skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think your eyes are deceiving you, I saw the same thing. My guess is (and excuse my incorrect terminology) that the hitbox and the mesh aren't the same size, so the cars are passing after the hitbox (maybe the cab) safely, and thus through the trailer mesh/texture.
Your point stands and is about as real as the idea of millenial hipsters saying "Oh, sure, we have a jQuery app that works right now, but that's so 2010, if you don't have an SPA everyone is laughing at you and if you think you're going to write an SPA with just jQuery do you even code bra, let's spend 6 months converting Angreactive, it's the modern-iest framework out there!"

Which is to say, sure, you can boil people down to caricatures, and there will even be people who match them. There are reflexively recalcitrant developers who don't want to adopt anything new, there are technological magpies whose decisions are driven by fashion and resume bullet points. The former probably do tend older, as they have a sense of less time in general and would prefer to reserve learning for new capabilities rather than different ways of doing the same thing, and perhaps even be judicious about time learning vs doing things they value. The latter probably do skew younger, as it's easier to feel you have years and energy to burn and less reference for how change works in the industry.

So what's very real are the incentives and tradeoffs underlying the decision making. The idea that what the past has provided is often adequate and investment in the new has costs is correct. The idea that there may be improvements in the new is also correct.

If you believe this, maybe having cranky 50 year olds who are going to make your organization justify its decisions is actually an asset along with people who are curious to invest in the new shiny...
Ah. I have no idea what kind of box they gave us, it just sits in the attic. I've got 3 TVs; 1x 4k and 2x 1080p but they're all hanging off the TiVo Bolt and TiVo Minis.

We're definitely not getting charged an extra tenner for an HD box.
Hello ralusek, the idea is to provide more the tools for the application layer to move data from/to stream. I don't think we'll have direct support for persisting streams on disk. Honestly streams as implemented in Redis are very adapt to this use case, because of the macro-nodes that are swappable as a single entity, however some time ago I decided that I wanted to focus on the on-memory aspect.
Guys, people aren't "exposing their finances" on Venmo. People don't use it to buy stuff, or pay off CC bills, or anything. Nor are the transaction amounts exposed.

It's used for balancing payments/debts between individuals. I don't consider "A paid B for brunch yesterday" or "X paid Y for Rent+cable" in any way to be "exposing finances". It's just another random (albeit unnecessary) social network, one that takes literally no effort to use or disable.

Shocking, young people don't care if others know that they went out to dinner with some friends. It's amazing to me that this level of exposure seems "nuts" to you all and leaves you "speechless". Like, how paranoid and antisocial are you all? Who cares about this stuff? Or is this all just some crazy slippery-slope thing going on in your heads?
as in "No, sorry" or you'll come to my hotel room and fold down the blankets and put a nice chocolate on the pillow? Because I would love to have the latter for $1, especially if the chocolate is included.
Thanks! See you soon, there will be a Redis event in London btw in case anyone is interested. Should be November 2018 AFAIK.
Erp. This sentence made me wince.

Times don't have timezones - places have timezones. The idea that time handling is made easier by attaching timezones to times is the cause of so many headaches. Correct time handling involves understanding place - the place where things happen, the place where the user is observing them from, the place where a clock displays a particular time.
Can you give an example of a publicly-funded paper that you couldn't find on PubMed or another server, but a Nature or another closed journal offers for sale?
A fun hobby and also a reminder that maybe, just maybe, you don't need "the cloud".
Sure sad, but sometimes better to uncover company culture issues quickly and leave before engaging. Would you like to work with such selfish perfectionist everyday?
I picked an article that's about a year old in case there was an embargo before the free one could be made available. Paywalled nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature22040
Free version: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5712493/
The meaning of “2018-05-26T13:45:21+02:00” may not change, but if 2018-05-26 rolls around and the restaurant where you have a lunch reservation at 13:45 local time is no longer in the +02:00 time zone, it’s not the same time that your reservation is scheduled for anymore.
True. But occasionally, it does happen.

https://www.ipethicslaw.com/pto-suspends-ptab-atty-who-filed...
Supporting reproduction, complaining about public presentation of science, and disliking the rent-seeking behaviors of journals are all pro-science positions held more often by scientists than any other group.
Pulling a dependency project when a dependent project is checked out maybe
The academy is a primary example status quo and gatekeeping. Any change to the system is risky to them.
That's really interesting. The first few pages come pretty close to poetry in my opinion.

For me its those interludes that raise TNOTW into a class above the normal Harry Potter Copycat Formula that is so popular now.

I never even considered the possibility that, those bits would be putting people off. It's pretty clear that its those sections were Patrick Ruthfuss strives for perfection, that is taking so long to complete the series. He can churn out pages, once he gets "into the rythm" of more common storytelling.
oh yeah, cool :) I was thinking about the issue from the perspective of an ordinary user of git, not of services that consume git repo's from other places.

I guess this will make some bug bounties for researchers who can find services that haven't patched quickly...
This is the type of digestible quip that will get non-tech people to vote for more regulation.

*I’m not advocating for this usage just illustrating a point
That's a really interesting question. I tried to think about that when I was writing this blog post and couldn't really think about anything. Perhaps setting some permissions on a file or running `chattr` / `setfacl` is the best idea I had, but I omitted any suggestions because I've never actually used a post-checkout hook in anger.
I use Venmo and immediately set my preferences to private. Admittedly though, I will browse through the public transactions of my friends out of interest in what they are up to.
any way to add raster data or more conventional basemaps like those from USGS or google, etc?
I'm utterly perplexed that Venmo is even a thing.

When I first started hearing about it maybe 5-6 years ago, I just figured, I already have PayPal and Square Cash, I'm too old, nobody I know uses Venmo, why bother.

I've mostly ignored that it existed except occasionally hearing (usually younger) folks talking about it.

A couple of months ago I was telling some people at work that I'm too old for it, and Square Cash works well enough for me, and commented that I can't see how a newcomer could be any easier than just having the money go directly into my bank account.

When a coworker informed me that Venmo payments stay in your account, my exasperated reply was "wait, it's WORSE than Square Cash? It's like going back to PayPal?" Well, you can imagine how incredulous I was when I found out that Venmo IS PayPal, just with different branding.

For the past 5 years I've been assuming Venmo is something new and cool that "the kids" are using, but I'm too out of touch to bother, and suddenly I find out it's a rebranding of PayPal with all of the drawbacks of it. It blows my mind that something caught traction that is functionally worse than the competitor of the product it's a rebranding of!
Hello lossolo, I hope that the community will figure this out. I'll try to make videos, blog posts and programming examples about Streams in Redis, but I don't like to make direct comparisons and I don't want to become a Kafka/other solution expert as well in order to make sure to make fair comparison :-) If I think at Redis Streams, I think they work very well in a set of domains. The king use case IMHO is time series. Having fast range queries is pretty interesting for this use case. Then the second one is events and event sourcing of all the kinds when the number of events-per-second is very sustained. However I've some feeling that also thinks like delayed jobs that are currently implemented on top of blocking lists may be rewritten to use streams and offer better overall features/operations.
> it's a public way to expose your social graph a bit.

Why is this a thing?
For home use, I'd say start with what you have. You can always upgrade later.

Power consumption is the biggest thing. For an always-on home server, you want something that sips as little power as possible. (Some of the Intel Avoton CPUs have a 17W TDP, compared to an i7 which can have a TDP anywhere between 65-150W.)

Outside that, the only other issue is going to be lack of ECC RAM. Whether that's needed for a home server is debatable. Many folks can get by fine without it.

Oh, and lack of lights-out management utilities. Which is convenient, especially in headless setups... but hardly required when the server is a few feet away.
> My mistake was in construing your post as being more coherent than it actually was.

It was just as coherent and topical as your own. The only thing "bad" about it is that it was in opposition, and that I didn't back down in the face of your increasingly insulting responses. Next time, make your case instead of trying to obfuscate and intimidate.
Sure, thanks for your proposal, appreciate it, we won't probably do business in Germany anytime soon though.
this has nothing to do with some mystical 'nature of humans', we're just stuck in a bad nash equilibrium.

Journals thrive on reputation and nobody can individually dissent because they lose out. This is the same mechanism that keeps overpriced tuition fees at ivy league colleges afloat.

The answer is to collectively get out by legislating the practice or offering a free public alternative that everybody can immediately jump too. Given that the efforts become more and more organised, (German wholesale boycott of Elsevier) this might be happening sooner than later.
Quite a lot of big hitters in the signatory list. This might be a game changer.
Using npm has never been secure, here is a fun little article about how someone used npm to inject malware into thousands of sites. https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
I don't see "more regulation" as an inherently negative thing.
That is definitely the case. BBB is a scam.
Yelp is basically bad news for everybody.

The subjects of negative reviews often attack the reviewers.

And, Yelp itself attacks the subjects of positive reviews. Their sales people call positively-reviewed small businesses and use hard-sell tactics to try to sell them advertising.

So, for your own sake don't post negative reviews.
And, for the sake of the businesses you like don't post positive reviews.
npm 6 still has weird caching bugs from previous versions when working with git dependencies. I'll be sticking with yarn until that gets fixed.
I've been told Venmo works exactly like PayPal, which is to say it's a 2 step process to get money from your Venmo account into your actual checking/savings account. So that would make it just as usable as the, what, 20-year-old PayPal, and worse than Square Cash. Am I misinformed?
The Ottoman History Podcast is consistently interesting: https://soundcloud.com/ottoman-history-podcast/tracks
They started the port after seeing I had no interest in writing a port for Windows. They stopped it IMHO when they realized, basically, the same things that prevented me from starting the project at all, that is: it runs very well on Linux and is very hard to port to Windows in a serious way, because of Windows lack of fork(). If you ask me Windows should absolutely get a serios POSIX layer ASAP and just let the Windows users use all the OSS that is out there.
I think smart home tech has value, but not so much in turning on lights, fans, and coffee makers on, and adjusting thermostats for convenience. How about something of value?

For example, for lighting, automation could open window coverings allowing in natural light, sensors could detect how much additional artificial light is needed, and dimmers could adjust artificial light sources appropriately (and specifically to areas of the room).

Or, I expect a lot of energy could be saved by the following intelligent cooling system:

Input the day's forecast for outside temperature from an Internet source and the current outside conditions from a thermometer. Calculate expected interior conditions based on prior data about internal conditions relative to external (internal usually is warmer AFAIK, due to people and machines), and take the following remedial actions as needed:

(A) If the internal temperature won't exceed a comfortable upper limit, leave external ventilation open.

(B) If external temperature is acceptable but internal temperature will be too warm, increase ventilation by adjusting speed of an exhaust fan, and activate ceiling fans in rooms where sensors detect people and too much heat. Also, sensors can identify locations around the outside of the building with the coolest air (e.g., shady areas), and the system can open ventilation inputs in those locations and close them in others.

(C) If the forecast external temperature will be too warm, at coolest time of day (e.g., just before sunrise) use ventilation to equalize internal and external temperatures and then close ventilation, trapping coolest air inside. Also, as needed turn on ceiling fans in rooms where sensors detect people and too much heat.

(D) If the above won't be sufficient, turn on artificial cooling (air conditioning) as needed, but only in regions of house where it's needed and will be used.

My inspiration is that I do (C) manually on hot days, and simply trapping the cooler air makes a big difference for the whole day. However, I'm not always available to do it, and a lot of unnecessary A/C is used because of it.
Absolutely agree and notice a slight pattern with fantasy novels starting with overdone "spooky monster in the woods" setting before getting into anything interesting (like characters and plot). The opening to Game of Thrones is the same. I have to imagine it's their editors asking for something more generically sell-able.
Or rather, the legal system is preventing the market from accessing it, e.g. there are something like 2 U.S. states in which one can currently sit for the state bar without having been awarded a JD.
You still inherently have to keep track of time of day in the other regions though. Consider trying to schedule a meeting between a group of people across India, Ireland, and East Coast US under a single time system. Instead of knowing that 9AM EST is 2PM in Ireland and ~6:30PM in India. I now have to look up the standard business hours in each location.

Also that system will probably devolve into defacto timezones without actual definitions where business in nearby areas decide on what constitutes reasonable hours based on businesses around them and the relative solar time but instead of reasonably crisp boundaries like you have today defined on a map it'll be a slow bleed and interspersing between multiple sets of '9-5' hours.
Once Streams are Prod ready, no more need for Kafka and hence Zookeeper as well.
I'd be willing to:

1. provide positive inspiration

2. provide an answer or at least initial research within 5 minutes of time. (using some automated tools I write)

3. provide a daily list of facts about that day at various points in time.

4. teach a child a simple task.

5. provide the top "movers and shakers" in the stock market from the last day.
Well it's PayPal without the fees.
The parent very clearly was not saying that most research is already freely available. You're incorrectly claiming that. The parent said in most cases regarding US taxpayer funded research, right here:

> in most cases I know of (NSF and NIH funded research) US taxpayer funded research must be made freely available

Besides that, you'd be surprised that people and organizations spend money on things they don't actually need to? In my experience that happens constantly in both business and government.
David Nolen: Embracing Simpler Tools
Neither do I, I don’t want to overstretch but I’ve seen a lot of blowback on GDPR lately and actions like this are what I think will get the US there eventually too.
Call your home/renter's insurance agent and ask them to add a "personal injury" rider. Increase your liability limit to $1m. You'll be insured against suits for libel/slander (assuming you aren't doing so maliciously). It'll probably cost you another $50 a year. It's a life saver. I have a friend to was sued, wrongfully, for defaming someone online and his insurance covered the entire defense.
Honestly, they should just flip the journal funding model on its head. Instead of readers paying for subscriptions, publishing institutions can pay for publication rights. In fact, they could probably take all the subscription money they get from institutions and change nothing but the name (something like "authorship fee", "membership fee" or "institutional publication service fee" or whatever). make the journals open access and not feel any change at all in revenue.

Besides, if you look at the money, fancy journals are responsible for a lot of funding that ends up in the coffers of researchers or the institutions that support them, so it really wouldn't be crazy. I read somewhere that a Science/Nature paper in some fields is thought to be worth >$1mm in funding.
The person running the mastadon node.
Deep learning, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio & Geoffrey Hinton,
Nature volume 521, pages 436–444 (28 May 2015)

Strategy: publish in the high-impact established Nature-family journal, but publicly boycott the no-impact new Nature-family journal. Win-win.

edit: added -family suffix to clarify that I completely understand these are two different journals from the same publisher.

edit 2: I now understand why the editor of the new journal was hitting senior people up for personal meetings at ICRA last week. He didn't want to hear about our work: he wanted hints to help him on positioning.
> Yarn often produces yarn.lock files that are invalid when you run add, remove, or update.

This has never happened to us with heavy daily usage. It's one of the things that remains reliable about Yarn. Would appreciate more details on what exactly happened.
Every bank I've ever been a sucker-err-customer of seemed to use whichever order results in the most fees.

Not the only reason I use a credit union these days.
GDPR 'risks making it harder to catch hackers'
I have a comfortable couch, a plastic lap desk, and a pillow below it. On top of it is a fairly old MacBook Air. I used to think I needed multiple monitors until I got the MacBook. Its three-finger-swipe to go from one virtual desktop to another is my favorite feature. I work laying down.

It is fairly dark. I have a Sonos speaker to play music whenever I need to. I get up to stretch and walk around a bit at least once an hour.
The criticism is along the lines of "Yeah basically all fields are academic descendants of Gauss. Euler too." The article's aside is just odd, as is in the first place bringing up Gauss (linking to another Guardian article, maybe the real intent?) and an astronomer both paying another dude (some amount) what sounds like club member fees for letter redistribution.
I am a south-Asian immigrant in Silicon Valley and I don’t think that’s a racist statement
Does Government Empower or Stifle?
Malcolm in the middle did this very well as oen of their pre-titles bits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
Ask HN: Building a universal SaaS billing solution for entrepreneurs
Problem is with SaaS billing.

Most companies build their own billing solution or use off the shelf solutions like Chargify, Chargebee, Recurly etc... but I am missing multiple payment methods like WebMoney, wire transfer (manual), cryptos (bitcoin, ethereum) in them. These service providers end up having your data.

Why must every entrepreneur go through all this pain?

There is Killbill.io but it's in Java and quite deep.
It does not have many payment plugins. I am finding it difficult to hack.

Currently, we use WHMCS but it's difficult to customize its look and feel to match our SaaS app. It solves every billing issue but it's unable to offer seamless integration with SaaS+SPA app.

It has many payment plugins https://docs.whmcs.com/Payment_Gateways and it's quite easy to develop your own, see: https://developers.whmcs.com/payment-gateways/

So in terms of hackability, WHMCS scores above Killbill.

Most product and services are moving to subscription-based billing and this space does have some friction as evident from the fact that I am forced to use WHMCS which is built for hosting industry. And it's the only product which solves all my problems except one. (seamless integration)

I want to build a self-hosted app based on GitLab's business model and I am interested in sponsoring work in this direction if anyone is interested, please drop me an email at istartup@protonmail.com

Please let me know your thoughts on this.
"Friends and Family" payments are also without fees.

I can't think of any fees I've ever paid to PayPal other than for eBay transactions and the like -- though it's of course possible Venmo has different rate structures and thresholds.
Never thought about a treadmill. Do you use one at the moment? If so, for how long at one time?
> Geofences are awesome for things like sports arenas, neighborhoods, malls, etc. but ineffective for anything smaller.

It's going to be tremendously effective in rural areas; the hospital closest to my parents' is the only thing within several hundred meters.
Why would you give it any thought at all? The update button appeared, and just before dinner I clicked "update". Done.
Exoplanet Travel Bureau
That doesn't solve the problem of getting open access to IEEE published papers.
The number exceeds total us population. However if it's a count over time with entry if new persons into popukatiob then possible
That’s a hypothetical piece (read it to the end), not the account of something that actually happened.

Regardless, it still highlights the fact that everything is built on a rather fragile layer of trust.
If it is, its a damn good one!
It's either a decoy for the girlfriend or the start of a Beowulf clusture of many more.
> Venmo IS PayPal, just with different branding

They were a startup in 2010 but got bought by PayPal in 2013.
I love the startup eco-system of the US, and as someone fluent in English, and entrepreneurial, I would love to emigrate to the US with my startup -- but goddamit is it getting harder every single day.
That’s your ideal working environment? Sounds dark and bad for your posture, but whatever works for you.
I've been threatened with a lawsuit over a review before. Even though I know I'd be in the right, just the processes of going to court and defending yourself is a huge pain. Not sure why a company would risk trying to sue someone over a review when it would undoubtedly backfire and be really bad pr for them.

Definitely recommend checking out libel insurance. Shouldn't cost much to get and will help protect against companies trying to go after you.
The subway forces me to be uncomfortable for 15-25 minutes. I'd much rather be sitting alone in my car if it wasn't so expensive.

They simply understood that people won't give up their comfort.

Keep in mind that there isn't much money to be made selling subway cars.