clear that he wasnt talking about netflix, shouldnt it?
Because it comes equipped with Google's support offering, i.e. "godspeed, and maybe we'll get back to you if your blog post makes it to the front page of a news aggregator". Companies pay real money to have real support from companies such as Microsoft. Look at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ntdebugging/ for example, they sink ungodly amounts of resources helping customers debug obscure corner cases.
Most devices DO support H.264 encoding. Hangouts however uses VP9 in Chrome and that's not HW accelerated. If you use Safari on Mac it'll switch to H264 and that will stress CPU less.
I guess this is the IDE crowd? Us vim guys are still raising eyebrows when people say "best free option" :)
The great betrayal of the unions by the Democrats starting with NAFTA by Bill Clinton, and the national unions acquiesence in this is made more dramatic by the populist right's take up of the anti free trade cause. Clinton's and Obama's business friendly "third way" has ended up completely flipping American politics.
I'm a software developer. I'd hate that.
I can't imagine a 12 year old girl being able to cope with such gruesome movies. The Alien franchise is more horror than sci-fi.
Just a week after I considered buying my first Apple product, iPad Mini specifically.
But to be honest, I was going to use it instead of my phone.
Small farms (below 350,000 / yr gross income) account for 25% of production value and 90% of total number of farms [0] and if you look at the crops being produced by large farms they're often not for direct human consumption.

Urban farm development is high density farming which doesn't require the same available area and often produces crops with higher nutrient density. It seems technically feasible for medium density urban areas to produce a large percentage of edible food locally in the near future; though that doesn't guarantee a viable business model will exist.

[0]https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/ag-and-food-statistic...
Took me a while to realize it's pronounced "popsicle". This looks pretty nice. I wonder if the collaboration peer to peer or if it's server/cloud based in some way.
yeah, I figured maybe after all the Alien franchise, we could watch Predator I then maybe AVP.
If you are interested in an opposing viewpoint, the British physicist Julian Barbour has been trying to work out the math for a timeless physics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour

He lays out his theory in his book, The End of Time.
The patent and the royalty on Honeycrisp expired in 2008.
You can make the argument that they want to encourage you to submit patches to the project which is on github.

It's kinda the same deal with GNU Emacs which bundles a whole bunch of stuff that is directly related to the GNU project.

Really at the end of the day it's a fork away to shipping with SVN,CVS,mercurial,gitlab or whatever.
Thanks for that link, it's amazing to think this happened over a half century ago.
> it could be applied to tasks where Spark is normally used

How does it relate to Spark? Is it able to read from HDFS, translate to Spark map-reduce jobs or integrate somehow with Spark jobs?
Also known as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Unless by 'guiding' he means completely changing directions and gutting Stock Based Compensation for Sales which isn't working, and eliminating the censorship culture they're pioneering.
Airi
Uhm. No. I am not lamenting an "educational innovation", I am saying that being presented a solution is not education at all. Education for me means understanding, understanding requires thinking, thinking requires time and taking wrong turns (because we only understand that the turn was wrong after exploring it).
FYI, the pizza freebe from JustEat will be due to this tweet, where the company logo is visible.

https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/82757171061030502...
They should really come up with different terms for "Men's rights issues" and split it up a bit IMHO. Most people seem to hear that and immediately reject it without looking into the topics it actually deals with. When you do, I discoved there exists a lot of legitimate societal problems under that rubric which need to be dealt with (homicides, suicides, combat deaths, work deaths, lower education, homelessness, etc. all of which are massively male dominated). [1]

I watched Cassie Jaye once on The Rubin Report and she seemed like an articulate person and a open-minded clear thinker from what I remember. This will probably be an interesting documentary.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_rights_movement
Does Tesla use this in their factory?
I think the interesting part is the programming model and not the amount of RAM. This computer has no separate storage area.

You can already mount a filesytem backed by ram, or mmap files that exist on disk. What existing distinction between RAM and storage is holding anything back?

I see a reason some techniques will get more popular, but I don't really seen the difference. Saving a load operation? Not having to worry about flushing to long term storage? Am I missing something?
I've been predicting this for so long. I want this (or the idea of this) so much. This is essentially personalized search. My hopes are high
Implementing Playlists with the Alexa AudioPlayer
You too! Congrats on the launch!
Load time of what? opening a file? It is instantaneous other than really large files.
The white paper is comic genius.
Strongly assume parent was referring to all those things that are done at other companies... vs the 720p issue at Netflix.

On the other hand, if Netflix has managed to reimplement the NSA's dragnet internally, I'm going to be really impressed by their engineers' productivity.
Entirely agreed. I feel like I'm utterly missing something with these indoor and urban farming setups - someone is clearly investing millions into them and is presumably doing due diligence..

The CO2 output of these farms is higher than modern industrial agriculture, even if you assume all the traditional produce is shipped across the entire continental US. Cornell has some good lectures on this subject: https://youtu.be/VrpyUA1pQqE?t=1842

So, urban farms are worse for the environment - is the selling point cost then? I did a back-of-the-envolope trying to guesstimate this a while back on a similar post about container farms. Granted, a larger factory-style farm will have higher efficiency, but the basic problem of entirely replacing sunlight with artificial light, vs a green house that simply augments, remains.

Indoor farm

Freight farms has a cost estimate page(1) that gives us, for lettuce, something like:

50-100lb/week, lets say 75lb, so 3,900lb of lettuce a year
$17,600/year operating cost

$17,600/3,900lb = ~$4.51/lb of lettuce

However, it's worth noting that Freight Farms doesn't include labor or capital costs(!) in their estimate.

But fine - lets pretend the container farm itself is free, and that somehow plug setting, harvesting, packaging, and equipment maintenance is happily done by people working for nothing: $4.51/lb of lettuce it is.

Traditional farm

The university extension system provides great estimates of production costs for tons of crops. For lettuce, using traditional soil and machinery, production including labor, packaging and chilling UC Davis estimates(2):

$7,754 total overhead per acre
9.38tons of lettuce per acre, 18,760lb a year

$7,754/18,769lb = ~$0.41/lb of lettuce

BUT, that estimate only includes shipping to the local chilling facility. To then ship the lettuce from CA to NY, you need to hire a trailer. This week, the spot price for chilled lettuce trailers going from CA to NY is $6,000(3). Each trailer carries 40,000lbs of lettuce:

$6,000/40,000lbs = ~ $0.15/lb of lettuce to transport

For a total cost then, of:

$0.41 + $0.15 = $0.56/lb

In summary

Assuming labor is free for the container farm, you're gifted all the capital assets of it, and that the traditional farm is shipping its' produce across the continental US, the production cost is $4.51/lb for container farm, $0.56/lb for regular soil.

(1) https://www.freightfarms.com/blog/data-from-our-growers-operating-the-lgm-as-a-business
(2) https://coststudyfiles.ucdavis.edu/uploads/cs_public/7d/96/7d96db67-49ca-442f-9543-4482187c9cd1/lettuceleaforganiccc09.pdf
(3) https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/wa_fv190.txt
Always hated red delicious as a kid too. But most stores only carried the 1 kind back then. Some higher end stores had Fuji which I really enjoyed.

One day, Royal Gala started showing up and I basically just ate those exclusively until this new wave of "designer Apples"
Raspbian DID this. They now ship with SSH off by default.
Sorry :).

This was the story I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11520681.

Was it false, or did things change in the past year?
When I saw mention of AWS Lambda in their docs, I thought this was going to be something I ran myself on my own AWS account. But that's not the case. I'd really like to see more BaaS run with that model. My understanding is that the AWS Marketplace API would let them charge an upsell cost, even if I'm running all the infrastructure myself; is that not the case?

That seems like the best scenario: I have access to the infrastructure if necessary, and am paying for the value add of the service over-and-above AWS (or Google/Azure). If they stop supporting it, all my instances/lambda functions/etc are still my own.

edit: typo
In a strange way, I like their way of doing advertisement and driving business. While it's not true per-se, hitting the big targets (like Tizen, Linux kernel etc.) with bugs in a friendly way makes the smaller ones (companies) waiting to have the same powerful tool, the feeling of, if they have bugs, I might have a bug or two it could find...
> I also appreciate the sense of mobility in my career. I don't have to wait four+ years for stock options to vest. Four years is a very long time in any tech company.

On the flip side, you also don't want to be faced with a massive drop in your take-home pay after the 4th year (once salary+RSU becomes just salary), forcing you to jump ship. I've been to a few "vesting parties" for co-workers where they quit after exactly 4 years to the day. I'm told some companies are known to do "evergreen grants" to help mitigate this effect.
The solution for that is what I do now: You keep one canonical copy of your playlists in UPL and use that to export to PLS or copy files to a directory, as needed. Then you import that playlist/files to your devices.
Yes, please, do something about this. Talk to your friend. Call the cops. Leave an anonymous tip and try to follow up. Something. Custom, law, and your own sense of right say so.

Billy isn't the villain—but is he the role model you aspire to? If your kid learns your online identity some day and they stumble across this, is this the end of the story you want them to hear?
Escallation attacks are a thing.
One of my favorite rules of thumb came from the Nichomachean Ethics where Aristotle said that in considering how much you should pay for a service rendered, you should consider how much it was worth to you before it was accomplished. Not sure it's a documented bias, but it should be: the universal tendency to underappreciate what we already have.
From the second to second-last line, they're referring to shady practices in general. In their last, they're arguing that delivering lower-quality streams to Linux-based user agents is comparatively benign.

Not sure I agree, FWIW.
Fat tax, just like Japan. You want to be a fat ass, and drain resources, then you pay for it. Just like car insurance. You want to drive dangerous sports cars, then you pay a higher price to cover liability.
Why would pressure on your stomach increase your appetite? Shouldn't it be the opposite?
Yes it does. Make it so expensive that overall only 500 people (including those who live there) can afford to park there.

Problem solved.

And that’s how my city got $1/min parking spots.
Culture could be a broad term, think something similar to Netflix's "Culture of Excellence" [0]

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664
You are not understanding the problem and therefore you are shifting the POV from an IT problem to an economic problem. M going to use a more direct "example" from my POV: Imagine if JetBrains suddenly forces you to use their own "cloud platform" to host your own applications and projects? of course the IDE it's free and you can prototype everything for free, just need to paid for what you use, they got your back as longest you paid them to.
To be honest, this guy sounds like a bit of a crank. His 'solution' isn't to any particular problem with the physics, just a personal preference about how time should be.
Oh please. It's hard to attract funding for studies, it's perfectly reasonable tos tart with a small sample and tehn ask for funding to do a larger study once you have a working hypothesis.
Google has confidential "Mobile Application Distribution agreements" that guarantees google services and functionality and stipulates requirements.. Luckily court cases have revealed the stipulations that show Android is anything but "Free" to handset makers.. http://www.benedelman.org/docs/htc-mada.pdf

unfortunately i can't find any cases that show how much of the estimated ~60 dollars per handset is licensing costs for the google apps (as some have been licensed to mfrs) or patent / indemnification agreements needed that google doesn't offer but still are a cost to selling android handsets.

I know google makes a LOT more money on ads.. but lets be real, while android was open source its current incarnation is nowhere to be found and his hidden behind represive agrements, advertising, and marketing and android phones in the end are no cheaper than any other phone price wise..

When i buy a surface/tablet/oem pc it just comes with windows.. When i build a PC i buy an OEM license for 30 bucks.. if you know the platform you're running you can know how to save cash and make the best of it.
Math Champion Wins with Answer About Pecking Chicks
it's interesting that you considering telling people how to live "for their own good" to be politically feasible. Authoritarians abound!
The name sounds childish, I wonder what people in charge of buying processors for datacenters think about it.
I did all the benchmarks on Android ART. It's not the JVM, but blocking GC is an inherent design problem of finalizers that can't be fixed on any VM.
I am trying to find my jaw. Haha no questions. Amazing stuff!
Agreed. What I've been discovering lately is that, the first time you speak out and experience that intense awkwardness (making waves, creating conflict, etc), it's hard. Then it gets easier. It's like standing up for what's right is a muscle that needs exercising.
Microsoft launches Azure IoT technical training, devs can start quickly with IoT
More so the "I want debugging and intellisense without the slowness of an IDE" crowd. :)
Canada Wants Silicon Valley Techies
It's using the language from the Bezos shareholder letter [0]. I recommend reading it, because I think the vision for how to run a company is very good, even if Amazon isn't living up to it.

Returns and shipping aren't "Day 2" features necessarily -- they can be part of a "Day 1" company.

Rather, my complaint is that Amazon has created programs like Fulfilled-by-Amazon (FBA) and Featured-Merchant-Algorithm (FMA) that are poorly implemented and anti-consumer:

1. Co-mingled inventories are a fundamentally anti-consumer feature, because they violate consumer control and mean that bad actors can impact the experience of buying from good actors, which undermines consumer trust. The only purpose it serves is simplifying the logistical problem for Amazon. The reason Amazon thinks this is a good idea is because they have converted to data-as-proxy thinking, where they no longer holistically understand consumer needs, they only optimize proxy values like delivery speed. The whole feature reeks of abandonment of Amazon's leadership principles [1] in order to optimize performance metrics. That's "Day 2" thinking in a nutshell.

2. The FMA is similarly problematic because of the fact it essentially hides a vital decision about purchasing from the consumer, and forces buying on Amazon to feel adversarial -- I have to doublecheck that Amazon isn't sending my business to a fraudster and they make it hard for me to control that, except for a small box I have to check every time. Here, Amazon failed to advance the market with new and innovative consumer tools that would allow customers to help police the market (eg, by crowdsourcing an optional fraudster blacklist). That kind of "Well, the data tells the whole story, let's just optimize our metrics" with opaque algorithms is a very "Day 2" way of doing business -- a failure to innovate is stagnation.

I could go on about these for a while, but the entire design of the Amazon marketplace is a stagnant mess -- it's no longer innovative, and their reliance on optimization to metrics has allowed people to game them, turning it into a quagmire of people trying to cheat the system (counterfeit, bought reviews, etc).

Amazon is devolving into a mess of their own making, by operating in a "Day 2" paradigm, rather than innovating solutions to hard problems.

[0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000119312517...

[1] https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
I was thinking about this a few weeks ago: is it illegal to run a Ponzi scheme if you openly advertise that it's a Ponzi scheme?
What about the slave?
How to Hack the Amazon Bestseller List
If you haven't tried it, a splash of cognac really makes the applesauce pop.
I've had some acquaintances do some weird, antisocial, definitely illegal things. I can't recall a time when an acquaintance has done something that appears as evil as the situation we're discussing.

Best case interpretation that I can make, ignoring the floor mat. They were micromanaging when their employee wakes up despite their daily responsibilities being temporarily reduced (home owners were away).

If I had a friend doing even the above, I'd at LEAST ask "explain to me how this isn't you being a dick." That's just getting to know them. Don't you want to know the people you're friends with?
I have no complaints about speed. When are they going to improve the keyboards? You know, keys that travel, and Esc and Fn keys.
If the internet is any guide, such a robot would find itself being used mostly for petting, feeding, and playing with cats.
People do ask for these features. There are millions of active windows users in the Windows Preview Program that provide feedback asking for windows to be improved in many different ways.

I'm not sure where these absolutely incorrect assumptions are coming from but they're entirely false. Windows believe it or not is community driven these days. MS is delivering features for its "enterprise insides" and for its "xbox insiders" and for its "windows insiders" and this is a HUGE community.
Great, thanks for the rec! Looks like they just got swagger support added in which is important to us. We'll give the trial a go.
External Accessory Framework
Our team has found an issue when connecting to an EAAccessory with newer iOS devices (iPhone 6S, 7/ 7Plus) over Bluetooth on iOS 10.

When our MFI accessory first connects to an iOS device over Bluetooth, and we subsequently launch our application, we implement the standard set of steps for establishing communication with the accessory:
register for local notifications with EAAccessoryManager
add observers to the NSNotificationCenter for EAAccessoryDidConnectNotification and EAAccessoryDidDisconnectNotification.
obtain a reference to the currently connected accessory via [EAAccessoryManager sharedAccessoryManager].connectedAccessories
create an EASession with the connected accessory and open the input/output streams for communication.

The app then sends a series of messages to retrieve info on the device. We see the data transfer on ATS logs, with both iOS and MFI device exchanging data.

The issue we are seeing is that upon first app launch after a newly paired connection, the EASession does not seem to detect that the MFI has sent a response. We verified through ATS logs that the iOS device sends data to the MFI device and that the MFI device returns a response, but there is nothing in the input data stream of the EASession. If we force quit the app and relaunch, it behaves normally.

We do not see this behavior on newer devices running iOS 9. We also do not see it on older devices (iPhone 6) running 10.1.1 or 10.3.1.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the settings app, navigate to Bluetooth and select a device from OTHER DEVICES
2. Successfully connect
3. Launch App
4. (App sends a request to the device)
5. (device sends a response)

Expected Results:
We expect the EASession's input stream to read data returned by the device.

Actual Results:
The EASession's input stream does not receive bytes available to be read.

Version:
iOS 10.3.1, 10.1.1

Notes:
Configuration:
iPhone 6S or iPhone 7

Would love some help :)
Privacy in Cryptocurrencies: An Overview
I pretty much accepted the explanation as to why, which included according to Johns own beliefs he's just dirt in the ground and it wouldn't actually hurt anyone.
New Autonomous Car Company
yeah, i get you, and i'm not saying i'd necessarily do better. though i'd hope i would[0]. but just because you acted in a way that others would find relatable, or because others might act in the same way, doesn't make that action right. sometimes we need to call each other out on the hard stuff.

if you feel that bad about it, you should probably bring it up with your friend.

0 - also, i'd hope that my character judgement is good enough that i wouldn't be close friends with someone like that. though of course, people change, we don't always choose who we like, etc etc.
Why ... the fuck ... is that?