skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The great thing about HTTP outside of just being well known and available everywhere for developers is that you can use it to negotiate switches to other completely different protocols, or change content types, as necessary. This doesn't do much to help truly resource constrained environments but honestly as power and performance get cheaper, I think most consumer usecases can spare the cycles.

The machine the gateway is running on can also be extended to use your solution of choice, for example ZWave with an ESP8266[0][1].

You can also bring your ble/lora/zigbee device-gateway solution with you and have that thing talk to the WebThings Gateway as well, acting as a proxy if necessary.

IMO it doesn't get much better than this -- the ship to have one true communication standard (tm) has already sailed if it was ever even possible, so we're going to have to paper over them if we want devices to interoperate -- whatever does the papering is probably going to be more powerful than the devices themselves, and HTTP has proven to be a pretty easy to grasp and flexible enough interface over them.

All that said, in the lighter-than-http pile of technologies there's also CoAP[2] which I learned about recently that is pretty cool.

[0]: https://github.com/mozilla-iot/zwave-adapter

[1]: https://www.instructables.com/id/Mozilla-IoT-Gateway-With-ES...

[2]: http://coap.technology
And yet 'Assange' and 'treason' are often mentioned in the same sentence. Which is of course ridiculous for the reason you mention, but if I were in his shoes I would be very afraid they'd find a way to make those charges (or "lesser" charges that nevertheless result into you disappearing forever) stick.
For those of us that are bald and have to put on sunscreen pretty much all the time....this could potentially help prevent some cancer.
It's super impressive that people can play music like that form memory, I mean there's got to be thousands or tens of thousands of notes in there.
Reminds me of the VAG TSI problems - people avoid VW, Audi, Skoda and Seat gasoline cars with those engines from around 2007 to 2013 (don't remember the exact years).
For some of us the cure has been around for a long time. I've got a buddy that's been taking finasteride for many years, hasn't lost any hair since. Apparently it's like 80% effective at stopping hairloss in it's tracks.

Some chance of side effects, but I've got the classic receding hairline and planning to try it soon.
Russia will give it back? They are still occupying parts of Georgia.
For Rust programmers that want to write GUIs, I highly recommend gtk-rs. It does not have the easiest-to-read documentation in the world but it is a good wrapper of gtk and it suffices for production use. Although it has not reached 1.0 yet, the changes to the API are slow and mostly happen in esoteric corners, so the development cost of keeping up is not noticeable. Further, since cargo has good versioning, it won't update and surprise you.
Depends where you live but you can look up what spiders are in your area and which ones are dangerous. For example, in most of the US you only really have to worry about black widows (which are pretty distinct) and brown recluses which have a characteristic violin on them but IME often somewhat resemble the harmless wolf spider, which is common in my area.

I'm pretty good at identifying the dangerous spiders now (i.e. distinguishing brown recluse from wolf), but it took several instances of trapping the spider under a glass and then breaking out my cell phone and looking at lots of pictures.

If your area has lots of kinds of dangerous spiders then it might be more of a pain, though.
Back when Id started, games middleware still wasn't a thing regarding game engines and it was highly seen as an additional needless cost.

The industry was mostly focused on buying libraries for specific tasks instead.

It was around this time that companies like FMod and Bink started.

Nowadays with budgets and teams that rival Hollywood ones, it is a much higher risk to do everything from scratch, before starting to do the actual game given how middleware has turned the table and is now widely accepted, hence the defensive stance.
It's called long term support. And it's not cheap.
Online Event Recognition from Moving Vehicles: Application Paper
That's a fair point. I guess the main argument in favor of single return statements in modern programming languages is ease of debugging and logging. Like most things in programming, you have to consider the trade-offs. A few return statements isn't the end of the world, but after too many you might just want to make some more functions.
Only in an immature company, once the company grows large enough, and key leadership leaves, managers take over and inefficiency becomes rampant
It's interesting to compare the user responses to updates by Facebook and Twitter respectively.

Facebook's UI has changed significantly over the last 15 or so years. Features have appeared and disappeared, boxes have been arranged and rearranged. But there's rarely a big fuss beyond it getting a little slower each time (roughly commensurate with consumer hardware speedup, in fact). People don't really notice and they don't really care. People originally balked at the reactions feature, calling it gauche and unnecessary - but now people use it as part of the language of the platform without a second thought.

Compare with Twitter. Every UI "overhaul" they've ever done has been received in a hugely negative way. The only change which has been remotely successful was the 140/280 switch.

The difference is threefold:

First, Twitter's UI changes have been big. They skip over incremental changes and go straight for gigantic overhauls. This requires people re-learn the language of the site completely every couple of years.

Second, these changes have invariably been coupled with user-hostile design decisions. The obvious one this time round is the automatic switching to "AI sorted timeline" on every visit. No wonder people have an almost pavlovian response to the design changes.

And thirdly, while Facebook's changes are usually to accommodate changing usage patterns, new features, or new hardware, Twitter's updates are very transparently pointless. They offer zero improvement to the user experience for any sector of the market. Every change causes people to question why they use the site in the first place.

Gosh I didn't expect this to be such a long rant. Turns out I have a lot to say about the terrible design decisions made over in Twitter land. The conclusion is this: people don't hate change. They hate change which makes their lives worse than the status quo would have done. It's not complicated.
How about buttons with miniature displays? Like that one attempt at making one with oled displays all these years ago by a design bureau.
> "The question I use was first used on me and I solved it completely in 20 minutes. I haven't had a single candidate solve it in 45 minutes, and I give them huge amounts of help."

Honestly it sounds like you're proving GP poster's point here: these interview questions are administered by engineers who want to feel better than the candidate.
>The UK has a lot more in common politically and philosophically with the US than the EU.

Not even close, let's take a basic fundamental US principle like the right to free speech, it doesn't exist in the UK. The UK has had relation ships with most of the European countries for longer than the US has existed. The UK has more import and exports with the EU that the US and because of geographic constraints this will not change Brexit or not.
Legit question:

Since it's not regulated like traditional markets, can it still be considered 'insider trading'?

I follow cyrpto very close and you can watch the whales moving in real time. They seem to leverage buy | sell orders and trading bots.

Profits jump from one coin to the other.
In many ways that stigma already exists for women. Women with thinning hair can get hair extensions if they have an extra $600 in their budget every few weeks.

The economics even apply to women dealing with hair loss related to medical conditions/treatments. Insurance companies have to cover one "cranial prosthesis" a year but they're only required to offer $300 of coverage. That wouldn't even pay for the typical Comic Con wig. A mid-quality human hair partial wig is around $3,000. A quality human hair full wig is around $10,000.

Women with more money (and better health insurance) are able to get the $10,000 wig while women with fewer resources are often forced to just make do.
Agreed. I live in a very popular tourist city. A lot of people complain about the tourists, but its big enough that there are lots of places to avoid tourists. Tourists tend to stick to the same playground area in the centre anyway. I wouldn't have ended up here if I had't have come here as a tourist in the first place.
Absolutely agree.

I had a shaved head for a while and it has downsides too. I live in a sunny area so I had to wear sunscreen all the time, or hats, which I generally don’t find I look right in. I got a lot more sweat rolling down my head and into my face. I also was treated differently — it can be argued that comes down to confidence, but if the source is the hair, why not at least attempt to treat that?

Head shape and face also plays a big role in how you look bald. Not everyone is Jason Statham.

I don’t understand why vanity has an immediate negative connotation. Everyone is vane to some degree. Or else why aren’t we all wearing the same uniforms and simply getting out of the shower and letting our hair do whatever it wants without comb/brush?

Based on many of these comments, I’m assuming nobody here owns a mirror.
iOS 6. I'm using latest iOS and the only useful feature for me is fingerprint recognition and that is more about hardware. They added tons of new features but I wouldn't miss any of those features.
The gist is that putting too much pressure on your perineum is bad for sexual function in males.

The Bad
- Cycling, especially with certain seats and handlebar arrangements, can cause a lot of pressure in the perineum

The Good
- Certain seats and maintaining your handlebars at a lower level than your seat lessen the risk

I don't have the sources I originally looked at (this was several years ago!) but a Google search pulls up some that jive with what I recall.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/biking-and-sex-avoid-the...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/can-cycling-c...

https://www.webmd.com/men/features/biking-and-erectile-dysfu...
Yup.

I think anyone expecting a return to the old keyboard is in for a disappointment. More likely to me would be a new scissor with butterfly-style travel, an evolved butterfly, or something new altogether.

Ming-Chi Kuo has a pretty good track record for iPhone predictions, but his Mac stuff is all over the place.
Are you suggesting that the onus is on Google to be proactive and contact every US political campaign before they try to signup for Ads, or any Google account, to verify names, contacts, CC#s ahead of time?
LinkedIn Reinstates Referral Tracking
As far as wasted scientific research goes it is a bit silly to think that there can't exist other applications in the future for their discoveries. Which may already not be limited to solving baldness.
Because the people that will likely win the nomination will almost certainly have big money, to include Big Pharma, behind them. Ads, research, propaganda, and aggressive ground games work, but they need money. Like multi-national corp or nation-state level money[1].

Hilary had some uncomfortable ties to Wall Street -- she was a Senator from NY, mind you -- and the DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz picked up a lot of Budweiser money by scrapping any DNC talk of Marijuana Legalization (DWS has long battle MJ Legalization in Florida, so she's been taking their money for a while, or was a sympathetic bribe for Alcohol). But I could have lived with that in exchange for working health care and sane foreign policy.

[1] see also: the russian firehose of propaganda -- https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PE198.html
> These two points make me think Unity has such a moat built around developers mindspaces that it's probably super-hard to dethrone at this point.

While Unity is great, I think you are a little bit skewed in perspective by your love for Unity. The legacy Unreal has (just look at the insane list[0] of past and present notable games built on it) with developers makes it the king to dethrone for anything AA or AAA.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games
Hold my bier. https://str.llnl.gov/str/April01/Klingmann.html

http://mooretool.com/jig_grinders.html
It's insulting to those struggling with actual mental health issues.
Why? You don't have to spend anything to continue to comment here, being voted down or up has no cost, karma is meaningless.

With the model you're describing, meanwhile, every downvote devalues your currency, and with it your ability to participate anywhere.
The Aesthetic Beauty of Math
Oh, wow. It looks horrible[1] in some cases. Even worse than most C++/Boost constructions.

[1]: https://gtk-rs.org/docs-src/tutorial/upcast_downcast
Clearly you have not met a 10x developer. believe me, they exist.
I was always under the impression that it was a combination of the patent system (delays generics), the lengthy drug approval process, and doctors having loyalty to a particular drug brand (I don't know if this is a thing). I wonder if cutting patent durations (say 5 years) while also reducing FDA approval times (say by allowing human trials earlier with a waiver) would maintain innovation while reducing costs.

For the doctor brand loyalty thing (or maybe it's patients asking about ads), one thing I find particularly interesting is insulin. There are several options that are much less expensive than their competitors, but doctors seem to push the more expensive options. Yes, the more expensive options are better in certain ways, but the less expensive options still work fine. Since I don't have diabetes, I don't know the whole situation, but I'd like to also have some figures for insurance coverage and costs the customer sees vs patient loyalty to specific brands/types of insulin and whether they're aware of less expensive options. I think it would be an interesting case study that may generalize to other types of drugs.
Qualcomm used tombstones to illustrate competitors exit from mobile market
San Francisco’s North Beach is littered with empty storefronts. Here’s why
Unity was founded in Denmark.
"Have you heard the good word of emacs?"
Honest question, buying fonts is still a thing nowadays with all the free fonts everywhere? (google fonts and others)
Such speech was not barred from publication, but was effectively silenced by commercial mass media - print, radio and television.

Also, let's not forget that Communist Party sympathizers were purged from various domains of social activity - obviously, and that was indirect legal sanction of promoting pro-socialist/pro-USSR content.
> Twitter's updates are very transparently pointless. They offer zero improvement to the user experience for any sector of the market.

The only improvement seems to be that the new UI supports multiple accounts - something which I solve by using different Chrome profiles, much safer.
> if that's their source then hell-mend them. Social media is an echo chamber. It's not designed for two-sided debates.

I think you are writing off a huge portion of people because their manipulation is convenient and happens to fit your opinion. The effects of manipulation through social media are a real and significant societal problem that undermine any type of democratic process. It is particularly vulnerable when the decision is poorly defined in almost every way imaginable beyond the entirely abstract concept of "not part of the EU".
Personally I have one of their separate wireless keyboards, more travel than the MBP itself has but still low profile (lower than the Mac itself).
Kind of like how people criticize them on internet forums to show how much better they are than that.....
Yes, me too. Under Linux, you can use xcape to simulate this.
Yes, it has a real “they’re all sheeple!” vibe to it. There is no inherent value in “conformity” or “non-conformity”.

By all means do what you like, but we are all swimming in the same water, so to speak; there are limits to how different one can really be. I bet you still wear jeans, drink coffee, live in a house that looks like your neighbors’ houses.
China is also an interesting example of a large, increasingly developed country where credit cards are barely used: they went straight to electronic payments with Alipay/WeChat Pay. There are a number of companies in SE Asia and India trying to replicate the model, and many are starting to get traction: PayTM, GrabPay, Gojek, etc.
Budget travel tips for India can help you travel in less than 500Rs a day
> It really sounds like poor regard for security measures / lack of ownership and enforcement in the UK rather than anything malicious.

The UK understand exactly how to do Passport security if they did it in a insecure way it was with malicious intent that gives them "plausible" deniability.
Risk-Risk Tradeoff Analysis of Nuclear Explosives for Asteroid Deflection
> To be completely fair tptacek is a recognised security expert.

Recognized how, by whom?

> Yes, he likes Signal. Apparently like you, I disagree (their refusal to implement non-personally identifying information as an identity is enough for me).

No, what my point is, is that it isn't a solution to everything like he has purported repeatedly on here. PGP can be used over an slab of text, a file, or anonymously. That's where my main disagreement lies.

The other thing being, with signal is that it is fine if you want to give your phone number to people, but what if you don't? Then the whole platform cannot be used. You're communicating with me now, what if we wanted to continue this privately? would you want me having your phone number? I am just some guy on the internet. What If then you did give me your phone number, and I started calling you at 2am from a rented number in India? Would you have to change your phone number? You wouldn't be able to really use the law on me if I covered my tracks. Spam calls/SMS is already a issue.

Using disposable numbers isn't an option, because you don't know if there will be number reuse, someone else could be issued that number and then you might be talking to a different person. You don't own a phone number. There's a reason why when you delete your google account, nobody can signup with the same username.

Many countries now also store metadata, which means it would be trivial to determine your social graph, from data obtained from other sources. This means you'll never be able to get any kind of anonymous or pseudonymous communication with Signal.

That means it can only be used with specific communication use cases in mind.

Also it's a centralized platform with a single point of failure, that is very hostile to anyone making their own client that might provide a better experience than the official one. When you consider that point it's not much better than the other options out there that are widely in use.
That would seem fine. Possibly add a reference to the Schengen Information System to be specific?
Google SRE: Distributed Periodic Scheduling with Cron
The average central A/C will use 4000 to 5000 watts. I own the cheapest smallest window unit at the store and I just checked it's about 600W (4.8 amps @ 120V).

It's not horrible, but that's like half a space heater and most people spring for something bigger.
How about getting a company?
Blockchain Beyond the Hype – David Schwartz
Putin is laughing hard...
Does this remind anyone else think of Frank Herbert's Sardaukar from Dune? I wonder if Herbert got the idea from Leibniz.
I'm guessing it's a tongue-in-cheek nod at the requirement for Mine Safety Disclosures you'll often see as a blank section in company filings. It looks more like a finance/investment website.

Edit: For example, page 45 of Apple's most recent 10Q https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/320193/00003...
I'm really sorry to hear that. I imagine you are looking for your first job out of college?

Even as a quality candidate there might be a lot of way that you are going wrong. I would advise you try and get your CV looked at. This can make a big difference. I'm sure there is lots of advice out there. What market are you looking in?
Hear hear! Fuck yeah!
It gives me nostalgia seeing mode 13 graphics. What's next, mode x? Triangle drawing routines? :)
You are posting a false narrative according to your own link.

> UK made illegal copies of classified personal information from a database reserved for members of the passport-free Schengen travel zone.

Why?
Even mader is that the EU laws and article 50 state that any member state must leave without a deal as no deal can be negotiated until....they have left.

Actually a transition period was proposed (and agreed upon in the current deal) for exactly that.

The problem, of course, is that if the UK breaks out without a deal there will be no transition period.
If you're in a country where Stripe allows account with Sole proprietorship, then it's the best away ahead. Having access to API and underlying implementation is game changing if you're doing online ecom.

Otherwise you may look into Gumroad. It hides away all the implementation and pays you directly into Paypal account. But I am not so sure about the Shopify integration part.
I hope you don't mind being considered evil
I think some people around here, most especially the package-manager-uber-alles crowd and the security-for-the-security-god types [0], will be very upset you said this, but I agree.

Why shouldn't I use software that works best for me, even if it isn't the latest and greatest version? Why shouldn't I be able to use multiple versions of the same software as though they were different products because they do different things well? As I recall this was expected behavior in the before times, in the long long ago, when internet wasn't yet a thing.

[0] Oh, also the web-all-the-things! people.
It definitely is. Some of the best fonts are still paid. And there are only so many high-quality free-fonts. That said, I haven't personally purchased a font (or worked for a company that purchased a font) for several years.

I can't imagine who would pay for this particular font :/
i would totally use this if it had nerdfont support and ligature support.
New incoming users love change, it can sometimes be the reason they even came to your platform. Always remember the user you serve.
People will be people (unfortunately). But what I don't understand is:

1) Why doesn't the farmer call the police on them for trespassing? And post clear warning signs explaining the penalties... as farmers and other people with large areas of private property have been doing forever

2) And/or make money off it -- charge $$$ for exclusive use of the field for 30 min, do your photoshoot, trample all the lavender you need because you'll be paying top dollar for it

Farmers deal with all sorts of pests threatening their crops, this is just one more. And they're businesspeople. I'm certainly not defending people's bad behavior, but this situation in particular seems pretty manageable.
Why Russia's ambitions are less legitimate than American ones?