skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, this looks like exactly what I need. I hacked together something similar in python a few years back, but it wasn't as elegant and general.
Very interesting. Maybe stumbling onto such a piece before 2015 would have saved us quite a bit of trouble and time. We ended up doing most of our development from Shenzhen, with out primary electronic Engineer spending time in there, months at a time. Being a hardware startup in Kenya working on a custom Android device meant that a lot of what we needed to do had to be done outside the country.

Our first foray in Shenzhen was made once we found a small company that had a Mediatek based 3G SOM and was willing to help us develop our hardware from there; they suggested that it was the best option. Two years, several stays and a final prototype later, we have learnt why it would have been almost impossible for us to successfully get to a functioning prototype from Nairobi; especially with our budget. For one, the we had direct help from manufacturers, who our hosts had to speak to in Mandarin. With drivers for out custom touch panel, we still needed a visit to the IC manufacturer for some configurations to be fixed. We also had such great help on mechanical design; here, I must admit, we had been completely clueless.

The one thing I can say for sure, in China relationships help; greatly!! We were worried about changing our LCD because the one we're using has come to it's End Of Life. We were then introduced to a factory that was to make us a replacement. Turns out they can make the new LCD use the same exact connections as the one we had before. So no change in our circuit, and support for any change in our code. For us, it was less having a plan and more serendipity though.
sequencing is only half the story, after this we'll have software to find out allergies or perfect diets, etc..
Maybe Nvidia was his second job?
I wrote about this a while back. Self driving cars are not a solution, at least in America where they won't solve the last leg problem from trains to home (because we have so few trains or even express buses).

http://penguindreams.org/blog/self-driving-cars-will-not-sol...

Self driving vehicles on dedicated road ways can't even expect to match a tiny percentage of what trains or even express buses can deliver. Singapore already has autonomous fully automated trains. The same tech has been sold to Kuala Lumpar. London has several driver-less trains with more of their underground being switched over to semi/full-autonomous as well.

We've already had two articles on HN about NYC's crumbling rail infrastructure (both the subway and Penn Station). Chicago hasn't expanded their lines in decades. Our two biggest European style rail cities are not expanding, and are actively falling apart.

There is hope though. Seattle is expanding with ST3 and Florida's high speed line just went operational, with additional stops opening over the next few years which will eventually connect Miami with Orlando. Now if California doesn't fuck things up, we might finally have two real high speed lines in this country (and no, I'm not counting the Acela).
> the bold statements about no difference between men and women brains, everything is nurture/nothing nature, etc.

You are attacking a position that is not the common scientist position at all. Your whole comment is a bit surprising given the context. You went out of your way to invent a reason to vent.

"Study finds some significant differences in brains of men and women": http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/study-finds-some-sign...

https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hope-relationships/2014...

It does not even matter how accurate any of those articles are, this just serves to show that the claim made by OP is wrong. There are plenty of science articles about differences.

So what exactly is the basis for your claim again? Did you do any research of your position at all (and just googling quickly before posting already counts)? It seems to be entirely made up.

> made up opinion

Such as yours? :-)
what I have been searching for years is not theories or tutorials about PID, but a detailed explanation on how to tune a digital controller(instead of a continuous one) in a easy-to-setup environment, whether it be simulation or a cheap hardware. I know examples can include inverted pendulum(IP), double IP, mountain cart, heater with thermometer feedback, line-follower, etc, but where can I easily play around with these examples?
I hear the claim that tether is inflating the bubble all the time so please help me understand. This is the main use case for tether AFAIK:

Scenario A: I fear that a bear market is coming so I move my coins from binance/bitfinex to coinbase/gemini, exchange them for USD and wait for the price to drop so I can buy in at a later time.

Scenario B: I skip the step of sending to coinbase and I exchange directly with tether in binance/bitfinex and wait for the price to drop so I can buy in at a later time.

How are those two any different in their effect on coin prices?
We were running a multi-user text adventure on Prestel at the time, and BT wanted to put it Minitel (in a lot of ways, Minitel was Prestel done right - at least technically). Cue some days in Paris running around with a 'portable' Panasonic PC that must've weighed 25lbs; 4.77MHz, orange plasma screen and 2 ISA slots, one of which was used to hold the full-length X25 card used to connect to Minitel. I got a lot out of that visit (mostly increased upper-body strength).
And sure, by German law, your data will be deleted after you paid your fine. (Plus some time for processing and record keeping)

This doesn’t make this a good analogy though. The GDPR does not prohibit storing private data, it just requires explicit and informed consent. It does not require deletion of data that is required to conduct a transaction, such a receipts, order data or adresses required to fulfil an order. It doesn’t impact storage of data required for law enforcement or any other reason that is mandated by law. It just doesn’t allow unconsentual tracking and accumulation of private data.
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A global currency is big. A global economy is big. For citizens of poor and cut-off countries - it's huge. Which is why I think the SV has largely missed it. ICOs are big with Eastern Europeans for the same reason hacking was (hint: it's not the criminality).

The 51% attack is largely a boogeyman. Cryptos have no intrinsic value - if the 51% attacker gets too blatant the underlying crypto is going to crash.

Sure, you can have an attacker that isn't super-greedy - it's okay. We put up with insignificant manipulations in our current financial systems already.

As for quantum computers (or the romantic version thereof), well, they're going to affect many many many many technologies. It'd be a nuclear event.
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Just my experience with it in other cars: because it asks you to accept a disclaimer every time you start the car, which annoys me no end. I have a bit of a minimalist and/or design snobbery bent though: I would often rather have no solution at all than a poor one.
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> The prison bit is particularly memorable.

Ah! But have you named them yet?
The previous 3 places I have worked it has been a constant battle to get re-factoring done so that system is more maintainable. Some crappy feature was always considered more important (metrics showed a year later that the "important" features hadn't brought in any more revenue).
It may be, may be not? I was just expecting an explanation of how they had become profitable so, for me, the title was a bit misleading.
TL|DR: same place where the trees that were previously here were getting their water. I don't think the article is about planting trees in Sahara or Gobi. It would be more useful in the replenishment/repair after a fire.

Silly example, but in the U.K. (almost everywhere on this island) it rains 4629362619 days per year! (or it feel like this much:)

I do understand that U.K. forests are not diminishing as they are on Amazon but I think (not sarcastically) they are called Rainforests.

I guess it depends on the reason for the deforestation. If it is just for timber, then a cheap solution to repopulate the area would be taken up by the lumberjacks themselves (so they can go back in 10-20-30 years and collect again and repeat the cycle). If the deforestation is simple to create more land for crops/living areas, then this is irrelevant.
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As a startup co-founder that is also a programmer. We have limited resources to spent our time. I was wondering at what point does an early-stage startup slows down tech development and focus on business development. My product is already MVP and I have 1-2 customers. My hesitation is that the product may not be enough and if I slow down tech development, competitors will come into the space and catch up.
Presenting evidence of people who worked on project [X] and were not in group [A] is not the same thing as showing that group [A] did not work on project [X]. Surely that's elementary?
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One of the "funny" thing with the minitel was it was originally designed to be a set of services. During the first experimentations at a city-scale, people used it to find old friends from school ect. Then it ended up with its traffic being mostly directed to erotic services (mostly online chats).

It would be interesting to compare the bandwidth percentage used at the time for those services, and the one from today with Internet.
Inducing demand is not just from mode-shift (towards cars in this case), but also from development. Take the example of a big city on a big island (e.g. Montreal), a larger bridge may encourage sprawl off-island rather than infill development on-island.

A choke-point like a bridge isn't just a sort of barrier (geographic, social economic...), but also an opportunity to manage travel patterns and thus development.
I haven't looked a huge amount because I don't use it for traditional turn-by-turn directions, but rather loading up a GPX track and following it manually. I use the Trails app on iOS most, but I have maps.me as well.
Government bodies are exempt from the regulation like always.
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Edmond: There are 72,519 stones in my walls. I've counted them many times.

Abbe Faria: Ah! But have you named them yet?

The classic of despair. But then he wouldn't have met the unforgettable Abbe, for me one of the most wonderful characters of all literature.
Or you can use my PID simulator, where you can play with the constants in a simulated car to reach different speeds, it updates the output graph instantly

http://codinglab.blogspot.be/2016/04/online-pdi-trainer.html
Your comment does clarify the issue by pointing out the alternative, and the article could have mentioned that, but the quoted sentence is completely correct as quoted. It fails to mention the alternative, but there's nothing actually wrong in the statement.

I'll give you that the article is not very comprehensive, but the GDPR is large and complex and the author doesn't set out to cover it in every detail. What misunderstandings did you see?
This can very quickly become onerous for anyone wanting to run a website, if they have to understand the law of any country where it might be accessed. I think the onus of geoblocking should be in the country that decides this website doesn't obey it's laws, otherwise only large corporations with lawyers will be able to run websites.

If your website is doing business (i.e. Has some sort of legal presence) in another country, well, that's a different story.
Goes to show that "worse is better", given that these two perhaps badly-designed systems are the software world's biggest successes.
Then, of course, there were the messageries roses (translated roughly as 'pink message areas' - adults only, of course!).
Being sloppy and being fast are not the same thing.

One can be fast by limiting complexity, yet provide a disciplined implementation.

In an uncertain scenario, such as you described, I would say it never pays to be sloppy, but it often pays not to do anything more than is absolutely necessary for the time being.
You're probably getting downvoted because you did not follow up with "...because $reasons", so your post comes off as petty Linux hate (is there such word as "anti-fanboyism"?).
On a related note:
You don't need to anonymize yourself if you only ride on zwift.
Jarrett doesn't have a problem with small-vehicle options either. He just says: In a dense big city that has to be a sideshow and therefore discussing it is a harmful distraction.

(I've seen small-capacity "mass" transit, btw. Never two-person-max. But I've seen ten-person microbuses in several cities. Where I live there are a few that feed minor outlying hubs.)
I’m on a phone so this is only going to be a limited reply:

“Main” - literally all other parties with seats have refused to be in a coalition with AfD. Also, unless they’ve changed position since I last looked (they might, as I don’t look at them often), they are currently anti-€ rather than anti-EU.

Further, the EU’s strategic goals from Brexit is damage limitation and clear resolution. I think you’re mixing up their goal for Brexit itself with the potential post-Brexit futures for the EU, which I think they should be considering about now-ish.

As for the EU’s attitude to compromise, I wish to point out that not only did the EU compromise on budget contributions with Thatcher; not only did Cameron get compromises from the EU right before the referendum; not only did the EU compromise and allow opt-outs on the Euro, Schengen, defence (Denmark’s the only one who wanted that), partial opt-outs of the charter of fundamental rights (“lol” UK and Poland), and something I don’t understand beyond guessing from the name called “area of freedom, security and justice”; in addition to all that, the _point_ of the EU is compromise between member states.
That’s great, but for a company that has raised on a valuation of >2BUSD how are they going to compete with Illumina.

The read lengths might be long, but the error rate is a couple of orders of magnitude higher. I can’t see a market large enough for highly error’d log reads to support their valuation.
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I'm pretty sure the state was oppressing minorities and driving income inequality just fine without software.
One does not preclude the other, but if not for Death Duties the Scott Trust would not have been created.
World Wide Web as a borderless, lawless place is only a long gone dream of cyber anarchists of early nineties.
America use to have more rail at one point in time than Europe has today. It wasn't that long ago. We're talking less than 70 years.

If we start building infrastructure in our cities again for rail and express buses, you will see things being to naturally be more compact. Business spring up around rail stations, and people who want to live close to one another fill in those spaces and move closer to the city.

The "America is too spread out" argument is total bullshit. At the very least, make the cities have good transport and walkable areas. It can happen in a very short time frame. We lost it in a short time frame. Northern Indiana has the same population density of Scotland, so it can work if we build it. We use to have trains from Nashville to Atlanta. The famous "Chattanooga Choo-choo" doesn't even have an AmTrak anymore.

Transportation is the largest factor in the ability of people to move up from poverty. This isn't some subjective statement. There are tons of objective studies to support this[1].

The idea that you need to own a car (and insurance an maintenance) in most of America is pretty insane. A car shouldn't ever be a necessity. Associating it with freedom, as the American car companies have, and buses with poverty, is ass fucking backwards.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjfTG8DbwA&t=316s
My sousvide controller uses a PID to regulate the temperature super precisely.

https://github.com/aguaviva/SousVide
Because then people will complain 'oh I don't want to pay for sports news, I only read the local news section'. Can't win.
In that case you can flag it once you get to 30 karma, or rely on other users to do so. But please don't post unsubstantive comments.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It means that while earnings are negative (i.e. no profits yet), the first derivative is positive (i.e. it will reach profitability if the trend continues, it is on the path to profits).
No, if I want to have a physical presence in the EU I have to follow EU law. But if I'm residing entirely in another country, and EU citizens want to do business with me over the internet, I could care less what EU law says. And no amount of whining on this thread will change the fact that the EU has no leverage over me.
Are those topics no longer relevant to today's state of the art research?
where do they have the best okonomiyaki? :)
I wonder why compression seems to be extra sensitive to the existence patents. What about all other fields, aren't there ripe opportunities for European companies to be able to build software that Americans simply can't compete against? Shouldn't there be a cottage industry that does exactly that? What are some of the most stifling non-media patents?
Can we say Jarrett is visually impaired and can't drive? Let's also say Jarrett is a school teacher and earns less than $40k/year.

Jarrett has very limited options now. This person can live in one of the few (like three? four if you stretch?) cities in the US with decent enough transport to get around, that aren't insanely expensive to live in ... or just have to get lucky and find a house in walking distance of the school and a grocery store and a bus stop to the city.

Jarrett isn't going to be able to afford a Lyft/Uber and is very limited on their ability to even be social.
Block graphics and text at 1200/75 baud - say 1 million people online and all busy typing, that's 75 x 1E6 x 8 upstream so it wouldn't trouble a single 1Gb ethernet link. Downstream would be 16 times that, so 10Gb would handle it all. Of course, in practice a lot of time the line would be idle so actually numbers would have been far less than that.

Prestel in the UK (very similar to Minitel, also 1200/75) ran on around 10 GEC 'mainframes', which I was 'privileged' to spent many hours around. Each mainframe ran at a whole 1MIP, amd there were seried ranks of disk and tape drives to accompany them.

Edit: Number formatting.
> Alot of technology benefits are non visible today- but imagine any nasty event- and notice how a lot of the implicit knowledge of a society would survive today- encoded in videos, automated tutorials and wikipedia articles.

Let's be fair here. If a nasty event caused us to lose power grids globally for a year, we'd lose 99% of that knowledge (preceded by mass starvation of high-double-digits of the western population). Digital data is fragile. Hard drives have lifetimes measured in years. Even optical and flash drives have practical lifetimes (in actual use) of under two decades. The whole thing works only because data is not at rest for long - it's get copied over all the time, as our economy pumps out hard drive after hard drive after hard drive (hell, the same thing applies to CPUs, RAM and displays these days). Everything is so tightly interwoven together, that it starts to resemble a living being - you can't pause it.

That's, BTW., the reason I strongly believe our global priority everywhere should be preservation and stabilization of the technological civilization we have. Itself, it's not rebootable - if it fails now, if we get kicked back to pre-industrial-evolution levels (through e.g. 3rd World War, or environmental collapse, or both), we'll be stuck in them for millenia to come, waiting for Earth to replenish all the easily accessible high-density energy sources, that are all gone now.

We are on a golden path, but it's a tightrope - we need to focus on balancing ourselves and getting to the other end, instead of getting distracted by random trivia and amplifying every single thing that is not exactly right for someone.
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Similar experience. Although I think the biggest issue isn't the initial design, but all the requirements that slowly add cruft. You need a team that religiously follows the [Boy Scout rule](https://medium.com/@biratkirat/step-8-the-boy-scout-rule-rob...), and you'd have almost no issues even without huge refactorings or redoing everything (where you often make new mistakes).

I've been in teams like that, and in teams that don't care. The Boy Scouts performed consistently better. And before anyone says anything, Girl Scouts can do the same ;).
Those are undergrad courses. PhD should already know those by heart.
I feel you. I think 1990's was the time for forums and yahoo chat, where you could be anonymous, and find people like you. But with today's social networks in place, the makeshift internet has lost popularity, even among teens with a tough "real life".

Your piece is spot-on to show how deep today's social platform's tracking systems are. Facebook's array of products know who you are.

Still, there's reddit, with it's 100% anonymity, but with a distinct downside that it's made public, for anyone in the world to access, or for any redditor to check your full history — which can lead to undesired consequences for the online life you've built for yourself.
I took a class in PID and other control systems (PIP) in my 3rd year of undergraduate Electronic Systems Engineering at Lancaster University in the UK.

http://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/-(657...

I enjoyed the class and got good grades, but I've never had to use it in practice.

Now I work for a tech company in Taiwan who make microSD cards, and some of the programming projects I worked on involved writing drivers for the testing machines. That was called "automation and control", but it's all been in software.

I like hardware, but I really don't know how to get back into it after 7 years in software.
I visited Huaqiangbei about a month ago. Was actually a bit disappointed. The YouTubers definitely oversell it.

Yes, it's highly "gentrified" now, with big electronics chains having huge stores (yes, more than one).

Other than that most stall owners just want to jump on the newest bandwagon (drones, VR, Bitcoin miners) or just sell iPhone accessories.

Maybe the most amazing thing are the ground floors of most buildings were the "raw" electronic components are actually sold. Or better word would be marketed. You are suppose to "window shop" there and place an order for bulk purchase afterwards.

It also seems 90% of these stalls are just for the marketing purpose. They sell mostly on Taobao. There's a never ending noise of yellow packing tape being wrapped around carton boxes.

OTOH I really liked their logistics services, ZTO in particular. They're cheap, reliable and have proper package tracking.
Yeah. "Worse is better" is just philosophy built around understanding of feedback loops (indirectly, through evolutionary processes). It's pretty much fact of the system that is human society. It's true, and it's the default way things work. It should be used, however, as a reminder that we have brains capable of overriding that default, if we can be bothered to use them.
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