skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>will the ray intersect the curve 10% along it's length?

It can't. The line and the curve are the same percentage of the way through at three points - the midpoint and both ends. Near the midpoint, the line is shorter than the curve per unit of arc, since it's basically parallel to the curve and closer to the center. Near the end, the line is longer per unit arc, since they're the same distance from the center but the line is slanted at an angle.

So if you plot out length travelled versus angle, you get two plots. The curve goes straight up-and-to-the-right, while the line will race above to start, peter out, cross over at the midpoint, and then catch back up at the end.
Does anyone have any insight into how the BMW i3 became what it looks like?
ECMA Script trackers/ads are blobs of code that can sometimes be identified based on the requests they make, WASM trackers/ads are blobs of code that can sometimes be identified based on the requests they make.

The only real difference is that the WASM variant will probably run faster than obfuscated ECMA Script.
Perhaps this is relevant, and was released just this week by ICANN: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf

"Finding 1: Emoji are disallowed by the IDNA standard; domain names with emoji will not be accepted or processed consistently by applications.

Finding 2: Emoji are not required by design, standard, or convention to be visually uniform (one code point displayed the same way in all circumstances) or visually distinguishable (different code points displayed in ways that permit them to be disambiguated regardless of context). As a result, a user will be exposed to problems of confusability and accessibility. Different code points that are rendered the same or one code point that renders differently to different users will lead to inconsistent results depending on the display or rendering technology used.

Finding 3: Emoji modifiers and “glue” arrangements allow for a potentially much larger set of composed multi-codepoint symbols with even greater rendering variation and potential for ambiguous interpretation.

Finding 4: A fundamental property of the DNS is that it is an exact-match lookup service. For a given query, either there is a single name that matches or there is no match. When two domain names are identical in appearance except for ordinary typographic style variations (which, at present, have no equivalent for emoji), but have different underlying code points, they identify two different DNS domains.

Finding 5: It is unrealistic to expect that just because a code point is included in Unicode, it should be used as part of a domain name."
I wanted to say something about RNA so maybe your onto something, but alas, I may be simply wrong.
The naive picture of automation is always to picture a room full of 10 doctors (or lawyers, or burger flippers, or what have you) and imagine that until we can replace all 10 doctors with a machine then nothing is happening.

Instead, what really happens is that someone makes an incremental advance that allows 9 doctors plus a machine (plus, probably, some tiny increment of people servicing the machines) to do the work of 10. All it takes is to find the most routine aspect of some job and automate that away...

You provide the perfect example in your utterly incorrect summary of the effect of office software. This almost entirely wiped out a huge number of secretarial jobs.
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Maybe limit the collection time as well, so e.g. Any funds that have been sitting without a valid claim for more than a year go back to the BBC.
That means the fans need to be cleaned of dust.

A laptop overheating from few minutes of 100% CPU is not normal.
It's a good point about listing progressive apps in the AppStore, and I think Microsoft has done a great job at taking the lead here. I imagine a world where users don't have worry about the tech behind the UX they're experiencing, they go to the AppStore, a 3rd party site, a URL simply to find "experiences".

I also wonder if we can move from the Store-Driven model on phones to something more transient perhaps that leverages the URL and natural links of them (since obv. don't want to be typing urls). Thought experience: What if your homescreen icons were managed by the OS (and can be Apps, PWAs, etc.) ordered by last accessed. You can then overide and "pin/install" the experiences you want.
Is there a legal aspect to this?
Thanks for posting that. It's amazing how accessible the english language was (190 years ago) to a reader today. Spelling and vocabulary are pretty much the same. Compare that with a period 190 years before 1829, 1639 and you'd almost be back in Shakespearean England.
This idea of basic income seems so feudal to me. Who gives me this income? How about basic capital? Everyone owns and looks over part of the robot army doing the work for everyone.
Something always missed int this debate is the limits to human consumption. The average person today lives like a wealthy one 100 years ago, but a wealthy person today doesn't live too much differently to 100 years ago.

What we've reached now is a point where we can't consume anymore. I can't eat more food, I don't have time to watch more entertainment, etc. Unless we consume more there will be no new jobs created to fill the void left by the steady march of automation.
If it has value to us all then it is exploitable in a capitalist system.
Thanks, I'm flattered by all your positive comments!

Should be fixed now https://github.com/mapio/programming-with-escher/commit/1f04...
> a -20C freezer for DNA/buffer storage,

How about dry ice from the grocery store?
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The base idea of updating an interactive track is good. But changing distortion according to view count seems bad.

Maybe try with integrating comments that people make over sound (on timecode) to create a kind of "discussion" between users (use synthetizer to recreate human voice from text of course) ? The same could apply with the video stream but that would be more complicated and costy
If you prefer working from the terminal, you should check out VisiData (https://github.com/saulpw/visidata). It's a curses tabular data tool that can start browsing terabyte .csv files immediately, with few dependencies and no clicking.
Yeah, I still have some shirts that I bought from them around 2004. The prints are a bit weathered, but the shirts are still in great shape.
How a custom blazer in 90 minutes just might change the apparel business
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If I'm licensing from my company, what legal mechanisms force that asset to still be owned by my company? Can I not license it to myself under some vague EULA terms in which the company gets it back upon my passing, but I'm forbidden from reselling (and thus it's not an asset for me either)? If the key to this is the "licensing" of a product forbidding resale, I'm not seeing how that isn't a financial black hole into which assets disappear.
Beside the fact that the square fits the unit square and is not infinite at all, I'm not sure to get what you mean…
I have this book and I can tell you that it does use illustrations quite a bit (although most vocabulary is ultimately probably defined using other words). The very first chapter presents a labeled map of the Mediterranean region and begins:

"Rōma in Italiā est. Italia in Eurōpā est. Graecia in Eurōpā est. Italia et Graecia in Eurōpā sunt. Hispānia quoque in Eurōpā est. Hispānia et Italia et Graecia in Eurōpā sunt. Aegyptus in Eurōpā nōn est, Aegyptus in Āfricā est. Gallia nōn in Āfricā est, Gallia est in Eurōpā. Syria nōn est in Eurōpā, sed in Asiā. Arabia quoque in Asiā est. Syria et Arabia in Asiā sunt. Germaia nōn in Asiā, sed in Eurōpā est. Britannia quoque in Eurōpā est. Germānia et Britannia sunt in Eurōpā."

There are marginal notes highlighting things that the author wants you to notice or learn from the examples. Especially at the beginning, the marginal notes often do not discuss things in complete sentences but simply highlight particular grammatical features; for example the notes to the part I just quoted say "-a -ā: Italia...; in Italiā", which is supposed to make you realize that somehow the ending -a changes to -ā when something is "in" something (which later will be revealed to be the Latin ablative case), and "est sunt: Italia in Eurōpā est; Italia et Graecia in Eurōpā sunt", which is supposed to make you realize that sunt 'are' is the plural of est 'is'.
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I've upgraded my unsupported Ativ S to Windows 10 Mobile.
Your commemt is no more insightful than "I understand how to draw a box around one of them".

"You" as an entity are really just a process emergent from chemical reactions on some area, and your "will" is just the result of feedback between many regions of that process and outside stimuli.

Biological evolution is a process happening in more dispersed reactions, but still has all manner of internal feedback mechanisms and responds to external stimuli.

I don't see how you've drawn a meaningful distinction between them, except to say that one os easy to observe in total (eg, you can draw a box around it) and is sort of like you, so you feel you can understand it.

Homeostasis and physical locality don't seem partocularly germane traits when discussing whether or not something has a will.

Further, you (just as evolution) are ongoing until you're not, and "physically discrete meaning" sounds like a dressed up "well, I just know it when I see it".
Extensive toll roads are inefficient. A yearly mileage based tax based on location & car weight/type is more efficient for everyone.
I found this particular passage of the protocol summary intriguing: "the server must verify two signatures of 'scope' which includes every detail of the transaction e.g. SWIFT, amount, currency, account number or Bitcoin address. Entire transaction is signed on both devices (usually desktop + mobile)."

https://github.com/sakurity/securelogin

The ability to subdivide authorization is one of my favorite aspects of Tarsnap, although there the delineations are both more flexible and under the control of the client instead of the server.
How did your existing customers react to it (switch bait?)
Is the ST performance better or worse than the purely functional approach? It actually looks pretty good, not really any more verbose than Java to be honest.
Financial data suppliers. (Cheaper alternatives to Bloomberg/MS/Lipper ...)
Web browsers are astoundingly complicated. They generally contain multiple JIT compilers, a database engine, sophisticated rendering code for 2d and 3d graphics and fonts, video and audio codecs, support for a variety of network protocols, graphical debuggers and development tools... the list goes on. And they expose all this to arbitrary applications downloaded from the internet while attempting (and mostly succeeding) to maintain your security and privacy and remain backwards compatible with 20+ years of legacy content. At a target frame rate of 60 fps.

Browsers are, when you think about it, pretty damn amazing.
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As far as I'm concerned, purity is more fundamental than impurity, because we can always emulate impurity using a pure language (as is shown in this article), but it's not possible to emulate purity using an impure language.

This only leaves us with the challenge of performance. While we can always describe e.g. x86 assembly in terms of a pure intermediate representation language (e.g. GHC Core), transforming this description back into equally performant x86 doesn't seem easy.

Also, anyone care to produce some benchmarks comparing the imperative Python/Haskell quicksort implementations? They look so similar, it'd be quite interesting to see how well GHC can optimize this sort of stuff.
I'm guessing reddit search simply isn't used often enough for them to dedicate resources to improving it. The site is primarily about having a constant stream of new posts anyway. Worst case you can use Google.
Boring question~
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Will adaptive hash index ever be disabled by default? While it's orders of magnitude less horrible than the query cache, it's in the same category of things which add variance for marginal gain.
To the best of my knowledge, there's no GC in WASM.
If Apple supports progreasive web-apps this decade I'll eat my hat.

It does nothing for their business and cuts off their revenue streams. It's simply a bad idea for them.

I'd be curious to see what WASM means for progressive web apps on Android, however. There Google does benefit but it does weeken their platform by making competing hardware like Samsung's Tenzen or the near-death Windows Phone far more viable.

So the question becomes, is Google invested in Android specifically or simply the existence of mobile that they can profit from?
Those are fairly rare words in day to day English. Some of those words I have a "feeling" for what they mean, I've definitely seen some of them in print. Most of those words I would look up if reading on a Kindle, just to check my feeling about the word. Have I used any of those words in my own writing or speech? Nope!

From the linked website, the best words to learn for a learner are from the 1000 Most Common English Words section.
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I'm looking for specific techniques/psychological tricks you use. I'm aware of the general principles like filtering out spam, unsubscribing from useless information, etc. Beyond that, is there anything unique you're doing that has helped you?
I thought Opa looked very interesting when I first heard about it, but I don't see much recent activity on the GitHub repo. Is it still alive?
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Generally there are more job opportunities in Washington DC area. Salaries are also slightly higher there ~$110k/yearly vs ~$105k/yearly . You can do some comparison on the salary map: https://jobsquery.it/map
> If you're sucessful with this, you gain credibility and over time your recommendation will be sufficient to get approval for smaller tasks, and the business case will only need to be made for bigger tasks.

Maybe! Alternatively: if you give a mouse a cookie, it will want a glass of milk. It might be worthwhile to establish early on that the technical leadership needs to be trusted to make their own decisions about trivial things.
> There's just something about it that people find irresistible.

It's cheap to verify and demonstrate success, so it's a natural first, or at least early, application.
They changed from American Apparel to in-house (read: crappy overseas garbage) a few years back. Quality went down the drain, as did the fit.
There is almost no incentive to rate app. They can't reward user and why should someone leave a comment? This is why I like what Amazon does with comment.... but if most of these are real users I think the app did a good job.
One thing I can't firgure out is why reddit is pushing me to use their app when the site is better. I dont even understand why they want to.
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That just depends on your background. For a bunch of us folks who come from a non-JVM background, we could say the same about Java. Really, Java and JS are the two biggest language communities in the world, with phenomenal feats of engineering in their runtimes, and a whole host of things to complain about. Since CLJ and CLJS are tied in this regard, I still think the startup time is the only differentiable factor in my proposed hypothetical future.
> it's not possible to emulate purity using an impure language

It sounds as if a pure language cannot be implemented in terms of an impure language. E.g. a pure language won't be implementable in an instruction set of any modern CPU. I must be missing something.
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Treadmill desk. I alternate between sitting and standing. Standing by itself is bad for you, just like sitting all the time is bad for you. The key is to MOVE.

I make use of the Pomodoro Technique, and walk in 25 minute cycles, and then sit for a few minutes while I break. After a couple of hours of doing that, I'll sit down for an hour.

This is my office setup: https://www.dropbox.com/s/089qqvaa7j5ob77/office_setup.jpg?d...
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As a consultant I code about 4 to 5 hours every workday. Remaining work hours are spent reading code, docs or debugging.
Move inbox email to monthly archive folders.

2017

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Email is not a task list.
society is notoriously bad at doing anything collectively
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I registered an alias with my middle initial: Darren.n@ that I give to anyone non-critical. It forwards to my main email and I have a filter to automatically put those messages in my "low priority" folder that I check once a day.

That with keyboard shortcuts to mark all as read and archive does the trick for me.
That's neat. Over the years I've heard multiple Japanese people refer to raccoons as "rascal" and I had no idea why.
What a needlessly pedantic and condescending reply
> Has a command-line program that is quiet

But what about my overfull hboxes???
I learned Dutch using a similar approach (https://www.amazon.com/Delftse-Methode-Nederlands-voor-buite...)
Generally this is true. Apps are for situations where the user has a higher level of engagement.

Shopping is one of those things - such as Amazon or RedBubble - but Threadless is too specific for that use case. The majority of people simply do not shop for clothing online frequently enough to justify it.

I think that problem persists even with a progressive web app - it just does not warrant the real-estate on your phone. Technically the app launcher on Android makes this cheap but I think that's where apps often go to die - out of sight, out of mind.

On iOS or the sadly near-death Windows Phone, it's just eating more space than it can justify.

I don't think this is a problem of tech or cost but a problem of viable engagement.

Threadless just doesn't need a spot on anyone's phone.
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> There is yet another example of "Worse is Better" in how Linux
had PCMCIA support several years before FreeBSD/NetBSD. However, if
you ejected a PCMCiA card in a Linux system, there was a chance (in
practice it worked out to be about in 1 in 5 times for a WiFI card, in
my experience) that the system would crash. The *BSD's took a good
2-3 years longer to get PCMCIA support, but when they did, it was rock
solid. Of course, if you are a laptop user, and are happy to keep
your 802.11 PCMCIA card permanently installed, guess which OS you were
likely to prefer --- "sloppy but works, mostly", or "it'll get there
eventually, and will be rock solid when it does, but zip, nada, right now"?

Time to market matters. Probably explains how codebases with low reputed quality still seems to win in the real world : MySQL vs Postgres ? MongoDB vs RethinkDB ?
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The practical reason: https://3v4l.org/LEar1 (No SIV in that list.) It's also not present in libsodium or (shudder) mcrypt.

What property are you hoping to extract out of AES-SIV in particular? (And would AEZ, HS1-SIV, AES-SIV-GCM, etc. solve your problem?)

From what I understand, SIV mode still uses a nonce, but it doesn't explode if you reuse it for different messages. Are you aiming for nonce-less encryption?

The end goal that was being worked towards in the article (Argon2-derived Bloom filters for partial searching) is a little more useful than nonce-less encryption.
Ah you're right!

https://visionmedia.github.io/superagent/#promise-and-genera...

Alas too late to edit comment.
Looks like you might need to farm out specific problems (e.g. I need a website, built on technology X, that has THESE capabilities). You could just put those specific tasks out to tender on a programmers-for-hire site. Unless you are happy to part with some equity in your company. Here are some links on this topic to help.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tech-co-founder-myth-vijay-ga...

https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-find-good-technical-co-founde...

http://web.archive.org/web/20120229131356/http://lederhosenl...
Assume that “quiet” means “not verbose”, not “silent”. Although I haven’t got it running yet I believe errors will still be written.
You are looking for the Magic SysRq Key: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

- Alt+SysRq+u remounts all filesystems readonly.

Looks like some of the Magic SysRq Keys are disabled by default now in new Ubuntus.
> Speaking as someone who is studying both linguistics and Japanese, this this type of comment is just cringy to read. In the grand scheme of potential "languages" Japanese and English (as well as all natural human languages; including signed languages) have incredibly similar grammars. It is only when you restrict your view to the range of human languages that Japanese and English start to look incredibly different.

That seems like a total non sequitur. Do you also find the expression "like comparing apples to oranges" cringey, since apples and oranges are quite similar when compared to black holes?
The CPU instructions are pure functions over the state of the machine. :)
I always found it interesting to ask if my fish toy swims: it has a fish shape and propels itself through the water by wiggling its tail.

Similarly, if cephalopods swim. And if they do, why not jetskis?

Also, I was arguing it, but mostly to see the responses -- everyone seems so sure it is, and yet, the answers come down to "because it doesn't remind me of monkey cognition". (Similar to why I asked about animism -- everyone is so sure it was wrong, but doesn't seem to know why.)
> Can Fractal Trees technology support the exact same API as B-Trees, only faster?

Yeap. That tokudb doesn't support foreign keys is not a data-structure thing, its a feature they cut from the mysql shim that sits on top of the fractal tree library.

I've got a list as long as my arm about missing features, features that don't work well together, blatant opportunities that the optimizer misses, etc.

In all seriousness, I'd be all over postgres instead if it just had fractal trees ;) Most of the problems are not the engine, they are the (R?)DBMS on top.
Yes, the copyright owner cannot prevent the licensee from selling the license, but the copyright owner also does not have any obligation to continue hosting a cloud service, to authenticate the existing license on a different account using their cloud service, or to otherwise assist the licensee in transferring the license.
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currently we @Nexart solving similar kind of problem. They were selling through Whatsapp. In there case the solution we suggested was better. May be i can suggest you some solution and act on it. you can mail me at ajinvwilson@gmail.com
Most wear is during startup before oil pressure comes up. Some aircraft engines have electric oil pumps, so that oil pressure is at 100% before the engine starts. It's common to bring up oil pressure before starting on very large Diesel engines (ships, earthmovers, tanks) to extend the life. Those usually have a starting engine to provide startup power. Large diesels are often cranked with no compression (all valves lifted) and no fuel flow to get things well lubricated before combustion starts.

Auto engines could be run that way, but the slow cold start process acceptable for heavy equipment would annoy motorists.
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