skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congratulations! 30 seems high but not off the chart for a young baby.

My main comment, though, is that modern diaper technology is the bomb and you should definitely not go for cloth.

1. strips that change color so you can see with a glance from across the room if they need a change (if baby just wearing a diaper)

2. the wicking effect and absorbent substance in the diaper really do keep the baby's skin dry, even when they pee their diaper (not 100% but way better than cloth)

3. baffles around the thigh made of various materials prevent leakage in ways washable diapers cannot

4. well-designed diapers are super easy to put on, and more importantly, to take off and convert into a sealed bundle of mess -- they have integrated tape fasters not only to keep the diaper on the baby, but also to fold it up into a little kind of poo burrito, fastened with tape

But all those features are just minor differentiators, what you are fundamentally paying for when you buy disposable diapers is "not having to store and deal with a mountain of small towels with human feces on them". It's way, way worth it.

Here in Tokyo I pay about ¥13 per diaper, delivered by Amazon. It works out to about USD $40-60 per month per kid in diapers.

The only argument for cloth diapers is perhaps the pollution one, although I have heard (and want to believe) that the energy consumed and detergent pollution makes the difference insignificant.

Still, you are committing bag after bag of plastic into the landfill with disposables. But... if I had to improve my "eco" rating, disposable diapers would probably be the very last thing I looked at. You will have so many things to deal with when your baby is born -- anything that makes that easier is worth it and disposable diapers help several times every day.
Maybe I'd like to say that this is bad, that's awful, a long list of these other things have been left out, and generally call BS.

Nope. This time PG wins, and I'd lose.

Very nicely done. Succinct. Nice. Elegant. Top stuff.

Sure, wish I'd read that in middle school.

Only one point left: Where can I apply to go back to, say, the sixth grade and have a do-over?
I think the OP meant it as a discount. (E.g. if cloudflare blocking the attack would cost 10k (for 5 sites) for a month, offer a discount at half the ransom (3k) for however long the attack lasts days).
I think his "objection" is similar to mine in that technology supposedly promises that everyone can be a producer, but instead we are getting even more centralization. We see the same thing in technology, were instead of open standards we get e.g. Facebook. Or in startups were the prospects of actually competing with one of the larger players is almost theoretical at this point.

A lot of people are fine with living for the moment hoping they can make it rich before opportunities shift. Others think more about what future they want to see.
I believe that the underlying transport mechanism is not part of IPFS; You can use IPFS over Tor to insure privacy.

Also, you can run nodes on other systems. This is effectively what `https://ipfs.io` is.
Identical to another simultaneous post from same user:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10527337
My favorite: Exelion

https://exelion.net

We're doing bare metal without the high cost.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

Other disclaimer: Did anyone notice I'm in the top 100 for HN points now? \o/
You should never have to shovel your roof; you should have a vented attic or enough insulation to avoid ice dams, and the structure should be strong enough to support the snow load.
During the storm, they threw everything they could overboard to make the boat lighter. They threw away their catch, as well as the hooks and line.
He has every right to push forward what he thinks is the right thing. Absolutely, and so does everyone else who wants to bring whomever they want to give advantage to.

I should be able to lobby for my friends and my circle and he should be able to lobby for his friends and his circle.

And no doubt that their workforce does not mirror society at large. But I think this ignores the percentages of people graduating in different fields. Yes, Twitter could suck up more than its percentage, but if there is a limited pool of candidates of group X, then other companies will necessarily be under the average.

One thing I don't get is what the demographics of the user base has to do with anything? If I buy a Nikon camera or Lenovo computer, should I believe they need to hire more Americans, or even Americans of my ethnicity?

That said, I think one measure of bias base-line one could use would be to get the percentages of minorities represented in minority owned and run (tech) businesses and assess the percentage of minorities in those businesses who do not represent the owner or top management.

So look at he percentage of non Black minorities in black owned or run businesses or the percentages of minorities other than Korean or Russian, etc. in businesses run or owned by minorities. This could provide a base-line to work with. To gauge if only majority run or owned businesses are biased or all businesses are biased, or just some and understand why that happens.

However, blindly promoting that businesses (or tech in this case) all more or less show a workforce diversity proportional to the population at large, is likely ignoring other inssues influencing those trends.
What about cooling my device? Dissipating a couple more watts while working will really be pushing the thermal envelope.
The concentration of talent in other schools are lower, so finding the few talents are harder. Hiring costs, and bad hirings cost a lot, so it may be cost effective not to spend a lot hiring from less-than-stellar schools.

Of course this is just a hypothesis. No hard data to back it up.
> "When skepticism based purely on vague assumptions leads to premature conclusions, it becomes blind cynicism."

That looks more to me like perfectly valid critique based on simple assumptions arising from an understanding of physics and engineering, hardly "blind cynicism". I'd instead say that this TC article itself is an example instead of "blind faith" by taking uBeam's claims at face value.

I'm still waiting for uBeam to even attempt to address the nonlinear effects of their proposed ultrasound frequency and power in air. Ditto for actually addressing safety concerns head on rather than casual dismissal.

I won't be surprised if they can power a cell phone in a controlled environment. I'll be mildly surprised if they can power one in a real-world environment, say sitting on a coffee shop table. I'll be amazed if they can deliver more than a couple watts, to accomplish (as appears on their website)

A world in which every electronic device - hearing aids,
tablets, sensors, light bulbs, computers, flat screen TVs -
could be powered simultaneously with one simple device.
The obvious solution is to change incentives. The solution that will actually work, but will bring endless accusations of cruelty and heartlessness and Godwin's law, is simple:

Bring back shaming. Encourage fat shaming. Encourage alcohol shaming. We still encourage smoke-shaming, and it has resulted in a reduction in smoking. We need to stop being so afraid and sensitive to shame. It is a natural human tendency to police behaviors with negative externalities via shame.

Pass all the laws you want, but social shame is far more effective.
>The only way to deal with an unjust world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
-Camus

I look at what younger people share online and am routinely shocked at their willingness to open the kimono. But maybe if we all overshared, everywhere, all the time, these fascists would have 0 power.
On Linux you're allowed to mmap gpio as well if I'm not mistaken.
No, though that's also worth buying.

Leslie Lamport's LaTeX: A Documentation Preparation System

http://www.powells.com/book/latex-9780201529838/61-1

It really is quite simple.

I set up a couple of templates for articles and books, and frequently re-tag either straight text or HTML into LaTeX when I'm frustrated with existing presentations.
The college list is interesting especially considering the emphasis many startups (Y-Combinator included) place on hiring hackers, self-taught engineers, etc.
I've been debating switching from Rackspace to bare metal a lot lately. Their managed DB product proved rock solid for several years, though the last bit has been less reliable.

I always ask myself if I would truly be better at managing a MariaDB cluster than RS.

Would you say it makes sense for a one man ops team to run bare metal?
Saab automobile went bankrupt after a lot of back and forth[0], and the estate was bought by NEVS[1], a Chinese owned company. They own the design for the old cars (Saab 9-3 was introduced in 2002), they use the same assembly plant in Sweden, but last I heard Saab AB (the owner of the Saab brand) did not want to license the brand to NEVS[2] again after their reconstruction. So even if they do start car production in the future, they won't be called Saab unless something change. NEVS also recently sold the rights to the 9-3 platform to Turkey [3], because they've had financial problems since the start. I would be very surprised if an electric car of any relevance came out from the old Saab factory any time soon unfortunately.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyker_Cars#Ownership_of_Saab_...

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

[2] http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=125&arti...

[3] http://www.autoblog.com/2015/10/19/turkey-buys-saab-93-for-n...
Goole withdrew from China years ago because it didn't want to be evil.

Now Google plans to return to China, with the same evil or more evil government still there.

This clearly shows us that in the business world, there is no evil or non-evil, only money or non-money.

That aside, I'm glad that Google is coming.
Pacific northwest too.
San Marino is in the UN though, so it's a proper country country.
>> Employees will attempt to steal IP and copy the business.

> This sounds a lot like the unfounded "don't tell anyone your idea, it might be stolen!" fear in Silicon Valley.

Its much different. Mechanical drawings, materials processes, and electrical designs that might have taken thousands of man-hours to develop, test, and refine are actually valuable, unlike "this great app idea I came up with in the shower."

> If you are relying on security through obscurity to protect your business' viability, you're doing it wrong.

Security through obscurity refers to computer security processes. "Business by obscurity" is the industry standard, unless you think Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola, and Wall Street traders are doing it wrong.
https://prestodoctor.com/ - online CA mmj recommendations, clean design and solid customer service
Quite right. One example is the whole "support the troops" fetishism you find in the midwest and the south. If you really supported them you would not want to send them off to dangerous places for spurious reasons.
It seems like the largest threat to the "ransom seeking industry" is for the public to come to believe that paying the the ransom will do no good. Sometimes, such as in cases like this, it becomes publicly known that a ransom is sought before it is paid. An interesting aspect of a Bitcoin ransom is that third parties can verify that a ransom was paid.

Would it be in the legitimate interest of the public as a whole for a third party (possibly governmental) to carry through on the threat as soon as the ransom is paid? This would be to the detriment of the victim, but reduce the likelihood that future ransoms would be paid, and thus eventually might reduce the number of future victims.

Might that be what's happened here?
Dart:

import 'dart:async';
import 'dart:io';
main() {
var file = new File('/sys/class/leds/beaglebone:green:usr0/brightness');
var state = 0;
new Timer.periodic(new Duration(seconds: 2), (_) {
state = 1 - state;
file.writeAsStringSync('0$state', flush: true);
});
}

While it's not the most concise version, it's certainly very readable. Everyone can clearly see that the duration is 2 seconds and that that boolean flag is for flushing, because that's exactly what the code says.
I dislike how affirmative action has a bad reputation. Affirmative action is not about lowering standards. It's about having a diversified candidate pool. Sounds like Twitter wasn't willing to invest the effort to have a diversified pool.

It definitely pays off in the long run, but it takes some effort in the short run. My company sponsors some student groups and encourages engineers to be active in recruiting outside of their circles. It's paid off as we've moved from a monoculture to a company with a workforce that represents our community.
Tangentially, Mark Bittman's food posts on the New York Times, like 'The Minimalist' - as well as his books - changed my life. His philosophy is that we do have time in our lives to cook, and that there can be great value in doing so. Personally, I find it to be a nice balance to being so heavily involved with technology all day.
8 Team Building Activities for Remote Teams
OT I would NOT recommend any investors from investing in the uber-for-food space. Mainly because these businesses will ultimately parallel the competitiveness of the restaurant business. So at the end, you're ultimately investing in a restaurant chain business and not an Uber-like business.
In addition to food inspection issues, most of these homes are probably in places not zoned for retail food service, and neighbors will notice the stream of people coming to your "food truck".
3/4 of our engineers aren't from top tier schools.

Several of our best never even graduated.
Sure, and bugs happen and Google often fixes them, but the fixes don't reliably end up in the hands of users before devices eventually die and are replaced. It's hard for me to believe this is still an issue this many years into Android's existence, but here we are.
"Occasionally, the turtles are very tame. I was lying down and thinking about things and then a turtle would hit my boat and attach itself to it and start chewing at my boat," Alvarenga recounted, according to Reuters. "And since turtles are tame I would pick them up and put them in my boat, this is how I quenched my thirst, from their blood, and it did me good as it was a sort of water and I normally ate the turtle's meat."

Link:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/marshall-islands-castaway/p...
And then there is the distinction between 'safe' and 'comfortable'. I have a pretty beefy ultrasonic cleaner here and the harmonics from that thing are what gets me, not the primary. It's definitely safe and yet I'm more than happy to move a door further away from it when it is running.
For another heroic effort read: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
》 So, learn their language or find someone who you trust who can speak it.

I agree on this point, but at a cultural, not language level. It's important to understand the personal goals and challenges of employees, wherever in the world, and sometimes they're quite different.

On English in schools:

China's high school qualification requires a 2nd language, which contributes 150 points to the total score (750), at the same level as Maths and Chinese (it then gets a bit complex depending on city and stream, but around 10 subjects are usually studied in a comprehensive school). It is required to pass in order to get a high school graduation certificate.

Which is why the 9 year old can translate something.

The thing is, it's not based on speaking. It's rote memorisation of grammar rules. And hated, as there's little practical application.

On cross-cultural communication and hiring:

And foreigners often just don't get that, resulting in patronising slowing down of speaking but absolutely no change/simplification of vocabulary. Or just no adaptation. Hence the eye-rolling.

I'm in the Northeast, and it is indeed a challenge getting free-flowing conversation going with someone based on their selection itself based on paper qualifications. But it is a myth that English is a problem for the right people. Just interview for it.
Phil Zimmerman would have been well aware of attempts at the time to develop untracable digital cash, particularly by David Chaum, which date to 1981.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum#Digital_cash
And yet we still sell cigarettes. And though WHO proved processed meats cause cancer the deli counter line is still very long.

And we still go skiing, and we still take nonessential car trips. Things have benefits as well as costs.
If you are in the privacy business, a man-in-the-middle like CloudFlare, is not the thing you try first.
I live in Japan, where a lot of people live in spaces that small (and smaller). My wife and I did too (before having kids though) and what is common in Japan is these expandable bars that you can put up between any two strong walls.

In our case, we put one up over the middle of our bed, and hung all our clothes on it (even hanging-optional stuff like T-shirts). You had to kind of tunnel through it when getting into bed, but this let us make use of the otherwise useless airspace over our bed. It also formed a kind of soft wall or curtain that made the area where your head was darker than the rest of the main room. That was handy when one person wanted to sleep and the other was still working.
Not really prescient. Cryptographic cash has been something that people have been talking about for a while, and there have even been startups trying to commercialize it. Chaum's ecash was invented in 1983, and he was in the process of trying to commercialize it when this was written (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecash).

Bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency that has actually managed to take off, but it's been a problem that cryptographers, and in particular cypherpunks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypherpunk), have been working on for a while.

Basically, what's happened is that this stuff that was kind of fringe and crazy back in the day, but people who were into it were really sure was the future, has actually made a major impact on the world.
Genius is great. I enjoy using them for song lyrics and I'm hoping their other categories (esp. web annotations) take off as well.
they are standardized in the EU actually. Standardization started in 1977. but since 2007 stuff got more serious. The real problem is that each country have a different rate, but for the rest, it's quite smooth. Tax issues across countries in Europe are often easier than in the US from what I read around.

One issue I have with the article is asking Amazon, a notorious tax dodger, to enforce some tax rules on others doesn't seem like the right way to go.
> Legal codes requiring certain minimum standards exist for good reasons.

And sometimes for bad reasons. Couple of examples - cooking meat to 160 F / 71 C, Nycity inventing dangers of sous vide. The whole zone thing. Food codes sometimes grossly misinterpret or twist science. Or are made towards large scale operation - you will almost certainly have contamination when cracking 1 000 000 eggs. But with basic chance of even having salmonella in the egg 1/20000 even very sloppily prepared breakfast will be safe.
I guess that's the issue- where I'm living right now, there is absolutely no "tech scene". There are no local meetups that don't require me driving 1.5+ hours one way to get to, which I can't manage to do on a regular basis. I'd love to move somewhere where there's more people who are like-minded, but I can't just up and move without a job waiting for me.

The general consensus I'm hearing is that the way you get hired at a smaller company is just through networking, but if there's no network near me to speak of am I just simply out of luck?

And yes, I'm aware that I will have to work on some "non-interesting" problems, but I'm okay with that as long as I feel like my work is being valued by my coworkers and that I'm not just another drone.
>Many people (including my friends here in Taiwan) believe it's an attempt by the PRC to influence the elections which are being held here in about two months.

How would that even work?

1. Most people in Taiwan hate the Community Party of China

2. KMT and CPC arrange a meeting to show that they're frenemies with each other

3. KMT loses in the election, which hurts both the KMT and the CPC

So it's conspiracy to between the CPC and KMT to sabotage themselves?
Sure, it might be dangerous, but at least you wouldn't have to plug in your phone anymore.
Every time I hear stuff like that I point people to this link:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/code_spaces_destroye...
Thanks for your level headed post.

I see too many Western news articles on China that present an us versus them attitude. Its unhealthy as commentary (if not the articles themselves) often contain undercurrents or direct statements of nationalism/racism.

In my experience trustworthy and competent employees are not any more difficult to find in China as the U.S. It does take work (and the frustrations stem from different places) but not in aggregate harder than in the U.S. Never had a bad employee in China. Never had to fire someone. Never had to discipline someone. I followed our written labor contracts and so did they.

As to people not following a written contract. It is true that you need to choose your partners carefully and manage your relationship as a written contract can often be ignored. That said, in ten years of running companies in Shanghai, every landlord I had for home and office was meticulous about following the contract. Never had a problem. I only spent four years in Chengdu and had fewer home and office leases but again, no problems.
If you liked that, you may also like "The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor" by Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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I visit a food & craft market every weekend in the UK to browse and get lunch. Should it be the responsibility of the market owners to ensure each stall is charging and reporting VAT to the gov?
I hope they catch the culprits and put them in jail for thirty years.
They both also need to clear up basic fraud from 3rd party sellers on their platform selling fake or similar products by taking over previous listings/reviews.
I definitely prefer a multicultural circle of friends --it's interesting, as they say.

But... does it provide a competitive advantage? Are industries in places like China, India, Japan and Korea at a disadvantage compared to the US because they are more or less monocultural?
With things like kernel bypassing and bulk packet processing it's really not that hard to get to 10gbps on a single server. Heck, linux is getting close to ready for 100gbps https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/

I don't know exactly what resources IPSEC takes, but you can definitely get the "or similar" part of the question.

AES-NI takes 3.5 cycles per byte. BLAKE2 takes 3.08 cycles per byte. That means that 2-2.5 cores can handle all the encryption and signing by themselves. Then you have 80% of the machine's resources free just to shovel packets in and out.
The TechCrunch article [1] referred to a study in pig tissue as but the article is paywalled. I'd love to take a look... but not so much that I'd pay $40 to do so.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0041624X15...

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2015/10/08/how-ubeam-works/
I've flagged this post because it has no actual science behind it, and just seems to be PR fluff to further spur investments.

I'm sorry, but _any_ sound at 150dB is going to cause harm to humans, no matter how high the frequency is. I will not buy any product using this technology (if any such thing ever happens, which I believe has an extremely low chance of happening), and I will suggest to everyone I know to also not buy it.

I'll support something like Rezence (longer distance/higher power competing standard against Qi), or just keep using Qi (which I have a Nexus charger for my Nexus 5, which is Qi).