skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer buying media from Google Play and iTunes Store. Watching specific shows that I decided to buy seems like more of an entertainment event.

That said, I think Netflix is a good value, but there are very real opportunity costs to realize at the end of a weekend that I ‘binged’ on a series for 4 or 5 hours. Time is our most precious resource.
This is a great explanation for anti-vaxxers as well.
Module counts
I found them: https://puri.sm/faq/#faq-Whatarethephonespecs

Edit: argh, I think their lazy-loading breaks the anchor link browsing position. I will just paste the contents here:

Development is still ongoing, so most of the specs are not finalized yet. What is certain at this moment is:

CPU: NXP® i.MX 8M Quad or NXP® i.MX 8M Quad Mini

GPU: Vivante GC7000Lite

RAM: 3 GB minimum (subject to change)

Screen: 720×1440 high-DPI 5.7″ (glossy)

WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n

Bluetooth: Yes

GPS: Yes

NFC: No (subject to change)

FM Radio: No

Card slot: microSD

Loudspeaker: Yes

3.5mm jack: Yes

SIM cards: One

Camera: Front and back

Replaceable Battery: Yes (with tools)

Smart Card Reader: Yes (OpenPGP-compatible)

Everything else is To Be Determined. This applies to: dimensions, weight, supported modem frequencies, internal storage capacity, maximum SD card capacity, camera specs, other screen specs, battery life, SAR values, etc.
I settled with a SuperMicro's passive Atom solution and a Fractal Design mini case, able to hold six disks. It is very quiet when you tune down the fans and keeps the disks just below 40°C which is optimal for me. We have the NAS in the same room we sleep and it doesn't bother us.
If you look back another generation the difference is more apparent. What did you use prior to Phoenix? Node was popular for a bit, but Rails/Django was much larger. In their lifetime there have been a number of major players in the front-end (jQuery, Backbone, Ember, Angular, Angular 2.0, a few more obscure libraries). There have also been a number of build tools (Grunt, Gulp, Webpack) and a number of preprocessors (LESS, SASS, etc)

The churn has been real
You've probably heard this before but there are a lot of people who'd be interested in a cross-platform (NAS/Linux/BSD/Raspberry Pi) version with a command-line or web interface.

As is it's really best for workstations rather than the NAS/servers a lot of people who care about their data use (not just basement-dwelling data hoarders but also professionals like photographers and videographers).
"Nuclear could operate just like the dirty producers and only operate when the combined wind and solar is too low for the demand"

Not quite. Nuclear isn't that dispatchable.

In general I agree though, short term we should be using all tools at our disposal, long term depends on how energy storage etc works out.
It's kind of telling that all the sibling posts suggest SaaS options.
The ironic thing about MS Office these days is that, even if it's still proprietary, you at least get to run it locally as a native application and keep control of your data.
Unless you want to create your own styles for components like buttons from scratch, yes, you will still need a CSS framework. There are a plethora of such frameworks available today, many of which are lighter than Bootstrap (and don't require JQuery).

I'm very familiar with Bootstrap though, so I'll personally continue to use it for a long time to come, unless there is a really compelling reason to use another framework.
I'm a Technical Fellow at a company with over 15k employees in the medical testing industry.

I began programming on a Tandy TRS-80, but today I primarily work in Angular, Node and TypeScript.

I have no formal training.

So yes, with the right experience for the role, you don't need a degree.

When I'm interviewing candidates, the last thing I care about is their degree.

I want to know what their passion is, how they approach solving problems, etc.

Regardless of whether you're self-taught, being able to demonstrate your work on Github or a personal site is an absolute must.

Experience takes time to acquire. Be patient. Work on and learn what you want to be doing in your spare time. That will pay off faster than anything.
Yeah. Solve that with tests or a compiler.

Not using jQuery doesn’t suddenly make that problem go away.
I can read it in Firefox if I allow scripts from time.com and cloudflare.com (using NoScript). I'm in UK. It also works in Dillo, which has no JavaScript support.
Sarcasm :)
Hi there, programmer since age 4, professionally for about 27 years. You haven't heard of me. There's a fair chance you've used something I've worked on, but more likely you haven't. I'm over 40 and haven't had my zillion dollar Californian exit. In fact, despite extracting some rather generous sums from clients over the years, I still often struggle financially due to the people, animals, and causes I care for.

I know people who've had exits. Some of them have a family they neglected for it. Often there's an abused (or just cheated-on) spouse. Many of them are just pure sociopaths who would shank their own mothers, and literally gave all to pursue an exit. If you really wanted to join them, you know you could. But you haven't. This shows that despite your doubts about your career, you have some degree of integrity. And yes, I'm aware not all people with the Grand Exit achievement are this dirty, but having had a front-row seat enough times, I can verify it's substantially easier when they are. I should also mention I know some genuinely nice, and not incredibly talented, people who sort of stumbled into the Grand Exit and have been horribly alienated by the ruthless financial demands of entitled "friends and family."

You've chosen your battles, be proud of your choices. In just a few more decades, you and I and the overachievers will all be equal below the surface of the planet. Their names and works will be forgotten too.

Till then, let's have fun and maybe lift a couple other people up with us.
1. yes
2. you would want to encrypt before sending to rpi anyway
It's only incompatible when ISPs actually act on their natural preference for consumption to go towards in-house edge caches. It's not that much different from the ancient art of configuring http servers and caching proxies to get along well (back even caching proxies were still a thing).
Netflix will probably join the videogame industry and, in a sense, has already started doing it with the interactive Black Mirror episode.
Propaganda? I’m curious now, explain.
Mastodon 2.7: Highlights from the changelog
Anything could be interpreted in any conceivable way.
> If for some reason pharma companies were unable to at least recoup the cost of their (expensive) R&D efforts, it would disincentive new drug development.

I'd like to see any evidence at all for this.

The closest thing we have to a controlled experiment is the software industry, where patents are a) difficult to obtain, at least in a way analogous to patenting a molecule and b) not culturally common among large portions of the R&D community. There is a huge amount of R&D into better databases, better operating systems, better distributed systems, better UIs, better programming languages, better compilers, etc. etc. that happens with no patent protection, and often with no license fees or other direct monetary compensation at all. Microsoft being willing to keep their source code secret and patent their techniques didn't help NT defeat Linux one bit, and certainly has caused no loss of people willing to work on Linux.
Highly Available SQL Server on GKE – Step by Step
“Copyright”, is something you get automatically in most countries whenever you durably persist some kind of creative expression.

It does not generally prevent you from copying a design like this. A word clock is a concept: but that requires patent protection, not copyright.
A word clock is a concept that requires patent protection, not a copyrightable expression.
Even if I agreed that China does nothing “uniquely immoral”, their lack of freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of assembly means that it is harder to change whatever immoral things they are doing.

As for specific things China has done, their latest campaign of persecution has been in the news recently: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/world/asia/china-uighur-m...
To get round the paywall for WSJ, click the “web” link next to the article link above, then the first result.
Depends on how many possible patents there are. Patents do cost money to maintain/file. It's possible that there could be life saving drugs that have so many possible patents that compared to the actual likely financial return it would be uneconomical to patent them.

Which to be fair is probably very unlikely given how healthcare costs and whatnot work in America. Can always bump the price up to compensate for expenses.

BUT - this is still a very useful tool for locating possibly cheaper/simpler methods of producing drugs that have expired protections. There is a project out there that is working on a bioreactor kit that allows the safe home production of several common drugs that are not patent protected. There are also projects that could have been life saving but were already not financially viable that could be rescued by this program.

And if someone is fast enough and has the funds to burn, they could patent some of those processes and then do what Tesla did with their patents.

I think this may open up more opportunities in the long run than it closes.
This is also the release that adds the foundation of support for follower migration.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/9629
Sure, but startups also tend not to patent their work. When one startup dies, another can make another attempt at the same thing.

(I'm not saying patents in the tech industry don't happen ever - at the last startup I worked for, I got three patents - just that they don't meaningfully limit the ability of other people to replicate the work or compete directly, the way pharma patents seem to.)
Bingo! This is not all of it, but it's a big part.

This is being on the other end of the common internet career advice of "write blog posts to set yourself apart".
What happens when Netflix is the only profitable channel of distribution around by killing most competitors and then introduces regular ads?
Grab and Go: How Sticky Gloves Have Changed Football
What is the purpose of the cylindrical layered conical discs in power stations?
I've been wanting to buy a new analog synthesizer for a few years now, but i almost always balk at the price of these things. I can afford these things, but they never feel like a sound financial choice.

Personally, I blame the Raspberry Pi. Having played with a quad-core, 1GHz device with a GPU and wifi chip that retails for ~$30, i just can't see myself dropping $300 - $500 on an underpowered analog synthesizer...i've mostly just moved to digital synthesis now, which is quite enriching and fun. if anyone's in the same boat as me, I'd highly recommend nanoloop, which is quite fun to make music with on your phone: https://nanoloop.com/

I get that the analog synthesizers have a great musical feel and history to them, but i just don't think they provide that much more utility or flexibility than 10-100x cheaper digital instruments.
Assuming you mean application level cache you can't really generalize it. In general you don't want to cache anything if you can because cache invalidation is a really hard problem.
I'm not convinced drug research is expensive. I've met grad students. I've seen how much they do and how much they get paid.

That leaves the regulatory process, and if the problem is government intervention in the free market with overtones of regulatory capture (drug regulation being too excessive), the solution is certainly not more government intervention in the free market with overtones of regulatory capture (patents).
This is a headache for me too: with a sheet being a canvas on which you can add tables, charts, the tables have scroll bars if they overflow. Instead of the rigid single grid per tab, where if you show two tables one over the other you need to align the columns even when they have different data types

Another thing I'd like to see is to be able to treat cells as objects rather than single scalar variables. For example, to represent data that has more than two dimensions.
This is the New York Times. This is not unusual. Journalists shit on people who can’t hurt them all the time. The New York Times is different only insofar as it can shit on more people from a greater height. Journalistic ethics is a lie.
JupyterLab
Open Source GPU compute stack – Not dancing the CUDA dance
LPC2018 (Dec 3, 2018) - Open Source GPU compute stack - Not dancing the CUDA dance

speaker: David Airlie (RedHat)

YouTube video at:
https://youtu.be/d94N2Lu4x9s

Slides downloadable from:
https://linuxplumbersconf.org/event/2/contributions/63/attachments/16/73/lpc2018_airlie_compute_2.odp
But the same rule that basic cost equals hardware + setup + energy + maintenance also applies to the upstream provider, and their upstream provider, all the way along the selected route including the biggest interchange touched. The economic arrangements are different, but the cost base is just that.
A not-so-fun fact: My country used to be on the 301 Special Report (IPR "rogue country" list) until 2015 because American pharmaceutical companies didn't consider procedural patents good enough. The last patents in that category were issued in 1995...

Apparently the income of Big Pharma investors is more important than the affordability of generics.
I do not understand the ramifications, but how come nobody ever answers "Tauthon" to this discussions?

https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon

Background:
https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/
If you like troposphere, you'll love stacker:

https://github.com/cloudtools/stacker
Thing is nuclear can not be only nuclear. Or actually it can, but then you should compare it to other science fiction tech like solar in orbit, because the kind of reactors that can be steered to demand has just not been designed yet.
I block google analytics, so I don't think that's the source. Thanks for looking into it.
Cities hate accountability. It's not a systems issue, it's a "the kind of people who are in power" issue. This being said such a system is probably a good step in the right direction but I would be very surprised to see it adopted in any kind of official governing body.
I had this realization after we found a solid preschool for my kid, after having been at one that was just ok. Same with piano lessons. There was this moment where I just went, “oh, that’s how you do it.”

Even as someone with the flexibility and time to be a part of my kids’ educational experience, I now have an enormous appreciation for what a good teacher is capable of. They’re almost always several steps ahead of me, introducing concepts I hadn’t thought to introduce, in ways I hadn’t thought of doing it.
FreeNAS works fine with 8GB RAM, especially with such little data
Use a batteries-included RAD framework (like Rails or Django).

Even if you’re already using RAD frameworks, start building yourself a library of boilerplate and utilities on top of it that you can reuse in multiple projects.

Avoid single-page apps and JS-rendered clients until you really need them for interactivity. They basically double the work.
Tao of Wifi (2011)
Thanks for the insight !
> Why do you think front-end development is in such a constant state of change?

Browsers have been resistant to change and meeting standards for the longest time. This resistance to change has meant that the core libraries (i.e. vanilla Javascript) have been inadequate for large-scale front-end applications. Today browsers are much better than they used to be about keeping to spec, and the days of old IE hacks in your front-end code are mostly gone. In addition, you had other hacks in the front-end (using tables/floats and other arcane CSS tricks to get things to render properly)

These issues caused a surge in wrappers to appear to 1) encapsulate all of the hacks and 2) present a better interface than core JS had. jQuery was the biggest player at this time and you were crazy to try and develop without it. People became accustomed to jQuery and then started to iterate on that (we got Promises, we got people thinking about how to encapsulate and automate changes with an API, we got people thinking about how data should be bound to components). Backbone, Angular, and Ember all appeared to try and solve these issues

Fast-forward a few more years and you have a new set of problems and proposed solutions. Tools started getting complex and people would fork off new ideas

Today the browsers are better than they were years ago, and I expect we'll eventually revert to vanilla JS, but there are a couple of issues that the browser still hasn't solved:

* How do you componentize CSS with JS in a sane way? Loading everything into a global namespace is kind of crappy

* How do handle a growing language specification? Unlike server-side languages where you control everything, browsers may be on different versions, etc - how do you still write portable code?

* How do you efficiently cache, transport, and invalidate your assets? There are multiple schools of thought here, and I believe HTTP 2.0 will have a big effect on this

TLDR; the community is moving faster than the browser and building their own solutions to hack around problems, thus you have a lot of churn as problems evolve and the browsers get better
I concur with the other reply regarding privacy but I'll add that according to SmokePing, until 5 days ago, CloudFlare took 6ms total to resolve a query, compared to Google at 900 us and Init7 itself at 106 us.

Init7 is covered by Switzerland's braindead data-retention bill due to being an ISP so it's out, leaving Google the best acceptable performer for me.
> The actual cost of sending bits over the wire was trivial.

If that's the case, is there any particular reason Netflix is charging more for access to 4K content, or is it just an artificial increase?
For those who think this is actually intended for production use, don't fret...

> I wanted to spend my time I had remaining on this project focusing on telling the story of this exploration but do not plan to regularly maintain this project.

The creator seems to have intended it as a research initiative. Given this context, I find some of the ideas in here to be really neat, like attempting to unify the API and the front-end UI while still maintaining a separation of concerns. It definitely needs some polishing to really be "fun" to code with, but it's a great start IMO.
All specs are defined for 80% reflective objects? What do they assume here? A retroreflective street sign?

Unfortunately there are no standards (yet) to benchmark different LIDAR solutions, but most of their competitors stick to more realistic assumptions.

Then, in general, the website is light of any tangible information:

- Company information: Management, History, Size, Investments, strategic partners, location of company

- Concrete working principle of their LIDAR: Detector principle, wavelengths, laser type used, means of scanning, optical aperture

- Images of actual hardware

- Does their price-tag still apply after they have managed to implement proper functional safety processes and measures?

Very weak, especially considering how much competition is out there. There seems to be a new LIDAR start up every other weak.
It also doesn't mean the ecosystem is dependent, either. Disney made lots of money selling movies based on stories in the public domain. Just because a middleman exists doesn't mean the middleman is paying the ultimate source in proportion to the money the middleman takes.

See also the story of the insulin patent: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...

> [Frederick] Banting felt “…that as a physician who had taken the Hippocratic oath he could not be party to any patenting of a discovery. ... John J R Macleod, with whom Banting shared the 1923 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, similarly declined to be named on the insulin patent. However, neither [Charles] Best, a medical student who had yet to swear the oath to Hippocrates, nor [James] Collip, a PhD biochemist, faced any ethical dilemma and were named as inventors, although for $1, Collip and Best transferred all rights, title, and interest to the Governors of the University of Toronto. Banting, Best, Collip, and MacLeod all believed that insulin should be made as widely available as possible, without any barriers such as cost....

(ht https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/12/15621952/in... ht 'steveklabnik yesterday on Twitter)

I think the proper conclusion is "no information" - the fact that redistributors are being paid what they're paid does not tell us anything positively or negatively about the necessity of them being paid what they're paid. You'd need to look at their actual costs, and more importantly the market of those costs: if they stopped paying researchers, what would the market effect be? (Perhaps they could fund research grants instead of discoveries, incentivizing everyone to work on the problems most interesting to them regardless of profitability, and thereby increasing research into cures for rare diseases.)
Virginia Woolf? Snob Richard Wright? Sexist Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite
... you mean, like flagship commercial phones already do? Because, no, it's no the case that iPhones basebands have unfettered access to everything: the iPhone baseband is a USB peripheral.
Wouldn't Fortran have been the better choice long term?

Fortran is still used in the sciences. Algol not so much.

Plus you know, Algol is a gateway drug, who knows where you'd have ended up :P
Considering that literally every nuclear powerplant is a double digit billion dollar boondoggle I don't see why battery storage has to come down in price. We can afford boondoggle priced battery storage today.
> Does a 10 year old show attract customers?

Yes. We have entered a time where there is so much content no one can watch it all when it comes out. I routinely find older shows on Netflix/Prime (either original or network) that I missed when they came out. If I only watch TV for 1-2 hours/day, I now have weeks-months of content.

Same thing with movies. I just watched the new Han Solo movie on Netflix. It was decent, but I would not have ever watched it other than possibly on a flight.
Like many open source projects, Borg is low on developers. The two points you mention are both known and on the agenda for this year. Since you seem to have experience with crypto, why not add a PR? It's all in Python and fairly readable.
Did they maybe finally realize that people love the phone for its size, not its price?
I don't really like the title of the original essay and I would rather have something like "About books and/as time machines", but since there is a not clickbait title I kept it.
I don't understand. Isn't the primary use for desktop icons the opening of particular files within programs and not the programs themselves?
As I said, relevant on a market where devs refuse to pay for their tools, unlike other professionals.
Whether it was appropriate or not depends on whether the criticism was legitimate or not. That is the legitimate purpose of legal proceedings to determine.
Neutralinojs-v1.1.0 released
What astounded me talking to people working in self-driving car start-ups and spin-offs from incumbents, is that how little they care about simulation. The last accident from Uber confirmed that yet again.

The fact is absolutely difficult to comprehend, when Waymo has allegely done a huge amount of simulation.
And after you have read it try The Diamond Age by the same author. I never know which of both books fascinated me more.