skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> everything from elevators to ATMs to heart rate monitors to wearables

I've never been more frightened in my life. Forget the zombie apocalypse, this is the W10 apocalypse.
It is interesting that they refer to the simulation system as 'Verlet Physics' -- that sort of constraint satisfaction system is called 'Position Based Dynamics' in most of the graphics lit. This type of system is also used in Maya's Nucleus and NVIDIA's PhysX. [1] is a nice overview.

[1] http://matthias-mueller-fischer.ch/publications/STAR2013.pdf
Sounds like a weird variant on a penny shaving scam in that case. Scam a few cents each from a lot of people....

It's also interesting to consider the fact that the efficiency of these devices varies a lot anyway, often because manufacturers try to save money. You might have charger A which wastes 0.1W and charger B which wastes 1W but costs a few cents less to manufacture. Is there a moral difference between charger B and a hypothetical charger C which wastes 0.1W and consumes 0.9W to mine bitcoins?
Considering it was a list of examples to show another poster's claim as being unfounded, you seem to be responding to the wrong person. Their parent comment is the one who insisted that one side has it worse, suggesting it is a competition.

It is a trend I notice in online discussions. In the gender competitions, it seems the one who wins is reprimanded more than the one who started it.
And why, other than NIMBY, should other owners care (let alone get to restrict) whether you live in your house or let other people pay you to live in it?

They should care whether your tenants behave responsibly, but then they also care whether you behave responsibly, so there's little difference there.
> I do not understand the argument for an entire building.

Then you're running a hotel. And there are rules for that. Including zoning restrictions.
You were perfectly willing to take that risk when using the service for whatever advantage you thought it had over a traditional hotel (price, location, whatever).

You lost on that bet. Rather than than trying to decide if you are willing to take that risk next time or to pay a little extra for certainty with a traditional hotel, you want all the option removed to everyone.

This dilemma isn't at unique to hotels, the "cheap with risk versus expensive, reliable name brand" applies to nearly everything. Do you get leaves cleared by some guy off of Craigslist, or spend more for "real" landscape contractor? Do you get your car brakes redone by Joe the Mechanic, or do you pay extra to go to Midas?
The search bar doesn't work over at phoenixframework.org (using firefox).

I was trying to search for API authentication.

How easy is it? And what protocol do phoenix have in place for authentication? Thanks.

Are you planning to have a vagrant box for Pheonix?

Laravel have this, named Homestead. I thought it was pretty easy and awesome.
I'm saying that these externalities seem like they can be dealt with directly, by rules requiring doors to be closed, rules about the treatment of common areas, noise limits, etc. without any reference to the duration of residents' stays.
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Mobile operators in USA started to roll ipv6? (http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/blog/2014/10/t-mobi...)
Zoning restrictions exist. You can't just turn your house into any sort of business without following the local laws.
> I appreciate that they shared their story but it seems like mostly they built a following by sharing dog pictures on social media. Maybe that's the lesson?

I think the lesson is figure out your marketing channel before you build.
This is incredible.

> * The Norway rat has a three-week gestation period and can produce five litters a year, each with four to eight offspring. In as few as three months, those rats can produce litters of their own. In theory, a single pair is capable of giving rise to thousands of progeny in under a year.*

> But then came the sealers, and they brought the rats, which devoured the birds: eating eggs, chicks, and even fully grown birds, Martin said, grabbing their necks and devouring their brains while still alive.

I can't even imagine seeing that.
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> if you have a great team, it will organize itself anyway. If you have a bad team, jumping on the agile bandwagon won't help you

I agree, however most teams fall somewhere between great and bad. Also, there may be many different stake holders and changing requirements in a project. In these circumstances some discipline is needed to ensure that developer hours are used wisely. The options here are:

1. No process. Rely on the team to self-organize.

2. A waterfall like process (All planning up front, long term development goals

3. An agile like process (Short term development benchmarks, daily stand ups, constant re-evaluation of goals)

Of the three, the first works well for a very small team, or a truly excellent teams. A bad team is going to fail no matter which is chosen. But, for teams in between, or for projects where there is confusion about requirements, I'd argue that option three is clearly the best of the bunch.
I long had sleep problems most of my life. Like 10 or 12 hours and I would not be rested. During tours with the Army overseas, a couple hours here and there. It was a nightmare waking up like an asshole every single day. It created a core component of the person I am. But after my 33rd birthday, I started forcing myself to nap for 90 minutes after work, and 5 hours during the night. It's not everyman or uberman, but it has been a miraculous change for me. Just a straight up miracle. I should mention too that I also hit the gym pretty hard six days a week, and so I don't think going any closer to every/uberman would be possible.
>You can try, but every study I've seen has found that men are favored in contested custody proceedings.

Do they? Every study I have seen has never accounted for the differences in the average case where the man challenges vs. the average case where they do not. Perhaps they are discriminated against to the point that they only seek to challenge the status quo when they have a very good case, which is why they win more often when they do challenge.
I think we're all aware jQuery is written plain JS and it's not an own language ... it's an abstraction layer. The question is: Is it still necessary - or is it becoming obsolete, because nativly in browsers implemented DOM has evolved to the point where an abstraction layer isn't making things easier any more.

So, why use an abstraction layer if the base layer itself offers quite the same comfort?
Or, more likely, because the actual property owner would be fined or otherwise penalized for allowing the violation of the local rules. So the question becomes Why would owners offer short-term rental at all, or without some reliable vetting process?
Unless the device is on almost all the time, it won't compete with datacenters, even on price.

Using compute for heat is a dodgy proposition even where heat is needed at least half the year. The minimal uptime of an iron or kettle really puts the kibosh on the economics.
Keep reading. "An actual proof can be accomplished using modular equations. "
Yes, I realize this - which is why I said it's not as applicable for Microsoft's position.

That having been said, chasings point was more about how it would be wise for Microsoft to make their product line less intimidating for end-users - which would help sell the idea of their latest rebranding - and have benefit for them, and customers as well.
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It could worse. We could have ended up with the mess Vista had.
This is a big deal to everyone. Independent, high-quality, high-integrity journalism is essential to society. Of three who provided it on a national scale, the NY Times might be the last standing.[1] Now they are affiliated with someone who recruited other tech leaders by saying:[2]

[We can be] "one of the most powerful political forces" because "We control massive distribution channels, both as companies and individuals. We saw the tip of the iceberg with SOPA/PIPA." To what degree is the Times part of that distrubtion channel? You and I may agree with their SOPA stance, but in general I want to make up my own mind and I need independent journalism to do that.

Regarding the Times: Reading their internal report from last year[3] it was a frustrating to see how far behind they were in both development and perspective. If you haven't read it, some of it is shocking, at least to me.

I hope the owners of the Times see themselves as stewards of an institution essential to society (not only the publication itself, and also independent, quality journalism), and will sell it to another responsible steward if they can't make it work.

[1] Following and reading the 'serious' media closely for a long time, my perspective is that maybe 10 years ago there were three top-end sources: The Times, the Wall St Journal, and the Washington Post. The WSJ is now published by the same people as Fox News, which (along with their willingness to publish absurd lies on their editorial page) tells me about their journalistic ethics. The Post now publishes increasingly strident and poorly considered stories, seemingly aiming for BuzzFeed. People love to criticize the Times; partly that's a result of being #1 in any field. They are imperfect as is every human institution, but if you look at all they do, we would be much worse off without them. For example, why was the Times the only publication (AFAIK) kicked out of China? Bloomberg openly made the concession to not criticize the government; how do the others avoid trouble?

[2] http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/mark-zuckerberg-immigr...

[3] https://www.scribd.com/embeds/224608514/content?start_page=1...
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You can sure as hell make a zip gun with a lathe, while you can't make a handgun or a zip gun entirely out of ABS plastic.
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From the World health organization, the age group with the highest suicide is 45 - 54
That group used to be the 4th most at risk, now it is the most.

But as important as this issue is, some of the most upvoted posts include:
"TV...only show men as drunken idiots",
"We're turning into a bunch of sissy, touchy feely men",
"This is a product of the wrong people continuously trying to redefine masculinity",
"The issue has ... everything to do with the current crop of overly loud feminists"

So yes, any discussion was annihilated by MRAs griping about TV shows, feminists and "good ol' fashioned values" because we can safely say none of this is why a 50 year old or Iraq vet kill themselves. You have a screwed up economy, a society that throws away anyone over 45 and utterly inadequate social protections of any sort, even to vets, because that's "socialist". And some of the people most damaged by it have had their justifiable anger mindless redirected at women and TV.

Actually the only thing accomplished here was to make hn just a little more of laughable to recruitment managers.
While I agree with you that the author completely missed the point I have to disagree with this assertion:

" I've said it before and I'll say it again unless you only have to worry about support the newest Chrome/FF[...]It's simply not worth a developers time to account for all the different ways to accomplish the same end-task in all browsers.[...]Lastly using libraries that don't use jQuery will (9 times out of 10) set you up for failure unless the developer behind the library did extensive tests in every browser. "

What you purport was true 4 years ago. Yes IE 9 and 10 are kinda crappy but essentially every browser in the past 4 years supports at least the same way of manipulating the DOM. Yeah there are weird quirks when you use non standard stuff like innerHTML with IE but if you're sticking to the HTML / DOM spec then unless you're targeting an older browser there is a good chance you're fine. You should be using feature detection for graceful degradation regardless if you're using jQuery or not.

Yeah jQuery providers a better API and yeah if you want to support older browsers then it's a good idea. But saying not using jQuery is only targeting the "newest" browsers is just disingenuous.
Agreed. I think most of us can relate to your sentiment. The world perspective might be the animals, trees, and water are connected to us. When these animals die, it's the canary in the coal mine. Our time is coming. You figure when everything is dying around us it's for a reason. One species over there is a singularity, two species is a coincidence, 25% of all living things is indication that something is terribly wrong and it's only going to get worse.
I've posted this challenge a couple times here, so it's as good a time as any: Has anyone done the Uber sleep schedule for, say, at least a year, and preferably still doing it?

Last time I asked this was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6258098 (thanks https://hn.algolia.com ) and, well, the score I have for this remains at "zero accounts I trust", even from this relatively interested forum.

(Caveats: I recognize there is significant sleep variation in humans. Science has confirmed this, even if it doesn't know why. I also believe in "bi-phasic" sleep of shorter nights and significant naps, again, this has been established reasonably well. This isn't generalized skepticism, it's specifically the Uber & other variants that I've never heard even solid anecdotal evidence for.)
Because with the other music it doesn't happen.
Their price point is insignificant and is not doing a placebo effect.
Some channels do nothing, and bother me.
Uptempo High Intensity is what works best.
Cloud companies are very proud of the fact that they developed their networking stacks completely from scratch after 2005... and they included zero IPv6 support.
Microsoft makes almost no money off direct-to-end-user sales. It's all either OEM money or volume sales to enterprise/government/other institutions. Microsoft is not about to upend their entire market segmenting strategy just to make things less confusing for people who are at least one step removed from any of the people who actually give them money.
Im sure you can do that with a phone. Im not sure what the drone adds to the equation.
+1, 2b messages is not cheap, where is their revenue if not from subscribers or from selling data?

My only guess is that they are planning to charge for their api when they hit scale.
There was an earlier impression (desire?) that Windows 10 was going to do away with this marketing mess of a bazillion different versions. Yet in reality, nothing has changed. All this blog post is doing differently is finally explaining what each version is.
> It can take weeks to months to bring action against neighbors for violating noise ordinances (if they even exist).

Then that applies equally to short-term and long-term occupants. Of course, the point of the rules and penalties is to disincentivize the behavior, not just to have recourse after the behavior occurs. Assuming there is a reliable process of enforcing the penalties, and the penalties are set appropriately, they should function to sufficiently disincentivize the behavior.
The "challenge" with installing scientific python library, especially numpy, is to make sure that it is built against the fast BLAS libraries (OpenBLAS, MKL or at least ATLAS). The default netlib BLAS library is too slow for any serious work.

But I have to admit I don't know the situation with the binary wheel packages.
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I think what the professor did was exactly correct, have them experience something new mathematically, but give them the heads up that they weren't (likely) to be solving it, as it's a new pattern they hadn't recognized before.
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I do a lazy dedup using a map, so only the latest entry will be stored. As all the data is output as ASCII, missing fields are just outputted as zero length strings.

Those particular obstacles proved quiet easy to work around, but I fully expect there's other hidden traps I've overlooked. So I'm welcome to other suggestions for retrieving lease information :)
I have some experience designing and working on this style of architecture in a non-enterprise non-bigco environment. Some things I learned over the years:

1) If the system is young and the team is small, consider imposing constraints onto the system that remove certain classes of problems entirely. You can later lift these constraints as the team grows. [1]

2) Your ops environment must be capable of multiplexing multiple services onto the same virtual machine. The way you provision and classify machines is affected by this. Services, by their nature, are small and are likely going to be I/O bound. Deploying multiple services onto a single machine is very cost effective.

3) If you're starting with a monolith, the best early candidates to break off are things like search, graph stuff (eg: Neo4j), recommendations, activity feeds, image processing, and other important but non-critical things. It's a great way to drum up support for this architectural style and/or test how useful it will really be.

4) Unless your engineering team has a polyglot culture (good for you!), be careful about introducing your favorite language when building a new service. Alienating services is a great way for them to rot.

5) I've been asked how to define a service. Should X be one service? Should X be split into two services? A good way to start is to think about data locality. When a "user" is fetched are "friends" almost always queried too? If so, keep them together. The next thing to look at are traffic patterns. Another thought exercise is to ask, "if our startup makes a hard pivot tomorrow, what are we likely going to keep? Users?".

6) Do what makes sense. A small startup with a 5 person team doesn't need 20 "microservices" to maintain. It's an operational burden. Break things away in stages on an as needed basis. I've actually found that keeping around the monolith is a great outlet for rapidly prototyping. Give the monolith a beefy database and an in-memory datastore. When you need to prototype a feature for a week, feed it to the monolith. When it's ready for production, break it off if it makes sense.

7) If your ops environment is underdeveloped, it'll hurt bad. The value of a good ops person cannot be overstated (esp. if you're dealing with rapid growth). They're wizards. Learn everything you can from them.

[1]: I like to impose a constraint that no service is allowed to talk to any other service unless it is: a) customer facing (eg: the website or the mobile api), or b) non-critical and low volume. At first, your services will act as self contained front ends to their databases. Your customer facing applications will stitch together responses from these services (hopefully in parallel). You'll have a clear understanding of how data flows in your system.
No, it's not speculative

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> why does that automatically need to be resolved ...

? Did someone say that it did?

One issue is how to fund government services if revenue from hotels/short-term rentals are decreased.
See, that's a bit different I think. You seem to be talking about subletting. Whether you agree that people should be allowed to sublet or not, it is part of all leases I have ever heard of.

I think the discussion comes around to controlling people's activities within their homes and on their land. If you own a home no one should be allowed to tell you who you can and cannot have over to your house and what type of home business you operate.

If they want to regulate something, which may be necessary, simply enforce already existing regulations and policies regarding noise and disruption. Who is the local government to tell you for how long you can or cannot rent out your home to to someone. Are they going to crack down on renting out a loft to a student too?
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> while making it illegal to rent out (buy?) property purely to rent it

Why? You're making the notion of landlords illegal? What purpose does this solve, what benefit is there? Why should I not be allowed to purchase a house and then place a tenant in it?

In many places the rental community is larger than the homeowner community, these houses would simply sit on the market, rather than have someone buy it and put a renter in it. How on earth can you justify making home rentals illegal?
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Thanks! That's what I was looking for. Very interesting.
This seems similar to people who admire an idyllic view of other people's trees from their house, and then complain when the actual owner of that other property takes down the trees that were providing that view. "Not neighborly" is not a crime; you can't even sensibly define what it would mean, other than "don't do anything I don't like". Which leads directly into NIMBY.

There are long-term residents who hold similar views about not particularly caring to know or interact with their neighbors, and that's not against the law either.

(Also, does "quiet-enjoyment-type laws" sound like dystopian doublespeak to anyone else, or is it just me?)

For the record, though, there's nothing wrong with the owner of an apartment building prohibiting the renters or owners of the apartments from subletting them via AirBnB or any other means. It's perfectly fine for them to say "don't rent out your place or we'll kick you out". So if they want to construct an apartment building that caters to long-term residents who object to living near short-term residents, they can. And if they want to rent out their apartments on a short-term basis, or let their tenants do so, to the possible detriment of their ability to attract long-term residents, they can do that too.
Thank you so much! So it's primarily contact and profile information you are looking for and being able to correlate based on things such as company name, contact name, email, phone for their current or past employment etc?
Those rules already exist. In a medium-sized apartment building with common areas, leases assuredly spell these things out. The problem is that rules in leases aren't effectively binding on short-term tenants, because it takes longer to enforce the rules than those short-term tenants will be staying anyways.

Also, you can reasonably assume that boilerplate leases for apartment buildings forbid directly these kinds of short-term rentals. Most boilerplate leases require individual approval by the landlord for any sublessors.
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> ... who has taken this approach the farthest these days.

Tomás Oliveira e Silva of the Universidade de Aveiro, in Portugal, apparently. According to a page on his personal website [http://sweet.ua.pt/tos/3x+1.html] he has verified it up to 5 x 2^60.
> Then don't go to AirBnB places. Go to hotels.

That doesn't address safety and taxation issues.
I think of programming in Haskell as being more about being able to choose a level of abstraction that makes sense for the situation.

The more abstract code is great when it works well, and when it falters I can easily drop down to something more concrete, or even to C, and still have most of my code benefit from that higher level of thinking.
I made a bot that would fetch Twitter posts and re-tweet any it detected were 5-7-5 haiku. The syllable counter was just a series of regex replacements, loosely inspired by Metaphone, but it was about 95% accurate on my dictionary of 300,000 words.
If you can't track down the resident, fine the property owner as the ultimately responsible party.
This is the point I was trying to make, thank you.