skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Cheap junk food is marketed, whereas cheap staples aren't. Basic white/brown rice is a commodity. There's no differentiation, and ultra-slim margins, so nobody's trying to market it to you. Easy Mac on the other hand...

2) Taste. To us adults (and mostly upper-middle class adults to boot) on HN, rice and beans may sound more appealing than cheap mac and cheese with mystery meat. Take a poll of 3-year-olds and you may get a different result.

3) Ease. Staples like rice and beans are only really cheap when you're buying them in dry form, bulk. This means you need to season them and cook them, which can be a long process. (My wife and I recently tried to save on black beans by cooking ourselves rather than buying canned. The result was good, but by the time you chop onions for seasoning, add other ingredients, monitor the beans, drain and cool the beans, and wash the crock pot, cutting board, knife, various spoons and measuring implements, etc., well, it ends up being a lot of work.) If you're a single parent working two jobs to support your kids, 5 minutes of preparation is meaningfully better than even, say, 20 minutes of preparation.
Yeah i've got friends in Indonesia and the Philippines, they usually see big blockbuster movies long before I do. If I ever do. I don't think any of them have ever talked about watching a movie made their own countries.
What happens when you type 'Google.com' into a browser and press Enter?
Believe it or not, I have 2 close relatives who are techies living in the Midwest. They like it there, and we have different opinions about where we'd prefer to live.

Sorry if my straightforward comment about what I like in the Bay area came across as either an attack on the Midwest, or ignorance of the Midwest. It wasn't intended to be either.
First, in both of your points someone gets fucked. As far as you're concerned, who cares, so long as it's the right group getting fucked. Perhaps the real discussion is on why you chose to favor one group (new property owners) at the expense of the other (incumbent property owners).

Second, you're conflating issues. Being in favor of Prop 13 is not the same as being against new development. These issues are not the same. Truth is, my neighborhood is one of the few seeing a lot of new development... it's one of the green areas on the map and pretty much all of this development is multi-story/high density housing. I don't necessarily oppose this (I would if it were due to government community redevelopment efforts, special handouts, etc). There would probably be more development if the city was managed more like I would like to see it managed. I am absolutely against the vast majority of regulatory constraint on new development.
These are taken from some of the other comments in this thread:

* As a consumer of APIs I vastly prefer REST APIs.
* Highly recommend GraphQL to anyone.
* I *love* how flexible it is for client developers.
* As a manager/business owner, I like GraphQL.
* How I _wish_ I could nope the hell out of our GraphQL dependency
* Unnecessary complexity over simple rest calls with no benefits.
* REST semantics are a distraction
* my experience is just ok.

What I see here is many different reactions from different people, presumably with different experiences and use cases on their hands. And that's perfectly OK -- REST, GraphQL, XML-RPC, heck even SOAP are just tools, and use whichever works best for your particular situation.

Just because it worked for me doesn't mean it will work great for everyone else; and if it sucks for me doesn't mean it won't be a life-saver for someone else. Those are just tools; use them as you find fit.
all the people you mention will die and will be replaced by others.

As will you. And people who don't respect or understand what you love will destroy it and replace it.
I guess technically true but I still don't get why you say it? Any special reason why you mention this when it comes to this article?
"There is nothing that stops a manufacturer from providing microG instead of Play Services and hence cutting Google out."

I would be shocked if 1). The licensing agreements with Google to get the Play Store in the first place allow that, and 2). If MicroG would be production ready. It might be fine for some enthusiasts and hobbyists, but I highly doubt it's ready to be shipped by default.
I know it doesn't add a ton to the conversation to share an anecdote, but this conversation is really interesting to me right now. Tomorrow my new Asus Q325UA arrives, shipped from Best Buy. If you've never heard of the Q325UA, or have trouble finding reviews online, that's because it's the Best Buy version of the Flip S. In theory, it's very much the same machine, though I'm not sure from reviews if the Flip S typically ships with the sleeve or Asus mini dock - the Best Buy version only includes the Stylus. I'll find out the software situation tomorrow... and we'll see how the hardware does.

ETA: With a little research, I believe the primary hardware difference is SSD. SATA in Best Buy version, PCI-e in the Flip S.
Yes, he is, and I am as well. First of all, irradiated doesn't mean radioactive. Most food in the US is irradiated for health purposes before sale at grocery stores.

How is it contaminated? What's the distribution of contaminants? Do they actually have a significant effect?
I have no experience in this area, but. Once you get the molecules and their interactions down wouldn't that make all other types of cells easier to produce?

And at a certain point couldn't you just feed the simulation DNA and watch it grow?
The US has some ridiculously huge single-family houses. Five to ten times bigger than what's the norm here (Northern Europe).
"Luxury apartments" are usually a bit cheaper than any well-maintained condo from a century ago in my city. Cement/stone construction, thick, sound-isolating walls, coupled with foundations and architecture that has proven to survive vs yet another Amli/RealEstateChainBuilder company that puts up a tinderbox townhouse complex and charges a $100k premium for $5k in amenities.
I don't think VLC is using Qt!
But... Why are those people moving in? Is it perhaps possibly because these people LIKE to live in high density spaces?

If people keep moving in that means that high density is by definition desirable. We as a society should be building the stuff that people want, and your argument proves that what people want is high density living.

The fact that high density living attracts new buyers is even MORE reason to make more of the type of living that people love.
And because they're older than you, their opinions and values don't matter. Got it.

You do realize that age discrimination is a federal crime, right?
Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think (2016)
Because it isn't taught any more? Not by parents, not by schools.

My upbringing would be considered strangely quaint by most here on HN, I believe. When I was in high school, there was still a home economics teacher. The class was elective.

The school also had a very formidable wrestling team, and the home ec teacher was the mother of a former student that had gone to a Big 10 university on a wrestling scholarship, so she new the life, and the health impacts of the constant struggle to make weight while doing strenuous physical activity.

She went out of her way to recruit wrestlers to her food & nutrition class. Argument 1: I promise cooking labs will be on meet days (you weighed in at 7:00 AM and could eat all you wanted the rest of meet day). Argument 2: Lots of girls in class. (She was a natural salesperson, this pitch was a great closer).

Along the way she taught a lot about nutrition, health, and meal planning. The homeworks were hard and meaningful -- I remember these half-starved guys obsessing over their menus, calorie counts, and nutrition analysis when by rights they should have been doing algebra. She was a wise and wonderful teacher.

Where do kids learn to cook and meal plan any more? From parents who don't know how to cook or meal plan? There are certainly foodies around, but obsessing over baking your home-made biscotti is not the same as managing the family's daily nutrition on a budget.
It’s not illegal if it’s in the ToS.

And even the data of enterprise customers is used to improve Google’s machine learning algorithms, according to those.

So not illegal, just entirely immoral. But when has that ever stopped Google?
Cause they don't want to be beholden to Apple in the mobile space.
When the government is responsible for your healthcare, and also has a fiduciary duty to it's taxpayers, then the government has a further responsibility to restrict what you can eat, drink and do (not just safe or unsafe, but to penalize snack foods and restrict sports that have a higher risk of injury.)

All of a sudden, my choice to say, engage in martial arts or boxing, goes from a personal decision (Do I want to do this? Do I have the money for the gear? Is this in my risk comfort zone?) to a decision involving the government (is this behavior too risky for the general pool of insured people?)

Healthcare is not free. Healthcare research and technology is in fact, extremely expensive. Somebody is paying - whether that's the individual via an insurance pool or the government through taxpayers. Does the person paying your bill have your same prerogatives in mind?
I was told that if your work in a chemical plant or a chip fab you learn to wash your hands before you don't want chemicals on sensitive parts

And of course you don't know what germs etc are on the taps :-)
BeakerX: Jupyter Kernels and Extensions for JVM and Spark (1.0 Released)
You have to keep in mind though their "price matching" is basically dependant on whatever manager is currently working. Ive had them outright refuse a match on Amazon because the margins for them were too thin, or even add in the cost of same day shipping to the "matched" price.
I agree, and you make a great point. Demand in NYC is practically infinite. If prices went down, even more people would come.
The biggest expense to doctors is the cost of getting sued all the time and the insurance doctors need to cover that.
And I as well, would tell those who are unhappy with the cost of housing in SF to just move to a cheaper area. By your argument, they have no right to tell people living there what they can do with their property.

That's obviously not how it works though. By voting and electing people who want to change the status quo, they can tell people what to do with their property.

(edited for typos)
America is part of the world, and how things have been done in America is a subset of how things are done in the world. So, in a question about “how do you do X”, a concrete example of how America has done X is germane even if the scope is global.

(OTOH, this is a discussion specifically about American action, anyway.)
You got your timeline backwards.

Apple put the "touch screen on your keyboard" when they introduced the current design in 2016.

At the time, and for the next year, 2017, the design was perfectly fine for the then-current Intel CPUs models. And Intel was promising even more efficient models.

It's not like there was a thermal problem in 2016, when Apple introduced the design and they ignored it to concentrate on the touch strip. Not only wasn't there such a problem at 2018, it still wasn't in 2017 either.

One could argue that Apple should have created a new design in the 5-6 previous months during which they had Intels new chips at hand.

But that's a much shorter notice, and something totally different than the inane complain about "focusing on the touch screen on the keyboard" which gets the timeline backwards.
Despite what the administration wants you to believe, we are not at "economic war" with our closest allies and trading partners.
More Young Adults Are Dying from Alcohol-Caused Liver Disease
I’ve got a better idea. Google could always ship a product that people are willing to pay enough for where it is a sustainable business without being as supported.
Anyone know of open datasets around early stage startups and success? Guess might be something mashing up crunchbase, angel.co....
Simple things that have helped me:

- Right before the talk: get to the room well ahead of time and make sure there are no setup issues with the laptop, audio, projector, etc. I've seen a number of speakers fail to do this basic thing and it dampens their flow, confidence, etc. The audience might even get distracted and the whole show goes awry.

- Prepare and practice the intro speech, don't wing it: if you have a good opening, you'll feel confident and the momentum will carry you through the rest of the talk.
Sleep on the side with a very large pillow (or a human sized stuffed animal!)

It's soft to hug, and it allows to adjust not just the legs as mentionned in the article, but the shoulders as well.
What will the library handle ?
From my understanding it’s only the query parsing and the data filtering part. Correct me if I’m wrong.

You still have to do the data mapping, fetching everything from DB in a reasonable way, and make sure it all makes sense performance wise.

All of that will be needed for any API, but it seems to me GraphQL adds the uncertainty on how much data will be exchanged (lots of small queries ? a few big queries ?), what can be optimized, how will cache behave etc.

I remember a study on te github API on how some types of queries would make it crawl excessively. It fear it becomes a nightmare to try to cover for all the cases that can go wrong.
The first public release of Python, 0.9.1, was object-oriented. It had classes, and everything was an object internally, although admittedly not every type had methods yet (from a user perspective), esp. immutable types like tuples, strings and numbers. These methods wouldn't appear until 2.0, if I recall correctly. Types like lists and dicts had methods from the start.
I think most people here are expecting to see passive income from side projects.

Unless you are withdrawing dividends and selling shares for income, it is not passive income. Just good ole regular investing.

And I don't how anyone can consider real estate passive income. It is a business with a lot of downtime but also some serious headaches. I have few properties, most of my tenets are nice. But when you get one bad tenet, it wipes all your goodwill towards any tenet. Then unexpected expenses wipe out years of profit in an instant. Finally, you hope one day the building will be paid off and you will live off rent checks, then you do some calculations and realize that you would have made almost same rent check if you had just invested your down payment in stock market.
It is much better, considering there are companies that do actually sell our data.

"rent us out to the highest bidder" is the perfect description of Google and FB's business model. It's hard to imagine how either company could change course at this point, even if they wanted to.
This sounds like the latest in a long line of economic theories and ideas cooked up by people who LOVE the game of pricing things and can't understand why others don't share that love. Basically, economic wankery.

Every field or area of interest has this going on to some extent (e.g. techies wondering why others don't love configuring/tweaking tech as much as they do), I believe its called the false consensus effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_consensus_effect
Google not allowing WP to have a YouTube app that purposely stripped out the ads and ignored various other aspects of the ToS is nowhere near the reason why WP wasn't viable.
I suspect they meant there internal customers :-)
- Don't put too much on your slides.

- Don't put too much on your slides.

- Don't put too much on your slides

See if you can do without any bullet list. Now you are forced to talk from your experience in a natural form. You'll be fine.

More serious:

- don't go into the trap of too much introduction and theory before getting to the actual matter. E.g. when doing a talk on GPU image processing don't spend 30 minutes on how a GPU works.

- Know your audience
experience with the matter if possible (see above)

- If possible, do demos. If have demos, consider if it makes sense to run them _before_ the tech slides. They tend to make more sense after seeing a live demo.

- If you have demos, rehearse them. Make sure you get the timing right.

- leave room for questions.
Does this help?

https://prefetch.net/blog/2011/10/15/using-the-zfs-scrub-fea...
I ordered a MBP from Adorama and got shipped an empty box. It took about a month to get the notebook. I ended up ordering from B&H and having Adorama just refund me because they were taking legit forever to "investigate". I hate that I didn't throw the box back at the UPS guy when I realized it was empty :(
Self-Driving Car Startup Voyage Brings on Ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber Exec as CTO
This is jacquesm. jacquesm usually is reasonable AFAIK.

So I argue we do not go down this road right away.
Damn, very moving article!

I don't want to get into what I ate as a child. Too crazy.

But I was for sure poor as a young adult in the US. So we ate lots of rice, beans, and whatever veggies were discounted or ready to trash. And for additional protein, eggs and beef heart.
But if I, as a developer, want to send push notifications, I would have to send them somewhere else. I couldn't use the stuff I'm using for everyone else.
> a stark contrast from the algorithmic mandates handed down by Spotify or Apple Music.

Good point. I am getting fed up with 'curated' playlists feed down my throst by Spotify and Apple (less so by Google). It all comes to common lowest denominator and I am desperately looking for something fresh.
RESIGNATION.INFO
I'd like to know how Zircon compares to L4 (implementations).

When I asked Tanenbaum at FOSDEM why he didn't pick L4 for Minix 3, he just got annoyed and seemed to think I was asking why he didn't just use the L4 OS (which doesn't exist) instead of creating Minix 3 - or something. In any case I didn't get a good answer. He could have created his own implementation if he wanted, L4 is just a specification with a few existing high quality implementations that prove the concept...
> In the usa my insurance lets me go to 10 doctors for differing opinions. I can go straight to a specialist. When I need non urgent surgery it's scheduled with a few weeks instead of months.

For those who can afford that class of insurance, maybe. I had to wait 3 months to set up my primary care physician, and for a specialist the initial wait of 4 months turned into 6 after they rescheduled me. I lived in Boston where you pretty much can't throw a rock without accidentally hitting a physician.

Also, as someone who has lived in Germany and has family in Germany, these conservative anecdotes about the quality of American care in comparison to Europe always strike me as full of shit. They don't align with any reality.
> This is not war, since no war was declared

Leaving aside the question of whether war was declared, and while war without declaration may be its own problem, both US and international law recognize that war exists (and the laws of war apply) when armed conflict is initiated, whether or not a declaration was made previously.
>An adapter by any other name is still an adapter. The chips are simply smaller than they were in the past.

People don't like to carry adapters in the form of "dongles" -- not mere adapters that are just cable sized.

The argument was against the extra bulk over cables, not against any added circuitry (not to mention that USB itself, whether A, B, or C, has circuitry anyway).
The State of Religion in America
>If the projector is mounted overhead then you are left with a bundle of plugs, likely none of which USB-C.

It's enough that one of them is a female HDMI.
You can install Chromium for Android and get everything except Flash working.
Of course, but then they shouldn't advertise chip specs that are unobtainable in their designs.

It would be like a car manufacturer saying "The engine in this sedan can take you from 0 to 60 in 2.4 seconds", and then later finding out that they meant if the engine was mounted on a 300 lbs PVC frame, and not the actual frame of the car they were advertising when they told you that fact.
Ah yes, it couldn't possibly be that some people have a (justified or not) ideological opposition to something, or that they believe there are real concrete things that would prevent something working for a country of 9 million also working for a country of 326 million. No, it's definitely that they hate brown people.

I expect better from HN, honestly.
They haven't actually analyzed 100M bugs, they've analyzed a list of bug reports.

They haven't analyzed how quickly bugs are resolved, they've analyzed how quickly bugs are marked as resolved.

The distinction is important. Nowhere in the report there's any attempt to judge the quality of the data and its reliability.

Oh, and the honest answer to the question "Why did we create this report?" is probably PR.
> Before HTTP, people were already long doing RPC using e.g. DCOM, CORBA,RMI, etc. Reinveinting RPC over X has been the fate of pretty much every way we've come up with to make two computers talk to each other.

The key difference between Representational State Transfer and RPC, which makes all of the other capabilities of REST possible, is:

REST deals with nouns and uses HTTP verbs (the common ones, or you can invent your own) to handle a specific and common grammar of operations against those verbs:

POST _hyn3 > /user # (C)reate
GET /user/_hyn3 # (R)ead
PUT /user/_hyn3 # (U)pdate
GET /users < _hyn3 # List
DELETE /user/_hyn3 # (D)elete

RPC was literally "remote procedure call", which means you're calling a remote verb and then specifying your noun as an argument or data:

POST _hyn3 > /users/create_user
GET /users/get_user/_hyn3
POST /users/update_user/_hyn3
GET /users/list_users < _hyn3
POST /users/delete_user/_hyn3

It's more than just semantics, because it gave a common language for almost all CRUD type operations. (Thus, even though REST was never about CRUD, as the titular article states, CRUD and REST do have a lot in common, because CRUD represents an extremely common data access pattern and common HTTP verbs, if not REST itself, map to it very cleanly and nicely.)

In other words: REST deals with HTTP and the facilities that it provides. It doesn't directly with the verbs behind HTTP, such as GET/PUT/DELETE/etc. It instead provides an architectural paradigm shift, in which the URL itself is a discrete representation of the data in question, and the verbs -- RPC's -- are just standardized ways of dealing with that data.

This seemingly simple change, obvious only in hindsight, set the stage for a massive change in how API's are produced and consumed.
My understanding is not all isotopes are equally hazardous. The stuff coming with the reactor-contaminated water is particularly harmful to the marine environment and people of Japan, and not normally present at such levels in the surrounding waters.

The half-life as I understand it is relatively short for the especially harmful stuff, but that's not so helpful if leaks are ongoing.
> If the projector is mounted overhead then you are left with a bundle of plugs, likely none of which USB-C.

If an employer buys USB-C only laptops for employees I'd consider it very likely, not to mention smart, if there was a USB-C plug in the bundle.

I understand, but don't share, your bitterness over USB-C as a display interface, particularly since you can use it for so many other things even when it's obsolete for that purpose.

In the context we're debating (e.g. compatibility/convenience problems related to recent MBPs) it's also much simpler than the scenario you're portraying. In that case, the other end of the connection is the only variable as there's only one connector type, but fortunately USB-C/TB3 supports all the others :)
Graphus isn’t your grandpappy’s security solution
No, because in these instances, it's Google forcing the other OEMs to bundle or not bundle things. Apple has no other OEMs, thus they're not competing with their other manufacturers.
The cosmic microwave background is invisible on a 0-based image.