skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lidar is also noisy unfortunately. The input is high dimensional enough that classical tracking methods don’t work well (like for simpler radar systems) because segmentation in lidar is hard.
Are you have heard of them(Everything is a pipeline, everything is RMDB)? ;-)

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow
This is true in theory but in practice often hard to get approved. For example, in San Francisco you can never apply for a pass through on buildings occupied by the elderly or disabled even if that tenant sublets to non-protected people.

In my experience, pass throughs are a theoretical concession instead of a practical one.
Most people I’ve run into on hiring committees do not know or care what school the applicant went to, or if they even went to school. That data isn’t provided. Interview performance is the only factor.

What industry do you work in?
Uh. That's not what the Scandinavians I know say.
The speculators have to use a discount rate higher than the risk-free rate, otherwise why would they be doing real estate speculation instead of earning risk-free interest?

Granted, the risk-free rate doesn't have to be above-inflation, but the real interest rate currently is positive in the US.
Such a great story how to work, take risk and innovate in a large org.
Name one thing Wikileaks has posted that isn’t true, please, for citation on your claim.
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Show HN: Alerts and Monitoring for Node.js Microservices
1997 WWDC Fireside Chat with Steve Jobs [video]
It is maybe worth explicitly noting that for most online products with small ticket sizes (maybe $5) what you really want is to use someone like PayPal (which supports being used merely as a backend credit card processor) that has a micropayment pricing level (PayPal offers 5% + $0.05). The percent is high, but the fixed cost of $0.30/$0.22/whatever dominates the cost up to over $10.
‘Did that Tesla that smashed into the side of a semi truck bet correctly?’

That’s needlessly antagonistic and not cool.
Not as far as I know, but there’s only 1 real chance to be a “Harvard man” or an “MIT man”.
That's a key principe behind Tor.
I think a lot of people want to be pedantic, and point out that an aeroplane's autopilot can't do all of it itself, and you therefore still need pilots to manage an airliner.

However, that's because a lot of people on HN understands how a plane's autopilot works, but most people do not. They assume it is what they think a plane's autopilot is supposed to be. Since a plane could technically take off, fly and land itself by wire, but only under the best of conditions.

At least, that's my theory.
The majority of us would agree that 100% taxation is unworkable, as in, every single cent of income I earn is seized by the state.

Given your comment, I assume you think 0% taxation is also infeasible.

So we agree that somewhere above 0% and below 100% taxation there is some optimal amount. However, given the circumstances of the country and our personal philosophies, we may disagree on that optimal level.

The fact that free people can move to lower (or higher!) tax jurisdictions, and judge the quality of those services based on how much they pay and what they get in return, is a good thing in my opinion. The competition keeps politicians from elevating taxation to that unworkable 100%.
It wasn't officially supported by the company. Note that
f7aeb9 said "as far as I am concerned".
OnePlus phones (originally replaced N5 with a OnePlus 3 .. now upgraded to 6T) .. they have the same "flagship killer" ethos of the original N5
The 2–3 Scandinavian millionaires I know say things like “I’m glad the government paid for my schooling up through college and I didn’t start my career buried in debt.” Or “Wow I’m glad we have a working heathcare system. The USA sounds like a dystopian nightmare.” Also “I wish our winter had a bit more sunshine.”
This might sound good to a TDD practitioner, but I'd suggest that the value of tests is that they independently verify an implementation. Couple them directly and soon you will be writing tests on your tests.

OTOH, saying "this must be true" and letting the compiler work it out sounds a lot like logic programming.
I really like a lot of what Tesla and Musk do, but their PR campaigns are absolutely repugnant. Like in this case where they try to make the NTSB out to be the bad guy when in reality they go completely against accepted NTSB standards in an attempt to control the narrative. It's awful.
No they are not. The numbers of first generation college students there are too small and the objective is to produce compliant members of establishment, not to rock the boat or derail the gravy train.
>>Are there any recent examples of the costs of hosting an Olympics paying very clear dividends over time

Getting quality trained human resources is the biggest dividend. Use the facilities to train top quality athletes, or you have to get them from other countries.

Even in other projects. Like say space projects, one of the biggest goals of any big budget project is to train human resources.

It takes billions to produce rocket scientists, 400m gold medal swimmers.

There are more than ethical reasons why they put ejector seats in fighter planes. Training human resources and producing the right people for the job is an expensive enterprise, replacing them is even more expensive and harder.
They are fleeing New York and other left-leaning states.

In the EU many rich have escaped to Swiss. The EU centralization and harmonization of taxes now make it harder to move next door. That doesn’t mean people wouldn’t move if it wasn’t as inconvenient.

Aside from that your comment is completely off the mark. By definition “tax for services” isn’t a voluntary business transaction in which the taxpayer chooses to pay because they value the services they get in return more than the money that they give to acquire them. So please stop pretending that you understand anyone’s preferences.
I wondered the same.

I suppose there is nothing saying that it can't be both be a prion disease, and enter the brain through a gingivitis path.
It's still news worthy enough that's on techcrunch.
Surely this won’t happen in the US under Pocahontas’s confiscatory tax plan though.
Yeah glancing at the data it looked like taxes weren't a big factor - wealthy people are far more concerned with social and political stability and overall functioning societies.
Reasons we use text:

- It's very close to the computer's "native language"; a raw series of bytes on disk can be stored and processed efficiently, and are analogous to the binary form, which has to be a series of bytes

- It's visually compact, so you can view a large amount of complexity per screen space

- It can be created and edited purely by keyboard. I'm not an anti-mouse zealot - I often use it when I'm going back and tweaking code - but nobody can deny that the keyboard is a faster and more direct way of getting new ideas out of your head and into the computer

I also think there's value in being able to get down to the baseline and see the "raw stuff" that makes up a program. Being able to see that full definition with no layers of indirection, even if you always use layers of indirection when actually working on it.

None of these are insurmountable, but I think they'd have to all be addressed by any true graphical replacement for textual code. Personally my vote is for a more fully graphical editor that still operates on textual code underneath, which can still be read by humans on its own.
I can't blame them. Internet Explorer is a bad platform for developing. There are so many bugs found throughout IE that just aren't there on any other major browser.
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Ask HN: Is Twitter Good for the World
Dorsey says that twitter won’t censor demagogue leaders cos it promotes public conversation. While that is true it’s also being an avenue to spread hate, fear and divide people. There is only so much rational public conversation that can happen when public is stricken by strong emotions like hate and fear. If anything that states promotes more charged convos accelerating the divide even more.

What’s the tipping point where twitter should consider banning such accounts? How is it fair that a few people at a company can decide on things that impacts so many people, governments and democracies in the world.

As a thought experiment what would the world be like if there was no twitter or Facebook. On balance has their existence been positive for the world or negative?
True that :)

The death of the phone call has been heralded for many years now. I am guessing it's gonna stick on for some more time, at least for business use cases.
This one https://youtu.be/Dgcm6YrFglw and I think there is also Worms HD.
I think the defacto standard is devise but they want you to be flexible enough to roll your own or whatever serves you. I would like to have it built in though.
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>we’ve just updated the Win / Mac / Linux versions of World of Goo for the first time since 2008 or 2009

>release date October 2008

I get that it's a three-man studio but man that's a really bad support track record.
The tax is paid by the in-state buyer, not the seller which is just collecting the tax (but of course if it didn’t collect the tax at the time of the sale because the rule has changed now they have a problem).
Autopilot in an airplane is similar. It can do a bit and make the trip easier, but it's not going to dodge a rock that happens to fall from the sky. It's a pretty simple system that really just relies on instrumentation. It's not using any fancy algorithms to make bold maneuvers. I might wager than Tesla's is doing more.
Perhaps you are focusing on a wrong sort of accomplishments. Do you really crave to be a highly paid Boeing PR drone, twisting the truth to protect their corrupt management from legal responsibility for 737-MAX screw-up?
Makes perfect sense to me. There has been an immense amount of wealth created in developing nations over the last couple of decades. Quality of life, safety, infrastructure and political freedom, however, are still the same or getting worse. Combine that with ever-increasing official and unofficial extortion by the state, and there is no doubt that a millionaire would prefer to live in a first world country.
Buying IP in order to pull it off competing storefronts is anti-consumer.

>thereafter it will continue to be supported on Steam for all existing purchasers
But where can you go from there? Who makes a better PC laptop?
CnC (original and Red Alert) is getting a remaster[1] - if that does well, I can't see RA2 being far behind. It's also quite playable in CnCNet.

[1] https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/command-and-conquer-red-alert-rem... (URL is somewhat misleading - release date is unknown)
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There are many ways to do auth. Some Rails auth gems are more prescriptive than others. All of them involve large tradeoffs in various directions. It would be weird to bless just one of them as the "right" way to do auth in Rails, imo.
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Thank you for clogging the patent pipeline for the rest of us! ;-)
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just curious, you listed F#, are you using it?
My reading of the blog post would be yes - "We’re slowly updating the game everywhere it’s currently available over the course of this and next week." - but I wouldn't take it as a definitive statement.
The post is very much not complete -- there is much more a team would have to standardize to fully take a set up like this into production, bu I'm not sure that it "completely breaks down" with more people contributing.

As long as there is some release coordination, a system like this can work. In particular, I've found that the lightest way to get a system like this working for x > 1 developers is to have a release-vX.X.X branch for releases that are going out and vX.X.X tags for releases once they have actually landed.

You mention the recognizing and tagging versions being an issue -- are you imagining a world where two people are releasing something at the same time? I'm not exactly sure

If we assume that what that posts suggests isn't feasible, regardless of how you deploy and do your CI, if your release process can be done by a human, it can likely be automated. Gitlab CI is most robust and yet easiest to understand automated CI system I've seen for making that happen (at least that was my intended point).
The passage I quoted is about evasion, not avoidance. To give a bit more context, the prior sentence speaks of "misuse".

> The Organisation for Economic Co-operation & Development is scrutinizing the potential misuse of these schemes. In October 2018, it released a blacklist of 21 jurisdictions, including Malta and Cyprus, that it believes are undermining international efforts to combat tax evasion.

What we're talking about here is hiding assets that are subject to taxation. Like Swiss banks did for many years.
Things that can get tricky:

Product upgrades and downgrades - if a user changes products midstream you need to calculate the prorated value and bill or refund the customer accordingly. Reporting then gets tricky - if the customer upgraded from A to B during the middle of the billing period, you want to make sure that your sales for A and B receive proper allocation for what was used to get an accurate sense of where you’re earning your money.

Then there’s the mess with configuring which changes customers are allowed to perform. Perhaps going from A to B is allowed, but B to A is not.

Similar challenges when customers want to change quantities during the subscription term. And what about customers who want to make changes, but have the change apply at the end of the current billing period vs immediately? You’ll need to set up a process to schedule those changes.

Also you’ll need to consider how to handle customers that move from monthly to yearly billing or vice-versa. Not to mention subscription add-ons (and removals of such).

You should also keep a ledger of all changes that have been performed (and by whom) so that if there’s any doubt, it’s clear why a change was applied, and details of the implications of the change so the financial impact can be clearly explained.

And what about situations where a customer’s card is declined? You’ve got to run a process to let them know, inform them how to update their payment method, and provide them a means to do so. If the customer doesn’t take action, configure if / when you should automatically retry, and how many times you retry before you kill the subscription.

What if you sell outside your country? Should you bill in their currency or your own? If their currency, does the renewal price fluctuate based on exchange rates so you get the same in your currency every billing, or does the amount the customer pays stay the same with every billing so the amount you receive fluctuates? You may want to configure this by currency, so stable currencies stay the same and less stable currencies change when re-billed. You’ll need to convey this to the customer up front based on the configuration so they’ll know what to expect.

If you’re not a “famous” company, some people may not recognize you on their credit card statement. So to keep chargebacks in line, you may want to configure a “pre-bill” email to be sent to customers a few days before the charge happens, along with instructions on how to cancel in case they no longer want the service.

What about discounts? Should they apply to the first billing only, the first n billings, or all billings? That probably depends on the nature of the discount so you’ll need to configure how to handle the different situations. No doubt customer service will want to offer discounts to customers mid-stream to make up for service disruptions or entice someone to not cancel, so discounts will need to be able to be applied mid steam as well.

Sorry, I’m rambling. Subscriptions do seem easy until you start to actually peel the onion.

Source: I’ve been operating an online e-commerce platform for nearly 20 years, and many of our clients do subscriptions.
A company selling itself via a raffle
Is it possible to update a website hosted on IPFS and push those changes to all IPFS users?

The equivalent on AWS Cloudfront would be breaking the cache, so all users would see the most recent version.

I'm not sure if this would work on IPFS because it seems more like a P2P network and there might be many different (and old) versions of the site at different locations in the system, with no way of controlling who sees what.
> stable currency, weights and measures, a climate of rule of law and the commensurate security of property — without paying into it.

You are making a very big assumption here - that paying taxes guarantees you these things. I assure you, it does not.

In fact, I believe that public services and the amount of tax you pay have been out of sync for a very long time - that is, that it is quite possible to pay a lot of tax and get none (or only a few) of those services.
My wife saw this one on the internet and really wanted to visit - unfortunately we are in Australia.

Bones for Dogs, a butcher just for raw meat to feed your dog.

http://www.bonesfordogs.de/
Agree that NHST using simple null hypothesis of the form

H0: μ = 0

doesn't provide much value. H0 is never true, and the conclusion of "rejecting H0" based on a p-value is therefore not super profound. Also "rejecting H0" conclusion doesn't really tells anything about the alternative hypothesis HA (not even considered when computing p-value, since p-value is under H0). Dichotomies in general are bad, but NHST with point H0 is useless!

However a composite hypothesis setup of the form

H0: μ ≤ 0
HA: μ > 0

is probabilistically sound (in as much as some journal requires you to report a p-values). Much better to report effect size estimate and/or CI.
Of course! Just like a political campaign contribution in no way affects the future voting pattern of a candidate.
I agree with the notion that every human being should have a fundamental right to shelter. Maybe not in the location of their choosing, but somewhere on this d* planet there really ought to be a place where they can be.

The solution is, to give a plot of land to every human being that turns 18. there's enough land to do this. In most cases they wont want to live exactly in that spot. but, they can sell it or rent it out and use that money to move somewhere else. That's right folks, this is one of those situations where we can actually create wealth out of thin air, just by using up all that land that's been locked up for so long.
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I'm going to guess foreign surveillance drones
> The fact that free people can move to lower (or higher!) tax jurisdictions, and judge the quality of those services based on how much they pay and what they get in return, is a good thing in my opinion.

I think few would disagree that if you move to a new jurisdiction to benefit from a different tax scheme, that's fine. But therein lies two problems: First, so few people are able to move; the wealthy are disproportionally able to have their pick of tax jurisdictions so they can extract benefits from one society and then jump ship when it suits them without returning benefits to that society.

Second is when people move on "paper" to benefit from another jurisdiction but don't physically move in reality. Thus they continue to benefit from the society they nominally "left" but don't pay into it. That's the kind of tax avoidance / evasion that most people have a problem with.
What a terrible situation to be in, and what a loss for the family. My only contention is that wouldn't a person be a little apprehensive to let go of the wheel while on the highway? Maybe autopilot should be limited to city streets, but then I suppose that would defeat half of the purpose of auto-pilot.
Yea it's really sad that at the hackathons I've been to you can hardly find one other rails developer. With rails you can build things fast and spend more time focusing on building cool unique features. But I go to hackathons and I can't collaborate with anyone using Rails or Ember.

Also google cloud has a ton of awesome integrations for ruby and rails so you can build lots of fancy features quickly as well.

The rails community needs to do more outreach to universities and students.