skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Apollo Agriculture is using satellite data to help bring modern farming to the worlds poorest farmers. Millions of farmers globally don't have access to the basic farm tools the rest of the world depends on for food production, good seed and fertilizer. We sell these proven agricultural tools on credit, and use satellite data and ML to figure out who we can lend to profitably.

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I think it might be fair to say that making touch actions default to definitions/note-taking/etc would make those features more prominent, which might make people like the OP feel them intruding on their desired passive reading experience more.
This is an interesting legal question. Intellectual property is part of a person's estate, but intellectual property isn't what's important here, rather control of a GitHub account (and management of permissions it controls). Facebook and Google for instance do not allow descendants to simply inherit accounts, and provide some controls for users to specify wishes for their post-mortem account management. Github seems not to have any policy on death.
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Famously and vigorously so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse
Gibson Files for Bankruptcy in Deal to Renew Guitar Business
There is a critical cut-off age for learning a language fluently
How does screen work with the hardware buttons? Any chance to lock screen from accidental interaction and use buttons exclusively?
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Polly is a fast growing, venture backed startup that is taking a consumer like approach to enterprise surveys by delivering it exclusively in a messaging interface (i.e. Slack, Teams). There is tremendous opportunity here - we have hundreds of thousands of active enterprise users, thousands of companies, a growing market, and valuable real-estate as one of the most popular apps in Slack, Teams, Hangouts, and Stride.

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Apply at samird@polly.ai and reference HN.
In real life, things done when a person is young are often forgotten with time, and the way the brain works is that time lessens the importance of a memory, so even if it's not completely forgotten, the memory is fuzzy and considered inconsequential.

On the internet, everything is as fresh as this morning, forever. No longer do we have "do you remember when so-and-so used to say that stupid stuff, boy have they changed!" Now it's "look, here's a link to so-and-so staying stupid stuff, now we know what they really think!"

The idea that once something is in the public it should remain there firmly embedded, forever, makes sense on the surface, but definitely seems to break down when examined closely, in my opinion.
I agree with the other two replies, but I wanted to add: the claim is going to be the strongest they think they can get away with. If they’re not making specific claims about specific outcomes, that implies they know they can’t get away with it. And, if they could make those claims, it would no longer be a “supplement,” but a “drug.”
There is an issue between iPhone's (8/X) new compression format and storing photos in Google Photo - many sunny photos will end up overexposed and people's faces will have those bright white spots surrounded by orange. (forced switching to sRGB and losing some details)

Separately - the way Apple does image processing and applies noise filtering results in horrible image quality full of noise if there is even a slight hint of low light. Water-color faces surrounded by noise of brown dots.

I cannot believe how people still praise iPhone camera. 5 years ago it was the best I guess. Right now it's just one of many and often quite mediocre in comparison.
Justforfunc #33: The Rise and Fall of CORBA
I'm not sure how a .app TLD could be mistaken for a .app executable.
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Sequoia Capital | Data Engineer | Menlo Park, CA | Full time | ONSITE

Help make our data pipeline hum and bring delight to Data Scientists.

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We are a small, nimble, hard-working team that believes in: * Autonomy, not micro-managing. * Quick release cycles that get tools into the hands of users. * Collaborative, positive team culture where you can learn from others. * Using the right tool for the job, and being flexible about what tools we use. * Prioritizing reduction of technical debt. * Respecting and rewarding high performance.

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Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets
Honestly had no idea this was in place. Black cabs are back on the menu! As with OP I never used them due to the requirement to have cash on hand
I know it isn't cool, but I often wonder if anyone will come out with a language that isn't meant to be the next C but the next COBOL, RPG, etc. I wonder if anyone has a LLVM backend for z/Architecture and TIMI.
I suppose logging is a side effect and that makes practically everything technically non-idempotent (though on purpose).
The Itanium processor did exactly this. Other than being a commercial flop, it was found to be quite difficult to actually get the compiler to generate good management instructions, and x86 was often able to beat out an itanium core at the same clock speed
Entrepreneurs, why you need to backup your data
Mildly disappointed that 28 Server doesn't include VDO. VDO is going to be a completely killer feature for storage servers in the future.

(Also, the link to the release notes leads to a 404: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/f28/release-notes/index.html )
Don't forget to upvote companies who actually post a salary range. You can search for "$", "€", and "£".

When this post series first started almost every company did so and it was to both parties benefit- job-seekers wouldn't waste their time on something with too low of pay, and companies wouldn't get applicants who were a mismatch for what they were seeking in compensation. Let's do our best too keep it that way.
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My understanding is that that Backblaze handles data integrity at a higher level and just treats the disks as JBOD, so I would expect the "SAN/RAID" situation across all their disks to be roughly the same. Their storage pods have always had little more than SATA controllers and port multipliers and in later iterations, direct-wired drives w/ no port multipliers.
You can totally get that now. Oasis 2 lets you disable the touchscreen: http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2017/12/14/heres-how-to-dis...
The problem with black cabs is that what they consider London and what actually is London is very different.
I can walk to Paddington so I don’t have that much of a problem with getting cabs but if you live outside of Zone 2 it will questionable if you can get one also getting them to go outside of the center is usually near impossible despite the fact that they aren’t allowed to decline fares.

If you are however disabled, have pets or a baby trolley you’ll likely have quite a bit of a problem with Uber et al.
Black cabs are big and afaik all of them can accommodate wheelchairs.
How are Visual Trends impacting your Branding?
> The big difference is that HTTPS is required to connect to all .app websites...Because .app will be the first TLD with enforced security made available for general registration, it’s helping move the web to an HTTPS-everywhere future in a big way.

This sounds good but how does it really help users or developers compared to having a .com website that uses HTTPS? Expecting that users will think "oh, .app, must be secure" doesn't seem like an improvement over expecting them to look for key icons in the browser, or showing them scary alerts for non-https sites.

The only play I see here is that if the new TLD becomes so popular that everyone must have one, then, well, everyone must have HTTPS. But that's not going to happen either. Even .com never reached a high enough level of importance that absolutely every website, including those who weren't interested in providing HTTPS, needed to use .com for their domain.
No, but medical advice falls into a special category of the law.
C-like code that runs on GPUs is not even close to normal C, even though the syntax is similar. The way you layout your memory, schedule your threads, and add memory barriers is completely different. You are never going to take a piece of large C code written for a CPU and just run it directly on a GPU.
You severely overestimate the technical skill of the average user. And even people who know their way around computers rely heavily on patterns in order to identify relationships, so a strong pattern without an underlying relationship is, of course, going to lead to confusion.
Ted from Namecheap here - we've been excited about this TLD launch for a couple of years now and we plan to sell .app domains! Stoked it's launching very soon.
Just like .com and windows executables, eh?
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If it’s not clear from the article, HTTPS is required for all .app domains, which Google accomplished by adding the .app TLD to the default chrome HSTS preload list.

Interestingly that will only ensure HTTPS only when using a browser with HSTS enabled with a preload list that includes the .app TLD.

Therefore non-web code, or code in browsers without the TLD in the HSTS preload list, will be able to make HTTP requests to a .app domain.

It does seem like a positive step, but to be honest the solution seems a bit clumsy and ineffective, closer to security theater than actual security. Also, and this is just a feeling, it seems obtrusive for google to force such a policy across the TLD. Of course it’s their right since they own the TLD, but the cynic in me can’t help but think it sets an overbearing precedent. Based on Google’s behavior in the past, this looks like the second step of the “embrace/extend/extinguish” cycle Google has used so effectively in the past.
Perhaps a matter of focus. Audio recordings are more often conversational, video tends to be more hyperactive.
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Where Did Bytes Come From?
Or you can just schedule time to worry about things and have other time where you don't worry about things... it takes a bit of discipline, but if you worry about everything 24/7 you're going to be very unhealthy.
It's all relative. Lower level than what? Higher level than what? C is lower level than a huge number of other languages so I would feel comfortable calling it 'low level'.
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The defining feature here seems to be HSTS - all .app domains will connect via HTTPS by default, and never try HTTP. Which is nice.

Otherwise... eh. In theory this becomes a home for web sites specifically related to apps. Certainly that seems to be what Google are suggesting. But are web apps "apps"? Is this native only? Are Google going to be actively monitoring these to make sure the content is related to the .app TLD? (spoiler: no).

So it's just another TLD, really.
>Having seen my mother (edit: and, more pertinently: myself) struggle with her Kindle, I do think the interaction model is one-degree unnecessarily complex

How often do you struggle with the interface once you've learned it? I agree that the current Kindle interface isn't the most intuitive, but to me that's a non-issue. I've long since learned how to interact with the Kindle, and now that that initial learning is complete, the interface does an excellent job allowing me to do what I want.
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And the relevant bit (for persons under UK jurisdiction):

> Historically, those found guilty of contempts could be fined or imprisoned, but those sanctions have not been used by the Commons since 1666 and 1880 respectively. For all sorts of practical, legal and constitutional reasons, it is highly doubtful that the modern House would seriously consider this.
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The Software Freedom Conservancy might be able to help: https://sfconservancy.org/
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The sad thing here is that the people who need to hear what is said in this essay the most, no longer have the attention span to absorb it due to the damage Facebook and similar platforms have caused to their minds.
The average user has no idea that the .app file extension even exists. macOS does not expose it in Finder.
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- Senior Mobile engineer (React Native)

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We are solving the student debt crisis with income-based finance.

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> This is interesting, so are these like a rogue group of MP's who actually take their job seriously and think government should return to its non-theatre basis?

This is possible, but the theatrical value of these (televised) hearings shouldn't be underestimated.
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rstor is a company building globally distributed compute and storage system on a game-changing low-latency, high-bandwidth fabric. We are primarily targeting an enterprise market.

My team is working on a compute appliance that will streamline machine learning workflows. Backend software stack is elixir and python. I'm primarily looking for backend devs that can shape up a demo-quality MVP and turn it into something that can be deployed in customer environments. Expertise in appliance management is highly sought, (e.g. ICMP)

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> When you write a piece, if you want to delete it so that no one else can read it, it should be your right.

Right up until you publish it in a public journal or newspaper, at which point you have no right to demand that every other reader destroy their copy.