skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a big deal. There's a whole industry devoted to making cabs for rolling chassis, they're called Glider Kits[1].

This is smart on Cummin's part, since they own most of the drivetrain anyway.

[1] https://www.fitzgeraldgliderkits.com/what-is-a-glider-kit/ (This is a particular manufacturer, but many companies offer these cabs)
Curious choice of words. Are we too predators or gentle giants (from smaller animals' perspective)?
Was Hurricane Sandy not a "Serious Storm?" There have been many others - winter storms, devastating tornadoes, etc. Also, the world is a bigger place than the US. There have been truly catastrophic storms in other parts of the world.

So sure, if you define "serious storm" as "hurricane of cat 3 or higher" and "the world" is "US" then yes, you might have a point, I guess...
I think nationalising Walmart is a perfectly reasonable idea. Considering issues like the level of access to quality food in poor neighbourhoods in the US and the fact that US government subsidises much of Walmart's labour cost already, it would be a much better deal for the American people on average.
Google, VMware, Pivotal team up for Kubernetes service
I have tried most productivity hacks. In the end what worked best is the Pomodoro 25/5.
The original Internet was about connecting military and academic institutions via physically-secured machines and infrastructure decentralization.

We're at least two major iterations into "What the Internet is about" now.
Seems like a logical progression. Why waste screen estate if you don't have to.
It needn't be corporate censorship to have the exact same outcome. If Google is upset with an article, or thinks it's not fairly representing all sides, they are going to contact the organization and say so. They don't have to threaten removing funding, the indication that they were unhappy could have been impetus enough for Slaughter to act proactively. Even if Google was thinking of removing funding, there's nothing wrong with that either (they have the right to fund or not fund what they want). The problem is if Google dictated Slaughter's actions, which we don't know for sure, but she says they didn't (but she would say that anyway, as saying otherwise would imperil her position and the organization as a whole).

Truthfully, I'm not so sure that this isn't being played up and portrayed a specific way by the media. I was going to say the problem was that the New America Foundation had accepted too much funding from one source, but since Google has only funded them to the tune of about 21 million since 1999, unless the vast majority of that has come in recent years, that funding probably accounts for fairly little of their operating costs on a year to year basis, since they employ more than 200 people. Even if Google had given all 21 million in the last yea alone, that would basically fund all the employees at $100k salaries and pay for building costs. I suspect quite a few salaries are much higher, and there's a lot more costs than that, so I'm not sure Google's funding really amounted to a huge amount when spread over many years.
That's revisionist and silly.
No, that's not a lot. It's actually pretty good.

I think the beef with Red Cross is that the money is not spent effectively. Take a look at the investigative links nearby for more. These dollar figures, although crisp and numerical, do not illustrate the real issue.
Maybe only slow when importing. With mainstream pip it's often that you leverage imports a lot.
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7 Things to Pay Attention to When Choosing a Software Development Methodology
Eh, I don't know why you're being hammered for saying this. Both your comments seem pretty accurate. And it's not like you were being crass or something.

I wonder if the idea simply bothers people?
Yes, cetacean evolution is one of the most well-studied areas, with decades of research behind it.

This particular finding seems to be about early baleen whales, back when they still had teeth (not just baleen). Seems like early baleen wales had very sharp teeth that were likely used for cutting, not for some sort of early type of filtration.

You might be interested in the actual paper: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/8/20170348
Hurricane Sandy was expensive because it struck a densely populated region, not because it was a particularly strong storm.
Check out Kiel, Germany. Neubaugebiet Suchsdorf an der Au.

Google Maps has the data from 2011 on their maps, missing entire streets that have been added since.

At least they have 2011 maps now, before 2014 their maps were from 2004. The entire district was missing.

They did update satellite imagery in early 2017, finally, before that it had been un-updated since 2005.

> It is my understanding that public transit information has to be offered by the respective Transit Authority, and that does not currently happen with GMaps. Chances are Here is paying top coin for that.

Actually, all that data is publicly available online, and the transit authority has a public REST API. Just not in the format Google demands.
On my system (macOS) I see a minimum of 0m0.034 for Python 3.6.1 and a minimum of 0m0.022 for Python 2.7.13 -- so Python 3.6 is 50% slower.

This is a somewhat contrived example, however. As the article notes, it's worse when you have a lot of imports (and I don't know how that'd differ between versions 2 and 3). I remember talking to some folks at Google who work on the Google Cloud CLI, and they said that Python startup time is a constant problem for their (large) codebase. Especially when it's used for tab completion, because it might run every time you press tab, and the user wants instant results.
Pay with your face probably?
First thoughts on OCaml
By active and loud anti-corporate voices do you mean the pro-corporate liberal party, the pro-corporate conservative party, the corporate-owned TV media or the pro-corporate mainstream newspapers? There are anti corporate voices like e.g. Chomsky, Sanders, and they all have a couple of characteristics in common: they are ignored by the powers that be. They are without platforms, and they are without power.
okay, so the path where his works were destroyed is as valid as the one where they weren't.
Rendering a PDF you got some other way is also "Running their code", just in a different sandbox :-)
> How did you implement those tools in your company?

You have to remember that tooling isn't valuable for its own sake. A chainsaw is much more powerful than a knife, but it's the wrong tool when you're sitting down to dinner.

Getting new tooling adopted in the enterprise is about sitting down with your users, understanding what their goals are, understanding where their current pain points are, and showing them how the tooling will help them achieve their goals and solve their pain points, oftentimes requiring close, high-touch support and adaptation to get that done.

If you can't sell the tooling on its own merits to people in your company, you have no business mandating its use.
That’s in theory.

Have you looked at even one of the cases in Hamburg with G20?

Spontandemonstrationen that were immediately dissolved with teargas.

No approval for demonstrations without reason, or even situations where courts said the demonstration is legal, and the police dissolved them anyway.
>More importantly, seeds should not be considered as intellectual property

why? Most farmers do not replant their seeds (wouldn't work because the seeds are hybrids). do you oppose patenting lifeforms on principle?
This guy is claiming his coin isn't regulated because it is a utility to exchange for a product (that doesn't even exist, and may never exist). The rest of that stuff you mention may fluctuate in price, but its a direct price to the end consumer for the product, not a fluctuating price of a "token" to exchange for those products before they exist, but if that is what you are talking about, buying/selling "things" you can exchange for corn before the corn exists that sounds an awful lot like buying/selling futures contracts which is heavily regulated. Either way you would need to find an example that actually fits the facts.
IBM will derive highlights for U.S. Open tennis matches using Watson AI
The rumor is that the sensor is on the back.
This is complete bullshit.

From personal experience, one needs to stay at the experimental setup until you have publishable data.

For example, I had part of an experiment die when the oxygen tank ran out, rushed back to the lab at 3:00 AM, changed the acquisition mode. I took the final picture and published in a high impact Nature family journal.

My less productive colleges would have called the experiment a failure, and stayed home.
Ask HN: Using gift baskets for initial contact?
I work at a startup with limited contacts in our industry. We are attending industry events and making some contacts through our present clients, but we'd like to ramp up our B2B sales faster. I have found a potential client online that I have no connection to. They are right within our target market based on their website. I don't think they receive gift baskets ever based on their industry/size. The value of the sale would probably be around $30k if everything went well. I was strongly considering sending a gift basket to the owner (decision maker) with a note that would go something like this:

Hello [Name],

We think you might find our product, [Product Name] very useful. Please enjoy this gift basket on us and consider if we could be of service to you.

All the best,

Your friends at [My Company Name]

[My Name]

[My Number]

[Other Sales Rep's Name]

[Other Sales Rep's Number]

[http://ourcompanywebsite.com]

____
Has anyone used gift baskets this way before? Any thoughts on getting the wording just right? Suggestions on the best corporate gift basket providers (we are in the food industry - so our gift basket will have some good eats in it).
Silicon Valley Plays the 'Flyover' States Like Fiddles
Aha, tab completion makes sense. Thanks!
> Nobody uses Redis like a database and expects persistence of data.

Plenty of people do, it's got just as good persistence and backups as anything else. It's very versatile and used for lots of situations, with message queues just being one option (although not a great fit until it gets a stream data type).
Does removing the home button have to mean removing TouchID?
"Hard problems"? They're mice, for crying out loud!
Because of course we can only choose between a rule-bound shyster and a parasitic financier. Sad state of society when those are the two most common choices. Either guide the corporation through the twisty maze of litigating your way to the top, or financialize everything.
SJWs destroying yet another open source project.

At least it is node. Nothing of value will be lost.
Kubeless: Kubernetes native serverless framework
Anyone remember when they bought DoubleClick, one of the most reviled companies on the net?
most of kafka's writing was clearly unfinished.
> Bernie has/is changing that, but even then I would argue the main power structures haven't changed.

Bernie isn't / hasn't changed anything and won't. Sanders comes at the problem from a position that is considered Socialist (even though he's only a Socialist in name for the headlines), which will keep him forever in a cordoned off box. The last force in US politics with any influence in that regard, was Ralph Nader. He accomplished greater than ten times what Sanders has or will (and given his age at this point, the clock is ticking) when it comes to anti-corporate power checking. The Democrats lit Nader on fire and buried him politically for opposing their establishment one too many times.
Read this article before and I really liked how to the point it is. More than anything, can I just say how infuriating Amazon's rating system is?
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. - Stalin
This also greatly simplifies thier evolution. If the teeth were used as a filter then they would have likely evolved into a better filter rather than a new structure developing. Ive never heard of such parralel development of different structures to acomplish the same task. One normally becomes dominant and that's the path. The eventual loss of unneeded teeth and the later development of baleen seems much easier.
In addition to the moral questions, wouldn't this be a straightforward copyright violation?
You could retain this info in a meta field of flexible type. For a DB, it could a JSON type. For messages, it could be an extra _meta field on the message that the systems themselves ignore.
Modern farming practices just allowed my father in law to take in a fifty bushel per acre wheat crop on less than inch of rain during the growing season. Traditional or organic practices would likely have resulted in total crop failure.

Organic practices use tillage for weed control rather than pesticide. That would have liberated the moisture from the snow melt leaving nothing for the wheat.

A bushel of wheat is more than a month of calories, so that's 10000 of the world's 7+ billion that my father in law is feeding single handedly with his 2500 acre farm.
So, if such a system is feasible and profitable (at scale), where are the farms that are killing off 'traditional' farms left and right?

I'll tell you where all the aquaponics farms are: in bankruptcy court, because very few of them have managed to figure out how to make this system work at a scale bigger than home production, and even less how to do so while still being economically competitive. It's not a coincidence that most tilapia production is not in aquaponics farms. And it's not like it hasn't been tried; people try to do so every day and have been doing so for 30. But saying "but aquaponics scale very well." just screams 'I read some blog posts about this so now I know they scale well', because the technology simply isn't there.
> There's no genuine, credible anti-corporate voice in American politics.

That's because politics in the US requires money and no politician can rise to the mainstream without money. Not only that, if the capital interests saw you rising in local/state elections, then they could fund your opponents and whittle you down.

We are a nation ruled by money/capital. NK is a nation ruled by the kim family. The chinese are a nation ruled by the communist power. Someone in the US going against corporate interests has as promising a political future as a north korean politician railing against the kim family or a chinese politician going against the communist party.

Everyone, including the politicians, have to play by the rules of the system.

Look at the past election, both trump and clinton were pro-corporate/capital politicians. Hillary was probably even more pro-corporations/neo-liberalism than trump. But democrats will argue that hillary cared about the lowly workers.

But can you really blame the clintons, trumps, obamas, bushes or any other politician in the US? They are just playing the game within the system.

Ultimately, in the US, both the republican and democratic parties serve one master - the capital owners. The US is really a 1 party nation if you look beyond the silly social issues that the republican and democratic play off of each other to distract the masses.
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Researchers' Electronic Nanomesh Is an Ultra-Comfortable Wearable
Cool stuff, but as with anything electric; battery range and charge time are always going to be the holdouts. Especially for trucks; who commonly go 400-800 miles a day. And time is money: if they can't recharge completely in the time it takes for a normal break they're not going to want to do it.

The article mentions short hauls and local freight, but even so, 100 miles is pretty limiting to those figures, even with a single-operator day-cab setup.

Torque-wise, electric makes a ton of sense, even if it's a hybrid.
I think we probably disagree about what good design is. I think that precisely

> static, vastly simpler

is the right way to go.

This is mere consistency on my part. I hated (most) Flash sites back in the day, and wasteful giant images, et c. I hate (most) JS/CSS cycle-burner sites and giant wasteful images today. Consistency is good. Shit not moving around on my screen is good. Controls working the usual way is good. Consistency, predictability, and clarity are good UX.

The basic 2-or-3-column layout with a thin header was fine, with maybe some tweaks for smaller screens these days. Early-period web's allergy to non-content large media files was good. Design mostly gets in the way, while making everything more expensive. I think its function was described perfectly by someone the last time we had a design thread: it's peacock feathers. Keeping up with design trends is harmful to function, but signals wealth (=stability, reliability, social proof of value) precisely because it's so costly and pointless. This doesn't mean it improves my experience on the Web.
Consumer lasers will be the spray paint of the next century. One small segment of the population will see them as an overly expensive way to accomplish tasks slightly more conveniently than the alternatives, and another larger segment of the population will use them mostly to trash their environment, leading to all kinds of weird attempts at legal restrictions.

No one has mentioned the obvious terrorism related issues with lasers. The worst body counts won't be individual random "makers" with poor coding skills and their bystanders, or even the cops, it'll likely be, say, an entire stadium instantly blinded, or really any public location, such as interstate highway overpasses or airport security lines. I suspect we'll soon have discussion on the topic of "weapons of mass destruction" as applies to lasers. Based on past experience, if some Saudi citizens snuck something in to the stadium (drone delivered?) then blinded everyone attending the Superbowl, would we invade Venezuela conventionally or nuke Iran?
Yet, together with the machine, given no other recourse, I would have been able to extract the essence. As an example, I originally missed your english text and thought the task was to translate the german. I ran the garbled german through a translation engine and got something that made not much sense. It was still enough for me to guess that the intended meaning should not be too distant from "a bilingual speaker would leave the machine translator in the dust".

For what it's worth, I consequently ran this by a native german speaker. It's perfectly reasonable to rank them, understanding is not a binary proposition.
Raspberry Pi Is the Brains Behind Automated Greenhouse
CeX hack puts as many as 2M accounts at risk
This passage is often cited by people (not you) who claim that before St Augustine's time people could not read silently. E.g. https://community.middlebury.edu/~harris/LatinBackground/Sil...: "There is no disputing the fact that the Romans read everything aloud, in fact they were apparently not able to read silently."

This seems greatly implausible. Consider, for example, the fact that the Roman walls were often covered in graffiti. The idea that a Roman would have to vocalize all of them to find one that seemed funny seems absurd. Further, there are examples in plays of a character reading a letter silently.

It does seem, though, that there have been times in specific cultures when reading prose or poetry aloud would have been considered the norm, and whether or not one could read silently, it wouldn't have been in anybody's habit to do so, because prose and poetry were "meant" to be read aloud. The notion, then, that someone could apparently "hear" all the musicality of the text while reading silently may indeed then have been cause for surprise.
Crowdsourced command centre co-ordinates rescue efforts in Houston
The issue is absolutely not the overhead of schemas or managing them.

The issue is the overhead of systems administration when clustering. Clustering is a requirement to support high availability, and Postgres clustering is a real bear to set up. Mongo clustering is easy.

Postgres and most other SQL databases hail from the era when things ran on a "box." They're designed that way. Clustering is a bolt-on. It's that more than queries or schemas that drive NoSQL.

It would have been better to fork Postgres and create a cleaned-up easy to cluster version minus the obnoxious arcana, but that's no fun. It's more fun to reinvent the wheel.

Edit: We migrated from Postgres to RethinkDB for this reason and are mostly happy with it. We miss the data integrity guards of SQL but getting clustering without a full time DBA and Raft consensus fail-over without intervention is a worthy trade off. We still use Postgres for back-end warehousing and analytics but those are not live systems so they can live on a "box."
Chris Stucchio and Evan Miller have amazing statistics blogs.
People often complain that using `entry_points` in setup.py is slow. I did some profiling and it came down to it importing some `pip` submodule (pip.vendor.something), which imported basically the whole of pip.

:(
It depends on your field. There are some experiments you can't just walk away from, for safety reasons. You can't just "focus" and make your chemical reaction go faster.
you say

>seems possible

but in software a better statement is that it is possible. Once you've built a bridge you can't just raise all its base pillars by half a meter, but leave everything else the same. I mean there is literally no physical way to 'change one line of code'. Someone would have to go out there and start tearing it apart or doing something physically.

In software you can certainly do that: that doesn't mean it's a good idea. But if you have good test coverage and a good architecture it's even possible for nothing to break.

So it's not that it seems that way - it is that way. There are people running popular, live applications who SSH into production and change a line of code that changes live behavior. Every day this happens.

So it's not just that it seems possible. It is possible. Software is just different from architecture, or the automotive industry in that regard.
What was it they said about article names that have click-baity names that end in a question mark? Something about "the answer is no, don't click the link."

By the by these are pretty much Disney-villain level options here, either an evil litigator who sues for everything or a man who does nothing but raise cash for the purpose of raising more cash.
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Writing end-to-end tests is always a sucky and flaky experience, and it always ends up slowing down CI. With that said, I've used testcafe without any big complaints.

My general rule of thumb is to try having as few end-to-end tests as possible. It's fine for an e2e test to cover multiple aspects of your application. Trying to write e2e tests as if they were unit tests just leads to sadness and infinite CI builds.

I don't think there's any value to running all your tests on the browser. It's much faster and simpler to run the bulk of your tests on node, with a fake DOM environment.

If you're interacting directly with the DOM, you might want to consider breaking that off as a separate lib. From the lib's repo you can have all of its tests run on a real browser.
If you can't find clients without a freelance site, that's the skill you need to develop first. And if you have no contacts, you haven't been working in the industry long enough, IMO.