skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that might off topic or it might just be my lack of farming-related knowledge, but, it seems in the third picture, the one with the calves (sp?) drinking milk from bottles... aren't those bottles too high? I mean, it seems like a very uncomfortable position to drink, no?

I'm obviously no cow or cow expert for that matter, but it just struck me as odd.
Is there some interesting research paper one could read?
Your understanding of trademark law is not correct. The crucial question is whether consumers will be confused by two different entities using the same or a similar trademark.

One of the first things you learn about trademarks is that two companies can have the same trademark if they are in different industries and the consumer is unlikely to confuse the two companies. For example, there is both an airline and a faucet manufacturer called "Delta". There is both an electronics company and an agricultural seed company called "Pioneer". However, Lindows had to change their name to Linspire because it was clearly in the same industry as Microsoft and the consumer could easily confuse it with the trademarked Windows software. Similarly, the social networking site Teachbook eventually relented after being sued by Facebook and changed their name to TeachQuest.

It definitely is not the case that this ruling grants the company Sky free trademarks on every word in the dictionary that contains those three letters.
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> A friend who is a sales associate ..

I don't think the target user will care where the data comes from if it saves/makes them money.
I'm sure it was from a fan of your podcast or Micropreneur Academy. You have delivered so much quality free content over the years I have no problem with a pure sales link to your book on HN.
Server code is much easier to test with unit and integration tests than UI code which is part of the reason that people dislike breaking changes in UI frameworks more than in other kinds of libraries.
The chosen benchmark (a customer reviews) table is likely something that benefits tremendously from compressed columnar storage:
1) It has a small number of attributes which are almost always present in the records - that is, a fixed schema.
2) The most of the fields are numeric/date, or text with low cardinality (product_category, etc.) These things respond well to huffman codes and run-length encoding.

This is a use case where JSON shouldn't really ever be used, because the schema is pretty much fixed and highly regular. JSONB records essentially carry the schema definition with them per-record and in this case most of that information is duplicated - hence the blowup in its representation on disk.

While column stores are great for answering analytical queries that require scans over the whole table (like the single query example they show), they aren't as good at transactional queries (like serving webpages).

If I were citus, I'd have written the blog post using a dataset of highly irregular JSON blobs - e.g. log messages from lots of different systems or a big collection of web pages (serialized as json representations of the DOM). Maybe we'll see these "in the coming weeks."
Since Skype is by far the more popular (and important) service, I suppose "Sky" should change their name ;-)

http://www.skymedia.co.uk/Audience-Insight/dashboard.aspx
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I did it for two years. It is possible, but the farming work is quite demanding and you always have something to do outside. I also find it much interesting to go out to do work or just visit neighbours than actually sit down and do much coding.
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> How do you prove, as a manager, that you are doing your job when nobody can see half of your employees?

I don't know if I buy it. How do you prove, as a manager, that you are doing your job when everyone can see all your employees? I fail to see how the visibility of you employees helps you prove that you're doing your job.
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For your body?? What do you mean? Like human body?
This tool helped a lot back then. I would also use DotPeek.
Amazon does exactly that. (I'm guessing selling on Amazon doesn't fit into the author's sales model)
I wonder how much time it would take for them to finally implement indexed JSON..
Note that the nyt photo is misleading. The hémicycle was 3/4 empty when the law was voted. vote by pricuration.
"Virtual Structs" is a name for a potential feature that may expose some sort of structural inheritance or subtyping.

The name is not used for the current "enum" feature, which is one of the few ADTs in Rust (there's also "struct" and tuples - not sure what else qualifies).
Thanks for this information. Looks like CSA is a lot more common in North America than in Europe, but I guess there are similar solutions worldwide.
1. I believe, computers will probably never match human capacity for empathy.

2. What in philosophy is described as soul or consciousness, it could probably never evolve to have it.

3. Computers may become adept at meta-stuff, and self-awareness but they would probably still lack the said soul.

4. Even if they ever evolve their consciousness, it would never match ours, since humans live in a perception dimension which almost never matches reality ( reality itself is evolving, or so it seems ). With that, if we tried to feed in rules or algorithms to model learning so consciousness could evolve, it would still be off mark from the feeling of consciousness which we so profoundly seek to understand.
Just recently built a site with Codeigniter after trying out Cake and Laravel. Codeigniter is really easy to implement and its pretty powerful and lightweight out of the box.

I do understand what you mean, its like building Wordpress for so long and suddenly you get a project in Joomla. Suddenly your flow is disrupted and you have to "downgrade" to another framework/platform.

In terms of converting, I think it would be best if you suggest refactoring it from bottom up. Since you mentioned its built in a foreign country, I am certain the variables, function naming conventions, file structure, etc aren't on point.
I imagine it's similar to drinking from a mother. One way or another they're twisting their heads or looking up.
A trait is a type, but the type does not have a size, which is the reason it is not possible to store a trait instance directly in a Vec (or any other place needing a sized type). It is possible to store a pointer to a trait object in a Vec, which would look like Vec<Box<CanineTrait>>.
Are they also going to go after the two dozen or so airlines that have 'Sky' in their name...?
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There is a Bulk API for ES, which we are using for filling it, or do you mean something else?
It. Is. Not. About. You. Nobody's bashing your job. It's about someone sharing their own journey.

On the other hand, I think you do us all a big disservice by clubbing down anyone who has anything slightly negative to say about our trade. If you cannot criticize, you cannot optimize.
Author is here, thank you.

"i assume you know this, but I'll link if you need more background or refresher".

You're almost right is here :) Actually I put many links and not give much explanation only with one reason: kernel is very very big code-base and it is very hard to explain every line of code
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It is specifically addressed in the law:

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap3.html#303

But only the legitimate owner of the documents will be able to publish them, not any random evil corporation.
Rust enums are ADTs.
'a really really early employee who took basically no salary' -- this is a description of a founder.

'and instead got 1%+.' -- this is a description of somebody who had decided to work for free for some reason.
Amazon already offers this https://www.createspace.com/
Since when is a "studio" actually 5 offices and 3 apartments?
One more coincidence: Unlike most substances, solid water (ice) floats rather than sinking. If this were not true, many bodies of water would be solid through most of their depth.
Therefore by logical extension of this ruling, they have at minimum given Sky free trademarks on 82 additional words.

Well, not quite. From the article:

"The case was not a legal challenge to Skype's use of the mark, it was only against the registration," [a Microsoft spokeswoman] told BBC News. "We're confident that no confusion exists between these brands and services and will appeal. This decision does not require us to alter product names in any way."

The court hasn't said that Sky owns the Skype trademark -- only that Microsoft cannot have the additional benefits provided by registration (which AFAIK are primarily a presumption of validity and larger damages if infringed).

That said, I'm inclined to agree with you that "Sky" and "Skype" are clearly different words, despite one being a prefix of the other.
Thanks for the good point about manoeuverability when landing on bad terrain during an unplanned emergency.

> don't manned launches have fairly strict weather condition safety requirements? I'm pretty sure that would include sea states in any conceivable abort landing zone.

You might be right, but note that all the shuttle abort landings sites were on land at a handful of locations, in part because the shuttle was a glider (so it had a decent amount of unpowered range) and in part because landing the shuttle somewhere that wasn't planned was nearly impossible (since it needed such a huge flat expanse to land). Therefore, you only needed to have a good weather simultaneously at a few locations.

For the Dragon, however, the lack of gliding ability and the ability to land anywhere in an emergency makes it infeasible to wait for simultaneously good weather everywhere, simply because it might end up anywhere along it's flight path in an emergency. So you probably need to be able to handle bad weather.
It would probably be useful, but I don't see how you can make that a product. Wouldn't it have to be very individualized?
That and they often cannot be rebuilt with modern materials and techniques. And you may even go to jail if you try.
My take on it is the opposite view it seems life on other planets living in liquid water would develop vision to see in the middle of the colour spectrum since it passes through water the best, the same as on earth. Life would need to have eyes adapted to the same frequency due to the properties of liquid water.

If an alien planet with liquid water had a different class of star the light from it may not emit the same amount of the frequency of light to make through water compared to earth but to the life on that planet it would be normal.

I think water is the key not so much the sun since life would need liquid water to exist and the light needed whether abundant or not could only be in the frequency alien eyes could use the best which would be the same as life on earth.

The biggest factor in life being different on an alien plant I think would be due to gravity and atmosphere; pressure and oxygen level.
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Actual farmers kinda hate the way wealthy professionals bring their piles of cash and drive up land prices. But I see the appeal.
Well let's say you want to create berry and fruit flavored chocolate. You make an orange chocalate wrapped in orange, a mint chocolate wrapped in green, a lemon chocolate wrapped in yellow and a blueberry chocolate in bluish purple.

These are fairly common color/taste pairings used across products and product categories.
> Behaviorally for example, they followed the US into a global war on drugs that has been an epic failure, and fortunately they're going to follow the US back out of it too.

I noticed that popular US fictions show cannabis in a very good light. For instance, Sergent Baptista in Dexter smokes a joint in his car after work, and it's cool. Or Brody's teenage daughter in Homeland smoke weed with her friend, and although it's frowned upon, it's apparently not that big of a deal. And the list goes on...

Eventually, I believe these fictions will lead to a better acceptation, and possibly legalization of cannabis in other countries (such as France) which are still very much opposed to it.
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It wasn't that we weren't validating, but instead there was always something that prevented us from getting to 100% that we were unable to fix. That is what I mean by 'probably will not validate anyway'.
although nowadays the city seems to be populated, it has some scars of that time.

street view has good coverage in the area

https://goo.gl/maps/eDl59
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This is very cool! Real-time video recognition of live streams :-o
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On one hand, I really like that developers and other smart people can put out work like this to supplant their income. Also it's a way for us to get boots on the ground knowledge, without the filter of a publisher.

On the other hand, I agree with most of the sentiment here, these are starting to feel like ads and pitches, and I have a feeling the single founder that will benefit the most here is the author.
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I'd way rather have walking access to smaller independent grocers and bodegas than a mediocre specialty food store like Trader Joes with a big parking lot.
One USD buys 3 BRL (Brazilian Reals), so the exchange rate can make 3rd world products (including developers) look cheaper on the international market.
Remote doesn't imply lack of co-location. You have your sales/marketing office in New York, and your engineering office someplace cheaper.
This is the sort of "startup" that I've seen commonly done by self-proclaimed "serial entrepreneurs".

Hire a developer for next-to-nothing / hour in the Philipines, India or China. Get them to build a quick-and-dirty scraping tool that's focused on a specific industry. Then try to flog it to slightly shady businesses. Try to stay under the radar for as long as you can and make as much money as you can while you're there. Sooner or later, you'll get busted and shut down - no big loss to you.

The people I've seen do that typically have a dozen or so of such "startup" going at any one time and they just keep shutting one down to start another.

This is not the sort of startup that will get you the fame and respect of the tech startup world. But it can certainly make you money if you have the "right" mindset. Just don't bet the farm on it.
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10 days. 2M people. 18M trips. How many transit riders recognized each other?
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I was thinking about that while responding but then you run into the same issue: how do you know the reviewer is any good? It's kind of like on the home improvement shows when the new home buyers buy a house and realize it's a money pit and they all say, "but we paid for an inspection!" At some point there needs to be a trusted party and I personally don't trust any vendor until they've proven their worth to me- then I go back to them without hesitation. eLance/ODesk try and address this with reputation and customer feedback, which is probably as useful and valuable as some third party of unknown reputation.
i wish they spent more money on designing a better cover. i do judge books (and products in general) by their cover.
I spent the last two years building, deploying, and maintaining a pretty large custom search engine based on scraping. I agree with most/all of the business comments made in the thread. From a technical perspective the main thing to keep in mind is that scraping is a dirty process, more so when you're scraping from smaller firms that often have out of date and quite horrible sites. It's not something you can build and just run. Sites will break, fail to respond, change their markup, etc. You system has to be very tolerant, or you'll be in babysitting mode 24 x 7.
Around 70 million people died in WWII, around 3% of the world population at that time. I find that absolutely horrifying, along with the terror inflicted on civilians on both sides. It's easy to forget just how destructive humans were less than 100 years ago...
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Shen doesn't execute directly, it's compiled to K-lambda, a very small, simple, lisp-as-bytecode. K-lambda is very portable, and wherever K-lambda can run, so can Shen.

Details here: http://www.lambdassociates.org/blog/klambda.htm
Actually Nim solves some of the major safety problems with C -- with string garbage collection and array index checks (avoiding buffer overflows) for instance.

And fiddling with pointers which is typical for C is generally a bad programming style (imho).

Nim translates to C, so you get plain C source code without fear of the dangers which can happen by direct coding in C.
I'm in a similar situation. Grew up in a very rural area, swore to never live in the country as soon as I could leave.

Now I find myself wanting to move back someday - find a few acres just outside of a city. I miss the quiet and the privacy.
Should have focused on a specific sub-market at first, used it to proof-out internal tools and design->front door delivery processes, show the potential.

Something boutique-ish but simple, maybe a few internal configurables, that could use customization. Like headphone amplifiers (since headphones are becoming like fashion accessories).

Or e-ink pens.
The US will federally legalize marijuana in the next 10 to 20 years, that's almost a guarantee at this point.

That'll tear down a lot of the global war on drugs, including a lot of financial & trade pressure systems that have been put into place to enforce it.

As that happens - and we're already seeing it now - more countries will feel free to liberalize on drug policies, no longer fearing US reprisal or group-pressure tactics. France will be surrounded by countries that legalize or at least de-criminalize marijuana heavily, and they'll follow suit (they'll practically have to, whether they get out in front of it, or are dragged that direction by cultural forces greater than their own politics).
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I posted this in response to a comment downthread, then realized that it's probably more appropriate at the top level, given the headline. Sorry for the dupe.

That's not all the US is doing in Deutschland. "[T]he slides show that the facilities at Ramstein perform an essential function in lethal drone strikes conducted by the CIA and the U.S. military in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa."[0]

So it is not just spying on the EU that is being enabled by Germany's government, it is the entirety of the US drone program that is being used across the Middle East and north Africa. This program, operating as it does outside of declared war zones, is very probably illegal under German law.

[0]https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/04/17/ramstein/
That screen looks too small for me to reliably input anything except bottom-left and bottom-right corner (1 bit per tap). In the long run it's probably easiest to learn a new input format. Some suggestions:

• Draw a shape with your fingertip on the watch face, and use OCR to tell which character it is.

• Map characters to sequences of simple up/down/left/right strokes, each of which conveys 2 bits of information (maybe include diagonal strokes too for 4 bits per stroke). This could work like Braille's dots or ASCII's bits, with N strokes per character, or use Huffman coding so common characters have shorter sequences. They could even try to match with the characters' shapes, e.g. up+down+up+down = M.

• Tap out Morse code on the watch face and press a physical side button to end the message.
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Yeah. A single service bundling other services and potentially my doctors into a unified interface and analytics platform.

Does such a service exist?
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None of those examples are castles. If it's got windows on the ground floor it's a palace, not a castle. It's a castle if a foot-soldier sees it coming over a rise after trudging for hours through the freezing muck and thinks to himself "Oh man, this is going to suck."
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Sure, in theory I agree with you but I don't think it's possible to calculate like that. We're talking about trading somebody's time and creativity for salary and equity paid out monthly.

As you point out, the deal structure is very different from a deal that would be made with an investor. I'm guessing the company wouldn't take a 30k check from an investor right now or agree to take 5 * 30k from a single investor allocated monthly over the next 5 years. Also, him having more equity will probably make him a more valuable/devoted employee so that needs to be factored in.
How about Gyroscope? https://gyrosco.pe/
So, I haven't used lang-8 in quite a while, but iirc the site isn't really like duolingo etc; i.e. it doesn't contain any courses for specific languages. It is more of a social-like site where you post something random in a language that you'er learning and someone corrects it. And in turn, you correct someone else that's learning your native language.
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I have no problem with self promotion. I just don't think HN is the place for product landing pages. If there was something for free where I didn't have to give my email address I'd have no issue with it.
I don't know about Crew but Toptal seems just like remote body shopping. Seems the freelancer gets locked in working for toptal. Not a real freelancing scheme like odesk and such.
Not to mention the need for seriously competent landscapers for some of the examples. Maintaining just the gardens could easily pay for a small studio in SF, I'd imagine.
Except we're swimming in those. We actually lack the the goofier franchise stores.
Talking to friends lived or are still living in France, here are just some of the problems I heard:

- in Paris, it's common to get robbed, and sometimes beaten up if you are not careful, and cops can do nothing. This is from a guy who went to school in Paris, I can't imagine what's it like to be a girl.

- some of the non-French speaking neighbourhoods are quite dangerous, even cops would avoid going there for their own safety.

- many people don't have ID, or use fake ID, so it's easy for criminals to get away.

Those lawmakers might be inspired by their American counterparts, but they definitely have some level of local support.
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To be fair, they are kind of separate problems. In Clojure, for instance, you can write parallel code and the nuts and bolts are handled for you.
I'm sure if they'd known this was going to personally disappoint you, the broke and broken people of occupied postwar Germany would have put a little more thought into aesthetics.

Snark aside: have a look at Dresden, which was completely destroyed in the war and is still being reconstructed with beautiful results.
In a sense that's what google does.

Some years ago I did a project that involved scraping and we got some letters from layers and got blocked from some websites. Make sure to know what the legal situation is, otherwise lawyers' letters can be scary.