skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who are un-aware of laboratory automation, this is not a new industry. There are MANY automated liquid handlers on the market. Beckman, Eppendorf, Hamilton, and Tecan are the larger names.

What's new is the way Opentrons is offering value: thru low-cost hardware and open-source software. With the OT2 they ditched the use of a manual pipetters with dedicated 8 and 1 channel pipetters (a good move). The software looks more polished... but not caught up the industry yet. Definitely catering to the DIY crowd.

The larger, highly capable robotic liquid handlers cost in the $100-500k range (examples: https://www.beckman.com/liquid-handlers, https://www.hamiltoncompany.com/products/automated-liquid-ha..., https://lifesciences.tecan.com/products/liquid_handling_and_...).

This little guy is the smallest of the batch, but interesting to keep an eye on.
You can. More money. More things to configure. More things to break. More things to lose.
B. Java is not licensed under the GPL.

C. Not going to happen.
Should have a fix in the latest code on github, should be live soon(ish)
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/tempe/2018/03/20/...
Fixed on github, should be live soon(ish)
The NYC people that judge you are obviously not "tolerant".

Also most stereotypes have some truth to them, otherwise they wouldn't be stereotypes.

E.g. IIRC Southern states come last in education ranking.
They can barely keep the government running. Don't hold your breath.
Discovered mypaint.org FTW!!!Looks awesome and extendable too
> There are many Democrats who feel that space exploration is a waste of money that would be better spent on social programs.

That may be so, but I've never met one or heard from one. They would seem to me to be such a small minority I did not even know of their existence until today despite being both a democrat and a fan of space and science research.

> And many Republicans that are very pro-NASA for bragging rights and national security implications if not other reasons.

"For bragging rights?" But I'm talking about support for basic research and science in general. If they show support for NASA publicly for "bragging rights" but then vote party-line items on bills that hurt science research then they are not actually Pro-NASA or pro-science at all. I would even say that's true if they are not extremely vocal every single day about how bad most Republican policies are for science in general.
This seems silly. With self-driving cars, it doesn't make sense to own a car. Instead, transportation will become a service. And a luxury product doesn't fit in this space.

Unless, of course, they want to serve rich people first.
Wonder if anyone from Facebook went back and asked them to delete all that data. Then later on verified that they did so. What about other outfits that figured out how extract the data in the same way?
I'm personally a big advocate of Rust. That said, like yourself, I'm also a little skeptical that it's the right tool for most web apps. I think a case can be made for small Rust web apps embedded in consumer electronics that may be very resource constrained, though. (Granted, these probably aren't the sorts of apps that would be using PostgreSQL as described in the article.) I've seen a lot of great web applications written in Go that can also be quite compact (compared to Java, for instance), and I think Go might be a great candidate for the next level up in resource availability.

Like many languages, the syntax becomes a lot more clear after you've used the language a while. Maybe it's me who's been warped, but I've been programming in Rust for long enough that the example you pasted looks perfectly normal. ;)
The Java API is hundreds of classes and thousands of methods. It is far beyond something as simple as the height of a door.
This site itself is full of people who see nothing wrong in the invasive stalking of users by facebook or google inspite of knowing about their practices well before the public. If there was any serious concern you won't need a whistleblower.

While facebook is bad, Google and Android is far worse. Singling out facebook without comment on the unrestrained greed and ethical vacuum in the engineering community that makes this possible seems not only insincere but also feels like a hatchet job by vested interests, happy to replace facebook with their version of the 'users are dumb' and laugh their way to the bank.

The community here is deeply intertwined with invasive practices and implementing and defending them for years now and cannot simply wash their hands away.
Well, one could argue that, had Google paid for the license, Sun wouldn't have been bought by Oracle.
It would seem that way from a casual glance, but rocket piping is quite complex, and currently assembled from hundreds or thousands of segments. Being able to print such assemblies will permit faster, lighter production, and production of shapes currently infeasible to cast/assemble. It could be dramatic, or slight. The key will likely be implementing a scaling strategy and qc.
When Google did that, Google was relying on controlling precedents in the 9th circuit saying that APIs are functional elements needed for interoperability and therefore are not copyrightable. The first judge that they saw agreed with them and it should have been an open and shut case.

It was Google's misfortune that through a quirk of the system the case wound up in the Federal Circuit, which has a history of creatively ignoring precedent to fashion new precedent that increases its own importance. (Which is how we have patents on all sorts of crap that the Supreme Court has ruled that we shouldn't.) And it was good lawyering on Oracle's part to throw every possible argument at the case, including the copyright arguments that they knew they should have lost.
Didn't White House administration try to interfere with this case, and persuade judges not to declare APIs non copyrightable? That was really weird.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-side...

I wonder what will happen this time.
we're talking about liters of HF (nearly pure).
> Do we know if Facebook stores the revision history of a given status or comment? Would it be possible to programmatically overwrite every status and comment?

Yes. Facebook does. There's a quora question that asks "Why does Facebook provide an edit/revision history for edits made to comments?" https://i.imgur.com/GW0x500.png https://archive.fo/EKzQx

One answer says:

> I think its simply so you can see what was their originally. People are allowed to edit their comments now and they could write something one minute, get alot of likes and totally switch it to something else. If the comment starts off with something nice like "Have a nice day" and people like it and afterwards the person who wrote the comment comes back and changes it to something negative, then that would make you look bad. So it is there to make sure everyone can see what was originally there.

Another answer says

> Yes. It allows the audience to keep the content editor accountable for their actions. The transparency in information sets clear expectations for both the content producer and consumer.
> Built atop uBlock Origin, AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on ad networks' databases.

Nice. Pity its banned on Chrome.
FYI: It's $309 for individuals with the education discount ($329 for the general public, $299 for schools).
The Pencil is also $89 for individual education customers.

https://www.apple.com/us-hed/shop/buy-ipad/ipad-9-7
Do you really need to fix that stuff often? I run my own mailserver, and it seemed very "set it and forget it", but maybe it's more complex at large orgs.
Speaking up is understandable: Mobileye supplies its technology to Aptiv who supplies the system to Volvo for the XC90. The reports are that their system was disabled by Uber at the time of the accident. It is understandable that Mobileye does not want to share the blame in this case.

Ref: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-26/uber-disa...

“We don’t want people to be confused or think it was a failure of the technology that we supply for Volvo, because that’s not the case,” Zach Peterson, a spokesman for Aptiv Plc, said by phone. The Volvo XC90’s standard advanced driver-assistance system “has nothing to do” with the Uber test vehicle’s autonomous driving system, he said.

[...]

Intel Corp.’s Mobileye, which makes chips and sensors used in collision-avoidance systems and is a supplier to Aptiv.
I didn’t say it’s against the law, or imply it. If anything I implied the opposite with the comment about the wrong mechanism.

Actually my mistake, I assumed that you mean copyright, if you mean all laws in general, I feel there’s probably a way for Oracle to litigate, similar to how J++ went down
And given the paltry sum of the Sun acquisition, this is the M&A miss-of-the-decade for Google's M&A group.
Free React.js Workshop
Yeah, but at least other people (third parties) are less likely to mine your data.
Oh man, the irony of America turning into the dumping ground of the world. As other countries get richer they seem to start caring more about the environment, poor people, national health etc.

The US in contrast seem to regress. It seems to be heading back to the dirty old days of the industrial revolution with high income inequality, poor enironment protection, an unhealthy underclass.

It is bizzare watching a country deliberately turning itself into the 3rd world.
How can you lose a keyboard?
>That research is extremely important, and is the kind that NASA does a lot (especially stuff like JWST) and is the kind of science that Republicans specifically do not like to fund.

He specifically calls out NASA as getting more funding under Republicans.
Jaruzel wanted to keep their account, but remove their visible activity.
The title should be "The original pitch for Diablo (1994)", the 4 is in the wrong place.

It would be pretty weird to have a pitch for Diablo 4 in the 90s, before Diablo 3 was released. :)
Emphasis should be on the cessation of commenting, clicking like, or performing any other Facebook activity, or this process would seem to be in vain.

(for sure, the process is only a "soft-delete")
I still don't get what you're saying.

Your original comment talks about echo chambers and insinuates that people at Uber or Palantir "know better" than to discuss their political opinions.

Was that a good faith attempt to engage in discussion? What kind of response did you expect? How does it benefit you to come in and say the equivalent of "you all suck and wouldn't listen to me anyway"?
Male birth control is for the man to ensure he is not a father.

Female birth control is for the female to ensure she is not a mother.

Condoms are for both parties to prevent pregnancy and to control STDs.

For a male using BC to not use a condom and 'interface' with a female not using BC, they would need a level of trust.

Personally, if I were single and wanted to remain a non-parent, I'd use male BC and a condom in every case. The chances of both forms of BC failing simultaneously is minuscule.
What if China corners the cobalt market?
Yes, I've never logged into Google anything in the default container.
Improved Error Handling in DoneJS
The current method of hog farming is basically the worst possible version of traditional farming evolved through technology. Quonset huts, gestation cages, and fecal lagoons. Instead we could have mob grazing free range pig farming integrated with agroforestry, leading to animal waste going directly where it is the most useful i.e. as manure. Even the existing system could be set up to use natural swamp permaculture techniques to filter the waste or even capture in a biogas plant. Instead of lagoons of pig shit we could have useful forest products and methane fuel. Monoculture hog farming is showing it's limits environmentally and agronomically.

The barriers right now are the incumbent methods of farming subsidized by BigGov on behalf of BigAg and BigChem, and the lack of suitable off the shelf technology to make any of these ideas feasible for the average hog farmer. Until then they are going to keep putting up quonset huts and digging shit lagoons.
How you will die (2016)
Exactly, read the essay length comment above from another user. They explained it well. The USSR was the only country that made a legitimate attempt at implementing it. Once Stalin got rid of the people interested in that idea it was all downhill.
How about we stop using Java. It's a terrible language anyways.
reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/
> Amazon used this technique for over a decade

There's a bit of a difference between those two examples. Amazon was making a per unit profit but taking losses overall due to fixed costs, Uber is taking a per unit loss. Amazon was able to eventually overcome those fixed costs with volume, but by taking a per-ride loss, Uber can't ever outgrow that subsidy without raising prices or lowering per-ride costs (and drivers are already not exactly flush with cash).
The big signal will be whether or not they launch this in a city that experiences a lot of rain, and what they do during bad weather.
So you're saying it's an Oracle product?
Some eastern medicine and some massage schools recommend against massage and certain types or exercises when you are sick, claiming they will worsen the infection. If metastatic cells can move then surely viruses and bacteria can fit through these channels.
"My point is that people ignore the ugly history of capitalism but only want to talk about the ugly side of socialism."

I think that's because people tend to blame the uglyof capitalism on particular businesses, like Triangle Shirtwaist, or individuals like the golden age robber barons, without considering them as components of a whole flawed system.

On the other hand, socialist systems get treated as flaws in the entire system. Yes, the governments have more control, but the ugly parts of capitalist systems also come about due to government action or inaction.
I don’t see why not it’s got the same processor as the Pro.
Seconding this! I wonder if it could be done with some straightforward greasemonkey scripting or something.
> Apple includes a lot of information about what and how data is stored for their services.

Apple says a lot of things. Just like FB said that they were being responsible with our data. I'm asking Apple to show me what they are doing with my data. If they've been designing their systems properly, this should be simple to do.

> Nearly every service is optional, with the exception of getting OS updates and using the App Store for third-party apps.

But there's still a lot of data that goes back to Apple, which doesn't have to go through them at all.

> Reasonable people can believe that they do show you how your data is stored, so it's important to be more specific about what you're getting at.

But AFAIK, they don't show. They only tell. And I think reasonable people would be distrustful of Marketing-Speak.

> They refuse to allow you to control your data in arbitrary ways.

It doesn't matter how they refuse to allow me to control my data, it matters that they allow me to control my data.

> Reasonable people can believe that they allow you to control your own data if you want to.

But those reasonable people would be factually wrong. It's a fact that their products refuse to decouple themselves from Apple's servers.

> it's important to be more specific about what you're getting at.

Any data. Updates, documents, telemetry data, logs, etc.

I believe that reasonable people would look at what Apple says, then seeing that their actions don't follow, would distrust them. If Apple is spending a lot of effort protecting my data, then why do they work so hard to hide that away from me. To me, that seems like it could have huge marketing potential.
You don't have kids, do you?
Good points. I remember hearing similar thoughts on systems built with Forth: They performed their job, even when other languages were incapable of producing such systems, and they often were built with a fraction of the time and resources required by other languages.

Fortran, C and Scheme: Sounds like an old system. Is it still running?

The conveyor belt controller sounds like an embedded project. Why Scheme?

Thanks again.
Check out Jmeter
SourceTree's interactive rebase GUI has been one of the biggest things keeping me using it. I'd very briefly tried out Tower, but wasn't impressed. I may have to take another look at it.

Any ETA on the rest of those "coming on Windows" features?
Announcing TypeScript 2.8
The Apple Pencil is a choking hazard for kids (even adults); I get nervous when my 2 year old daughter picks it up. I hope they redesign the pencil so that it’s more kid friendly.
The same reason that Uber's deal with Volve is for up-to 20k vehicles. It's a combo of marketing and dealing that if things go well, the tech companies may order a lot of vehicles.
Tesla fatal car crash prompts NTSB investigation
> Part of Google’s defense focused on the idea that Java was developed for desktop computers, while Android was created for phones and other mobile devices.

Is this really the best defense? The tag line is "write once, run anywhere" after all. I remember back in my CS days (mid/late 90s) when Java was first being pushed at my uni, the overly-enthusiastic vibe even back then was that Java would eventually be found everywhere, even in mundane devices like toasters and coffee machines.
Than why not launch them? I mean, isn't HST oversubscribed and wouldn't having 3x observing time a net boon for the science community?
Oh man WebEx is crazy clunky software. I used it regularly for years and never got comfortable with it ... let alone that it ran in fits and starts for everyone.

Not using webEx was one of the things I actually looked forward to when I lost my last job. It's crazy that would occur to me.
> Not everyone gains by having lower fares if you need to get to work during a busy hour, as mentioned in the article. Surge pricing and weird pricing schemes makes it difficult to plan when money is tight.

Surge pricing makes sense. It encourages people to choose different hours to travel and drivers to drive more during those times, which in the long run can lead to a much better experience for most users as it ensures that more people can use the service.

Yes, it may hurt some people that would prefer a constant price, but overall it seems like a net benefit to me.
It sounds like we are on the same page. It's hard to tell with brief forum comments what people mean. I am just used to the reality that you _must_ switch contexts all the time, and it's _normal_ simply because the code bases are too big.

Yes, it's nice when things are close together, but in my case it's so rare as to not be point to consider trying to achieve, but more like a mental joke like "Hey, Bob. Come here and check this out! Two functions and template I am working on all fit on the same screen!" And Bob's like "wooooah, dude". And then we take a group selfie with my monitor and have a laugh, print out a poster of the selfie for the bulletin board for a few months, then throw it away during a cleanup and move on...

But to have people say "It's important to save whitespace so stuff can all be on the screen to avoid context switching" seems completely and utterly pointless.
I wondered how you got that number and you don't explain how to (I don't want to get rid of that piece of memorabilia)
With all respect to Sha'ashua, this is empty PR. mobileye is a decision support system for human drivers, they can't make any claim regarding this accident.
Stratechery 4.0
Okay, but you're still missing my point. It's not about the specific amount of money that is spent. Ever.

It's about what the money is spent on and where it goes. I very much suspect that the Republicans who are in favour of increasing NASA's budget are doing it to secure 'jobs' in their own districts and are not doing out of the goodness in their hearts or their desire for more knowledge in the USA about science or space.

They often say as much in their speeches. "We will bring jobs!" etc. NASA is a means to an end for a lot of Republicans specifically, as they focus on economy and jobs from the spending bills, not the resources developed or the knowledge learned or the science experiments done or the kids they have inspired to become engineers or anything like that at all.

Republicans rarely support basic research, even at NASA.
+1. eddie knows what's up!
Darn. Well, I'm still very much looking forward to finding out what the atmospheres of some of these exoplanets are made of. Hopefully there isn't another attempt to kill the project politically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_housing_in_the_United_S... has a bad track record. Hard to say how much basic income might reduce crime, though.
It's more analogous to -- very analogous to -- the "clean room" BIOS clones that enabled the PC Clone industry to take off (and made IBM-compatible PCs actually affordable; before the clones took off, IBM's prices made Apple seem like a bargain).
>Ideally, both parties will use birth control.

This is what many people see to be missing. No method of BC, beyond total abstinence, is 100% effective. Mixing methods lowers the simultaneous failure rates to minuscule levels.
You mean the platform where one of only very, very few conditions on it's use was to make sure that your implementation was compatible with others?
People run the FB pixel scripts on their site
Original Diablo pitch is basically Angband. I'm glad that they made it RT :)

I'm also glad they had the guts to add permadeath mode into Diablo II.
They do keep shadow profiles even if you #DeleteFacebook or don't use it at all.
There are two next steps. One step is a retrial in the lower court, with fair use no longer a defense. The other is an appeal to the Supreme Court on whether an API can in fact be copyrighted.

If the Supreme Court appeal happens, it probably puts the lower court trial on hold. If Google wins the appeal, then (I think) there's no case left to try in the lower court.
Meet TESS, Seeker of Alien Worlds
A question for those close to the program or who work in tangential fields:

Did the F-22 program generate benefits to industrial manufacturing practices or increase knowledge within the material sciences domain with value beyond the tangible, per-unit costs?

Edit: grammar
The F22 will be in service for 25-30 years very likely, from the first build to the last flight. Look at how long we've been flying various F16s. Even if we move them to a domestic defensive role with the air national guard toward the later years.

The F22 is an extraordinary plane. Their primary mistake was not building several hundred more while the production lines were up and squeezing the production costs down if possible. The F35 is a dog by comparison to that plane.

With the F35, its cost projections are mostly a joke anyway. There's no scenario where even half the 3,500 estimate will ever be built. A thousand would be a surprising build number for the US. They're up to maybe 300 now. They'll pre-emptively shut the program production down and move on to the next thing.