skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was substantial uncertainty about the cost of TerraBella's acquisition, see https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/google-satellite-planet/ which says "We’ve not heard a firm price. Aside from the $300 million figure we heard, another described Terra Bella as essentially being “donated” to Planet."

As of April 2015, Planet had raised $183M according to https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/13/planet-labs-rockets-to-118...
The author of the post is really using an iPad Pro and a remote Linux server together for software development. With that combination, all the above that you mention is of course easy to do from an iPad.
I rode around on the cheapest bike I could find for several months in Tokyo and was never stopped. Maybe you look particularly suspicious?
For a punk rock perspective on this issue, I'd encourage you to checkout OxyMoronic by the legendary NOFX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohguwyFECHI
DO IT! :)
"Tools are for pussies - I only code in vim."

All jest aside - it's true that Flash is way more productive than the "true" web environment today. It has its drawbacks, but developer tooling was awesome.
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The largest barrier to accelerated life testing right now is that we really don't know all the mechanisms that cause degradation (or understand their impact on stability). There are many lab instruments that already provide HALT metrics on how stable a drug sample is expected to be under different conditions. And the Arrhenius and Eyring equations are useful for empirical modeling. These tools are great for quickly identifying when formulations are unstable. But it's very difficult to say with certainty (at least in the pharma world) that something will be stable for X years unless you actually test it for X years.

For the vast majority of manufactured products, HALT makes sense because any uncertainty that remains after testing is not likely to harm users. But with some of these drugs, any uncertainty, even after HALT, could cause major problems for users. And it seems that the FDA is unwilling to accept that risk. But as far as I know, the FDA is actively seeking methods for performing HALT that produce accurate and repeatable results.
Think Your Customers Are Intensely Loyal? Well, About That…
Not at all.

Greece is not an "undeveloped" country. Their people simply supported social policies that resulted in more expenses than revenues.
I struggle with this so much that I even managed to unearth a buzz term (1) for this syndrome of reading too many advice blogs.

That aside, I think a lot of this is relative to where one is at in terms of education, network, support structure, access to capital, and a raft of other factors

Eg, if you're an MBA with a deep and narrow understanding of a certain niche, you're not going to lean on startup blogs in the same way an enterprising trucker from Wyoming is who's fuelling the hustle with Youtube tutorials on Java and epub torrents.

Entrepreneurship is a very long and lonely road, so it's perfectly reasonable that many of us look at these sites to (re)validate our decision to take a risk and steer off-course in our career choices from the rest of our peers.

1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis_paralysis
In 1975, the Pro-Apathy Party had an IBM 360 at the top of its ticket
On top of this, they have gotten patents filed, and as they do go through the process, information gets released about what is now covered by patent.

As in, they are making good on the promise of actually proving it isn't vaporware, it is just a slow and painful process.

Anything that gets leaked ahead of time can be used to derail their patent process and depending on what it is, it could be the difference between being a profitable venture or not.

Everyone who makes certain types of processors (which includes Intel and AMD both, along with all the ARM licensees) have a vested interest in ruining this effort, no matter if Mill ends up being successful or not (as in, Mill holding certain patents even if their implementation was not successful, is still a highly profitable venture).

As a side note, a lot of people use Itanium as an excuse to shit on Mill: just remember, quite a few things engineered for Itanium have found their way back into today's x86 designs. As in, things Intel patented in Itanium are still in use and lived on. Even though the Mill is strange, if it doesn't succeed, parts of it will live on in other designs.
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One of us.

Apparently now that they aren't allowed to collude to price-fix salaries with illegal anti-"poaching" agreements, they aren't letting employees have names. Can't "poach" (normal people call it "hire") 'em if you can't name 'em.
What I find interesting with Indie Hackers is that it covers a wide range a personal/business situations. It goes from real lifestyle business, to beer-money-making side-projects.

I feel that there is a world of difference between a side-project that is free, to one where you ask customers for their credit cards. Of all professional experiences, I have never learnt as much as I did taking a side-project idea from idea to MVP, then to beta users, then to paying customers, scaling server issues, and marketing strategies. It's not so much about the money, than the fact that you learn so much on so many dimensions.

Sincere thanks + shameless plug, the interview about Smooz was fun, a good self-reflection exercise, and a good source of traffic too (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/smooz)
Instead of becoming extremely powerful, the parties keeping the records just use an extreme amount of power.
> The easiest way to think of it is an instant, incorruptible market that somehow magically just works

Are any of those adjectives true? Its no where near instant, it can be "corrupted" by an entity with enough hashing power and there isn't any magic to its operation.
> Ah, I see. Yes, I was imagining something more like Numpy.

Understandable. The approach and philosophy is very different, however. Julia feels much more like dynamically typed C++ than it does like Python with heterogeneous arrays added on.

> you would have to make the "flatten" operation user-visible

This seems like it would be a method of the `convert` function. Built-in types are barely special at all in Julia, so you could – and people have [1] – make purely function analogues of any data structures you like and use all the usual operations on them. One can even allow mutation when necessary, but just make the non-mutating operations sufficiently efficient that mutation is rarely necessary.

A fair amount of mathematical code does typically work in two distinct phases:

1. construction/mutation phase – vectors and matrices are constructed and mutated to setup the problem;

2. computation phase – vectors and matrices are used in computations, typically in a purely functional manner, where each operation creates a new objects (e.g. `Z = sqrtm(2X + Y^2)`).

Unfortunately, purely functional collections don't help much with either of these phases: the first phase is inherently full of mutation and typically quite local, so the drawbacks of mutation are limited; the second phase is already inherently functional but doesn't need functional data structures. What you really need in the second phase is escape analysis that is clever enough to figure out that it can reuse temporaries.

[1] https://github.com/JuliaCollections/FunctionalCollections.jl
Mallory, the malicious man in the middle.
I'm not sure but I think it'd be pretty hard to extract four grams of tritium from 770000 tons of water.

The main issue with tritium isn't the expense of getting it, but the problems you face in dealing with it. It's hydrogen with two extra neutrons; it's hard to keep it from leaking and it's radioactive.
Yes, if you're in a city you're tracked constantly by dragnet surveillance.

Questions like this one aren't very useful without a threat model. Who are you trying to prevent tracking you? If it's just your phone carrier then obviously turning off your phone and removing the battery will render it inoperable. But now you don't have a phone, and your location info wasn't very useful to begin with anyway unless you were involved in an operation where you need to conceal your location.
Increase in features yes and the continual succumbing to developers who just can't seem to think outside the strict OO paradigm.

Prototypical inheritance is really not that hard to understand.

I would rather see JavaScript fix the existing functionality, such as sometimes the prototype chain not being correctly established when instantiating a new object.
Are they?

"able to calculate the longevity of chemicals, food, and other products without having to wait the actual time period"
Nowadays, though, very few consoles actually use the display hardware in text mode.

Moreover, text mode display hardware does not absolve one of Unicode handling.
Test
this is a test
I don't see what this fuss is all about. If Facebook wants to offer cheaper Internet with their services prioritized, why not?

Plus Internet is far from being neutral right now. Emails got deliver depending on your server IPs. CDNs already pay to be hosted by ISPs for a fast lane. Torrents don't reach the full capacity of your bandwidth. Etc.

The case against government regulations for the Internet is easy to make: Easier to start an ISP, cheaper services for the end consumers, less government expenses to enforce all of that, etc.
The Mill team seem to have a strong aim for commercial success. Talks and documentation are typically only released after they have secured their patents. I'm also skeptical as to if they will make a viable product at the end of the day. None the less these videos have been some of the most enjoyable technical talks I've come across.

But I sincerely hope they do find commercial success.
Once nice thing about Flash (and believe me, I don't think there are many) is that it can go a long way towards cementing the concept of OOP to beginning programmers.

I was taking a high-school C++ class at the time, but the whole "everything is an object" concept just didn't stick. It was still in the abstract sense and not tangible.

You start to play with Flash and ActionScript, however, and suddenly each instance is a physical thing you can see and interact with. Each copy of the thing you make inherits those properties and that action script.

It was a very useful learning experience for me. I worked through a Pong tutorial and then tried to extend it as a personal project to be a four-corner pong. It became very clear the benefits of making a position-agnostic "Paddle" class when the left-right paddles' collision detection went haywire upon copy-pasting them to the top and bottom of the screen.
The same reason you get frustrated when you realize the customer service agent you have been talking to the whole time is just AI powered, and more then 3/4ths of the response have been pre-filled.

Loss of the human element. Kind of hard to describe, but very obvious when it is missing.
How I Learned Go
I would agree with you on the Winforms portion of the .Net universe.

None of the other parts of the .Net universe are comparable, though; most are either kind of clunky (Webforms) or require a much bigger learning curve to get going.
Love it!

Would be most useful to me with calorie support. I see some users are hacking it by adding it to the title or in the notes. That should be a strong hint.
Generally when you're doing shit like this you read the destructions first and grab the tools. That is if your destructions are good and actually list them and sizes which most aren't... Which wouldn't help if it was or wasn't in glass, that's a content problem not a form factor issue. I will say I'd rather bring these hardened devices in than get oil on my smart phone which is what I did last week.

I do like sticking my smart phone in holes to take photos there I can't otherwise get.

Edit: this is for personal automotive work
From that LockMart page on their compact fusion reactor:

> ENERGY CREATED THROUGH FUSION IS 3-4 TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ENERGY RELEASED BY FISSION

I'm not entirely sure how to parse that...?
Can this do what SharePoint and private wikis can't? My team has tried both with varying degrees of success. In my experience it's always just "easier" for people to pester those who should know the answers.
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We've standardized on helm for prod deploys. Perhaps it's not a huge value, but it is a convenient way to bundle together a set of configs, templatize them and manage them.
Can't wait for Kubernetes Home Edition, Kubernetes Premium or Kubernetes Server Edition....I know which one we're getting.
So he is not using iPad, he is using Linux machine. It's like Google employee saying: "I am running the whole Google search on my phone" after he SSH to main server. iPads, in current form, are not suitable for any efficient and high quality content creation. Of course they can be used as a "terminal" to access machines/devices that can do that but you can't really seriously work offline on it.
The page mentioned that Verizon cut deployments in 13 states, and the deployments that were made were not doing equitably. What recourse is there for companies that made this commitment and still exist today? Could Verizon still be on the hook for providing these services, and if so, how can it be enforced?
你说的啥
There's a viable privately hosted alternative with Atlassian's "Questions for Confluence" (https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/questions)
> "This makes the Surface Pro 4 a poor choice for remote work..."

and

> "Having a test or staging server is mandatory so that we can test our codes that we wrote on the iPad."

are not congruous.
The scope matters.

You can get a machine to run reasonably well without relying on closed source graphics drivers. If your GPU firmware is evil in some way, it's on your GPU and you can be pretty confident it won't compromise the rest of your machine or your network. If a driver is compromised, there will be signs of abnormal behaviour (you can inspect what software on your machine is doing at runtime).

With AMD's PSP or Intel's ME, there are no such limitations in how bad things can get. These things could take all the data you have in memory, connect to some shady network location and dump all the data. All the while there is no trace of that activity in your OS, because of none of this nonsense lives in your OS.
The weird thing is I often get asked what I think of the US by Americans whenever I go over (I'm British).

Now I have a very positive impression of the US overall, but it seems strange to ask a question in casual conversation might not like the answer to.
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Logging Django errors to Slack channels
> I don't know why someone downvoted you

How are you able to tell when someone gets downvoted???
Consuming Services in a Docker Swarm Mode Cluster
The project is a great idea and an open source way to decentralize the diverse training speech record data which previously was available only with big corporations like Google, FB & Amazon. This open data repo created using the common voice project will help startups & researchers to create generalized speech recognition algorithms and compete with other big players. The project is truly an amazing initiative to promote the open innovation on the web. Hope all will participate and contribute their voice and verify/validate other records submitted.
I disagree. I don't even think nuclear waste is that big of a problem. I think at this point is a efficiency and engineering issue. From 2010 to 2017 the $/Mhw projections in Solar have gone down by 81% while in Nuclear it was only 19%. Wind 63%. PV is lower than nuclear now. Estimates for 2022 are even more difference. Nuclear is just not worth it at this point.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source
Say goodbye to the Botts Dot, the bump that made your car go thump
as long as it doesn't go to 0 than I would say there is something to cryptocurrency. Having a way for early adopters to partake in the value creation of metcalfe's law is also an innovation.
It's a useful product. I'm actually surprised that the state of Stack Overflow clones isn't better. Although much of the value of SO comes from its knowledge base, the UI and organization and administration is nice to have pre-built. When I was looking around the top choices among open source/free were askbot (https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel) and osqa (https://github.com/dzone/osqa). There was also a plug-in for Confluence (Questions) and Answerhub (seemed to be the pro/paid version of OSQA). But none of them were as nice as stack overflow, which was surprising to me.
Size S is usually sold to be processed and not to end-consumers. If you really want to buy them you probably have most luck in organic food supermarkets (unless you need a few europallets of them).
Of course. You need to teach this with culture.

Come over and ask me something I know is in the wikki? Let's sit down and search the wikki together. No match? Then let's type up a result together and enter it for future use.

You can't fix a bad process with a magic app, but a magic app can help a process work much better.
I mean probably not, unless you can tag people to alert them somehow.
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Here at Manning (we're publishing Francois Book) have something in our early access program on this now - https://www.manning.com/books/the-art-of-data-usability
It's worth mentioning that neither light nor radio waves travel at 299,792,458 m/s through atmosphere. That's the speed of light in a vacuum.

An interesting question is whether radio waves, gamma radiation, and visible light all travel an identical speed through atmosphere.

The reason light slows down in atmosphere is because it hits atoms. It travels between each atom at the speed of light, but when it reaches an atom the radiation is absorbed and re-emitted, which introduces a delay. So the question that I'm wondering is: do different frequencies of radiation get absorbed and re-emitted at the same rate as every other frequency? That would give it identical speed. But if the absorption is different then presumably the speed would also be different.
As other people have mentioned it is generally not worth it, however I have seen some people print blocks that don't exist in traditional Lego sets. An example is a block consisting of three 2x8 flats joined in an equilateral triangle on the short edge.

Presumably you need to set your printer to its slowest and most precise mode to get a usable block.
The Holy Trinity of Startups – Three Key Elements of a Successful Product
A friend of mine has worked on AAA games in the past, and although he says it's fairly hard work, there is always work out there.

Also, he likes to chop and change every now and then, and the norm seems to be that once a company delivers a game the vast majority of the development team is made redundant. He takes the redundancy, moves to another company/game, and repeats this cycle.
The fun theory sequence is cool, and I think it's also useful as a mental model to create better products.
/sarcasm on

IntelliJ is finally available in the App Store? Count me in!

/sarcasm off
It's a vitamin, not a painkiller. Thus it will most likely succeed if a huge brand launches it like StackOverFlow.
I agree that Vehicle Miles Traveled will likely increase, but it's important to note just when that increase will occur. I suspect that increases occurring in off-peak hours can be handled by current infrastructure.
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Show HN: Pdd – tiny date, time diff calculator
>Intel's Atom Clover Trail series CPUs
Ask HN: How to convince my coworkers to ship imperfect code?
We’ve heard mantras many times. Mark Zuckerberg urges to „Move fast and break things” ( although it’s „move fast with stable infrastructure” now. ). Reid Hoffman says, that „If you are not embarrassed with first version of your product, you are too late”. And in my company, we are buying in the adage of moving fast.

In the trenches, close to the code, perfectionism is chipping away at our productivity.

"Let’s take time to make this piece future-proof because we never get around to refactoring things later”.
The motivation is noble - save ourselves and future victims of our code some problems.
But, what I’ve seen is:
- We never get around to refactoring because we take SO MUCH time honing v1 that nobody sane gives us more time to make it better. Maybe if we shipped sooner, we could refactor later? (That is my personal experience when I just wanted to refactor)
- We spent days making some solution perfect but it turns out the whole data structure is useless and has to be thrown away because it just does not fit to overall infrastructure.
- That making perfect blocks other people from iterating on it.

I found out that following approach works best

1 Hack together an end - to - end prototype to test if all pieces can work together in the hackieshest way possible
2 Design interfaces between the pieces
3 Extract classes, libraries, etc so improvements are easy to collaborate on
4 Ship MVP to production to get user feedback
5 Introduce every non-critical part of the feature while taking user feedback into account

Perfectionism is something that is plaguing authors and other professionals ( Although I hate „code is poetry” adage, I do see shared struggle between coders and authors and a lot of advice can be inferred from books like „Bird By Bird” by Anne Lamot - especially concept of „shitty first draft" )

Soo… How do I convince my coworkers to iterate more? Ideally, I’d like to create online perfectionism-antidote.
Or am I wrong maybe?
You've perfectly summed up my goal of making the transition back into Software Development. I'd like to be a well compensated, project based employee when possible. Then, I can have the skills and interest to work on my personal projects and if they provide gratification or income, then I will be hitting the desired work-life-creativity balance that is a bit tricky to land and maintain (in my experience). Thanks for your perspective!
It has been around since at least 2010 [1], and there was a more official release in mid 2013 [2].

[1] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/69436/169404

[2] https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/197549/169404
Ha, I never made that connection.
Because the fear is that the internet will become like TV: you can't buy access to 'TV', despite the fact there's no technical limitation. You have to buy packages, from different providers in order to get what you want. You have to sign up to hefty subscription packages with loads of bundled shite just to watch 7 hours of Game of Thrones.

Currently you buy access to the internet, and that's all internet, at equal priority. You can connect to my little $6 VPS or raspberry pi as easily as you can to Google or Facebook. And that's a great thing. If I want to get my show on TV, I have to negotiate with different channels and studios to try and get it broadcast, anywhere. And even then it would probably be on some shitty channel with tiny viewership, interspersed with ads for medication and financial scams.

On the internet I can publish on my own terms, and anybody else with an internet connection can view it, on my terms. Undermining net neutrality threatens this.

In the UK some ISPs are providing 'free unlimited access to WhatsApp'. It's just the start of a road that leads to the default model changes from paying for internet access, to most people getting free 'internet', restricted to just those companies who pay the ISP instead to provide free access. This is a slippery slope: once it starts, it will continue until smaller sites are no longer visible to people without 'premium' internet - who will be a minority. This is bad.
Just for fun, if you didn't know what "?int $var = null;" meant, how would you explain that to someone verbally, or better [like most programmers would] how would you search for this online?

Finding the definition of "!==" is easy, simply searching that [including quotes] gives me the answer. Looking for something like "?int =" just gives me useless responses upon first glance.