skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still seems pretty cheap to me. I pay $12 to Netfix, HBO GO is free with my internet subscription (okay, the Cable co gives me "free" lifeline cable + HBO GO for less money than internet-only, they're that desperate to count me as a subscriber).. and $100/yr to NFL.com to stream games. Plus whatever I pay for in Prime/AppleTV content. $20/mo is a hell of a lot cheaper than I've ever gotten out the door for with Cable TV.
It looks like the theme's titles and lead paras are in serif fonts, and the main body/p text is in sans-serif... Not my cup of tea, but a fairly common pattern.
> a society occasionally does, in aggregate, feel it needs to do something

Perhaps, but neither of your examples show that. They just show a portion of society feeling the need to do something and imposing it on everybody else.

> I was demonstrating how the American refusal to cooperate led to a civil war

Yes, exactly: refusal to cooperate, according to my definition of cooperate--work together to achieve a common goal--because the American abolitionists had a flawed concept of "cooperate". The British were willing to cooperate (in my sense) with the slaveowners, by buying the slaves' freedom, in order to achieve the common goal of avoiding civil war. The American abolitionists, because the very thought of cooperating (in my sense) with slaveowners gave them apoplexy, refused to consider any such alternative.

But with your definition of "cooperate", the abolitionists were doing it right--that's my point. What happened in the US is what happens when your version of "cooperate"--feel you need to do something and just make everybody do it--is working.

> Your assertion that your conclusion is somehow more valid that that of, well, just about everyone

Is based on the very simple and common sense criterion of predictive power. Whereas yours is based on an apparent mystical belief that if enough people agree with something, it must be right. You have offered no other argument.

> no one is saying that

Yes, they are. The rest of the world is saying that everyone should spend huge amounts of money on the Paris agreement, just like Kyoto before it, even though everyone admits that it will have negligible impact on the climate. That is shooting yourself in the foot.
You shouldn't worry about the police as much as MVTRAC and Vigilant Solutions
Liquid cancer? C'mon, that's a bit extreme.

Getting down to the point, can you imagine the political fallout from crushing the value of a gas car? It's a truck sized political landmine, and no party is willing to touch that thing with a hundred foot stick.

Gas still has significant advantages that electric has yet to match. Worst gas has 53x the specific energy of the best Li-ion, and even with a hundred % efficient induction motor and a 10% efficient motor (try closer to 30% realistically), gas is still a much more energy dense fuel.

Still, gas has a ton going for it. It's quicker to "charge" by an order of magnitude; it's easy to carry an auxiliary supply to double or triple range. Cold weather and reliability are excellent (hundreds of thousands of miles with a minimum of maintenance). There are no concerns about cell wearout (batteries will last for 5 years, maybe). Virtually everywhere on the planet, there's someone in any population center who knows how to work with gas cars.

The network for gas is highly developed and highly entrenched. No one is giving up trillions in value without a fight. In all honesty, I expect to see gasoline powered vehicles on the road for the next 100 years, barring an unprecedented revolution.
Our founder is actually coming to Seattle (if you're still there as your profile says) over Labor Day - maybe you can join one of her Free Workshops to get an intro?

Esther did a talk at Google in Mountain View in 2008 > http://gokhalemethod.com/video/authorsgoogle maybe she could do one at Google in Seattle during her trip? Get in touch! info@gokhalemethod.com

Cheers
> it's not actually 3D but does a damn good appoximation

That is the driving force behind almost all real time graphics! Everything from rasterization to texture sampling to transparency, to this occluding parallax example - it's not exactly correct, but close enough that when used appropriately it is convincingly real and fast.
My "smart TV" handles most services so I use it for Amazon and Youtube and Netflix where I can get 4k streaming.

AppleTV does.. iTunes rented content and NFL.com stuff, plus HBO Go (stuff the TV either doesn't offer, or the AppleTV does better and isn't available in 4k in either place).
The OPs attitude is that when you choose to paint by number, as oppose to painting with more self reliance, that productivity and learning suffers even more. There are way too many tutorials that are application specific, and full of deprecated, bad, and useless implementations.
GSheets still can't scale up to the larger models our Finance team builds.
Public transit in the US generally fails at the last mile for me especially in the suburbs. Self driving cars would be awesome for getting me to the train station. Currently I'd have to take a bus for that. However the bus stops at literally every block which is insane. Extremely frequent stops are a general problem I've had in both the bay area and the Portland area as well as the few times I've used public transit in LA. I'm more than happy to walk 5-10 minutes but I'm not happy to sit in a bus or train that is stopping all the time and never gets up to speed.
Oh don't get me wrong - there are advantages of course. But people are underinformed / bad at calculating whole of life costs / don't have the extra cash available so a cheap petrol vehicle will look appealing. There isn't the "wow" factor of comparing colour vs B&W TV - especially at the low end. The Nissan Leaf was a nice car to drive but it wasn't impressing anyone because of how cool it looked.
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Get a standing mat to help with foot discomfort and work your way up.

Week 1 - 10 min stand, 50 min sit.

Week 2 - 20 min stand, 40 min sit.

Week 3 - etc...

Postural muscles take time to develop. Do the Agile 8 every day to work on your flexibility. https://www.t-nation.com/training/defranco-agile-8

The shortcut to an iron back is deadlifts, find a quality trainer and get in the gym for 30-45min 3x a week and you'll really improve.
Earnest money is used when you've already made an offer. How do you make an offer while not including the cost of the fees in the sale? That sounds like poor negotiation.
Read a book.
This brings back memories of a series I used to write about game programming when I was 17. One of the articles was about Bezier curves and Brezenham's and DeCasteljau's algorithms!

http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_03_Cu...

http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Theory_Practice-Issue_00_In...
I'm the same way and I love my 80's Marantz amp/Boston Acoustics floorstanders setup. But I still keep a cheap Chromecast audio and a $10 Bluetooth receiver around for parties, it's just so much easier especially when people forget their headphone dongles these days.
The phone hacker is coming
Sounds like a lot of bike-shedding.
Last I remember (don't remember the source) they found that vigorous exercise elsewhere in the day doesn't make up for it.
Two most popular use cases. 1.Proxy for redis master-slave monitor by redis-sentinel, in this case, we can use redis high-avaliablity, the predixy will redirect request when failover happen.Predixy supports all the redis features in this case. 2.Proxy for redis cluster, in this case, client can use redis cluster like redis standalone,Predixy handle MOVE/ASK, failover and so on.
Read the book "Your Money or Your Life"... amazing what we trade, to keep a job.
SCIgen should be close enough. Nobody really reads the whitepaper, anyways.

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
A ship that flips 90 degrees for precise scientific measurements
How does this compare to the refactoring support available in AppCode?

https://www.jetbrains.com/objc/features/refactorings-and-cod...
It took me 6 months to make the switch. My standing desk has two computers, 2 keyboards, and 3 screens, soon to be more. I have both systems set up for working on different parts of the same project. I work for an hour on one, walk to the other, do some different work.

Switching to this kind of setup was both physical and mental. It was taxing assuming the right posture after years of sitting. My back isn't quite right, but it's a lot better now. Mentally speaking, sometimes I need to sit - I just can't do a certain thing standing up or I'm mentally exhausted and it starts manifesting physically. I actually sit on the floor now, it's uncomfortable and encourages me to stand after a while.

So, the net result is, I've incorporated both mental and physical movement into my work and life.
You could as well have said: That's right, Google's cloud platform is a counterargument.
Game Programming Series from 2000
There's bad, and then there's GIMP. GIMP's general UI thought is, "we thought you might need this button... sometime... maybe this week... so here it is".
Or you can build your own? It's actually really easy to make a A-frame standing desk.
> What’s more, an increasing share of those sales came with a lease, so there’s now a rising tide of machines flowing back onto the market when their three-year contracts run out.

Hopefully the 1%'s lobbyists won't figure out how to plug this loophole in their rentier serfdom.
The lack of refactoring was a huge pain when I tried swift in Xcode. I'm glad that the issue is finally getting some attention.
Why would we assume that other than that it might make us feel better?
The Bolt wasn't even available in most states for the first six months of the year. That would probably account for low sales.
Sure, as far as basic transportation goes, but you can't get the vastly improved safety features in a used car that you can in most new cars today. Buy a new Toyota? It comes with automatic emergency braking, collision avoidance, blind spot detection, adaptive cruise control, and built-in backup camera, standard. Buy a used 2014? It has none of that.

I just bought a new car for the first time in my life. The safety of those features was worth the $10k premium for a new car.
Which podcast was that? If you happen to remember, please post.
Documentation as a project
Hey Brian, so nice of you to be commenting here. Thank you.

I am sorry if I am sounding like an obstinate whiner but no, I don't want that. I mean I am glad if you offer that but I want:

1. A way to restore that is from the app and that can withstand disconnection, gap of hours, or maybe days - right inside your really awesome app (I mean it) with partial download and shit.

2. (I didn't know about international shipping, thank you for telling me) I don't want to rely on that and I honestly am not looking forward to cover whatever little (or more) cost that is and being out of USA it will be more and then the hassle of returning is even worse.

You know, I may just want 30GB out of my 3TB, or hell maybe even 5GB and even for that "the browser restore interface" is just sad.

As a customer I would urge you to have a look at it and maybe listen to customers on it (or future customers :))

And data retention! You didn't even touch upon it. Kind of shows your/BB's stand is clear on it, right?

[edit]

And I forgot that you need my encryption password for sending me that hard disk. Now that's a design problem you shouldn't even have in the first place :(
Congrats! I'm wondering - "aging" is a pretty broad area, and I haven't seen that many startups go after that aging in particular (though you certainly have more knowledge of up and coming work in that respect. Would "diseases of age" also fall under your intended field?
I'd hate to have been the helmsman on the Fitzgerald and the McCain, knowing a collision was imminent. But unable to steer away because of a lack of orders to do so.

(If they had, they would have been brought up on charges, in which their saving the vessel would have been a consideration, but not an excuse for their action)
I wonder what an RNN could generate for an episode of Twin Peaks.
The Matrix comes to mind as a movie that portrayed the aftermath of an apocalyptic war between man and machine.

There's quite a few recent rogue AI movies, but they typically have a few characters stopping the machine rather than a war. Avengers 2, I Robot, Eagle Eye.
Leading negative economic indicator: when the articles and threads on HN and 4chan's /biz/ start looking identical.

Why not head over to 4chan's biz subboard to really get into this topic? The day trading, drop shipping and get rich quick schemes of yesteryear have made way for almost all threads being get rich quick on cryptocoin.

Kids, if you want to understand the 1999 dot com bubble in a modern context, read all the VC blog posts, quotes from interviews etc. about cryptocoins. Then realize they will all be worthless as 1999 e-currencies like Flooz and Beenz are now. VC's puffing up unicorns a little is one thing, this is a pure unbridled scam.

And you're missing the boat because it only goes up up up, right?
> I know it still turbos up

Is the base clock relevant in any interesting situation? As far as I know it's just telling you what to expect if you disable Turbo Boost in the BIOS.

The frequency at idle should be lower through SpeedStep, and the frequency during load should be higher through Turbo Boost.

If there are thermal limits preventing the maximum turbo frequency from being reached at all times, I still wouldn't expect the average frequency to be related to the base clock. It should be more or less bound by how insufficient the cooling system is. I think even the instantaneous clocks can fall somewhere between the various listed frequencies under throttling conditions.

Also note that the max turbo frequency is different depending on how many cores are loaded.
I'm really just wanting to do my own self research on topics and datasets that seem interesting, but also want to ensure the analysis im doing is sound.
> When they run them through now and get 50% on the dollar, their securitization pools will be creamed.

Amazing that mark-to-market is still not restored 10 years after its suspension.
Yes! Flights of Fantasy was so great! I loved those Waite Group books!
I think this is a brilliant solution for them because of the way their country is setup. (Strong culture with extremely homogeneous population and low birth rate) I really do think a lot of what makes japan special would go away with too much immigration. That being said, America is the opposite and automation would hurt us and so would restricting immigration.
I think perhaps you're reading more into my comment than was actually there. I didn't say anything about bricking a device.

The principle here is whether the customer is getting what they reasonably believed they were paying for, or whether some part of that benefit is being lost prematurely because of the actions (or inactions) of the device manufacturer/vendor.

To continue with your own example, whether it matters that Spotify changes an endpoint probably depends on how the product was originally presented. If it was advertised as offering access to a variety of specific services and some or all of those services become unavailable earlier than the customer might reasonably have expected, then clearly part of the value that the customer was paying for has been lost.
Worse. But not as bad as it used to be (nothing).

Application wide refactoring is a really nice thing to have in an IDE.
The article says there is research that contradicts that though.
Is there an app for this yet? I wear an Apple Watch all day -- it'd be great if something were available. Poll every 10 minutes for 30s or something to conserve battery maybe.
An idea: Some blue-collar workers displaced by factory automation could be retrained to maintain and repair robots used in healthcare and home assistance.

As developed nations age, there will be increasing needs for healthcare workers including those for home assistance. Since the supply of people wanting the jobs might be limited and many blue-collar workers tend to balk at taking pink-collar jobs, robots could be the intermediary that satisfies both the supply for services and demand for jobs.
Thank you very much! That is very interesting.
Makes a lot of sense. Why risk their cultural homogeneity - something clearly valued by the majority of Japan - if there are technological solutions to increasing productivity?

Edit - why the downvotes?
Why would automation hurt us?
When I was a kid, I found out I could just send the composite output to the RCA input on the back of my Betamax... and then RF out to channel 3/4 on my color TV. I didn't even need to save the 13 bucks for the RF modulator from Nibble.
It is often better for everyone involved (thanks to slimy but legal tax structures) to NOT provide dividends, even if there is no other use for the money; In that case, the would-be-dividend is incorporated into the price of the share (just as it is on the day before dividend payment from a company that DOES pay dividend), and you can realize it by selling the share.
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Steve Yegge's Platform Rant is still relevant, I think.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
They will never be able to learn enough to not make a mistake. Instead they will learn barely just enough to think they understand, which is significantly more dangerous than not knowing at all.

I say this as an experienced programmer who has been learning this technology for a few months, and still don't fully understand the depth and the implications of the technology yet. This thing is really deep, trying to inform the general public how this thing works is as difficult as trying to teach the general public what they teach in medical school hoping they will be able to heal themselves when they're hurt.

The one valuable thing I've learned so far is that it's dangerous thinking that you understand how the entire ecosystem works just because you understand how each block in a blockchain is verified.
There are plenty of reasons to want to/have to use Linux. There is clearly space in the world for more than one kernel. That said, Dragonfly deserves more use.
Automation is no cure for Japan. Their influence is waning rapidly, in many sectors. I would say that, with an aging population, Japan is turning into a stale country, culture wise and economy wise alike.
I would also add that language additions like TypeScript are not REQUIRED, but one can use them without any additional tech stack concerns in their build pipeline. In other words, things that React and Angular suggest (almost seem to require, given that documentation is written for them) as tech stack recommendations are entirely left to your initiative.
Can someone explain what specifically triggered Google's nuclear response to Prof. Mehta?
I thought there was always an Officer of the Deck empowered to make decisions in these situations?

I would also like to know the answer to “a the hull of a billion dollar warship having much less intrinsic strength than a Korean built containership that was delivered for a fraction of the cost?” and the other construction questions asked in the article.
> I think there will be very little demand for the regular old gas powered car.

Nobody has addressed the infrastructural problem of recharging massive fleets of privately owned electric vehicles. It's a pipe dream that this will all be fixed by 2030.

This will never happen in the US for the foreseeable future. Considering how our broadband surcharges have been siphoned off with nothing to show for it, no amount of government intervention through taxation will fix this. That leaves market forces as the only factor in play for the US. The market is going to stick with ICE cars.
I mean... if you drink gasoline, you probably will get cancer.
At least my high end Garmin watch with built-in optical HRM doesn't consider the OHRM accurate enough for HRV measurement purposes. Instead I have to pair a heart rate strap and use that for an HRV measurement. This seems typical:

https://elitehrv.com/compatible-devices
"The estimated cost of running a 500-person tech firm in Toronto, counting in both talent and real estate costs, totalled $25.9 million US, which came in much lower than the cheapest US market of Oklahoma City at $33.9 million US."

That's impossible. I've been to both Toronto and Oklahoma City, and Oklahoma City is substantially cheaper. I hate it when news stories change the facts to fit a narrative.

Cost comparison:

You would need around 4,221.75C$ (3,361.36$) in Oklahoma City, OK to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 5,400.00C$ in Toronto

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...
Found the Sonos employee. They've been extremely good about updating their software? I had to join the beta program and wait a year to get Spotify integration to work even after they advertised it as a feature. If you think they're the gold standard you've never seen their support forums..
Compilers do internally invent random semantics. Otherwise they could only give one compiler error at a time which would be pretty unproductive.
Range lower, maintenance costs higher. The argument goes both ways but whichever side you are on, we are on the same side that EV are fundamentally different than gas cars, at least as much as color TV vs b&w.

In my mind, just as getting 3x more colors gives you exponentially richer storytelling, 3x more range (way more than that actually, since a gas car can be in almost continuous use with brief stops for fuel) gives you the freedom to go exponentially many more places, do things etc
That's probably true in many dimensions, but maybe Japanese society values stability and conformity higher than innovation or global influence?

Your implicit value judgment very much reflects a Western, linear, 'progress' based view of history, one which not all cultures share.
Hasn't this been the case since the 1980's?

http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/manufacturing-innovation-...
http://langserver.org/

This page says that SL3 already has good support for language server through a plugin.
It seems Japan is entering a new Edo period, inward-looking and isolated.
Bresenham's algorithm is very useful when building software that uses stepper motors to follow a particular path (e.g. robotics, plotters, 3d printers, CNC machine). It's especially nice if you're trying to use a wimpy CPU like an Arduino.

Note that this (and not raster display) was actually the problem Bresenham was describing in the 1965 paper.

Amusingly, the stock firmware for the Makeblock XY Plotter kit did not use Bresenham's algorithm-- and has horrible artifacts due to crazy rounding errors. Reimplementing Bresenham on a plotter does feel a bit like a trip to the past.
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Yes that works pretty well. My wife wanted a specific model of used car several years ago so we told our regular mechanic (who has a dealer license) to find one in good condition at the local auction and bid up to a certain price. It was worth paying him for his time to attend the auction and filter out the cars with problems.
This link isn't behind a paywall:
https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/22/this-23-year-old-just-clos...
Sample of ionic2 with mobx and mobx-state-tree implemented