skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The publicity for all this nonsense is getting a little bit silly. Especially considering all the fanfare of the drone delivery vaporware announced prior to Holiday/Christmas 2016 season, which still has only extremely select, limited, niche pilot zones, mostly taking advantage of weather and isolation in desertified areas.

So we're arriving at a place where usage saturates norms beyond their capacity for civilized utility, much like in 1999 when file sharing suffered, all because the unprepared entertainment industry unleashed a violent backlash and counter campaign against Napster. From which, arguably, file sharing in general has never recovered (due to willful poisoning with malware, and fear/doubt spreading with highly publicized, yet rare child pornography pursuit and prosecution, which was then subsequently incentivized with paid informant programs leading to evidence fabrication, and perpetrator/suspect framing, no less), was destroyed, and now, we have a handful of centralized, moderated, controlled streaming services instead, all watching our every move.

So, what will this drop-off delivery arms race bring? Glitter bombs? Shotgun shells? Partially automated remote control (and over-hyped) quad-copter delivery? What else?
The original hampster dance song was just a sped-up version of Whistle Stop, from the 1973 Disney animated Robin Hood.

Original version and speed here, the section used starts at around 30s :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PKYEKhxWy6o

Edit - This was mentioned in the article with a YouTube link as well.
>"Are income inequality and environmental progress linked somehow?"

They are insofar as anything that negatively impacts the population as a whole will be felt worst by those at the bottom. This is not limited to environmental progress, it applies to just about anything you can think of. Who will suffer the most when sea levels rise? The poor, who cannot easily pick up their lives and relocate. Who will suffer the most when gas is taxed at 500% to reduce consumption? The poor who have little if any surplus income and for whom gas expenses make up a larger fraction of their budget.

When the people at the bottom see people at the top have their discomfort cushioned by their wealth, a tense situation can develop.
It isn't the "embassy attaché" (official cover) spies who are alleged to be having the cinematic adventures, but non-official cover agents and their in-country sources/freelancers. Of course this part of a spy agency is much smaller and more secretive than the vast army of bureaucrats you are more likely to hear from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-official_cover
WI-38 human cell strain
Yes, we can misconstrue a lot of things with glibness and context-free logic.

For example, these truck drivers are like WWII resistance fighters, bravely standing up to the invaders using only what they have on hand, forced to flee only when the authorities shows up.
Diesel pickups are expensive. Ford's F-150 diesel MSRP starts at like $50k. If it's class envy it's in the downward direction.

edit: whoops, forgot that the $35k Model 3 hasn't quite materialized yet.
Lua doesn’t fit too well with the object oriented model (although possible) without being “hacky”, so we decided to leverage the strengths of the language rather than forcing ourselves to use a model that’s not well suited for the language.
The crazy story of how my first Mac app got acquired
And how much of the internet is powered by digital advertising? The web will look a lot different if that bubble bursts.
It's fitting that the man who's job it is to throw a ton of confetti is immensely self congratulatory.
Thanks! Details at SE (of course):
https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/223603
Nit, but I doubt silk screen mask is used much these days. When I was last involved with board production 20+ years ago all our vendors switched to photoimagable mask in order to get the registration accuracy and resolution necessary for fine lead SMT.
> The US decision to not get the government pushing reprocessing was the correct one.

Not in context, because the context was that that decision was part of a general policy on the government's part to kill nuclear energy. If the government had wanted to help nuclear energy, it would have said, sure, reprocess if you want to, as long as you're willing to deal with whatever the economics of it turn out to be. (In the 1970's, when the Carter administration made the decision, uranium mining was considerably more expensive than it is now, so reprocessing might well have made economic sense then, even if it doesn't now.)
Looking forward to seeing this posted in 2021 and 2023 with the hypothesized massive drop in google’s valuation having failed to materialize.
Logo/type for logo design often goes through trends, See:

https://www.logolounge.com/articles/2006-logo-trends

https://www.logolounge.com/articles/2017-logo-trends

Which are often correlated to "fashion cycles" which are reactionary:

bell bottoms -> skinny jeans

Tight, form fitting -> Loose relaxed

We are currently hitting the "web companies love sans-serif and watercolor people" moment:

https://slack.com/

(there are others, I'm sure you can find)

So fashion brands shifting will last 10-15 years, and then they will probably switch back towards "traditional".
But... here's the revenue and profits for Google and Facebook since 2017 (when the article appears to have been written), including analyst forecasts for the next year (* are analyst forecasts).

2017 2018* 2019*
Google revenue $110.86B $136.47B $162.64B
Facebook revenue $40.65B $55.36B $68.87B
Apple revenue $265.60B $277.91B $289.25B

While Apple's growth rate seems to be slowing down (due to iPhone sales slowing), both Google and Facebook are apparently predicted to be growing well (by 20% - 30% growth each year.)

Sources:
Google: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/goog/analysis/
Facebook: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/fb/analysis/
Apple: https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/aapl/analysis/
a stripe 'plugin' would be great.
Thank you, very well explained.
> none of the executives in charge of the fraud is in jail or financially punished.

This is nothing relevant to the article, it's just ad-hominem attacks, and factually incorrect at that.

The very wiki page you cite says that CEO Winterkorn is charged with fraud, the CEO of Audi has been arrested, and 6 executives in the US are presently under charges.
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But that's the question, isn't it? If 0.0001% of the time you get 0.45v instead of 0.9v on the far end, now what?
Stitching together apis to create business value is accomplishing the basic function of any company or startup. Masturbating over math proofs by themselves don’t keep bread on the table. Just a thought before dismissing the work of others for being “less rigorous”. Though obviously the best is a combination of both.
Composer is included in the "tools" category, of course. There are other tools used (ex: webpack, grunt, git and more), but I am looking at the stack (PHP + SQL) as the primary components on topic for this discussion. What I am not including are niche or fancy components that bring little or no value, add complexity or limits the availability of developers or long time support. We are also not writing code in Notepad (Windows shop by other people's choice, no comment), so it's not stone age.

We used in the past libraries that were abandoned, technologies that were big hypes for a year or two and disappeared, etc. In the corporate world you don't have one product with millions of users, you have tens of small apps that have thousands of users. Some are so simple I can write myself using existing (internal library of) components in a few days using basic stuff like Bootstrap (good enough), jQuery, Vue (nice one) and very carefully written SQL code (that is where volume and complexity exists).

Again, I am no developer myself, but I can write code when needed at least as good as the developers that I have from multiple suppliers.
In the end is cost versus benefits. We are very good at calculating both and in many cases the bean counting tells me to continue doing what we do.
Is much worse than that :-). The "space solution" can be split in three different possibilities. I will name the first "The slingshoot"

We have succesfully used a "Slingshoot" approach to put heavy things up to 100t in the space many times. Hubble telescope (12t) or the orbiter from the space shuttle (100t) fall in this category.

We could split our waste in chunks of 500Kg, pack it really well and just put it in an orbiter; the problem is that we can't go really far with this system (around 500 Km or so). We just will put the waste in a low orbit where things can fall again into the earth sonner or later. We had the Thiangong-1 case in 2018.

Thus this "solution" after a few years would be the same as dumping the waste into the sea, but in a very expensive and creative way.
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There is https://github.com/yahoo/yql-plus, but it is not a complete YQL service, e.g. it does not support data tables (https://github.com/yql/yql-tables).
> Built so mechanical typewriter keys would not hit.

Most likely a myth. There’s tons of articles on it, but here’s one to get you started:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-...
My point about Python is that it is always presented as begginer friendly language, yet is it quite complex for anyone that whats to fully master it.

The language + standard library + C API references are around 2392 pages, not counting the other minor documentation like the 500 PEPs, release notes and differences across each Python release, even minor ones.

Then there is the whole set of meta-classes, decorators, mixins, generators, operator overloading, multiple inheritance, abstract classes, fp like programming and much more.

The big difference to C++, is that the community doesn't care about performance, leaving the PyPy guys a Quixotic battle regarding adoption, which isn't the case with C++ compilers.

Even C isn't as simple as many think, with its 200+ documentated cases of UB, and the days that C mapped 1:1 to PDP 11 Assembly are long gone.

How C code looks like, and what gets generated via auto-vectorization, GPGPU code, SIMD intrisics are very much two worlds appart.
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The black stuff on flex circuits is actually dual purpose. Stiffener and also EMI shield.Flex circuits in Consumer Electronics is typically used in Two places. Camera module interface and Display interface both of which push serial data to upwards of 1GB/s LVDS(MIPI) CSI and DSI. And due to tlack of dedicated ground planes( cheaper) they add a adhesive that serves to contain emissions from the 8b/10b(Manchester) encoded data stream.
I'm not sure how FindFirstFile/FindNextFile is going to be better than readdir(3) on Unix.

At the NT layer, beneath FindFirstFile/FindNextFile, there is a call that says "fill this buffer with directory entry metadata." - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/devnotes/nt... - I know FindFirstFileEx for example can let you ask for a larger buffer size to pass to that layer, thereby reducing syscall overhead in a big directory.

If you look at getdirentries(2) on FreeBSD for example - https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=getdirentries - it's a very similar looking API. I thought I recall hearing that in the days before readdir(3) the traditional approach was to open(2) a dir and read(2) it, but I cannot find a source for that claim. At any rate you can imagine something pretty identical in the layer beneath readdir(3) on a modern Unix-like system and it being essentially the same as what Windows does.

I guess file size needs an extra stat(2) in Unix, since it is not in struct dirent, so if you do care about that or some of the other WIN32_FIND_DATA members the Windows way will be faster.
Chinese schools are using ‘smart uniforms’ to track students’ locations
Hmm, I don't think those creative commons licenses require you to 'identify' yourself, at least not in any way that can't be kept mostly anonymous. The creator of Lenny could publish the recordings under a pseudonym and host it on a website dedicated to the 'Lenny Team' or something similar, and it'd allow him to both use the license and keep his privacy.

No need to put out any information that allows him to be identified there.
agreed. ...I guess why not have people who're better at it or who'd rather spend time on it, do it? Would probably miss most of the real problems, but could catch a few and help steer complex issues. I guess I'm thinking about it as applying the type of mission that OpenAI has[1] on a wider/smaller scale.

1- https://openai.com/about/#mission
the paratrooper probably meant anything undercover, analyst should be fine. anything where your country can abandon you/deny you work for them, for the greater good.
This should have 2017 in the title. In particular Facebook's P/E has dropped from 37 to 20.
Ask HN: How are you going to grow your business in 2019
What is your business and what ideas do you have to grow it?
Just seems like common sense to keep paths clear for emergencies?
My apologies. It was 0 over the course of 30 days of commuting. Exactly 0.
Running these api gateways on your own is very complex, especially when they need to be open publicly. Typically you’d want to layer a WAF and a CDN on top of them, which already come with their own api gateway like features (eg AWS cloudfront).

My question - what do people use these for?
Hiring for small, narrowly scoped jobs is my biggest tip.

For content writing specifically, I find that I can screen people pretty well before I hire them by asking for writing samples. I haven't been able to do that with programmers because I find it harder to judge ability based on a source file or even repo I know nothing about. But if a writer sends me an article that they think represents their ability well, that tells me most of what I need to know.

Other things I look for in hiring:

* Can they communicate well in writing? If I'm outsourcing something, the best possible outcome is that I find someone who I can just delegate tasks to and they deliver. If they're asking questions that are unclear or that indicate that they haven't read the instructions, those types of miscommunications will likely continue if I hire them.
* Did they take a genuine interest in my project or are they just shotgunning out the same application to everyone? Some of my favorite hires are people that spent 30-90 minutes on their application, writing a cover letter saying what interests them specifically about my project. It's not a perfect predictor of success, but it's usually a very good sign.

As the client, I try to specify the job up front as clearly. Good freelancers don't want to work with clients with only a vague sense of what I want. I do it in a public Google doc. Any time the freelancer deviates from what I had in mind, I revise the spec to clarify the point of confusion. That way, the freelancer and I both can see it, and if I drop one person and hire someone else, I don't have to re-explain everything.

I also wrote a couple blog posts about what I've learned about hiring cartoonists and editors:

* https://mtlynch.io/editor/
* https://mtlynch.io/how-to-hire-a-cartoonist/
The difference between "buy options" and "don't put this in your passive retirement fund" is the same difference as

"I'm confident in the advice im dispensing" and "I have no idea what I'm talking about".
I’m not at all surprised.

As a semi retired software engineer and currently 4th year Med student, I still maintain a dream of building a usable EHR that puts the clinical, patient-focused side of things first. Currently implementations allow for increased billing recovery, but at a cost to both doctors and patients.

I just don’t know how you’d start in competing with something like Epic or Cerner, from a business side of things.
InVID – In Video Veritas
3 popular OSS models:

1. 100% open source, funded by some entities, you can purchase subscription for its professional support and service.
2. 100% open source by volunteers and the community, document might be lacking but you got what you pay for.
3. open-core, only the core portion is open and you pay a premium for plugins or its enterprise-version/pro-version.

I personally do not use option 3, and I think 1 is great for both sides.
Modern JS fixes this (mostly). Promises and async/await (ES5 and 6) address those issues. What was previously

function first(cb) {
console.log('first');
cb();
}

function second() {
console.log('second');
}

first(second);

can now be expressed as

new Promise().then(console.log('first'))
.then(console.log('second');

or

async function first() {
console.log('first');
}
async function second() {
console.log('second');
}
async () => {
await first();
await second();
}();

depending on exactly what your goals are. The inversion of order ("callback hell") can be avoided if you stick to modern concepts.
This is why we need to prepare people be keep them employed rather than pretend aging doesn't happen and throw them on the scrap heap when they hit 50.
Getting an Estonian bank account is nigh impossible. If you want to do anything AdSense related, go with an Armenian account instead. Less hype, same rules (~), totally worth it.
I wonder if companies will ever try to get emojis for their logos?
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Why the headline change? Seems like the Saudis hiring 14 year olds, who are veteran fighters, from Darfur is what's the big deal.
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Here's some anecdata from my experience using git at work, where we have a single large repository for all projects.

Running `git status` in a Linux VM is fast (near-instant).

With the native Git for Windows, it's noticeably slower - maybe half a second - but still usable.

In WSL it takes around 10 seconds, which is just unusable for me.
Going back to what it was 20 years ago? I'm sold!
The article is weird in that Google has the single greatest advantage - YouTube. Ctrl + F youtube and ... nothing.

TV ad revenue is going to start changing, but the value of video ads is massive. Google has not just YouTube, but the best video advertising platform for others to use.

If 15% of the US$70B on TV ads moves to YouTube, Google's growth should be sustainable. Multiply that by not just by the USA but Europe, Japan and Asia, and Google's growth looks fine.

If Google reaches the point they can buy the NBA TV rights for YouTube, heck, start small and buy the TV rights for a major Australian sporting league as a test run, or perhaps a single college conference like the ACC, and lets see how that article ages.
You'd fire somebody for not knowing what people outside of a closed-loop corporate environment happen to use?

I mean, I posted 'cause he was wrong, but this is Bad Boss garbage.
That’s an interesting case; historically courts have ruled that the first sale doctrine doesn’t apply to overseas manufactured goods, since they were never legally sold in the US.

However, the case doesn’t necessarily create a precedent. There was a four judge majority, with one judge concurring, but with a different opinion. Also, it was a copyright lawsuit, not a trademark lawsuit, so it doesn’t necessarily set a precedent for trademark disputes.
Yes, but I have a life long history of listening to horror stories of people on bikes getting hit by cars.

These days, I fly back and forth to work, so it makes little sense to use a bike.
This article completely missed the forest for the trees - the battle for TV is not just a battle for content, it’s a battle for the delivery medium itself!

Think about it - how was TV delivered to you before? There are over the air broadcast, satellite, cable/settop, and what’s been called OTT. Except, more and more settop boxes are Rokus, Android TV-based and even some Apple TVs (Verizon 5G was offering those in test markets). So now you have a convergence of what was OTT/cord-cutter audience with the settop box. And who owns these platforms? Hint, it’s not the cable company.

So now the battle ground for those as dollars looks very different - why bother produce content when you can own the entire ecosystem where that content is delivered?

Amazon doing an amazing job with this - their FireTVs include ability to target based on your purchases and search/other activity within Amazon. That’s insanely powerful for brands and where brand dollars will definitely be spent. Not all of the dollars, but enough to matter.
it's so cute when my dog does this (i immediately want to hug her to death), but i always saw it as just deeper interest and maybe a struggle to understand me, more than an invitation.

when my cat does it on the other hand i wonder what kind of mischievous he's cooking up.
Worth reading: How Medical Tech Gave a Patient a Massive Overdose (39x)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18145853
It's important to bring up that in the last year AT&T bought Time Warner, Direct TV, and other media companies, as well as As Tech pioneer AppNexus to try and merge Digital, OTT, and linear advertising all together in an effort to make up ground on Google and Facebook
This thread is trippy man.

Happy holidays everyone.
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If the web went back to what it was 20 years ago that would be economically catastrophic, I mean if it happened like nearly instantly, if it happened over a space of 10-15 years OK.
You may actually see better performance via docker or vm for linux under windows. Also, if you're using or can migrate to .Net core it works pretty well there.

I'm using containers for local services I'm not actively working on, even though the application is being deployed to windows, because it's been easier for me. I'd actually prefer Linux host at work, but there's legacy crap I need.

I do work remotely sometimes on my home hackintosh though.
the evil is in the details so it really depends on the boundary where the core is defined at, in nginx/mysql's case, the core is large enough for 99% small players, and the big players are willing to pay and the income is enough to sustain the projects. I somehow feel Kong's core is a bit limited which is how I found out Gravitee.
Feel the same way and that’s coming from someone who used to drive this car:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremyjohnstone/sets/721576332...
Video games are a hobby, my day job is GPS algorithms. More of the list is relevant for those than you might think.

Most of my games have been done in Java or Javascript.
But technology can help patients unite against hospitals... Just like Yelp crowdsources the restaurant experience, or Glassdoor crowdsources salaries,and anotherss could collect crowdsourced medical bills and predict prices for procedures.
To be fair the P/E will start to move towards 12. That's just inevitable.

If the P/E moves from the 39.37 I just Googled towards 12, the profit needs to triple to maintain share value. Heck, it was over 60 to start the year: https://ycharts.com/companies/GOOG/pe_ratio, and that seems a little insane to me.
raid1 a compresssd ramdisk to your OS drive and everything basically is instant
That's also be the job of the UX/Product Designer to learn about the users and business domain.
The difference between "buy options" and "don't put this in your passive retirement fund" is the same difference as
"I'm confident in the advice im dispensing" and "I have no idea what I'm talking about".

No, it's not at all. Buying options is actively betting on both price and time targets, and carries a much different risk profile compared to simply avoiding a specific investment.