skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm skeptical, but it was a genuine question. I am doubly skeptical that the best response to skepticism is downvoting rather than articulating a response.
I'm generally for private enterprise, and It seems rather questionable to me to say that everyone who takes any Government money under any circumstances is equivalent. Musk has indeed taken a lot of Government money, and more importantly IMHO hired a bunch of people who got their experience in space and rocketry at NASA, but does that make him more or less private than, say, Lockheed-Martin or the other usual contractors?

I would say that the aerospace companies doing cost-plus contracting for loosely defined projects with fuzzy requirements and no prospect for sustainable private operations are in a very different business than companies that do fixed-price contracts with the Government for specific services with an eye towards capturing a private market in the future. The cost-plus guys are IMHO government agencies in all but name, plus some fat paychecks and kickbacks going to a few connected people. The fixed-price guys are IMHO normal private companies that happen to contract with the Government for their normal profitable services sometimes. I don't think it makes much difference if the first business that funded initial development was all government contracts - the private market for launch services is real, and SpaceX has a plan for making a profit in it and is progressing towards capturing a solid market share in it.
Nictotine isn't so bad, actually.[1] You seem like a science denier. Next thing we know you'll be telling us the earth won't burn to a crisp from the poisonous gas known as CO2.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-nicotine-all-b...
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Hi Mattl,

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to read and respond to my questions, much appreciated.

Cheers.
Could you give some examples of 'neat' things that needed to keep going no matter what on django (thus switching to Phoenix)
I am curious what their strategy is.

Cloud storage by itself (just like delivery) is a commodity, and if you look at the pricing trends per GB, it's a race to the bottom (will be interesting to see which CDN decides to become "free" first).

So, without a suite of offerings a la AWS - how will they make money in this market?
I've seen tons of people using iPod touches as dev devices. Much cheaper having multiple iPod touches running older iOS, or iOS betas, then having that many iPhones.
Zero firsthand experience, but it sounds like you can store 1gb of music on the watch itself (and you can up that to 2gb) and play via Bluetooth headphones.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204691

Funny enough, the Shuffle had 2gb capacity over the past 7 years. I'm guessing that was the sweet spot for Apple.
If you really dig around during that era, you'll also find a few books and magazine articles about converting certain small cars (things like the Gremlin and Pinto) to all-electric drive trains - and even custom hybrid drive-trains. The main downsides of the time were lack of battery technology and effective motor controllers (most affordable - for the time - controllers were for brushed motors).
And much much more then some schedule 1 drugs. But hey, alcohol and ciggarets are cool, but LSD or some plants for which there is no known overdose can get you a lifetime in prison
There is really no shortage of introduction articles, starting from Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming

or Nasa:

https://climate.nasa.gov/

or by now, just inspecting the measured global temperature by eye

https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

Of course, these are introductory texts, so you should expect that there are some simplifications. You can of course just read the IPCC report,

https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/

however be advised that they are on the cold side of the estimates. (Really if you would read the IPCC report with the same critical eye you are trying to nitpick the NY times, you would see that each and every scenario includes at least a plateau in emissions, they just don't have a scenario were emissions just rise like in the last 100 years.)

> First off, your observation of the ridiculous x-axis labels. Really, "Extremely Hot" Is that supposed to scare me or something?

You could of course inspect the linked paper, "Extremely hot" refers to summers that were once in thirty years hot in the time period from 1951 to 1980. It is just an accurate label.
This is Richard: a product manager at Wasabi. Yes we work with the boto SDK.

you can find all of the tested compatibility our PACT team has done here: https://wasabi.com/help/interop-results/
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You misspelled "genius" as "genious".
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.6888189,-122.4091851,410a,35...
it's really the shape of the projection of the shadow of the moon onto the irregular surface and doesn't really have to do with distance to the equator.
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Pretty sure this is 56 feet long, not 56 square feet in area. So the per-square-foot price is overinflated.
I may just be a bit thick, but what's the significance of Aug 21 in this? (In plain terms, if you can.)

Just for context: I have actually observed a total Solar eclipse, and while it was pretty significant and "awesome" in confirming my (philosophical term:) belief in Science[1], it -- in no way -- implied much else.

[1] It was predicted at least 2 years in advance... which is astounding given the speed at which the earth is hurtling around its orbit, etc. I don't think they even needed much more than Newton's laws for that prediction.
It seems like targeting the cancer-causing agents in tobacco would be more important than targeting nicotine. With less nicotine, some smokers will inevitably smoke more, thereby consuming more cancer-causing chemicals than before this move by the FDA.
Vapes! I see these smoke breathing dragons all the time!
This isn't an effective way to engage with and change someone's point of view, and there's plenty of science on that. It may be intellectually satisfying to you personally, but that's no better than what you are denigrating here. If you actually care about the cause you profess to be for with your actions, please find a different way to express it, lest you hurt while trying to help.
On "initial interest confusion":

http://www.klemchuk.com/30-trademark-infringement-by-meta-ta...
> My guess is that it's because it's actually hard.

I'd imagine it's hard because the backing data is unreliable. Between hand typed listings and tax records, there's a lot of places for things to go off the rails if you set an algorithm loose on unmassaged RE data.
Users still not always know when iPhone Messages are encrypted
Thank you for sharing this. I think a lot of people here forget that there is no such thing as common sense, only hard earned experience. I thought you acted in true start-up fashion, learned a lot, and made your customers happy.
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First step:
Start giving normal talks. Does not need to be tech talk. Visit your local Toastmaster Club and start working on the Competent Communication handbook. It will be fun, do not worry. You will get instant feedbacks, helping you improving. Being constantly on stage gives you confidence: You can do it! It's easy!

Second step:
Tech talks:
- Know your audience: Who will be there? What knowledge do they have?
- Know your topic: Even if everybody understands your speech, there will be some questions in the Q/A.
- Keep it simple: If you cannot explain it to your 9 years old, you do not understand your topic.
Kind of like how most wasabi in the U.S. isn't really wasabi, it's just horseradish? lol
I don't think the single payer system here will treat me unless I am dying. I've waited four months to be scheduled for a dermatologist, each time it's a new "clerical error" or "honest mistake". First they "forgot to fax the file", then the dermatologist "forgot to process the fax", then they "forgot to schedule your appointment", surely they'll "get you in for Tuesday next week, if that's alright with you" :-
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It might be easier for residents and elected officials to welcome growth if the city received more tax dollars for doing so. But the opposite is true.

Because of tax limits established in 1978 by Proposition 13, local governments generally receive more revenue from sales and hotel room taxes than property taxes. Proposition 13 limited property tax rates to 1% of a home’s taxable value and restricted how quickly that taxable value could increase after a purchase.

Last year, Brisbane hired a consultant who found that the city would net $1 million a year in tax revenue by approving the Baylands. But if the city instead approved a project with lots more commercial space, a larger hotel and no housing, Brisbane would gain $9 million annually — an amount equivalent to more than half the city’s current day-to-day operating budget.

I have suggested before that tax incentives are part of why we have this issue. This isn't exactly the way I figured it was screwing things up, but it is evidence that tax structures are part of the problem.
For a minimalist static site generator, I think it's hard to beat just writing your own that does exactly what you want and nothing else. In a hundred lines or less of Python, you can have your minimal generator, know exactly how it works and how to extend it, and be able to refresh your memory on conventions/configuration with thirty seconds of scrolling through the source.
Thanks but I'm looking for something simple like returning plain text in 200 HTTP response using only built-in API. Completely minimal example. Using framework for me now would be like learning JavaScript by writing SPA in React.
By that logic why is the DEA not setting the price of drugs i get from my dealer?
Scientists find moon of Saturn has chemical that could form 'membranes'
Could you elaborate on things you found worse in AoE2 HD vs the original?

I've never played the original, but I'm a huge fan of the HD release and all of it expansions.
> I often wish for interactive, annotated, "hypertextual" versions of books -- technologically it should be trivial to build.

Heavily annotated books pre-date the Internet - my edition of M&M footnotes and endnotes the hell out of the book for context.
I carry an iPod Touch with my main phone (Nexus 5X). I use the iPod as a dedicated MP3 player. There are a few advantages:

* Much better battery life than a phone (> 80% left after 8 hours of playback on a 6 year old device).

* I can dedicate the full capacity to music storage and free up the same space on my phone.

* No need to change apps to toggle music.

* No music interruptions due to notifications.
That is good news. This means that even if CoinBase doesn't initially support the fork, they can do so at any later time without any losses to their user base.
I leave my touch in my car
It seems like a lot of my younger friends are using a "juul", which has a ton of nicotine in it. I'm kind of scared for them.
I wasn't implying it was against the community guidelines.

What I was suggesting was that new hardware always comes out and it's always bigger/faster (and even 2x improvement isn't even historically that much). Are the people upvoting this because they think every single new piece of hardware is newsworthy, or that there's something special here (e.g. they feel intel has a monopoly and are invested in AMDs success), or are they shill accounts ?
>I wonder if it's simply a matter of engineer/development headcount

That may be one way to look help define it.

However, in Redfin's case, it's simpler than that.
The 3 founders[1] are David Eraker (software programmer), Michael Dougherty (electrical engineering & programming maps), and David Selinger (ex Amazon data mining).

Since the founders are still active and dictate the company's "DNA"... it looks like a tech company to me.

Similar to Jeff Bezos (computer science with some programming before D.E. Shaw) starting a tech web company that happened to sell books instead of thinking of him as a bookseller that wanted to be online.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfin#History
Let's assume that the 4400 homes are $1 million each; that will be $4.4 billion in property value; property tax (aside from that dedicated to approved bonds) is fixed at 1%, so with million dollar homes it would gross $44 million in property taxes. So, it'd take much more expensive homes to net around $50 million for the city, and while I don't see a clear estimate of the price of the homes, the fact that the article points to affordability as an issue addressed suggest the plan isn't to build million-dollar homes.
Intel could still use better TIM, or even the fancy liquid metal stuff. The fact that you can gain massive thermal benefits just from swapping it out with something better than the stuff they're using on a $1000+ CPU is pretty terrible. Even from a business perspective, a big temp drop is pretty marketable, especially for laptops where I'm sure they're doing the same thing. It's like buying a Ferrari and having it come with Arizonan tires which are glued on.
You'd be hard pressed to find a processor without a WDT
FWIW, it looks like Audible's version is Karpelson.
>They're long-term residents looking out for what's best for their community.

No, they're just looking out for themselves. The community is hurt by their greed for massively inflated property values, low taxes, and keeping the younger generation from living the lives they want.

If that makes me negative, fine. But if they are white-washing their behavior by pretending to be concerned for "the community" when really they only care about themselves, yes, that is the very definition of asshole.
Motivation:

1. is building isolated components which can be used everywhere without additional dependencies.

2. is to use indented language because it takes less space than regular (30 % of space)

3. is an isomorphism between layout and style.

4. is to use functional aspects of livescript like carry, partial application, piping, etc.

5. is to apply carried prelude library to layout

6. spend less time for coding but more time for my company building and networking.

7. Enjoy each line.

8. Do not use old standards but move everything forward.

9. Use light-weight tools
Tracing a packet journey using Linux tracepoints, perf and eBPF
Gotta keep the live stock healthy long enough to maximize future rent extraction potential.
Just a couple years after Nintendo in 1889.
This is Richard: a product manager with Wasabi

Presently our main data centers are in Massachussetts (home sweet home) and Virginia (similar to that of AWS east). Having our data located here has advantages in the present cloud ecosystem that we are excited to roll our in the months to come.
Quake Live is also a multi-player browser game.
Same for Travian.
My current favorite local example of this taken to its ridiculous ends is this one: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/09/internal-affairs-san-j... . Where San Jose and Santa Clara are going back and forth suing each other about who gets to have the businesses and who has to bear the "burden" of having housing.
The residents of Brisbane get to inhale deeply of the fumes generated by nearby enormous mountains of garbage from SF and the bay area on a daily basis. I understand completely why they'd oppose development. Now I suspect if there were a deal in play to remove the awful stench once and for all, there'd be something in it for them.

Right now, they should drag this out as long and as hard as they can IMO lest they get screwed again. Because if the place didn't smell like a$$ on a daily basis, it would have been discovered and gentrified long ago (I remember checking the place out myself in 2007). It could be a fantastic suburb of SF in a world where win/win usually triumphed over I got mine so @#$% you. But that's not how this area works in my experience.
That's correct. See https://facebook.github.io/graphql/#sec-Serialization-Format.

> GraphQL does not require a specific serialization format. However, clients should use a serialization format that supports the major primitives in the GraphQL response.

JSON is preferred, but not required.
Nicotine on its own is a highly addictive substance which provides no health benefits. It should be targeted just as well.
First, actually adding airbags does not add thousands of dollars to the cost of a car. Hundreds, maybe.

Second, I will gladly pay extra for such a highly effective safety feature.

Third, I'm quite certain the medical costs saved by airbags every year will more than offset the cost of installing them on every new car. And that's just cold calculation, without bringing the moral value into it.
Disclosure: I work at Datadog --

Tracing requests across services and hosts to identify bottlenecks is one reason why Datadog decided to build a tracing component in APM! A flamegraph is one such method to visually infer critical path analysis that Datadog APM supports. Some obvious things to consider are ease of setup and whether the libraries and languages you use are supported. Some not-so-obvious things to consider are:

(1) whether you wish to infer this from a single request, or across multiple requests,
(2) how to define "interesting" traces -- as you could be collecting millions or billions of traces in production
(3) how to create a bigger, "aggregate" picture across individual traces.

We're working on additional ways to easily identify critical paths as well.
I forgot that iPod Touch didn't have Touch ID or 3D Touch. But does it really not have a GPS? That's interesting. I guess the assumption is you're not going to go out and about with Maps since you're tethered to a wifi network.
Not directly, but they decide the hurdles someone has to jump through in order to get a drug. They control whether it's out on the shelf or behind the counter. They control whether a prescription is required. They control whether generics are approved, etc.
They should add a 3kW+ inverter option to use all your favorite electric tools in the field, making this basically a large battery on wheels.
If you want to get things done in .NET Core, use C#. If you want to learn functional programming then sure, use F# and the full .NET Framework...but good luck finding help when you need it because compared to the number of people Elixir, Scala, etc - hardly anyone is using F#.

I started learning F#, but ultimately I decided I'd rather learn either Scala or Elixir because they are more "mainstream" functional programming options. If anyone doubts this, compare the number of F# repos to Elixir/Scala on Github.

I've voiced my frustration on several Github issues about the fact that F# is understaffed at MS, that F# is a 2nd class citizen to C#, etc - to no avail. It's fine, management at MS makes those calls...but then they shouldn't be surprised that there's no uptake on F#'s usage.
It's a high reliability, low maintenance weapon. As a result the AK-47 is the weapon of choice for poorly trained armies.

That gives it a worse reputation than most other rifles.
That's saying that steel is responsible for car crashes. Nicotine isn't harmless but switching to pipes, gum, or patches is a hell of an improvement. Nicotine on its own is in the same league as caffeine.
This is Richard: a product manager with Wasabi

sorry to say that we don't also make the fire alarms. That would be cool technology to work on though!
What were the main uses of this data? There's actually a lot of interesting uses here. Personally, I've been wanting some easy way to label certain circuits and outlets in my home via an app, and then get a real-time read on how much it is costing me to use them based on my area's energy rates.

I've long thought that simply making myself more aware of the actual dollar costs of usage for various things (leaving lights and computers on, etc.) could be a great way to nudge me towards better energy consumption habits (ditto for water usage).
Meanwhile, I just got something to switch my iPod Classic to flash storage, expanding the storage up to half a terabyte or so.

I got the largest capacity iPhone a year ago and I still have to manage space on it.
I would argue that F# is a better business programming language for a lot of reasons.

First, the type system is great when it comes to modeling the problem and communicating that model with non-technical project managers because writing good data models often means you write clear code that's idiosyncratic to the language. My experience is non-technical people understand clear data models and pipelines and those are two areas where F# code reads very clearly.

If OOP is your thing, I can argue it's a much better OOP language than C#. From a SOLID and Design Patterns perspective, the language has been streamlined to encourage a good OOP style by default. Design Patterns are simpler (Factory, Builder, Decorator, Adaptor, etc). Dependency Injection is very natural and implementing fluent APIs is a lot simpler.

The biggest benefits come from maintaining good hygiene. You're a lot less likely to have null reference exceptions or introduce invalid states. Race conditions are harder when most things are immutable by default. You're also less likely to encode things poorly because your type system sucks. You'll think more carefully about how you write loops, ifs and switch statements because the compiler catches and prevents you from doing boneheaded things. It's also has features that prevent you from accidentally adding cyclomatic complexity. For example, lower-level modules are not allowed to refer to higher-level modules. It's also harder to accidentally make functions recursive because it requires a special "rec" keyword.

I realize people dismiss hygiene, but this stuff really goes a long way to help manage complexity when it comes to growing and maintaining applications over long periods of time.

I'm not going to claim it's great at everything. It's a wonderful back-end and business language, and it's fantastic at modeling business objects and records. However, the tooling isn't there for doing WPF applications. Also, sometimes you come across issues with libraries that work well with C# defaults but not F# defaults. For example, F# properties tend to be read-only by default, so libraries that hydrate objects with data don't work unless you explicitly make those properties writable.

Nevertheless, if nothing else was an issue (buy in, training, etc), I'd opt to write the business logic in F# 9 times out of 10 times and save C# for the front-end (tooling).
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To my understanding it's a thirty year baseline - beginning Jan '51 to end Dec ' 80 (inclusive) is thirty years.
Everything above the machine level is magic (the computer is doing stuff behind the scenes for you, abstracting away from all the unnecessary detail).
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Thanks for the hard work! Looking for to upgrade