skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The earlier article that the article links to says a bit more about this. It's still pretty far from concrete, but it does say a bit more. When they talk about the path that light travels between two points, they're talking about the principle of least action.

Going by the earlier article, the idea seems to be roughly like the following. You associate to each point the fundamental group based on that point. All these fundamental groups then live in some larger space, and the ones based at rational points will minimize some quantity analogous to action (or, if we're thinking of light, time).

That's basically the best I can figure just based on the earlier article.
>Like many social apps including WhatsApp, Vero requires an active phone number to create an account.

>(generally speaking, phone numbers are harder to falsify than email addresses).

Well, that's unfortunate. Generally speaking, spam to your mobile phone is harder to filter and block than spam to your email, too. I never give my phone number to websites, my phone is for people.
Rendering in Camera Space(ish)
Debunking the myth of the 'agricultural revolution'
Financially it was a good decision. The current cluster is a lot less than the original one, and traffic + data have grown since. we currently maintain 2 clusters of 5 i3.4xlarge machines. That's a total of 10 machines and is a lot cheaper of what we had before.
The DB is performing great. It is flash based and 99.98% of the queries have <1ms latency. Each XDR end holds around 3.1B records, with a replication factor of 2.
midterm load is around 3 (very low) and we are doing around 190K reads p/s plus 37K write p/s at pick load.
Pushed from the U.S., They Find Hope in Mexico’s ‘Silicon Valley’
I've been there, done that (quit another MNC, not Google).

Unfortunately in the real world, hardly anyone wants your new product, and people are so accustomed to polished products that work on every platform, that one person can hardly deliver something pay-worthy nowadays. Not to mention it's so difficult to land on an idea that people really want, and that idea itself is something doable by one or two persons at most (bootstrap model)

After 6 months of hardly any income, had to eat humble pie and get back to employment (for now).

Good luck.
ScyllaDB was actually too late to enter our POC (we had a somewhat tight schedule for migration) but it was a valid candidate nevertheless.
> The bigger problem is that Amazon has set themselves up as the global arbiter of commerce

Amazon may yet become that. They are not that yet. Walmart has an infamous reputation for being brutal with suppliers. That reputation is far beyond anything Amazon has yet become known for. Walmart also completely dictates who has access to their vast retail system, which is still roughly three times the size of Amazon. Simply put, Walmart's system is radically more restrictive in terms of providing selling access, than Amazon - and it's three times larger.

Half of Amazon's retail sales aren't even from Amazon, they're from independent sellers, and that percentage has been perpetually increasing. For Walmart, it's almost entirely them controlling the sales.

It has merely become popular lately to point the fear cannons at Amazon. It's a cultural mania. Last week it was Walmart everyone was terrified of. In the late 1990s, every headline was breathlessly touting how Walmart was going to take over all of retail and put everyone else out of business.
It's pretty common for US copyright law to be enforced outside in the EU as the term can be longer (the US term can occasionally be longer if the author died at the correct time).
(Starting with the caveat that I’m not hugely well-versed in the GDPR:)

I think that actively soliciting personal data from people (wherever they may be) and collecting or processing it entails a higher level of responsibility. The GDPR in that situation effectively says: if you want to collect or process data on EU citizens you have to follow some rules.

I don’t believe that simply publishing a document online, for anyone who may wish to see it, has that “active character.”

However, others have pointed out that offering the Gutenberg website in a German translation is a similar act. I do think this is arguable, and this point does appear in the court ruling:

> “Apart from that, the first defendant’s website is also intended to target German users. This is supported by the fact that the website is partially in German, that the site offers German-language works, and that the first defendant explicitly strives to make the works available globally” [from the English translation]

However, going back to my point earlier, my concern is with the idea of making the website “publicly accessible in Germany.” I think there is a disconnect here between the understanding of traditional publishing (where it takes effort to publish abroad) and internet publishing (where it takes effort to prevent access from abroad).

I worry about the chilling effect of such a ruling. Should I, out of an abundance of caution, only make my blog available to readers in the UK (where I am, and where my blog is hosted)? I think it is easy to see what the effects of such a ruling could be, and (take to their logical conclusion) would have a severely detrimental effect on information exchange via the internet.
I've received such sold-by-Amazon items as well, but I had assumed it was simple return fraud (customer returns wrong item in a packaging that looks unopened so Amazon puts it back on stock).

Of course I can't know for sure if it was that or comingling.

Amazon definitely puts 3rd-party returns back in stock if it looks like still sellable as new - the seller help site says "We evaluate the condition of each returned item. If we determine that the item is sellable, we will return it to your inventory". So they probably do that for their own items as well.
New Hacker Group Gokturk Cyber ​​Team
Yes. Low latency lookups are q requirement. Saying that, even double the latency we have now would be okay. More important then latency was actually throughput and high availability. And this was demonstrated by Aeropsike well.
Building a phone isn't easy (obviously ;)). Been there myself and it may not even be due to incompetence from Purism's side. Your leverage as a small manufacturer with low quantities is just almost non-existing. Their main problem is probably not going to be on the software or hardware design and I think they can probably get a good working dev-kit out in Jun-2018 as they state. Their main challenge is probably going to be on the mechanical design, if they want to mass produce something that is on par with other phones out there quality wise.

I don't know anything about their team and their experience, but that Jan-2019 release date could shift quite a bit. Especially if they need custom tooling or non standard parts. 6 months will evaporate really really fast, when retooling or changes in material is involved.

I love the project though and I hope they succeed. I have been looking for something like this and I will surely buy one, if they can deliver.
IMSLP should follow suit, instead of taking any chances, until German courts come to their senses about jurisdiction.

(For those who don't know, IMSLP hosts a lot of sheet music scans that are out of copyright in canada, and not in the EU).
Where does google prevent that? I tried on the web login page and I can paste without problem. I'm not sure why they'd prevent you from pasting your login in the first place.

In general there's always a simple way to bypass these websites limitations, like those who try to disable the right click.
Performance comparison of running a loop 10e7 times b/w Rust(WASM) vs. JS
They didn't tried to fk with open-source, they where avoiding Amazon's "1-up". Amazon also didn't release their binary drivers and they weren't even successfull/popular

They couldn't know that Amazon would fail miserably.. If I look at business tactics, that was a very mean move from Amazon and they earn everything that's coming ( the url's that were posted to "defend" them).

PS. I suppose you have Prime?
I hate duplicate-named projects. Thought for a moment this was about someone discussing upgrading their text-based mail client.
No, the article should start with a link explaining what pandas are.
> and how good of an idea it was for them to not chase higher power and graphics.

The GameCube (the console that Super Mario Sunshine was released for) was actually quite comparable to the competition at the time (Playstation 2 and the original Xbox). It was during the following console generations (starting with the Wii) that Nintendo no longer aimed to match the others' raw horsepower.
Freeware and open-source software that saved the Windows desktop
Yes, that’s a good point (and, as someone who works in newspapers, something I’m well acquainted with).

Perhaps my original comment was too simplistic; it is a thorny issue.
The point I am trying to make is that the US is not oscillating happily between left and right as the OP claims, but is veering further and further into authoritarian right territory.

I doubt many people in US would like their country to become a "shithole country" to quote their current president, but yet here we are watching history unfold
Naive question from a semi-beginner about your market: isn't there already a lot of competition for hyperlocal forecast
and good accessible visualizations (e.g., darksky)?
Probably Object Oriented
Queries here are measured from the application side. And in our case, those are simple key-value operations such as get(key), update(key, value), write(key, value) and delete(key). Aerospike is known to optimize those into fewer block operation as it can.
Well that never happened, did it?

I really, really enjoyed the US Geological Service's Yo system for Large Earthquakes. Then a year in... it stopped working, and I stopped caring.
Not really. Trump is a third gen immigrant with an immigrant wife. If he were in Europe, he would talk about bloodline heritage, and how his people were French for centuries. There is a level of protectionism, homognity, and xenophobia that Europeans simply take for granted.
I think maybe the point is that the swing isn't really that big, so no real surprise that things keep on working
In Aerospike case, they do not use a file system. they own the mount point and access the disk blocks directly, optimizing for local SSD disks.
The link posted above mentions completely driverless trains as well (grade 4).
I liked the idea of "true democracy", in that everyone can vote on all questions all the time. Not just once every four years on blue vs red.
I presume that a big part of these 40% are single or single-parent households.

I'd wager (a little) that if you only consider (heterosexual) couples, then you will have mostly men making more money...

Not saying that that's good or bad...
I get the suspicion that the writer doesn't understand the ?, * and + operators...
As the block page states, the court order states that certain items must be blocked - it does not specify the means by which it must be accomplished. Blocking German IPs is the simplest way to achieve that.
The following phrase from James Damore's memo is worth repeating:

"Hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for "diversity" candidates by decreasing the false negative rate"

https://firedfortruth.com/

This is what Google spokesperson means by "We have a clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity".
those pesky germans at it again..
> outrage amplification may be a side effect of optimising for engagement

I tend to agree, but I suspect that is the last thing the networks would be willing to change, as that is what keeps people there and gets advertising clicks.

If it were to reach the point of attracting regulation, what could be regulated? Maximum engagement by the networks, impose some sort of ration, or regulate the users and their twitterings?

So I could see it all too easily ending up solving the wrong problem in the wrong way.

Honestly off the top of my head, I don't know how I would approach this. Especially when some of the possible approaches would be a conflict of interest for the networks.
Live in a german city and neither have a car. Public transport or even preferably bike
You're speaking of a strict definition of censorship which is when an authoritative body is the one censoring. And you are not wrong.

Private censorship is still censorship, however. It is also a form of speech itself.
Having dabbled with both selenium and phantom, I can vouch for both being PITA to work with.
Companies are
indifferent to the bad image, especially those not presented on the stocks market. People are more sensitive.
How does this relate to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754 (2008 edition) which added decimal floating point in a couple of sizes including 64 bit? It's strange to publish something in the same space without any reference to that. It appears to be incompatible (IEEE 754 decimal64 has 53 bits of significand and 11 bits of exponent; this thing has 56 bits and 8). How is that helpful?! Libraries and hardware supporting IEEE 754 exist. What am I missing?

Edit: it does say "A later revision of IEEE 754 attempted to remedy this, but the formats it recommended were so inefficient that it has not found much acceptance." at the end. Hmm.
Pretend I'm one of your friends. Why would I use a social networks like akasha which will cost me money, when there's multiple open source social networking platforms with reliable hosts? Things will get even more interesting as they adopt activitypub, a json-ld based W3C standard for social networking, in order to interoperate. Mastodon and peertube are already there, but I don't expect that anyone would pay to relay activitypub messages through Akasha for anyone but themselves.
The stunning geometry behind this surprising equation (the Basel problem)
This question is explored in detail in the book "The Retreat of Western Liberalism" by Edward Luce (2017); it is one of the best books of the year according to The Economist.

I haven't finished reading it yet, never mind digesting it, but it is fascinating and though-provoking. The following paragraph should wet your appetite:

In Moscow’s view, history is back and nothing is inevitable, least of all liberal democracy. Others, in Beijing, Ankara, Cairo, Caracas, and even Budapest, share Russia’s hostility to Western notions of progress, as do growing numbers of apostates in the West. Are they wrong?

This book is my attempt to answer that question. Let me declare now that nothing is pre-ordained. To a person whose life has coincided with the rise of democracy, the spread of market economics and signs that the world had finally subscribed to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (even if much of it is paid only in lip service – hypocrisy, as they say, being the compliment vice pays to virtue), merely to pose the question is troubling enough. Wasn’t that debate settled a long time ago? Isn’t the march of human freedom unstoppable? Doesn’t the whole world crave to be Western? We can no longer have any confidence in that. It was remarkably arrogant to believe the rest of the world would passively adopt our script. Those who still believe in the inevitable triumph of the Western model might ask themselves whether it is faith, rather than facts, that fuels their worldview. We must cast a sceptical eye on what we have learned never to question.
> Oh, and did I mention how munch money it saves not to own a car?

Yap. So true
Such a function can easily be optimized by a smart programmer. Programming language will not matter in such cases. You want to compare using real world apps, eg no micro-benchmarks.
However, that is apparently a deal breaker, which makes me suspicious because many organizations have no trouble implementing Let's Encrypt SSL despite the lack of wildcard support. That + Past Behavior = suspicion.
> They didn't tried to fk with open-source, they where avoiding Amazon's "1-up".

Trying to prevent competitors from providing compatibility with your products is anticompetitive.

In an ideal market, products are compatible, and you have multiple competitors to choose from. You could buy phones from multiple manufacturers, with different operating systems, that would be able to run the same apps. And you could stream YouTube to FireTV and Chromecast, and your FireTV could receive streams from Kindle and Google Android devices.

Amazon actively works towards providing intercompatibility whenever they can. Amazon added the same APIs to their Android version that Google closed off in Android.

Google, on the other hand, has in the past years every time they had a chance to, actively worked to prevent intercompatibility, kill standards, and limit the usefulness of open source.

I’m not sure there’s any way to see Google’s actions as a positive.
> We also mostly drive stick here.

During last years, there was a huge push to change that and sell as much as possible new cars with automatic transmission. For example, nowadays it is almost impossible to get a car with manual transmission, 4x4, and not an anaemic, preferably petrol engine (forget about atmospheric one). If you accept automatic, you can choose from almost all brands.
This list is not entirely accurate: Faber & Faber is not associated with Holtzbrinck.
So what? Even my Dad knows how to use a VPN.
I note in World War I the German, Russian and British monarchs were all cousins. I probably put a world government as the close to the next world war; win-win deals have all been exhausted and only win-lose deals remain, made by people, on a world government level, who have huge influence.
Personally, I like the all-natural sound of the Formula E cars, and it's primarily from the gearboxes (straight spur gears). I'd love to see a BMW i3 mod with a sequential shift straight spur transmission like the Quaife QBE60G, and no ESP.
I agree that we didn't know about the app store before we knew that flash wouldn't be supported by the iphone, but surely that was a part of Apple's strategy, right?
Debounce and Throttle in Real Life Scenarios
I haven't paid a cent to use Akasha.
(To be clear, Windows 7 without the patch also supports TLS 1.2. The patch adds a registry key to configure the default protocols for applications that don't explicitly override the default.)
I use Linux on the desktop and this is my biggest gripe their too (well it’s the same on BSD too, nothing Linux specific). Sometimes I wish the desktop environments were a bit more opinionated like MacOS (but without all the restrictions). I’m keeping a close eye on elementary OS to see where that ends up.
Java and Python, for a start, have decimal number types in their standard distributions.
This just in, corporations are self-interested and corrupt.

If you've reached middle age without realizing that literally everyone in the world is lying and cheating to get ahead then you are not paying attention.

"How did it get this way?" Because Bacon didn't always cause cancer, Bacon doesn't cause cancer. Industrial processes cause cancer. The headline is misleading. The article even states that there are non-cancer-causing methods of manufacture. So whatever, keep eating bacon.

This is a great opportunity for safe meat producers to label their bacon "Non-Carcinogenic!" when they use the proper methods.
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto – A Vision of New Society
Words can mean more than one thing. Are you new to the world?
If you have problem-solving teams instead of solution-providing teams, ultimately your problem-solving teams will reimplement the same solution multiple times, each time for their individual problem, for the overlapping parts of the solution to their problems.

Whether your organization can tolerate that kind of duplication largely depends on your organization and what kind of problems it needs to solve. Sometimes that kind of duplication presents governance problems which are unacceptable within a given regulatory environment. Other times, both implementations reach customers, and your customers are wondering why they need separate accounts for each of the company's products and why there isn't a unified UI across the company's products being driven by the company's brand.

It's important for organizations not to dismiss duplication out of hand as a form of waste, but it's also important to have a handle on what kind of duplication is going on to make sure that it doesn't conflict with the company's responsibilities or mission.
I stumbled upon https://www.dailycodingproblem.com/ recently and it's the first time I want to pay for a newsletter. I don't need to pass a coding interview, but I used to be a competition programmer in high school and love thinking of tricky coding problems to solve. The newsletter includes a detailed solution to each problem (the next day.) What a great idea.

I also used to pay for http://railscasts.com/ by Ryan Bates - back when it was a paid subscription. I paid for how succinct the information was organized, despite there being a tonne of other Ruby blogs out there.
At the risk of being flippant the first thing Akasha needs to do is tell people what it does.

Would someone who is not familiar with it and visited the site have any idea?
Frankly, none of the things you mentioned as a hurdle I see as such: Where to park it? In garage, obviously. Is it clean? Mostly yes, washing is a matter of 30 minutes. Does it need an inspection? Once in two years. Insurance? Just like another bill, you can pay it over Internet too.

However:

Do you live alone? If no, how do you do your shopping, for example? Do you have kids? If yes, how do you transport them?
Maybe it's a "security feature" of some AV software or IE/edge. Wouldn't surprise me.
"And wakes are generally unknown in Ireland outside of relatively isolated rural areas."

From where do you get that mad notion? That's not correct at all. Living in Dublin with friends from virtually every county and every single one of them would have been to wakes and not just for people of an elder generation. I'd go so far as to say it's standard practice across the country with a few isolated places where they don't.
Vivobarefoot makes some great ones as well, and some look normal enough to wear to an office. I have their running shoes and hiking boots as well, all are great!

https://www.vivobarefoot.com
If you haven’t already heard of him, Peter Garrison’s Technicalities column in Flying Magazine is fascinating and always beautifully written. This is one of the planes he designed:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison_Melmoth_2?wprov=sft...

I don’t fly but my dad was a pilot, and he and I would sometimes visit Peter’s hangar at Whiteman airport while he was building Melmoth 2.
Perhaps he means that by default money will be handled incorrectly.
Nice! I spent in inordinate amount of time recreating emacs key bindings in MacOS using Karabiner -- everything from editing text to scrolling to switching windows -- before the latest release of MacOS broke it. I found a replacement but it's not as good.
Weak people and people with a conscience.
but then you pour salt on it when cooking. I mean who eats saltless bacon? Gross. Why would you even bother.

Anyway this stuff really doesn't matter. People have been attacking foods since I was a baby. It's nearly always lies. Literally every single thing that you can eat has been attacked as being fattening, cancer causing, or "bad for you" and 99.999999% of the time there is zero science behind it.

For example people to this day claim that aspartame is poisonous even tho it is most definitely not. And now those same people attack Splenda. The fact is none of them know what they're talking about and they're unhappy with their lives so they don't want you enjoying yours. So they attack your foods. This has been going on at least my entire life but probably much longer than that.
Google voice :)
Any unsuccessful one-person online businesses?

How did it fail?

(I'm asking to dent out the survivors bias a bit)