skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I like about this post is that it allows to peek into the reasoning/thought process and long term vision of FB/Mark Zuckerberg. One of the things that was surprising to me is how investment in AR/VR is seen (kind of) as a risk mitigation/escape from Google/Apple control over mobile platforms.
If you like this app, you should also check out Task Explorer by reknown security researcher Patrick Wardle.

https://objective-see.com/products/taskexplorer.html
Apple has been playing wack-a-mole with enterprise developer certificates for a while now, especially when the currently most reliable jailbreak method requires special entitlements that require an enterprise or developer certificate.
The Wikipedia page[1] has a more detailed analysis of the regulatory situation that HN is probably most interested in:

"But Coast Guard investigations, and independent examinations of the wreck, told a different story: the Marine Electric left port in an un-seaworthy condition, with gaping holes in its deck plating and hatch covers. The hatch covers, in particular, posed a problem, since without them the cargo hold could fill with water in the storm and drag the ship under. And it was there that the investigation took a second, dramatic turn.

Investigators discovered that much of the paperwork supporting MTL's declarations that the Marine Electric was seaworthy was faked. Inspection records showed inspections of the hatch covers during periods where they'd in fact been removed from the ship for maintenance; inspections were recorded during periods of time when the ship wasn't even in port. A representative of the hatch covers' manufacturer warned MTL in 1982 that their condition posed a threat to the ship’s seaworthiness. But inspectors never tested them. And yet, the Marine Electric was repeatedly certified as seaworthy.

Part of the problem was that the Coast Guard delegated some of its inspection authority to the American Bureau of Shipping. The ABS is a private, non-profit agency that developed rules, standards and guidelines for ship's hulls. In the wake of the Marine Electric tragedy, questions were raised about how successfully the ABS was exercising the inspection authority delegated to it, as well as about whether the Coast Guard even had the authority to delegate that role. Also there was a conflict of interest in that the inspection fees paid to the ABS were paid by the ship owners. "

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Marine_Electric
This is true, a lot of other countries do it better. I found Iceland customs to be particularity efficient. Iceland air uses both the front and rear doors of the plane which also speeds things up.

In Fiji they have a band that plays songs for you as you stand in the customs line, can you imagine that in Seattle?
It's not true. They make their main claim as follows:
"For general activation functions and implementations, we can at least say that the
function is at close to a polynomial, by appealing to the famous Stone-Weierstrass
Theorem [Katznelson and Rudin(1961)], which states that any continuous function on a compact set can be approximated uniformly by polynomials.5
In any
event, for practical purposes here, we see that most activation functions can be
approximated by a polynomial. Then apply the same argument as above, which
implies"

Note that it's only true on a compact set, implying bounded set, implying it will not be valid out to infinity, only on some bounded, closed set.
I had a phsyics proffessor who graded my work with the following comments:

"No."
"I expected better from you."

This is brutal. But it is also fair and honest, and something I respected deeply.
You are paying more but also receive a maintenance service which may or may not save you money and time. Similar to insurance.
Every company that sells anything - consumer, enterprise, whatever.. has sales scripts, which this is. If it's not something a live salesperson is walking you through, then there is a workflow you are stepping through to maximize your conversion through steps in a pipeline. This isn't worth getting mad over, and it's universal (it's just modern, quantitative sales best practices). The saying "caveat emptor" is centuries of years old, but is still as relevant, particularly with long term leases.
Don’t get clever with login forms
Then went to be preferable to have a literal translation plus translator's notes alongside? There's already a long tradition of putting commentary alongside the original text, and this seems like a perfect fit for it.
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I hadn't seen that; thanks for the pointer.
At SerpApi.com, we built a bot to check these boxes and an AI to solve the actual CAPTCHA.

Checking the box is actually not that hard. There is no advanced measurements of your mouse and touch speed. This is an Internet myth. It's more a game of cookies, making them age well, and having an organic set of headers.
Copy this into wolfram alpha:

p=2, n=5, x=1/2(p+1)p^((n-1)/2), y=1/2(p-1)p^((n-1)/2)

Try changing the values and playing with it until you understand that there will always be x^2 - y^2 for all p^n, n>2.
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Ah, sorry. Yeah, I must have misremembered "20 years" from the first quote below. Doesn't materially change my argument, I think.

Another important point, in my opinion, is the cost given in the second quote below is a fair cost. $6000 over 20 years is an average cost of $300 per year. If you are purchasing 2016-era installed solar, knowing that it is a less cost-effective form of electricity generation than conventional means, an amortized (predicted) cost of $300 per year is fair. Refusing to pay this and still claiming to "be willing to pay a little extra to help the planet" is hypocritical.

>I got ahold of a copy of Jug’s contract, and quickly saw how Sunrun could afford to extend such an offer. It lasted 20 years. The payments escalated annually by 2.9 percent—they’d be 72 percent higher by 2036. The tax credit was worth at least $5,000.

>If Southern California Edison's residential rates continue to rise annually by 2.2 percent, as they have on average over the last decade, Jug's total electricity outlay having gone solar would have cost about $6,000 more over 20 years.
That’s because government subsidies always have to be twisted into the shape of a tax cut to avoid triggering low information voters.
Snap up oneononemeeting.com and redirect it (or redirect your current to that one). I couldn't get your name right and I'd probably be typical.

Firm up the pricing a little better. I get that "enterprise" would want to negotiate a deal, but nothing gives a prospective customer the middle finger like "call for price". If you know what your product is worth, tell me.

Anchor with an overpriced/not-much-nicer top selection, because that'll draw people to your ideal mid offering and away from the free.

To answer your doubt, make both pricing options.
Browsers: basically no UI, except for the browser engine. Obviously has reason to use a full browser engine (unlike a small electron app).

VLC etc: looks terrible.

Sublime: looks surprisingly good. Took a ton of effort though. Perhaps a more appropriate list is

Fast, good looking, cross plattform, reasonable effort: pick any 3.
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I didn't think Go rewrites were common anymore since the results were mediocre.
It's not true that they have the same expressiveness on the real line, -inf to +inf
You need to have it in a sufficient quantity (Grandma used to give 4-5 filaments in a warm glass of milk) and with very few other ingredients to know it's real taste and smell. Part me still wonders if I liked more it due to its rarity or the coziness of staying over at Grandma's...
No. The federal tax credit was already realized by Sunrun, with the savings passed along as part of the lease payments. No different then buying out a lease on an EV, where the federal tax credit was realized by the leasing company; no tax benefit.

In scenarios like this, the seller eats the remaining lease cost when the property is sold (think of it as a reduction in sales price).
Wouldn’t the math academics have seen this in literally one second. How was this not asserted even earlier? Just genuinely curious as a completely unaware programmer
>The saying "caveat emptor" is thousands of years old.

Yes, and the implication of "caveat emptor" is to take a very dim view of the ethics of folks who pitch in this way.
Is it true that Digital Ocean has no staging environment, and just deploys straight to production?
I get that eugenics is ugly, and shouldn't be accepted, but are you telling me those 4'8" basketball players aren't in the NBA because they just don't want it enough?
I don't have a copy of K&R handy, but I feel like I would remember if it really had an example like this nested three levels deep. I would be grateful if someone could check.
That seems like good advice for smaller-scale web development, and extremely good advice for single-user applications.

If you're working on a larger scale, or expect to be growing into a larger scale, though, then I think it's wise to skip straight to using a full-blown RDBMS. It's not about scalability, per se - very, very few projects need more performance than SQLite can deliver - so much as about manageability. A top-tier RDBMS will have a better story for resiliency and availability, it will have a more robust security model, it will handle concurrency better, it will have a more complete SQL dialect that allows you to handle more complex queries while keeping them more maintainable, etc.

This is one of the few spots where I think YAGNI doesn't apply. In expectation, it's cheaper to start on the RDBMS than it is to start small and grow as needed. The costs of switching databases are so high, the costs of outgrowing your data layer are even higher, and the costs of trying (and, usually, failing) to keep your data layer database-agnostic are still higher yet, and, in that particular problem domain, the likelihood of eventually being able to benefit from an industrial-grade RDBMS is so easy to anticipate.
for more interesting reading (even if you're not catholic), John Paul II's encyclical "On Human Work" (Laborem Execrens) is a fascinating look into his mind.

What you get when you take a humanist perspective (ie, "people first") espoused by someone who grew up under the depredations of communism but is also aware of the problems of capitalism makes for very lucid and interesting thoughts!

http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/doc...
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I happen to personally agree, not least because I don't necessarily trust the motivations of some alterations, but it is worth remembering that this raises the bar for reading and understanding. There is the difference between something that any lay person can read and get a reasonable understanding, and something that requires you to be a scholar of ancient Greek to understand.
This might help: https://usabilla.com/blog/how-to-design-for-color-blindness/
What is the reason behind the limit of 22 connections for the small 1GB instance? I've noticed that PgBouncer can be configured automatically, but still standalone PG should be able to support more than that.
At end of the day all this is US taxation system at work which does all it can to help corporations and screw individuals.
But stay away from his talks. His "uh" to word ratio is ~1.
> Essentially it sounds like Sunrun's investors are paying to install solar panels on your house so they can claim the tax credit to offset their own income.

They're probably also factoring those arrays into their green initiatives by claiming those green credits to offset their own consumption.
you know what, firing people isn't always a good idea either. people might be starting to get comfortable. if you're not going to offer google level salaries, you will have to offer job security because otherwise people will draw their conclusions way before you want to get rid of them. and always having inexperienced juniors is also not an option.

these exceptional companies can get away with very aggressive hr practice because their salaries are off the charts and i do not think this can be taken as a guideline for other business at all.
Here's a recent example of how safe harbor protects criminal enterprises: https://twitter.com/nicoduck/status/1091814851184377856

Amazon stole No Starch Press' books, wholesale. They printed fraudulent copies for profit and shipped them from their production facility to unwitting customers. But Amazon likely will face no punishment for this, nor will they have to give up their profits in literally producing and distributing counterfeit goods, because they didn't upload the PDF file, and can blame someone else on the Internet.

Safe harbor protects way more than "intermediaries". It protects businesses which are built around criminal activity. A better example than a "phone company", would be a company which produces encrypted communications hardware specifically geared for and marketed to drug dealers.
How to Process Chickens
One of the dead ends of Unix UX are all the terse DSLs. I feel that terse languages like Vi’s command language [1] get confused with interactivity. It sure can be terse, but having dozens of tiny languages with little coherence is not interactive; it’s just confusing and error-prone.

One of these languages is the history expansion in Bash. At first I was taken by all the `!!^1` weirdness. But (of course) it’s better—and actually interactive—to use keybindings like `up` (previous command). Thankfully Fish had the good sense to not implement history expansion.

[1] I use Emacs+Evil so I like Vi(m) myself.
Let me clarify: I have no idea how a legislator or court would think this is reasonable either; I'm equally interested in a courts justification to how an airline can force a customer to use both legs and this NOT being equivalent to e.g. McDonalds requiring people to finish both the burger+fries if the meal is cheaper than just the soda+burger.
Whoa--I'd heard of that computation, but I thought the resulting output was single-cell, not big obvious blocks like that. That's beautiful.
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If he feels he's not getting sufficient benefit, because of a belief he doesn't live there, he's of course free to choose not to work there.
There's plenty of use cases where you want to record analytics or metrics for each page load though -- so I guess SQLite simply isn't suitable for that?
He doesn’t benefit from state workers in California? Without those workers the streets would be worse than what they are now. There would be fewer police and a non-functioning judicial system. Certainly his work benefits from a governmental entity that handles contract law disputes. The workers of the company that he works at benefit from state employees. Would the job exist if those workers didn’t exist?
Other cloud providers have staging env? We just have our own VSs on DO that plays the role of staging.
I got to call them like I see them. Thanks for announcing that you stepped on that land mine.
Unforgettable last sentences in fiction
AppGet: Free and open package manager for Windows
Managed Databases are built on top of our core compute platform which use local SSD's. You should get that same awesome performance!
No one wants to hear that there are no short cuts, especially in today's messed up world where everything is fake and for sale.

But THERE ARE NO SHORT CUTS.
I worked in 3 DS roles over ~5 years, and recently made the "official" jump to SWE. I've also interviewed dozens of candidates for several openings during that time.

This post rings extremely true to my experience, and largely aligns with what I've been telling people for the last couple of years. I see so many bootcamp or Masters grads with a wildly skewed understanding of what the job entails. I also see a lot of MBA types diluting the meaning of the DS term as a whole.

A "data science" curriculum as such will basically prepare you only for an analyst role. You're not going to be able to compete with the glut of science PhDs flooding every open role, either. DS may be your title but you will not be doing any of the exciting things you want to be doing. To differentiate yourself you need to specialize, and good engineering skills are a prime way to do that.
1800-2000 is also not considered master. The official master title in the US is achieved at a 2200 rating.
Apple was quick to ban facebook and google certificates because of so called customer privacy but is not that interested in the same privacy for these app. Its all just marketing.
You don't need AC at the beach.. Very rarely, maybe 4 days a year during Santa Anas it gets that hot... and then you will probably have evacuated due to wildfires anyway.
Have you owned a multi-kW inverter before? Because if you know one that is mostly free of drama I would love to know the brand! Solar photovoltaic systems are not as maintenance free as one might wish. They still make a ton of financial sense if you own them outright, but inverters and critter damage to wiring can be unwelcome surprise costs.
Everyone knows there is a tone of bullshit at time to recruit, but recruiters, and human resources in general, need to justify their job and authority based on psychological assumptions put out of context. Or even just pure bias.

The range of valid people for a job or a task is always very wide, and they with they could somehow purge the bottom of the applicant pools. The truth is that they have no idea because even the less innovative person, with some apparent red flags, given the right circumstances, could surpass the people who apparently qualified better.

It's true that attitude is very important, but even people working only for a salary can innovate, alone or in team, and accidentally ending up doing something greater than expected. In the other hand, why is this obsession of linking innovation with business success? Steve Jobs damaged the IT culture way too much, and he even wasn't the mythological creature commonly believed.

P.D. Diversity of thought, personality and attitude... does this diversity matter as well?
‘Atmospheric river’ dumps more rain and snow across the West
Weird Ruby
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19162729.
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I'm very excited to be making the last payment on my 500 MHz Athlon this year!
Do these solar panel leasing companies include maintenance in the contract? Do they have guys going around to all of the installs to work on them? I'd always assumed that you would be responsible for all of the maintenance in either case, because that's usually how it works.
Can confirm a staging environment ;P. Have been hammering this there for a while.
It'll probably also increase the cost of your home insurance. I'm not from the USA, but over here, accidents and acts of nature (e.g. a serious hailstorm) can damage your solar panels to the point they need replacing. If you bought them yourself, you usually add them to your home insurance, or purchase separate insurance just for the solar installation (which includes not just the panels).

Sometimes, getting it on a lease contract works out much cheaper, but the situation could be different in the USA -- for starters, as the article mentions, solar is quite subsidized in other countries (although in my case, I'm speaking about Europe), and startups / small businesses that deal with solar are also subsidized (except Spain, which recently changed in unpopular ways which I don't completely understand, yet). That creates a situation where companies that "lease" tend to try to be competitive with the already subsidized market. It sometimes turns out to be slightly more expensive, but the hassle-free nature of having "pros" maintain your installation and ask very few questions tends to be something people are interested in.

As an anecdote: a friend was doing some building work in his house and managed to damage a panel. They were replaced at no charge in less than a week. I was surprised because it was clearly his fault, but I guess they also want to keep their customers happy. Almost made me consider going with them if I bought my home.
Do the calculations include the opportunity cost of the initial money? I.e., what return would the homeowner get on the investment in the market? Market returns are quite low, but could still swing the recommendation toward lease over purchase.
What happens when social media manipulation targets religious faith?
> It is simply not the case that I learn what a cat looks like by being shown a bunch of images of cats and having some meta-input that says "label:cat".

How do you know this? It seems to me this is likely how it works. If you spend an hour playing with a cat, and you look at the cat with your eyes at 60hz, you see about 5 million labeled augmented images of a cat.
The implication of caveat emptor is to not to take the word of someone selling you something, period.
> Unfortunately, in spite of their "uncarrier" schtick, they don't offer this on grandfathered plans. I'm on an old 6GB/month plan that provides high-speed tethering, which I don't want to give up, so that means no scam blocker for me.

You should double check with customer care (611). As I mention in a sibling comment, I'm on a very old plan (20+ years). It's SimpleChoice, 10GB per line unlimited calling and texting (4 lines + 2 free as part of a one time promo).
I assume everything you work on is open source? What software have you written lately that I can copy indiscriminately?
My view on solar is if you want to do it go completely off grid. Use small wind turbines lots of solar panels a Tesla power wall and have a backup generator

Problem with this is its not cheap. Not to mention many localities want to make this option simply illegal.
There are two important reasons for creating and launching cubesats:

1) Learning opportunity - that's how people get experience with space technologies.

2) Equipment testbeds - companies that would like to sell technology for use in space need to prove it actually works in space. If you can get a CubeSat project to use your component (by e.g. donating it + some money) as a part of their satellite, you can test it in space for much cheaper than it would take to build an entire satellite on your own. It meshes nicely with 1), as people who want to learn space technologies tend to not have money to build and launch satellites on their own.

As for your original question: we're far from the point of having all necessary sensors in orbit. There's not much to rent out yet.
Perhaps it's changed since you viewed it, but both sed and awk are described in the parent's link.
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As of Wed, Jul 11, 2018, Digital Ocean Support has said there is no HIPAA compliance[1]. I hope this has changed.

DigitalOcean is very interested HIPAA and has been exploring the requirements to become compliant. As of right now, we are not HIPAA compliant and unfortunately, we don't have a public ETA I can share with you. If DigitalOcean is still useful for segments of your infrastructure needs, we're happy to answer any additional questions you have about our platform, but at this time cannot provide a BAA for this purpose.

[1] https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/does-digita...

EDIT: I'm delighted to hear that DO will sign HIPAA agreements, but I'm unable to find any documentation of this on your website.

EDIT: Since I got down-voted for pointing out a fact from your website, I've added the link and the quote.