skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had to make this decision recently and my conclusion was if your goal is to build something that makes money, do it with what you know. Why? Because you can spend 100% of your time building instead of 50/50 learning/building (or worse). Projects with the goal of being a business should iterate and fail fast. If you win the app lottery and actually build something people will pay for, they won't want to wait for you to learn while you build it out. Someone else will do it with some "old" tech like ruby on rails and take your customers and revenue. Spend your time working on the business, not the tech. Developers think code is important but the reality is that it almost doesn't matter. You can build something successful with the worst tech decisions imaginable. I know it's hard to accept but it's true. I've personally witnessed an absolute frankenstein's monster app, made of a mish-mash of what are now considered the worst technologies, get sold for $30+ million and the founders retired to the Caribbean where the build a mansion and an upscale restaurant just for fun. I pity the people devs who have to inherit that, but the value wasn't in the tech and it almost never is.
Wearable gauges fitness through stress hormones in your sweat
Need based learning: only use new stacks when your have no other solution given time constraints
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One of the biggest issues is that the road infrastructure and the city layout is already there. Sure cities may be better if they were walkable but most people live across the full metropolitan areas.

Taking the SF Bay area an example: Sure I can take the Caltrain or the Bart to get to nearly any city but it'll always be the long way around.

Think San Mateo to Union City. Crossing a bridge it's direct. The road infra structure is already there and the cities are built around it. Sure there's probably some cryptic bus route but the difference right now is (with a quick google) 35 mins vs 1.5 hr.

I think self driving cars have the potential to build on our car centric ecosystems. Look at how Uber/Lyft have adapted into Uber Pool and Lyft Line. They've done more to change people's driving habits than any changes to the public transportation system. I'm excited to see how self driving cars solve this by dropping the price point further and exploring larger pools.
The number of miles is not a sufficient metric; the question is, how much of the automotive phase space (weather, traffic conditions, terrain, road surface type, time of day, etc) has been explored? Running over the same mile a million times does not add anything to the self-driving model.
It still seems like a relevant response if these shoes (long term) are even more detrimental to our bodies the previous designs. He was pointing out that the appeal of these shoes appears to be simply mimicking what the body already does. I took this as a valid criticism of these shoes.

This is especially relevant because there's been decades of shoe manufacturers designing for poor running form.

Surely HN isn't just for commenting on support of a product in a linked story, but also considered criticism?
I think you should be able to limit the upload rate though, although maybe the browser should be responsible for that.
Facebook Suspends App Tied to Researcher Running Election Study
Perhaps, but how would you ever know if the govt controls the entire narrative.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence, the amount collected by western countries are significantly more than what is needed for basic services.

Could a TV license be even justified in the internet age. The best reason I can come up with is that the govts are worried about loosing control over the narrative.
They were also moving to a well established architecture from their own bespoke one and now they’re going the other way ...
Infection already present or infection from surgery. But gangrene is not an infection itself.
so you rerun tests in a REPL? what happens when something is redefined?
You shouldn't be too complacent. If the "subject to the jurisdiction" argument gains traction (and it might) they could argue that your mother's citizenship is invalid, and that therefore so is yours.
Food Test
Is there any tool which can measure the staleness or unusability of food?
Fair point, a nomenclature error.
The biggest risk for Apple is they’ve become a shiny things company and don’t really have the engineering stones for doing this kind of thing any more
its pretty interesting to see the steep curve for how many stars this repo has collected in such a short amount of time

http://www.timqian.com/star-history/#trekhleb/javascript-alg...
Python and Cython, flask, gunicorn, various ML frameworks, Postgres for web services.

Python with Cython because this allows extremely nice flexibility between concise, expressive code and low-level targeted performance optimization.

Flask with gunicorn has scaled extremely well for us, but there are many good alternatives. Postgres because flexibility with customizations and data types in the database has been the most important thing for us.
Forking is easiest and safest in a functional-data-structure immutable language (where it's basically trivial). Mutable languages? Not so much.
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An Update on Data Center FPGAs
Where can I rent a cheap small startup place in the US?
Preferably East coast
Nothing fancy.
Should allow for assembly of some tech hardware.

Suggestions?
If diversity hiring was so good the government wouldn't need to force it by law
Or 3g of shaped explosives.

https://youtu.be/HipTO_7mUOw?t=67
Thanks for playing Devil's Advocate. This technology applies to mobile transportation in general and it doesn't necessarily have to effect greenhouse gas emissions. Additionally, I believe the infrastructure for producing cars applies to such a broad category in regards to driving climate change. The manufacturing industry needs to independently solve this problem.
This is from 2009.
I don't think the relating running shoes to motors in bikes is a fair comparison. Motors in bicycles add energy to the system; running shoes simply allow a runner to be more efficient.
Is such a cancellation model common in the US? I didn't think anyone does that anymore, except maybe porn sites.
Its a really cheap sales tactic and would probably dissuade me from subscribing in the first place.
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Because elephants are notoriously shoddy about leaving primary sources for us to use?
Or rift.
"For naturalization, none of China, Japan or the US require documentary evidence that you are no longer a citizen of another state."

That's because international law doesn't allow for states to make citizens stateless. E.g. in The Netherlands, a condition of getting citizenship is that you promise to renounce other citizenships within x time, and your Dutch one will be taken away if you don't. Not saying that any of the countries you listed have similar requirements, I don't know about that, I'm just adding some nationality law pedantry.
Yes, something is wrong at Tronc, other than their name. I noticed if you make the URL https:// manually, it works.
Won't autonomous driving eliminate something like 80 to 90 percent of private vehicle ownership, which is well on the way to obsolete?

Once people are less tied to private vehicle ownership and open to any effective form of transportation, then adoption of new technology could become easier.
It's not impossible, but I think it's way, way less likely. The thing with YouTube alternatives is that they have to be at least as good as YouTube. Creators will only go where their audiences will go, so a site that doesn't offer a good user experience will immediately be off the table.

Discoverability is way harder on decentralized systems, as is providing recommendations, stability, etc.

Sometimes HN/reddit gets so starry eyed when anything about decentralized/distributed/open-source systems comes up that any sort of critique of the product becomes like a personal attack. A few months ago someone posted a decentralized "facebook alternative", where you had to download a bunch of stuff, and connect with an FTP client just in order to make a post. My grandma's on facebook, but she's not going to understand how to connect to a MySQL database.

People think that defending decentralized/distributed systems at any cost makes them better, but I think it just makes them untenable in the long term. If you enjoy using a product, then prosthelytize all you want for it, but if you like the idea more than the product, then the product probably should change or evolve.
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This will eventually become utility fog. Billions of billions of nanobots that can cooperate and assemble autonomously. It will fundamentally be magic. Rajaniemi's "Flower Prince" novels include lots of utility fog. Also, I think, Morgan's "Land Fit for Heroes" novels, but way far in the future, after the technology's been forgotten, so people see it as magic.
Also, baseball bats.
Go and, honestly, sqlite with backups written to S3. It's the absolute cheapest. I can run multiple apps on a t2.nano (t2.micro if I am feeling fancy). My apps cost something like $1.50 to run a month, and they can easily handle medium-sized traffic, plus Go is just so dead simple to deploy. scp a build binary, and boom I am done. Once the app grows and more collaboration/developers/requirements call for it, I will add more infrastructure.
>> There's more to safety statistics than just the mortality rate. We should be able to look at frequency and severity of non-fatal accidents too. Those happen a lot more often.

When the industry or the press discuss the safety of self-driving cars, they almost always do it in terms of fatality rates. Not general accident rates.
I recommend to read the book "Why Nations fail" if you're interested in how some countries become rich or stay in poverty. One of the key ideas is something called creative destruction. There is always something destroyed when something new is created (there are always losers and winners). When there is uncertainty, there is an opportunity. The fear of losing is what makes certain companies (and countries) not adopt a new technology since it challenges their current standing and this circle tends to lead to the collapse of a company's ecnonomy.
Exactly just think about the current platform this comment is hosted on. There's no reason hacker news couldn't function as a decentralized platform. In fact it pretty much does considering the only things that are really hosted/centralized are hyperlinks, comments on those hyperlinks and a little metadata. The core of the product is already distributed among the users who themselves curate the content. The real issue is how fast you get to see the content, and for a video service that should offer 4K video I think centralized services are the only solution that are performant, right now, that doesn't mean decentralized services couldn't be just as performant if not more so. But for all intents and purposes it should be easier to build an audience on a decentralized service, specifically a niche audience that is more likely to engage and support your content. There also isn't a reason why centralized services couldn't step in and build infrastructure to support certain aspects of an otherwise decentralized network, after all that is the internet in and of itself haha!
I would imagine its the opposite; you have to try pretty hard to make your content fit perfectly. Putting no effort should naturally lead to a misfit, and thus clipping, unless you have a lot of empty space.
Great response!

Here's the critical difference: Compared to other VMs, WebAssembly is developed in an open and transparent manner. Hopefully everyone in the process is experienced enough to make the right decisions.

Probably the most annoying thing about VMs is that the different memory models make it hard to write portable libraries that can take advantage of things like garbage collection. Want to write the next SQLite in Java? Good luck trying to use it from Python, C#, c, ect.

Perhaps this time around, WebAssembly can get enough traction that we can write portable, high-performance libraries with garbage collection?

Or maybe that's just wishful thinking?
Can't be a dual chinese / american citizen. Would be nice for my family.
Humans destroy the environment, maybe we should get rid of them.

I don't see how greenhouse emissions is relevant to this conversation. Obviously, we'd prefer to all be driving around (human operated or otherwise) in vehicles powered 100% by clean energy, and certainly people are working on that, but that's independent of whether or not those vehicles are operated by humans.
Where do you guys come from? How do you know all this stuff?

It's so interesting and I'm often surprised at the diversity of knowledge, experience and backgrounds on HN. For even the most esoteric of subjects folks here will have interesting input. I love to try and experiment, and like people who are passionate about things.

Just wanted to get it off my chest. I love this place and it makes me appreciate life and its peculiarities more. When I was in high school I dreaded only observing greasy nerds interested in techy stuff. It's been a while but HN has really shown a different side of the world to me.

Thanks!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577396
I'm not in CS research, but even 'top labs' can struggle to get government funding from the NIH/NSF. I worked at a lab that consistently publishes in Nature/Science, a few times front cover, and gets very good PR. It's a running joke that we've never gotten NIH funding despite translating our research to people several times. Majority of our funding comes from 3rd party private companies and DARPA, which people might find objectionable despite being a govt. agency.

There is no free lunch in raising money for research.
This. It's better to just make the full leap into spacetime geometry (4-vectors and 4-tensors) than keep trying to slice it into annoying 3-vectors.
>> Waymo has “driven” more than 5 billion miles in its simulation, according to the company.

Impressive. That's roughly equivalent to about 0 miles driven in real-world conditions.
But which African countries sell citizenship?
Sorry, I don't buy it.
Man kept overpromising (somebody would say "lying") even after release.
Now he's on a publicity stunt for the latest and greatest product, addon, whatever, and cheaply plays the always popular victim card.
Nobody says that maybe some angry commenters where "overpromising" too, with their enormous and unpractical threats.
The journalist is of course thrilled to expose weirdos -- the correct type of weirdos, so to speak -- to his small court of readers, for outrage and clicks.
A deal is made to reciprocal benefit.
I use multiplatform Kotlin to compile shared business logic to JVM and Javascript. The frontend then uses Typescript+React/Redux while the backend is a Kotlin Spring app with Postgres.
The top comment of almost any post on HN is negative.
Can't you just quickly dispute the charges online with your CC provider until the company accepts your cancellation?
Isn’t a self driving car fleet essentially the same as self driving public transit? Self driving cars can pick the most efficient routes to get everyone where they need to go, in a way that would not be possible if a human driver is required.
Hey @zaat. Thanks for your kind words :D

Alas, deleting text is an operation controlled via the shell. PowerShell's (awesome) PSReadLine does it for PowerShell, but introducing that kind of behavioral change is unlikely to be possible in Cmd because, as pointed out in the posts, Cmd is in maintenance mode, is extremely fragile, and it's key MO is backward compat, which includes behaviors because many tools, and scripts depend on behaviors (even broken ones) as "Features" ;)
This is one advantage Windows has over Mac. A straightforward windows app that worked fine in say 2004 on will still work fine in 2018. They don't break the damn system every year.
Check out Winds:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/winds-podcasts-rss/id1381446...

And https://getstream.io/winds/

It's open source and looks awesome: https://github.com/getstream/winds
I mean locally yes, but I'm poking around on servers frequently enough and writing python there (Hey, I'm no saint) that it gets committed to memory eventually.
Facebook Suspends Analytics Firm on Concerns About Sharing of Public User-Data
The sarcastic point is, cow milk is not a replacement for human milk or infant formula either.
>> Humans destroy the environment, maybe we should get rid of them.

I belive genocide is against the law in most civilised societies, but, be my guest.
Unrelated but didn't know how to contact you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdzIKD0oMzo
Apple policy causing Adguard to discontinue iOS app
The question is more whether the "barefoot is best" meme was ever more than theory/anecdote.

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/is-barefoot-style-...

As others have said, people are different. There might well be a subset of runners for whom a barefoot/minimal style is best, but AFAICT it's a minority at best, so "generally found to be untrue" is a pretty good summary.
So what we need to do is start building down towards Earth from an anchor point
It's not about sunk costs; it's about being able to redo all the hard parts ... that a small startup would not be able to do it and a large company would fall prey to the same short comings youtube has right now
My current indie web app is still in development so final numbers for prod are TBD. However I'm using it for

* Storing time counters on user actions (timestamp of last time a user posted/edited X, meant to be a throttling mechanism against abuse)

* Site content caching, around 20-50kb per page, each page being user generated content

Sizes will obviously vary on traction so not sure about the final numbers.

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My last 9-to-5 employer was a very well known and my largest caching tier in Redis there was 512GB in a cluster configuration. I'm using the same server configuration and sharding logic for the indie thing, just on a smaller scale
Yeah, Winds doesn't show any unread counts https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
Less stress
Capricorn One came out in 1977 and had a decent “Mars” hoax
I've also heard for side projects when you want to learn a new technology to experiment with one piece of it, so you're not totally overwhelmed, and so you can see how it works with stuff you know. For instance, use the rails backend deployed to AWS that you know, but swap out angular for react. I think this works for your question pretty well - if the side project becomes a money-making project, at least there's only one part of it that will be a technical risk, and often if you need to do something quickly, you can work around and do it in the parts that you know.
The article doesn't depict pebbles but stones with a diameter of 2m. Your suggestion does not make sense given what is known of such "kettles".
Are you trying to say that Netflix as a product doesn't do a whole lot?
There are a number of reasons why Europe would prefer a more expensive European launcher over a cheap American one. More or less the same reasons the US military has preferred pre-SpaceX American expendable launchers to superior and cheaper European ones for a lot of missions.
How useful is that though? They're not a random sampling of planets in the universe--the planets that are easiest to find are very different from our own. Most of those planets are found using methods that work best on huge planets orbiting very close to small stars.
Parent said “shouldn’t”, not “doesn’t”. I think they are making a judgement call on what they consider moral, or just. I don’t think they are at all confused about the current state of things.
Lists like these make me wonder when–if ever–will .NET fall in popularity?
Unlike some here, I agree with the basic premises of the article: it ‘feels’ like we are near the top, and that while it is always important to reduce debt, it is even more important when a bubble might burst soon.

However, I would never write an article like this because while I am happy making predictions for myself and taking personal actions, I would never feel comfortable giving advice to the general public because I believe that markets and the economy are inherently chaotic.
For the record, I'm not playing Devil's Advocate. I believe self-driving cars are a terrible idea that is only piling more environmental damage on top of what ordinary cards already do.

>> This technology applies to mobile transportation in general and it doesn't necessarily have to effect greenhouse gas emissions.

Well, I don't know that there is any way to drive a fleet of some millions or billions of cars (once self-driving cars have been adopted widely, that is) that doesn't rely on burning fossil fuels, either directly or indirectly (to charge batteries etc). So how are they not going to affect greenhouse gas emmissions?
It's really grinding when any criticism isn't addressed but complained about for being pointed out.
I emailed the developer of Reeder about exporting my Readability's bookmarks, but never got a reply. I feel better now that I'm not the only one not getting a reply. Thanks!
Here's a free alternative: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
While good to have I wonder about the utility long term with changing battery chemistries. At least cobalt has other uses in alloys even if it becomes completely obsolete in batteries.
TLDR: a company slahes some piece of new technology that might make them obsolete
> I doubt it is permanent but the next few years will be difficult for media establishments when they need to restablish trust

Why do you doubt it is permanent? I'm personally very pessimistic about this.
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I'm assuming sarcasm. What other way would you have them test besides current ways that they are doing now?
It seems like any electronic-based voting system should be subject to randomized audit via manual recount of its paper trail, regardless of reported margin. This way we can reap the efficiency rewards of electronic systems while also becoming aware if wide-scale tampering has taken place.
If csv is your main use case, also have a look at qtextasdata[0].

[0] http://harelba.github.io/q/
If you can’t google this on your own you have zero chance of a successful Startup, IMHO.
If you want to make them obsolete you need a rival technology that possesses all of the attributes that make people choose cars over mass transit, notably convenience, scheduling & destination flexibility, privacy, and cargo capacity.

Failing that, self-driving cars as a service preserve all of these while also being significantly better for the environment. You don't need parking lots, because utilization is close to 100% and they go back to a depot when not required. It's easier to electrify the fleet, because the service knows exactly how far the trip will be and can bring the car back to a charging station while it has no passenger. You can share rides when multiple passengers have destinations that are close without them needing to go to the exact same place. You can have pods that dock with each other in motion (benefitting from better aerodynamics) but preserve privacy and split off to different destinations when needed.
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Quaternions, in three words: "Rotations in 3D". I like this explanation:
https://probablydance.com/2017/08/05/intuitive-quaternions/
Try the SouthEast
And if the second one doesn't work out the way politicians want, third time is the charm!
I have used that library. That also doesn't support operations over GPU.
Why is the Aero 15x so much faster? It seems to be an i7 with a slower SSD.
Not too long ago, I used dnspy to track down a bug in a third-party application. Great tool!