skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/... explains why
>It's pretty obvious that evolution didn't "invent" anything because accident or not, to invent requires an originator or discoverer which is to say an entity with agency.

And yet everybody understood what the parent means, which is that it was created by an evolutionary process.

And also everybody understands that the pedantic minutiae of whether "invent" can be used here is beside the actual point the parent makes.
Decent efficiency seems possible. These people report 53% efficiency at 1 meter:

Roes, M.G.L.; Hendrix, M.A.M.; Duarte, J.L., "Contactless energy transfer through air by means of ultrasound," IECON 2011 - 37th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society , vol., no., pp.1238,1243, 7-10 Nov. 2011

Abstract: An alternative approach to the wireless transfer of energy is proposed, employing acoustic waves in air. Unlike conventional methods, acoustic energy transfer is able to achieve energy transfer at high efficiencies over distances that are large in comparison to the dimensions of the transmitter and the receiver. This paper gives an overview of the principle and explains the different loss mechanisms that come into play. A theoretically limit on the achievable efficiency is calculated. It exceeds that of a comparable inductively coupled system by an order of magnitude. First preliminary measurements indicate that AET is feasible, although the measured efficiency is lower than the predicted theoretical limit.

They were using small low-power transceivers as their focus (no pun intended) was on large distances compared to transceiver size, and so were only dealing with a few dozen uW power.

Looking at a few of the things that cite them, it seems that low power is where most of the work in ultrasonic power transmission is, aiming for environments where you need to power something small in a location that makes the usual methods problematic, such as implanted biomedical devices. Example: "MEMS Based Broadband Piezoelectric Ultrasonic Energy Harvester (PUEH) for Enabling Self-Powered Implantable Biomedical Devices", https://www.nature.com/articles/srep24946
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That is neither here nor there. The GPL is ideological in a way that sits well and has done so for a very long time with, I assume, pretty much the entire Linux community. This also seems to have been the case with the previous CoC, as well as the CoC:s that a lot of other communities use. A CoC does not need to be inherently partisan and divisive. The Contributor Covenant is, though.
How is this going to affect the laws of war?

Hypothetically speaking, in case of wanton killing of civilians, who's going to be held responsible? The engineers who designed it? The maintenance crew who launched it? The general in charge of that particular division or branch? The minister?

Furthermore, with the emergence of AI, do we even know the algorithms actually used to make such decisions?
Land isn't that expensive if you are looking for a really rural location. But you will have significant expenses for septic system and well.

You can buy 20 acres in Okanogan county, WA, in a very rural ranch area about 40 minutes drive from Omak for about $23,000.
> The CoC being a political document is expected

I agree that both CoC and GPL are political.

Developers need to understand something: CoC a political document written by someone opposing one of important principles of free software, meritocracy. https://postmeritocracy.org/

Now here's a big difference: linux was developed under GPL from the very beginning. If you didn't like the politics behind GPL, you didn't contribute. Now, there are people who try to push their politics everywhere, because "everything is political", even math.
Why should you accept their politics? Why should linux change its politics? Why must CoC be accepted? Why should developers accept the politics of CoC, after making contributions under promises of GPL?
Here is how you do it with real DRM: https://github.com/Axinom/drm-quick-start
It's nice to directly/natively serve HTTP/2 web apps, because it simplifies development and production environments.

Sometimes best practice for HTTP/1 becomes anti-pattern for HTTP/2. Some of these issues are discussed here: https://www.codeotaku.com/journal/2018-10/http-2-for-ruby-we...
From your friendly neighborhood enterprise B2B volume sales team? Or from an illegally shared copy of questionable integrity?
No, Travis CI doesn't support any code hosting other than GitHub.
There seems to be a 25% discount for today which removes about 10 USD from the price.

Hopefully this book could get picked up by a publishing company so it becomes easier to find in book stores.
Deja vu February 2008.
Nowadays, going on Amazon for product hunt is equivalent to searching for a malware-free good quality torrent.
Type annotations can be useful in helping a reader get a rough outline at a glance, of what some unfamiliar piece of code is doing. Especially under heavy use of broadcasting.

The second is compactness is true only if you're chaining straightforward library calls. If you're writing your own functions or building non-trivial functionality on top, types will be of aid too.
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How to deploy a JavaScript video player with real DRM
The linked article is a bit narrow in scope but a very good first start.

I have been working with video DRM for quite a while now; feel free to ask me anything, I will try to answer topics that are not NDA-covered.
Shotguns, corsets, wagon wheels, pocket watches, derringers, medical apparatus, furniture, top hats, bowler hats, Masonic accessories, oil lamps, wood stoves.
> "Sharia forbids investments in sin stocks like arms, alcohol and tobacco."

This very neutral way of writing is telling.
Fraud Alert: Qingdao GD Machinery Co Ltd
Fraud Alert: Qingdao GD Machinery Co. Ltd

Qingdao GD Machinery Co. Ltd is a fraud trading company with unethical practices.

The company also goes by the following names: Qingdao Salid Machinery Co Ltd, Qingdao Wantongda, Qingdao GD also pretends to be a manufacturer--Wantong, Nantong Hualin, Pinghu Tianlong...

History of Qingdao GD Machinery:
Qingdao GD Machinery was registered in 2009 as a private trading company in a studio. In 2009, Terry Song(Song Zhanhua) asked Carol Cheng(Cheng Hongying) to help steal Carol's then employer Wantong's customers--worth over one million(usd)of deals. They used Wantong's name, transferred all customers to their own trading company, tricked customers to believe they are Wantong. Till this day, they are still branding themselves as various manufacturers, and trick buyers to buy from them. After Wantong found out their illegal practices, Carol Cheng made the Wantong owner to believe she was pregnant with a boy. That was how she walked away freely. That was how GD got started.

While teaming up to steal from Wantong, Terry Song married Carol Cheng. Later it turns out Terry Song is gay and that he has no interest in Carol but the trading business. By that time Terry had secretly transferred the company(Qingdao GD Machinery) to his partner. The couple decided to let Carol have affairs. Carol has had immoral behaviors with many of GD's customers and partners.
To lure customers, Carol, Terry and the GD team use bribery, sexual seduction, etc.

It is vitally important for companies to select the right kind of suppliers and partners. What would it make your company be, if having suppliers like Qingdao GD Machinery?
The Economist would surely mark a PR piece

https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2013/09/04/...
El Diwany isn't saying that the solution is sharia banking in that part of the "Four Horsemen". Instead, he is rightfully calling out that there is a mismatch between public intentions and the actual incentives.
The guy managed to write more about himself than the patch. Is this the new format? I thought I was reading a Medium blog post.
> I’d love to have a Rust "OTP" and actor system for IoT devices where Beam doesn’t fit.

You might want to check out Grisp - https://www.grisp.org/ - Erlang VM ported to RTEMS. They also offer devboards with ample resources designed to run this thingy.
Islamic Finance: Tarek El Diwany on the ‘Problem’ with Interest
Verizon builds analytics tool predicting networking issues with Apache Flink
Impressed by the readability of sweet-expression
ioquatix, just I'm clear, if this is an evented server it will use just one core? Or does it create one process per core? If not do you recommend we use https://github.com/stripe/einhorn to split the work across N falcon processes (one for each core)?

And do you have advice / recommendations on database pool sizes when using Rails? I assume that each process will have access to as many connections as specified in the DB_POOL config? Does falcon need any pre/post fork re-creation of all connections?
I feel really worried about the Kernel project now that they have let Identity Politics breach their walls. These kind of things have a tendency to split a community rather than unite it.

The kernel project is surely one of the most successful software projects ever. Having survived for 20 years, why change a winning formula?

I have always considered Linus un-political and more interested in getting sh*t done and getting it right above anything else, so why he would sign-off on this is a mystery to me.
> But it's Monday morning in Australia and we need to release!

Ironic isn't it? The whole point of git was to be distributed, and yet we're at a place where a bunch of companies can't deploy software when a single git provider is down. I myself am in the same boat. Sure, I could reconfigure for a different repo, but is it even worth the effort?
Yeah, I also perceive it the same way: it's the users who pay Apple tax, even if the fee is deducted from the payments to developers.
My 2 Cents on Go
What has God to do with SQLite?
FreeRTOS flaws expose millions of #IoT devices to cyber attacks
Out of curiosity, what show are you referring to?
ShipKaro vs. ShipRocket
Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1959)
Someone more knowledgeable about Rails can pitch in, but I believe in the absence of any connection management code, Rails will check out one connection per request the first time it is used? And checkin after the request terminates? If that is the case, wouldn't the number of simultaneous requests effectively be capped at the database pool size for DB heavy applications?
“Sin stock” is a commonly-used phrase in finance and does not imply an ethical opinion on the topic by the user of the term, merely that ethical opinions are often held on the topic by the public/investors at large.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sinfulstock.asp
To be pedantic (of course), most of the contributions to Linux are from people paid to do it.
I found the article in doing some follow up reading from another submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18272135 and my own post therein https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18273277. I am not related to the person being interviewed in this article, but he and I do share a first name (albeit different in spelling).
No, it would have the sideeffect of investors doing better due dilligence, which would bode well for companies with actual revenue.
Best I can tell is satire
Anand Giridharadas: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]
Looks neat. Now this needs to become a plugin for ST3!
So You Want to Invest in a Bootstrap Startup
I don't know how GitHub legal would react to having their trademark in a domain name, but I have a feeling this might not last long.

(Disclosure: I received _many_ c&d in my former life for this kind of thing and I won't be doing it again.)
Bad bad man. Goofy documents shall only get the benefit of the doubt if they're brought in by postmodernists.
They didn't find a sufficient majority for any of their plans they voted on that night. Not AHCA. Not BCRA. Not for straight repeal nor some skinny repeal. [0]

And that's exactly the problem with politics. They don't vote for improvements, if that makes the more radical changes they want less necessary and thus appear less necessary. Especially under the shitty US election system allowing only two parties. The one who looses in the end is the citizen who just wants better healthcare.

[0] this yt channel is where I get my US healthcare news from: https://youtu.be/tMsSF2vDf6k

ps: Its funny the republicans only managed to pass repeal back when they knew obama would veto it.
He has explained his reasoning in an interview [1].

>Because I may have my reservations about excessive political correctness, but honestly, I absolutely do not want to be seen as being in the same camp as the low-life scum on the internet that think it's OK to be a white nationalist Nazi, and have some truly nasty misogynistic, homophobic or transphobic behaviour. And those people were complaining about too much political correctness too, and in the process just making my public stance look bad.

So, apparently, in order to not be associated with a political fringe position, one has to instead associate oneself with the polar opposite political fringe position. It's also the same line of reasoning that led Norwegian supermarkets to remove Counter-Strike and World of Warcraft from their shelves when they found out that Anders Behring Breivik had enjoyed those games. I assume that a true adherent to this philosophy would also eschew vegetarianism due to its associations with Adolf Hitler.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640
I like the idea of more ethical banks, but I think the article is overselling the popularity of Islamic institutions in the UK. I live in London and whilst I'm aware that Sharia banking exists as a concept, I've never heard of BLME. Also the opening sentence comes off as slightly absurd:

>THE HALAL restaurants established by Muslim migrants in Britain quickly inspired an almost religious following among non-believers.
I appreciate that they try. As a user I would never rely on those estimates, but it at least gives you a sense of what's going on and what they are doing. I take that over the more common silence or "we are working on it" any day.
> to other Eastern European cars

In 1976, VW started to make Golfs here Yugoslavia, in Sarajevo. Compared to other Eastern European cars like Yugo or Lada, VW golfs were solid. I still see many old Golfs on the roads here in Montenegro, and very few Yugo’s.
> If the batteries were built to Apple's specifications explicitly for the purpose of going into an Apple device and were not used, does that make them counterfeit?

That's pretty much the exact definition of counterfeit. The product doesn't need to be inferior or even different in order to qualify. Counterfeits could be absolutely identical.

If I went to a company that was capable of manufacturing US currency to the exact same quality and standard as the US Federal Reserve, how perfect would they need to be before they stop being counterfeit? Trick question: they are always counterfeit, because they were not issued by the US Federal Reserve.

This company may be manufacturing batteries to Apple's specification and possibly even maintaining Apple's level of quality control. And they are allowed to do that. They can sell their batteries to Louis. But they can't print the Apple logo on them.
They should have a "Who is the author?" byline that points to link you posted (at least that's what I would do).
> questionable integrity?

What's what integrity checks are for.
I’m seeing a lot of people stating that they’re worried about this code of conduct. Since I’ve not read it or any commentary about it, can someone tell me why it’s so worrying? Is there a sincere fear that Linux will be damaged as a result? If so, how?
Dangerous not to make that more clear if true.
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Relevant context from Anand in this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1053670769056600065

Short story: He was invited to speak at Google, and decided that he wanted to say that Google is a monopoly that maybe should be broken up. Someone at Google was not very happy with the talk, and only after several weeks when a reporter started to ask about it, the talk went up on the YouTube channel.
Microsoft aren't the ones supplying the tools to fake a licence, though.
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You're right I was simply talking about cryptocurrencies.

The point is cryptocurrencies is simply better at the use cases I presented. You're welcome to come with a better alternative, the ones you list simply doesn't cut it.

> It wasn't at all necessary to build Bitcoin

Actually Bitcoin was built to address the print on demand fiat currency driven by debt and unaccountable fractional reserve driven economy we have today. Giving people the ability to actually own their money for real and not just IOUs.

That digital cash is an excellent use case to pay for porn online is just a coincidence, never the purpose.

> with its planet-destroying proof of work energy usage

As opposed to the planet-destroying energy consumption of the fiat institution today? Or the tobacco industry? Or the military? Or any number of stupid usages of energy (which dwarfs the Bitcoin usage) we have today?

That it's somehow "planet-destroying" is just ignorant. It may be inefficient but it's self regulating and it cannot increase endlessly.

> And besides, the essence of anonymous payments using Bitcoin is the tumbler, not Bitcoin itself

Please see Monero or the shielded transactions of ZCash for how real anonymous payments look.

Also the pseudo-anonymous nature of Bitcoin is already better than the precise data we give credit card companies today.

> remember that Bitcoin is extremely unstable and has no system in place to regulate or stabilize it

Bitcoin is very volatile yes. Yet it's amazingly stable compared to the inflation of 4000% in Venezuela. It will also become more stable as it becomes adopted more.
"anything that's interesting" was already mentioned, but even ignoring that I don't understand your question. The article is about businesses following certain rules that have to act in interesting ways, and how that plays out with financing. That's right at the core of HN!
I think it is obvious what happened. They must have moved their backend to Windows 10.
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Exactly. We all know not to trust that those estimates are exact, but they are much better than nothing. When they say nothing we don't know if it's half an hour, half a day or half a week.
re: your edit --

>Greg Kroah-Hartman is a major Linux kernel developer. As of April 2013 he is the Linux kernel maintainer for the -stable branch, the staging subsystem, USB, driver core, debugfs, kref, kobject, and the sysfs kernel subsystems, Userspace I/O, and TTY layer.

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Kroah-Hartman
Do you call around and shop for different fire departments? Seems weird that such a basic need would be treated this way.
Then a real good paying PR piece -- the kind that's passed as an actual article.
Interesting idea, lacklustre execution.

The recommendations are really not useful and some cases nonsensical.
The fact that central banks have set the interest rate near zero already must play a role.
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Same for me. Too many Pokemon, MMORPG and MOBA games in my life.
Well, so they say it is within the hour, but we still don't know if it's half an hour, half a day or half a week.
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> During this time, information displayed on GitHub.com is likely to appear out of date;

if the new data is not presented, users will typically retry which may result in duplicated new content.
Reductio ad Hitlerum, you lose!
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Or using Windows 7 because staff can actually use the UI.
Scientists Double Down on Landing Sites for Sample-Collecting Mars Rover
https://web.archive.org/web/20180923141136/https://www.econo...
Industrial conversational AI chatbots on IBM Watson platform
Sounds like the money for internet trolls hasn't run out though, given how active they are
Although it doesn't specifically mention it, this kernel supports Apple's Magic Trackpad 2, which is a real blessing.

Original source: https://github.com/robotrovsky/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-Driver

I've been using this since last night, and with some tweaking, it works really well.
Thank you for your well-formulated contribution to the discussion.
> I'm sure I will get down voted for this but....

I indiscriminately downvote all comments that make such a statement, and I'm pretty sure others here do the same. It does make me wonder why though. Is it insecurity? Some kind of martyrdom-insurance if people do downvote you? Your comment seems perfectly okay as it is, if not for that.
Fit to Print: using ML to match the style of different news publications
It's simple. It's mobile. It's account-less.
It depends on who is asking. If it is a "good" philosopher, who is in on the quest to unveil the nature and laws of what is, then it is settled.

If, however, you are fond of joggling with abstractions and of studying of philosophers themselves and various philosophical systems (instead of what is) then, of course, you could put together yet another pile of abstractions and even systematically compare it with another pile of abstractions, and so on. Lots of people do.

Universe is one (at least we and everything else is bound by this one single unfolding process we call Universe) while abstractions are infinite, and most of them are disconnected from what is - they generalize nothing but other disconnected abstractions.
By not understanding how software works. A lot of managers think that software is done the same way that you would produce something in a factory when in fact a lot, if not most software is a prototype.

The moment you realize that managers don't get software, you either leave or not be as productive as you could.
Ah Visual Age, how I loved/hated you.
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The Voronoi Projection
> Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages

Aka the thing nobody ever asked for and why I don't even bother with public Wi-Fi anymore.

Your users are just looking for Wi-Fi and are already in your venue; your best interest is to not piss them off by wasting their time and instead offer a good, seamless Wi-Fi experience so they can move on and enjoy whatever they planned to do at your venue.
Some kind of resistance on the flow of the hydraulic medium perhaps? Like putting a paddle wheel into a whirlpool but probably more sophisticated...
A Croatian company built two fully electric hypercars with 1 motor per wheel and a torque vectoring system:

Rimac Concept One (the old model):

- Acceleration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT7KKxoAvvk

- Presentation at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FsrgJ66wUw

Rimac Concept Two (the new model, they plan to build ~150 of them):

- Geneva motors show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvjvYzzBh-k

- Company website: http://www.rimac-automobili.com/en/
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Here in UK, I'm a fan of halal chippies as they always use vegetable oil instead of beef dripping for their chips and patties.
What makes this journalists blood worth more than all those murdered in Yemen or the victims of SA's overt or covert terrorism?
Regarding Linus, he spoke to the BBC and explained in his own words his position: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-45664640

This ZDNet article summarizes some of the points Linus made, if you want the short version: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-answers-5-quest...