skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's because nerds love to lose their shit any time a big company does anything.
In 1969, there was the Honeywell Kitchen Computer: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/minicomputers/11/...
If someone made a WiFi protocol which allowed me to "autoconnect and use WiFi whenever the price per GB was under $2", I'd make a lot of use of it.

As it is, connecting to "free WiFi" just isn't worth the hassle of clicking through T&C pages, and paid WiFi is even worse.
To replicate all published studies is not a simple practice. It would be an enormous task.
google can totally afford to build a dream town, they have fingers in every pie they would need to be in to build infrastructure for apart from construction.
We won a CES robotics innovation award, then they took it back
Half of sugar is fructose which follows a different metabolic pathway than glucose.
Absolutely. Open access to terabytes of lidar data is awesome.
For new users, explaining this in the privacy policy and getting their consent is enough. It is wise to store the consent, for a user might complain that he/she never gave their OK, and then it's up to you to prove that they did.

If you already have a user base, you should inform them that you are changing your processing of their data, again they must consent. (you will probably have received those kind of mails or popups on websites during the last year yourself)

Important question: are you offering the service to individuals interacting directly with your service, or are you processing this data on behalf of a business client (the "controller")?
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I never had that impression when I was building projects with Elm, in fact, it felt like I was focusing on the app itself instead of the language and boilerplate. I compared it with JS mess though.
Financed research with vested interests, though it may be, salt, fat and red meat can have palpable effects on the human body.

Salt is an implement of suicide, for one.

Red meat, I suspect, transmits all kinds of biological signaling residue from the original animal’s state, even when fully cooked. From horomones, to antibiotics, to persistent organic pollutants, and then onward to your electrolyte changes required to produce the gastric juices for the quantity you’ve eaten. Muscle protein, though it may be, it’s a carrier of all kinds of interesting artifacts, and when you start accepting ground beef, you even open up the window to prion diseases, since other tissues, besides muscle, sneak in.

Fat does have complications and side effects, now that we have a better concept of the way transfats interact with our metabolism, when they remain waxier and refuse to easily melt at body temperature, requiring more intensive effort to burn off. This means fried foods and processed food that deliver doses of transfat really do introduce a metabolic issue.

Food is complex, and refined sugar also adds problems. I don’t find sugar addictive, but in high quantities, and when combined with these other gotchas, sugar is definitely a serious contributor to all the obesity and diabetes we see, for sure. Eat some extra donuts for a month to notice the difference. Actually, don’t.

Caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are also complications, that seem to fly under the cognitive radar in these discussions. And are actually probably the worst offenders, in terms of seriously augmenting an unhealthy diet.
Like in science, number of citations in respected press articles. maybe add book references also.

Voting measures popularity, not influence.
Number of biographies is also a good metric, Has_Wikipedia page (notability) also.
# search results is a bit limited to internet users only.
what about jackie chan's life story screams luck and people handing him things coz he was handsome to you? literally all he did was hard work
It's just not the soda. The hidden sugar i.e. high fructose corn syrup is not literally in almost every imaginable product.
Or alternatively a HackRF clone ($100 from Alibaba etc), ADALM-PLUTO etc if you want an SDR that can cover a few GHz instead - these are great fun, even a $10 RTL-SDR is amazing (tops out at 1.5GHz though).
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It all depends on how much mass you can eject how quickly. If you have good enough propulsion you can save on thermal shielding (and propellant mass).

And, if you have a true science-fiction-grade engine, you may not even need propellant. ;-)
What have three years as a startup CTO taught me?
Most car chargers are standalone devices in a parking lot. There is no teller to pay. I have never seen one with an attendant.

They could take cash automatically like a vending machine but that's going to require new staff to go around and collect money and deposit it. Probably much more expensive than taking credit cards.
> You can move faster without type checking but a lot of times that just means letting code with silly bugs through that you're going to find @ runtime.

Oh yeah absolutely. And also, FP and immutability makes everything much easier to understand. Getting new devs making changes to 50k lines of JS is much much much worse than with a Haskell/Purescript/Elm project of similar complexity.
Well, people are angry about that, that’s why they react aggressively.
Is there a license category that says something like: "Anyone can use our tech to build stuff with for free however you may not re-sell our tech wrapped in maintenance or hosting services"?

If you're a small open source company with a services business model, how do you stop someone like AWS forking your code, making a few changes they don't share with you and basically becoming the de-facto supplier of maintenance and services for your tech?
I do not agree that it is "always a bad idea".

That is why I use Elm, and not some other compile-to-JS language that allows me more freedom.

I don't want freedom. I want constraints.

Freedom is the rope with which I can hang myself.

Constraints keep my bug tracker silent.
Starlite vs. thermite
But in the publicly visible (longest, official) chain, can't I estimate the effort that was used to mine from a certain transaction up to the head? Say the transaction I want to hide is b, then the attacker would need to mine a longer alternative chain (c', d'...). If transaction b was for $1000 and we can estimate that the mining of the visible chain c...f is at least $2k with a conservative estimate, can't we estimate that the attackers chain c'...g' must cost something at least vaguely proportoinal to that as well? Is it not even possible to make a conservative guesstimate of cost-vs-chain-length?

a<-b<-c<-d<-e<-f
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c'<-d'<-e'<-f'<-g'
This is literally the future open source promised and people wanted: the freedom for a business to be flexible in regards to technology and not get tied into unpleasant vendor contracts and demands.

There's no point in, or place for, spirit of the system vs letter of the system discussions or calls to morality. Mongo does not deserve to survive / exist if it can't make it's offering better than a competitors.

Would Mongo even exist as a company if it had launched as a contract only vendor? Pretty much not... so it can't demand to play both sides.
To clarify: The planning, I mean. Takes about 5 seconds because you start typing in your destination, choose it from the displayed options, and the car makes the plan. In the meantime you are starting your drive already.
A good DIY thermal insulator that can withstand thermite.
Original NightHawkInLight video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqR4_UoBIzY
The story behind starlite is also interessant, and it's recent probable recent rediscovery make it even more so.
The same guys also tested against oxy-acetylene.
What's crazy is that a fit cyclist on a road bike can easily beat a local Caltrain (stops at every station) all the way from San Francisco!

For example, travelling from Google's SF office to the Googleplex in MTV on the weekend will take about 2 hours and 45 mins via Caltrain/buses, and 2.5 hours via SF2G's Bayway route (http://sf2g.com/bayway.html).
Dear OP, if this level of minutiae upsets you, building a business may not be for you.
Also, add pre-registration and you've basically fixed the replication crisis.

And really, what's better? 400 studies that don't replicate, or 200 that do?
Google has specifically stated that logs from Google DNS are not retained long term, and will never be correlated from logs from other Google services.

I trust those claims.
> Or are you saying the erythrocyte is fixed onto a house window, and an erythrocyte can occlude the direct observation of an actual star in the sky (the biggest one we know of), even at 53 miles, which is over, beyond and even twice past any terrestrial horizon, and would need to be on a window in a skyscraper taller than anything ever built?

Yes. Also, I'm pretty sure your objections here are handled by "(flat, obviously)". The point is to make an analogy to sizes and distances on a human scale, not to make a point about the geometry of Earth.
i'm all for "exposing" how people really think but China is a country that literally disappears people, high profile internationally famous people like fan bingbing, for not paying their taxes. judicial process is almost a non-entity there if you anger the government.do you think chan has a choice in anything he says?

his choices are to toe the government line or never go back to his homeland. do you also criticize the chinese installed panchen lama for not speaking up against china?
Conflict-free replicated JSON implementation in Go
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I think they are referencing the drivers which are licensed under Apache 2.0.
I'm very compelled to pre-order one but has anybody heard any news about the touchscreen or the CPU issue? I worry that there is no word on either in the recent update (like what is being done, what is missing...?)
Caffeine in top three of the worst offenders in terms of seriously augmenting an unhealthy diet?

Do you mean if you have an unhealthy diet, these three can fuck it up way more?
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Actually, some starchy foods are worse than pure sugar when considering their glycemic index. Jasmine rice, for example, has a GI of 109, where pure sugar is 100.

So choose your starches smartly so that you don't get the large spike in blood sugar that can lead to health problems.
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I forked lsd just to fix these build instructions: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/pull/33

I removed my fork...
I visited that observatory few years ago.

Was in Okanagan for cherries and wine and just noticed a bunch of satellite dishes on Google Maps. Drove to check em out - lo and behold it's an observatory, with public tours, with one starting in 10 minutes. Had no choice but to go in. Interesting place. Quite a few people walking around with coffee mugs in their hand and looking as spaced out as your average developer deciphering a fresh kernel whoops from last night. Needless to say the atmosphere was spot on :)

If you are in a vicinity, it's worth a visit.
Holy shit I used to run this.. Thanks!
> I don't think it's hard to understand, it's just the plague of consumerism IMO.

It's not consumerism it's specialisation: with the advance of sedentarisation and techno-industrial might, we can afford to go beyond one tool doing a bit of everything not very well (e.g. shave and punch holes and cut food and …) and instead use plenty of tools which do one job very efficiently or conveniently.
I think there's a secondary aspect here as well. I walk a lot and always have. And while I almost never feel I need to walk 'fast', I've observed that my comfortable walking pace is a lot faster than most people I know who don't walk every day, even when I'm in no particular hurry.
> However, developers are technically savvy enough to distinguish between the real thing and a poor imitation. MongoDB will continue to outperform any impersonations in the market.

snerk Well, if it doesn't lose your data or have broken replication protocols for years, then it'd be a poor imitation, so I'll give the CEO that one.
yes, apparently. though thry could probably get it done eventually, probably not worth it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18868617
> and make the debugger and stacktrace useless

Chrome manages to do async stack traces for their implementation of the similar JavaScript feature. I wonder if this would be possible for C# and Rust.
I recall talking to a school friend, who happened to land a job in Microsoft working on DRM. That was their daily routine. They knew that no matter how good they were, any new measure would be countermeasured within months. Target was to be ahead of people cracking that protection in the (very) long run, not to win short battles.
Great tip, thanks.

TIL: adb shell has all sorts of goodies, so I went for the one-liner:

pm list packages com.facebook | sed 's/package://' | xargs -n 1 -- pm uninstall -k --user 0

(There's a spurious warning at the end, seems their `xargs -n` likes adding a newline: `ls | xargs -n 1`)
Couldn't agree more.

I have been an avid gamer all my life. In the recent decade it's taken a hit, as life (work, moving in with the gf, etc.) got in the way.

Ultimately, though, I come back to gaming. I play fewer games, as their quality overall has been affected by capitalism's relentless pursuit to ruin everything in the name of profits, but there are still plenty of good titles left.

I have come to the realisation that nothing else in life gives me the kind of happiness and peace of mind as gaming does. It's about as good as the most effective drugs I've known and that's saying quite something (certainly healthier too).

When I play games, I have something to focus on, while simultaneously rewarding the part of my brain involved in learning and accomplishment. It's a killer mixture I've fostered since I was a toddler pretty much, so it hooks into something very primal, deep down.

The funny thing is, that gaming has gone from the thing reject-nerds used to do, to a thing that's broadly socially accepted. So nowadays I can finally just happily admit that I enjoy games.

What I do not admit is, that almost anything I do in life is so I can play more games and ultimately, I don't mind, because that's where I have found more happiness than anywhere else.

The only thing that comes remotely close is the stability I get from a healthy family life living with my girlfriend, who loves gaming just as much.

Going to work, the forced socialising required to hold down the job, etc. is all just a means to do more gaming. If I could disappear into a virtual world full-time, I would.
I think QA is still a very important role in a serious company, we still have a lot of QAs in the company I work in.
We developers do write tests but that is usually not enough and QA always founds meaningful bugs.
IMO a good QA team is still really valuable.
Open-source gave AWS the ability to monetize their software so the software companies should be careful enough to prevent any other big company to steal their software and use their name to make money.

I think that it's too late considering AWS already did that to most of the industries but here is Hazelcast's take: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-source-needs-protect-its...
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> Yeah, it's pretty restrictive for FP people, but I think that's fine. I think it's easier for FP people to deal with that amount of restriction, than it is for the average JS developer to quickly understand how to wield as much power as e.g. PureScript gives you.

I have heard this sentiment earlier, and I believe that there is a better middle ground. Use a less restrictive platform and simply don't use features you deem too complicated. That's a better approach because as the developer becomes more familiar with typed FP, they would be able to use better and better tools at their disposal. i.e. the toolset will grow with their skill.

> Also a little surprised you mentioned do notation; it's just syntax sugar after all :)

Oh it's less of an issue, but syntax does matter a lot. I find that Monads become intractable for new devs without do-notation.
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"a mile from home. At that distance, there's a good chance I wouldn't be able to find parking any closer to where I'm going"

Would you drive, just to travel a mile? Barely seems worth it in the best case. That's without getting into the environmental and social issues.
Very, very enjoyable! Amazing.
Encoding and decoding of JSON usually adds huge amounts of boilerplate (in some small-to-medium-sized apps it might account for more than half of the LoC), and separating an app into modules requires you to add some boilerplate in your update functions.
Implementing MongoDB API is something like implementing SQL language, doesn't it? Plus communication protocol with auth, of course.
Buy their records on Bandcamp instead. It's that simple.
I just realized that I walk this way whenever I'm traveling in an unfamiliar place and find that I've chosen a route through a sketchy part of town.

I'll walk straight through at a brisk pace with a little bit of a scowl on my face as though I'm annoyed to have to be crossing this same area of town again and none of these f'ng people had better get in my f'ng way.

Now I know why I do that.
I was wondering about this as well, haven't ever found a good answer.

https://earthsky.org/tonight/can-we-see-stars-outside-our-mi...

Only addresses visible stars, which are all in our Galaxy. The thing is Andromeda actually covers more of the night sky than the moon, so I kinda wonder if an instrument could resolve individual stars. I don't know a whole lot about that other than Airy discs, which would suggest no, stars are too close to each other in angular terms.
> It would seem your idea of the day to day life in China is one entirely written by US news networks

How else am I supposed to learn about life in China without speaking Chinese? There's not a go-to source in English for this sort of thing. Of course I'll click on top search results and receive their biased version.

The Great Firewall works both ways. On one side Chinese citizens can't learn about the western culture without putting in some effort. On the other, western people can't learn shit about the daily life in China.
While I agree with what you said it is important to note that the OSI isn't the defining authority on what is to be considered open source.
I totally disagree with the conclusion, although I've struggled with some of these issues. The $25/mo fee is annoying, and I had to manually migrate some of my subscriptions. But none of these issues have been dealbreakers, and the process has been very streamlined and easy in general. I would highly recommend Stripe Atlas, especially if you're starting a company for the first time and don't really know what to do. Going through Stripe Atlas was like having an advisor who helps you with every step, and it's definitely worth any extra costs.

I'd like to switch to a different bank in the future, but I'm not a US citizen and I'm living in a foreign country, so the $25/mo fee isn't too bad.
Have you got a source on that? Not questioning that it does sound like an EU thing, but it could come in handy at my current company if there's legislation on that and I can't seem to find any.
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If parking were easily available & free, then whats the downside? 15 min + a bit of effort versus 5 min and no effort... and you have the convenience of having a car nearby for your next thing (eg lunch).

The choice seems obvious to me.
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> I find that Monads become intractable for new devs without do-notation.

That's a fair point, and I agree, however this somewhat negates your previous point:

> Use a less restrictive platform and simply don't use features you deem too complicated. That's a better approach because as the developer becomes more familiar with typed FP, they would be able to use better and better tools at their disposal. i.e. the toolset will grow with their skill.

I can't say definitively, but you could argue that on a team, a more experienced developer might use more advanced features of a technology, which less experienced developers then have to just deal with. They might feel intimidated by that, and discouraged from working with the technology at all. I'm using "team" in a more abstract sense here too; it could be all the collaborators (existing or potential) of an open source project.

I'm not arguing the anti-intellectual position that everything should be dumbed-down. I just believe — as you said — there is some middle ground, which also isn't universally applicable.
While we are on the topic, are there cloud providers out there that provide "hosted FoundationDB as a service"?

And if you are curious, no I don't have any special need or use case for it, just wondering.