skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i will make a wild guess and assume it has to do w/ legacy in their internal system

most likely their internal system can only think in telephone numbers or something like that
> Sure, if everyone today had an extra guaranteed $1,000 every month, it would short-term be fantastic. But the economy would eventually adjust, as it always does. Rent would slide upwards, so would goods prices, etc, to the point where we wind up where we are today with minimum wage (perpetually raising it every few years in a never-ending game of cat and mouse, the essential cost of living).

If implemented by idiots, I agree basic income would tend to result in the consequences you describe [1]. It is very important that any implementation of basic income also do away with minimum wage at the same time. If a person is currently working a job which pays them $1500 / month, then ideally basic income would result in (assuming that we agree on $1000 / month as the minimum subsistence-level income) that same person making $500 / month at the same job, and receiving $1000 / month in basic income.

So to be clear, anyone currently getting a wage exceeding the agreed-upon basic income level, should not see much difference in how much they take home each month.

Properly done, the only price inflation you should see are from people who are seeing more money each month than they were before, because they were previously working at below-subsistence wages. But even then, they were probably receiving other government assistance anyway, and with basic income we'd start phasing that stuff out as well.

[1] Which, I admit, means it stands a good chance of happening that way. Difficulty of proper implementation is an argument against basic income, but it is also reflective of our broken, irresponsible government.
(1) You ask for us to lie? Climate is not stable, and any model that says it is is clearly broken. Instead you have to produce the best models you can that can explain both the past and project the future. Then test those models. Those models uniformly project human-caused global warming, and are passing various kinds of sanity checks.

(2) You want us to oversimplify? Climate is still not stable, and CO2 isn't the only thing that is involved. The main cause for the start/end of ice ages are orbital shifts. CO2 rise was a lagging result, that then amplified the warming.

(3) You still want us to oversimplify? Aerosols are known to cause cooling, and in that period rapidly expanding aerosol use caused a significant amount of cooling. Various countries then passed clean air acts which reduced the levels of aerosols in the air. (They also fixed a pretty major acid rain problem.) In fact one of the proposed solutions for global warming is to deliberately inject aerosols in the stratosphere.

From these examples, it looks like your mind is made up. You don't even want to find out what the science says. Instead you engage in a game of oversimplification and gotcha to convince yourself that what they are saying doesn't make sense.
Fintech doesn't even use mining. http://r3cev.com/blog/2016/4/4/introducing-r3-corda-a-distri...
https://github.com/openblockchain/obc-docs/blob/master/white...
Note that the descriptor protocol itself is not causing this behavior. What actually happens here is that functions are descriptors (they implement __get__()) that generate the instancemethod object on attribute access.
More info here: https://wiki.python.org/moin/FromFunctionToMethod
It's basically Squeak with a UI for adults.

And for those still unsure, NO Pharo is NOT a language. Smalltalk is the language, Pharo is the particular implementation of the language, but smalltalk is much more than just a language, it's an entire environment within which to create.
Yep, that's the thing about EDA. The curve is so steep, it's pretty hard to get someone to switch unless there is a disruptive event in their electronics life. I'll be saying the same some day about switching away from KiCad, I'm sure.
“I know how to program, but I don't know what to program”
Rise of the Robot Security Guards (2014)
I would disagree, actually. I am a woman who loves powerlifting, actually, and I think that the attitudes of many women in the United States toward lifting heavy things renders them less likely to actually do it. Many women believe they'll bulk up, they'll be unwomanly, men won't like them, women won't like them, it's ok to be physically weak as a woman because you can always get a guy to open the jar/lift the box. As a result, these women don't try to lift heavy things and when you ask them why, they say, "I can't! I am just not good at it." I'm a relatively small woman who got up to a 220-lb deadlift without much effort -- I know active helplessness when I see it.
Or every device has a different key, a la iMessage, which in my opinion is better so long as everyone has Apple devices.
No, don't blame extensions. I don't run any. Here is what a modern browser is expected to handle:

Open and close tabs and windows, browsing the modern web without extensions. Keep it up for weeks, having 10 to 30 windows, and an average of 10 tabs (some at 40). You have 5 to 12 gigabytes of RAM to work with, and at least a 1920x1200 screen. (maybe a 4k screen)

That's it.

Expectations for older hardware: run for weeks, 5 to 8 windows, average of 8 tabs (one at 30), 512 megabytes of RAM, and a 1600x1080 screen.
I too pronounce it that way, since I learned C from books and just read it as it was printed.

I later noticed some people do pronounce it "car" which just seems odd. Why change it, if it doesn't save a syllable? It's not a truncation of how "character" is said either, because that's a different vowel sound.

Saying 'car' causes problems when learning C++, because all OOP examples on composition start "Car has-an Engine".
Being the first government to accept Bitcoin and creating the first trusted and government backed BTC bank and clearing house could both give real legitimacy to bitcoin, while continuing the swiss legacy of "your money is anonymously safe with us" and continuing their financial dominance for offshore accounts, trust funds, and other financial services for the foreseeable future.

I know it's a pipe dream, but it would be great.
This might be a way for Thiel's seasteading to become a reality.

And who would build those floating island cities? Donald Trump of course, would direct the development while undocumented workers would choose to move to take advantage of construction jobs, higher wages, and representation under new government.

Check out my Medium article for the details - https://medium.com/@noncanonic/trumps-floating-cities-solvin...
I think it's really liberating when you realize that the single most important thing is making it work.

Make it work, and don't succumb to the temptation to worry about what other devs think of your code. The subconscious dialogue that results from that is paralyzing. You can rewrite code n number of times and always believe that n+1 will be better (and it may be).

But, the funny thing is that the eventuality that would objectively make the code better is generally some potential future requirement that is imagined (whether functional or performance). This dictates infintely flexible design and the obsesive hunt for looser coupling. In practice, however, the eventuality seldom comes to pass. This is where the YAGNI principle has some value. Again, make it work.
Retaliation is a different beast. It's human nature. A poorly trained manager's first instinct is to retaliate. If they don't retaliate illegally then they will do it in some other way.

After investigating, the EEOC shares their evaluation. So both parties should know how strong or weak the claims are. The requirements for a case are stringent, as you can see from the previous link. This is because EEOC understands the damage done by frivolous cases.
>Then why have all attempts at commercializing micro-payments failed? I assert that MP constitutes an inherently different market realm, with unique problems and incentives that demand innovative solutions, empowering payment-for-content by individuals surfing the web.

There is a pretty simple reason for this: All the embedded players (credit card processors, and banks) don't have the desire to deal with the extremely high volume and low (near zero) margin business this would create for them.

Institutions who produce content aren't high on MOST users list of places to give money to when there are plenty of ways to get said product for FREE... You want me to give you $5 today so I can spend $0.03 of it on some article. Maybe I forget about it (good for you) or you loose it (bad for me) and then I have to fight to get it fixed (making this a money loosing proposition on both sides).

The greed and avarice, of content producers and advertisers, destroyed what could have been a workable solution (ads), I have no faith that any micropayment platform or what ever else you can cook up is going to work unless it puts USERS FIRST.
WhatsApp was bought for $19 billion. You could probably pay $1 billion and get a couple of different systems that worked well enough to replace WhatsApp.
I second this sentiment. Especially someone in a biz-dev role. Can you imagine if he crossed the line like this with a customer? It's not something a budding business wants to ever deal with.

Someone who feels casually about this kind of misconduct with another employee - in my mind is someone who would feel casually about lying on an expense report and other things you just don't expect people to do.

I suspect the lawyers would have you fire for no cause, give a good reference, support unemployment benefits, and potentially offer a small departure package. None of that is really necessary - when confronted with the facts, nobody in their right mind is going to say "I didn't deserve to be fired. I'm going to sue!" But in the end, protecting your business is your highest priority.

I also get the sense that this is your real desire.
Imagine we gave life to inanimate objects and those objects could speak to each other and us. As you described, our car would speak to a charging station. The charging station would advertise "I can charge you for a fee!" And the car could say "charge me here is money". Forget the "internet" of things, these objects only need to speak to other objects in their "domain". Imagine it like this: you walk down a street towards a sitting dog. Once you get close, the dog looks at you and observes you walking by. Once your sufficiently far away, the dog looks away and you're no longer in its domain.

Have you thought about the " language" for this inter object communication? Essentially the "api". Words like "charge" and "you" and "money" in my example.
Why would there be a spike with the transit of the planet? You still have line of sight to the planet before and after. What should be detectable is a drop in EM when the star is in front of the planet, but good luck discerning it from the noise of the star.
From the article:

For now, I’ll leave you with one parting observation: Undocumented workers in this country tend to work very low-wages in service, agriculture, and construction while living in poorer-than-average conditions and receiving limited representation and constitutional rights. Who better to help build and support these floating techie islands? Silicon Valley wins, gaining high-tech workers for its countless firms. The high-tech workers win, no longer constrained by immigration quotas. The illegals win, enjoying “political” representation and living wages. And the average American wins, enjoying the innovations resulting from the work of tens of thousands of talented foreign workers. In fact, it’s hard to find an agenda that wouldn’t support seasteading!
Firebase – AngularFire2 WithAngular CLI App Clearly Innovative – Web and Mobile Dev
I REALLY wish they would stop the tethering. It's pretty flakey a lot of the time. I use the webapp probably 80% of the time. Sometimes it just stops working, in the middle of a convo. Very frustrating.
In 1986 I went to UM Rolla and joined a fraternity. At the time there was not a lot of females on campus as it was science, engineering, technology, etc. Females had at that time decided not to follow STEM degrees and it was a male dominated campus.

It is now UM Science and Technology, it has been re-branded.

The Fraternity I was in did hazing and had us pledges do under age drinking and smoke cigars and other stuff. It made Rolla a party university and it made me sick and my money was running out so I quit and moved back to St. Louis for a community college were tuition was cheaper.

A Fraternity is male only for a reason, a lot of the men are rough and cuss a lot, and you have to be tough to survive the hazing and other trials they put you under. I won't reveal their secret rituals or betray them in any way. Just that it is not designed for females nor are sororities designed for males. Trying to change that will change the experience one gets from a fraternity or sorority. People act differently around the opposite gender than they do in a group of people all the same gender.
> Yes, but Testing isn't a full rolling release AFAIK. It undergoes a lengthy freeze before a new Stable is released

Not more than unstable really. The only difference, testing is more polished overall. Other than that, they are both semi-rolling. Debian tried to reduce freeze period for a while already, and the last one was shorter than one before that.

> and I believe manual intervention is needed to continue staying on Testing.

What kind? Normally it should just roll forward.
Isn't that the space Rust is going after? That's certainly whst I find interesting about it.
>I've seen the evidence of the texts in question.

Is this smartphone? If so, ensure its not a rooted device, where users can insert/delete things as they want.

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Let me add another view. Involve HR and talk to him first. If he admits truth then ask him to resign. If he didn't accept, listen to his version of story and ask him for proof. Then decide.
Apparently they do secure to the deck after landing.

Discussed here: http://space.stackexchange.com/q/6403/574
As tosseraccount wrote, "Temperature changes that are accurately predicted by models..."
Kernighan pronounces it care as in how you say character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=de2Hsvxaf8M&t=2m35s
uBeam is an interesting case because the problems were pointed out as soon as it was announced.

But then Mark Suster said "hey, our engineers said it's legit, quit your whining!"

https://bothsidesofthetable.com/the-audacious-plan-to-make-e...
Inflation rate is just that a rate, not adjusting for it after 7 years because fuck people with limited mental capacity is sick.

As to trying things for 78 years we have very different problems now vs 78 years ago. To pretend otherwise is to simply act the fool.

There are many popular ideas that simply don't work. Pretending everyone is a healthy, intelligent, well educated, and they can just make everything better by working harder is one of them. People have been working harder, productivity keeps growing but for a huge chunk of the population things have been getting worse over time. And that my friend is a very dangerous trend.
I am like the worlds worst tourist. Whenever I go someplace new I end up coding in my hotel room or drinking in the local establishment, which is the summary of my five day trip to iceland in 2010. After reading this article I don't feel so bad about it.
> If you don't know by 21 ... you're never going to learn

Ah, the good old "people's personalities are set in stone by 21" canard. If people were 'never going to learn', then first-wave feminism wouldn't have attracted anyone over 20, for example.

This kind of statement is just an excuse to throw a person under a bus, rather than take the effort to educate them.

> Or at least not in any timeframe where it's valid for this company.

And this is also nonsense. A simple talk can be enough. When I was at university, one of the professors kept asking improper questions of the female students, told to me by a female colleague. I went to my professor and asked what could be done, mentioned what my female colleague said (and stressed that she'd asked not to be named). My professor had a chat with the questionable professor, and the problem disappeared instantly.

It's called 'feedback', and we ask it of our colleagues, our clients, our trainees and trainers. Some people respond really well to feedback. For those that don't, well, at least you tried to improve things rather than kick the can down the road to someone else to deal with.
I pay my ISP $70/month for a home internet connection.

I pay my mobile provider $40/month for 2GB Data

I pay $100/Yr to a hosting service for my ad-free web site and email for my business which will always be there while my business is running (as will the ad-free web sites of most other businesses I know of).

In addition to the above I pay various donations and subscriptions to certain sites I like and buy almost exclusively on line.

It seems to me there is plenty of money to keep the internet going without advertising.

To the multitude of news/media/blogs/click-bait sites duplicating the same content and that rely on advertising for their business model then good luck to you all, unobtrusive advertising was and still is ok with me, but because of the bad-apples it is now in your face and I ad-block everything.
Oldest known axe discovered in Australia, claim researchers
I do hundreds of tabs. The UI is fine, but performance is not at all OK.

The tab UI works because it is part of a larger 3-level system. There are tabs, windows, and virtual desktops. With 10 at each level, you can handle 1000 tabs... except for the performance.

It's important to avoid running things on pages that aren't in focus or even in view. It's important to avoid walking data structures that scatter nodes all over the address space, causing swap access and cache misses. Watch your RSS. Keep those extra tabs idle. Make sure the "Esc" key and the stop button actually work, stopping everything (all tabs, all video, all animation, all audio, etc.) until the user explicitly asks for something to run again.
Eh, I'll still take it.
Joel Spolsky on Equity for Startups
Yes, it's very anti-Simons, my point is until now I have heard no criticism of either him or rentech, I just found it interesting to find any criticism at all.

He's an interesting guy regardless, video interviews with him are often fascinating... and he named his yacht Archimedes.
You are arguing with someone whose limited exposure comes from observing secondhand issues. People don't know the difference between what feels right and is legally safe.
I think the argument that Convox is a good fit for AWS-only shops has a lot of merit. Specialising comes with different benefits from generality.

I and many others have been saying for a long time that CF is hard to approach due to its completeness and the all-or-nothing power of BOSH. PCFDev is chipping away at some of it; the bosh-boatloader[0] project should take away a lot of the remaining "this is too hard to install" pain.

That said, yes, you can run very large installations of CF with small teams. The whole of Pivotal Web Services is run by 2 shifts of the Cloudops team, I think 2-4 pairs each. What makes that possible is BOSH, which solves the everliving daylights out of deploying and repairing software on an IaaS.

And we have some more cool stuff coming :)

[0] https://github.com/pivotal-cf-experimental/bosh-bootloader
What is Promise.try, and why does it matter?
I am always comforting myself by thinking that idiots who want to tweak my brain were throwing a lot of bucks to display ads blocked by my adblock extension. I am more concerned about how they track us to not display ads, in fact...

I don't remember the last time I saw an ad against my will, and if I actually saw one, I think my brain filtered it just by the power of my revulsion. That said, I am aware that it works at a subconscious level not always like you want but the antidote is to fully use conscious processes in suspicious mode when buying something, isn't it?

So, let them pay the internet? If not, you really need your product to have a value that exceed its digital form, like you can see with Steam who appeal to players by connecting games to social. Or you need to be really pedagogic and make the purchase an active act of support.

Blendle is on the right direction with centralization + micro-payments but it should add a social layer where users could build another public identity with their stories listings, allowing them to comment, creating thematic feeds, make them addicted with superficial achievements, like I said: extra value other than just paying for something digital. I am not saying that's what I want.
You should not have posted all that detail here.
Is there a reason the Socialist Millionaire protocol isn't included in WhatsApp by default?

It can be handy to ask questions such as "Where did we go last Friday", perhaps even allowing for users to ask multiple questions for added confidence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_millionaires
I found this book pretty convincing:

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sell-Your-Coat-Surprising-ebook/...
Do everything you do, with a sense of passion. Don't half ass anything. This isn't limited to learning web development or starting a company as an entrepreneur. Have passion in your personal relationships, your health, your fun, your downtime. Enjoy the ride and execute, don't be afraid to make mistakes and don't get stuck "thinking" about what you need to do, you're better off "doing".
Goofy way to think? It's simple math. Supply and demand. Econ 101. It's like saying 2+2=4 is a goofy way to think.
I think it's obvious that politicians who deny anthropogenic climate change are on the payroll of oil producing megacorps like Exxon-Mobil.

How ironic that we let these politicians commit treason (undermining American energy security is unquestionably treason), yet go after imaginary threats, justifying pervasive surveillance on innocent American citizens.

It just goes to show how rotten to the core our system has become.
That's true. CO2 photo-thermal effects have been known for a long time.

I have no dog in this hunt - but I believe that short- and medium- term projections that start diverging from actuals almost on the first day are a problem for getting broad support for the hypothesis.

And it's a very interesting question, don't you think? Why aren't temperatures going up more? Is the earth modulating it somehow? The biosphere appears to attempt to maintain some kind of thermal homeostasis, and appears to be better at cooling the hot than warming the cold. How does that work?
Git from the inside out
Nvidia’s GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 revealed: Faster than Titan X at half the price
Remember that there is no sign up, and that your mobile (phone number once registered via SMS OTP) is the only client their servers can trust.

Imagine a scenario where you were to get rid of the phone number and had sessions open on the desktop and the web. WhatsApp servers have no way of knowing where the phone number went or if it will be online ever again or if you continue to own the phone number, or someone else owns it. They need to route the msgs through that phone/number combination all the time, because it's the single source of truth.

Its security and privacy that's preventing them from providing the feature you're asking for.

If they detach individual user's identity from a phone number, may be then they can be a true cross platform (web, phone, desktop) messaging app.