skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The function and variable namespace difference is a matter of taste to me. I prefer naming my variables lst to having to use #' and funcall, and the extra fuzz that hygienic macros bring is generally not a very big problem once macros become complex enough.

What CL brings over scheme is a fantastic object system. The Scheme copies are half-assed in comparison, especially considering how well-integrated CLOS is.
What I think will happen is that voters are incentivised to make good on the promise of the platform. If they reject a conservative site based on anything dubious then the whole effort will lose credibility.

Don't forget that some form of voting is necessary for the token holders to have a say in the governance of the business. That's one of the premise of blockchain native businesses, the decentralisation of equity and power.

The voting and incentive mechanisms are the cryptoeconomic properties of the project and what I can discuss intelligently. The Civil constitution is out of my scope but I trust the incentives are there to allow high quality media to enter the list regardless of political bias.
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I have so many great memories of Cebit. My dad used to get tickets for me and friends from work and we would go every year as teenagers to see cool tech across the board (yes, of course we also checked out all the games related stuff).

I am glad that a decade later I had my own booth there with my startup at the time...it felt a major milestone!

Going to cebit was very formative and has lead to an amazing career in tech that I will be forever grateful for!

I worry that younger generations in the region will lack that sort of inspiration in the future.

I get it though, the world has changed. You can get better information on most type of products online and talk to experts too...no need to travel to Hannover once a year and be ripped off on booth fee’s and local businesses (hotels, restaurants, bars, etc)
My father went there sometime around 1990 on a business trip and brougt back a handheld grayscale scanner. The software ran in DOS.

My school nootebooks were packed with pictures printed on a dot-matrix printer.
This space is growing like mad. They would be remiss if they did not expect something like this.
Excellent comment; couldn't have written the same as well.
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There's chili pad, although it's somewhat expensive.
That is the weirdest product I could have imagined AWS "launching"
I don’t usually do that, I just share my thoughts as comments on HN. There’s enough people doing that other stuff. :)
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It doesn't work at all, for the thousands of pieces of hardware that simply don't work on Linux, or work poorly.

Further, it doesn't work at all from an economics standpoint. There is zero incentive driving the community to support every iteration of every type of hardware other than personal need, and if you're suggesting that anyone who needs something has to go out and build a driver themselves, please let me know who your dealer is because I want to be as high as you.

As for, "the community is better than the manufacturer" try having an outage over the holidays, and see how your community reacts to, "help me or my business fails".
That's deep.
We had applications where we were tracking guests in a venue through various means. We tried a number of queuing systems to manage the flood of events, but they'd all fall over. I'll love to run my old "venue simulator" through this and see if it can stand up to actual guest load as they walk around, ride, purchase things.
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Auvi-Q's pricing is weird. It's free if you have insurance (whether or not insurance pays for it), and free if your household makes < $100k. If you pay cash for it because neither of those is the case, it's $360. And if insurance pays for it, it's $4500.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2017/01/19/epipen...

That said, I have it too; it was free to me because I have insurance. But this area really needs proper regulation and cost controls.
Japan doesn't renovate. It's probably the only country in the world where "used homes" are considered something to be ashamed of.

I had heard that older Japanese were very 'allergic' to anything used or old, as it reminded them of the time during the war and post-war when everyone had to scrounge for everything. There was this thing in the 90's called '{some derogatory term}-shopping' where you'd dumpster dive in well off neighborhoods, and if you found a bit of 2 year old consumer electronics, you could assume it still worked.
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Sure but QLDB isn't a blockchain. Blockchain is just one of many things that can be implemented on top of it. You could implement the same thing with an SQL database and signed history tables.
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You can pre-order it here for $250 if you want to compete.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JMHRKQG
I don't think it's safe to say that half of all interviewers interpret clarifying questions as bad performance. Interviewing a potential candidate is a skill that can vary widely from individual to individual, and you may have gotten a selection that had that view.

What is your sample size? What kind of companies were you interviewing at, and what kind of clarifying questions were you asking? I understand if you can't give the specific questions, but something analogous would be helpful to try to see it from their side. Furthermore, are those direct quotes or the general feeling you got from the interviewer?
>I certify that this product was owned by somebody else.
A generic epipen is not only not hard to develop, but you can find youtube videos explaining how to build one yourself.

See https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/devices/ha....
You're conflating different things.

If you were hiring an intern and you got two resumes in order to comply with the law you'd have to consider a 60 year old intern still in college the same way you'd consider a 19 year old intern still in college.
Auto scaling lagged though. And you still had to guess at the base level. They mentioned in the keynote that this is a big improvement over auto scaling.
Normally competition means companies can make as many of a product as they want in order to gain market share from each other. FDA regulated drugs often operate on a production quota system where a given company is only allowed to manufacture a pre-approved amount. If the FDA decreased the EpiPen quota by the same amount that the generic was allowed to be produced in then you might not expect to see any reduction in price. Of course they might have just left EpiPen's quota the same, the article doesn't have that sort of information and it might not be publicly available.
Oh right, yeah. I don't use the Pebble Smart Alarm. I tried to, but I don't believe it's any smarter than just picking a random time in a specified period. I mean, I know it claims to work based on when you're coming out of a deep sleep, but I saw no evidence that it actually did work that way when using it.
Still a bit messy, but the clickhouse-copier utility helps a bit: https://github.com/yandex/ClickHouse/issues/2579
It is. To each their own, but it sounds like when a bunch of Wall St interns brag to each other about how they worked until 3am, went home and showered, then were back at work by 8am the next day. It gives some people a sense of validation/importance that they are way more hardcore than the average person because they work so much more. It actually favors inefficiency in the sense that working smarter isn't as valuable as who could withstand grinding or "hustling" the longest.
At what point are open source projects going to change their licensing to prevent the major cloud providers from just stealing their products? I highly doubt AWS built this from scratch. Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are going to choke the life out of these projects

Redis and MongoDB at least seem to have woken up

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/open-source-companies-consider...
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I'm all for equal rights 100%, but a lot of women conveniently forget about the bonus benefits society gives them just for being women, and they don't seem keen in giving it up/transferring to men when the time comes.

As examples... holding the door open for women. The idea of "ladies first". The custom of men being required to message first on dating services. Men paying for dinner/etc.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't see women jumping to embrace this kind of equality.
> That's not what seem to work reliably, because Microsoft is free to change everything at any second, and the 'telemetry' list is moving target.

Principally, you are right. But keep in mind that the paper refers to Windows 10 LTSB 1607. It would surprise me a lot if Microsoft changed the telemetry servers for a Long Term Servicing Branch release.
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Is Dropbox significantly better than Nextcloud at this point? I switched to Nextcloud because I hated the Android app and it's been great so far. Why not just switch to that?
coding can be an art but you need a special context (interesting problem, good tools, good colleagues [or your own sel]). this is when you can flow

the other art idea is interesting, because no matter the field, the sensitivity required to feel good and do good is about the same, just through different senses (finger, ear, etc).

Drumming can be as minute as painting or clockwork (and I can't give it up, I love it too much, and bear in mind, I don't even own a drumset)
Wait, I'm much more curious what are you guys gonna do now? Sure, Dropbox screwed up and they can't give you more than 25000 API calls per month this year, because their system is poorly designed and not ready. But are you capable of overcoming the issue that now you have no programmatic connection to your cloud? I'm genuinely very curious.
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> Meaning, regardless of what she thinks she deserves, isn’t there a standard calculation used, ie half?

Every state has a standard calculation, but I'm pretty sure like most terms of divorce a settlement agreement can vary quite far from the formula the court would use were it to decide the matter in a contested case. As most divorces are settled (which saves costs in the divorce process, is faster than contested process, can be less traumatic for the parties and any children involved, etc.), the official formula may do more to shape negotiatig position than set the actual final amount.
Can you (have you?) say anything more publicly? Would be interested to know more.
It's tough to draw conclusions from a pool of 118 industries. It could be that women are applying to less competitive jobs in greater numbers than men. That would explain both how they are getting more interviews and also why they are turning down more jobs.

Tech is a great example, where software engineering positions are very competitive and most of the applicants are men. This would pull down the numbers for men in general, making it seem like they need to fill more of the requirements for a job than women, when in reality they are just applying for more competitive jobs more often.

It would be more instructive to compare the numbers for the same type of job in order to see what the bias really is.
> Michael K. Spencer

> Blockchain Mark Consultant

So he finds new marks for ICO scams?
I have open issues about it on GitHub. It does not work correctly at this time. If you dig through the issues, there are statements by the devs saying the tool has been neglected.
Newbie here. Questions:
1) Can somebody go over use cases and target customers, where one would prefer this over more traditional DBs.
2) Since this is centralized, it is in theory possible to go back to a previous state of the ledger. Is that blocked simply because the product doesn't support rolling back to a previous state?
Solution to SF homelessness problem.
I predict this is the predecessor to cloud-controlled home robots like Roomba vacuums and self-driving lawnmowers etc.
The inefficiency can be a feature not a bug. How the process seems to work when I last voted was the ballot papers were numbered and they wrote the number next to my name when they gave it to me which prevents then just ticking x on another 1000 ballots to fix the result. However my privacy is protected by the fact that to see which way I voted you'd have to dig through hundreds of bits of paper and compare the number to a hand written list which is slow and hard to do without observers seeing. Make it electronic and you lose that - malware could download the lists in seconds without anyone noticing.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-detroit-housing/cheap-de...

I was never talking about the taxes, just the sticker price for the house. Japan doesn't seem to be waiving property tax for these houses, either, so the comparison is still valid.
> - have to overhear irrelevant stupid/mundane conversations

Quite often I get to eavesdrop on interesting conversations. Typically people launching new business ventures of various kinds.
What's it used for? (Can you say?)
The study states that after anonymization of resumes women were around 3% less likely to get picked and men around 3% more likely. Data were statistically significant at the 99% level.

http://behaviouraleconomics.pmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/p...

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> The idea of alimony is closer to “I sacrificed my future income for my husband's by the division of domestic vs. external work in marriage”.

I'd argue that's even worse, as it encourages economic classes to 'marry amongst oneselves; don't relate with lesser people's

And that very statement also packs in the idea the woman is some married domestic servant. And increasingly that is not true. My wife and I share the work. Equally. We both work. Right now I make more, but before this job, she made more. And now, on my extra salary, she's attending Harvard. Soon enough, she'll make more than I.

And the sooner these gender roles are busted thoroughly for both men and women, the better we all will do.
> if I were forced by the courts to sign such an agreement

That's not how settlement agreements work.
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These are guidelines, not absolutes. When your back is against the wall, it's perfectly reasonable to completely ignore these, at least in the short term.

To me, the ultimate "absolute don't" of engineering is "don't make decisions without considering the tradeoffs". When to follow and when to ignore these guidelines follows from that.
Does it make a difference if the person who is doing the posting of all of those articles is an Amazon employee? Seems like a clear case of attempted astroturfing at worst, and definitely a conflict of interest at best.

I know there's not really a "solution" to it, and Amazon should definitely be allowed to announce their products on HN, but I think the readers have a right to know that the people promoting these products do benefit from said products being adopted.
> They can be stacked to great depth to get traffic congestion to zero.

No, they can't. How do you handle vertical circulation?

Also, the capacity of highways is absolute rubbish compared to trains. I've run the numbers before--you'd need about 10 times the number of tunnels with Musk's Loop proposal, and about 100x the number of stations to get the same kind of vertical throughput as you would with regular subways.

> Just call a tunnel with automatic pods in them mass/public transit (that is what it would be)

Loop is essentially (as I've said) personal rapid transit. PRT is definitely public transit, but every PRT system has generally found that the "mass" part is rather hard to achieve.

The problem with this sort of thing is that it takes energy out of proven, working solutions to instead build technology that consistently hasn't lived up to promises. I might feel better about it if there were serious discussion as to why this system is going to succeed where others fail, but there has been absolutely nothing of that sort.
Three options:

1) OP is just straight up lying

2) OP basically just blindly signed whatever was put in front of him

3) OP doesn't have much income but has a large net worth and payments were structured as monthly payments instead of a lump sum.

Edit: Please note I'm just listing possibilities. I'm not calling OP a liar, just that it is possible he is lying. Or that he is sitting on millions in investments.
I mean, that really isn't the default strategy. As Adam Smith recognized in Wealth of Nations, the default strategy is always to collude:

"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
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This is really cool! I learned to program on something like this - an irobot create. I can see this being a big hit for universities seeking to teach ML in fun ways.
Yay, it's comparing apples to pears!
I asked my son's allergist about those, and was surprised to learn that they cost an order of magnitude more than epi pens. He wouldn't prescribe them because he refuses to support that kind of pricing.

BTW epi pens also come with a tester.

(We have insurance so we pay a small copay for epi pens and auvi-q would be free.)
Nobody's _conflating_ Google and Verily. Verily is owned by a holding company that was formed for the express purpose of allowing Google's profits to subsidize projects that Google's founders want to pursue.
I disagree.

The problems managing the supply side tend to be very predictable - they happen most years. So you constantly see problems but they are manageable.

The problems managing the demand side are unpredictable. For many years you'll be going along fine, but when you have a problem you tend to have a BIG problem.

Of the two, you're better having manageable problems most years and no big disasters than having things usually go smoothly but occasionally you get a disaster.
Ha yeah it looks like Amazon is taking the grapeshot approach and doing it all.
I view the license change as a pretty big one. You said it too: Apache 2.0 is compatible with the GPL.
How are cell coverage and data speeds on Fi internationally? I have not traveled out of the country since this has been my carrier.
Sorry if that sounded promotional, but VPNs do in fact protect against MITM attacks. And the service I mentioned I found reliable so I felt like the information was relevant, but point taken for future notice :)
That's a pretty big travel area, and T-Mobile's core network doesn't work well outside urban centers. (Rural coverage has historically been better on Verizon.)

T-Mobile's Extended Range network (LTE Band 12) has substantially improved their rural coverage lately, but is only supported on the US version of major cell phones. If your phone was purchased outside the US/Canada, it probably didn't have Band 12 support. There's a table here (the specific model number is important, in this case): http://www.spectrumgateway.com/compatible-phones

If you weren't picking up LTE, that also suggests to me you might have been having issues related to Band 12.

But outside that, near any mid-sized population centers (where Band 12 isn't needed), you should've had a fast signal. Especially in California. I just ran a speed test on my phone, running T-Mobile in suburban California, and got 90 Mbps down / 40 Mbps up. That's faster than my home internet connection.
Maybe he shouldn't have choked his terminally ill wife.
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Is it possible to comply with GDPR while using this to store data? Given that it operates like an append-only log, is it possible to actually remove data to comply with a GDPR request?
The US might have been heading that way before the 1980s.. I think it would take a few decades of invariant quality for pre-1950 to not be a frequent requirement.

(I would have supposed undamaged pre-war inventory established different tastes in the US, but that wouldn't explain Europe having the same demographic of new building skeptics as the US.)
> I actually can't imagine wanting to live in the same house for more than 10 years.

But can you imagine knocking it down and building a new one every 10 years?
I don't see why it wouldn't be appropriate. Within the context of computing, there is no one set meaning of "quantum". In fact, there are at least three:

1. Quantum computing, as in quantum physics.

2. Time quantum, as in the time slices a multitasking scheduler gives to threads.

3. Quantum Corporation, the disk/tape storage company.

Seems like there is room for one more meaning. They probably mean "quantum" as in "quantum leap" since this is a different paradigm for ledgers. It makes sense to me.
The list prices hold up better without this competition. So, the actual price people pay for either drops even when the genric version has a very similar list price.

However, it drops even more in 180 days.
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And Google launches another US-centric product without even thinking about the rest of the world. The lesson, of course, is that the rest of the world needs to get used to the idea that Google (and other bay area companies) are not designing for them, or consider them, and they should rather take care for themselves.

What is the Google Fi of France? Of Germany? Of India?
Some anecdotal data to support your assertion about nobody having made reprocessing work: there are also significant amounts of highly radioactive waste stranded at the former reprocessing plant in Karlsruhe, Germany. I used to work in the greater facility.
For people who are interested, there is an upcoming NIPS paper that might be relevant for this problem:

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01768

Demonstration: https://muratsensoy.github.io/uncertainty.html
I was faculty at a University and I still find the word Academic to be negative connotation and was an inaccurate statement on Racket

Define - Academic

1. c: very learned but inexperienced in practical matters
1. d: based on formal study especially at an institution of higher learning
3. a: theoretical, speculative
3. b: having no practical or useful significance

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic

Couldn't find a positive way to spin Academic as used by the article.
For those worried about privacy, the models you build are only available to you. Amazon won’t be able to see them.
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So.... whats your biggest takeaway thus far then? ;-)

EDIT: Is mobot a dead project?
Sounds like there's still demand for more coffee shops. Probably why I keep seeing more Starbucks, Peets, Philz, etc. opening all over the place.

Also, assuming you're willing to drive a couple minutes out of your way, there's usually a slightly less busy Starbucks with tables available.

Maybe there's a business opportunity here for either a new kind of chain with a different brand identity... a non-music coffee shop or something. I know a place near UC Davis where it's actually disallowed to be studying there. No laptops on the tables. But it isn't a chain.

Or an opportunity for something between a WeWork and a Starbucks, a Costco of coffee shops, maybe with a membership fee on top of the cost of drinks.
Non-mobile link: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/11/how-r...
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>a pyramid MLM

a single level referral system is not a MLM
A lot of stuff. See the two tweets I referenced in this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18553937
You called us paranoid whacos when we blew the whistle on google and other tech companies becoming too big.

You made this bed. Now damn well lie in it, and think of England.