skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it really affects his electronic car business one way or the other. Firstly, he isn't necessarily selling Tesla's to people for commuting between SF and LA, that's well outside his range, and as fast as the supercharging is, it loses out to regular gasoline refilling. Secondly, I'm not sure the amount of people potentially served by the hyperloop is more than a blip in the sales charts for even a regular car company (as deciding factors for car purchasing decisions, it seems relatively low to me).
There's a GitHub issue here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35783
I had routinely entered the Ultraviolet codes from DVDs/BluRays into Vudu, but never used it because the apps/website for the service always seemed so clunky to me(and since it was all disc codes, it was just easier to rip the disc and put it on Plex), but now all those movies are in much more useful Amazon and Google for formats for me, so it's a nice bonus.
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These days most IDEs automatically add a copyright/license default text to the top of each new file. It makes sense to instruct software engineers to follow a simple copyright rule rather than expecting them to play JDs and keep up with all the standards and developments in what was at the time (and still is) quickly changing copyright laws.
oh stop. People are excited about reusable rockets, a mainstay of science fiction since the beginning. Why do you have to be a wet blanket? "Elon Musk didn't think of reusing rockets, and he didn't personally build them, and he doesn't have a degree in rocketry!" You're fighting a Quixotic battle against a strawman.
Stock price seems to be the driving factor for corporate change in America. Until that price dips, or tanks, companies appear to use that as a barometer of their behavior.
Great perspective.
It can also be used for the inverse purpose; if you're an oppressed minority, a dialect may be helpful in obfuscating your communications from the powers-that-be. An example that fits this and your purpose would be Polari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polari
IMO, we need both types - Gates' work improves society in our current world, while Musk and Branson's investment kickstart the scientific and technological advances needed to further our civilization.
Not exactly. Equifax has hardcoded references to an akamai cache of a domain (hints.netflame.cc) in their own pages[1].

That domain was owned by Fireclick (né Digital River) at one time, but changed ownership on November 15, 2016. The current owner is a Thai national using a personal Gmail address as the registration info.

Equifax should be responsible for what 3rd party domains it is referencing in their pages.

[1]https://aa.econsumer.equifax.com/aad/uib/js/fireclick.js
What is "your data" exactly? And in the limit, how far does this go?

Here's a question: who owns your drivers license? Here's a hint: it isn't you. Can you "own" you mailing address? Copyright and trademark it, make everyone ask permission from you before they write it down? What about your salary? Should your employer have to ask every time they use your salary number in some way, say in aggregate statistics or reporting?

What about information about how you interact with your credit card company? Who owns that, you, or the credit card company? Do the two of you have some kind of joint ownership?

We've made some of these decisions about health data and it has far-reaching consequences, some of them undesirable. It's also been very difficult to enforce. Do you want to extend that kind of regime to every piece of information about a person? Society might grind to a halt, we would be inundated with virtual and physical pop-ups asking "your landlord wants access to your phone number to place a call to you, will you allow it?" And what process would mediate this access control anyway, and how would we trust it?
Thanks, that's interesting 'cos I have been thinking of adding import/export to GitHub via Markdown, so that website content isn't locked into Pyxxi.

I'm not sure how much of the tool itself I could open source (I've never done that) but I could at least make the client-side search and lists open source, I think, so that web developers could generate their clients' sites without using Pyxxi at all if they needed to.

Perhaps they would then only need to use it if they wanted to redesign a site or generate new style sheets. Plus, as you say, their clients could use Pyxxi to edit their site. Especially, as they might not want to do that in Markdown.

Do you think that's feasible or would it be better to open source the entire tool?
Don't worry, we only blindly pull in and execute "good" third-party code in your browser.
Heh, for me, Vudu is a preferred staple website these days. To each their own.
Congrats on the release! What's the status of online DDL? I remember it not being available for 1.0.
Depression is a killer, and that's even without stress. My husband works in politics and he goes through this depression and happiness cycle. The less stress he has (read: The more stress I can take off his plate) the better he performs and is able to manage his depression.
The air quality in the East Bay is so poor that my home smelled like I left the windows open during a BBQ this morning.
I read your comment, and the feedback you’re replying to.

I notice that you have not mentioned the word “lawyer”. Instead you said accountant and professional. I’m going to write the rest of this on the assumption you have not spoken to a tax lawyer.

You’ve set up a structure for years, and are likely investing tens or hundreds of thousands in equity.

A consultation with a good tax lawyer can be had for $100-$200 in most cases, or even free sometimes.

Your situation might be 100% correct! In which case, you have spent very little.

But if your situation is wrong? You risk the total destruction of your business, tens of thousands in penalties and legal fees, and possibly jail.

Speak to a lawyer, if you haven’t.

Incidentally, I had the same idea as you: Canadian business, international clients. Could I incorporate abroad and save? My tax’s lawyer’s answer was no, the local revenue authorities would not see it that way.

You’re in another jurisdicion, so the plan may work. But, you will spare yourself the possibility of ruin by checking with a tax lawyer in the jurisdiction you live in.
Can anyone recommend a good video course for learning Rust? I find I do better with video courses than simply reading (though I will take a look at the books mentioned in other comments).
The other primary purpose of language is communicating group membership. For example, it's reasonable to guess that you belong to the "uses version control" group by your use of the word "forking" in a non-VC context above.
Andy's next blog post is going to be in this general area. Check back next month!
New periodic orbits of the three-body problem
TiDB is really cool, however my experience in reporting bugs to them didn't go well... I was trying to report that a generic sql file produced from mysqldump failed to import into tidb. I simply provided a sample table and a comment of the issue, and they told me to go F* myself. There seems to be no shortage of hostile comments from the TiDB developers if you google around a bit.
I've not seen any correlation between availability of engineers and how hard retaining efforts are. It really comes down to if management knows what they're doing, or has their head up their ass.
You can get a good quality respirator for 30 bucks on Amazon.
Tuneup, a simple app to help with your pricing
I find it easy to pick up dialects, but most people I know (especially people who've learned English as a second language) have trouble understanding various Southern, various Northern New England, various UK, various New Zealander, various South African, and various Australian accents.

As a matter of efficiency, I figure everyone in North America should master Standard American English (hard r, cot-caught split, pin-pen split) in both speaking and listening, regardless of their home dialect.
>>The US and UK need to stop funding Saudi Arabia's military

It's the other way around. We need oil, at least for now, so we have to make sure it makes it to the market and Saudis are the major player when it comes to adjusting prices. In exchange, they buy a lot or favors from the power that be...mainly weapons, that provide jobs for US, UK, Germany etc. US could probably overthrow the Saudis in a week if it wanted, and they know.

weasel statement: They would be fighting anyway, oil or no oil, US or no US involvement.
Gaming is just a much bigger market than a lot of people seem to realize, niches can still be profitable and so you'll just see more and more of those types of games, making it seem like a trend, even if you look at it from an overall market revenue standpoint they're still pretty niche. Like you might think there's a trend for more and more unoriginal sports games, you wonder if they'll ever stop making so many, but even so those only account for ~12% of the market. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/189592/breakdown-of-us-v... and broken down slightly http://www.mweb.co.za/games/view/tabid/4210/Article/28870/ES...)

Plus anything that is cheap to produce that still makes a profit will tend to have more representatives. I doubt I'll ever play any of those anime visual novel 'games' Steam keeps showing to me but sometimes it feels like that's a trend that won't go away, and I have to wonder if I knew an artist whether he and I could make one that would sell if not well, at least generate a bit of extra income even after the cost of the effort. Meanwhile it'd be fun to work on something like Dark Souls but that's not the sort of game you'd want to take on solo or with a tiny team. Similarly there are lots of indie "8-bit" or just "pixel graphics" games I'll never play, but I find that I usually object to them more on gameplay rather than their often lazy art. e.g. sometimes I find something fun like Rabi-Ribi... Meanwhile Cuphead looks like a good game that also has a way different, you might say truly retro, art style but I don't really have an interest in playing it since I've never had a desire for more of that art style plus I feel like I'll just be disappointed it's not Contra 3 in terms of gameplay.
They can send the majority of the 9/11 attackers to the US and the US did nothing to Saudi Arabia, so of course our government is now more friendly with Saudi Arabia than any other country on earth.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/saudi/analyses...
Yeah. I remember that. To make matters worse, people continue to burn trash in Delhi despite fines, which just makes the already bad air quaility even worse.

Source: Garbage burning undermines AAP govt’s focus on reducing air pollution http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/garbage-burning-und...
It's been years since I last tried, but I remember vector graphics being much harder to import. Not only do you have to bring in considerations more familiar to 3D like consistent units and origin points, but it's also just not supported by most libraries. Even random tiny game engines that some hobbyist put on github and abandoned support bitmaps.
Is Equifax particularly bad for a credit bureau, or are the other guys just as bad? This is cause for worry towards all of these organizations.
> It's the transverse expansion. If these are above ground, the top will heat up relative to the bottom. That's a nasty problem to solve while maintaining the structural integrity to keep a giant vacuum with speeding capsules in place.

Right... you can probably solve that with a bucket of white paint. Worst case you cover it with an aluminum shield- aluminum does not absorb infrared radiation and will reflect 99.9% of ambient heat. Since the proposal included covering large sections of the tube in solar panels that isn't even a significant change.
We have oil pipelines stretching thousands of miles that are under far more stress. We can build a low-pressure tunnel that stretches without a problem. Nothing in the hyperloop is impossible - it's just incredibly expensive and unprofitable.

Solve the mass-scale construction and maintenance efficiency problem and we can get all kinds of cool things like hyperloops, space elevators, and fancy megacities.
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If you go back far enough, you didn't even need to download a specific mining software, just download the Bitcoin client at the time and you could generate bitcoin (or mine) using it. So crazy to think about now in hindsight. Back then you had to really try hard to find someone that would accept any amount of them.
let val = await Thing();

Vs

Observable.of(thing).subsribe((res)=>{call back}

For all(most) cases where you only need to hear back once
The .NET stack inside UWP is .NET Core (for the most part), but the UI stack of UWP is WinRT controls [you can read that as modern COM controls] implemented mostly in C/C++ and directly a part of Windows.

So .NET Core doesn't benefit from UWP UI library, but UWP typically benefits from .NET Core upgrades.
Anybody else thought of the movie "The 13th Warrior" after reading the article?
Containerization long predates Solaris, even on commodity hardware. Capability operating systems dating back to the 60s and 70s support even more extreme isolation by default.
What if you have absolutely zero experience with LLVM or compilers in general (beyond reading about them)
Nothing sensitive goes into version control, nothing.

Sensitive information goes into one or more configuration files, possibly in a standard location such as a dotfile in the user's home directory. Each developer has their own set of keys for their own instance, once the software is deployed into production, the software picks up the real keys and goes with it.

In Spring-based projects I've used Spring XML files for the local configuration files (allows dev environments to be radically different from prod) and also used property substitution to read them out of a file that is simple to read and write.

In AWS you can have the platform generate temporary keys that are tied to the machine; the AWS SDK automatically picks them up so you don't need to think about it from a dev perspective. The AWS SDK also has a built in priority mechanism that will let you supply a file to get your keys from so if a dev is working on a machine outside AWS, it gets the keys from the file, otherwise it uses the server roles.

Whatever you do it has to be simple and consistent because the best way to get people to do the right thing is for it to be easier than doing the wrong thing.
Simple: run out of oil.
This is the result of incompetency and inadequacy at multiple levels.

Yemen ceased their vaccine campaign against cholera.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/cholera-vaccination-...
yeah Thunderf00t's hyperloop video is dumb, moreover, yes a lot of pressure can cause a tiny metal bearing to punch through a glass tube but the net force distributed over a mass scales with the size of the object squared, but the mass scales with the size of the object cubed. So the effects of pressure on a tube 2 meters wide is going to be far less dramatic than one 2 cm wide.
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We had that up in the PNW for pretty much all summer. Welcome to the experience.
Years ago my boyfriend at the time said "hey we should buy some of these bitcoins, they're only a few pennies each, it'll be fun!" Boy do I regret missing that boat...
Conveying meaning is necessarily more primary than forming group identity simply because "do you talk like us" depends on "us talking to each other" in the first place. It's hard to imagine an evolution where intra-group communication happened as a result of extra-group communication.
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A lot of stovepipes leak fumes, an in any case most people in the Roman empire had no such thing as a stovepipe. It's absolutely a myth that most premodern people had "clean air". No, it was generally filled with smoke, dung dust, mold spores, etc.
You need to file an end of year statement (Bilanz) with the register court the year after and these can be obtained for a moderate fee. The exact details on what needs to be filed depend on the size of the company, details (in german) are in this article https://www.gmbh-guide.de/jahresabschluss-bundesanzeiger.htm...
Thanks for clearing that up, I now realize I was being misleading.
Python in data/ml rarely goes into that scale. It is used for Training. Several thousands line per project at most, it is tractable and I don't think machine learning models really can be refactored or debugged like a web application.
Personally I really dislike almost all vector art in games and prefer things pixelated. Vector graphics make me think Angry Birds, pixel art makes me think Secret of Mana. SNES era pixel art is my favorite.
Maglev in a tube is a proven technology at full train scale. Here's the Chuo Maglev from the inside.[1] 500KPH in tunnels. They're not pumping down the tunnels, just plowing through on sheer power and money.

The Chuo Maglev makes the Hyperloop One look like a toy project. Watch the video. They have a production-quality train, with tourists and whiny kids riding it, going 500km/h. They've hit 603km/h in tests, but don't run it that hard normally. This is the first section of track between Tokyo and Osaka via Nagoya. Planned opening to Nagoya is 2027. Japan's Alps are in the way. They're tunneling straight through. Longest tunnel segment is 25km and it's being drilled now. 90% of the Tokyo-Nagoya segment will be in tunnel. Stations in Tokyo and Nagoya are under construction. The line will probably run 3-4 trains an hour each way, like the existing Shinkansen.

Hyperloop potentially has a higher speed to 900-1200km/h, but that may not be achieved in practice. The Chuo Shinkansen has a turn radius of 8km, and passengers don't have to be strapped in. Hyperloop would need 4x the radius to go twice as fast with the same ride quality. Laying out a route with a 24km turn radius severely limits where track can go.

Strapping everybody in and pulling 0.5G sustained is not going to go over with customers. Commercial aircraft usually stay within +-0.25G. Maybe 0.5G in mild turbulence, and customers don't like it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6dYhHIol8
Engagement alone is not success but sustainable and improving engagement (I.e. strong and improving cohort retention) is a measure of success because it creates a high barrier of exit for you as a user to stop using the app. 74 mins daily is not easy to create and sustain especially when you don’t have a social graph (On Facebook you are spending time talking to friends, reading updates from friends and content) but on Toutiao - you are only consuming content.
how do i get it? isn't the same the case for unity actually?
That's pretty interesting. Would users running ad blockers be protected from this kind of thing?
I think it's less this and more that being able to present this information is the mark of a really good technical leader.
The Dutch are also great at German!
No it's not fine or fair. It is inhumane.
Romero did not leave, Carmack fired him, in his own words, for "not working hard enough."
If his parents wouls get the home for free it would be, but they earned it.

The parents earned it, he didn't. He inherited those opportunity from the choice of his parent.

> Fruits of hard work are not a privilege.

Hard work and privilege are completely orthogonal. His parent where hard working, but also had the opportuinity to emigrate somewhere where they could safety reap the reward of said hard work

> Assuming that wealth = privilege

Wealth is a form of privilege, especially inherited wealth.

> shows only the bitterness of the person making such an assumption.

Sure... Let's do personal attack instead of staying on the topic
They've always had it: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/alter-table.html

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/how-online-schema-changes...
There's plenty of groups working on rust libraries rather than directly on the compiler.
The biggest problem people have with Hyperloop is because it certainly seems like Elon Musk just waltzed into the high speed rail debate and Dunning-Krugered some crazy scheme that doesn't look anything at all like conventional approaches to the problem and thus doesn't jive with any common sense we might have built up around different transport methods.

But that's kind of what Elon Musk does: he Dunning-Krugers himself into a new industry every couple of years, using a simplified, undergraduate physics level of analysis to find something that (to an optimistic non-field-expert) looks like a better solution to the problem.

And the most annoying thing of all is that he usually succeeds. Often in spite of his original idea being technically wrong. For instance, Falcon 9 was supposed to be recovered with parachutes... that didn't work, and people who were working on vertical landing rockets told them that, but at the time Elon just rolled his eyes and said "just use parachutes." But SpaceX/Elon found out the idea didn't work and switched to the "correct" solution and got it to work operationally (and with paying customers) much faster than people who had been working on the problem for years before.

The moral of the story is that it's often better to be able to execute fast even if you start out wrong than to take your time with the right answer.
You can opt out of the Video Data sharing with the last two (Participating Studios and their affiliates and service providers; and Service Providers of Movies Anywhere) by accessing the "Video Data Sharing" section of your account.

That said, it's probably best to steer clear if privacy is a concern.
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You can, but not as easily.
The devil is in the details - hopefully Microsoft/Amazon learns about the shortcomings of Tensorflow and builds a strong enterprise grade product.
Your link is from 2 days ago, here's one from today https://tools.airfire.org/websky/v1/run/standard/CANSAC-2km/...
Well that is certainly less dramatic than before. Thanks!
That's too bad because I was game for that as well. If it was included in a perk, then I'd love much closer to buying than I am now.
Estonia is also good option https://e-resident.gov.ee you can do everything remotly
>when you are looking for a blockbuster movie or old show its all the same selection and prices.

Not always. Google has a smaller selection of 90s Nickelodeon shows than Apple (Kenan & Kel, Are You Afraid of the Dark?, etc). It's not a huge issue, but there are discrepancies between the catalogs.
In software you are often working in an organization where the "important" people are not software people and there is just no path for advancement.
> If these are above ground, the top will heat up relative to the bottom.

The heat will quickly conduct to the other side. It's one of the main reasons for choosing steel. Add white paint to that (or solar panels) and you'll have reduced heat absorption to a minimum.
Thanks, I really need to check that one out.
I found a really odd video of him speaking in 1998:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnJDQKcaS8g

So yeah, he was good back then too.
That's a problem with a lot of interviews. Journalists almost always go for the "human" side but I enjoy reading about the technical evolution and how things developed.

I just read a book about the development of windows NT. Same thing, a lot about people but not much about technical stuff.
Incorporating as a GmbH is the most common way to start a company in Germany (about 40%). The UG form is not very common (about 9%) and especially if you plan to do business with other companies in Germany I would not recommend it, because UGs are often frowned upon.

Founding a GmbH is not only relatively expensive, it also takes time. Many founders avoid incorporating themselves but prefer to buy a new GmbH. This is actually a business here, there are companies that keep a pool of fresh GmbHs and sell them to founders. Search for 'Vorratsgesellschaften' if you are interested in going that route.