skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking forward to trying adaptive cruise control on the new Subaru my dad got recently. I pretty much stopped using regular cruise control years ago because the roads where I mostly drive are busy enough I find that it encourages driving in a way that prioritizes maintaining a constant speed even when that's different from the flow of the traffic.
>The sheer amount of media available in English makes it easier to learn than the languages where you have to specifically seek out texts written by native speakers

It seems that way because you only look or notice English content.
"Many supplements do not actually fill the most common deficiencies."

I am someone who actually needs supplements. I have at least a moderately bad case of Celiac disease, the one that everybody knows as "that disease wot gave us all those gluten-free freaks", but is much lesser well-known as being a disease that makes it so the digestive system is not as good at extracting nutrients. I have experienced, diagnosed, and corrected several deficiencies in myself over the years. (Sometimes I feel like I have to pack my digestive track with nutrients the way one has to pack a black powder pistol... get in there, you stupid nutrients, tamp tamp tamp...)

So unlike someone who is just sort ambiently taking nutrient supplements in the vague hope that maybe they'll be helpful, I have actual symptoms to compare them against and see whether they address the issue.

So I can tell you with great confidence that there are a lot of very bad supplements out there. What you find in the grocery stores may be worthless. What you find in speciality stores may even be worthless. Fortunately, you can usually find things online.

Several people here have mentioned magnesium deficiencies as being one of the common ones. Unfortunately, if you just walk down to your local drug store and buy magnesium supplements, what you'll get is magnesium oxide. Fans of chemistry may recall that oxygen binds pretty tightly. I don't know exactly how bioavailable that is, but I can certainly attest that when I switched to the chelated magnesium you can find online and nowhere else I've seen, I saw huge differences very quickly. Trying to supplement magnesium via magnesium oxide seems to be about as successful as trying to supplement your iron by eating iron oxide. Won't work.

The drug store also stocks a lot of supplements that use a lower-quality or less bioavailable version of whatever it is. Vitamin D seems to have gotten enough attention that they mostly stock the good ones now, but a lot of the other ones verge on worthless too, despite their labels claming to have 1000% of your RDA.

The good news is that you can find good stuff if you look hard enough. The bad news is that it can take some time and effort. The weird news is that often the good stuff isn't all that much more expensive. Do you want to spend $7 on something that doesn't do squat or $9 on something that does? The former is hardly a savings....

Anyway, I would say to anyone who does feel like experimenting, do a bit of research and at least try with something that may actually work. The data is useless otherwise.
Alternate story: leadership wanted to switch to outsourcing the work. Created a poor experience for everyone and let the devs quit on their own. You were the last one out, so they ask you to train their new team.
Japanese takes exactly this sort of 'embrace and extend' approach to building on top of the Chinese character base, with hiragana for native construction, katakana for foreign loanwords, and furigana (more of an orthographical sugar than a separate symbol set) to bridge the systems for the sake of easier learning..
Have you ever drove 15 hours (or even 5) straight? With static speed radars every few kms (like here in Switzerland)? It's very tiring to try to maintain speed on non-flat surface, you should focus on traffic and not being in legal limits. I have to check the speed meter every few seconds, since revs of engine don't change significantly in 10kmh range. This significantly changes my engagement and is borderline dangerous.

Cruise control is a blessing for most cases (i use it even in town), even in dumb old go-constantly-and-watch-out way. I feel sorry for poor fuckers who don't have them in their cars, you can easily see such a car in the way they drive.
> it would have been trivial to issue a 'provisional' license until the slow wheels of government could do their job.

I don't think it's ever "trivial" for a license-stamping body to make up a new kind of permit, particularly not over a three day period and when it's bodies like the Department of Defense they're cutting out of the picture.

Ultimately, if SpaceX wished to take the view that the existing law was not well drafted, not relevant to their particular filming, something they may have already breached without consequence and not in the US government's interest to pursue, they were perfectly entitled to take the risk of leaving the cameras on and seeing if anyone did anything about it. Quite why you think it should be incumbent on NOAA to breach the law on their behalf I have no idea.
>There should be a global initiative for global free and open access learning. Sponsored and supported by companies and countries. Build upon a core of a knowledge graph based on topics or 'snippets of knowledge'.

I like this idea and the framing of it a lot
Most people who have B12 deficiency like my mother, are unable to absorb the oral form due to some type of malignancy. Injections are the only way to increase serum levels for her.
Refactoring in Node.js: Moving on from callbacks using async/await
Check out the Transcension Hypothesis paper by John Smart.

It talks about far future civilizations, hypothesizes they would live in or near the surface of (possibly manufactured) blackholes, and that black holes are actually all over the place.

It also takes the stance that intelligent civilizations (including ours) would be more likely to minitiarize and grow inwards, rather than exploring and spreading throughout the galaxy as per Star Trek.

http://brighterbrains.org/articles/entry/the-transcension-hy...
I read a quote of Drew's a while back that stuck with me. Just googled and found it:

"When Dropbox was getting off the ground in 2007, there were hundreds of small storage companies. It was almost a cliche, the way that many people believe mobile photo sharing is a cliche now, he says. “The important thing was, I would keep asking people if they used any one of these hundred options, and they all said no. These are my favorite problems to solve. You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.”"

http://firstround.com/review/How-to-Win-as-a-First-Time-Foun...
An honest question, isn't this kind of what PowerBI is supposed to do?
It's too bad the culture of SO turned out the way it did. I was eager and happy to use it early on but was quickly disillusioned and it's my last resort to turn to if I have questions these days.
Because everything on the surface of the Earth is visible from space, and some people have put things on the surface of the Earth that they would prefer certain other people not know about.

If the license is required to sense remotely, the issuing agency can do some research, then tell the licensee "you cannot broadcast, transmit, or record for later transmission images taken from T+5:53:11 to T+5:56:43". And then they check the flight path, and that's when the vehicle will be directly over one of the Aleutian islands. The engineers shrug their shoulders, and program a 4-minute blackout into the cameras.

And the crew in Alaska can then go around throwing camouflage netting over everything, and inflate the decoys, and not do any work outside, during any times that an object known or suspected to have imaging devices on it passes overhead.

It's a temporary measure, as the superpowers continue to move their most important secret facilities to camouflaged, submarine, or underground facilities. But it won't be long before someone's cubesat with commercial-grade camera unwittingly images something it shouldn't, and the Men in Black visit the owner with a DoD order to classify all their electronic equipment as "Top Secret", with a "no-foreign" endorsement. It would all be confiscated, examined, scrubbed, declassified, and returned after a few months.

The license is likely so that the keepers of the secrets can know the imaging capabilities of some of the objects they track in orbit, and maybe get some cooperation from the owners.
Toys R Us’s baby problem is everybody’s baby problem
Alas, I don't think they are end-runnable. Their whole business is end-running whatever system exists so as to maximize their own profits. And they're very good at it; their rake has quadrupled since WW II: https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2011/12/10/number-of-the-wee...
I totally agree with your analysis. What is more worrying is that even following the rest of the traffic would have solved the problem. If you are the only car doing something then there is a good chance you are doing something wrong.

Also: the lane markings are confusing but GPS and inertial readings should have clearly indicated that that is not a lane. If two systems give conflicting data some kind of alarm should be given to the driver.
>Well, if you’re being smart - do please tell us how Raft solves the problem of online faulty node replacement:

I never said that it did. That is what I mean by my statement that more work is required to build a real system in the real world. Much of the code of rqlite is about cluster management, built on a Raft substrate.

>how how does it re-sync the current, up-to-date state to the new node

I suggest you read the Raft paper, and study the Hashicorp Go implementation (https://github.com/hashicorp/raft) to see how this is done. It's all there.

>As far as Google went with their paper; they were incredibly correct by saying that actually implementing a distributed system is hard because of the failure modes; rather than the success modes of the running system.

I couldn't agree more.
This is not a non-story. This is Mark Zuckerberg either lying or not knowing anything about current issues on Facebook. This is not a pile-on or beating a dead horse like all the comments in other Facebook threads are saying about this rash of Facebook stories. Mark Zuckerberg's false confidence/lies about how Facebook is handling the issue of user's private data is sufficient story in an of itself.
It probably doesn't help that the auto industry employs a tremendous amount of Americans, from assembly to distribution and maintenance, and is a major source of advertisement funding for other industries that rely on such.
Many years ago the startup I had co-founded outsourced a chunk of development work because an investor wanted us to - what was produced was pretty much "catastrophic, unmaintainable" code that took a few developers on our side to rework (probably rather more than it would have taken to write the code from scratch ).

What we did like about the code was that each developer in the offshore team had created an exception class based on their own name - so the application would report "There has been a XXX YYY Error" - where XXX YYY was the name of one of their developers.

[And after ~15 years I can still remember the relevant name for the first one of these I saw].
Well, he wasn't tricked. He knew that he was performing the entire work for a full-time employee, which violates that employee's contract. My employee propositioned him and he agreed to do it.

So, while his skills were great and agree that the cost would have been reasonable, the ethical choice to willingly access the confidential information of a full-time employee and prop up someone with far less technical ability made hiring him a no go.
I don’t think so. They try to keep it a question and answer site, not a question and opinion site.
Your claim was that it isn't possible, but it is possible as evidenced by the fact that it has actually been done in the past.

> Even if London Underground decided to upset millions of commuters by raising the price to a round £5

If people would really be so upset with a 2% fare increase then imagine how happy they would be to round it down rather than up. It's even good policy -- encourage mass transit over driving.

For that matter you could issue single ride transit tokens for whatever exact price you like. The point of cash isn't to use a specific currency, it's to allow people to travel and make small purchases anonymously.

Even what NYC does now is better than using contactless payments, because you can buy a Metro Card for cash without providing a name. It's not quite as good because they still track the cards, but it's still better than having all of everyone's movements perfectly tracked by an Orwellian state computer.

> the contactless system would still be quicker than the machine that scans a fiver. Trust us, we've actually used both...

Comparing the fastest available electronic system to some kind of anachronism with paper tickets and slow readers is obviously going to favor the newer system -- although even then it's still a matter of seconds. But how is that the fair comparison? The comparison has to be between the best available electronic system and the best available cash-equivalent system that preserves privacy.

And dropping a dollar coin or a transit token into a slot in a turnstile is as close to instantaneous as makes no difference. Certainly not enough to justify tracking everyone's movements.
"In response to critics Facebook vows to do more to monitor its users' messages" - future TechCrunch headline. People might want to think about the unintended consequences of their criticism a bit more.
4 levels of the data validation in a Rails application you should be aware of
I see the comments are trending negatively, so I wanted to share a different perspective.

Having worked on and along side companies doing "agile transformations" and every version under the sun of the doing-agile-but-still-not-performing process, I do think the article is valuable.

My biggest takeaway is a good framing for how I can describe the situation where teams skip the basics in order to jump to the practices that seem most exciting.

Having a DevOps group spin up a scalable build pipeline using the latest and great container cluster will not fix a team that has glossed over the basics of the "Focusing" team. You'll have individuals that haven't bought into team success or delivering business value who want to do advanced practices because they read a blog about how it worked at Etsy or GitHub or Netflix. When the team still cannot deliver or work together effectively, no one will look at the root cause but instead layer on more flavor of the month processes, burn the bridge with anyone non-technical in the organization, or lose people because the company is just "dysfunctional".
> was the first ever, and so far only, movie that has brought me to tears

What about "Life is Beautiful" and/or "It's a Wonderful Life"?
>Side note rant on languages: the fact that on Duolingo there are more people willing to learn made up languages like Klingon or Game of Thrones, rather than Arabic, Portuguese, Mandarin or Spanish, says a lot about how invested many anglophones are about opening up towards other cultures.

I would rather assume that it says a lot about how invested they are in popular culture and casual learning, because learning Klingon might actually be a fun diversion, and a lot less effort than learning Mandarin or Arabic.
I would have agreed if you were talking about Windows XP but Microsoft has improved their security standing a lot since then. I think its a little disingenuous to call them unsecure more than other systems in the industry. Also the security environment has changed dramatically where monitoring and alerting are becoming key components. I know for a fact that Microsoft is investing heavily in those areas.
> There is a process of design and analysis that is done before build and implementation starts that in this industry is considered wasteful or work to be done by lesser mortals who aren't smart enough to code.

That's called "backlog refinement" in scrum. And it's supposed to be done by the engineers.
PIE: A Domain-Specific Language for Interactive Software Development Pipelines
>> One of the biggest such forums was called Experts Exchange.

> By what metric? I don’t know anybody who was actually subscribed there (although they must have existed). Instead, people were using various other forums that were free.

Or just used workarounds. I remember always going to the Google Cache versions, because that was what the GoogleBot saw, so it had the answers.

I wouldn't be surprised if their SEO trickery made it one of the biggest single Q&A sites of the time, since people will go where search takes them.
True, I did not learn much from the feedback. On the other hand, the existence of peer review might have pressured me into putting more effort into my exercises.
I don't think anyone contested that...?
16k a month can get you a mid level + an intern, or one senior with some cash depending on where in the US you go. It also gets you about 20 guys in India with a PM in the states.

I can guess which way they went..
If you read the raft paper, or just watch presentations of it, you'll see that all the issues you mentioned are covered:

- faulty node replacement: you can take any node off (or any node can crash) at any time. As long as there are enough nodes left to reach a quorum, your system will be available. If there are not enough nodes left, your system will be unavailable (but keep consistency)

- re-syncs, snapshots and the rest are all covered in the raft paper

- clients wanting to perform writes always talk to the node that is currently the leader, that node fails, clients will look for next leader (which will be eventually elected as long as there's a quorum of surviving nodes)

- overwhelming a system is a different concern, raft writes are serialized so the goal is usually not throughput (for that you might look at AP/AC storage solutions in the CAP spectrum, raft is CP). Designs that need high write throughput might still use raft as internal building block for coordination.
Obvious? Not to the car! My point is that gathering failing cases like this could be a a simple way to gain confidence in a self-driving system, either from the perspective of internal development at Tesla, or even for regulation. Imagine if before you were allowed to push an update to road-going cars you had to show that it doesn't crash in any of the simulations of difficult conditions that the Road Safety Authority has prepared. I'd be in favour of such a thing at least. It's not proof, but it doesn't give any false positives.
If a human can navigate current roads, why shouldn't a computer be able to? We may need to develop a new types of sensors for vehicles, but that seems like a better/easier plan than installing beacons on every road, everywhere.

And what about beacon maintenance? Seems like most cities have a hard enough time keeping up with pot holes, lines, etc. as is.
> Quite why you think it should be incumbent on NOAA to breach the law on their behalf I have no idea.

Because up to that point nobody had shown any good reason why the license was required in the first place and 10's of launches had been done without the license. This is too little, too late and doesn't serve anybody.

No harm was ever done by transmitting low resolution images from space.

Anyway, enough indents.
With .NET running everywhere now, I'm hoping VSTO for Mac Office isn't far behind. I really want to use the Grammarly plugin on my Mac also.
Because the most useful advice a mentor, or a friend can give one comes because they have an understanding of history and context. Someone brand new isn't going to make that meaningful of a contribution in a week or two. Mostly because it isn't their Job.

Good mentors are like good friends they don't happen over night.
MaskPass – A mnemonic password generation tool that requires no 3rd-party trust
Interesting read, I didn’t realize the jay in jay walking was a slight.
They already IPO’d. :-)
The post itself is informative. But the title is deliberately confusing. This is not the release announcement. We should not let GitHub take over the Git brand like they try to do with blog posts like this one.

Most coders these days say they use git while in reality the have no clue how it works and how to use it. They just use the buttons of tools and services built on top of it and hope for the best. We would all win if we could collaborate via the nice functionality Git itself provides.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_synchroniza...

You can find when each of these companies were founded by following the links...

Don't remember the name, but I remember similar service even in late 90s, when dial-up was popular. You'd pay for some amount of storage hosted on their servers (no "cloud" term back then) and they had Windows client integrated as a drive. Not sure if they had "freemium", maybe dropbox differentiated with this business model.
I think GitHub has done a great job being a good steward of the git project. They welcomed us (GitLab) to events like git merge. Because they made git popular people are sometimes confused about the difference between git and GitHub. But GitHub has done a great job on not muddling the water themselves.
Washington DC - my neighborhood has Comcast, RCN, and Verizon. Our neighbors report better service on all three — and when you go a couple blocks south where the FIOS rollout stopped, regression to normal sets in for Comcast.

We also have municipal fiber but they’ve chosen not to make that available for residential service which is really disappointing but … politics.
I don't understand why you would pick Arabic as an example here. There are languages you could take as alternatives to the mentioned fantasy languages (Mandarin, German if you read a lot of technical literature, etc) that are significantly more relevant and likely to be useful online.
"the language which will net him the most ROI" is another way of saying "the language which the largest number of people will understand" which seems like a good thing.
It might not have been radically unusual, but that doesn't make it consistent either.. (looked like lanes where closed to me)
There were many components mentioned here that sound like they would be marvelously useful to the open-source community without being too competitive (eg; various SQLite parsing tooling, SQLite/Excel interface, SQLite/other db interface, etc).

Might be worth open-sourcing? Perhaps even under a restrictive license (free for FOSS work, otherwise paid).
Sorry for the late response: to Internode (192.231.203.132) I get 36 ms. This is all on (rather terrible) ADSL 2+
My girlfriend married me for showing her Ctrl-Z.
While this is a fairly interesting article and that code is an interesting piece of work as well, I found it a hard read solely because of the way it's presented. The bunnies, the big bold text in between the other text, the oh-so-slight difference in font size to indicate different headings (I think?), nested bullet points with sometimes only one entry in a level, making me wonder why there even is a bullet. Oh and I like humor, but those Job title/Hobbies entries, the <wink/sadface/whatever/>, I don't know, it's like everything but funny to me? Mainly distracting.
AWS Explained ELI5: User Interface was written by an interns intern with the only thing being consistent is how bad it is.
You’re both right. Industrial electric motors run 24/7/365 for decades in all sorts of harsh conditions. The motors should not be an issue.

On the flip side these cars are filled with electronics. Just look at the dash... I don’t trust those to last more than the warranty period. However, I feel the same about most modern cars, especially luxury cars.
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