skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are specialist companies that do a good job with vegan and gluten-free. Which is part of Blue Apron's problem: there's tons of evidence that they don't have much of a moat.
I imagine the middle man they're claiming to cut out is the restaurant. Because with these services, you're the restaurant!
Latvian SUV Maker DARTZ Becomes First Carmaker to Accept Bitcoin or Etherium
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That's not a dumb idea, however: space is an issue, the rest is fast enough but even so parts do tend to fall in clumps and if two such clumps were to fall at the same time it could lead to a jam which requires manual intervention.

Ideally parts would land on the belt in a very regular rhythm, without any kind of irregularity whether the parts are 8 mm round 1x1 plates or 16 long 1x1 bricks. You need about 3 cm of space on either side to make sure the right part gets blown off the belt, that's the most important thing that will eventually limit the speed.

Oh, another factor limiting the speed is the maximum acceleration over the stretch towards the camera, otherwise the parts are still moving on the belt when they reach the camera and then you get bad images.
Explaining to you how to do it the right way is not an obligation of anyone that says X article is wrong?

I wouldn't expect an explanation, I wouldn't say the author is obliged to that kind of effort.

I did sort of expect a link to an explanation, though.

At this writing, other comments in this very HN thread claim there are many intro-level explanations of IVs out there to choose from. They don't link to them either.

Hypertext is what makes the web special, you know? The article would be more useful with a link. Think of this: even this discussion, here on HN, would have been more fruitful if the author had included a link to some explanation.

Similarly maybe the author didn't explain what "IV" means because their audience understands that term.

I have actually shipped a couple of products that made use of encryption packages, and I've never heard of an IV. Maybe the encryption advice I followed was terrible; maybe the instructions were terrible; maybe the packages were terrible. Maybe I'm an idiot suited only to the digging of ditches.
Also,

500,000 Cars a Year

ANNOUNCED: FEB 26, 2014

TARGET DUE DATE: DEC 31, 2020

REVISED DUE DATE: DEC 31, 2018

Seems like they could be hitting their stride after a rocky start but, honestly, he's doing some incredibly difficult things here.

I find the entry into streaming media to be quite interesting (yes i realize it's just music now but it would be shortsighted to not envision video (one way large), gaming/conferencing, etc.).

Tech these days seem to be about maximizing the spaces in between so there's no downtime to be had..
Voices can be blocked by changing brain frequency with binaural beats(brainwave entrainment). Brain is at etheric level a radio receiver.
>> "trust pure capitalism to properly prioritize the values of the American people"

But who decides the values of the American people then? Should the govt's approach be "We know this product was made by kids, so it is banned", or "We are educating you that this product involved child labor, it is upto you to use your values now"?

I think the second approach will cause trivial change, at best.
I think we can find groups of people in every profession that are paid too much given their value to society. I wouldn't say one profession over the other is overpaid. Someone is paying for that profession. I think there's a lot of tenured college professors who are grossly overpaid for the little value they bring to teaching, but as a whole, professors do bring value to society. It's a tough question to answer.
I don't think you understand... there's literally 0 chance that hospitals and power plants are going to just universally enable windows update on their critical systems. Any patch that gets applied to life or death systems has to go through significant regression testing before going live.

I guess you could suggest they just get universally redundant systems and take rolling outages, but I'm guessing nobody would be willing to pay for the cost of implementing such a scheme.
Ask HN: Best resources on mechanical and electrical engineering?
Consulted both Google/Amzn and friends with relevant degrees, either found dated texts or lengthy courses, without much consensus.

Goal: hack together a modern mechanical household item — think roomba, electric toothbrush, blender (not a nest, dropcam, fitbit). I have a applied math background and expect to move at a brisk pace. Thanks HN!
IMO we need to teach coding, I have a 7-year old daughter who I've taught plain HTML and its incredible how interested and willing to learn she is.

My younger brother whose 22 couldn't care less about it.
Glad to see I'm not the only one using the "Caffeine nap." I was lucky enough to work in a place that actually had a dedicated nap room that I utilized regularly. It was a holdover from the old astronomy days when astronomers would spend long hours on site to complete their research.
This is why I take a flask to the bar. Cheaper.
The Whole Foods supply chain, which does a fantastic job of transparency, is often glossed over. It's hard to deliver the kinds of information they do at the scale they're at. I'm talking about things like what farm the produce came from, how was this beef finished, etc. I'm often amazed that even at farmer's markets, I don't get this information.

I sense Amazon will consider how they can build off of that supply chain to open up new opportunities. One of these opportunities might be different meal kit services.

For comparison, Blue Apron claims they have 150 farms. But I can't find anywhere, for example, what farm produced the produce for any particular meal. Maybe the information is there, but I suspect produce is mixed together in order to ensure the supply of each menu just works. So, a WF-based supply should be able to use a the "local" tag on their meal kits and create a much more distinctive differentiation.

Meal kits will be popular, but I don't sense there will need to be a large national distribution. Even Amazon will probably need to contend with regional and local providers. But Amazon does a good job of being a business platform, such that they might be the place a local business could source the ingredients and distribute to customers. I don't see how larger companies like Blue Apron could become platforms.
If you want to hear voices, just take 400-500mg of Benadryl. Enough to hallucinate, not enough to hospitalize you.
Well, I think a respelling key is better than being not able to pronounce it at all.

I recognize parts of IPA, but I frequently forget the sound of some characters, and can't reproduce arbitrary IPA with confidence. I think if you haven't learned it properly, and use it regularly, its somewhat impractical.

Mandarin is an interesting example. I found Pinyin really intuitive (as an English and German speaker), and once you get used to some quirks (like x vs sh, or q which is more like english "chi" than english "qu", or i and e that sound much more schwa-like than I'd expect), it is fairly easy to pronounce most words (provided the tone marks are indicated. Official signage in China usually omits them for some reason).

And I know the difference between transcription and transliteration, that's why I put transcription in scare quotes. What I mean is, lets pretent Irish words are not written in Latin, but in ... Lotin (which looks 100% like Latin but is completely different :-)), and then treat it like Cyrillic. I have less problems reading Russian or Arabic or Greek names, compared to names writen in other Latin-alphabet languages - because most transliteration schemes try to preserve at least some familiarity for west European language speakers (unless it is Klingon, or Wade-Gilles...).
If you enable JS from theguardian.com but disable JS from ampproject.org the result is a blank page.
Cubicles getting ripped out to make way for open plan would also be a negative indicator.
> And frequently, the more minimal base images are missing a lot of useful tooling, so it's still an issue.

Oh yeah, I know that problem. This happened to me a while ago:

Me: "Hm, that container is having trouble."

$ kubectl logs my-container-24fa8
ERROR: cannot connect to theotherthing.example.corp:443

Me: "Let's see if DNS is working from the container."

$ kubectl exec -ti my-container-24fa8 bash
kubectl: bash: command not found
$ kubectl exec -ti my-container-24fa8 sh
sh$ dig A theotherthing.example.corp
sh: dig: command not found
sh$ host theotherthing.example.corp
sh: host: command not found
sh$ nslookup theotherthing.example.corp
sh: nslookup: command not found
sh$ ls /bin /usr/bin
...
...
sh$ openssl s_client -connect theotherthing.example.corp:443

But I still build my containers on an Alpine base, because the datacenter on the literal other side of the planet has such a shitty link that if the image is 100 MB (rather than 10 MB), it will take multiple minutes to download it on all nodes, even though we have a Squid proxy in place for that in every DC.
> the only technique that produces effective results is if you mix actual, real footage with CG

This isn't true.

> I'll give you a simple way to defeat any question of whether we know how to make something look real: What does it mean to multiply two colors? If you chase down the logic, the true answer is "It's meaningless."

It's not meaningless at all, it's a close approximation of light absorption that happens to be measurably and perceptually indistinguishable from the physical spectral absorption process, save for a few corner cases that are being worked on. If the result is 99.9% accurate physically, and 100% perceptually indistinguishable to humans, then it's a valid predictive physical model. It has everything to do with the result of what light does in real life, and if it didn't, we wouldn't be using it to approximate light.

Your thinking here seems to back up my suggestion that you might have missed out on some of the recent developments. Subsurface scattering, for example, is modeling absorption more phyically, and replacing the simple multiplication with a simulation process, because we now have the computational power to do so.

Your argument is attacking the non-simulation aspects of rendering without addressing whether a simulation that is simpler than real life is acceptable. If I can't tell the difference, does it count? Because I'm 100% certain that color multiplication is not the problem when it comes to CG not looking real.
It's Redhat employees downvoting from their desks. You can get systemd criticism in on HN on major US holidays when they're off with their families.
I hadn't used it since the mid-nineties but it was the first distro I ever used and, really, my first exposure to any Unix like system. My first copy came on a CD in a book I bought at a software trade show.

I joined a company that used Debian for everything so I ended up switching to it for many years. When systemd came along I decided to look around again; thus my foray into OpenBSD and my return to Slackware.

If you do give it a look you may be surprised at how little some things have changed. Packages are kept pretty current but the installer and the basic tools are surprisingly similar to the way they were when it was first released in the early nineties.
A coat of teflon could be sufficient for the taming of the screw.
Just never START drinking, and you'll never miss it. I PROMISE.
How do you keep track of work tasks
Any other consultants out there? I work as a software implementation consultant. At any one time I could be working with, say, 10 groups of internal customers implementing the software for their team. There are emails, IM's, phone calls, meeting notes. Aside from working with the teams, there are core changes that need to be made to the software itself. It's a lot to keep track of.

When I'm working with a team that wants to work with me/on the project, generally things go fine. There is a back and forth dialog and I never have to look more than a few days backwards in emails to keep track of where we are. For the groups that are resistant, busy, or drop off the radar for a while I generally forget about them and have trouble remembering where the project is at. It's not really a problem as in things aren't getting done. It's more of a problem with "OK, I'm re-engaging with this internal customer and I can't remember what we already talked about/tried/implemented/objections/issues..."

How do you guys deal with this? Do you just get really good at taking notes? Do you use a piece of software? I guess OneNote has a lot of what I want, but I don't feel comfortable using a cloud based OneNote, and I can't easily share a OneNote file between the machines that I use for work (which sit on different networks).

Just wondering if anyone out there is in the same situation. Thank you!
No it's not. They were called out immediately and yet refused to correct themselves.
Obviously I'm biased, but in our testing of TimescaleDB we've found it to do well with large amounts of data. We're still working on benchmarks that we hope to present in the coming weeks/months, but we've been able to sustain high insert rates even when the database contains billions of rows and metrics. And in our preliminary comparisons to Cassandra the query latency for TimescaleDB was much better.

Happy to try and address any concerns you may have
>I have never seen what value Blue Apron provides,

Its it's not a food product it's a lifestyle product.

As a food product it's no different from buying cheap prechopped supermarket produce and throwing it in a pan. Saves a few minutes or an hour a week at the expense of having to be at home to get the delivery.

As a lifestyle product it's an effortless way to feel like you are cooking for yourself, being healthier, not shovelling readymeals or takeaway food into your mouth so you feel better about yourself. Also the fact you pay quite a lot for it gives you incentive to actually follow the routine.
You should put a robots.txt file in the S3 bucket if you don't want things in it indexed.

I (kind-of) doubt that they found the files through your e-mail, but the files in your S3 bucket are technically available for indexing since you don't have a robots.txt.
Come to Rochester, NY. Our public market is AWESOME. Super cheap, tons of quality produce.
"Skinner" however remains constant.
Are you serious? Sounds almost like a dream state.

I've "meditated" with breathing control somewhat superficially for a few minutes at a time, but never experienced anything like that.

Any guides to this kind of meditation?
You raise a fascinating subject, but a distinction needs to be made between auditory hallucinations and inner dialogue. They may be interconnected concepts, but the manifestation is very different.
> The West needs to take this threat very seriously, or we'll soon find ourselves at the wrong end of the barrel of a new weapon.

I agree with your assessment.

But with US politics as they are, it is hard to imagine anything being taken seriously.
While probably a mistake on John Romero's part, Keen uses 卍 in its easter egg while the nazis used 卐 instead.
The submission guidelines are clear about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Use the original title. I've seen many informative titles smacked by this and made less informative. Here, an informative title is made less informative and clickbaity, with no action taken so far.
Burning hydrocarbons is damaging to the ecosystem of Earth, and for that reason it should be used as little as possible.
Sure, just keep in mind what the people running these companies are helping themselves to.
Yeah I loved Blue Apron for a few weeks, but cancelled because there was an unreasonable amount of waste. I'm sure I'm not the only customer to do so.
Author here! For the graphs I used the ggplot library in R, but really any SQL visualization tool (e.g., SQLPad) would have worked as well. Apache Zeppelin Notebook seems like a great tool and I'd be happy to look into it for my future work. Thanks for the recommendation! :)
I remember playing Commander Keen 4 demo a lot (I finished all the demo levels) then searching for a free version full download in google. (I used to do that a lot when I was younger.) somehow they never yielded any free versions or downloads.

The game was a blast. Then I played and completed Keen 1 when it was released as freeware. They felt like completely different games (Keen 4 is a lot bigger game than Keen 1 which is like Duke 1 compared to Nukem 2).

I still have all 6 of them (Older me now knows how to get full versions without the stupid google search terms) but I no longer play them though they still as good as they used to be.
Actually no, the nature of "learn to code" efforts has nothing to do with some corporations' monetization schemes.
Regardless of attribution, do you not find it worrying?
Just because "50% chance" appears in a sentence, doesn't mean that coin flips have anything to do with it, or that they are an adequate metaphor.
He.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster
I'm not sure, but don't browsers already cache link-rels from html? What's the difference in jvm.asm vs. framework.js cached downloads?
It should be a public service, but a service to Americans, not foreign merchants.
My biggest gripe about Firefox OS was that Mozilla partnered with companies making low end phones that were quite awful even for that time. At that time, I felt that if it were released with high end or near high end hardware, the overall user experience would've have been much better and there would've been more freedom for Mozilla to focus on the important things. It could've then percolated down to cheaper/low end hardware with a separate "make Firefox OS lean" program. Trying to compete with Android on devices that were underpowered, in my view, killed all prospects of it surviving.
I think most techno-optimists wouldn't say it is an unmitigated good, but a net good.
> I showed this thread to my coworkers and they sneered at the assumption that our lives are to be built around our jobs and the people at them.

In your and your coworker's situation, and the parent's situation - this may be the case - but I'd argue that it is the exception for most people and most job situations.

It is one of the driving arguments (stated or not) behind the resistance to the concept of "universal basic income" (UBI) and instead the rallying for "more jobs" (speaking from the perspective of the USA here, I don't really know what the situation is like elsewhere - I have feelings that it varies depending on the culture).

I believe that most people do build their lives around their work, and the people at them. They work with these people for a long part of their weekdays; then they go home usually to a family (children, spouse, pets) and may not have much interaction with other people who are friends (maybe a phone chat occasionally - and perhaps the rare get together). They look at their coworkers as their peer and friend group.

Unfortunately, that also brings all the baggage and strife with it such social situations can lead to. It is likely what fosters and aggravates the petty office politics and group dynamics - perhaps part of what leads to worse situations. This all can seem odd to people who are introverts and don't build their lives around their work environment, but it doesn't seem to be the norm.

That's all my opinion, and I could very well be wrong, its just based on what I have seen and experienced over my decades of employment. For what it's worth, I'm fairly introverted myself, but I also try to understand my coworkers (specifically and in the general sense) and their views on work/life, which is why I have come to these conclusions (right or wrong as the case may be, I suppose).
I'm not sure what the target market is. The half lazy? Too lazy to pick up a few ingredients, or go out to eat, but not lazy enough to actually cook it.
You should be comparing them to top universities, not community college.

Top universities can cost twice as much per year.
> The Internet ... started out by only connecting computer networks. But today it connects networks of vastly different sorts: computers, yes, but also financial networks, distribution networks, road networks, water networks, power networks, communication networks, social networks.

Those are all computer networks. It just happens that some of them involve computers running financial software, or computers running electrical control software, or computers running social software. Or computers running phone software, or light-bulb software, or toaster software.

Perhaps we don't need networked toasters, but I don't want to go back to a world where financial transactions are conducted based on hand-scratched notes and shouting on trading floors.

Computers are just too powerful to ignore. The problem is not that they are computers, but that some are locked down for user control of networking, but simultaneously designed insecurely as, say, "smart web cams" without the necessary incentives to keep them secure.
Why would anybody want AMP link on a PC? I am fuming with hate on AMP. This should be made the link instead of the current one.
Why shouldn't they criticize strategy? Do you expect people to just blindly follow and abide by what the company's leadership sets out to do?
Am I.. seeing... voices or is this comment about the Lego sorting machine?
Again, the original title was "Flawed reporting about WhatsApp". I'm a frequent reader of this kind of news but I seem to have forgotten that it was the Guardian that caused this kerfluffle. The OP's title is accurate to the content while giving much needed context. The original title makes it seems like the article is about "flawed reporting" in general, which is incorrect.
The Life, Death, and Legacy of iPhone Jailbreaking
The economical collapse of small countries that rely on sweatshop labour is a genuine and serious problem here. I can only hope that whoever solves the technical problems that are hindering automated clothing production are mindful of this, and work out a means of giving back to those affected. I won't hold my breath, though.

Edit:

It seems that softwearautomation.com is attempting to solve a "hard" problem here, namely a highly generalisable solution. Is there scope for a scrappy small-player to produce a cheaper technology that operates within a narrower scope? A single product, perhaps. How many variations on a button-up shirt does a specialist shirt tailor have to consider? It seems that shrinking the problem space might produce faster, cheaper results.
LendUp gets strategic investment from PayPal and adds to its executive team
the observer & the observee.

the opposite seems more true, no? you're turning out the observee, not the observer ("the voice"). the voice takes over.
The article's point is more than about consumer devices being internet enabled, it's about how many things are internet dependent. Everything from critical infrastructure to production and distribution networks are now Internet dependent in terms of actual delivery.
Walmart banned alcohol and swearing from Jet's offices and it was a big mistake
What are the advantages of GCM over CBC? And whats wrong with AES256?