skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm encouraged to hear your opinion on it. A friend of mine who turned me on to elixir is a fan of GraphQL as well. So you have pushed me to spend the day reading up on it and experimenting with it. Thank you.
Hmm...looks like the repo is not available?[1]

[1] https://github.com/mono-ue/UnrealEngine
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Does the Random settings part in the creation of a blockchain sets implications on the future of the blockchain? ( eg. if random numbers are specifically chosen instead of being truly random )
I can see how my writing would have been misunderstood so let me rephrase.

They can't do it without the Central Bank and it's the same mechanism as allows for QE. It's only possible in a FIAT based system.

When banks do it it's called fractional reserve banking but the mechanism is fundamentally the same, the ability to "create money".
We do for niche uses. Runways, bunkers, etc can have even 2 year curing times to make "hardened concrete", which is up to 7x stronger than the same formulation allowed to dry out instead of keeping it wet for extended curing.
Yes definitely agree, however

1) if the battery needs replacing within warranty doesn't that mean the user shouldn't have to? There is of course a case where the user thinks the battery life is bad but apple doesn't agree so the warranty doesn't help.

2) there is a difference between replaceable and user replaceable and my point was that "replacable" is usually enough since batteries are so rarely replaced compared to e.g screens. I have no stats but my personal guess would be that an average iPhone has at least one screen replacement.
It is super fast. A while ago when I went to the ER with a broken arm they gave me fentanyl as an injection. As I remember it, it took less than ten seconds to go from extreme pain to not caring.
Tiny Phillips screws are not optimal for assembly. The Phillips head is designed to cam out before a screw can be twisted off, which is great of you are screwing boards together, but not really any sort of criteria you care about for automated assembly where the finished product needs to be blemish free.

This is why you see a lot of Torx heads on electronics and automobiles.

As far as the penalobular screw goes… yeah, that is I think deliberately weird, but when you buy your replacement battery or screen or whatever part, the company will either include for free or minimal charge the pentalobular bit, so it isn't really stopping you from repairing. What I think the bit does prevent is consumers opening and peeking around in their phone. Curiosity is great for learning, but it generally doesn't come with a grounding strap. The ICs in the phone are trivially damaged, not necessarily immediately destroyed, but set on a path to future failure by static charges too small to be noticed by the curious finger. Apple finds themselves on the warranty hook to replace these failed boards. It is certainly in their interest to keep sight seers out of the phones.
For 'lightweight logic' maybe, but using GCed language for almost all logic executing every frame is bad idea.
Semantics, but you said "replaceable battery" not "user replaceable battery.
Guess I shouldn't have assumed. They were certainly early on at any case.
Many things will be left in 2,000 years. The Killarney Copper Mines were in use starting over 4,000 years ago, and we've found remains from that era. Think of all the tunnels and mines we've built, many with things inside.

The faces of the four presidents carved on the illegally confiscated Six Grandfathers aren't going to erode away in 2,000 years.

Watch the long-running BBC series "Time Team" to see just how much is in the ground still from the Middle Ages, Roman era, and even back to the neolithic.

Our trash heaps are the middens of the future.
Alternatively, it helps illustrate the complexity of the problems solved by natural selection over long periods of iteration.
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Your comment reminds me of this, near the original Guildford (with a 'd' :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanborough_Grange
Agreed, 100%.

The problem is that a lot of the costs of unsustainable industry are a) externalized, b) largely invisible, or c) subsidized/hidden (e.g. burying replacement costs in contracts).

Safety and environmental regulations suffer from similar difficulties

That means you need leadership from government, as was the case with something like that Clean Air Act.

Though I must admit, in this case, I doubt you'll see that happen...
I'm not really convinced they got the fundamentals correct in the beginning, though. From a designer's perspective, the hardware requirement alone is a fatal error - it's a totally unacceptable level of initial lock-in and expense. Fixing that actually looks like a major change to the merits of the device.
C# is Unity's main programming language, now there's this for Unreal, and Godot 3.0 will also have C# support.

Is C# becoming the lingua franca of modern game engines?
A bigger facility, at that. Sounds less like trouble and more like growth.
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Everything you described is just standard engineering practice. I've always found it funny how software developers call themselves "engineers" while working nothing like them.
>And it's most definitely illegal.

Under what jurisdiction?

>The rediculous part is that she was there to supposedly stop "human trafficking", but her and her boatmates were chanting "no illegal immigration" the entire time.

In this case it's one in the same. The vast majority of these people aren't refugees:

http://i.imgur.com/WCBSbMP.png

https://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/12FDB/producti...

The vast majority are adult males: https://i.imgtc.com/9epy1e1.jpg

Gee, I wonder how a large ship like that is funded?

>No one except these far right groups think that NGOs are working with smugglers to get people into Europe.

Wrong. The Chief Prosecutor of Catania, Sicily thinks so: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-06/soros-linked-undesi...
> It seems hard to imagine that humanity could be completely wiped out. Billions dying in a huge catastrophe? Maybe. Terrible survival conditions for the survivors? Possibly. Complete annihilation? Improbable.

"Maybe" and "Possibly" are pretty vague. You seem to imply the odds are quite low. You list the last case as "Improbable". Do you really have any solid ground for making these judgements?

You say it seems hard to imagine. One thing that history clearly shows is that the future is always hard to imagine, and that you always have to expect the unexpected.
That headline is misleading. CNBC is reporting this:

"The company's employees were given the option to transfer to the new facility located in Linden, New Jersey. The 1,270 cut jobs indicate those who decided not to transfer, the company said."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/04/blue-apron-to-cut-more-than-...
> Likewise, even the apparently planned outages at my previous location exceeded the 30 minutes. (It's still good, but not that good.)

Yeah, they're starting to do maintenance here now, too (for introducing the 500/200mbps VDSL2), but I've never been with Telekom, and my existing ISPs never had real issues.
It's easy, just join one of his companies.
Most employees have the same amount of purpose, just the money is unevenly distributed.
This was an unfortunate experience despite having potential. Great example of the 2-sided nature of mass-anonymity.
Not true. There may be some, but most mosaics use about 7-10mm thick stone tile. I have seen a lot of them... They last because they are covered, and the better preserved are often in dry climates. Archeological sites tend to cover them back up with a layer of gravel to protect them.
Starting your own youtube/facebook-like platform with all it's network effects is similar to starting your own government.
If by "tech" you mean mostly computers and software, then WebAssembly is exciting. We've had 5 or more years now of companies inventing languages that compile back to Javascript, even though Javascript is a terrible target for compilation. WebAssembly was designed to be a true compilation target, and will allow an endless number of languages to be used on the browser.

WebAssembly helps create more space between the kind of languages that developers want to use, and any particular GUI output, such as HTML. In a different thread, I just wrote about what is wrong with HTML:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14926845

If by "tech" you don't mean computers/software, then CRSPR is clearly going to be a huge thing going forward.
Readers might also be interested to hear that Timothy Gowers, Cambridge mathematics professor and one of the foremost voices of the Elsevier boycott, has pioneered the creation of a peer-reviewed mathematics journal which acts as an Arxiv overlay and is free to publish in.

https://gowers.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/discrete-analysis-an...
As far as I can tell, the only thing blockchainy about this is "Share&Charge and Slock.it are working hard in surfacing the blockchain aspects of the application for our more technical users. For example, we hope to eventually be able to load separately generated private keys within the apps."

That's all?
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Sorry, can't really answer; I read articles as an interested computer geek, but I'm definitely not an IP lawyer. And most of us tend to make a mess out of patent/copyright/trademark issues when we try to stray outside of our expertise...

I tried to disambiguate that lots of people claimed new design was patented; it may however have just been rare / impractical to obtain initially.
The things we have today aren't as new as we like to think. The Antikythera mechanism is a clockwork calculator for astronomical phenomena from 2150 years ago. It wasn't surpassed until Babbage.
ask the butt-hurts
No, it's not worth $300. But I didn't pay for it, so I like it.
Writing your own transducers is hard and error prone, but I think using and composing the ones given you by clojure.core is actually rather easy (Especially using the 3 arity of `into`).

I don't use so many `->>` anymore thanks to them.
Totally, I think people have this weird sense of entitlement when it comes to high-quality datasets without the commensurate respect for how they're created or the level of effort that goes into them.

Fei-Fei Li gives a good sense for this in her history of ImageNet [1][2].

[1] https://qz.com/1034972/the-data-that-changed-the-direction-o...

[2] http://image-net.org/challenges/talks_2017/imagenet_ilsvrc20...
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I think we disagree with definitions of "quality control". My definition goes hand in hand with consistency.
Software is narrative
Well if social media has taught us anything about the intermixing of social media and work,...everything! I hope their safeguards are strong.
this one is good too https://hazyresearch.github.io/snorkel/
Also https://pointsproject.org for those interested in new curriencies
Use breaks and sleep less once in a while. It's just what you've got to do if you want to learn new things outside of your current obligations.
> including them in a search engine I built

Awesome idea.
Is the content of the links also evaluated when you trigger search?
Wikipedia entry has a good history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_Strategies

There is a good superset list at http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/place-nireland/A635528

I blogged about 10 for startups in http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2007/08/29/oblique-strategies-f...
I think we can all assume that threats of violence and bodily harm are not and should not be covered by the 1st amendment. Only using the US eccentric amendment as an example.
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All the languages you've mentioned will also expand your brain, but in a different direction, mostly related to correctness and provability of specifications.

Clojure will expand it in different ways. Here's some examples:

- Interactive programming
- Persistent data structures
- Immutability
- Code that writes code
- Functional programming
- Extendable polymorphism
- Lazy evaluation
- Eager evaluation
- Parallel computing
- Dynamic variable extent
- Recursion
- Concurrent programming
- Declarative programming
- Aspect oriented programming
- Logic programming
- Code as data
- Software transactional memory
- Generative testing
- Contracts guards
- Optional type systems
- Conditional restarts
- Monads
- Variant types
- Collection abstractions
- Array programming
- Map Reduce
- List comprehensions
- Reactive programming
- And more...
Hammerbeam truss or roof, is the search term. There are some lovely
examples.

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

I am thinking the Hammerbeam design was a later development
of what we see in the tithe barn designs.
Didn't Yik Yak die when they started eliminating anonymity?
Mine is a humble Galaxy S3, bought when it first came out, now running Android 7.1.2. Since neither Android nor the handset maker has a chokehold on me, I can choose to upgrade/downgrade, muck around in general. It is my device to do whatever I wish.
Plus the lovely external SD card to put whatever I want and not rely on any @#$% cloud.
If we use some less "straw" metric than yours we can get meaningful comparisons. Let's try something like degree days * population and do the comparison. Let's try industrial output per BTU or KW-H. Let's try energy produced vs energy consumed.

Point is, conversation is more informatve if one isn't trying to make some kind of political shot just because one doesn't like Texas or Texans.

> They're sucking all the oxygen out of the room in more ways than one.

That's rude, please stop it.
"visionary CEO" ? here is an overview.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/arduino-federico-musto-...
No script should parse ls output, though. There are always better ways than parsing ls output.
The purpose is generally an improvement -- ease of fastening compared to other heads, faster assembly time, easier to manufacture the heads, etc etc. Check out the history of Robertson and Phillips.
Smartphones are highly "engineered" products (in the sense that they are more than a simple combination of off-the-shelf parts). And typically the more "engineered" a product is, the more difficult it is for an end-user to service. That goes double if it's extremely space-constrained, as engineers are forced to get "creative" to fit their constraints.

As a relatable example, consider PC building. In a standard PC case, you can pretty much throw together any selection of (compatible) parts and expect them to work. In contrast very compact mini-ITX builds can be very challenging, not all combinations of parts will fit in a given case, heat becomes challenging to dissipate without excessive noise, and assembly can be very fiddly, with exactly one right order to put all the parts together. And even if you are doing the smallest fiddliest case you can buy, you still will not actually approach the sizes that are possible with an engineered product like the MSI Trident 3/Corsair One/Zotac Magnus let alone the noise profiles.

That said, Apple definitely crosses the line from "compact product that is necessarily difficult to service" into actively obstructing service efforts, which is a problem. For example I accept that soldering parts down is thinner than socketing them, but it's an asshole move to glue components into place.

Apple is certainly not alone here, however. It's virtually impossible to find a phone without an integral (non-replaceable) battery nowadays, and MicroSD slots are rather uncommon as well (yes Google, I know there's a lot of bad flash out there, that's why I source nice stuff from camera stores).

I don't have any good suggestions to fix this, there's no "but wait there's a better way" at the end of this post. There was a prototype phone a while back that was built from pluggable "modules" but obviously it hasn't taken off. The closest thing is probably a dedicated hacker/tinkerer phone like the Neo900 but you will definitely have to live with it being 3-4x as thick as an iPhone. The iPhone is making enough compromises in terms of functionality (eg battery life, external antenna connector, etc) that there might be a niche for a more full-featured device but it's clearly not what the mass market wants.
Whatever people's opinions are of the dangers is independent of whatever the actual dangers are/aren't.

Two things are worth keeping in mind.

One, in real terms the human race has existed for a tiny amount of time. What we've experienced so far doesn't tell us anything definitive about what can happen.

Two, a catastrophe that wipes out humanity only needs to happen once. You don't get a second chance, and history won't be any guide if it did happen.
Laravel

Tons of PHP programmers and PHP is a lot more mature language now.
I suspect "safely" here applies to the device, not the technician, though a short on a pair of unfused battery leads will still be exciting for the technician. Imperceptible static is a silent killer for the device.
There are many companies that just sell software.
A bit of context:

Due to regulations about advertising on publicly owned wavelengths, one cannot place a 'direct response' ad on a public radio station (think of your local NPR station here). Instead, there is an 'underwriting message' allowed– typically shorter than a traditional ad, and with no direct sales pitch.

Usually somebody that buys podcast ads is also buying radio ads, and sometimes the terms they use get muddy. 'Underwrite' is probably the wrong term to use for podcast advertising, but since it's frequently used for public radio the meaning would be clear if you were in the industry.
Also the collective goals of humankind have changed. We can't measure past civilization "progress" on our metrics of progress today. They weren't trying to "progress" in the ways we are progressing today.
Not really any point to a single episode leak for something that will come out in a few days anyway.
> It's got to be a bit more consumer-friendly than this

If the demand is there, I encourage you to build such a solution! The BOM should only be ~$30-40, maybe a bit more.

> and retrofittable into existing house wiring including power supply

This is simple. You simply disconnect the wiring on the outside of the house where the ILEC terminates their on-prem wiring, and plug this device in to the house wiring (this is usually how cable providers and other non-ILECS do it when they put equipment on prem to provide phone services over fiber or coax). You then battery back it with a lead acid cell.
So.. Their orders won't decrease 24%

The remaining employees will have to work faster and harder.
Tokyo's subways and railroads are privately owned and ticket costs are based on the distance traveled. Americans always seem to want to pay $2 whether they go 5 blocks or 5 miles, among other unreasonable expectations for public transport.
I would have to disagree with that definition. There are tons of companies that are scaling non-linearly without using any particularly new technologies.

I don't consider a frying pan manufacturer a tech company just because they have managed to grow by optimizing their supply chain and productivity.

Alternatively I also think a company that makes brand new technology year after year even if they scaling one for one with hiring is still a tech comapny

I think what you describe might just be a general guideline for identifying a financially successful company not necessarily a tech company. People hear VC funding or IPO and often automatically think it must be a tech company by conflating technology and financial success.
Bit too risky to upgrade, don't want the POTUS's phone to spontaneously combust.
What a way to find out that Tyrion is John Snow's son!
With the number of publicly known security holes in the last Apache Open Office release, I feel this is getting close to criminal behaviour -- waiting this long without making a new release, or making clear at least on the download page the software is unsafe, shouldn't be acceptable (or in my opinion legal).
You only think "class" is self explanatory because you already learned what it means.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox

It's not even just picking something up, it's picking one specific item out of an arbitrarily messy or overstuffed bin without dislodging or dropping anything else. Items in a bin can be wedged anywhere, in any position, in nondescript boxes only identifiable by the ASIN, or a vague natural language description. It's a hard visual logic, inference and manual dexterity problem made harder by unpredictability and harder still by the need to meet quotas, and every job has its own mess of them.

And on top of that, employees in Amazon warehouses are often cross-trained to save costs, which means you either need one robot that can unload, decant, move juice carts, pick, stow, pallete-stow, etc, at a moment's notice or else multiple dedicated robots for each task.

It's something humans do so easily that Amazon can justify paying almost nothing for the work, but still way beyond what AI and robotics can achieve. The Kiva pods seem to be the current state of the art for Amazon warehouses, and all they seem to do is move bins around (and can't even get that right sometimes.)
I never understood the allure of these games. It seems to me that the progressive challenges in these games didn't stem from novelty or substantive changes but rather from the simple artifice of reducing the reward and increasing the "danger" for increasingly repetitive and identical game play.
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A thought just crossed my mind: can you patent rediscovered ancient technology? I mean, prior art and all... (not joking)
Of course the luxury homes were for an elite, but forget about the "average" Roman being a slave, by definition a Roman was NOT a slave (and a slave by definition not a Roman), actually the Romans were the first to "invent" the figure of the "liberto" (freedman in English):

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

that - once freed - became a citizen (with some very marginal restrictions).
what is the relationship between a concurrency primitive like coroutines and a view library like react?
AR. Being able to superimpose software on top of real objects is amazing. It has so much economic potential that it hurts not being in the space already (working on that though). I feel AR will be the app craze 2.0.
It's forked from EpicGames/UnrealEngine, you have to be logged in and have access. https://www.unrealengine.com/ue4-on-github
Nope. This project is using patched engine and easily could be in the same position as present Linux support (which is "Builds for, not working well").
...and of course there is a Bitcoin connection.
I dunno. Except for one very specific project, I've yet to see a "Wow!" use case for transducers. The only place where they really shine is working with channels, but I think channels are a big design mistake (after extensive work trying to tame them).
I need to replace my old iMac. I can't stand to not use SSD anymore. I can't upgrade the new iMacs to SSD, and the prices that Apple give me are too much. I can't afford it, and I can't change to SSD later.

So, I go hackintosh or find a way to be rich somehow. The first look more possible.
We've gone from "Steve Bannon is literally a KGB agent!" to "Steve Bannon cheated at World of Warcraft!" I can't be the only one that finds this amusing, right?
I think I covered that.