skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am with you there, like Rust, but in what concerns microservices I would always pick a GC language with JIT/AOT.

The language is a tiny piece of the end-to-end development experience.

Now, for playing around on a ESP32? C++ or Rust (when available).
Exactly, me too. Uncertainty.
I'm imagining a system that bundles and efficiently packs cuts from multiple customers; everyone pays proportionally based on the area they take up.
Is this an LTS release? 16.04 is fine, but it'd be nice to upgrade.
My feeling is that Google cloud will always be hit and miss because their biggest customer by far is Google. So they'll do unbelievable scale on the stuff they use, and just passable on everything else.

It's also why I think that Facebook never joined the rat race. Most of what they do has no relevance to the average company.

Amazon, an online retailer, was really the most natural place to start an outsourcing of banal technologies for the largest market segment. And has grown from there.
Onward, but not forward. Counterpoint is still depressingly underused in modern music (save for the occasional duet), and it can say so much with so little material. (Heck, the majority modern music barely even changes chords, let let alone key or anything beyond.) These tools are not antiquated; they are not buried in the sediment. They are still perfectly useful and there for our taking, if only we would dust them off.
There are special breeds of chicken, where there is a gene on a sex chromosome, whose effect is visible in the chick.

Now, with CRISPR and genetic engineering, it may become possible one day to sex them at the egg stage by expressing a simple gene. A tiny biopsy, similar to in ovo vaccination, would reveal the sex. But the consumers don't like genetic engineering...
Here's a 3D programmable universal constructor -- with physical kinematic cell blocks that can slide around, rotate, attach and detach with each other, to build machines that can collect, sort, store and assemble the parts they need from the environment to reproduce themselves.

http://www.srm.org.uk/papers/CBlocks3D_programmable_construc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBXO_6Jn1fs
Fifty years ago, the number one song was “Hey Jude”. Number four was “Sittin’ on the dock of the bay”—both regularly performed, enjoyed and reinterpreted today.

There are half a dozen others in the top twenty that you could say the same thing about.

Yes. Some of the pop songs today will be around in fifty years. Are they as good as Bach? No. But then again neither is most classical music written today.
There is an element of that to my life in a pick your battles kind of way.
I run, bike (it's something to progress at when other things arent, meditation) Also, I was very fortunate to find a local entrapaneur group - the glue factory. For me it's been like a support group of, and for, entrapaneurs. https://atgluefactory.com
I combined Pimsleurs, a one year coursebook, spaced reptition and 12 hours of training a day for 3 weeks to learn Mandarin. My listening skills were weak but reading and writing were strong. Got up to about 800 characters and 1300 words. This was enough to get around comfortably in China and add to my vocabulary.
TEDxBrussels organizer drags presenter off stage during anti-censorship talk
Yes.

And I say this as someone who has been classically trained and absolutely worships the music of Bach (and Mozart for that matter).

"The Message" by Grandmaster Flash, A lot of The Beastie Boys, Some Kendrick Lamar, and many other hip-hop tracks and artists will definitely still be played and enjoyed 50 years in the future.

There are people who weren't alive at the beginning of hip-hop who are massive fans of the early artists. They'll be as popular as the greats of early rock, the greats of jazz etc.

You have to remember that when Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms etc were composing there was also a lot of absolute dross being composed at the same time. History forgets the garbage and remembers the greats. The same will happen for all genres of music.
Cisco has 800,000 customers and thousands of active products in the market. I think Cisco does an exemplary job on how it handles security both proactively: in design, in development, in production, and in response to disclosures and discoveries. Same with Microsoft, and the other few companies on the planet who operate at this scale.

I think it's easy to find our mistakes, but keep in mind our corporate culture is to shine a light as honestly and transparently as possible on security issues, and we strive to err on the side of caution and communication.

(I work for Cisco)
Signup doesn't actually work for this thing, just an error that shows a Justin Bieber quote.
Good on you dear Sir!
I wonder how long it will take before the tort lawyers can sniff this.
Since we're on this topic: Is Western classical music (typified by Bach) really the zenith in our human understanding of the 'universal' language of music?

Certainly, the complex and subtle tunes and harmonies of classical, in particular, give us goosebumps, provoke intense emotional responses. Do the same phenomena occur in other musical cultures? Traditional Japanese, Chinese, Javanese, Indian - their musical expression is markedly different. Try out some ancient Greek scales, from the dawn of our Western civilization: unfamiliar, yet still 'tingly'.

So are there equivalents to Bach that we're just not 'in tune' with? Alternative musical structures that are just as valid, yet wildly unfamiliar?

Akira - Kaneda's Theme: https://youtu.be/hpDvtIt6Lsc

Indonesian Gamelan orchestra: https://youtu.be/sZZTfu4jWcI

What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: https://soundcloud.com/archaeologymag/what-ancient-greek-mus...

Ancient Krell Music (Forbidden Planet, 1956): https://youtu.be/oNKhju6Pryg
Heck yeah it is!
You could inject the hen with a CRISPR vector introducing a mutation into the Z chromosome which would be letal to eggs. Then put a saving gene on the W chromosome. Or a letal mutation on the W chromosome, to select for male broilers.

And no, it's not centrifugation. The DNA in the chromosomes is stained, then a cell sorter with a laser determines which ones have more or less chromatin (the Y is missing an arm vs X).
Why We Should Focus on Our Similarities, Not Uniqueness
The antidepressant effect of sleep deprivation
> The researcher was his own test subject, and nobody has ever replicated the result.

Is there any studies that have looked at that?
A century ago, my family swiped a recipe by spying on another family. I suppose it could have come from a molasses bottle or even from an 1800s cookbook, but good luck finding such an origin at this point. It makes lovely gingerbread men.

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Molasses_Cookies
Yes. It will be an LTS release. You can find a list of all releases here on their wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
If you can't trust a goofy bear who can you really trust then?

If you think about it all the goodwill Tunnelbear had was built on quirky/irreverent front end client.
I use a Kärcher SC3 steam cleaner. It's cheap (~€100) and pretty good. Even the SC2 is decent.

I'd like to add a me-too. We bought a Kärcher SC3 to remove old wallpaper when we moved to another apartment (IIRC the price of hiring a steamer for a couple of days made buying one attractive). We use it now to clean our tiled floors, the bathroom, etc. and it has been excellent. The hot steam removes most stains without much effort, it works without detergents, and it is far less work than mopping the floor.
They may filter what routes you can advertise via BGP, but nearly every Tier 1(And most Tier 2) providers will accept traffic sourced from any IP address. I handle about 10 different connections and can source traffic from any IP on all of them.
It would also be impractical because you need too much sperm to inseminate chickens, in terms of producing profit.

In cattle, this is a lot easier, because bull semen can be diluted quite heavily and still produce viable offspring.
I did that and it seriously changes your perspective of music. It is very hard to go back to listen to pop music after you get the taste of classical.
Like the demo was released and accessible in the app? Or did you see it in the RN JS code?
Because xrange became range.
Pop music might be compositionally simple, but the exquisite rhythms, melodies, and timbral experimentation will indeed live on for centuries. Beethoven would have killed to write something as catchy as "Yesterday".

Cutting off paths of emotional resonance from your life will only damage you as a music listener and a musician.
> A Servo browser product is not possible in the near future. That is very much a far future thing.

and an impossibly far future if the Servo team is now refocused on VR, no? how likely is it that these hard problems will be solved by fewer engineer-hours?

perhaps there's some external backer willing to bankroll VR and Servo is just an easy expense to curtail.
Well, maybe Boulez should have written music that was actually listenable!
According to [1], the standard quota is 1,000,000 invocations per 100 seconds and can be increased. Maybe try asking again for increased quota? If the documentation is incorrect, please file an issue [2].

Counter-intuitively, ending the response before processing the data may actually be hurting your p99 response time. According to [3], instances which are not currently handling a request get very little CPU and generally don't make any progress. This means that this work will still be waiting to be done when the next request comes in and can slow it down. You may even end up with an instance trying to process several requests' data and also trying to handle another request on top of that. This last request is going to get an overloaded instance and likely be very slow. Further, the function isn't guaranteed to ever be run again, so that deferred work might not even ever happen.

It probably will cause you to use more of your invocations per 100 seconds quota, but you really shouldn't start background processing tasks in a Google Cloud Function that continue after completing a request.

[1] https://cloud.google.com/functions/quotas
[2] https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=187195&...
[3] https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/bestpractices/tips
Nice, but this needs to be scaled up (many more people need to do this, and a clear recipe provided)
In terms of fame, Bowie is more comparable to Bach than is Boulez, so this seems unsurprising to me.
To avoid slow loading times use daemon mode where you load an emacs server once at login and then start any number of clients instantly. You also aren't stuck with one window.
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There are some questions around Servo as a result of the announcement, so I just wanted to jump in and talk a bit more about what’s going on. tl;dr - Servo is Mozilla’s vehicle for web engine research, and continues to be a major source of new tech for Firefox. But we’re also adding a more direct path to product for Mixed Reality.

Servo has produced lots of great browser tech. We're seeing that tech make its way into Firefox with Stylo and the Quantum release, and there's on-going work to bring even more tech into Firefox, like the WebRender work that you can try out in the latest nighlies. Servo's goal is to create the best technology for working with both current and upcoming web standards, which means collaborating with multiple product teams, from Firefox to Mixed Reality to other, future explorations.

There’s still a long road to full compatibility with the existing web in all of Servo’s components, and it will take time to get there. In the meantime, though, there are emerging technologies where Mozilla believes it is vital for the open web to play a central role. One of these is Mixed Reality (which refers to both Virtual and Augmented Reality), a space that’s getting a ton of attention from all of today’s tech giants.

Mixed Reality is interesting for Servo in two different respects. First, it’s a huge opportunity: it’s early days and content is brand new, so there’s no long tail of web compat to worry about; we can get products built on Servo to market relatively quickly. By putting open web tech on the cutting edge, Mozilla can help ensure that Mixed Reality doesn’t become yet another siloed technology.

But second, the constraints of Mixed Reality will help us push Servo technology to the limit: we need to achieve 75 or 90 frames per second per eye to make a workable product. The research advances here will pay huge dividends back in traditional browser engines like Firefox.

In short, this is a “yes, and” shift. Servo continues to be about building the best browser tech, period, for use across Mozilla’s products. The increased emphasis on Mixed Reality represents an opportunity to push that tech further, sooner. And the organizational change within Mozilla Research reflects a closer collaboration between the teams needed to make that happen.
> Regardless, if you're Russian you should also carefully consider whether your national interest aligns with the continued existence of humanity

Putin said, just yesterday, that he sees no reason for the world to continue to exist without Russia. He was strongly impling that Russia would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons if threatened.
Yeah, but the loyalty report only covers USA
I've thought about that, and in short, the problem would be acquiring the data in the first place. In the fully automated case, a machine would have to pick up the chick, turn it the right way, pop the vent, and release it, all without killing it. A rather complicated task for robotics, and this could get very error prone or very maintenance intensive.

Next way would be to have a Human put the chick over a scanner in the right orientation. This solution is less attractive, because you still need to pay a worker, and that worker would only have to learn the sexing skill for a few weeks to be equally as fast as the machine...
Ask HN: As a recent Graduate, what to look out for in future employers
I am located in germany and recently graduated in computer engineering with a focus on high performance computing.

I know what kind of job I want. Generally I want to work at place that gives me some degree of freedom in the way I approach a problem, enables and supports further education of
employees with conferences and literature, for both technical and domain knowledge, and respects
the work life balance. I guess that is what most people are looking for in an employer.

But I'm not sure about what I have to look into when I evaluate a potential employer (online as well as during an interview). Because in the interview an employer can always tell you that they care about education etc. But how do I know that is actually the case?

What are good cues for a good/bad culture in a company?
What are some warning signs?
What are signs of good employer?
Is it okay to contact current employes and get some information from them?
What else should I look out for?

Thank you!
What Bank?
Perhaps swarm set up a foreign subsidiary to do the launch, and then got permission from a foreign regulating body.
You still need webcompat for VR stuff.

Focusing on VR means that we may not be working on some kinds of webcompat things (the standard example is "IE6 table layout quirks") but there's plenty of webcompat work that needs to be done otherwise.

Yes, not everyone will be working on webcompat, but this has never been the case anyway.
And what of people who appreciate both 'classical' (in the broad sense, rather than the specific period) and modern forms of music?

Sure, there's plenty of sugary pop music, but there is plenty of serious and meaningful modern music as well.
I don't know the first thing about music, but this was still fun to play around with. The front end is a work of art. Looks solid and robust.

I tried it on my iPhone (in Safari) it made a sort of clicking sound with every "beat" or whatever it's called when the line passes over the circles. Other than that, looks great even on iPhone.
I am learning a decent amount but I am struggling to keep up with the speed of locals talking.

You need to develop an ear for it. I have heard that listening to tapes while you sleep can help.

You are also probably being slowed down by translating to English as you listen. You need to learn to understand it without translating it.

One way to work towards that is to transliterate. This is a word for word translation that does not reorder words to create correct (English) grammar.

When I took Greek, we studied the Bible and everyone had an interlinear Bible that had one line of Greek and the English translation of each word below it.

Transliteration can help you get more comfortable with the grammar of the new language and can speed up your mental translation until you are more fluent and can understand the words as meaningful in their own right without translation.
Here's the commercial equivalent.[1] There's a whole industry making customized kitchen cabinets. There's design software and CNC machines. There's Cabinet Vision (software), and Cabinets Online (custom cabinets as a service.) This is a well developed area.

[1] https://www.axyz.com/us/product/optimus/
There are some interesting efforts around bottom up democracy in Northern Syria, the BBC had a fascinating program about it recently.
Amazon, specifically, never asks for CVC/CVV in the first place.

It is not required for charging a card, it is for reducing fraud.
I don't think anyone's really arguing that records of violent criminals should be hidden, turning all hiring decisions into games of roulette.

I'm guessing that you're capable of sensible, fair evaluation of a criminal record, and making an accordingly sensible hiring decision.

The problem is that most others are not. Most companies have a blanket ban on felons, even for things that should not be crimes. Remember that it used to be illegal to possess alcohol, or to marry someone outside your race, for example.

Thus, if you value the information that allows you to filter genuinely dangerous individuals from your life and business, then it seems that it would be in your interest for the system that provides such information be robust against injustice and abuse.
If it were so easy as to use ultrasound, people would do that already.

The resolution of ultrasound, even at that little distance, is pretty bad. I doubt if the reproductive organs are big enough at that age. If I remember correctly, they don't differ that much at this stage either.
Rather than control with mouse and keyboard I want to control the android purely with voice.
So it is about team velocity vs standards compliance? I know the Servo team isn't large enough to make a whole new browser from scratch.
"_Start with what you know_" - amin to that. I also found this is the most important consideration for this decision. I've made the mistake of applying the "_if it fails, at least I used and learnt a new system_" logic, but every time I did that, I still preferred my old stack. So I ended up taking 2x as much time to build, to re-use nothing of the learning (on the development front). I'm now a big believer in the "_build fast, fail fast_" mantra.

My favorite stack: nginx, PostgreSQL/MySQL, PHP 7.1/7.2, Laravel, BackpackForLaravel for admin panels, jQuery/Vue.js

That being said, I'm the creator of BackpackForLaravel. So my productivity is off-the-charts with it, and I'm probably biased towards PHP. I think PHP is underrated, especially in the US & Silicon Valley. It's "cool" to hate on PHP for its past mistakes, and I agreed on many of them, but nowadays, with Laravel...
- it's a joy to work in it (I now like it better than Ruby)
- you get _so much_ done, so fast
- I've been able to easily scale it for millions of users (I've built a social network, a video-on-demand app, an e-learning app - for clients, not myself)
- PHP/Laravel developers are easy to find, all across the world, when you need it
- there's a plethora of good agencies that use it, if you ever want to outsource the entire development team

IMHO, Laravel is here to stay. And with BackpackForLaravel for admin apnels, I hope it'll soon be on par with Django.
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Looks really nice, except for the constant column resizing.
Prudent folk have a UPS kill switch within easy reach.
I'm not sure what you mean by team velocity.

We're still working on standards compliance, but we may focus more on the bits that are actually useful within VR.
Isn't there a class action to that effect?
It already has provided a huge advantage via components that are already shipping (Stylo) and soon to be shipped (WebRender) in Firefox.
As I'm in a similar situation with Crashplan I've researched this a bit more (have just under 2TB so was originally just going to pay up for the business plan so cost wasn't to high).

VPS's are probably a no go as they have all moved to SSD's with low sized volumes. Even with Digital Ocean where you can add block storage you are looking at $100 for a week for 4TB + compute and bandwidth. AWS you are looking at $368+ just on data egress.

hetzner.com server auctions look the best option. Current cheapest is €31.93 per month for a Intel Core i7-3770 (CPU-B 9445) with 2x 3 TB drives and 16 GB. Probably simple enough to use lvm and jbod on the drives to give a single 6tb volume. No egress charges but reading they throttle if you go over 20,000GB a month so a non issue.

No setup fees/contract on the auctions although reading I think it's 30 days/1 month notice to cancel so would need to cancel as soon as ordered.

My plan is to probably move to Git Annex https://git-annex.branchable.com/, use my local NAS as the main backup, maintain a copy of media / photos / docs in Backblaze and duplicate files I can't afford to lose to S3 also. Looks simple enough with Git-annex and lets me maintain multiple copies based on cost / importance.
Police can legally commit crimes while investigating crimes.
This takes me back! I used Geany back in high school to write FreeBasic and Python. Quite a nice editor and very approachable for beginners.
> (the standard example is "IE6 table layout quirks")

if a new browser in 2019 could not properly render an archived 1996 Geocities webpage at time of launch, i don't think many users would care or even notice. there are almost certainly legacy bugs in Firefox that have been open for over a decade with little activity and yet it's in production.