skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really not far-fetched though. If you described the NSA's PRISM program before the Snowden leaks, you were branded a conspiracy theorist. If you claimed the big tech cos were complacent in surveillance on American citizens (hell any citizen at this point) you were once again also stymied in some fashion.

Waiting for it to become established fact to then condemn this Orwellian tech would ensure its implementation.
I find it really odd that when comparing European and American grocery stores people somehow turn a blind eye to the "supermercat" places you can find about three to a block here, whose sole mission is to sell dusty canned goods and 90 degree wine to desperate people who can't find anything better.
Believe it or not, it is possible to make good food in the US for cheap, despite what the article says. I was lucky enough to be raised by two people who took cooking very very seriously (and to be fair we did buy olive oil from some family friends who owned a farm in Greece).

Point being that I have eaten all across Asia, Europe, and the Americas and very few restaurants produce food better than what I get when I go home. I suppose that it may be easier to find good ingredients in rural areas (local produce, seafood bought off the dock as the water-men brought it in etc..), such as the one where I grew up, but if you are paying $350 for fake Kobe in NY than you are more interested in the price of your food than the flavor anyway.
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Think you are painting a starker picture than it really is. I never paid a 'bribe' or a lunch to anyone in 33 years living here (Porto and Algarve). My parents have said to me the same. There was one occasion where a gov. official asked for one from my father for a license for either a building permit or some construction permit (not sure) and as soon as my father heard that, called his lawyer in front of him and told her what happened. Later in the day he got the license (lawyer contacted his superior the same day).

And for Germany and corruption, while there may not be as much corruption inside Germany, German companies are in the top when it involves other countries (Submarines in PT, don't remember what in Greece, etc). Heck, they were even tax deductible until recently: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1995-08-06/germany-wh...
If I had an answer to that question, I probably wouldn't be putting it on HN. :) I'd be firing it at the market and making boodles of moolah.
> By being far easier to pull off

If that were true, I suppose that would be a good argument in favor of a different cadence. But I don't see that the author presents a compelling case for that.

> less prone to slipping and demotivation?

As others here noted, having a rigid work schedule isn't about motivation, it's about discipline. Motivation is easy. Every aspiring writer has piles of it. J. K. Rowling is beloved by almost the entire world and is a billionaire. Few roles are held in esteem as much as being a successful published writer, and many dream of an idealized full-time writing life of quietly sitting next to the window with their typewriter/laptop/pen and paper sipping tea while they craft their next opus.

What's hard is discipline—the willpower to translate that motivation into the grinding work of carving out sentences for hours on end. A schedule helps with that.

I'm personally not convinced that a longer schedule cadence makes discipline easy. My experience is that it tends towards the opposite. A longer period of reckoning gives you more time to procrastinate and get out of the habit of doing the work.

A day might be too short for many—it is hard to keep up—but I think a week might be too long for even more.

> Quantitative changes often lead to qualitative differences

Yes, I totally agree. However, the author doesn't seem to realize that's what he was arguing.
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I agree you shouldn't share the URL, someone could easily copy the startup or model. What I don't agree with is that someone would be able to execute it properly.
OK, one way of getting beta testers would be posting on Reddit ... though you would need to emphasize the beta part or there might be a backlash.

Other ways on the top of my head would be writing guest posts on other music related blogs or paying them to send it to their newsletters ....

You could also cheaply? target specific YouTube videos with your ad ...

Further, if you are new to copy writing for ads, cashvertising is a great book.
This is both irrelevant and inaccurate to the article.

The claim is of scandal, specifically a conscious cover-up and dishonest presentation of evidence. Moreover, nothing in this theory addresses the core observation here: the pattern of illness is completely unaligned with oil consumption, but matches the Almerian tomato distribution quite well.
Fundamentally, governments don't need to tax currency movement. If they implemented a flat income tax only, or even better a flat consumption tax, it could survive off a single tax and not need to worry about income or movement.
Global Brain -Bloom

Captive Mind -Milosz

Machines of Loving Grace -Markoff

Station 11 -Mandell (fiction)

Sapiens -Harari

Revenant (do not remember author/fiction)

Argonauts -Nelson
dpdk and netmap is really only for applications with cooperating I/O processes. This is because the queue of received packets is shared between all process and any of them can delete any packet.

It may not be good for CloudFlare hosting multiple web servers on the same host, but I it could be good for a database or cache server usually run in a LAN with 10Gbit/s network cards.
Not exactly, but close: https://nixos.org/nix/
Not really. Countries have different juridical systems, with governing bodies based on completely different principles. UK law text would be gibberish in a German context, for example. (Or Chinese, or Brazilian.) So international law is made by treaties to be implemented nationally. An EU directive specifies certain limits but the corresponding law differ from country to country.
> In Pokemon Go i haven't found them worth it yet, but that may come later.

It's not a requirement but I highly recommend to people to buy some "Lucky Eggs (2X XP for 30 minutes) and extra "Incense" (attract more Pokemon for 30 minutes) and use them together in the early game.

The reason why is that you get 2X the experience for discovering a new Pokemon which you will do a lot of early on. By doubling that further you save a ton of time in getting to a reasonably high level and collecting a lot of Pokemon quickly.

I'd also buy some "Egg Incubators". You get 1 for free and it has infinite uses. The ones you can buy get 3 uses before they "break". My advice is to use the infinite one on all eggs that will hatch after 2km of walking and use the breakable ones on 5km and 10km eggs. You get more use out of them this way. And eggs can hatch new Pokemon which benefit from the bonus described above.

For a few dollars you'll save many, many hours which to me at least makes the game more enjoyable.
This is absolutely true. People, especially people in the position to be hiring others have some truly classist concepts of "values." Many think poor people are dishonest, likely to steal, lazy. Total rubbish.
> In the U.S., most of the olive oil for sale is either misgraded or adulterated[1]

[1] http://time.com/money/4326354/fake-olive-oil-food-fraud/

Mostly yes. Spain accounts for 45% of the world's EVOO production.
So, a result of the crisis was that Spain decided circumstances had changed such that foreigners' cash was needed less than before?

Your facts may be right (I don't know) but if so, Spanish authorities made a basic economic error in that decision.
I think your missing the point that big data commodity systems are not the $199 pc's ypou buy at walmart.

For hadoop a comodity box is a dual xenon white box with 192G of ram plus infiniband networking kit.
FWIW, it appears many of these concerns were known and brought up during the original scandal 30 years ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/21/world/trial-in-spain-on-to...

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/02/world/a-long-trial-in-spai...
This is not just a EU problem.

I personally think the social changes, coupled with gold standard being dropped are good part of the culprit.

For example I am in Brazil, that have "nothing to do" with EU and US.

Yet I have a mountain of debts, negative net worth, finished university in 2009, and I am yet to get a legal job.

Brazil, even at its "height", when people were praising Lula because it reached 7% of GDP growth and "Full Employment", if you looked into other numbers closely, would find out that most of the money went to the wealthiest, and that underemployment, illegal employment, self-employment, etc... that were on the rise, out of desperation of the people. Or you think I went since 2009 without eating? Of course if people offer me shady deal I accept it! Otherwise I can't even buy potatoes!

Similarly, every single friend I have, except 1, are still single, of all friends I have, only 2 have kids, noone owns his own house and car, most of my friends never got legal full-time jobs either...

This situation in turn removed lots of rights to me.

For example, election rules say you can only use money you declared in your tax returns, and that donors can only use up to 10% of their tax return, since I, and my friends never did tax returns (because our income is not exactly legal), we can't join politics in any way.

Similarly, since we never had a legal job, we can't claim unemployment benefits.

Since we have no tax return, neither legal job history, we can't apply for more loans.

And the list goes on...

And this is not just in Brazil, people of my age I know in other western countries, are mostly in the same situation.
As the recent shootings in Dallas show, having police comm happen on public airspace is crucial in crisis situations. Even with traffic unencrypted there was huge confusion...imagine some "which fucking frequency are you using and why is Officer Smith not fucking using it?" mixed into the clusterfuck, exacerbated by encryption protocol differences between multiple agencies -- Dallas PD, DART, FBI, ATF, county sheriff, Texas highway patrol, college campus police, nevermind fire and ambulance.
> The premise that bitcoin frees you from normal legal requirements is the problem here.

This is misleading, because majority of coinbase's job, the part that is their most difficult task, is to deal with correctly handling fiat currencies (dollar, euro.)

Try using something like shapeshift.io (which doesn't handle fiat currencies) and you'll find a much more pleasant end user experience there than with either paypal or coinbase.
That's actually a perfect example of looping over data structures. Thank you.

(Yes, not what the parent poster asked but I still found it useful.)
Meanwhile the assembly line and workers expensively wait for the assembly jig to be printed. And the contract due date doesn't automagically move out a day because you had a printing problem, so now you're paying (more?) overtime once you finally get a working jig.

There is a solution to that, when your labor and capital costs are huge but the cheap printer is 1/10th the cost of the fancy printer... simply install and use 3, 4, maybe 5 cheap printers, keep the best print, and pocket the savings.
I currently work at a medium sized startup which processes ~100 million dollars / year. We offer both Stripe and PayPal.

The vast majority of our users prefer PayPal (80%+). For one particular product we had to roll out using Stripe only, the number one customer service request we had was to provide PayPal as an option. Subscription numbers rose by over 50% overnight when including it as a choice (literally tens of thousands of people signed up after the change).

Internationally, PayPal seems like the de facto choice for making online purchases. In addition, outside of the Bay Area tech bubble, I believe people in the states are simply more comfortable with using PayPal over Stripe.

While PayPal gets a lot of hate, I'd think long and hard before deciding not to offer it as a payment processor. It's possible that you're leaving a significant amount of money on the table.
You haven't provided any arguments to counter, merely parroted the most banal libertarian talking points.

You think poor folks are trash and deserve the terrible treatment inflicted upon them by capitalist economic institutions. I don't, and think everybody deserves compassion and decency.
I'm interested in other statically-typed languages that compile to C or C++ source (which can be then copied to some other machine and built there, or cross-compiled for it).

I've looked at Rust (which I'm writing a transpiler for), Felix, Haxe, Nim, and Native Script. Are there others?
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The main point of the article is that scientific & regulatory community was led by profit and not in the "spirit of disinterested inquiry".

From the article:
The original study on which the oil theory is founded, by Dr Juan Tabuenca Oliver, was published in the Lancet

Also from the article:
they concluded that, without any doubt, the contaminated foodstuff was tomatoes, and it was the pesticides on them that were responsible for the epidemic. The organo-phosphorous chemicals would indeed cause the range of symptoms observed by clinicians.

Getting published in The Lancet does not prove anything. eg MMR vacine\autism.

The article is well worth a read.
True there are any bullshit jobs. But is this really the majority of the economy?

Advertising share of gdp is at ~2%. Healthcare share is ~20% and rising. And from my experience as a non- It worker, most of the jobs deal with useful stuff (however inefficiently they do so).
But there's no depth to the game. Yes it has a very low learning curve, but there's really very little progression. Even casual players get sick of a game that doesn't progress. At least candy crush gets a bit harder and introduces new mechanics.
Major studios (Nintendo, Disney ...) have spent hundred of millions, if not billions, trying to perfect the magic formula of fun games with educational value, with very little to show for it.

So why is it so hard? Many reasons I suspect. Money is one factor. The market for "edutainment" compared to "blowing stuff up" is significantly smaller. A kid wants to blow things up (metaphorically speaking), and like it or not, the kid gets what he wants.

The number of parents buying games to make their kids smarter is just insignificant in comparison. And when the market is a lot smaller, justifying significant production investments of a high quality game just does not make sense.

At the reverse end, there seems to be an endless number of "companies" making (really low-budget) edutainment making a lot of unsubstantiated claims (lying) about both the quality of their games, the fun factor and learning value.

Thankfully, there are a few notable exceptions but they are usually pretty specialized (Scrabble does wonders for spelling, DragonBox Algebra, things like Kerbal Space Program, Quiz stuff like Kahoot etc).

With some luck, government/municipal teaching material spending over time will transition from mostly books to books+training tools, which should help investments into new and better products like you mention.
> A single socket can be shared by multiple cores

Absolutely, it can. But everybody sane avoids that, pinning worker processes to specific CPU's and not sharing sockets between them. The rule of thumb is that spinlocks on the hot path of socket access become a bunch of no-ops if there is no lock contention.
Stripe's documentation and API design are both the gold standards in my mind. Braintree is good as well, but they fall just a little short of Stripe in almost all categories.

The most notable shortcoming for me has been Braintree's testing/sandbox environment. They require different dollar values in order to trigger certain payment processor errors, and a payment won't fail in their sandbox environment if you use a bogus nonce. This behavior alone caused me to mistakenly ship a placeholder nonce to production, and it took us a while to figure out what was going wrong in production since all purchases worked perfectly in the sandbox.

tl;dr Braintree has burned me, and Stripe has not.
Yeah, but 3D printers are also really slow. The part in the article took 18 hours (on both printers) and in my lab we've had similar experiences.

Not sure where the break-even point is, but the cost of a failed print is pretty high in terms of sunk time for most prints. On an industrial scale, a machine that prints correctly 99% of the time might be a better investment than two that print say 75% of the time.
That's been removed. But, just for fun.

Speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. So if GPS is off by more than 1/10,000,000 you can't get accurate within 30 meters. Having used a GPS they are better than that, thus the clock must also be at least that accurate. Of note, stationary stations can get into centimeter precision which imply's vastly higher accuracy.
"This is the basic problem with low-end filament-type 3D printers - weak layer bonding. You're welding a hot thing to a cold thing, which never works well."

Bonding always works well for me and many others. The author of this story choose to use a material (HIPS) which really should still be considered experimental for most FDM printers. I've personally never had a lot of luck with it and instead choose to use either PLA or ABS with a heated chamber & with those two materials can build very strong parts with no boding problems whatsoever. Here's an example of a violin I've recently printed:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/patcheudor/26263996272/in/date...

Note that I've now printed five violins and in the 100's of hours it has taken to do so not had a single failed print even when printing thin (typically .40 mm) shells.
It's going to easily pass WoW and CoD...if they get it working better fast enough. Actually, scratch that. At this point all they need to do is show an intense commitment to daily improvements. They don't need to solve everything immediately, they just need to convince people that they're making it better as fast as they can.

Pokemon Go has all the right elements at exactly the right time. It's going to be tremendous if they can keep up.
Author here. FWIW the linked paper is the extended edition as published in TOSEM 2015, not the original ICSE 2012 paper, which I was surprised by given the year in the subject.

That said, I'm glad this edition is getting a bit of attention as we were able to be more thorough given the longer format (as well as more time), including an automated study of the top 10k Debian packages. The paper details what's new in more detail.

Let me know if you have any questions or comments.

May your integers be safe!
Marvel licensed their IP out to Marvel Puzzle Quest (which was somewhat of a Bejeweled clone) and was quite successful with it. They didn't have a huge studio behind it either.
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the tenths of a micron are such that you can get the micron measurements from the glass and thus the 5 micron prints
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This game has all the makings of a fad.

The AR angle is new but this is simply Flappy Birds all over again.
> There has never been good enforcement of governmentally-sanctioned standards pertaining to high quality farm produce in the US.

I'm not sure what your intended meaning was here, but don't make the common american mistake of assuming

if ($americanThing === TERRIBLE) {
$anywhereThing = TERRIBLE;
}
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The issue is that you need a large amount of people to be using bitcoin - enough that some significant amount of them will pay your company in bitcoin - before you can start offering to pay your employees in the bitcoin you receive... and significant amounts of people are unlikely to use bitcoin until they're being paid in it.
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so “what kind of bs am I going to read here” has
little use in this place. Actually, this is 100%
true that contributing to the open source community
might greatly affect your life

How to say one thing and communicate the exact opposite.
> IMHO they've also got a much nicer colour.

The colour is just an additive put in chicken feed. You can get colour charts for the egg colours.
I personally charge my clients with a flat monthly maintenance fee which includes upgrades, but also minor bug fixes. In some ways it's a guarantee that the website will keep running, though without an actual SLA. It means I don't need to spend time selling the client on the upgrade.

1. Yes. I always put the on-going fee in the initial project estimate, so there's no surprises.

2. Yes, it requires some guess-work. I've also found that it saves time to take one feature migration (like removing django's url patterns() function) and making that change to all projects at the same time (rather than making all the upgrades to one project at once). I also have found it helpful to reduce the number of 3rd party dependencies. (Fewer things to upgrade, and fewer things that may potentially stop getting supported.)

(Also "Django LTS upgrades are every 5 years" - I was going to correct that to 2 years, but I suppose you can completely skip an LTS line if you time it just right (like, jump from 1.8 directly to 2.0). But you still need to upgrade every _4_ years. Right?)

3. Yes, it's something to figure out initially.
possible, but it probably is more a "mill with a 3D-print attachment" in terms of construction and price. A mill has to have higher stability, stronger motors, ... than a pure printer, driving the price up.
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