skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So much this. Another perfect example: https://databricks.com

They just raised a $140m round of financing so apparently they have some good stuff going on. If you look at the website though:

The Unified Analytics Platform. Accelerate innovation by unifying data science, engineering, and business.

Sorry, what? Click on "learn more about the platform":

DATABRICKS IS A TRULY UNIFIED APPROACH TO DATA ANALYTICS AT SCALE. Founded by the team who created Apache Spark, Databricks provides a Unified Analytics Platform that accelerates innovation by unifying data science, engineering, and business.

I still have no clue what exactly TF the product is but I sure got my weekly dose of BS buzzwords.
If you don't think it's amazing I'd really appreciate your recommendations for my "next level" pen, because I got the Metropolitan and _love_ it. I've bought three already; it's also one of the first I've found flows beautifully even though I'm left-handed. (I prefer the fine nib, that said)
I'll second the Pilot Metropolitan. Of all the pens I've liked, it is the cheapest and the best experience.

Also, definitely do get the Medium nib. The Fine will feel scratchy. And keep in mind the Pilot Medium is almost the same as a Fine in the US/Europe.

Your bigger challenge is finding suitable paper to write on. It affects whether you get feathering or bleeding. To a smaller extent it that will affect smoothness. My favorite is the Figurare notebooks. Clairefontaine is also decent. In general, I don't see a correlation between price of notebook and fountain pen friendliness. I've bought decent cheap notebooks from Office Depot, but the exact same "model", in larger size paper, was crap.
I was watching a documentary, that proposed Humans do as well, since we end up consuming some of the fish that eat that stuff.
My point is many technologies were thought of being safe untill you encounter this one error, iceberg, negligence.
That's one of the advantages of off shore turbines, no disturbing.
Major YouTube audio-ripping site agrees to shut down after getting sued
(It's a Hadoop distribution).
Hehe didn't want to offend, BI is still a complex field but not so heavy on the coding side. And yes if one is interested it's still surprisingly well paid and understaffed! But I'll try not to tell everyone ;)
Yes, same here.

I lived in viewing distance to AKW Biblis, the sun basically set behind it in the evening, kinda surreal picture, haha.

I also regularly go on vacation on a farm that has multiple wind turbines in viewing and hearing distance, find them kinda soothing.
>> Detroit was one of the biggest benefactors of the urban renewal...

according to the stats- population wise they went from ~1 mil in 2009 to under 700k in 2016.
there are a couple of decent 1x1 mile enclaves there - midtown, greektown and nearby sports arenas other than that it sucks.

>> Cleveland

much nicer than it used to be overall but plenty of areas where you have to watch your back. also, while not as drastic as Detroit, population figures are declining as well.

Milwaukee is marginally better than it used to be but barely a poster child for "urban renewal".
"'Not even Superman standing on Montauk Point could see these wind farms,' he said. Maybe not; and maybe wealthy beachfront homeowners won’t be able to see the proposed turbines, but lots of fishermen will. And that has them spoiling for a fight."

seriously? Why on earth does it matter if fishermen see wind farms? when did we invent the rule that all energy generation needs to be invisible?
Most engineering programs do have at least one full semester of numerical methods, even if in practice most engineers use matlab, scipy, abaqus etc...
IIRC, stored procedures let you do something like this. If you compile your query as a stored proc, there's usually an API using which you can pass values to it as parameters in their "native" form, i.e. without having to convert them to strings first.
For me, I've tried a few pricier ones, and didn't like any more than the Metropolitan. But YMMV. What may work for you:

TWSBI Eco. People talk about how smooth it is but I found mine to be scratchy (which may not bother you because you like the Metro Fine and I found it scratchy as well). Be warned, you cannot fill it using a syringe.

Another option is the Jinhao X450, but use a Goulet nib instead of the Jinhao nib.
Don't Use Arduino (for professional work)
If you click on book details, it will list the comments that linked to them. It also exposes that the "top" books are really only 1-2 mentions.

Sadly it still doesn't link to the actual thread still.

Example: http://toptalkedbooks.com/books/xsKNoA/Against-Empathy-The-C...
There's a pattern here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/eric-schmidt-...
“Active” surfaces control what’s on them
My project supervisor had a Cube on his office, and my thesis was to port a particle simulation framework from Objective-C into Visual C++/Windows 98.

Using Objective-C is just like C++ in regards to shooting yourself with the C subset common to both languages.

Foundation did not have that much support for heavy multi-processing. At least not at the same level as OS X.

It was all about UNIX programming model + Mach ports and tasks.

If you want to read about it, this is one of the few places where the documentation is still available online.

http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/
I'm glad we've abolished greed and incompetence in this future world.

(I'm also not sure why so many people are playing the nuclear/coal dichotomy when we got into this discussion from wind power and the default backup for renewables is now CCGT?)
Me five. This isn't the first time I've had this happen.
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I came across this recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l644fAxGzlw

Don't waste your time watching it. It's a promo video for yet another a very scammy looking ICO.

I watched through the entire 3 minute video, only because I found it increasingly amusing how long they were taking to "get to the point". As it turns out, this video is 3 minutes of stock videos of Dubai with a pseudo-inspirational voiceover about nothing in particular, followed by their logo being shown for a mere 10 seconds at the end.

I couldn't believe that this wasn't a parody (at least, I don't think it is), it's exactly like something out of HBO's Silicon Valley show.
This will probably slow down the ICOs. Smuggling money out of China is one of the main functions of crypto currencies these days.
Edit: Bloomberg just reported Bitcoin has dropped 11% on the news, so far.
That's called a bacterium.

Why not create an actual bacterium to break plastic down like everything else in the environment? It's not really that hard--high school students have done it before.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-plastic-eati...

Bonus points if you can make the bacterium specific to particular kinds of plastic.
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A correctly working system will "flush behind", so there should be no difference between a clean shutdown and a power loss. If there's several minutes of unsynced data that's data that will be lost on power off.
Actually when I started worked for a bank, we got an initial talk on the financial system and how it works. It showed that most companies do reinvest most of the cash or pay it out as dividends, it was pointed out that the exception at the time was Microsoft who basally hoarded it. That was 12 years ago. Now Apple are the bigger player and seem to be doing exactly the same.
Really sounds like some sort of RICO or extortion charge should be filed against Google, assuming this is all 100% factual.
It's not just the UK. An example (among many others) in France. I asked my bank (Societe Generale) to make a transfer to another bank where I also have a broker account, with the intention to make an investment. Societe Generale blocks the funds and requests a proof that I will indeed make an investment before releasing the funds. How do I prove that I am going to buy some stocks on the market when I receive the funds? It took me a week to convince them the absurdity of their request.
It is the corporate support for Spark, a big data technology.
Kinda like RedHat or Confluent.
If you really mean that "it's the absolute lowest you need to worry about.", then Nuclear plants working 99% of the time, but going off-line for maintenance must really worry you?

Seems like a huge disadvantage for nuclear?

Also the fact that nuclear works best when outputting constant amounts of energy doesn't really seem to be an advantage - https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuc... ?
Wow. When I tried copying some text from the page to google it, it immediately opened three tabs to some shady spam sites such as entertainment.com-update.today. I am running 1Blocker with Safari, but it didn't catch this.
it blows my mind that basically any financial crime committed by a big shop results in a fine (and more regulation/compliance) instead of jail time for the bad actors.

of course, if the crime is committed by a penny ante fraudster, then the DOJ is not afraid to put them in jail.

https://www.amazon.com/Chickenshit-Club-Justice-Department-C...
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Ask HN: Charitable programming
I have a simple question that googling has not been able to answer for me. One of my talents is programming, and I'd like to use that talent to help other people. An example of something I was thinking of was redoing a website for a nonprofit that doesn't have the money to pay someone to do it. Something along those lines, however that itself wouldn't be that great because I don't really know web development. How would I find such an opportunity? or even if you know of a specific group I could help, that would be great. Thanks for any replies!
It's just a blog post about what he has observed as a common problem with teams falling behind. I think it's a little much to call it worthless.

Excessive focus on unimportant details is a real problem. Everybody probably naturally focuses either too much on details or too little, and this person recently ran into some teams that focused on them too much, preferring to polish features the customer didn't care about rather than finishing the product.
What's your Twitter handle, anonymous cunt?
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Thank you for the valuable feedback! The dev mode is indeed a very good idea - I'll probably spin up another docker-compose example with all the default things set up. Would that make it easier?
> The article opens with Google faking breaking compatibility with Opera in order to push their own browser.

It explicitly states that it got worse when they introduced their own browser, which implies it pre-dates their own browser.
Applause for Vivaldi for the backbone to say something openly.
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Apology to bring up Taiwan again in the same thread.

Taiwan's national health insurance was once praised by Michael Porter and other Nobel prize laureates. It was marveled as the best invention to bring to the masses.
Basically, Taiwan congress establishes a fixed budget for health care for next year. Then no matter how many patients or how expensive it runs next year, National Health Insurance Administration pays the hospital proportionally by assigning "points" to treatments.

For example, pulling one wisdom tooth is 10 points. 1 point is 1 dollar last year then 10 points earn the hospital 10 dollar last year. This year it may go down to 0.8 dollar per point then 10 points mean 8.8 dollar due to more patient visits/treatment higher cost nationally. All the while, the cost of treatment hasn't really changed.

Now when NHI started out, it was indeed 1 TWD per point. Now it has gone to 0.5 TWD per point. (Detail varies, this is the gist of it).
Hospital jobs are not as good as it used to be nowadays.
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Do it, and post here.
Fuel rod oxidation? https://www.euractiv.com/section/electricity/news/german-nuc...
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If we define "operational models" as ways in which people can work, then DevOps is absolutely an "operational model."
Some of them do, like factom. others are raising money through the ICO to build those products. Is that a bad thing ?
I understand the amount we might ever extract pales in comparison to the amount that would upset any natural phenomena.
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> If I told you that I'd be replacing your broken windshield, would you understand that I'd be simply removing your windshield and not putting anything in its place?

That's not how societies work. You cannot have no social structure anymore than a person can have "no age". You can try to create a flat social structure, but that's still a social structure (and not a stable one, obviously).

> That's true, though it does little to hold for Peterson's argument that "Marxists" in general have moved to such a position, or have mutated class theory rather than simply adding to it. Marxists, orthodox and otherwise, still think in terms of class.

Intersectional feminism certainly seems to be by the most popular strand today. Of course some old school Marxists still exist.
Thanks for this lesson in history (follow the links to more details) and a story about the current system in Korea.

It is hard to imagine growing up in a totally isolated country and not knowing anything about the outside world.
I think he means that first Google was cozy with Mozilla, and then later introduced Chrome. Opera the browser predates Google the company.
> There are no ... Windows subdistros

That's a pretty naive trust in Microsoft's branding/marketing team. Of course there are heaps of different Windows distributions. They don't necessarily differ as much as, say, Ubuntu vs Gentoo, but they do differ.
As someone above asked: have you spent significant time teaching / tutoring? There are enormous differences in how quickly people learn mathematical concepts, even given varied teaching methods. Becoming a software engineer requires both intelligence and luck (though one might also argue that intelligence, being the result of genes and environment, is also primarily luck).
This is a fun energy storage project - http://www.aresnorthamerica.com/
This is hilarious! I'm a paying customer of databricks, a useful service that can, and should, be described in a single medium length sentence.
Trying to attain perfection is good advice in a professional environment.

OTOH for side-projects, especially for people who have trouble finishing things without external motivation, it can be more useful to just get something done. Without the get-it-done mentality it's possible to obsess over the architecture, libraries, tech stack, deployment, test automation ad infinitum until you've lost enthusiasm for the project. It's great that you learned a lot of new tech but also slightly sad that the world will never see the idea you were so excited about 3 weeks ago.
I've seen studies of this before, and googling "wind energy climate effects" pulls some up. I think the upshot was that there would be some climate effects but it would take a truly massive expansion of wind energy to amount to much, and would still be much less damaging than fossil fuels.
Unnecessary Burdens
Theoretically you're right. In practice no jurisdictions are actually carrying out a denial of service on escorts. They could. They could buy ads and people to comply and turn over intel and on and on... yet they don't. There's a few busts here and there, mostly when they can take down a whole brother/agency/parlor. Plus low-level arrests, typically against minorities, for prostitution.
Wind must blow in order to extract energy from it. Therefore, we will never slow down wind to zero with windmills. Also we already have mountains changing weather patterns. Sure, the weather patterns will change at some point as windmills grow to mountain size but in this case we will notice it way before it goes out of hand. In an emergency situation we can bring the windmills down at free fall speed with some thermate and gasoline.
Perhaps, but Uber can replace your third, fourth, fifth, etc. car.

I, personally, have two older, completely paid for cars. When one eventually goes, I will not feel the need to replace it immediately since I can use Lyft to get around if my remaining car is offline.
Clear Containers and CRI-O: A VM per Kubernetes Container, Without Docker
Microservices can scale both directions, same as other systems. You can allocate more resources to individual service instances (vertical), and you can allocate more service instances (horizontal). The later scaling should be done in an automated fashion.

If you look at something like Spring Boot, you will find that an individual service instance is a stand-alone application server. That is what is duplicated when a new service instance is created.
Access control rules are all checked at compile time. There's literally nothing to store. If you want proof, check the output of your compiler. The only thing a non-virtual struct/class might do is reorder member variables if they're of different access controls, but if you're just using a C-style struct but with private member variables and public non-virtual member functions, it has literally the same memory layout as it would in C.
The way I look at it, if you consider the air mass from ground level up to the top of the atmosphere, the bottom will always have a roughly zero speed since it is down in the terrain and the weeds. A carpet of windmills a hundred meters tall could at best move that zero speed edge a little higher. The kilometers of air above will be relatively unaffected.

To illustrate, consider https://embed.windy.com/embed2.html?lat=41.327&lon=-88.033&z... which if I've got that URL right will show you winds at a windmill farm in Illinois USA (nope, it misses slightly for some reason, odd, it is right when I copy it). Look in the lower right of the screen and find the slider with an airplane at the top and a mountain at the bottom. You can use this to change altitudes and explore the wind speed above ground level. Lots more windspeed up there even if the density goes down. Consider the 5500 meters up, about half the air pressure, but twice the wind speed today, so that works out to twice the energy per square foot (on edge).
Even if we covered the earth in windmills, we'd still only affect the lowest 100-200m of the atmosphere. And windmills can only extract 50% of the winds energy. I'm thinking a forest full of trees might even reduce the windspeed more than a field of mills.
Here's a study that evaluated exactly what you're looking for, if I understand correctly: http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/2/4/816/htm

In summary, if the entire Earth was powered by wind, it would result in a net loss in the lowest 1 km of the atmosphere of ~0.007%.
Is it true that we once had the same rationale with coal?
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If you articulate this point loud enough, and gain enough support, you will suffer evil. To phrase it from a theological standpoint, "God doesn't have the discipline to overthrow Satan".
You know that fish is a type of meat, right?
parishilton Looking forward to participating in the new #LydianCoin Token! #ThisIsNotAnAd #CryptoCurrency #BitCoin #ETH #BlockChain

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I disagree, Databricks has an easy-to-understand pricing page: https://databricks.com/product/pricing
Astroturfing and the like, the skewing of discourse, is nothing new- why do some people pretend like a state actor can't engage in it?
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A small number of universities produce the majority of America’s professors
Google are really shitty with their web browser especially on mobile.

If you run Firefox you get a stripped down version of Google Search also with no infinite scrolling for images and low resolution.

Use a user agent spoofer like this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-...

And it seems to work fine on Firefox.

I'm sure their official excuse is that they only support WebKit based browsers on mobile, like it's the new Internet Explorer with some modern day ActiveX
The question has been asked in the past and modelled with some level of detail. For example: Estimating maximum global land surface wind power extractability and associated climatic consequences [0].

At a higher level the question is easy: Sun shines, warms the air more in the tropics, creates a gradient, and wind flows. What if we capture all this energy? But the details of the calculation are subtle. The cited paper says: It could have dire climatic consequences!

But it may be over-estimating how many locations are really suitable for wind turbines. Many things limit the efficiency (i.e. cost effectiveness) of a wind farm (turbulence, minimum average wind speed, maximum speeds, access to the site, distance from cities, etc).

One important point is that most of the energy exchange happens at high altitude (where the turbines can't reach).

[0] https://www.earth-syst-dynam.net/2/1/2011/esd-2-1-2011.pdf
I quite enjoy https://softskills.audio

It's not in any way technical, but I think it might help with the "become a better developer" goal. It's also a good bit of light relief.
I second the recommendation - not too deep to make your commute mentally tiring, but still useful enough that you learn new things (even as starting points). Covers a wide range of topics, from machine learning to infrastructure, which may also help you open your views.

A similar one would be: http://www.se-radio.net/

There are also some more tech-specific ones, such as Talk Python to Me, Under the Radar (iOS dev), etc.
> Counting solutions is #P-complete, though.

Are you sure? Where was this proven? It could easily be that http://oeis.org/A000170 had a polynomial time combinatorial formula.

Maybe some completion-counting problem could be shown to be #P-complete though.
True. Several times I have resorted to putting random console.log's into the webpack core and it's plugins as the only way to figure out why the configuration doesn't work.
I would be interested in creating a program that makes use of deep learning to recognizes tricks and siteswap notation in a juggling video.
If anyone is interested in collaborating on this, drop me a line.
It seems like companies are stuck in a losing game. We constantly push small companies to capture more market share. Any companies that fold during that effort, we bring out the pitchforks because the services they ran get shut off. Any companies that succeed, we bring out the pitchforks because they own too much market power.

It seems a bit much that we ask for companies to constantly grow and simultaneously ensure they never pass 70% market share.
It could be curtailment due to overcapacity or lack of transmission infrastructure to get the electricity to consumers [1]. I'm not quite sure why a more expensive source wouldn't be shut down instead, but maybe the unpredictability of wind power makes them the first to fall when demand is low?

1: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/why-arent-those...
So why aren't prices going down? On the contrary, if you subscribe to use something like Arcadia Power, you'd actually pay a bit more than regular electric bill.
Such an iconic album cover. I know people who knew the cover/design way before they even knew who Joy Division was.