skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When people are deliberately killing babies and old women, it's very hard to sympathize with their cause.

Right, and that's after you said "A far right politician in Israel does not represent the entire country".

> is very misunderstood by people who have little or no knowledge of the history and facts of the situation.

Notice how you didn't substantiate any of your claims, call the settlements "controversial" and seem to think that they are on "barren land" (right) would be relevant even if it was true, instead of a clear breach of Geneva conventions.

Even if you could justify an occupation, you cannot justify the settlements and the intention they represent, the deed that is being done, and trying to push that on "far right politicians" while treating Palestinians as a monolith, is just having a double standard.

I never claimed Palestinians have "moral superiority" and never would, because that's not how it works outside of sophistry. You don't work out who is worse, and then use them as a scapegoat for everything while absolving those who are "not the worst". Individual crimes do matter, and remain crimes even if the other party commits more. Which is not to be confused with "just because there are unsubstantiated claims the other party commits more", either. And all of that also applies to the "pro-Palestinians" who rage about how "the Zionists" are the worst, and how Israel is the worst. They peddle the exact same logic with roles reversed. "Don't criticize us, criticize them!"
Okay, so 1/3rd of the monthly wage means 1/3rd of a month, meaning 26 hours of 4*40 hour weeks.

Assuming there's no other overhead an independent contractor needs to take care of in Italy (in the US the big one would be health insurance, but you live in a civilized country. On the other hand, your civilized country probably all takes reasonable paid vacation, and an independent contractor would probably want to charge enough to do the same. And there are other reasonable reasons contractor hourly rates tend to be higher than pro-rated full-time salaries, things included with a typical full-time job above the salary itself that a contractor has to pay for or spend time on themselves).

But okay, let's say 26 hours.

How many junior developers can take an idea, probably somewhat vague and poorly thought out, and turn it into something useful in 26 hours?

I'd say if they can, they probably ought not to be considered a 'junior' developer!
What I find amazing is that they even need to process leads this way. That is, their TAM (companies shipping over 500 containers a year) is not something that isn't already well-defined and readily available. Possibly even contained entirely within the head of an experienced salesperson in that space.
I agree that it serves almost the same purpose, but for a beginner, seeing all the layers, what they do, and choosing them piecemeal is a great way to learn quickly before graduating to the yeoman ecosystem.
MIT media lab tends to actually be in the space you are describing (novel application and positive social impact rather than fundamental science. For what it's worth David Mellis is one of the original creators/founders of Arduino so everything he does is probably seen through that lens.
It's pretty cool how much different the scale is with electric cars versus the sorts of batteries we're used to.

I frequently see people discussing range impacts based on a complete misunderstanding of the magnitudes involved. They'll ask about how much range you'd expect to lose from running a dashcam or charging a phone, or recommend turning off headlights to conserve energy.

And of course I can't blame them at all. We're used to battery-powered devices where things like screen brightness are critical to battery life.

But then you run the numbers, and realize that a fully-charged Tesla could run the headlights for over a month before draining the battery, or that it could charge an iPhone 20,000 times....
I don't like how the article completely left out IPFS.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Being able to do that is a _huge_ skill.
Oh yea I liked that one. I think that's a decent example it just wasn't all that popular I guess.
Sketch App is moving to a licensing model
But many companies are making it available at a much less costly entry point. If you are interested in lower cost options check out hopdata.com (work here), monkeylearn.com, algrorithmia.com, google cloud machine learning, Amazon machine learning...
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I think what you have is a misunderstanding of the market. 400 Euro isn't going to get you more than maybe half a days work (a day for a long engagement, for someone who's billing mid-tier[1] simply due to the economics of freelancing. You're paying both ends of FICA/SS so that's (-) ~17% federal immediately of whatever he's taking in.

For US freelancers, you're paying for down-time between clients and meetings that won't convert into any work. SuperDeveloperGuy (regardless of his nationality) is going to have a full book, and as such will be able to command a higher rate than random-(any-ethnicity-guy-with-less-than-desirable-experience). The reason why we bill out at lawyer rates is because our labor patterns are similar.

HN has a freelancer thread you can check. I've used it before. I generally discriminate based on the quality of their comments (a subjective metric, admittedly) as well as how long they've been a HNer. Keep in mind college kids are getting 35/hr minimum at any summer co-op, so again, 400 EUR won't get you very far.

RE: Elance, et al -- On Upwork I've had great experience with the Eastern Europeans/Russians who have tons of feedback (is it still racism if it's a positive stereotype? hmm).

[1] (Personally a client approaching me with a rate in that range is price-signaling to me "I'm going to brow-beat you for every dime"; somewhat counter-intuitively the quality of clients I've had has increased as a function of the rate at which I bill. Once I crossed the 3-figures-an-hour-threshold people started taking my time a lot more seriously.)
‘Third sex’ lizards could outcompete their normal female cousins
google and microsoft already has this information
For me(I maintain a purely platonic relationship with JS) it offers an easy choice. An example: I don't have to choose MongoDB over Postgres just because the Yeoman generator that actually has all the items I want, decided to go with NoSQL.
Of course it's possible to do the same thing in C, but most likely not with «the same amount of code», nor with «memory safety». ;)
Emerging Market Catch-Up Set Back ‘Decades’ According to World Bank
There are several languages similar to Nim these days, and they're all very exciting. For example, Nim, Rust, D, Go, and probably others I'm forgetting. Does anyone know of some chart that compares them based on their features and priorities? Maybe something in the spirit of https://mobile.twitter.com/nixcraft/status/73938379662612889... but with more areas of comparison and less trying to be funny?
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The interesting part is the promise to block access by users who use adblockers:

"No one who refuses to contribute to the creation of high quality journalism has the right to consume it," Mr. Thompson said. While the Times is "not there yet," he said that if the company has no choice but to prevent non-subscribers who refuse to whitelist the Times from reading the website, "we'll do it."
Consider using the 'web' link to access the site if you're having trouble: https://www.google.com/search?q=Emerging%20Market%20Catch-Up...
But such a thing would attract them.
Like rich people attract kidnappers.
I don't see your point. The US government has a long history of overthrowing governments (even democratically elected ones) in the middle east and other parts of the world. If you're trying to justify killing thousands of civilians with that their leaders are threatening you, it's an argument very closely resembling those extremists make against the US.
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They are mutually exclusive on those sites. If you do not have experience on those sites specifically, that would explain your confusion.
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I'm as concerned about these issues as anyone here, but does the bill that was given its third reading yesterday actually still do all of those things?

The text runs to hundreds of pages and has had thousands of amendments considered and many of them applied since the early days. A lot of MPs spoke in favour of it and then voted for it yesterday despite expressing significant reservations in the past.

On the other hand, there certainly are still provisions for various kinds of bulk surveillance and there is still a mention of internet connection records. Some MPs did indicate that they would be voting against it because of concerns they still have about these kinds of areas.

There seems to have been remarkably little coverage of this in the UK media so far (it's almost wall-to-wall EU referendum flamebait at the moment) and I've yet to see any robust legal analysis of how much things have shifted in the more controversial areas and how much the various checks and balances that have been incorporated are actually worth.

If it really is true that sledgehammers like bulk surveillance would still be used routinely under the current provisions in the bill then it's very disappointing that it has got through, but I'd like to see some detailed analysis from experts who've been following the development and understand the implications of the legal wording.
Govt prepares for quantum computing threat to encryption
Apple's accessories are already bluetooth. I'm working with a magic trackpad 2 here and it skips all the time, as expected. Magic trackpad 1 did the same. So did my previous kinesis bluetooth keyboard. So does audio. Oh right, it's OS X that can't handle bluetooth. Or RF in the case of Logitech products. Hell, they have trouble keeping wifi on. What you wish for is already here and it's already shitty, at least on OS X.
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In the US, I think it's fair to say that the typical insurance policy is required somehow or another.

I guess there are lots of people that rationally purchase homeowners insurance, but there's also lots of people that purchase it as a requirement of their mortgage. Auto and medical both have lots of government rules that push people to purchase them.
This is a blog/column. I'm not sure this article appeared in the actual paper.
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Just because you're used to it, doesn't mean it's not completely insane and stressful for the rest of the world. You take two people who have never driven car before in their life, and throw one in a western driving scenario, and another in India. You tell me which one would be more stressed out.
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I'm not going to comment on the content of your posts - others have done that. But you might want to check your tone. You sound like a petulant teenager offended by the mere notion that someone might think you wrong.

It honestly makes it really hard not to dismiss whatever you say out of hand. If you don't really care about people taking you seriously then by all means keep it up, but if you're trying to participate in a grown up conversation, you might want to stop throwing tantrums. You know, the basic rule of human interactions, show people the respect you expect them to show you?
Excellent! Thank you for this algorithm! Will implement it in my hyperlapse stabilization suite!
In a lot of ways this sounds like a rudimentary solution in which it hasn't become economically viable to instead solve with technology.

In other words, the eye as a light sensor to match a color in the physical world is the most efficient solution we have, no?
This is really interesting. I'm old but I've recently downloaded snapchat and started messing around with it. It's a totally different kind of communication than I've ever experienced. I totally "got it" once I used it.

Very cool to see major content creators utilize the platform to create new kinds of media experiences.
> I'm pretty sure that there are PA citizens learning in israeli universities though, especially Ariel.

Ariel is probably the worst example you could have chosen. Palestinian residents of the West Bank are not allowed to enter the settlement of Ariel that Ariel University is in, so that seems unlikely. I'm pretty sure there are zero PA citizens enrolled at Ariel.

I would not be surprised if there are zero PA citizens enrolled at any Israeli universities, I'm not 'pretty sure' there are zero, but pretty sure there are very very few if any, and possibly zero or nearly so. (see for example http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2009/05/28/banning-palesti... http://gisha.org/press/1033 )

The suggestion that Gaza residents have obtained "everything that goes along with independence" is too ridiculous to say much more about.
True, some ready-made video comparisons would be nice, but the codec is being actively developed as we speak, so they'd be out of date pretty quickly (the bitstream format isn't even frozen yet).

However, the Daala code is open-source, so people are free to generate their own comparisons using whichever codecs they like on whatever video snippets they have.

The Daala code is available via Git (https://git.xiph.org/?p=daala.git;a=summary and https://github.com/xiph/daala/) and there are even some test video sequences one can compare with at https://media.xiph.org/video/derf/.
I hate lmgtfy used for this. Possibly more than Citation needed.
The Simpsons did it in Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish".
I've done some work with DPDK about a year ago. At that time I was getting about 12us latency for small packets. Interestingly the power consumption is maximum at minimum load. DPDK uses poll mode drivers to minimize latency, when load is light it uses more power constantly polling than the cpu uses doing computations.
Conspicuously not mentioned: OpenOffice.
Having worked both in Finance on Wall Street - for an ethical shop with quality employees in a modest market (Munis) - and in Insurance/Risk Management, I can off-hand say that I think the actuaries and quants in Insurance are easily comparable in talents and abilities with Finance peers. Thus, I think some 'structured products' from the Insurance industry - rather than Finance as most people might think of it - are worth consideration. Sure, both avenues are regulated, but scams will show up in any industry. What I'm getting at is Insruance isn't supposed to be "flashy" - the numbers are supposed to work.

As an aside, I do see the two trying out new, potentially risky synthetics called Insurance Linked Securities. Not sure it has been much of a market in the past - existed, sure, but there's a lot of sloshing Central Bank injected money looking for returns...and pension funds...and, well, everybody. Eek!
Well, the money invested by the deceased has to go somewhere..

I'm not sure how the system works in Denmark but in Sweden you choose whether to give the remaining pension to your family or to have it split among the other people in the pension fund that also opted for the split.
In fact changing historical records and emphasizing advantageous parts of history are not communist inventions. In China, this has been a very old tradition. Since Qin dynasty, history books and records were heavily regulated by the government. Almost at every change of the dynasties, the historical records were changed/destroyed to justify the new situation. The communists are just continuing that, in fact, in a rather blatant way. I remember, in high school, we would learn that history is a useful tool for propaganda (which is a good word in China) and that is one of the reason why the history we learned implies that "only communism can save China". I would chuckle whenever I wrote that very sentence in exams (which was the basis of the correct answer to most questions). In the end, people understand conceptually that history and facts are different things. I guess in the west, the distinction between history as passed on in religious texts and traditions and history as archaeological findings is similar (of course, here there are people who confuse the two as well).

In the end, history, being in the past, denies direct access or verification. In some sense it is just what we choose to remember, which is a very fluid thing. I guess culturally the Chinese are just more flexible about it. It is not necessarily bad, as it is a less fanatic ideology.
Its quite a challenge. I was on vacation over in the Philippines, and I decided to see if I could find someone to help with the front end for my side project. I interviewed two people.

The guy I ended up working with did an amazing job using a team of freelancers on the first task.

On the second task, he asked for more money up front, and then that was the last I heard from him. He took the money an ran.

I am looking for another person or team to help me now, but I think the process is going to be to start with a small task and try to build trust.

The most important skill in these cases is the ability to write amazing specifications.

I have had some good practice over the years, and you would be surprised how much it helps.
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It's more intuitive for beginners and if more stacks(Django/Laravel etc) are added, this would be a good way to select stacks and generate boilerplate.
Modern Bluetooth devices, including all smart phones running Windows, iOS or Android, does not use static addresses that can be used as a signature to track you.

Instead, they use private resolvable keys for all handshakes with devices around them. A new key is generated every few minutes, and only a device which you have previously bonded with is able to resolve your key through data exchanged in the bonding process.
ThoughtWorks has something called "Technology Radar". They prioritise stuff that may or may not shape the future.
Nice job - an easy solution for developers with a lot of SDKs provided.
70% of Facebook users only read the headline of stories before commenting
At least the AngularJS + NodeJS boilerplate isn't using the latest suggested style guidelines and folder structure. But great first start!
Semi-Autonomous Driving Using #EC2 Spot Instances
With 400 euros you do not need a dev but a modder: he/she buys templates and cloud space from well known marketplaces for peanuts or for free then inserts your content, sets up your project online and writes you one page to manage it properly. He/she will spend a couple hours and you are served with a working minimum viable product for showcase.
>Then in 50 years, maybe we'll all have our own anonymity-preserving "cloud boxes"

Urbit looks really promising in that aspect
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence
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There was a cool article on why in many cases random selection is better than human choice https://aeon.co/essays/if-you-can-t-choose-wisely-choose-ran...

I've just never really solved how to apply it to politics. I've long felt that if you're going to have 2 "houses", one ought to be appointed by ballot as a check/balance on the elected members (a variation of hereditary peers in many ways but without the same bias).
~~~~One thing that I think is extremely noteworthy is, that the slander site (and let's be frank, the site that went up on May 27th is slander in its purest form) links to site resources hosted at the GitHub pages of the user profile "ioerror". That would be the profile of Jacob Appelbaum himself, but it's unlikely that Jacob would volunteer his GitHub account for this. Which leaves the conclusion that Jake Appelbaum's GitHub account has been taken over and he no longer has control over it.~~~~

EDIT: I was wrong on that, it's actually on a profile ioerrror spelled with 3 'r'-s – sneaky.
Let's just trust the rich people you say, be the grass under which the elephants that fight.

Yes, it's difficult, but the hope is that if we make it so the government we elect is closer to the will of the people, then at least when the government is corrupt, we can vote them out. Sorry, but as far as I can tell, I don't see "plenty of rich people" trying to unseat anyone other than installing their cronies which will do their bidding.
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> "I have money but no time"

You have time. The only person I've ever met who actually had no time was on his deathbed.

Everyone else is poorly prioritizing their time. Or their money. Cut your expenses in half and you regain half of your productive hours.

And of course doing it yourself is an investment in yourself - possibly the most valuable investment you can make. Naturally this assumes that you treat the project as "deliberate practice" and not something to simply get out of the way.

If you have the right sort of personality traits (which anyone can develop) you absolutely have time.
>I guess you can use tools like V-Tune for that.

And I am saying you cannot.

>What you mean by doing prefetchin C? There isn't any ANSI C feature for that.

Actually, there is, it's called inline assembly. But any decent compiler has an intrinsic anyways.

>You can also do layout changes in Haskell, for example use a ByteString instead of Text, or an Array instead of Lists and so on.

So, I have this type data Vector3 = Vector3 Float Float Float. Can I change its layout without having to change the rest of the code? The only way I know is compiler-specific unboxing and even that has little predictable effect, as we don't even know if this type is going to hold boxed values to begin with.
Thanks for the edit. Too often journalists phrase things in a way that implicitly equates "the Middle East" with "the Arab countries", to the exclusion of a great many people who actually live in the Middle East.
I wouldn't say that they easily reach 10g on small packets. I got to about 8g before I started to have trouble. It certainly takes some optimization. If I remember correctly Intel's DPDK documents warn that you only have about 80 cycles between packets.
How could you be so heartless!
Oh, how could you be so heartless!
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Hey, on an anecdotal level this saves me a lot of time. As an example I can take the participants list from a logistics fair, run it through the script and come out with a prioritised list of companies to contact. It's quite new so we don't have any hard numbers so I can't say anything else than "really good". The code is already open-source and can be found here: https://github.com/xeneta/LeadQualifier
Appears to be a fairly standard, boiler-plate separation agreement.