skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because the pages load fast and are not bloated, which is the point of this article.

Unfortunately Google has bound it to other questionable practices like hosting on their domain, but it’s still a step on the right direction. We need something like that plus a way to cache it on the edge servers in a portable fashion so that any CDN like Cloudflare could pick them up.
Are you trying to say that women using hundred shades of lipstick, being far more fashion conscious, wearing mini skirts and things like that are results of men 'forcing' them to do so?

Are you implying that men deliberately and consciously treat women predominantly as sex objects? May be there is some evolutionary psychology stuff is at play?
You can sue anyone for anything, but generally speaking, mismanaging a company to screw minority shareholders is grounds for a lawsuit. Sadly, these kinds of cases are never a sure thing. They can be settled for pennies on the dollar.
I'd agree with you, for the most part. Nevertheless, there's always things you need to use in places where running a cable is awkward, and that's where my cordless drills and impact drivers and stuff in that class are workhorses. I've tried to buy cheap Ryobi stuff, but it just gets burned up quickly.
> One of my female Computer Science professors used to brag about how she didn't code.

It's not uncommon for academics to stop coding at some point in their career. They basically become managers.
Why didn't you choose nursing or teaching? Probably going to get mostly: not into it.
They all have pretty fast ingest, and some can stream in data continuously at millions of rows/sec. MemSQL and SQL Server already support the HTAP combined use case with constant updates to both row and columnstore tables in the database while running large OLAP queries, so I'm not sure what you mean by the databases not existing yet - are you talking about something else?

Yes, time as a secondary sort key works great. We have trillion row time-series tables with sub-second query times.
Data-Driven Introspection
I have used dozens of different registrars over the past two decades and found Fabulous.com to be by far the best on price and technology. Unfortunately, they now have no plans to support the new CDS and CDNSKEY protocols which would be handy for anyone managing a large number of domains.

What Fabulous do have, however, is an "Executive Lock" feature, which is an optional additional layer of verification that the domain owner must go through before a domain can be transferred away from his account. They also support U2F, which allows the use of hardware tokens such as Yubikeys.

Domain protection features such as these are vital if a registrar does not want to be swamped with jacking attempts and the PR disaster of actually losing domains.

I am surprised that Cloudflare has not already followed the fine example of companies such as Dropbox, Github, and Google by supporting U2F. A quick search shows that Cloudflare customers have been publicly asking for this for at least 3 years. When they introduced TOTP 2.5 years ago, they stated that they would support U2F "shortly".

In the context of being a domain registrar, supporting U2F would be even more useful, dramatically reducing the number of domain jacking attempts. Proper support would encourage customers to associate TWO hardware tokens with their account, each stored in a different location. Supporting only one, as AWS have recently done, leaves them wide open to social engineering, with impersonators claiming to have lost their one key.
With regards to the "usually a news site" part, somebody put me onto CNN's "lite" page the other day, and it's honestly a freaking joy to use.

http://lite.cnn.com/en

On the other hand, I think there's definitely a case to be made for rich, application-like presentation of content, when it enhances the delivery of information. For instance:

http://www.r2d3.us/visual-intro-to-machine-learning-part-1/

The problem is that everyone dreams of making something cool like the latter, when their actual content is much closer to the former.
Not sure what you're asking for. A huge number of Intermodal containers already travel by truck for part of their route.
Refrigerated loads often do not ship multi modal. My understanding is that refrigeration is not guaranteed, and that time to the customer is very important.
Fair enough. I was thinking more about modern-day adult owls with their "look at me, I can't function without coffee, ha-ha" jokes. 10-20% degradation wouldn't be visible that way, especially given that people came in with huge academic variance already and there is no baseline to work with.
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These people have local knowledge that is not easily transferable. They know the quirks of the routes, they have relationships with customers, they learn how best to navigate through certain areas

Isn't that what we were told about taxi services when Uber started taking over? But it turns out that people prefer a driver who follows a GPS and you know he's 5 minutes away than a more expensive local driver that might come in 5 minutes or might come in 50 minutes (or not at all), all you know is that the dispatcher said "He's on the way"

optimize by splitting loads or arranging for return loads at their destination, etc.

Most of this seems like something logistics software can do - and it can optimize across a fleet instead of optimizing for a driver.

They also learn which customers pay promptly, which ones provide their loads in a way that’s easy to get on the truck, which ones generally have their paperwork in order, etc.

Also things that the business office would do -- if you want the cheap automated truck delivery, you'll pay on time and have your paperwork ready.

Loading docks are not all equal. Some are very ad-hoc

Again, this is something that shippers would change if they want the automated truck delivery. They can either pay to make their dock automated-truck-accessible, or they can pay a human driver to back it in. And those human drivers will become more scarce and expensive as time goes on.

I would expect that even if trucks became autonomous, a lot of truckers would survive the transition because people would still need to do a lot of that stuff.

Initially, sure, but long term, economics will win out.
Ask HN: Buy lossless music with Google Play credit?
Ill complicate this to start by saying the album im after is a new release from a somewhat obscure japanese band which may make things a shade more difficult.

but im looking for any app other than play music which i can use to buy music on, the album is on play music but im loathe to pay 10 quid for an MP3 album even if i did earn the credit for nothing from surveys

i have so far tried ototoy and yamaha mymusic but sadly neither accept in app purchases to buy albums. if not i guess ill just have to pony up and buy it in cash but id like to use this credit for something
My last house was quite a bit bigger than current one, but id didn't have any more space. Sure, the master bedroom was huge, but that just meant there was that much floor space to walk across to get from the bed to the bathroom. There was a "great room", which had a dining room table on one side (mostly unused, except to collect junk), and an empty living room on the other side. Separate family room adjoining the kitchen (knee wall separating them), where TV was. Only useful feature was a full sized basement (which collected a bunch of junk), and 2 full baths upstairs.

Current house still has 3 bedrooms, they are a bit smaller though. And 1 1/2 bath.
Truck drivers often work for freight forwarders who arrange the loads for them, including combining loads and shielding them from unreliable customers.
All that knowledge about waiting times, load times, customer reliability etc. can be gathered by the freight forwarder.

Traditional freight forwarders are having trouble with this because they often don't have the technology to manage and understand this data. Instead they rely on lots of personnel and deep hierarchies including many subcontractors.
At sennder.com we're trying to change this.
Everyone just wants NASA to do something cool. The probes are ok, but pictures of rocks are getting boring. This requires risks...

And sadly, I would expect the end result of this sentiment to be fewer probes rather than cooler projects.
ok, i love that series, but i am not sure i would necessarily recommend it as a starting point (plus i felt like i had maxed out on recs) but i strongly endorse it as a great series!
Well, AC759 should have been doing so, even on the visual approach to 28R. On this particular approach (in contrast to literally every other approach in the FMS's database), a manual tuning step was required and skipped.-[0]

If there were another approach that required manual tuning and it was not a visual approach, the crew would detect they didn't have a localizer/equivalent to follow and would identify the missed step, because that's the only way they could navigate to the airport/runway.

It's a specific combination of visual approach and the only approach that required manual tuning (and not having another aircraft to follow visually) that setup this possible outcome. Then, the crew visually acquires the wrong bit of pavement and there's no safety mechanism inside the airplane remaining unless/until the pilots see that they're lined up wrong or get a go-around call from ATC/another aircrew.

[0] - Quote from the NTSB report: The FMS Bridge visual approach to runway 28R was the only approach in Air Canada’s Airbus A320 database that required manual tuning for a navigational aid, so the manual tuning of the ILS frequency was not a usual procedure for the flight crew.
>the store is run on a skeleton staff

Sounds spooky to me! I bet they do good business around Halloween
If that's the case isn't the next step a base on Phobos or Deimos?
Right, if the primary key is being used to distribute data as a table then make time a secondary key for better distribution across partitions and nodes. Usually there's a difference between table primary/sort keys and distribution/shard keys. I should've made that more clear.
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Really? That surprises me considering that Onavo was doing that well before Facebook bought them: https://techcrunch.com/2013/02/08/onavo-insights/
A few factors I can think of:

The rovers launched in 2014, and they were designed well before that. I wouldn't be surprised if the camera hardware was decided on in 2010

A normal camera in space is going to have problems. I'm not any sort of camera expert, but I can imagine there's a _lot_ of electronics in one. There's the sensor. That sensor may be hooked up to an analog to digital converter, which might be hooked up to a processor that converts whatever the sensor reads into a compressed image. Someone who is familiar with how cameras work can probably think of a dozen bits I'm missing :)

All of those bits of silicon are going to get bombarded with radiation, so they need to be radiation hardened. Smaller transistors are especially susceptible to radiation, so your radiation hardened chips are going to be bigger, more power hungry, and generally not as good as more up to date ones. From looking around online, it looks like the best rad-hard cameras today are only a couple megapixels.

I'm not sure about this case, but often times cameras not a priority for a mission. They're great for generating PR and excitement, but in terms of scientific value there's lots of other instruments that may have higher priority (both in terms of the design, and in terms of available bandwidth for returning data). If the cameras are just there to make sure the rover doesn't crash into something, they're probably using a wide angle lens which helps with navigation but can cause distortions.
> We could have 32-bit pointers with a bit of hacking:

We can also have them with zero hacking since there is an existing ABI for 32 bits pointers in 64 bit mode: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI ; you get all the benefits of x86_64 mode (more registers, default support of SSE2 etc) for the memory usage level of x86 (and 4gb of accessible ram instead of x86 OSes's 2.something addressable gigabytes). I'm pretty sure that only specialized apps actually require >4gb of ram - most common utilities (e.g. shell, text editor, etc...) should really be compiled in x32 mode.
They also aren't granular. So you could lose access to all Google products for violating terms on one of them.
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Some of these cases apply much more to contractor truckers (majority), but apply less to employee truckers (think Publix, Kroger, USPS) where the paperwork is already finished, no upsell opportunities, another office handle payment (even with contractors this is becoming a front office thing).

> require serious judgement to be able to maneuver large trucks around them

I think this is one aspect you get incorrect. With LIDAR and SONAR a computer can know an exact distance from corner to corner, can know and set the exact angles to hit a spot; while with a different set of eyes looking at a tree beside you. We already have consumer cars that have proximity warnings and trailer paths.
I strongly agree that design element makes it look broken. I checked my uMatrix to make sure it wasn't blocking any styles before realizing that it was part of the design. I had a similar thought about a vertical bar that doesn't take up 100cw. Nice mockup!
That made me laugh out loud. Well done.
As listed in my comment, kdb+ is actually just a column-store, and like all column-stores it handles time-series really well.

There's nothing stopping you from putting other data in there that doesnt have a time component at all, but it's designed to primarily work in the fintech space so has special performance optimizations and features for working with time and money.
"Braking," not breaking.

Some of the most difficult challenges have to do with maintaining life support long term. The Moon isn't a bad place for that. If we're able to deal with operations in conditions dealing with vacuum, that experience is still applicable. Also, the human side of the procedures for preventing lunar dust and grit from entering the living space will be important and applicable to Mars. Mars soil isn't as bad, but some of it you don't want in your living space either.
Why SaaS Startups Are Missing Out on 70+% of Conversions (+ How to Fix It)
If you have an established data centre you won’t save money moving to the cloud, it is about the opportunity to do more.

If you are a startup it means you don’t need the upfront investment in hardware.

The cloud doesn’t save you money it just allows you to do more.
What's your experience cutoff for someone without a CS (or equivalent) undergrad degree? Or someone who has an unrelated undergraduate degree and spent 2 years getting a CS MS?
Ah ok. It just wasn't showing anything on the map.
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Samsara is utter beauty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsara_(2011_film)

No (spoken) narrative, so I can't tell you what you're meant to learn, but it gave me a big overview effect of the world.
I think the race to make the web an application platform is responsible for this. Web features are growing every day trying to match native apps, and the media guys leverage them to make us sad.

We really need to split the web stack in two somehow, differentiate consumption sites with some basic interaction from full blown applications, handle them completely separately down to the operating system integration level. Right now a web application like Facebook runs in a tab (?) or worse is shipped with a whole browser instance (eg Slack). That’s something wrong here.

A Google-AMP like version of the web for things that are not GMail or Facebook (99% of the web, especially in the long tail) is probably good enough.
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The article insinuates that there exists such a term that is in use; if that is the case, I wouldn't malign it for conveying that situation.

Still I can't see how someone in the medical profession would stick the -itis suffix on something that isn't any sort of inflammation, even out of jest.

Even, say, "give-up-osis" would be an improvement; an "osis" is just a condition (neurosis, psychosis, ...).

"itis" is used in the vernacular for making up words for obsessive preoccupations or imaginary illnesses and such; that formation style is not fitting in a serious medical setting at all.
Tech Stasis? [video]
There's also some evidence that the bacteria in your stool is even less well-correlated to the bacteria further up your intestines than we thought (and we already thought it wasn't great). [1]

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/06/probiotics-n...
Pretty unnecessary FUD. Did you have any objection to the actual content? How did you determine that the work was "not a scientific study of any type"? Seems un-scientific to dismiss the whole thing based on that paragraph.
Wow, it's hard to believe they don't support U2F yet. Even smaller providers such as OVH have U2F for a long time.
How? Even Haskell, who makes a big deal out of separating pure vs impure code, can't do it perfectly.
Sounds like highschool.
Also not an expert on the topic but here are some examples of space-ready cameras with pictures and specs:
http://www.msss.com/space-cameras/

Obviously radiation, extreme temperatures, vibration, and vacuum are at least some of the problems. They explicitly state that lens have no moving parts, I’m not sure why that is an issue and how can they focus without moving parts - maybe they’re just permanently focused on infinity and hence close objects are blurrier?

Lens distortion might be just normal with uncorrected very wide angle lens which you want to make framing/steering easier. Otherwise you might need a separate camera just to help you aim the first one.
Agreed on kissing a lot of frogs. I wasn't recommending it, or not, just what one experience was. Over time, it's less useful, but it's important to still remain as open as possible.
It wasn't that. She was one of those Comp Sci == specialized discrete math people.
> The conclusion of the study is that high doses of antibiotics is an effective way to prevent the appendix from rupturing without surgery.

I've been through a few million dollar surgeries and I had my appendix out as well. When you get a blocked appendix (appendicitis induced), you create scar tissue from the inevitably distended bile duct. Now you have an increased chance of it occurring again, and a weaker duct (scar tissue is generally weaker). This snowballs. Removal is the safe course after the first onset. This study assumes 2 things. First, that no major damage is done over the course of appendicitis attack(s). Second, the patient is compliant with a dietary restriction and an antibiotic course. Yes, you don't NEED to have your appendix out after the first attack if you eat right. The chances that a patient is compliant is less than 50% This is just a medical reality. People who take blood thinners have to be monitored, more for compliance than anything else, and there's a whole industry to the more dangerous conditions than appendicitis.
I don't think they claim they do it perfectly. You can find bugs related to that, false negatives and positives.
What about the part of the article where the FCC gets 100 complaints a day, including from pilots seeing drones in dangerous areas?
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> "Braking," not breaking.

Ah jeez. That's what I get for commenting right after rolling out of bed.

> ... the most difficult challenges have to do with maintaining life support long term. The Moon isn't a bad place for that.

The moon is a bad place for that because now you have to carry all that extra fuel for landing/etc. Low earth orbit is just fine for figuring out life support as has been done on the ISS already. Why do it again in some place there's no reason to go to? There's no nitrogen available on the moon.

The dust thing is applicable but minor.
Asbestos can be handled safely - the issue was in the past it was not. Not even close to safely. The various Asbestos companies also paid dearly for their mistakes and omissions in the safety of it.

Asbestos is a material that for some applications, its very literally the only material which is suitable.
Ugh. Everytime I fly a micro drone ($40) I get some "Licensed Part 107 operator" lecture me on how I need to "undergo some kind of training". I think these guys should shift their energy to firearm laws and stop harassing children at parks.
You mean "nim" not "him"? Or does your native language use gender based "it" equivalents.

grammar Nazi - can't help myself.
You're essentially asking if Mudd succeeding in expanding the total worldwide applicant pool, or just managed to take a slightly larger share of a fixed size pool. It's a fair question, but there are so many confounding factors that we won't know for sure until multiple large colleges make similar efforts.

Mudd is a relatively new college and actually doesn't have the same level of resources as some other selective colleges, at least not when measured on an endowment dollars per student basis. I'm not convinced that this is a resource issue. It seems like focus and commitment by the administration and faculty are more important.
Page and Brin were both initially funded by the National Science Foundation to do the algorithmic work that led to Google [1]. Page was supported by an NSF grant from the 1994 Digital Library Initiative program; Brin was at Stanford on an NSF Graduate Student Fellowship.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660
Super awkward - I posted this 3 days ago with the wrong link...
https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#pragmas-nosideeffect-p...

It looks really impressive.
I didn't read his comment as "dismiss the whole thing".
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Yep. You need less change in velocity to get to their surface than to land on the Moon.
Is Neoliberalism Destroying the World? (CBC Ideas)
After getting fish and seeing them in captivity first hand I've decided that I don't think it's ethical to keep fish in captivity in general. As good a home as I try to give them, they're still wild animals in a little box. I think no matter the size of my aquarium or the effort I put into water maintenance, providing suitable rocks, etc, all of my effort and good intentions will never compare to the home they are meant to have in the wild. I just feel bad for them and bad about myself for contributing to an industry that puts animals in these kinds of conditions.
Afraid not, but now I'm Googling who that is!
Direct podcast audio: https://podcast-a.akamaihd.net/mp3/podcasts/ideas-sYakMT5w-2....

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54m36s runtime. Excellent content and production quality.
> I could screenshot and send him anything that was relevant, but she would not add him to the thread.

Great way to lose a paying customer.
> The kids are young and share a big room

How will that scale when they are teenagers? Especially if mixed-sexes, I can foresee this being difficult, which I think is part of the reason my wife and I are looking at separate bedrooms.
Ah, Good.

Thanks for that.
Every large outdoor event I’ve been to recently has had at least one drone buzzing over the crowd at some point — and that’s been verboten from the start.