skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Gravitational potential energy is not something that can be depleted in the way you're talking about. If Idaho is at 3,000 ft above sea level, whether or not they build a hydro dam doesn't impact the ability of Washington or Oregon to build hydro dams at lower elevations.

Gravitational potential energy is depleted when anything's elevation lowers. In rivers as in everything else, it is converted to other forms of energy. In rivers, that is kinetic energy. This is depleted in the normal way by harvesting it as "hydroelectric power".

Building a hydroelectric dam at 3,000 feet won't impact the ability of Oregon to build one at 0 feet and get 3,000 feet worth of river energy. But rivers flowing through Idaho started out with more than 0 energy (they're flowing!), which would also have been available for Oregon to use.

Idaho's gain is Oregon's loss. They can't drain Oregon to literally 0 energy extractible from the river, but they can come close.
> The first one was brought by photographer Carol Highsmith, who sued Getty after Getty had sent a demand letter to her over her own images, which she had donated to the Library of Congress to be put into the public domain.

This is not sleazy? It's in the first paragraph, nearly the first sentence. They sent a demand letter to the one that actually took theses photographs.
Best Resources to Learn Robotics and IoT Development in 2019
I can also recommend Invidious [1] as a Youtube replacement. It's effectively a proxy in front of Youtube, only loading the source data (i.e. the video) in its own container. You can subscribe to channels via the builtin RSS functionality just like on Youtube. I use a redirector extension [2] in Firefox to automatically redirect any Youtube links to Invidious, since the signature for loading videos is identical.

[1] https://www.invidio.us (many other instances run on different addresses)

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (Pattern: https://www.youtube.com/**, Redirect to: https://invidio.us/$2)
> Now the cost of living is skyrocketing and Denver/Boulder seem to be hell bent on recreating all the bad (bad for people who aren't wealthy, that is) decisions of a certain west coast state.

This is the net result of asset inflation. The North East and California got rich via big-bank (Federal Reserve and Wall St) driven asset inflation. People are logically cashing out and moving to lower cost of living areas.
This reminds me of the PICO-8 [0] environment used on the PocketCHIP [1]. It supports encoding the full game data into a picture that looks like a cartridge [2].

> Pico-8 games and the program's interface are limited both to a 128x128 pixel, sixteen-color display, with a 4-channel audio output.

> The .p8.png format is a binary format based on the PNG image format. A .p8.png file is an image that can be viewed in any image viewer (such as a web browser). The image appears as the picture of a game cartridge.

> The cart data is stored using a stegonographic process. Each Pico-8 byte is stored as the two least significant bits of each of the four color channels, ordered ARGB. The image is 160 pixels wide and 205 pixels high, for a possible storage of 32,800 bytes.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-8

[1]: https://shop.pocketchip.co/collections/frontpage/products/po...

[2]: https://pico-8.fandom.com/wiki/P8PNGFileFormat
Goals aren't enough; you have to talk about performance, too
I see plenty of unaffiliated submissions on Arxiv. Why not just post it there and distribute the url? My one suggestion would be to read the target style guide of the academic journals you'd like to be in (such as Nature). And hew as near as polished for your own paper before submitting.
That’s only true since the 1800’s. From the dawn of agriculture to industrial civilisation there might have been very weak selection for intelligence. It can’t have been strong because otherwise we’d all be Von Neumanns.

Gregory Clark's work on social mobility is fascinating if you find this topic interesting. Start with either A Farewell to Alms or The Son Also Rises.
Disney, AT&T and Comcast vs. Netflix, Amazon and Apple
It may be that GCP isn't going anywhere, but when our organization was choosing a cloud service, we chose Amazon over Google specifically because of Google's flakiness. Google could drop cloud services tomorrow, and it would not be out of character.
What comes after open source
Huh never thought about that. Thanks!
I agree that too often sweeping statements are made and there are cases where finer details matter, and...

I see it as a form of one upsmanship, like wine tasting when the term is used. Other times, it's used to suggest that there's some detective work going on when the case is not so subtle or sometimes even incorrect. Or maybe I just have a narrower definition of subtle. I also prefer to use the term for analogue things rather than discrete ones. No matter how small a discrete case is clear cut.
Also, if you're already using redux+sagas, having a saga that manages the connection and messages makes it pretty easy to implement RTC, websockets, http2 push, or whatever your favorite flavor is.
A law has no inherent legitimacy simply from being a law. It must either reflect a social more or uphold public safety or, at the very least, be useful as a rule.

Should people be paid for the work they do? Yes. Should people be paid for the work of others? Maybe, if they contributed in some way. Should we pay an academic journal which charges fees for people to submit to them? No, that's absurd.
NewPipe Represents the Best of FOSS
haha they ought to try that.
https://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/sentinelese
The impossible burger isn't really noticably healthier than a beef burger. It still has roughly the same calories, saturated fats and so on.

Anectodally, it does make you feel slightly less bloated, though.
Google+ hahahaha
I'm a software engineer working mostly on the front end at a large tech company. For context, we have a separate UX team that works on design. Happy to give these my best.

1. Tests are organized around their component. This includes unit tests for any logic (though often we prefer to keep as much logic out of FE as possible) and screenshot tests for components. We also have larger-scale integration tests.

2. You mean like MVC (model-view-controller)? That's a pretty common one.

3. I'm not sure artistic is the antonym of rigorous. For example, math proofs are often both. I think it's better to characterize it as a craft. It's like being an electrician; sometimes your wires line up nicely, but sometimes you have to find a way (aka a hack) to be up to code while still having the microwave's fan button turn on a fan on the building's roof.

4. I think it should be as rigorous as possible, but as another user mentioned, it's not realistic to own the environment in which your code runs. I would love to have a small set of environments/browsers/screen sizes to develop for, but that's not an option in 2019 at scale.

5. Software Engineer

6. Definitely tech lead

7. Senior software engineer

8. I can definitely suggest them, and everyone is open to ideas and discussion. Design and software is a team effort.

9. I write a lot of documentation. This includes writing/updating comments, writing design documents for new FE features, updating wikis etc.
Paint pigment gamuts are no better than display filters. Get a UV "black light", the color you see from the tube (not the fluorescence from other stuff) is basically what this article is calling "violet".
That's interesting, but it makes sense. You're not copyrighting the images but the manner they were collected together.
He's making a joke that the arbitrage could generate infinite amounts of money by generating clean power with coal power.
Recently our sales guys got some hefty clients, and have started to bring in serious money.

In order to keep up, we needed to turn development time from just a metric, into an OKR. Moreover, our clients sometimes put pressure on us to ship out X feature immediately, in response to a competitor. This means that sometimes the 10 devs are working on different features for different clients.

So, just like the book, “Measure what matters.” Don’t measure useless things like commits per dev or features shipped last quarter, the important thing for our division is development time.

Presumably when we get development times down, our OKRs will change to other things, like overall client satisfaction. But for now, the top concern is to meet sales volume, so our OKR is development time
You can't "just post" something on arXiv as an unaffiliated researcher, you need to be endorsed first.

https://arxiv.org/help/endorsement
Hello, I'm a gamer/game-maker (table top, not digital) with some opinions.

Gamers are getting older. As in, the median age of people who identify as "gamers" is higher now than ever before. Part of this is because people who grew up with video games as children are now adults. People have always played games (chess is a great example) it's just what role gaming has played in the culture changes.

Since you now have a larger demographic of older gamers, you're going to start hearing more voices echoing this. When I was in college, I could spend 20+ hours a week playing video games until 3 AM. Now that I'm older and married I'm lucky if I get 5 hours a week for non-mobile games. I'm going to have a different evaluation of a title. The last thing I want is to buy a shiny new FPS just to get pwnd repeatedly by some 14 year old who keeps tbagging me and screaming racist taunts. Loot crates and pay-to-win feels gross because I don't want to dump money that I could be using for home repairs on add-ons for my toys.

I'm not anti-games. I love games. But I can hate tons of aspects of the games (like I mentioned above) or call out the toxicity of gamer culture and still be a part of it. This is a stark contrast to 15 years ago when we all needed to band together to explain that games can be art and that FPSs to lead to school shootings.
DHH on the Macbook Keyboard (#2)
His employer's filters might be blocking it since it includes "torrent" in the url.

That's a pretty common rule in Schools and Universities, for example.
I'm very salty about that. I really wish they'd just release a range of perhaps 2 phones, one solid mid-range and one top-spec, that get guarenteed fast updates to Android.

I used to have a Nexus 5, and getting the latest android soon after release was a big feature. I've got a Moto Z2 Play now and there is still no sign of updating to the latest.
Sure, say a company desires to broaden their customer base so they are less reliant on a small set of large customers. A goal could be "30% of net revenue should come from companies with less than $100M in revenue".

Its strategic, specific and measurable (we are at 5% and need to get to 30%) but it doesn't say how. Focus on a specific industry? Launch a new product? Restructure the sales org?
The Nexus 6p was around the same price as the iPhone when it came out, think it was $500 vs $550.
DIY Custom Emails
Never vacuumed a keyboard and wipe every 5 years or so :)
>It's not about the facts (on that front the manifesto has been fully debunked)

Indeed, it truly isn’t about the facts for you.

>These views are something that society wholeheartedly rejects today, and if you don’t realise that they are wrong, you are going to struggle more and more in life.

I appreciate your concern, but I’m actually doing quite well, wrongthink and all.
NASA comes to mind..
I disagree with the idea that shutting down products damages the brand. It's quite the opposite. Google+ has always been a joke, and migrating and merging products sounds just as wise as creating new ones that work. On a side note, I'm happy Google+ will be buried for good.
Bank of America | London, UK | Onsite |

We require a strat/technologist to work in the Cross Asset Strats team. We work outside of the traditional IT organisation and sit on the trading floor in London, responding directly to end-user requests.

Our team writes programs in Python that run on the Bank’s strategic platform, Quartz, to answer questions that relate to the entire global markets trading business.

Please get in touch if any of the following apply to you:

* You love to program and are comfortable with a variety of programming languages and paradigms (e.g. Lisp, Haskell, C++, Python).

* You have written your own scripting language, or at least know how you might go about it

* You appreciate functional programming concepts and writing algorithms in a functional style

* You have good mathematical abilities and want to learn more about using mathematical techniques to analyse data

* You have financial and quantitative knowledge, and would like to learn more

If you are interested, please email your c.v. to paul.hollingsworth@baml.com.
Come to Europe, where it's illegal for waiters to work 12 hour days.
Isn't Canonical also operating at a loss even after it's massive success? I don't think I've seen anything definitive about it's success as a commercial offering, but I can say I rarely meet commercial Canonical consumers but I regularly meet commercial SUSE and RedHat customers.

If Canonical is sold, I doubt it would be for nearly as much as SUSE or RHEL. The general consensus seems to be that Ubuntu is for new users, while SUSE and RHEL are for serious customers, and that's far more important than most other features from an enterprise perspective (nobody ever got fired for choosing RHEL/SUSE).

And yeah, I also would be very interested in the paying install base.

Personally, I'm switching to SUSE because there's a supported path from Tumbleweed to SUSE, and Ubuntu has caused me far too much pain for me to trust them with my money and my business. Ubuntu just doesn't seem to know what it wants to be when it grows up, and that's a problem that SUSE and RHEL have solved long ago.
The web clipper is still the best I’ve seen (though also buggy, sigh). Do any of the EN alternatives have something like it?

I’d be happy with Apple notes if I could restrict a search to a folder.
This is the thing, I couldn't see any actual games mentioned in the article. From the banner image I assume they mean games like Crossy Road, but it would help to understand what makes a hypercasual game apart from the advertising model.
Using Static Analysis to Enforce Coding Standards for IoT Applications
I still would. It still signals to the restaurant that I want the non-meat option. If they slip up, oh well, and at that point it would be more wasteful for me to throw the "real" burger out.
Hydro doesn't need pumping to provide load balancing. Just build more turbines [1] than you need for average load - then you can flow extra water overnight and less water during the day while keeping the average the same. This is then equal to the superposition of a traditional and PSH dam, but all in one footprint.

[1] Yes, extra turbines are expensive. But you'd need to build them anyways for a PSH facility.
Location: Toronto, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: yes
Technologies:Core Java, Hadoop, Python, R, Teradata, SQL, ETL
Résumé/CV: I have almost 4 years of experience in data warehousing and data modelling. Have worked on projects in R and Python and now doing a project on Hadoop and Java
Email: vishnusharathr@gmail.com
Personal anecdote, but Apple could have made an extra $2-3000 off me in the last few years if there was a MBP with a good keyboard. My 2014 MBP still works well, but I definitely would have succumbed to the temptation of new gear if I wasn't so worried about the keyboards.
Next.js 8.0.4
It is pretty cool and all but is there really a need for such efficiency with regards to bandwidth? Is there a use case that requires so little?
Yes, calendar apps like google calendar. Push applications like Pushbullet for Android. But I think your point remains... there are only a few good reasons for notifications.
Open access journals by definition are almost never free/minimal cost - the idea is the the author's are paying more of the costs associated with publication, not less. But in return, your article can be read or accessed by anyone.

If you want to fork over 5k, I would recommend PLOS ONE as a major, well recognized open access journal that takes the "publish anything with scientific merit" approach.

If you do not want to pay, Arxiv is your best bet. However, I will say that, while good papers end up on arxiv, so do lots and lots of bad ones (that's the point) and there's no concept of "peer review" there.
where does the Haem come from and are the binders they use safe to eat ?
"If you allow illegal activity as a form of protest—when it is not the absolutely last option—, then you negate the legitimacy of the law in general."

I don't think that's true if the laws in question are the result of corruption. Rich companies have been paying politicians for some time to keep copyright and patent laws strong in a way that suits their interests instead of the voters'. Resisting laws that came from bribery should be considered a standard part of democracy. Probably even celebrated as virtuous.

Looking at the topic here, I'd say Alexandra is doing something virtuous given corruption and incompetent administrators led to a system where all that research was concentrated in hands of tiny number of greedy players that did about nothing in return.
>The most we can expect from a junior developer who just graduated from college with a CS degree is for them “not to eat the chalk.” At least the boot camp grad can hit the ground running and add features.

This is the exact opposite of my experience. Bootcamp grads tend to come in well below early college interns.

>The type of theory companies care about isn’t how to invert a binary tree and whether you know how to write a merge sort. Heck even C had the built in qsort that was good enough.

I don't really care whether you can implement merge sort from memory. But, I've been on both sides. And understanding the relational model, graph theory, set theory, computer architecture etc... has made translating business requirements to code a hell of a lot easier.
Ask HN: Freelancers, how long did it take for you to become self sufficient?
For anyone out there who is a freelance developer how long did it take for you to be able to pay your own bills, and turn a profit? Was there anything you wish you had planned better for?
I ordered an Impossible burger without knowing about the brand, I thought it was just what the restaurant called it. I never suspected a thing until I later read somewhere about the brand Impossible. So, in my case, you're right.
Thanks, but to you and any other GOOGLE EMPLOYEES

Are you not internally aware of this?

Do you just carry on regardless?

What happens when you voice this issue internally?

As an ex-Google fan boy, the title of this article has been true for years and it's what poisoned me (and no doubt many others) against you. So you must be aware of it.

What's your take?

I'm super curious as to why you gave up tech (brand) leadership so seemingly nonchalantly.
We switched service providers 3 times during that year. We started with a 30mbit connection through PlusNet, then 60 with EE, then 300 Virgin. The only one that was usable was Virgin Media. I wish that wasn't that case, but it simply was. Internet was a contentious topic in our house, but having 7 people either playing games, watching HD movies, or streaming simultaneously knocked most ISPs down swiftly.
This is a sensible phrasing to use, but in that case you shouldn't say the dam harvests gravitational potential energy; you should say it harvests kinetic energy. The kinetic energy is just gravitational potential energy from somewhere else.
Omnieq: Stock Option Credit Spread Scanner
I do not have any plans for a mobile client yet. I have thought about it quite a bit, but I'm not sure what would work best there in relation to what I have proposed. What is clear to me, especially from my own experience, is that there are really two main note-taking "activities": the quick memento from mobile, often just a phrase, or picture, etc. And then the sustained effort to write notes that will remain a source of knowledge for me for years to come. Many of my notes are thousands of words long (book notes, research for academic papers, etc). I want to solve the latter use-case once and for all. When it comes to producing more sophisticated knowledge items, I'm usually on my laptop or desktop computer.
By allowing tracking of every citizen to and from every other citizen's house, place of work or worship, park, street corner or alley 24 hours a day.
Yes, it's a pity, I traveled to Quan Lan Island in 2010, my wife and I thought it would be unspoiled and off track. But the boat there was full of people throwing litter over board, I even saw a lady pull a diaper of a child and throw it overboard without even thinking. The beaches were littered with colorful plastic. (I have a picture on my Nextcloud but no idea how to share it and my wife is very prominent in so I won't but the picture still make me feel sad. Edit, uploaded but only downloadable for 7 days or 100 times apparently (and cropped my wife out): [0])

I also got the feeling that small bays that were labelled as nice in our perhaps a bit dated travel guide were filled with large hotels between the time since they were labeled as such and when we arrived.

Overall though I found Vietnam very, very beautiful indeed and the people were very kind as well (outside the tourist industry at least).

I guess it's an education thing, as kid I constantly heard in school: Plastic stays around for 2500 years! Birds choke on your chewing gum! The hole in the ozone layer is our fault! TBH I felt pretty burdened, sad and responsible by/for it, but I guess it has its advantages.

[0] https://send.firefox.com/download/c48c1add8b2d74a0/#qxQ-qoh-...
What Is Less CSS?
I'll add that while using Ruby makes certain things easier in Chef, overall Ansible is simpler and that's I've ended up preferring it despite my familiarity with Ruby.
I don’t know. I don’t think so, but if they did, they’d probably leave them visible to me, a la shadowbannimg.
I designed this to be a simple Stripe-backend-as-a-service for people who want to sell their digital products with ease.

The key differences between this and Stripe?
What I gives you is - you don't need a server only a Stripe account!

If you use the old Stripe Checkout yourself, adding the widget to your front end is really easy - but you also need to provide some code in the backend that processes your form submission and then does the token exchange with Stripe to actually make the charge on the customer's account.
If you use their new Checkout, you are redirected to their site where all the payment is taken care of and you no longer need a backend.
But Stripe only manages the payment so you will need one way or another to provide your digital products to your customers. It will surely be necessary that you implement this or find a software or site which can do it for you.

So I come to provide a solution to this problem. You connect your Stripe account, then you can simply upload your product, enter the price and start selling on social media or your own website. SOLDIT takes care of file storage, payment processing and product delivery to your customers.
Plus, you’ll get paid right away on your Stripe account.

In the future, I intend to add features such as coupons and integrations with Mailchimp and this kind of service.
You can't post on arXiv unless you're an established researcher, I believe.