skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This research has been funded by a coffee retail company, which by no surprise shows positive benefits of drinking coffee. To credit it says so on the springer verlag page.

"Funding
This study has been supported by Tchibo GmbH, Hamburg, Germany."

Tchibo GmbH
"Tchibo is a German chain of coffee retailers and cafés known for its range of non-coffee products that change weekly."
Buying it at inflated prices from Intel effectively rewards them for their inability to produce more. That seems like the wrong incentive to set.
I don't think the author is saying tech debt is ONLY fixed on Fridays.

Companies have a hard time prioritizing things that only engineers can see. Especially small things. So some form of reserved engineer bandwidth for tech debt can be useful.
In the eyes of the law, how is this different to being compelled to give your passcode though? Of course it’s easier and they could maybe even unlock a phone with your corpse but in jurisdictions where the law protects the individual’s privacy above all else this shouldn’t make a difference.
I feel like scraping my bank transaction data to be the most violating breach of my privacy (more so than my likes), and yet companies like Plaid are thriving because people are willing to give up access to years of bank transaction history to use apps like Robinhood.
Yes, exactly the same for me, I've tried all the configuration possible with the jvm (that I know of) but nothing really worked to make it use a more reasonable amount of memory.
Look at msbuild. It tries to use XML as a syntax for its configuration. But because you absolutely need a programming language for this task, you program a very odd language that is unlike anything else. It combines the clearty and simplicit of XML with the intuitivity of a dsl.

Now think of a lisp that uses YAML as its syntax instead of sexprs. That might be a much better choice than msbuild, but do you really want that? Would that make things better?
As someone trying to wet my feet in SEO, what kind of a process would you apply to determine the "best" keywords for a project. I can list a load of terms I'd like to rank highly in, but they're most likely too competitive to actually be pursuable.

Is it possible to figure out what your competitors are doing, obviously without access to their Google analytics? I'd like to see how they've solved their problems, learn from it and know how to differentiate from their approach.
Urbit sounds cool. Lets make sure no-one has access to it. great plan
AS3 was a huge improvement over AS2. However Typescript type system is incredibly dynamic and malleable yet quite strict.

Typescript gets its huge strength from being able to bring a slider of type safety from pure js - Wild West crazy to strong null checked safety.

Having that pragmatic option of a slider is great for productivity.
Yup, it's ridiculous cargo cultism from mediocre C# programmers. There's nothing about C# that forces you into MS's ecosystem.

In 2014, well before Microsoft's dotnetcore oss adventure, I ran the dev team at a startup. Our entire backend was C#. Our devs used the OS of their preference, and so we had Mac, Windows and Linux. Xamarin Studio is (was?) a remarkably decent IDE for something so niche.

We hosted it in Docker (bad call, it was way too new then) on Mono (great call, it Just Worked), on Linux. Data in Postgres. All of this was as easy as doing the same with eg JS or Java (and arguably easier than eg Ruby because C# has a proper cross platform dependency story).

There's nothing about C# that forces you to use SQL Server or Azure. Absolutely nothing.
I suppose it's to do with the drivers. Genuine question - why does it matter?

If the goal is get some hardware up and running with an OS, I've found it easier to get drivers for Windows OS, even older versions, compared to Linux. And that includes the more recent versions of Linux.
socialism != fascism

they're completely opposite on the spectrum. socialism is people's democratic ownership of property and government.
Minsk as a startup hub
Last Week in Kubernetes Development: Week Ending January 13th, 2019
If it was proprietary it would not be free - why should they pay then and not now? I am arguing that they would not, just like they don't now - there is no difference. The problem is with selling software - not with Open Source, if it was entirely Open Source - then they would not have to pay and they would use it.
You might want to go learn a bit of history:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine
Not a word about the 1.2 millions acres burnt in British Columbia, Canada ? That's pretty lame...
> Do not join "loyalty" programs, do not sign up to surveillance platforms like Facebook, do not submit your DNA to DNA databases, pay in cash whenever possible, etc.

I'm doing most of that already but even if you do all of these things, there's still the "friends" problem. The friends who use one of those apps that upload all of their contacts to the central server. The friends who use facebook. The family members who submit DNA to DNA databases. Very likely your friends are similar to you, so they serve as good predictors for your own data. As is for your family members, they usually have very similar DNA to yours :).

E.g. if your friends all live in one certain city, then you likely are to live there as well. If you have a suspiciously high amount of medical doctors in your friend circle, you are most likely one yourself. If 50% of your contacts are LGBT community members, you are likely to be one, too.

The data hoarders of this world don't need you to submit your data yourself in order to have your data.
Except for the non-crippled software part, even with LineageOS or similar. A desktop OS has a lot of software infrastructure that Android doesn't have.
Because someone else did, and there are no useful answers there: https://www.quora.com/How-did-Quora-get-hacked-and-100-milli...

And here's another one: https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-third-party-that-hacked-in...
This isn't for gaming, or even any normal commercial use. I think Intel and AMD have stayed sane with TDP reqs lately especially for consumers chips.
> They just published absurd papers in ostensibly serious journals.

You and I can say the papers were absurd, but an argument is only meaningful to the extent that it has persuasive power to someone who doesn't already agree with it. For anyone who disagrees that the papers were absurd, the hoax has no argument to make - that's where it falls down compared to Sokal, or SciGen-style hoaxes, etc.

I mean honestly, did you read the authors' writeup? I remember it had a bit in the summary like: "so what has this experiment proved exactly? Well, we'll leave that for you to decide". If that's a study that's proved its thesis, I'm a banana.

> Therefore, the hoax shows that you do not need to be trained in these fields to publish in these journals.

I don't know what special training an academic from one branch of the social sciences would need to publish in another, but again you're claiming the study proves something the study authors didn't even discuss. That's not a tenable position to hold, and you might reconsider why you hold it.
Hypothesis time: the predisposition to flats is due to Big Band, Blues and Jazz music being predisposed to it. And there it is logical due to the B flat and E flat tuning of the horns (their C is our B flat or E flat).
To be fair, pure js with types as jsdoc comments that typescript handles just fine is a great way to write code.

No transpiration needed for node modules. No source maps, it’s same old plain JS that’s nicely checked by typescript.
Marketing is fine. If I buy a drill because of an advert I won't feel compelled to buy a new one next year because it has a slightly different shape and my current one got artificially limited.
PII Xeons were not relabeled PII’s. They had a full speed cache bus while the PII had a half speed one.
This is so well made. I love the concept and the ambition of the idea. Good luck!
Apache Ignite is also using H2 as their "SQL parser and query planner" layer
How does it feel to be idle?
Chinese people's reaction to Weibo's ban on gay content [video]
> We forget Elvis because the Beatles came up [..]

This is how everyone perceives it, but is it true?
The Beatles were active from 1960 until their break-up in 1970 while Elvis worked from 1953 until his death in 1977. His international hit "In the Ghetto" was released in 1969, a time when the Beatles were already divided and their break-up was imminent. In reality the Beatles and Elvis were very much contemporaries.

And as an aside: It always amused me that Tarentino got that right in the "Beatles people vs Elvis people" scene. Beatles and Stones are compared all the time because they are perceived to be from the same generation. Except for the Tarentino scene I have never heard a comparison like that between the Beatles and Elvis - it is always just Elvis before, Beatles after.
Competition, even for open source projects is a great boon.

I really would hate for Facebook to kill off flow because Typescript is popular.

Microsoft, as great as they are at OSS, they still have to answer to a chain of Managers who are distant from the actual users of their software.
I initially had the same thought, then I realized that these are the cameras that they actually own, not just old cameras in general. If I had an old QuickTake I would probably send it to them.
Well, kind of.

It was supposed to teach a reader how to think like a graphic designer and what to pay attention to. The ultimate goal of the text was to make a logo creating process a bit easier.
:) the same happened to me!
Perplexing Co-Movement of the Dollar and Oil Prices
speaking from personal experience
I relied heavily on mnemonics memorizing skills during my years in academia.

At the beginning I had time visualizing all those "fake situations" and images. That's OK. You're OK. It gets much easier as you practice.

What helped me in this process is avoiding movies(especially modern action movies) and reading books.
helicopters with 4x the number of blades

I mean, what’s the difference between a helicopter with four blades, versus the same helicopter by with only one blade, but four times the size?

Except a full scale helicopter blade is easily 100 times larger.

So they are helicopters, but 100 times smaller, but with four blades.
10 Amp 120V circuits are quite common in the US and Canada.
Yeah, you're right. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Ask HN: Synonyms/Alternative phrasing for end-to-end pipeline?
I have been working on some documentation and cover letters. The phrase "end-to-end pipeline" keeps popping up and it seems repetitive. How would you rephrase it? I am suffering from a bad case of writer's block and am probably obsessing over the details, but would appreciate any help.
I thought you were going to say: “Who cares if you build this project or not. Go out and enjoy life, as long as you can.” :P
Nice to see a cautious approach, as opposed to some of their competitors who are launching new services with little or no preparation.

I wonder though, if an app based service can ever really challenge a traditional bank when it comes to business?

Personally, I like Monzo but only use it for everyday transactions - for anything other than this I stick with the same Barclays account I've held for 15 years or so. I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised if this is fairly typical behaviour?
Google built and open sourced an entire horizontal scaling cluster management system for MySQL: https://vitess.io/
Continuous growth is not possible on a finite planet.
I keep hearing that but I dunno. I’m building a fairly large side project in Express + React and I keep finding ways of doing things in ES6 - lodash is still not to be found in package.json. I think I might cave in eventually but as it stands my code feels clean and succinct and it’s all done in modern functional style.
Field notes: London, England (2018)
OpenJDK is mostly developed by Oracle employees. There isn't OpenJDK without them.

Oracle did the right thing against Android J++.
The speed of a propeller is low close to the rotor, and sometimes faster than sound at the extremity of the blades. Can’t reduce sound on that.
My (big metropolitan) supermarket chain got rid of their loyalty card program.

One explanation I've heard, is that so many people are purchasing with credit/debit cards, that most purchasers are readily identified and purchase history tracking continues unaffected.

And if you purchase with a credit card, one way those businesses bolster their bottom lines is by selling your transaction history -- down to individual items purchased.

It's enough to make one want to go back to cash...
Some people like to have things in separate apps (even if they are not native) just so you can open and close it quicker than finding it in your tabs or getting distracted by all the other content open in your browser.

That's why there are apps packaging websites in apps too: https://meetfranz.com
Just about anything can last that long if maintained. Current phones struggle to last that long simply because that's what works best for companies and there is little consumer demand for change.

Our current lifestyle of buying a new phone every 3 years is incredibly selfish and is destroying our planet.
Give Semantic Merge a try https://www.semanticmerge.com
I've noticed tons of blocked requests to graph.instagram.com but no side-effects, why did you need to whitelist it?
You misunderstand, I meant a public blockchain. People have been using the bitcoin and ethereum blockchain to store proof of existence for ages now, see stamp.io

You could create an ethereum based registry fairly simply where people paid to be included. I'm definitely addressing both technical and people problems here.

Apart from that, I'm sorry, the practicalities of crypto-currency have been debated ad nauseum and I don't feel like arguing them today. :(
Looks nice, but I am uneasy putting this kind of information into an opaque platform. Google, Salesforce, a self-hosted wiki...not going anywhere plus options to export and move.

If it were a desktop app with a local sqlite DB then, yes, definitely (for single user). If I could run a network security and host it on my company intranet, absolutely.
People are different. Each mind is different. Only over 30% of the population is highly visual.

When people talk about "images" in the memorization world, they are not just talking about visual memories. But also touch(we have millions of touch sensors distributed along the skin) "images". Speech images. Spacial 3d "images", "smell images","kinestesic or muscle memory and so on.

A persona that is born blind can't make visual images, a baby with malfunctioning ears will not develop sound images. In fact, you could restore vision or cochlea "sensors" later in life and they will not be able to hear or see because the brain as a baby did not have it and neural connections were not made. This is the reason they test for hearing on babies and operate them as soon as possible.

But that a blind or deaf person could not see or listen, it does not mean that he could not make an "image" of the world, in fact some areas of their brains will be actually stronger than on people that can see or hear.

You have to know thyself, what are your strong areas, and favor those sensory images. I am deeply kinesthetic for example, so I always favor space relationships and movement, actions and so on.
Ah, I haven't been aware of usage of phrygian mode in metal music. Maybe that's what skews the ratio of Emaj/Emin towards the latter?
Going into semantics! Has there even been a 'true socialism' by your definition?
Testing is like eating.

You can do it well, bad, in harmful or pathological ways, in healthy ways, too much, too little, for ideological or misguided reasons, at the wrong time ... but if you stop doing it completely, you will eventually die.

Don't follow any dogmatic advice about it ; instead, learn to recognize by yourself if the way you currently do it is providing value, and why.

And finally, move along ; and learn the big set of other skills needed to keep your code bases under control.
Growing up with a violent and abusive father who, at the same time, was a darling of society, I'm not so convinced, that Jannie Duncan was just a poor victim of circumstances.

Sociopaths have the talent to fool the people around them about their true nature. But behind closed doors and towards their spouses and children the mask comes off.

To me it seems like the author is willing to value some of his findings differently, merely because as a "black female who stood against a white-led prosecution" his subject is high on the contemporary so-called "oppression pyramid".
> and has Apple standing behind it.

So far behind it that they already shut it down once.
This is the most bullshit answer. By that logic we should all just be buying things non stop just to throw them out because it gives more people jobs.

When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.

There are unlimited jobs that require virtually no consumption in areas like research, art, teaching, music, wildlife conservation and so many more.
Why is using 1.1.1.1 as a DNS resolver and using VPN better than trusting your ISP...
This. It's encrypted data. You can't even see where the files are.

I can only surmise that this means that they scanned the content of the hard drives and found data sequences that matched some file hashes of known child pornography.
Somewhat unrelated but I've written a restful search server that's powered by Sqlite's full-text search. Extremely lightweight python (flask) app. Nice for blogs or small projects, if I say so myself!

https://github.com/coleifer/scout
Polar looks brilliant. Thanks for creating this and making this open source.
VC deal market has become opaque. Investors and founders want it like that
You would be very interested in the work of independent research biologist Brian J Ford (http://www.brianjford.com/bjford.htm). Over the years he has championed the idea of the intelligent cell, and the importance of studying the entire system of the living cell.

Check out his latest publications here: http://brianjford.com/wbbjf10.htm
I thought I was the only one :) To be honest, the main reason I started scrolling through the comments is because I wanted to check if someone else heard it in their head too.
Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (2000)
> The data hoarders of this world don't need you to submit your data yourself in order to have your data.

It's the vaccination problem (not that one) — if enough people get vaccinated you can prevent a flu outbreak; if they don't, vaccinating yourself will only have limited effectiveness.
I think that the boundary case is that we at least have a common ancestral single cellular life-form. To my mathematically inclined approach, anything else (such as a the earliest common ancestor being close-to-human, or whether there needs to be a male or female one) is not a logical debate, but rather a biological investigation.
Quantum computing as a field is obvious bullshit
Banning the root word of the domain is my favorite way of discussing any controversial topic.

Try discussing religion with someone of a different faith without invoking God(s) or any specific prophets. It turns out that you're left with origin theories, a system of morals, and a mostly observations-based prototype to modern science.

Now try international politics without using the terms war, peace, or border.
> And governments have the power to order companies to share their data, e.g. CLOUD Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act), so all personal data collectied by corporations automatically becomes data owned by the governments.

Not exactly, the CLOUD Act is an amendment to the Stored Communications Act which removes the stipulation that the data requested in a subpoena or warranted search under the SCA be located in the U.S.

The SCA does not authorize mass collection, unless companies are too lazy to limit disclosures to communications content related to the specific person under investigation.
Anders Hejlsberg, the lead architect behind TypeScript has created C# and J++ at Microsoft, and Delphi and Turbo Pascal before. It's safe to say he has some experience in designing languages.
Thats What i told him and it quickly escalated to HR ;) and it was 30% for after hours i dident get extra for responding but was it was often at nite it would sleep in the next day.
You may also enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I&feature=youtu.be... (I V vi IV)
Pantheon – Who are the globally known people
Corel LinuxOS (1999)
We're talking about replacing/supplementing residential delivery trucks, which don't run at night.
Socialism is the unconditional surrender of all property (including the person) to the state, through whatever legal fiction provides for that. The "demos" in your "democratic ownership" is "The People", not the people.

And frankly, if you ever try to impose that on me, I will treat it just as any other form of assault (as will many with me across North America).
> then externally the system can determine which most-recent version of the library is still compatible

This is great until a more recent version of a library still has the same interface but a completely different behaviour or seriously breaking bug in the implementation.
Remember time. One way to think about this dilemma is that evidence is a result of observing reality. Evidence are about the present and the past. Politics on the other hand is a way to change reality, which will change the future observations to give different evidence as a result. Politics is about making changes now to change the future. Evidence and politics are connected but separated by time.
Yes, the economic incentives of the world are totally fucked. Do not mistake what we have currently for the best situation or acceptable. What apple and almost every phone company does is immoral and completely unacceptable.
> For example, I have a lot of Jetbrains IDEs installed for various languages, but I don't want to pollute my global environment with tools, especially command line tools that pollute the PATH. Let's say I want to use Jetbrains Rider. I can easily start a shell with the dotnet SDK with `nix-shell -p dotnet`, then start Rider under that shell. This is OK, but it feels wrong to me. It feels weird that launching Rider outside of nix-shell won't ever work, yet it's installed globally. And yet, I also kind of want it to be globally installed...

I use nix-buffer[0], which lets Emacs pick up the environment automatically when I open any file in the project. And as long as you only use setq-local it'll stay scoped to those files, "normal" files still open in the regular user environment. It's even seamless to keep files from multiple such projects open at once.

[0]: https://github.com/shlevy/nix-buffer
Apple's Cassandra footprint has grown to over 100 PB (https://twitter.com/jjirsa/status/1071357976454316033)
you have no idea how chip manufacturing works, do you? :)
its a gamble for them to get such chips
They should! This could even be a cool way to apply something like Gödel numbering. [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del_numbering
> ...influencing future behavior...

This is insightful (to me at least) — the next step after surveillance capitalism is coercion capitalism.

I think the “nothing to hide / nothing to fear” people won't like being coerced. (Also, by their logic, GAFAM should be unafraid of publishing their algorithms — right?)
SQL 3d engine
> I need more real-world information on how things tend to work in practice.

Have you tried reading any book?
I never use vim or emacs viper-mode on my machine. But I let other people to use my emacs viper-mode:

vi()
{
emacs -nw --eval '(and (switch-to-buffer "foobar") (setq viper-mode t) (setq viper-inhibit-startup-message t) (setq viper-expert-level 1) (viper-mode))' "$@"
}

alias vim=vi
alias vim.tiny=vi
alias vim.basic=vi
Capitalism on a roll!