skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At 45 min in, they mention that FLiBe is ideal, but NOT required. Any low-Z liquid would be acceptable:

https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4

They also discuss advancements in internal chamber maintenance access. That side is really an engineering problem.
"Mandatory"? Sorry, not all problems should be combated by government regulations. In fact, regulations almost always make matters worse.

The libertarian in me is shrieking.
Personal anecdote of what I see being sold on consumer stores here in Germany.

Or the restaurants or cocktail bars that happen to have tablets instead of paper menus.

They started with iPads, but as their chains got bigger they moved to a mix of Android and W10 tablets.

Source, personal anecdote getting out of the menu app into the OS.
How Aaron Swartz Envisioned Cambridge Analytica in 2012
YouTube launches a shorter, skippable ad format
Adding Sparkle to Social Coding: A Study of Badges in the NPM Ecosystem [pdf]
If you look at the video linked elsewhere you'll see they use a giant press to compress the mattress between two sheets of foil and then they heat seal the ends. After releasing the press it all stays nicely flat because of the same reason: there is no air in the mattress and no way for air to get into the mattress.

I figure they do it that way because it is much faster than just letting the vacuum do the work which for a production facility is a must. But when you have a small budget and more time then using the vacuum directly is the best way to go.

There is an interesting branch of manufacturing related to this trick:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_forming
If there's one thing I've learned from Uber and AirBnB, it's that if you say "less regulation for micro-businesses in Field X" the huge multinationals in Field X will declare they're not _actually_ in Field X, they're just brokers directing customers to the 5,000 micro-businesses that provide services.
API keys leakage, Source code disclosure
There are many games that run well in Linux, including a large portion of the Steam library!

If you meant a specific game to run, well then you need to weight your pros and cons and stop whining when you make your decision.

Alternatively, dual boot.
Good points!

I don't buy the crossplay argument though, it's just a given that you usually don't crossplay, but I simply cannot imagine the studios are internally using different protocols or even different servers. Sure, you need to port the "client" game on different platforms and sometimes make some adjustments (twinstick shooter vs keyboard mouse, etc) - but there's no inherent reason (at least to me) that crossplay can work. So is this accidentally game changing then when someone finally decides to tear down the barriers? :)
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Lenovo Thinkpads.
Currently Android seems to have lost the tablet war on consumer electronic shops.

People are either going for iPads, or hybrid laptops runnig W10.

Android devs are to blame, given the little effort to adapt phone apps to tablets.
Yeah, I have noticed that as well. The big chains often get their own SKU, which will make comparison difficult. And I don't think that it it is always about included accessories.

Alternatively, sometimes it is about preventing arbitrage. Nobody wants customers to be able to pay $300 at one place and take it back for $400 in store credit somewhere else.
I rode a PC wave that nearly completely bypassed IBM/Microsoft:

1. The "home" computer boom: ZX Spectrums, Acorn, Commodore, Atari with maybe an Apple II or a CPM machines for more serious use.
2. The Atari ST or Amiga wave. WIMP and productivity software as well as gaming and content creation
3. At this point I did switch to Windows but I could just have easily switched to Mac. Apple didn't cease to be a force at any stage. They maintained a strong base in home use and content creation only losing the enterprise.

In our alternate history there was also room for Next or BeOS. You never know.

Now what MS/IBM did enable (accidentally to some degree) was an open hardware platform. However if they weren't around then other players might have stepped in. Maybe CP/M succeeded in going 16bit, GEM might have caught on or the Apple clones might have found a way to legally survive.

On final reading I realise you might have meant "PC" in the narrow sense. If so then you're correct in a trivial sense. If not then I disagree.
Terraform Helm provider that uses its CLI
Israel and U.N. reach deal on future of African migrants in Israel
> You neglect the costs of submission, revision, resubmisssion etc. which are borne by the authors.

I neglect those because journals in my own field are both free to publish in and, more often than not, open-access. I do understand that not everyone is so fortunate, however.
Beer is somewhat different here, in that it is not just one ingredient. One reason Budweiser/Carlsberg are not "high-end" is they use ingredients that make production cheap. For example, both of these beers use rice, which is a much cheaper source of sugar than barley. But when you get to comparing full-barley beers from Anheuser-Busch vs a micrcobrewery, you'll find just as much pretense as in the wine world.
The whole point of quantum mechanics is that classical physics doesn't fully describe the world. Obviously phenomena that require quantum mechanics to describe them are rarely observable at the macro level, but it's clearly not the case that they are never observable because otherwise we wouldn't have been able to make the observations that led to the idea of quantum mechanics.

It seems readily apparent that the future is not predictable solely using classical physics, because the development of the theory of quantum mechanics is something that happened and it could not have been predicted solely based on classical physics.
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On the one hand I commend you for wanting to learn about the role of phytoplankton in carbon fixation -- if you don't know about it, what else might you not know? On the other hand I am disheartened that you confuse lignin with cellulose. It is lignin that evolved at the outset of the Carboniferous, and which fungi and co did not yet have the ability to break down.
Something equivalent to LIBOR rates could in principle be made to run on distributed markets with a great deal of transparency and little possibility for manipulation. They are a standard feature of many contracts. Whole central banks could be automated. Something like "next year's tomato quality" will obviously need a physical world mediator, but that's hardly surprising.

When the great recession started, it was not caused by an external shock, rather by the viral mistrust that the underwriters of the bad loans were solvent. A financial fragility problem that the blockchain can work to address.
Regions that spend more money on healthcare have little if any benefit from that investment. http://nationalacademies.org/hmd/~/media/Files/Report%20File... ~50% of all medicine prescribed in the US is useless to harmful. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-frances/many-commonly-u...

So, no US healthcare is very much dominated by Lemons.

PS: Modern medicine delivers most of it's benefit from fairly inexpensive treatments.
iOS developers ship 29% less apps in 2017, the first ever YoY decline
You'd have to change your nameserver manually unfortunately.

But you could build a good webpage that actually measures how well your current nameserver performs over a wide variety of different types of lookups, both warm and cold caches etc.
About that reorganization :

"Today, I’m announcing the formation of two new engineering teams"

"Windows: Joe Belfiore will continue leading our Windows experiences and will drive Windows innovation in partnership with the PC and device ecosystem"

How does this exactly means they are giving up on Windows ?! Seriously, wishful thinking much ?
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Before you judge their efforts, I would watch this video:

https://youtu.be/KkpqA8yG9T4

Sounds like the only thing standing in the way is prototype funding.
I have been quite impressed with VS Code. I’m....honestly shocked I’m using it but it’s doing what it advertises and is doing it pretty well. Sublime is getting less use these days.
> The universe is virtually certain to fall into a lower-energy quantum vacuum state. That we have not observed it to be the case means either that we have been astonishingly lucky, or that there is a selection process going on.

If that is the most solid argument in favor of the quantum multiverse, this paper is a disaster. See Eq. 6.28: the probability that we should have seen a bubble by now is < 10^-516.
Same. Linux desktop all day every day.
I think people underestimate this issue. One of the reasons Windows is so dominant in the business landscape is because it's the OS people are used to since early years, mostly because it's bundled with most PCs people buy, but kids love to play games, and while a lot of games also come out for mac these days, Windows is still dominant in the PC gaming market.

It's a bit of a reach to say this, but it's a little bit similar to McDonald's selling toys with meals to entice children.
You might not like it, but I think that you need to start from scratch. Learn Java language, learn how javac compiler could be called, compile simple application from console. Then learn about Maven or Gradle, how to use them to build things. Then learn a bit about IDE. I suggest Idea, but Eclipse or NetBeans should work fine. Learn about Java Servlets, it's the underlying library for almost every Java web application. Deploy simple servlet to tomcat, learn how to handle GET/POST requests. Learn about JDBC, combine servlets and JDBC. Actually here you can stop and write production code for some simple REST service, for example. Only after you have some understanding about every underlying part, you should start with Spring framework, JPA, etc. And still it'll take a lot of time to learn those things.

I'd suggest not to search for various "stacks". They might be written poorly and incomplete. Learn each part and learn how to combine them.

I guess Rails is a complete solution, with Java there are many libraries which you should choose and glue together. Every non-trivial application probably will use somewhat unique combination of libraries.
Indeed, and a large part of loving it comes from the low rent.
For a student in the city though, it is great to not have roommates and still be able to afford rent.
What is missing from AMD's drivers? They are great now IME, I'm using them to play games. (Note I have older GCN hardware - there seem to be more bugs with more recent hardware where they are still making bigger changes)
Aaron Cheung, co-founder of HomeJoy, launched Homeaglow which seem like the same business model as HomeJoy. Xiao Wei Chen, COO at HomeJoy, is also a co-founder of Homeaglow.

I'm not saying it'll succeed this time, but two execs at HomeJoy have decided to dedicate another 3 years of their lives to the idea with Homeaglow.

I know that the articles mention the lawsuits over classification of independent-contractor vs employee, but nestled in there is a huge customer acquisition cost against a low lifetime value. Offering an initial $19 cleaning means very high acquisition costs and you're getting customers who probably won't return with $100 a month later. The Forbes article notes that Handy has a much better customer retention rate and recurring revenue is so important.

It also sounds like HomeJoy might have been over-staffed. Re/code notes that 20 employees of HomeJoy would be joining Googles product and engineering teams. That seems like a lot of salary. I don't know what HomeJoy's site was like, but Homeaglow's seems simplistic - some PHP just meant to handle the booking/matching/reviews. Even small things like the forms are the kinda simplistic looking ones where the zip-code box takes up the full width of the form on a new line (the way it would if you grabbed Bootstrap and didn't want to customize anything) rather than having a form with a more natural City, State, Zip layout. But it gets the job done and looks like it can be maintained with minimal effort.

If you have 20 employees of Google-caliber, you have to imagine a lot of salary cost. From LinkedIn, it looks like Homeaglow is a 2-person shop.

It could just be that while it's a large industry, they had trouble retaining customers and had a high run rate at HomeJoy. With a lower run rate and some alterations, Homeaglow might be a happy business. They don't seem to discount first cleanings hugely. It looks like they offer a free half hour on a 3 hour cleaning for first-time users, but that means that someone is willing to spend a hundred compared to someone that just sees a deal at $19. They also only allow recurring plans that you can cancel, but it gets you into the mindset that this should be a weekly/bi-weekly/monthly recurring expense.
would this be CA territory?
I still can't wrap my head around everything that was wrongheaded about Windows 8, and I was working there for most of its dev cycle.

One wonders what would have happened if they just sort of let Windows be Windows. I.e. if they had continued iterating on core stuff but left UI and general philosophy resembling Win7's trajectory and not tried to force people into WinRT/UWP/store.

Even though Win10 attempted corrective action it always struck me that it was still accepting the fundamental thesis of Win8. They still kept with the Orwellian redefinition of phrases like "Windows app" to mean very recent, immature and unproven technology. They were still talking about ARM devices that don't let you do a straightforward recompile of old code. They were still pushing the Store as the only means to distribute software, where even Apple has not succeeded in changing people's habits on the desktop.

I hope that with a weaker organization, people keeping the lights on for Windows will know to not shake things up too severely and ease up on pushing some of these silly ideas. I somehow doubt it. I've been hoping for that for... 7 years?
Having gone through a few CL books recently, they make sure to mention that it is _not_ a functional language, fwiw.
I'm terrified to drive a car that could decide to fully apply the brakes if it deems necessary. Imagine if it falsely detects a human in the middle of the highway when you have a car following closely. Very unlikely scenario, some would say impossible... but I'd rather just pay attention to the road myself instead of getting my car to do it for me.
I know I'm in a minority here, but having used every windows since 3.1, IMO windows 7 was the absolute pinnacle of windows design, and from a ux perspective I think the best desktop os period (could still be improved, there's definitely individual features that are better in other OSes). I really wish they had stuck with the UX/design and mostly just improved performance/added useful stuff rather than throw it all out and start over.
I do that for GTA5. The only time I switch back to Windows. I don't even restart, I just hibernate linux and then everything is still there when I come back!
Enabling TRIM for SSDs in Linux
google is faster for me in the bay area from comcast network. Using both ping and dig for testing
> Apple didn't cease to be a force at any stage. They maintained a strong base in home use and content creation only losing the enterprise.

They almost went bankrupt around 1994.

If it wasn't for Microsoft money and the merge with NeXT bringing Jobs back, they would have been gone.

Up to iPod's success Apple was meaningless pretty much everywhere outside US.
> There's already a lot of low hanging fruit they could clean up with an update, but haven't.

In all honesty that's been my impression of Windows since its inception. The only time I can recall ever feeling like Windows was deserved market leader was with Windows 2000: Linux wasn't mature on the desktop, OS X wasn't yet released or literally only just released and OS 9 was god awful (worse than the Win 95 in my opinion). The only platform that really competed in technical merit was BeOS and we all know how that ended up.

Win 3.x felt like a huge step backwards from what Atari, Amiga and Apple were doing. Windows 9x was an improvement but slow and buggy. Windows XP took a long time to mature - years and two service packs in fact. And before then it was basically just a slower (bar start up time), uglier version of Win 2000. And by the time Microsoft recovered from the cluster fuck of Longhorn OS X and Linux were both streets ahead in terms of stability, usability and even just basic features.

There are obviously people who genuinely warm to Windows and prefer that as a platform - good for them; variety is the spice of life and all - but from a technical standpoint Windows has always felt like it's had a multitude of low hanging fruit which aren't trendy enough for Redmond to invest development time in (case in point: why did it take until Windows 10 before shortcut keys were added to cmd.exe? And then why did MS stop there? The terminal emulator still totally sucks compared to nearly every other ever made!)
The YouTube cache is probably there not to increase performance for you, but to reduce ISP cost (ISP pays for all data received from outside of their network)
The scant science behind Cambridge Analytica's controversial marketing technique
For me, the experience is that it's harder to find an accounting software that is Windows-only. Pretty much many of those are running inside of a web browser. Your experience may vary depending on where you live however.
> Even the big publishers do not compensate peer reviewers or sometimes even editors. They don't even provide typesetting or copyediting anymore

It sounds like they (major journal publishers) provide practically no value whatsoever. Why even use them then?
You gotta be kidding me. Good luck using multiple HiDPI monitors. The only reasonable way to use Linux is tiling wm with as less graphical interface as possible, in my case only xterm and emacs. Which is crazy, since it’s 2018. and I am using modern computer with modern OS like how computers were used before I was even born.
Strip club song?? (Evon Latrail) trending
Dell XPS 13.

Works with Linux out of the box as Dell made all of the driver's work for their developer edition's in Ubuntu. Battery life and and the 3200x1800 screen are phenomenal. Well made and Dell's warranty process is actually fairly good. It's no Apple warranty, but does the job.
>a lot of enterprise started using Linux / open source.

any major players? entire healthcare industry is married to microsoft, at least the big names. same for lots of major enterprises that i know of
No mention of Windows popularity as crypto mining server OS, due to superior GPU driver SW.
In my experience... yes. At least in the Pittsburgh area, every food truck, small boutique, expo vendor, etc. that I've encountered has used Square and an iPad to handle payments.
I don't know if there's any merit to this, but I've always felt the mattress industry benefits from being a "soft target" like the wedding, funeral, education, child <anything> industries. The old "You spend 1/3rd of your life sleeping! Don't be stingy" marketing strategy is so convincing, consumers do not behave rationally. Higher price is assumed to be better, so there's little pressure to lowering price.
The lack of lane markings and missing crash barrier are symptoms of deferred maintenance. Why would a sensor based roadway be immune to similar neglect?
I think because there's no career advancement at Microsoft, working on cleaning up existing features. Only by working on new stuff can you get noticed.

So, interns work on 'old' stuff (like office apps, Windows, tools). And they always look pretty rough.
I don't know why this isn't the top comment. I came in a skeptic but that video really put to rest my doubts that these new REBCo superconductors are truly a breakthrough. The new designs they enable make ITER look like a massive obsolete waste of time. Sounds like the only hurdle now is 5 billion in funding needed for a prototype. Its no longer "50 years away", its now "5 billion away".
I see your point, but I think it's fundamentally flawed: I think the very reason we can look at this and go, "it's just rental cars with an app" is because it's not all that innovative. Beyond that, these regulations exist for a reason, and if they're going to be argued against then it's on the part of the "innovator" to build a business model that distances them, in granular operational detail, sufficiently far from the old model to make those regulations irrelevant.

e.g., Do I also feel that if someone creates an airbnb for food production that they should still be required to comply with all the regulations of the food prep industry? Yes, I do. They're still putting food in people's mouths, and the bulk of the regulations exist to protect people who are eating strangers' food. IF their business model is so divorced from the old restaurant model that the risks the regulation addresses no longer exist, I'd be more sympathetic, but I've yet to see that be the case.

In this case, for instance: I'm interacting with you, the app, and buying a ride. You're selling me a ride. For the same reason we have food safety regs, you're required to make sure your fleet is safe and up-to-date. Why, precisely, would you be exempt from that just because you source your fleet differently than a traditional rental car company? There's nothing about the app/service that negates that concern. The business, in the relevant respect, is the same - so why should they get a free pass on the regs? Because they've chosen a different model for sourcing cars?

Fundamentally, no one is owed a business model. IF your business model is "same old business, peer sourced supplies, and an app" - that is to say, in most functional respects the same business that is already regulated - then yes, you should be subject to those regulations. The very fact that these business are so very easily slotted into existing regs is because they're so similar to existing businesses. AirBnB didn't have trouble with regs when it was actually people letting spare rooms; it ran into trouble with regs when a large percentage of their rooms came through single owners of multiple dwellings dedicated to airbnb. That is, when they became a hotel.
Your examples aren't helping to prove your point though. It makes zero sense to require single-family houses or duplexes to have hotel level security. Requiring a homeowner to retrofit sprinklers and fire doors, or provide 24-hour video surveillance or an onsite security guard?

A hotel is fundamentally different sort of facility than my house. Insisting they be regulated the same is pure rent-seeking on the part of the hotel industry.
"Rainbows End" by Vernor Vinge has all the younger people (and those grown-ups who are hip) "wearing". Their clothes are (in some unspecified way) I/O devices, so that they learn from quite young how to communicate and control things through imperceptible movements. Teaching her grandfather how to "wear" is part of how the main protagonist gets caught up in the events of the novel. The novel is pretty vague about how much bandwidth is involved, but the convenience is the thing - you are wearing clothes all the time (or at least during waking hours if you prefer to sleep naked) and so if you've learned it then replying "Yes!" to a friend's question about whether you want them to save you some apple pie becomes no harder than nodding is, except it works at a distance.
That's not even remotely funny. If I worked for Tesla I'd hate him. Well, I'd already hate him, but I'd hate him more.
They are not giving up Windows. They just adjusted the organization to reflect the fact that Windows itself is no longer as important as in the 90s.