skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I felt like I should keep it about the story, but yeah, maybe a picture or two would be nice. I'll see about including a gif at the beginning.
Antibiotics for human use are nothing. There's around 70 billion domesticated land animals being born and dying every year. That's 700 billion Petri dishes with varying antibiotic power in just 10 years, and that number is more than all of the humans that ever lived on Earth. More than enough for some massively superior bacteria to evolve.
I did sign up, but there’s no way to download directly and need to wait for an invite. Still waiting...
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Wasn't this some thing that puzzled cosomologists a few years ago that some galaxies emit GRBs at scary intensities?

Suddenly it sounds plausible when we consider that at a certain density of these smaller black holes, the peaceful neighborhood of these other objects and their companion stars can start to get really violent, causing collsions and whatnot which then leads to these GRBs.
My usual approach when I reach the limit of my excel skills (and patience) is to save as csv, write a Python script to do the job, import back in excel for the graphs. This looks like it could nicely streamline the process, granted I learn a bit of C# (any excuse to pick up a new language I guess). Looking forward to try the tool the next time I battle a budget forecasting file. And kudos for the well-written and funny article.
If that was the case, he'd find a replacement CEO, sell his shares and be done with it. He's already rich enough to be have to lift another finger in the next 10 lifetimes.
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Vitamins work, just not the ones you buy at Walmart or your average drug store.
@anakic

That was an enjoyable read! I have also tried qutting my job as a developer, tried making money by working for myself (and focusing on developing features instead of actually making money, same as you), then returning to a "proper job" as an engineer. There were many recognizable moments in the blog post.

I once took a course in entrepreneurship, as a distraction from computer science, and the bottom line is that to make money you should first try to find someone willing to hand you their money, and then put the effort into making the product or service. But, as a developer, it's soul-wrenching and just feels wrong to try to sell something before something proper has even been made. But I've seen it work many times, you just need sales people that are not afraid of making up products while they go, with both the profit and stress that follows.

I'm glad you found a good opportunity with an accelerator, good luck with the next adventure!
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Great. :)

We don't plan on stopping. Admittedly this gets us in some trouble being a growing company, because we need to make sure our free product is the best for our customers AND we offer up stellar paid products. A whole lot of surface area, especially for a bootstrapped company (although we're past the Ramen stage - $10M+ ARR and 45 folks :)).

There's a lot of work we did to make sure we're learning as quickly as possible that really helps advance the mission on all fronts.
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I only count two seats which are not either (D) or (R). I’d say the DNC and RNC still matter quite a bit for these elections.
Congratulations on the project. It actually seems like something quite fun to build! I'd probably have kept it open source and just do it for fun, but good luck with the company nontheless!

Personally I did not immediatly think about Jetbrains when reading this name, probably because I mostly use IntelliJ IDEA rather than PHPStorm.
I've had the Beyond Burger both at home and at which ever chain of the TGIChilibees variety has/had it. The smell had a meaty essence to it, but more along the lines of dog food or potted meat rather than a burger. The taste was also along the lines of highly processes meat byproduct, but I guess that's a kind of progress? Otherwise as far as eating experience and texture, it was at least closer to a real burger.
They are actually quite visible - their accretion disks (matter falling into the black hole) are very hot and radiate on a broad range of frequencies.
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I read the post and it's amazing you took the hard path. In regard to the product, first of all kudos, and second of all; you may want your users to be able to run analytical workflows. In which case embedding Firebird instead of SQLite might be cool. Just something I thought while reading the docs.
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At my previous job we used some similar techniques in (1) social media monitoring and in (2) cyber security applications. In (1) we had an applied math team working on it, and in (2) I handed the project over to someone doing a math PhD.

To be fair, resampling wasn't the key to our projects, but we were doing a lot of work understanding probability distributions which is not entirely unrelated.
Serving user-submitted files from your main hostname is generally a bad idea because of the risk of XSS vulnerabilities. On Amazon cloud the content is served from the subdomain. Though it does raise a good point as a content domain/subdomain for a large website/service may have an impressive pagerank that could be exploited.
That looks like a lot of work to make a movie, all hand drawn.
The feeling and texture of the stop-motion animation or hand drawn animation is not matched by the computer animation. Since we can feel the materials, labor and the natural features of such animations. As a result, we feel more connected.

Computers are the other hand isolated from us by their very nature. Resolution, details and other things are higher and better, but they are not natural. So it feels more distant from us.

Because of the same reasons I use a mechanical watch, because I can feel the materials, labor and naturalness of the device.

edit: Fixed some grammatical errors.
Considering that the article lends the reader to understand that studies are indicating vitamin supplements are not as necessary as we'd like to believe, I don't think op was being cynical.

Random quote from the article:

> I faithfully chewed those calcium supplements, and then a study said they didn’t do any good at all,” said Ms. Bentley
That's probably the most practical option, but even that distinction isn't necessarily straightforward in a launch video (and even the sort of 20m multispectral imagery that's freely made available to the entire world by multiple providers including NASA becomes more of a possible privacy/security issue if remote sensing operators were to permanently point their cameras at the same location). The regulation was likely drafted with a view to the future in an era where all satellite based EO had low spatial resolutions and processing techniques were in their infancy anyway.
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You make excellent points, although I think I the issues you raise exist in our current filesystems as well. Provided the FS is indexed properly, opening a tag should show all files associated with that tag immediately. Just like opening (or listing) a directory does.

And in the case of search, it absolutely sucks on today's filesystems. Don't get me wrong, find and grep are incredible tools. I simply mean that it's not like searching for files beyond the hierarchy is known for the pleasurable UX. The only way I know a grep of a whole drive or deep directory is done is because I get my blinking cursor back.

At the very least with a proper tagging system, we would be inherently familiar with the indexes available to us.
I thoroughly enjoyed read this, thanks for posting. Well done on making something for which there is an actual need and polishing it enough to charge money for. That isn’t easy in my experience.
Yes, as citizens we should do as much as possible to diminish their power.

I've posted lots of comments about removing parties from the ballot process. Let them endorse a candidate, whatever, but private organizations shouldn't have any direct role in determining which names appear on ballots.
There are varying degrees of privacy. Just because you share some information with some people doesn't mean you want to share all information with everyone.

That said, I agree that opaque salaries hurt only the employee as the other side of the market (employer) has full knowledge.
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I just took a look at QueryStorm. Very cool indeed.
This does not seem like a graphics and UI update, just like a recreation of the original with FOSS software.
I think you're fine on the name.

Jetbrains doesn't have dominance yet on <Foo>Storm (they only offer PhpStorm and WebStorm) and your website UI is also somewhat different from theirs.
I also played pHANTAZM quite a lot, and Rifts for a while. I think of them often. It's strange how sometimes progress leaves a bit of a hole in the soul. I've lost track of my old friends from there, but they seem more real than any I've met in modern games. They're like characters in a book that I couldn't put down, so involved that I forgot where reality ended.
From a tax point of view, EU is a lot easier to deal with than the US if you have to collect sales tax in the US.

There are two big differences.

Let's say I'm selling some digital good online. Consider three purchasers, one in the US in the state of Washington, one in Germany, and one in France.

First, how much tax do I have to collect from each?

For the German customer, that is easy. It is 19% VAT. I don't have to care where in Germany they live.

For the French customer, that is easy. It is 20$ VAT. I don't have to care where in France they live.

For the US customer in Washington...it is not easy. There is a state wide 6.5% sales tax, but there are also county, city, and other sales taxes that I have to collect. For example, if the customer is in the city of Seattle, I'm supposed to collect the 6.5% state tax, plus a 2.7% city tax, plus a 0.4% for something called the "Regional Transit Authority"...that's 9.6%. If that person is over in Bellevue instead of in Seattle, it would have been 10% (6.5% state, 3.5% Bellevue).

For the US customer, I have to care where in their state they live. Also, tax boundaries are not guaranteed to line up with postal code boundaries, so to do that tax accurately I really would need to collect their full postal address (which since I'm selling a digital good I have no use for except for calculating taxes).

Second, what do I do with the tax I collect?

For the EU, I sign up for the VAT MOSS system in a single EU country. Then each quarter I have to file a simple form with the tax authorities in that single EU country that simply lists each EU country, what my total taxable sales were in that country, the VAT rate I used, and the amount of VAT collected. I turn the collected VAT over to that single country's tax authorities. Then they deal with distributing it to all the other countries.

For the US...I have to deal with each state I collect tax for separately. Each has its own forms. Each has its own place to file them. Each has its own place to pay.

If you have to deal with more than just your own state and maybe a handful of others in the US, you pretty much have to use a third party service that specialized in handling all of this. For companies in lines of business that are only barely profitable, this could be prohibitively expensive.

If Congress ever decides to require online companies to collect tax for all states, instead of just those that they have a presence in, and they do not require that the states use something like the VAT MOSS system, and they do not require that each state has a single rate for out-of-state non-present sellers, it's going to be nightmare for small companies, and possibly drive many out of business.
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>First, there are quite a few very obvious reasons why it's in humanity's interest to regulate space missions. You want to minimise space debris, for example, because it could result in a series of collisions making near-earth orbits a wasteland you can't cross.

Preventing space debris is not related to this topic in the least. Neither is preventing a "space arms race".

>Providing a potentially understaffed office with the resources it needs isn't a "bribe".

It seems to me that the best way to solve this problem is to get rid of this useless office.

>Regarding this specific licensing requirement, a good read is https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/files/15%20CFR%20Part%2096...

I don't think it's good discussion etiquette to link to an unreadable wall of bureaucratic text and not give any context. I.e. at least state one good reason for this regulation.
I still undersatnd it that way, what else?
New utility function seems to be consensus-based monetary value as modern art becomes a store for value and/or an investment.
Somehow the friends who told me how to use a PC always used "Return" instead of "Enter", but this was in Germany where we didn't have any text on this key, just a big arrow pointing down and left.
> Sure CSS in JS if you want.

What do you think the code you complained about does?

> But scrapping CSS for style tags is a bad idea.

It's not bad in this particular case because these were simple examples to illustrate an entirely different point.

> React renders to the DOM which outputs HTML. It's still HTML

Erm. No. DOM never outputs any HTML. There's no HTML generated when you use React (or any other DOM-manipulation library or vanilla Javascript).

It's the other way around:

- HTML gets parsed

- A DOM (Document Object Model) is created to provide an in-memory, well, object model of the HTML document.

- In order to render anything on screen the browser works with the DOM only

- When something manipulates the DOM directly, the browser reacts to those changes and re-renders the view accordingly

- There's no HTML generated

- If someone does change the HTML, it's re-parsed, go to step 1.

Yes, you can style DOM nodes independently of React because that's how CSS works. However, there is a reason why people hate CSS with a passion: it doesn't scale, it's cumbersome to develop components with it etc. etc. etc. And that's why people ended up inventing ways to include/generate CSS via JS alongside component code.
Hey I am so glad this is working. I talked with you via reddit when you first started working on the project. It looks like it has grown dramatically over the years.

Well done!
My god! you are so intelligent
This looks awesome! Have you thought about joining https://wip.chat

Lots of fellow makers in there :)
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It would be out of character for the government to suddenly refuse an opportunity to grow
My bad. I didn't even catch that "ctrl-c" was mentioned in the parent!
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It seems to me this is James Shore and Diana Larsen writing about "Agile Fluency" on Martin Fowler's blog.
Sigh, the flatearthers are going to love this one.
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They're not exactly competitive:

https://www.joyent.com/pricing/cloud/compute

https://www.digitalocean.com/pricing/
Or, since the original motivation came from his (presumably) ex-girlfriend, perhaps just "ExQL"?
> It will never be as good as a modern language like Kotlin (data classes are my favourite feature there), but it is good enough

Data classes may come to Java.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/amber/datum.html

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/amber-spec-experts/20...

Fibers, continuations, string literals, pattern matching and value types are in the works.

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rpressler/loom/Loom-Proposal.htm...

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/326

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_8YcYKScw

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/valhalla/
> people change, even if they were a good hire a few years ago, now they may not any longer be good at that position in that company.

When a manager takes a very skilled person and demotivates them, that is what that looks like. It happens allllll the time. Fire the manager -- or you'll just be turning skilled workers into ex-workers.
What struck me most about the camera is how big it is -- it's not just in the gift shop, it stands through the center of the museum, two or three stories tall.
I actually think it came from tainted water. Which is also potentially where Botulism can hit vegetables, too.(Or the bloody air)

Of course it’s all part of the same cycle
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This looks great, but I also see a lot of functionality being restricted to USA. That would be quite limiting for us as we are based in Europe and have the vast majority of our customers there. :(
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> The public interest would appear to outweigh the narrow rights of the ....

If only that was ever used to make regulation. We might have a decent copyright law by now in the US. I still blame Micky Mouse and Disney for all bad copy right law.
Right, it's Tether which is doing that, not Coinbase!
Come on, this is the kind of crap that fuels flat earthers.
Fortunately, I don't use Excel at work, but this was a very entertaining read. Thanks @anakic!
At many non profit IXes the interface size to the fabric is public data and published by both the IX and on peeringdb. Such as at the SIX. They have not yet upgraded to 1x100GbE.

Another regional example, they have 20Gbps to the VANIX.

What is opaque is the size and scale of their PNI peering, which parties generally don't share. For example in a mid sized city where Comcast is the cable monopoly they almost certainly use a 100GbE interface direct to Comcast for just that isp.

Yes the scale is terabits globally. But it is highly decentralized.
I imagine the process as being similar to how you would currently add a file.

Now:

Your friend messages you "Here's another pic from Paris xxx". You click on the picture, "Save as". Your file system comes up, you navigate to benjammer/travel/paris/pics. You can see the rest of the pictures from Paris in the directory. You hit save.

With tags:

Your friend messages you "Eiffel Tower :-)". You click on the picture, "Save as". A list of your tags comes up for you to select some. On the other side of the screen are the files that match the selected tags, so that you can see what company your file is going to end up in. They're shown in the order of how many files they tag (that also have the tags you've already selected). The "benjammer" tag is selected by default, as is "picture" and "png" (because your application knows it's been given a png). The "Paris" tag isn't at the top of the list so you type it in and select it. Now "Travel" is at the top of your list of tags, so you add it, along with "June 2017" and "Europe".
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It's actually become somewhat hilarious to me. Like you said, the data science label is being applied quite liberally (no judgment, I'm not the world's authority on how it should be applied), so here you have companies paying $100k or more to have people do Excel work or Tableau visualizations.
For greater context, the reason why I’m saying your Privacy Policy needs to be revised for precision is because:

1. I have experience acquiring data for the financial industry, and your privacy policy looks like the kind used to discreetly allow data brokering for free apps that have a lot of user data, and

2. I’ve seen executives who do sell data deny that they sell data by being overly literal and obtuse about what users mean when they ask if their data is sold. When users ask if their data is sold they’re usually including “data sharing with affiliates”, even if they aren’t savvy enough to use that terminology. The concern there is that user data collected by third parties is allowed to be reshared by their affiliates and under opaque terms that do not preclude monetization.
This looks great - nice work. If I get asked to do something complex in Excel again, I may give this a go :)
Steve would have unreasonably said get it shipped by June 2018.

And it would have shipped.
There may be some other ways to link it up, at least with a degree of confidence. It really depends on what information is shared from the medical community and by the patient on Facebook.

A couple points of speculation:

* Facebook may possess a machine learning algorithm which can estimate weight from pictures. Getting within 5 pounds would eliminate most other people.

* Facebook could make photos of you and estimated weights into a time series, and pair up appointment dates with photos shared.

* Given enough photos with you and other people, they could probably estimate your height reasonably well. We know height distributions by age and race. If you're a Caucasian 21 year old female and consistently on average 10% shorter than the Caucasian males you're standing next to, that gives some info.

* Many people have willingly given the familial relationships to Facebook (tagging people as mom, dad, cousin, etc.) which will only help in being confident of race and the various risk factors which are higher in each race.

* Facebook knows your gender, which cuts out about half of the people. Such a basic fact would almost certainly be shared by the medical community.

* Facebook either has your birthday or could estimate it based on how you look. Again, being 98% confident of your age +/- 3 years cuts out most people.

All these fuzzy signals added up could lead to a reasonably confident matching up.

Anonymous data release is difficult. About 87% of people are uniquely identifiable by their date of birth, zip code, and gender.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2942967
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Every place I have ever worked had that same kind of shitty Excel/Access pile of crap including the manual instructions. It's like people can't understand that if you can write down a procedure for someone to follow you can automate that procedure.
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Not 0 due to the cost of printing, but 4.2 trillion Marks to $1 USD in Weimar Germany 1923 is pretty close. Given that they aren’t in circulation now, I think we can assume at least some period of 0.