skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A London, Ontarian would probably expect/accept the confusion. Because if he's travelled and met international people and they asked where he's from, he would've specified ", Ontario", otherwise they would've all assumed he hails from where Sherlock Holmes lived.
This is a solid NodeJS joke. Can't believe I got downvoted. Probably by a know-nothing wannaVC.
Toronto, Ontario, Niagara, Ottawa, Canada, Mississauga.

Canada kept a few.

I guess mississippi is one but most US places have white names.
And thus, natural selection marches on: the next bald eagle will likely not be so weak to loons!
Right. I forgot about Asia. In that case it must be painful, agreed!
In China, you can't look at your own screen without government approval
Optogenetics [0]. Light changes electrical behavior in cells. AKA, point laser, neurons fire, I know kung-fu

Memristors [1] Rebuilding the entire computer from EE basics. New 'color' added to EE spectrum, now computers process huge datasets on a watch battery

CRISPR-CaS9 [2] Tricks bacteria used to keeps viruses out are pretty slick. Crtl-C, Ctrl-V for gene editing. $100B technology, easily.

Strangely (encouragingly?) all these words are 'misspelled'

NOTE: I am massively oversimplifying things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optogenetics

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
Yup, you can choose to not use iCloud backup and back up offline in an encrypted way (even over wifi) if you’d like.
Snowden's legal situation is up to him at this point. The only way for whistleblower precedent to be set is for him to stand trial.
Seriously. The window is equal to a multiple of whatever the office space is.
Even closer to home. Palm, RIM, Microsoft, Apple and Google have all said at one point that web apps were the answer for mobile apps....
Yes, for prototypes, MVPs, temporary chaotic storages.
NO MongoDB for production workloads. No MongoDB for more than 1000 records in one collection. No MongoDB higher 4.0.3.
Oh wow! Super interesting to see how all these fields weave together like that. There's a joke to be made somewhere here about graph theory too.
Dang needs to kill this before the Canadian nationalists arrive to laugh at us Americans... /s
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Some additional variations:

What if you were calling an individual human personal assistant who knew you lived in London, Ontario?

What if you had previously clarified to this person that when you said London, you meant London, Ontario?

I think both of these questions ought to be relevant to the digital personal assistants that we're creating.
Counterpoint, I also have the 16 inch 2020 MBP as my first Mac work laptop and absolutely love it. No issues, it works perfectly, and I’m 2x as productive on it as I was on my previous Ubuntu setup.
It's an "AI" in the sense that it's an uncontrollable, unknowable black box that's clearly trying to be "smart" (artificially intelligent).

It's definitely not sorted by contact frequency or anything close to it, because many of the people I share with all the time never show up. As I type, three of my "top" 4 (including that plumber) are SMS, which is doubly weird since I almost exclusively use WhatsApp.
It matters for mobile applications where space and weight are limited.
> You can use GraphQL with SQL.

What do you mean by that?
It's funny how the chrome store has skewed so far the opposite direction (kicking out extensions that claim they need http://*), but any Android app can claim they're a http:// handler.
I like the sandboxing effect of using Docker. Having node_modules (or any kind of dependencies) not being able to access all files on the host is a big relief - especially since there were attacks on popular dependencies already, stealing wallets or similar.
spit in = diseases.json out
It's funny to think very few people even recognize him as an African.
> C++ getting serious about safety. Buffer overflows and bad pointers should have been eliminated decades ago. We've known how for a long time.

Would love some links to read over weekend. Thanks!
Citation needed. Did eel consumption and fishing increase significantly with industrialization? The article in the OP doesn't offer a single explanation.
Omg I'm not the only one. I've tried and tried and tried white noise and brown noise and pink noise and yellow noise and every kind of noise people can come up with, and I can't stand them. After 10 minutes my brain is screaming for silence, it's exhausting.

I've found rain sounds and ocean sounds to work alot better but of course they're easier to puncture.
> I've always found it ironic that in our climate of anti-immigration (including legal immigration) that the person to save our industry of so much American pride, the manned space program, is an African immigrant.

That's quite a pathetic agenda-driven reach. His parents were canadian citizens, making him a canadian citizen. Also, Musk's maternal grandfather was born in america and he has ancestral ties to the Pennsylvannia Dutch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

Also, Musk attained his US citizenship as a canadian because it is easier to attain US citizenship as a canadian than a south african. In other words, musk immigrated to the US from canada, not south africa. So not quite the "african" "immigrant" story you are desperately trying to frame.

Whether you are pro or anti-immigration, Musk isn't the typical immigration story. He came from wealth, he came from a fellow anglo nation and had ties to the US. It's not anything like what an african or most other immigrants experience.
Ask HN: What's the cheapest ACH payment processor for marketplaces?
I am trying to figure out the cheapest way to integrate payment processor for the following use case:
User1 pays User2 by $500 1-4 times a month via ACH.
Platform charges subscription fee to User1.

I looked at Stripe.
Looks like their only product that can power this is Connect Express which will charge:
0.8% ACH fee
0.25% transaction volume fee
$0.25 transaction fee
$2/m to User2
0.15% for direct debit (subscription)

This really adds up.
I was wondering if anyone found a cheaper way to do this.
E-bike batteries ... not a fire hazard, etc.

Yes, that remains a big problem.[1]

We need battery chemistries that don't have a thermal runaway problem. It's too bad that safe lithium iron phosphate batteries lost out due to lower energy density.

[1] https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a28778383/electric-bike...
When we kitted our boat with solar panels the cheapest part of the entire system were the panels, ~$1/W. Half of the budget went into mounting and the fabrication of the mounting hardware and 1/3, or the remainder, went to wiring and controllers. This nearly lines up with domestic solar. 1/3 to panles, 1/3 to frames and mounting, and 1/3 towards electrical.

Panels at 2% efficiency would be wildly uneconomical at practical any price.
Yeah, I'm also a single-issue Android user (have used Dvorak for nearly 20 years now, no interest in using/learning the iOS QWERTY keyboard), and if anyone asks me, I'm hard-pressed to recommend an Android device over an iOS device.
Oh man, I used to research in OCT for deep brain stimulation! It's pretty cool tech, that is for sure. It's got a huge market for bio applications and certain industrials.

That said, optics is a super finicky field. You can come in and get a Nobel for 5 hours work, or you can spend 50 years in a dark room trying to get things together. Alignment is crazy difficult, thought it seems it shouldn't be.

Anyone that wants to dive into optics: Just do it for 2 years, no more.
It's really up to us citizens that benefited from his whistleblowing to bail him out. But of course we don't because we're not as good a society as we might be.
Does the discount vary monotonically? E.g. first 500 cost X, next marginal 2500 cost X/2?

Or do you end up in the situation where ordering 3000 costs less than ordering 2500?
Cooking meat well is easy, just throw it in until it looks and chews like shoe leather. Cooking meat properly on the otherhand.

Jokes aside, cooking meat properly should almost always have a leave in thermometer for anything that isn't being seared.
> Duncan Hammons, considers copyright protection “among our chief duties per our relationship with our distributed label clients.”

> “We’re at the mercy of automation in order to uphold our obligations to our clients,” Hammons says in an email. Like other record companies, Naxos relies on Facebook’s and YouTube’s content identification systems to track potential illegal use.

Naxos, please explain who is forcing you to use software/algorithms implemented by other companies, that you implied you know is harming the classical music industry/community? It's clear to me who is at Naxios' mercy, but it's not entirely clear to me whose mercy Naxios is saying they are at.
https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2019-01-01%20to%3A%40Re...

Looks like they've gone by @AlphMedia and @PLRExpress in the past.
The quote isn't at all relevant to technical decisions though. Eg, there is enforcement that a program can't arbitrarily access any RAM it likes on the same machine. That is trading freedom for security and it is a good trade. And there isn't really an argument against gatekeeping software - users as a body don't have time to verify that the software they use is secure. I'd be shocked if the median web developer even reads up on all the CVEs for their preferred libraries. Gatekeepers are an overwhelmingly good idea for typical don't-care everyday users.

The issue is if it becomes practically impossible to move away from Apple to an alternative. Given that they have a pretty typical market share in absolute terms that doesn't seem like a risk right now. They don't even hold an absolute majority in what I assume is their strongest market, the US, let alone globally.
I had a similarly emotional schisms with Apple, but back in 1997. I finally became aware of Apple's penchant for designing "road apples" to fuck cost-conscious consumers. I worked hard as a teen to buy my 62XX Performa, but later when I found out that it was a piece of shit because Apple deliberately designed it as a piece of shit... well, fuck them, really. No respect for their buyers.

I switched to Windows in 1998 and didn't look back.

https://lowendmac.com/2014/road-apples-second-class-macs/
The Play Store is a disasterous shit show; I don't trust apps on it at all.
So a virtual card game where most of the complexity is server side?
Scary! I would never have anything involving heat (oven, space heater, etc) or water connected to the IoT. Way too much risk of fire or flood from a bug or a hack.
I wonder how this works with "raise to wake" features modern phones have. If it goes to intent, it would be hard to prove that intent was to search the device.
This happens with Google Chrome address bar suggestions on Android too. Drives me nuts every time.
The general principal may be fine. My narrow nostrils are one of several genetic reasons why I would be more likely to be eaten by a tiger than many. So I'm not in the upper percentiles that this advice is likely aimed at!
You could Google for "t-shirt sleeve mask" and make your own.

Etsy can also be quite fast.
These are great ideas. I'll try to pass them on to design students.

I bet there are interesting subtle dynamics beyond rate. Maybe interesting to record the acoustics inside the spirometer.

What's the product model? Prescription digital behavior change??
Maybe it was a purposeful reference, but PlayStations have indeed been linked to create a supercomputer: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
Want to start a foundation?
This is perhaps the longest stream of bullshit I've ever read on HN. Congratulations on your trolling.
Solar trees could help for the parking, but I don't know how the economics of that plays out.
Since simply moving a phone can turn on a lock screen, police could probably look at it that way, at the time of arrest.
My serious answer is: create a forum where 1000s of people can post what they like and you are bound to have some comments that are worth a giggle at.

Also the fact that coders love to codify real life problems, and bikeshed, and HN is one of the few places that is an interesting news aggregator with so so many comments makes it an easy target.
Agreed. Came here to make the same joke, which means it must be funny.
(Duplicate) - prior comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23269835
Essentially the idea of the article boils down to finding a job title, creating something to help them with their job, and then promoting it to that audience.
When you run "bash hello" you are calling exec() on bash, passing "hello" as an argument, which bash then reads; when you run "./hello" you are calling exec() on hello: the kernel then treats "hello" as an executable, but notes that "hello" starts with "#!" and then will run the specified interpreter for you, passing "./hello" as an argument. The kernel doesn't think of "hello" as a program when you run "bash hello".
Which you almost certainly can do with Home Assistant
Current methods can pretty easily identify the virus from just your spit (in fact, that's a protocol that is pretty widely used for different applications). The biggest problem is that normally you need to concentrate the virus in order to get detectable range for earlier days of infection. Seems like the range is approximately ~2 days earlier with concentrating vs spit only, which is actually significant.

All diseases (other than prions) are just nucleic acid, so that's already possible. Nanopore sequencing is the future and will eat most other technologies lunch.
Heavy weight training is the only thing that has ever 100% fixed me. Trying to get back into it right now.
> Do you not remember his cave diver / submarine attacks on twitter?

A jury sided with Musk over the "pedo guy"...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-musk-lawsuit-idUSKBN1YA13...

And most sane people would side with Musk over some pathetic old guy who goes to thailand to exploit the poor people there. Don't you agree?
How's this different from hypertext? (I genuinely don't know)
+1, very excited about this.

They're marketing it in the OLAP space right now, but at some point I'd like to try integrating it with a web framework I've been working on.[1][2] It'd be a more powerful version of firebase's real-time queries. Firebase's queries don't let you do joins; you basically can just filter over a single table at a time. So you have to listen to multiple queries and then join the results by hand on the frontend. Doesn't work if you're aggregating over a set of entities that's too large to send to the client (or that the client isn't authorized to see).

[1] https://findka.com/blog/migrating-to-biff/
[2] https://github.com/jacobobryant/biff
>What else do you call a 70 year waiting line for green card?

We call it fairly distributing the limited number of green cards so that non-Indian immigrants like myself can get a chance to come here too. :)
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When will computer and OS companies start telling us exactly what data they’re taking and who they give it to? I was an Apple user from 2002 until last year. I just can’t be spied on and telemetized any more. It’s not beneficial to me and I can see all kinds of downsides. Especially since big tech has it in for anybody politically to the right of Bernie.
I understand how you feel but I think 99% of the time its just about cost. Of course the problem is it's hard to measure the cost to productivity and very easy to measure the cost of real estate, and usually whoever has solid numbers tends to win the argument.
VR. It seems just about ready, but still a little too expensive.

While good games are obviously already there, I'm more curious about work. Would an infinite desktop with an appropriate interface beat the reliable old 2x24" screen setup I have? I think it could.
I was hoping to get some cool swag out of the deal I won’t lie lol but yeah I get these folks value their privacy too just like the rest of us
> holding officer searched stereo equipment by moving it

That seems pretty similar?
Hmm. The way I see it, Apple still seems to have the same basic attitude of high-value of aesthetics over function and a "my-way-or-the-highway" attitude, backed by just a bit less creativity in innovating actual function.

It doesn't seem that much different, but a little less satisfying, ultimately.
I have such a love-hate relationship with latex. It gets the job done and does it well, but there's so much overhead and the syntax is pretty out of date. I wish there was something that bridged the gap between the ease of markdown and full-blown latex. Preferably trans-compiled down to latex so you can still submit to academic publishers. I tried pandoc for a bit, but that didn't cut it for me.
If anyone is particularly brave, we are a new platform which is like Firebase, except it's built with Postgres:

https://app.supabase.io

We are are essentially rebuilding [DabbleDB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble_DB) for the UI, and you get a bunch of middleware which is auto-generated: REST APIs, Realtime (CDC), auto-updating documentation. Also we will tackle some of the more difficult tasks for Postgres like replicating your database close to your users.

Also we're opensource! https://github.com/supabase/
In my opinion, Windows search is the absolute most infuriating example of this, compounded by how slow it is. Let's name it so we can shame it
I think it was huge everywhere. The movie is #6 on the list of biggest grossing movies of all time, adjusted for inflation. For 6 years it held the record as the highest grossing movie ever.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films...
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Did you all know that humans need oxygen to survive? And that the ways we consume oxygen can affect our health?
Search for “pranayama” on YouTube etc. this is quite common for of exercise in in the Indian subcontinent but you might not be familiar if you are in the west or otherwise remote from the Indian/yoga culture

Edit:

Also Look into the books or talks (on YouTube) by Dr. Chris Willard
I was excited for memristors in 2008 when HP announced they were right around the corner. They even built a new computer and a new OS to take advantage of memristors [1]. And then it never happened and no one has ever built one and it’s pretty much vaporware. I would be hesitant to trust anyone who says they’re anywhere close. It’s just not a technology that actually exists.

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/207897-hp-kills-the-mach...
Do you write anywhere online about your workflow setup using AppleScript? It sounds interesting. I’d like to configure my macOS experience more.
I'd be fairly confident that Weber will be in business selling grills 5 years from now. Still supporting some little Bluetooth gadget experiment, on the other hand...
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I’d love to try it if they didn’t tie the language to their hosting service. I understand the necessity of the coupling but until someone can start a competing hosting company with the same language, it’s not something I’m interested in.
I've never used a Bluetooth one, but wireless meat thermometers are super helpful IMO. They mostly use proprietary protocols, but a lot of the 433mhz ones have been reverse engineered
Good. A private entity (corp) exercises it's right to free speech.

Google is under no obligation to provide services for anyone it deems troublesome.

Would you question a bartender or bar staff for refusing entry to a problematic client?
1. Functional strictly typed programming patterns. It's hard to say if functional languages themselves will get adoption, but we definitely see functional patterns being used more and more in languages like Javascript, and being pushed in things like React/Redux.

2. Graphql/service-based architectures
Right, as I said, it's up to Apple to make sure that the audience they served as their target market and made them popular, keeps being served properly. Or rightly let them lose market for it.

On your last point, maybe you should consider whether being unhappy over some flaws in a product are worth inconveniencing yourself for 10 years. Is it really that bad?
This looks nice and simple to use. Great for mvps.
yes it was a man named "ie". perhaps you've heard of him?
Wim Hof method has some serious risks.
Exactly, if you are going to make a claim that most people are breathing inadequately, back it up more. The author made numerous appeals to authority and didn't include links to any studies. The only study he actually mentioned was a study on himself about mouth breathing.
I think the challenge with this is most our workstations are either macs or windows, in which case your containers are running in a VM anyway (so, sluggish). You only really get native performance if youre running it in linux, which is fine but.. the year of the linux desktop has not quite arrived yet.
Hardly a complex product compared to some, yes, but time to market and speed of iteration are still important. I don't like the game but the presentation and feel was good when I tried it.

I don't know how well it worked out for them overall though, and I don't recall seeing them use Unity again on another game.
Unethical Continuation of This Idea:

Scrape existing news sites, and use machine learning to paraphrase everything so Google doesn't detect plagiarism.
Oxford nanopore sequencing. If a few problems can be figured out (mainly around machine learning and protein design), then it will beat every other biological detection, diagnosis, and sequencing method by a massive amount (no 10x, but more like 100x-1000x)

It's hard to explain how big nanopore sequencing is if a few (hard) kinks can be figured out. Basically, it has the potential to completely democratize DNA sequencing.

Here is an explanation of the technology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWZvHIi3i0
implement graphQL would be nice
OK, I was off quite a bit and the total of all assets on the page is 27MB. That's mostly due to several HD pics on the page and one 2-second soundless looping MP4.

The total CloudFront bill was $87.65, the bulk being $74.98 spent in North America (2.5M requests @ $2.52, 852.518 GB data transferred @ $72.46). Those prices are as of March 2019. Doing that math that's only 31.5K page loads in North America (my 70K view number is from Google Analytics worldwide and may have straddled months, or counted re-views, I dunno).

Now, I remember running those pics through TinyJPG so they are as compressed as possible. And I could probably add some kind of JavaScript lazy loading library to only load images as users scroll down to them. Or, I could just use Cloudflare and not think about it. /shrug
There’s going to be a big exodus of open source developers going to Linux-powered platforms instead of the standard Mac laptop because of this ridiculousness
Unity offers so much beyond your narrow experience.

I’ve made tonnes of games in Unity and never experienced either of these concerns.
Apparently you don't understand what a tax on consumption is.
Specifically: https://goo.gl/maps/LidB2yoxMP9pjpXJ7
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people living close to London Ontario who refer to it as simply "London", but that's besides the point. We are nowhere near being able to algorithmically take into account everything every single person considers "obvious" in AI. Software today, whether it's marketed as "AI", "expert system" or other IMO bullshit term, is absolutely nowhere near what a non-developer, non-marketing person would describe as such.