skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Life Assurance" isn't a phrase commonly used in the United States. It's just called Life Insurance. And, as long as the organization backing it doesn't go under (counterparty risk), and you can live with being locked in for a period of time (there are usually pretty significant penalties for early withdrawal) it certainly offers a higher yield than most savings accounts you can get these days.
When I see an article about the i series, I can't help saying: if they had just made a line of full electrics that look like other BMWs, they would sell far more of them. I'm sure these things appeal to some, but I can't be the only person who finds them hideous. Just because it's an electric car doesn't mean it needs to look like something out of Tron.
Capitalizing the subject line makes commit logs much easier to read in my opinion. There's a reason we capitalize letters at the beginning of sentences
> 2. Host countries want those bases to be there for defensive and economic purposes.

Really? Even the closest one to the US at Guantanamo Bay, where Cuba keeps demanding that the US gets off their soil?

The US's foreign base policies are a little more complex than you're suggesting.
Speaking on a more meta level here,this is an interesting phase of Product offerings.

We have a single giant whose products are used by the masses(Google/Uber/Github-in this sense) which had customer-focussed /domain-oriented paths but seem to have lost it midway, and then we have smaller/modular companies who are more focused to the domain improvement in itself (DDG,Lyft,Gitlab) who partner up with other specialised companies(Yandex/Didi Kaudi/DO) to remain customer-focussed /domain-oriented.

In the meantime the consumers get to choose between what the world chose and what could be a more sensible decision.
I have a rMB from 2015, I easily get 10-13 hours out of it unless using flash of Java. It's a great portable laptop but BADLY needs 16GB of RAM, it would / could just be so much better if you weren't limited to 8GB especially with browsers / websites the way they are these days you chew that up in no time.
How Intercity Buses Are Changing the Way We Travel in Germany
> Astute Partners had to declare its shareholder, but that shareholder was a trust in Liechtenstein, which does not reveal company ownership, so the declaration was meaningless.

I'm inclined to think the blame here lies with Liechtenstein much more than it does with the UK.

Likewise with the final conclusion and the Seychelles. Short of disallowing foreign ownership of British corporations, what more can we do than insist that ownership is disclosed and hope that other countries will do the same?
"Long-distance buses were, quite literally, forbidden. All of this changed at the beginning of 2013, which saw the liberalization of a German law resulting in the sudden and aggressive rise of the Fernbus."
+1 for the spreadsheet
> Eh? Reagent does not require any metadata, ever.

I am no expert in reagent, but I think it requires it to access Reacts component lifecycle callbacks like `component-did-mount` and such.
I still use Samsung Galaxy S3 with Cyanogenmod I bought for 60€ that still meets my needs. If you are on a budget, buying a new, shiny smartphone is a waste of money imho as you can get a cheap, used but fully functional one for much lower price.
Without the US-backed South Korea, China would not be so interested in backing [North] Korea, and indeed would see them as a realistic threat rather than a client/buffer state.
Interestingly enough, this is the same routine I've had recommended in AA (minus the exercise, it's an old program).

Wake up, immediate meditation/prayer and a gratitude list.

Only things missing is contemplating what you need to do today to be a better person at the beginning of the day and reflecting on what you did well and could've done better when you go to sleep.

An excerpt from the portion referred to as "On Awakening":

"When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What could we have done better? Were we thinking of ourselves most of the time? Or were we thinking of what we could do for others, of what we could pack into the stream of life? But we must be careful not to drift into worry, remorse or morbid reflection, for that would diminish our usefulness to others. After making our review we ask God's forgiveness and inquire what corrective measures should be taken."
That must have been a Brezhnev era joke because I can't imagine people getting away with it under Stalin
Still sorta "not invented here" syndrom, only Google sits on such a pile of resources it can pull it through without painting itself into corner :)

https://github.com/google/agera/issues/20 - some interesting insights (both from the contributors and from outside) regarding the relation between Agera and RxJava
Effective Modern C++.
I read that statement more like in terms of the freedom you're allowed to build and run applications for such devices. Mobile devices usually discourage the user to do this.
Thanks for the reply's. But sorry guys, spreadsheets is not an option. It gets to cluttered too fast. (I'm no spread sheet guru, I do UX and design work).
I am owner of different electric cars. I have an IT company so for us electric cars are more than a battery on wheels. It is a car you could put sensors on and do lots of stuff easily, like automatically drive and so on.

I don't consider BMW sales low. Quite the contrary. Read "The Innovation dilemma" to see what is happening here. Sales of electric are low compared to normal cars but they are extremely high for electric growing at an exponential rate.

So high that right now with the Tesla batteries alone in the next two years the price of lithium alone will double or triple, because the Gigafactory alone will produce in a year more batteries that are currently manufactured in the entire world today.

What is probably going to happen is that electric batteries need for cars will advance the development of new batteries that do not depend on lithium, like grapheme, because lithium availability is limited.
And I am still reaching for CERNLIB (PAW) any time I need to plot something. Could never understand why Rene Brun, Perevozchikov, et al. got so attracted to the OOP back then.
Show HN: A Book about Lambdas on Java (+Maven) Using Lambada
Did they actually help design it? This wasn't clear from the article. I ask as often in large corporations the work of many individual contributors is associated to the management.
That might be true with your line of work, but certainly doesn't hold for a plumber, teacher or an accountant. You just don't get the week worth of teaching students in an one hour burst. Most of the jobs out there have well defined expected workloads.
I'm an avid supporter of rebasing over merging. I'll refrain from getting into my workflow, but here's what i want to say: For the love of all that is holy, never squash a merge commit nor squash onto a merge commit.

Squashing a merge commit is a perfect way to reintroduce old code back into master.

Squashing onto a merge commit is great way to lose changes. It's been a while since I have tried this, but creating a didactic repo if fairly easy. Create a repo with two feature branches, a file on each of master and the feature branches, merge featureA to featureB, make some changes or delete a file, `commit --amend` on the merge, and merge featureB to master. Then use `git cat-file` to look at those commits and commit trees. I've seen mysterious things such as simple as unreported changes to files mysteriously being deleted from the repo.
Cheapest to New York USA from Amsterdam Round Trip on Flychecker at € 382
Intel has tried, and failed, and tried again in the mobile segment.

They sold off their ARM processors to Marvell. They've made various forays into wireless, though WiMAX didn't work out so well for them.
Lol. This sort of statement is often made by people who don't want UBI. "Its just communism/socialism/etc." No its not. Its penance for an otherwise ruthless and unrepentant capitalism which has successfully undermined the value of human labor.

While there's no denying that capitalism can be ruthless and unrepentant, and what we have for capitalism currently actually is that, calling the progress of capitalism "ruthless" and "unrepentant" is just as loaded as calling UBI communism/socialism/etc, and leads to needlessly heated debates and ideological headbutting. It fails to convince anyone of anything.

Even if capitalism isn't ruthless and unrepentant, the value of human labor goes down, and isn't necessarily undermined, when capitalism seeks efficiency. There is no strict requirement that capitalism be ruthless and unrepentant—those are, in fact, human traits that are impossible to apply to the unthinking and unfeeling system that is capitalism.

When capitalism replaces human labor with machines, it isn't to undermine the value of human labor, it's to be more efficient. Ultimately, the result is the same, as you describe: humans are unable to exploit their labor for even basic living. But calling out capitalism as some kind of evil hydra that explicitly sets out to destroy the lives and livelihood of the working class is unproductive. That is an unfortunate side effect of capitalism, and of capitalism gaining increased prominence during an age when human labor itself had high intrinsic value but was also relatively abundant. It is a side effect which must be addressed.

I find it much more effective to couch UBI in terms of the end result of capitalism: it makes no sense for a capitalistic system to use relatively inefficient humans to do work that machines can do faster and cheaper. To ensure and give inefficient humans jobs that capitalism could otherwise find ways to do sounds more like a socialist makework ideal than UBI does. It is actually in capitalism's best interest to pay people to stay out the areas where they can not perform tasks as well as machines can. This frees up people to find other avenues of contribution, perhaps finding further efficiencies, without using up all their time and energy leveraging their faculties purely to stay alive.
Hampi, Karnataka: The City of the Dead
Whom do you consider to be your competitors?

The space of automated financial advice is becoming very crowded, but much of the focus so far has been on investments. Is it fair to say that part of your differentiator is that you aim to provide a holistic analysis of a family's entire financial situation?
I think it might be one of those cases where you're either a) supposed to know what the author has in mind or b) supposed to get a sense of what he has in mind from the article itself.

Being a former university employee, I think I know what he means, though without a definition it is of course impossible to know for certain.
I didn't read further than the second paragraph but from the offhand dismissal of economics and public choice theory I imagine it's this one.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/kathleen-lynch/'new-managerial...
That's propaganda for you. 80% of it is simply emphasizing certain stories and ignoring others.

North Koreans have probably heard this story.
"“Fingerprints are ‘non-cancellable.’ Brainprints, on the other hand, are potentially cancellable."

I still don't like the idea of using identity for authentication.
> The company said it’s shifting focus to higher-growth areas, such as chips for data center machines and connected devices.

Where have I heard this before? I think in a little book called the "Innovator's Dilemma". Can anyone predict what happens next?

I wonder if Intel will try to push Atom into "Core i3" and make single-core Core i7's next to "increase profitability". They've already started making dual-core Core i7s - I mean how ridiculous is that idea?! Isn't a dual core Core i7 supposed to be a Core i5? Do their brands still mean anything anymore?
> I appreciate you actually addressing the concerns with some evidence. :)

After all the comments and the tone, I seriously doubt that. It is common knowledge that illumos is licensed under the CDDL, and besides had you researched it instead of dinging me personally, you would have easily found that out.

Also illumos is very actively developed, and considering it has features like DTrace, ZFS, zones, and FMA, it is annything but legacy. Linux has yet to get those features, and will likely never get them. Not only that, but its mainline filesystems are from the '80's of the last century. Talk about legacy.

For someone who bills themselves as a researcher, you did not research anything I wrote about: not ZFS, not kdb, not mdb, not the FireEngine, you didn't research about isaexec, nor Crossbow, nor vmadm, nor imgadm, nor SMF, nor FMA. Not only did you not do the homework, but went off on a "Snoracle" tangent, which has nothing whatsoever to do with anything I wrote about.

The biggest irony is, for someone who claims interest in, and I quote, "systems with rigorous design and assurance argument to ensure the failures stay rare plus recoverable", you dissed an operating environment which is paranoid about data integrity and correctness of operation. illumos and SmartOS are all about being paranoid, functioning correctly in the face of failure (hence FMA and SMF), and protecting one's data (hence ZFS with meta- and data block checksums). FMA and SMF are big parts of self healing technology SmartOS is built on, the very things you claim to be interested in. In yet another twist of irony, all those features are sorely needed ingredients for massive cloud and container deployments. I for one do not want any more Linux-caused priority one incidents at 02:03 in the morning, because I actually like sleeping through my nights, thank-you-very-much!
git reflog is my favorite
My recommendation: configure the shell prompt (add __git_ps1 to $PS1), this saves a ton of time and makes it much easier to understand what is going on. Especially recommended for beginners (but obviously not limited to).
Also:

— Can I give it to the bad guy when I'm being held at gunpoint?

— No.

— It won't replace passwords.

Although apparently it can be "changed": https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/06/yet_another_n...

"If someone's fingerprint is stolen, that person can't just grow a new finger to replace the compromised fingerprint -- the fingerprint for that person is compromised forever. Fingerprints are 'non-cancellable.' Brainprints, on the other hand, are potentially cancellable. So, in the unlikely event that attackers were actually able to steal a brainprint from an authorized user, the authorized user could then 'reset' their brainprint," Laszlo said.

Presumably the resetting involves a new set of acronyms.
Its draft enough to keep me shamed, but since I've amassed a long body of code, its time to start writing about it. :)

This covers lambada, which is a set of metadata extractors. Alongside beanstalker, my Maven plugin for AWS Elastic Beanstalk (+ cloudformation, api gateway, lambda) it helps you build a full-fledged web api with complete AWS Support.
Not only that, but the Guardian is owned by a charity as part of an inheritance tax dodge in the first place.

http://order-order.com/2009/02/06/tax-justice-protest-agains...
The Art and Science of Presenting-Episode 9 – How to use your voice
Just traveling somewhere while you sleep sounds pretty great (since you waste no time). The problem with doing this for anything business related is that I kind of want to take a shower, brush my teeth etc. after getting up. Not sure how that would be handled, otherwise it sounds like a pretty great thing for any two places that are connected by roughly a good nights sleep (Berlin<->Paris).

Maybe AirBnBs at the hop on/off points could offer morning cleanup as a service?
Capitalize the commit message because ...

Sometimes commit message deserves to be moderately long, like a paragraph or more. If one did not reference a code review or issue tracker link, for example, the need would likely be common. Even with an issue tracker there's value in capturing a few sentences of detail and sometimes more in the commit.

By capitalizing the commit message, it is natural to extend it from a single sentence phrase to a paragraph with an introductory sentence. I think of commit messages as analogous to JavaDoc where the first sentence or first line is taken as the subject, or like a document with a heading. It would be silly for short commit messages not to use capitalization while long do. A capitalized message works as a short description of the intro to a paragraph. Generally. once you're writing more than a single standalone sentence, capitalize. In a permanent medium where it can be either one, also capitalize.

A capitalized sentence or sentence fragment works in many contexts, like within a document or email. It would be annoying to convert going back and forth. Lastly, commit messages can sometimes act as names or proper nouns, and capitalization reinforces that role. Capitalization looks better as project or item headers in an issue tracker, and so to the extent that commits follow items, it's nice to consistently capitalize.

Capitalize commit messages because when Git tools generate commit messages, they generate capitalized ones. (Be consistent.)

I grok not capitalizing IM or IRC or other chat conversations, though I do if I start writing messages longer than a sentence. For everything but IM, capitalization constitutes the norm and good professional style.

This rationale might not be entirely satisfying, because why does English have capitalization to begin with? That's a linguistic question I don't know the answer to. However, I do know that the norms that lead to sentence capitalization also apply to commit messages and code documentation Not capitalizing them feels like refusing to capitalize any other writing: a potential distraction from the content.
We use freshbooks for all of our project billing (we're a small focused dev shop). You can set project budgets, track expenses against a specific project, have them invoiced to the client (if passing along costs) and time tracked. It doesn't sound ideal in your circumstance, but we treat it as our book of record for project finances and works quite well.
Apple is a pioneer? Hardly. I would say Google now is easily the pioneer
Graal will be usable in Java 9, and Truffle has been relatively stable for a while now. If you are doing a project from scratch I would highly recommend trying them out.

You can talk to the Graal and Truffle teams directly on https://gitter.im/graalvm/graal-core if you can't find where to start or have questions.

I lead the Ruby implementation https://github.com/jruby/jruby/tree/master/truffle which along with FastR is one of the most sophisticated open-source users of Truffle and Graal.
There was a video (http://youtu.be/uDr4L6BzpP8) posted recently discussing the manufacturing tech within the i3; absolutely fascinating - the general gist being how this car is the Model T of our time.

Perhaps it is a big loss or not that great; eitherway I believe the company will do just fine - they've set themselves up very well for the future unlike many of the other manufacturers in terms of brand, mobility, innovating / delivering on new tech / processes etc.
Background upfront: I'm the guy behind the C++ interpreter and ROOT's new interfaces. I'm the co-author of the only surviving C++ reflection proposal and the author of the std::variant proposal. I have contributed to the C++ Core Guidelines (http://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines https://youtu.be/1OEu9C51K2A).

* HEP stores about 0.5 exabytes of data in ROOT format, that's almost exclusively serialized objects that do not know anything about TObject.

* XRootD is not really specific for ROOT files. A better example would maybe be our JavaScript de-serialization library, https://root.cern.ch/js/

* No way will the python binding be dropped. I wonder where you got that rumor from. About one third of our users is using it.

* HEP is limited by CPU resources, which is part of the reason why HEP decided to use a close-to-bare-metal language for the number crunching part.

* We just made the use of python and R multivariate analysis tools with ROOT data more straightforward.

* We have people from genomics etc coming to ask for help, because they cannot find a system that scales as well as ROOT does.

And then we have a different perception of the direction out there. I see that Hadoop was nice but slow, Spark is nice but slow, so now things are moving to C++, see e.g. ScyllaDB. There is no reason for us to move away from it, but every reason to make it more usable.

And yes, I agree that this is an issue. But many physicists do not.
You have some nice ideas on how to improve on LinkedIn. However, you're not offering functionality which is fundamentally different. Thus, I strongly doubt that you'll be able to overcome network effects.

In my opinion, you need to come up with a unique "hook", a feature unlike anything offered elsewhere. The hook will bring in new customers, and they'll stay for the better experience.
This is very true; some years ago a friend who works for the Foreign Office was posted to Tunisia, and we went to visit her there. She pointed out a guy at a traffic intersection in a splendid uniform with white gloves, waving on and halting the traffic, basically doing the job of a set of traffic lights. This would have been derided in Europe or the US, and yet here was a guy with a purpose to his life rather than sitting around unemployed. Even the uniform seemed designed to imbue the job with kudos.
Talking of commit message styling, Antirez (of Redis fame) also has a say. http://antirez.com/news/90
Macintosh and Lisa are going nowhere. I'm with Dvorak, there's no evidence anyone wants to use this 'mouse' thing. The company has lost it. Just look at their demo video [1]. How are they ever going to fit a useable computer into a portable book-like format? Where's the keyboard? We're supposed to do computing by touching and gesturing on a screen and talking to some digital assistant? Ridiculous! They need to get back to basics and release an Apple IV that's competitive with the PC, or sell the company's assets and give the money back to the shareholders.

[1] http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QRH8eimU_20
Maybe you can't change the brains reaction to the same stimuli, but you've totally forgotten that you can change the stimuli itself to create a new print.
It's the autobahn. EV are great at acceleration, but abysmal at sustaining high speed. In Germany, a luxury sedan that has to "crawl" sub 100mph to make it to the next charger completely fails the accustomed status calculus that drives luxury sales.

Price-sensitive "reason over status" EVs that don't suffer that status hit from lacking high speed endurance are a much tougher nut to crack than status vehicles like the existing Tesla models. In this market segment, german carmakers are not failing significantly harder than everybody else.
Mostly only if they're porn consumers themselves. Plenty of folks don't make the suggestive links for images of this kind.

Reminds me of an MMORPG guild I used to be a member of, called Fist of Innoruuk. The forum had a large background image of a fist in a (star? wreath? can't recall). One of the members was reading the forum at work when his boss walked by and asked why he was looking at a fisting forum at work: "What's a fisting forum?".
Experiments with UEFI secure boot signed kernels and modules in Debian
Indeed. That's exactly why Tesla will win over any other car manufacturer. They treat it as "just another segment in the market", when they should be remaking all of their products as EVs.