skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're parroting the official medical position which has not been revised in decades. There's a lot of opinions on the web based on incomplete science. I read a lot about it, and in the end decided to try it.

Who cares if it's a placebo, as long as it works I'm taking it.

For the record, homeopathy did absolutely nothing for me, so I'm not sure I have much of a placebo gullible body ;-)
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"Why should we do the right thing unless other countries do exactly what we want" is pretty transparently a political argument, so I'm afraid that ship sailed already with you at the helm.
Wow. It seems as if this has been discovered by rigorous manual inspection of the code (as opposed to just fuzzing the binary to death).

Hats off!
Beware of the delivery time though. It took them 3 weeks to ship the sensor from Lithuania to Estonia :)

For pump and other peripheral control I plan on using an opto-isolated relay board. You can get one for really cheap and they're easy to setup with the Pi. Check this wiki on how to use the board in isolation mode.

http://arduino-info.wikispaces.com/ArduinoPower
Yes, it is. The problem comes in when a company which controls a significant percentage of one platform (search, in this case), uses that advantage to muscle in to other areas.

This is seen as a bad thing, because beyond the consumers are left with an unbeatable giant. Unlike normal market leaders, however, this giant doesn't need a superior product, but only apply leverage (given by their other positions).

This is the very essence of anti-trust / monopoly laws. Competition is a good thing.
I'm a big fan of 3-2-1 as well. What temperature do you aim for? 225F?
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Can anyone tell me why I shouldn't still just use standard, ECMAScript, and (gasp) jQuery? There's so much churn in the JS world, sometimes it makes sense to just build something, and then optimize it later.
This is how I see it as well. People get so emotionally tied to a particular argument, whether that be gun control or abortion or whatever, and it becomes all consuming where all other discussion or ideas seem fall by the wayside as secondary.

I suspect for our only two viable political parties, that's a feature, not a bug.
"This is against antitrust law" in the market they operate on.
I do not get your point. The ESTA is the only way to get to the country if you're going to a conference or on holidays or to visit someone.

If you're looking for better, you need to find a job to sponsor you and you need to go through the lottery (H1B). Or you need to work for a US company abroad for more than a year (L1). Or you need to get married with an american person.
>If Google was merely a Yellow Pages style service as it was previously then I'd be more sympathetic to the idea of distorted rankings favouring Google services but that's becoming less and less the typical user experience.

Well, I'm primarily agains the idea of giving a single, non democratically controlled non-international entity, so much power.

To the point where I don't care if Google is forced to stop innovating in being a "one stop shop" for the internet if that means more distributed sources and more distributed (even if lower quality and with fewer resources) innovation.

Sometimes, when it comes to society, it's best to have less technology more uniformly distributed than a single source of highly advanced technology.
> Surely as a user you'd view promoted shopping results in Google with a pinch of salt and look around first?

Most users don't.
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This is a great strategy.
> Why is Ubuntu second guessing Intel in deciding which microcode update to apply and which to skip? How would Ubuntu know that better than the manufacturer?

The whole point of an LTS release is that they will keep a stable baseline for all the packages they're distributing and apply a certain amount of integration testing. If you believe upstream knows best (and I'm not saying you're wrong to do so) then why use LTS in the first place?
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This is like forcing itunes to show movie results from prime video.
Americans seem to think this is the US versus the EU.
Oh my, I was denied as well last time I entered because the person at the border looked at the wrong page on my passport (which was a Visa for the previous year). She just told me she couldn't let me in without any fucking reason. I realized she was looking at the wrong page and had to tell her to look at the correct one. She gave me her best "I don't give a fuck" impression and let me go on my way.
George HW Bush. Jimmy Carter. LBJ. Hoover, if you don't mind going back nearly a century. And before you say "well that's just three examples!" there have only been 45 presidents in 250 years. Just about the only presidential thing you can get dozens of examples of is white men.

I'm not sure how "Well Trump got elected" is any proof of your "parties alternate 2-term presidents" thesis. I doubt Sanders will run in 2020, but I don't pretend to know what will happen in the future.
> Or don't measure at all and instead use precise amount of water on precise times

This may or may not work depending on location of the plant. If it's in changing temperaturs and direct sunlight, there will be periods where it needs more water.
I might be in a minority here and I'll probably get down voted but this result scares me... and I used to be CTO one of those competing price comparison sites that show up lower in the results so if anyone should agree it should be me.

While it made me angry when Google put their results above ours, I never questioned that they had a right to do that. It is their website. They are not a utility. At what point does a company cross the line and become one that the EU feels can no longer promote their own product?

After all, the actual products here are the products being sold not the comparison sites. If I search for baseball bat the product is the bat not the competing search results.

What's next? Having to give equal ranking to Yahoo! search results in their search page? It sounds extreme but I would have also thought this was extreme until 2 minutes ago.

Or perhaps more accurate... having to completely do away with One Box entirely. After all, when I search for a movie it displays the actor information and movie times before it displays the link to the theater website or IMDB.
So either EU is grossly incompetent to stop such thing at EU members level or they just think acting against individual companies will generate more fireworks and public support.
Capitalism is a never-ending competition. It's not supposed to have winners.

A 'winner' would mean the end of it.
Bounded load consistent hashing is interesting. It makes total sense that 2 random wouldn't work for vimeo, it actually doesn't work for us between visitors and our edge because we care a lot about cache data — we only use it between our load balancers and our customer's origin app instances.

For what we're doing, we actually need to consider more than just load. Since our LBs are distributed globally, we also want to make sure we're sending requests to backends that are geographically near them.

We can do this by tracking latency between the load balancer and origin servers, then using it to restrict the candidate pool we're going to choose two from at random.
I believe that mythbusters had an episode disproving the Archimedes heat ray
To be fair, the easiest way to do it (to my knowledge) is by direct URL entry - for example (replace 'hxxps' with 'https' for this - I didn't want crawlers to pick this up):

hxxps://web.archive.org/save/https://tesoro.io/
That last sentence succintly describes my primary issue with front end developing, and why I'm starting a new job in a few weeks that is almost purely backend.

Most of my recent web work has been trying to manage shared libs and duct taping the build process together. Every feature branch has major shrinkwrap merge conflicts because there is so much module churn.
> The EU hasn't contributed ANYTHING to the internet

Of top of my head:

1. WWW was created in CERN, which is funded mostly by EU countries [1]

2. Linux which accounts for more than 2/3 of web servers was created in Sweden.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN#Member_states_and_budget
Or Google could follow the rules of the countries in which they operate.
For small projects, this is definitely still OK. Green browsers don't really need jQuery any more, but if it's what you're comfortable using and it gets the job done, then use it.

Large projects or team projects, you will want to use something with more structure.
I worked in the industry and I feel the same. For existing car companies the question is if they have somebody with enough power to shift the resources in the right direction. For newer companies they are already heading in the right direction but if they treat this as just software, move fast and break things, we will release a patch etc. then they are more likely to turn the users against self-driving cars.
The Color Computer from Tandy started because of a project called "Green Thumb". Hurray for gardeners and farmers! :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Color_Computer#Origin_a...
Why not just tarpit them?
Isn't time an issue like in mail spam?
If it takes forever to scan you ...
https://sysadminblog.net/2013/08/debian-iptables-tarpit/
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If you have foreign combatants on your ship you have a problem, generally, whether they're armed with a USB stick or a plastic explosive.
If ever there were a situation where that argument didn't apply, surely this is it.

This is a multi-billion project, in the defence sector, for a major US ally.

So for one thing, it seems very likely that someone involved in the carrier project does have access to all the relevant Windows source and build infrastructure, one way or another. Relevant Microsoft staff have probably been checked as well.

In any case, obviously you can't install some OSS and then just "hire some programmers" to fix bugs in this environment.

Using Windows on naval vessels is not unprecedented. The US Navy "Windows for Warships" situation showed that it is already done, and sometimes problems are then found in trials, and those problems do then have to be fixed.
I could tell you but I'd rather you read about it and then make your own opinion. You will find anything and everything about vitamin C on the web : there's a lot of success stories of people that tried it and then some people that caution about some experiments in vitro that had some potential harmful effect.

But I didn't find (doesn't mean it doesn't exist) a single story about someone that had a problem with it. All the negativity is by people that didn't try.
Segmentation fault. Core dumped.
$ ls
brain.core
Simply your argument by just replacing the pronoun with an article. "An Ikea bowl has been setting things on fire." The pronoun "this" references something inside the link that you can't yet see, pulling you into it (baiting a click). In contrast, the article "an" is informative without being seductive.

Edit: mod just changed "this" to "an." Your a/b test is on :)
Oh this has been going on before Trump took leadership.
If there's one car manufacturer I'd blindly trust with my safety that's Volvo. Their cars might not be the most reliable, or the most exciting, or the most luxurious, or the most innovative, but when it comes to safety they're the point of reference.
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That's a very US-centric viewpoint and not one shared by people in Europe.
How many years are you willing to wait for it to happen?

I am yet to see Android 7 devices at prices I am willing to pay, one year after its release, with 9% market worldwide.

Rooting devices is not an option for regular users.
Research more about it : there's absolutely no correlation.
If I understand the decision correctly it does not ban Google delivering other search types, but does limit its right to inter-connect search services on their search platform.
Love this. I went down a similar path last year, using a Raspberry Pi to water an outdoor vegetable patch. In the end I used a package [1] to control a remote controlled plug socket. I also hit similar problems with soil moisture, so went down the route of pulling a weather feed - pump water if it isn't going rain. Easy if you are watering outside!

[1] https://github.com/dmcg/raspberry-strogonanoff
The latest EconTalk interviews the author of a book on this sort of anticompetitive behavior, and abuse of the patent system. Well worth a listen.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/06/robin_feldman_o.htm...
I still have my sega. I'd rather just buy the original cart, new or used :)
Isn't there a direct TGV from Paris?
Citus DB is missing.
No one is seriously saying you can't. If your problems are simple enough to be solved with plain js/jquery, feel free.

I don't get all this tooling and framework hate - no one is forcing you to choose anything, it's an open buffet, and you can choose as much as you want from wherever you want, for free.
OP here.

Great point. Right now this is just a single rate-limited HTML form to gauge interest. Next is to build specialty features that are worth paying for and make this sustainable. :)
>However, if money were the primary factor, poor immigrant families would tend to remain poor and they don't.

Well, tons of poor latinos and other would argue otherwise.
I criticized referring to inflammation as the root of most diseases. I did not say inflammation does not play a factor in many diseases.
I have to say I'm not really moved by language like, "95 MPH projectile" that seeks to exaggerate the risk involved. Your argument would be stronger without it.
Like David Brooks, I'm not convinced. Sure, Russia seeks influence, and has a little. But I have to be suspicious of leaked publicized intel.

Brooks' NY Times article from last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/opinion/russia-investigat...
Thanks Jack, I hadn't heard of webrecorder before, but I'll check it out. :)
How could you get the country where Linux comes from wrong? (unless that's the joke)
The trade secret argument for not revealing the customer names seems ridiculous considering they (ECS) apparently have a contractual monopoly with NYC on providing these subway conduits. They, legally, have zero competition.
The United States' energy use per capita[0] is the largest in the world. How does the total energy consumption of renewables v. non-renewables compare?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#/medi...
> If you use a specialised, highly adapted version of an OS, why not base it on Linux?

Why not something that isn't made of "swiss cheese"? With an old Linux system you have exactly the same problems as with an old Windows, probably even more.

Sticking "Linux" and "Open Source will save this" into it does not tangibly improve the situation.

(There are operating systems with a very good maintenance, stability and security track record that could be used for some of these cases, but seemingly aren't)
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It appears that the app uses some sort of pattern matching a la classic Siri. I wonder how well it could respond to a relatively more complex query such as "My 3 year old is sick with a temperature of 100 degrees she cant keep anything down including liquids. What should I do?"

In the case that it can parse such questions, the big issue is whether it knows what it doesn't know when giving recommendations.
I don't have a website yet. But I'm working on a CMS for AMP websites.
It's also an AMP generator, you pass it an URL and it returns an AMP version of the website.
that's 4% in 11 years

No, it's 45% growth in 11 years. It's 4 percentage points, but that is something different.
It's not the first time that I see this being described as "anti-US".

And that while the reality is that there is a list of European companies/kartels receiving high anti trust fines as well for their behaviour.

The "problem" is that this never receives any interest in the states which only contributes to this blurred image that only US companies are getting fined. That is frankly untrue.
3D printers must become faster (multi heads, etc.) and robuster (less user's interventions/repairs). Then the REAL revolution will happen...
No, it's "learn by building things" with a very tight feedback loop.

When copying, you can immediately see where your expert has done something differently from you. And you can either learn to do it their way, or understand how different methods lead to different outcomes, and so consciously build your own style.
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The tailcut approach breaks one important property of cardinality estimation algorithms: Adding the same value multiple times should change the state of the sketch only once when adding it for the first time.

However, due to the chance of overflows the same value can lead to multiple changes when using the tailcut approach. The introduced error depends on the order and also on the frequency distribution of inserted elements. It would be interesting to know which assumptions on the input data were made for the promised accuracy. In their paper I could not find any hint how the input data looked like in their experiments. It is fairly easy to obtain good results for the trivial case where all input values are distinct.

The tailcut approach reminds me of the HyperBitBit algorithm which also drops the property described above and promises a better storage factor (less error with same amount of memory).

It is true that the traditional 5-bit or 6-bit representations of Hyperloglog registers are suboptimal. Even with lossless compression (see https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6558/d618556f812328f969b60b...) a significant amount of memory can be saved.

It is interesting that the standard error is reduced from 1.04/sqrt(m) down to 1.0/sqrt(m) despite the loss of information after the tailcut. Therefore, I conclude that it must be the estimation method itself which is superior to existing methods. I will need to check.
I sometimes explain my bugs to recorded telemarketing pitches. They can be very helpful that way.
One question Ive been asked I really like is: write a program that print the odd numbers between 0 to 100.
Some of the newer frontend frameworks are so small that it really doesn't benefit you to use jQuery even for small projects. It lacks structure and it's way too easy to start manipulating state though the dom when you could have reusable components and a decent structure with a few extra lines of code.
Upvoted.

FWIW, companies in the US have long used 'anti trust complaints' as a means of harming companies they can't compete with (e.g. Microsoft, back in the day).
Now I am confused. Why the {{}} at all and not just:

<div className="row" style="margin": "0">
w32time supports proper NTP (albeit NTPv3), and Windows Server 2016/Windows 10 Anniversary is capable of 1-millisecond accuracy:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-...

But if that isn't good enough for you, you can easily replace w32time with the reference NTP implementation, which is what I do to all of my Hyper-V hosts and physical forest root PDCs:

https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm
ICE will probably have to go because of climate impact. But mechanical cars, and other kinds of engine can still be done, albeit not as the 99% monopoly ICE have now.
I'm with you on this. Of all of the teams at Apple/Facebook/Stripe etc I can guarantee there are at least 25% I would not want to be on, 30% I might not want to be on, 30% I might want to be on and 15% I would definitely want to be on.

So now I need to start from scratch to get all of the information I'd need to make the decision of what position I am interviewing for fits. What makes this doubly difficult is I've been "fast tracked" to the interview process where those discussions aren't expected.

The more I read about triplebyte the more I think their heart is in the right place but they are creating a market for lemons.

If triplebyte can create a system where the final interview is a cultural fit interview of no more than 2 hours and both sides feel they have enough information to proceed, then they are onto something.
Every heard of this thing called the World Wide Web/HTTP?

How about Linux?

How about C++?
> Windows Defender was new in windows 10

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Defender) it was first released for Windows XP.
The iOS app is not available in the Finnish App Store, only US :-( We have hotdogs here, too! (And not hotdogs.)
This is inspiring. I've been thinking about hand rolling a rain water reserve style irrigation system that essentially just pulls/scrapes a weather forecast and waters my garden. Not nearly as precise as this but hopefully useful.
Well, that would get me. Some black and splatter death bands have nigh-on unreadable logos. Or it's just an art I never mastered :(
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> how much revenue do they make from EU clients?

Nearly as much as in the US, with the potential to be even higher.
> First of all cut yourself some slack here - it's your spare time, and you hard enough already. You don't need to do more than you are doing, and honestly if you ever don't want to be coding in your evenings you aren't less of a developer or human being if you go and write a book or take a karate class instead.

I have enough time to contribute to OSS, I just fail to do so, because I don't remain on the same idea for long enough.

> Maybe a local charity needs a nice salesforce setup and some coaching on how to use it and fit its workflow. Maybe some scientists need an app for data collection. Or your local Forrest rangers could do with some custom maps. Once you're committed you're committed, and you'll learn something new for sure.

The idea being that once I have identified a pressing need, I'll be more likely to stay on that idea? That sounds like it could work. Have you any experience with this approach?
>It's just a reminder to remember that what doesn't work for you may be pure bliss for other people.

What's pure bliss for some people might also be dangerous and cancerous for society. Segregation was "pure bliss" for lots of folks.
That's not why cars don't rust as much. Coatings have just gotten better and simulations have gotten better so engineers can know in advance that all the salty water that runs down the vehicle will be channeled through a few spots that will rust out in short order then do it anyway.

Galvanization was popular for a brief time while the industry was still trying to find replacements for lead in paint that didn't have crap performance.

Cold galvanization is expensive and involves nasty chemicals. Hot galvanization is cheaper but not as cheap as paint and involves equally nasty chemicals and molten metals.

Basically paint is cheap and good enough.
I know a lot of people think that choosing XP is crazy but I did an evaluation of an operating system for a video processing system around 2003. I was sure that Linux would win easily but after looking at support options, long term maintenance, software availability and a few other factors Windows XP Embedded actually came out ahead.

I probably would have gone with Linux anyway but if you have to do a "neutral" vendor assessment Windows doesn't look that bad. You can't just put "Windows sucks" into your report.

EDIT: I wonder why this is being downvoted.
To me, the comment from theBobBob agrees with the convenience of Google search connecting users to advertisers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14644022
Yes, but literally everything they do with their product is "their product decision" – that doesn't mean it's legal.
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