skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[edit] Here's a photo of the back of a bag of his "reference" Trung Nguyen S blend. It explicitly says that it has flavorings in it, including "coffee flavor". Omfg.

https://imgur.com/a/KeSYq

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I guess the guy had fun, but the conclusion is a few giant leaps away from the actual results. Many of his decisions and assumptions were entirely arbitrary, not well substantiated, and lacking just about anything approaching rigor.

His reference coffee is "A blend of Arabica, Robusta, Chari (Excelsa) and Catimor beans"[1], roasted in a special style, and brewed in one particular way with no mention of temperatures involved or any other variable that alters the outcome of brewing coffee.

Trung Nguyen coffees are as far as I know usually adulterated with chocolate and other flavoring either during or after roasting. This is not a bad thing. It smells and tastes goddamn fantastic and they are my favorite coffees in the world. But it's not exactly a good reference.

His reference chart includes only two of those bean types and specifically references green beans, not roasted beans, not butter roasted beans, and not beans roasted at any particular range of temperatures or durations.

He doesn't indicate that a reference coffee was chosen based on lowest wholesale cost, which might have been a reasonable decision factor for a street vendor, but rather just that it seems to be commonly available on the consumer market without regard for composition or lack of monopoly.

His reference not-coffee is only one of plausibly dozens of different not-coffee substances.

His reference not-coffee solution is based on approximately tasting like terrible coffee. Whaaaaaat.

And even if you choose to ignore any or all of the above, nothing about his method tests for coffee. Coffee is generically an extremely complex blend of varying volatile compounds, but specifically it is an infinity of different complex blends of varying volatile compounds. And his process doesn't actually test for any of them. It tests for some secondary characteristic that one mixture possesses, ability to change the color of iodine, but that one arbitrarily different other chemical does not possess to the same degree under the assumption that all real coffee changes the color of iodine the same and that all non-coffee also changes the color of iodine the same. These are exceptionally ridiculous assumptions.

[1] http://www.trung-nguyen-online.com/trung-nguyen-coffee-order...

> Overall it sounds like a reasonable test for the amount of coffee in something

No, it really does not.

This is what happens when people think that "science" is synonymous with measuring shit.
You should test the major chain coffees
Huawei and Samsung seem to be operating in the US just fine.
This sort of thinking is not "moving the web forward." It's the same thinking that created the IE6 problem — favoring browser-specific features over web standards.
There's also the point that 100 random people won't have any background on the topic in question. Who's going to help them understand it? Most likely the same vested interests that today lobby the government.
It's really easy actually to load on an emulator or on real hardware. The build process I'm working on now creates a production ready ROM that can be placed on an EverDrive 64 or 64 Drive cart. I always test on real hardware when developing the engine for the N64 part of the system. :)
VS Code is indeed nice (I use it as my quick file editor) but can't quite match the IntelliJ products, although it can get decently close.
I can't imagine how it can be a surprise that (large) money from Russia are connected to Putin and his fellows. That's literally what Putin has been working on for the last decade at least - so that all money worth speaking of in Russia will be controlled by him. That's the unifying theme of all major things happening in Russia's business world. If you see somebody with money headquartering in Russia, yes, it is because Putin wants it to be so. The official term is "The Power Vertical" and the idea is that nothing worth of note happens without the will and the control of Putin and his fellows. It doesn't mean everybody is literally mind-controlled by Putin, but if there's big money, you'll get from it to Putin very quickly. It can't be any other way.
This is the opposite of speculating on a rising price. It is a way of shorting cryptocurrencies. Sell now and pay back your creditors after the crash.
Some of my fondest memories of childhood include selling audio mp3 cds and individual warhead candies.

I think there is something to be said about working towards a goal. Think about developing a game or eveb a lemonade stand. You have to know marketing, supply chains, management, finance just to name a few. The reason school isn’t interesting to many is that it is just isolated knowledge and facts. Solve for X type problems. It would be more engaging if you actually had a goal that required a cross disciplinary set of skills.
I had no trouble updating mine: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/927581940483575813
In much more crude form.

What Hock Tan does is he gets ridiculous leverage, find near monopolist companies to buy, buys them, then quickly pays off debts by selling off almost everything from acquisition targets except for things needed to maintain that monopoly status.

Nothing smart in this scheme
Looking at the past (Bitcoin's returns) and FOMO does make people do stupid things. (It's a trap many who invested in "Internet stocks" were caught in as well)
It can't come soon enough as far as I'm concerned, though my 15 year old daughter who's anxiously waiting to learn to drive may see things differently. She could very well be amongst the last people who learn how to drive.

The article doesn't discuss how far-ranging these impacts will be. Automakers and dealerships are just the tip of the iceberg. Part suppliers are impacted, as well as auto insurers and gasoline filling stations. Perhaps less obvious are auto repair shops of all stripes, auto repair stores, parking garages...this is a HUGE impact to the U.S. economy. It's amazing how little discussion this is getting beyond unemployed taxicab drivers.
I think people want their investments and life savings back, that would be nice.

At the end of the day, your money isn't insured just because the SEC is regulating a market. And the overall point is that regulation at the end of the day does not equate to safety and no risk.
One thing I learned from my experience in security is that sometimes instantly responding to a threat may be counterproductive because you may be reacting to a form of a honeypot - it is used to determine whether their newest iteration would bypass your detection or not. Similarly, large online game operators tend to do bans for bot systems in waves rather than incrementally to avoid signalling precisely what tipped off their systems.

I don’t know if the dynamics make sense for Facebook’s adversarial users or not.
> Example 2 cite

I don’t have articles to link to, but I’ve experienced this on numerous occasions.

Me working with manual testing where we regularly set up clean environments from scratch probably has helped me notice the problem more than a regular webdev.

Because this is absolutely a problem.

> Example 3 cite

I’d say Google it, but it really is a known and documented problem:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+chrome+bundled+installers&t...

Goggle is in no way playing fair.
I would think its worth trying out something even if the result is less than perfect.
Azure North Central US is having an outage
If it wasn't clear, I was suggesting a Google-Intel design collaboration, and Google dropping Qualcomm from future products.

I don't think Google has any interest in buying Qualcomm.
The power of mobile
I agree, and I don't need millisecond precision on this, but I think multiple seconds is absurd.
It's not whataboutism to point out that simply investing in stocks is hardly a "smoking gun" in regards to the investor having had actual influence over the company he/she invested in.

I'm merely pointing out that if that's the new "breaking point" for collusion then there are literally tons of other cases with much worse implications that should be properly scrutinized.

Is there any actual evidence these investments have been used to influence Twitter/Facebook? Afaik no, there isn't, so all this actually amounts to is "Russians invested in social media stocks", which is hardly scandalous nor should it be breaking news.

Because that's what it actually comes down to: Twitter and Facebook couldn't care less how much Russian state power is concentrated, compared to the US, even if that's actually true, it has literally zero relevance in this case.
If in your math 2+2 does not give you 4 it's not reality that is wrong, but your math.

>So reality works because math works.

Reality is that the one that contains the structures not math. So what you said does not make sense.
Fake WhatsApp Downloaded Over 1M Times Pulled from Google Play
Slow going 48mb PDF. Mirrors:

https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/example-name/pocorgtfo16...
http://openwall.info/wiki/_media/people/solar/pocorgtfo16.pd...
No, mobile scrolling wasn't "broken" for them, scrolling via their "timeline" feature was broken.

And while they would need to update, if they were using the hosted discourse plan it would have been fixed for them, and if they were using the self-hosted plan, they are running that on a linux server which needs updates and maintenance periodically anyway or a broken timeline will be the least of their problems. Luckily Discourse will email you when there is an update with a link to the admin page that lets you one-click upgrde the Discourse install on your server from the web UI.

So yes, this is exactly the flu shot I'm talking about. A product was broken in a fairly minor way with this update, and a fix was developed within 24 hours which consisted of 2 lines of CSS (both the same, but in 2 different spots). And now the product and the web as a whole (on chrome) are less laggy and janky on mobile devices.
Maybe. It's likely a UK-EU trade deal will appear before Brexit (in some way or another) and that might not lead to many changes in the end.
I work in a department that develops and maintains an internal SDK used by internal BIUs to develop medical applications. Size of codebase is well over 1 Million LoC.

We heavily user source code documentation for all public API which is enforced by our internal build tools (build breaks when undocumented code is found) and the review process (to check if documentation is proper). We have a searchable themed MkDocs page with a large number of “how to properly document X”. Reviewers actively place links to these pages in the reviews where source code documentation is not proper (style issues, lacking, no examples, etc).

Goal is here to have a proper MSDN like source code documentation and site generated by Doxygen. Each release gets its own documentation, which is easy as it is just a source control revision. A second goal is to have most of the documentation as close to the code as possible so it actually stays well updated.

Next to this we have a developer portal which is based on manually written markdown files. We are currently in the process of replacing our existing media wiki pages into markdown as well. Markdown is quite powerful as most people can easily read it, even with just notepad. In addition it converts to anything so it feels a bit more future proof. Right now we put it in a slightly extended mkdocs served site. We extended a bit for versioning and a landing page that links to separate mkdocs sites as the navigation becomes too cluttered if we put all of our layers and components in one site. Better to branch Early is what we found. So separate sites for database, infrastructure, system (multi-subsystem deployments), application development (wpf, HTML5,..),and for each subsystem (printing, auditing, reporting, data server, ...).

The problem is already we notice the manual markdown is not properly maintained. I think this is a problem you never solve unless you hire people to do it full time. I.e technical writers.

My personal opinion is that a stack overflow enterprise (on-premis SO) is more powerful. Nowadays people want to know “how” instead of “what”. A Q&A site with tons of questions and answers is much better than a one-way written developer portal. Also, other people outside of our department could also answer questions for us. As a benefit you learn where people struggle with your API or use it for things it was not developed for. Feedback is great here.
Old Versions of Android Apps
Right, that's why they were demonetized. Because of 'gay propaganda' on a mass scale.
In case anybody else doesn't recognize this, it's the law stating that porn producers must maintain proof-of-age documentation of their performers (at least that's what I think it means). Something like that anyway.
So like... I'd need to use this in a VM? I'm not going out of my way to install XP on my 8700k system. Just to see what it do, seems like a big ask.
[Gyroscope cofounder here] We've experienced similar things and that was the motivation for this post -- ticketing systems and startups seem contradictory. What other processes/stack does your company use?
My view is, in the future, startups will lean towards airdropping tokens for free, once the initial wave of raising money pre-product subsides.
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Hack Devuan for money (for real)
wtf does this even mean. companies will always care about profitability for their owners. that's the whole point of starting and having a business
Major internet outage hits the U.S
Is Apple going to pack up and move 50,000 people from Cupertino to the Cayman Islands?
Here's a more persuasive demo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15514285

https://imgur.com/z2euynI

https://imgur.com/vb4uDMw

https://imgur.com/4Xv4BMb

It's not so much that it has X feature or Y widget, but rather that the whole ecosystem feels cohesive. With emacs you sort of cobble together your configurations until you're happy with it, and that's very powerful -- it's why it's so successful. But there's something to be said for having "awesomeness out of the box". It's why Spacemacs was so popular.

I hear you about FOSS. I was reeeeally hesitant to throw my time into yet another closed source clusterfuck. I grew up as a gamedev, and back in 2000 that meant you had to use Visual Studio. All of my VS skills are now completely obsolete. And whenever I ran into VS issues, I couldn't debug it since it was closed source.

Two things convinced me IDEA is probably worthwhile:

1. They're partially open source. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community You can build that from source and run it, so you can at least see how most of the system is architected. You won't be able to extend some of the closed-source plugins, but you get some of the benefits of FOSS.

2. Their tooling is their primary business model. When Microsoft lost their VS monopoly, Microsoft didn't die. JetBrains' sole focus is making the tooling ecosystem work; they're the Adobe of tooling.
Well said. Also one other thing to consider is what companies do and don't consider to be an extension of themselves. Facebook would sooner fire an employee who said women are dumb, than even consider putting hard cash towards policing people/groups/pages who espouse identical viewpoints. The later is always easily rationalized away.
I am a theoretical physicist and I think mathematics is just a tool. A language to describe concisely but always approximately what goes on out there in nature. A way to foramlize intuition and test it for logical inconsistencies. I personally think it is counter productive to focus so much on giving tools a deeper meaning. Sadly many a theoretical physicist seems to be drifting into that corner never to come back... The cure? Keep talking to your experimentalist friends. They usually keep their feet on the ground :-)
It also won't make Apple's bezels smaller or write their ad copy for them, because that's simply not among the objectives of any prospective law targeted at reigning in tax havens.

If we need to prop up the U.S. tech sector with special tax handouts because they can't compete, we can do that on a targeted basis when that day comes rather than continuing to perpetuate an open-ended tax giveaway enjoyed by major companies in every sector of the economy.

And in the meantime perhaps we can use the missing revenue to bring our infrastructure up to parity with the rest of the modern world.
that caught my eye too, anyone have a rough estimate for what sort of profitability one could expect from full time work in this field?
That that is what needs to be fixed.
How's performance? I've used PyCharm about once a year historically and kept going back to TextMate 2 or (now) VSCode for UI responsiveness.
I really wish there were something like this for iOS. Facebook in particular seems obsessed with bloating their app by trying to become everything from Craigslist to SnapChat.
If you're satisfied with 802.11n then ath9k is IMHO the best. Only driver that does not require a magic firmware blob, and has all the bufferbloat reduction features.
I absolutely love the name.

Here's a Google Docs mirror, stripped down to 15MiB by removing hidden data:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DASC25AIlHPdzOYs2-eB3iVqfjN...

@edit re: why would anyone remove the hidden data?

It makes sense when you mostly want to read the thing and/or put it on an e-book reader. I'm not saying you HAVE to use this version, it's just that if you don't plan to look at the hidden data at first, I'd download it.
Replying to your points in order:

- No, in order to sue you must have standing, which in a super short version means that the plaintiff has to be really close to the harm, not a bystander who witnesses something.

- Obviously Apple did not not exist when Justice Hand said that, but I think he would be fine with it. Apple is complying with the letter of the law, and their responsibility on that issue goes no further. Apple is in no way obligated to pay more than what the law requires. If there is a problem with the tax law, then it is up to congress to address that.

- I guess I am less bothered by it than you are. Apple paid what it owed under the law. A lot of corporations pay 0 tax because they are set up as pass-through entities, like S Corps. Is it OK to set up a S Corp for tax reasons?
you break the law if you sell the token. So, suppose you buy it on an exchange and then sell it to a non-accredited investor. if the token is a security, you selling it is breaking the law, even if you are not the issuer.
The HD rumble is actually precise enough that you can make sounds with it. I'm told that in mario kart 8 deluxe, if you hold up the joycon to your ear as you collect a coin, the joycon itself makes the classic mario coin sound, albeit quietly.
there is nobody paying $500+ for an intel GPU, or more like $5000+ in the pro market.
What if this "Kevin Eversely" character had actually immigrated from Macedonia to Minneapolis? Just because many of your friends are not from your region, by itself doesn't mean anything.
The Azure status page says this is “caused by an underlying Network Infrastructure Event in this region”. I wonder if that’s referring to the issues Comcast is having?
How is breaking websites good for the user?
I believe there was recently (this year) a big furor in the right/alt-right about this sort of thing, except it went much deeper, somewhat a la "Pizzagate". It felt very conspiracy-theoryish. I didn't read a whole lot into it, since it seemed pretty crazy, and the videos linked were, admittedly, pretty disturbing.

I now wonder it there's really something to this, especially with regard to people intentionally messing with/traumatizing kids via these videos.
Pointing out examples of people breaking the law, getting caught, and going to jail for it is not a good argument against having the law in place.

I mean, do you point at an example of someone committing murder, getting arrested, and going to jail for life as a reason that we shouldn't have laws against murder, since clearly people still murder anyway?
Honestly, I think it'll come. We're just not there yet (few years off)
I think that's just you.

He's literally tossing a salad in that drawing.
Mm, good point. WebStorm performance is good, but IDEA is noticeably slower. I haven't used PyCharm yet, so it's possible performance could be a pain point there. I find myself firing up Webstorm instead of IDEA due to slower IDEA indexing.

FWIW Cursive is a bit sluggish to start, but after it's done indexing it feels like the best Lisp development environment ever made.
Have you read the paper or the author's book? Because you're distilling a rather rich and refined argument down to a simplistic description. The author doesn't argue the universe is "made" of math.
Haha yeah I don't expect many people to actually setup a VM to use this but it's a big learning project for me! :) My end goal is to create a new game for the N64 but I need tools. So this project is really for me and anyone else who wants construct new content for the system as well!
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85% is more accurate. The 15% are the 1% plus their enablers/support/wannabes.

I agree, such statements are underappreciated. But I'm not running for office so popularity isn't really my concern. It also doesn't help to be silent when faced with the current status quo. Change is painful; saying what needs to be said even more so.

C'est la vie.
what is the company called you founded?
Why stomp all over somebody's fun? I enjoyed reading it.
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I would like tips, insights and your advice on how you think i should go about getting freelancing work or a remote job as i have tried most freelancing and job posting sites to no avail, I am even starting to think that maybe it has something to do with my location seeing as i am an African Django back-end web developer.
Do i need to content market and blog or what?.
my github profile: https://www.github.com/smithmayowa20
"some people aren't so greedy as to believe that they are entitled to the fruits of other's labour."

There is a distinct and strong sense of unaware irony in this comment.
Sad but true. In California the legislature is just a tool for the bureaucratic state to pander To itself. Legislators who fulfill the wishes of the state bureaucracy get favorable treatment on the career ladder. I often suggest we should have term limits on laws, not politicians. An absolute sunset on every law and regulation with up/down votes only, no debate, will do a lot to show whether elected public servants are on the job and who they are working for.
Yet I've contacted them twice about a fake profile which they've refused to remove despite passport and driving license evidence.

Does anyone know of a better channel through which to pursue this?
> Which is almost universally done for free by the editorial/review panel for the given journal.

Is there good data on this? (I mean, I guess there is, but would someone present it to ignoramuses such as myself? Thanks.)
I used to be super irritated with updates for both OSes and apps. I can't tell you how long I force closed my last Android device's updater to prevent getting Android 5.x. Mostly after learning more about security vulnerabilities, I learned this really wasn't a reasonable or viable position to take.

Use the latest version. If you don't like it, switch to something else. Being attached to a specific version of a specific app is likely to doom you to constant frustration, because tech is always changing, compatibility always breaks, and new security vulnerabilities are always found. If you keep your data in standard file formats or protocols which are open, switching clients/apps is relatively painless. Detaching from nonstandard Gmail features opened up the entire width of IMAP clients to me, for instance.

In the above-mentionned case, that's why I just stopped using Android. After a while, it just isn't worth fighting upstream.
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