skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of railways, and connectors, the railway couplings in the US are another thing that's withstood the dest of time. The Janney railway coupler is compatible with couplers built 100+ years ago, and of a design dating back to the 1860s, with the refinements pretty much all been making individual components more and more standardized.
Do you know anyone who works out? Runs? Rides a bike?

Maybe I'm in the minority but I could never imagine not having music pumping in my ears.
This reminds me of when I was just starting out as a programmer. I was doing contract work and needed to write a php json endpoint. I had no idea what I was doing and hardcoded it all with print statements. Yikes.
Are you using the socketed version of the pcie version?
Mondragon is a co-op by name only. If you look into how it's structured, its basically just a corporation with a twist. Source: The Ownership of Enterprise, available on Amazon.
I've negotiated hundreds or maybe thousands of salaries.

The goal should be to find a salary that is appropriate for the employees skills and experience level. Neither too high nor too low.

You do not want anyone to "win" the negotiation.

The idea is to find a salary that will ensure that the employee feels that they are being appropriately paid during their employment, and will not be browsing jobs because they feel they are under market rate. You want to employer to feel that they have someone who is being paid at a level that reflects the employees skills and experience and is broadly consistent with other employees at a similar level.

Negotiating isn't a battle. It's a process of trying to find if there is common ground.

If the employee and the employer do not find satisfactory common ground then the negotiation should end gracefully - both parties move on.

It's important to work out at the very beginning of the employment process if jobseeker and employee are in the same ballpark on salary - it's silly and wasteful of everyones resources to get to the end of a process only to find out the parties expectations do not synch.
Also, no more IR remote control: https://www.amazon.com/M-Way-Universal-Appliances-Controller...
Have you played any modern board games like splendor, ticket to ride, Stone Age, thurns and taxis, castles of burgundy, Agricola, etc?
Two-player games are much easier to balance and naturally develop interesting counterplay mechanics.

I found Smallworld unfun.
Twitter does not have any incentive for open protocols. They even disabled feeds because you could follow people using any non-official client that might block advertising.

Blockchains do not solve the human problem, people wanting others to run software they provide and not any other. This, like Apple and Google locking down devices and Facebook and Google discontinuing XMPP, is about power.
The Romans also had a passion for importing ancient Egyptian obelisks, which could be a hundred feet tall and weigh 450 tons. They were also made from single blocks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Obelisk
are these the same intel's doing brain research visualization that were later found to be completely flawed, and contributed to bad medicine and false diagnosis?

you're all idiot.
There's no need to assume malice here. Disabling referrers is an extremely niche desire. Also how often does your laptop have an Internet connection that you can't just join as well from the android device? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but omitting it from base Android is hardly malicious.
I like that the 3.5 mm connector is fairly simple and is does not break easily.

I have seen many broken micro-usb connectors, and a couple of broken lightning connectors.
I cant remember ever seeing a broken 3.5mm connector, the cables break before the connector.

Do i want a thinner phone? No, i want a phone with better battery life. Like phones had back in the day(2005) a week or two was not uncommon.
WW3 NOSTRADAMOS PREDICTED THE ISLAM INVASION OF WORLD IS HILARY POSSESSED -
If I were a Jeff bezos level gazillionaire I would probably sponsor a high budget giant Galapagos land tortoise exhibit with its own full time staff. What else is so huge, serene, slow moving and lives for 200 years?
Well, someone is sending power and the bit does flip when the circuit completes. Its just not happening quite on the schedule he imagines.

BUT, notice how even this slightly incorrect theory of how its working still gives him 100% predictive power on how his system is going to work in this case... so meh? Plenty of time to be less wrong later.
I think that is very bad comparison.

I have an Android tablet with proper Debian desktop installed. With keyboard, mouse, USB hub... It even runs Java...
The thing you're ignoring is that there is no reason you have to negotiate by yourself. I want you to make more. You want me to make more. Why can't we team up and put our heads together? Why is there this assumption that if I can't negotiate for myself I don't deserve to get what I'm worth? Am I applying to be a lone negotiator?
With the advent of ultraportable laptops a few years ago, I've almost entirely stopped using my tablet(s). The upsides of a smartphone's form factor are self-evident, but a suitably light laptop is (IME) so far superior to a tablet in comfort, usability, and efficiency that the category has been practically obsoleted for me.

My current laptop has a 13 inch screen and roughly the dimensions of an 11 inch macbook air. There are very few times I find it less convenient than a 7 inch tablet, and almost none compared to a full-sized tablet.
Octopus was what we would today call a "Storage Area Network". Around 1968, IBM built the IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System [1][2] for several of the big atomic energy labs. This was 1.2GB of storage. On microfilm. The whole thing was automatic, with hardware to write digital data on microfilm, develop the film, store and retrieve individual filmstrips, and read them. The film was directly written with an electron beam in vacuum. IBM electromechanical technology at its height. The Computer History Museum in Mountain View has one of the seven units built.

Since this was a big, but slow, storage device, it had to be front-ended by a computer with disks, and made accessible to other computers. That's most of what Octopus did. It wasn't peer to peer, like Ethernet.

[1] http://computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Photostore.dir/...
[2] http://computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Photostore.dir/...
Man, doing that digital work with a scope can be painful at times.

I'd really recommend a Saleae Logic here to scope out your digital lines. You probably don't need the high-level protocol decoding at this point, but for capturing longer blocks of data with a great interface you can't beat this tool.

https://www.saleae.com/
AppleTalk because of the serial chip they put in it.
Study Finds Chinese Students Excel in Critical Thinking. Until College
can anyone speak to the efficacy of protein folding to cure AIDS?

i feel a number of pvnp conversations say, 'if found to be p=np then cures for a number of disease will be possible through a greater understanding of protein folding'
Wait, I can have a 7-layer ISO/OSI stack on a $5 computer!? The future is awesome.
> Most parking is street parking

That's a decision the city has made, and the current state of much street-space in NYC.

Copenhagen has made the opposite decision: space in the city centre is allocated to bicycle lanes and footpaths on many streets. I live on such a street. If I bought a car, I'd need to rent a parking space.

London has an intermediate approach: resident parking on the street requires an expensive permit.
Well their original Xerox clone was the Lisa. The Macintosh was turned into a scaled down Lisa once Jobs was moved to that project.

And the Lisa could talk something they called AppleNet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleTalk
Interesting, how AI based project management could work? It is much simpler to implement and could really save lots of money for organizations, imo
Full article: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2016/01/integral_octoni...
I'm not aware of any particular ride sharing startup that isn't burning massive piles of cash. It's a cash arms race induced party by all of the free floating cash probably induced by multi-nation QE policies.
Mary Shelly's introduction to the 1831 edition: https://www.rc.umd.edu/editions/frankenstein/1831v1/intro
2016 ICFP programming contest less than a week away
The life changing inventions the experts said were impossible
>> I believe a lot of research today is limited by first looking at, and becoming an expert in, the status quo and then building small iterative improvements. It would be better to first find a goal and then looking for a way of getting there - at least that's the way we got to the moon.

Nope.
Amazon's next noise-canceling headphones turn off when someone yells your name
This is just a bit too thick for me; I imagine I can grok it with just a bit more breakdown. Is there such a thing?
New technology could help apples stay fresh longer
> I would go on those sites, read blogs/posts/product pages over and over, and get overwhelmed and just shut down based on the number of options.

Welcome to engineering. Pick one and finish the project. Then look back.

Yes, running an RPi Zero to watch a button press is overkill. So what? It optimizes delivery time over efficiency. You can optimize for cost or power later if you feel like it.

Anyhow, nice job.
I had similar struggles. I was heavy in to CS:GO & dota2 and all I got out of this was going to bed angry.

My solution was pretty extreme - I sold my gaming PC. Here's my steam profile now: https://i.imgur.com/4sSc0O7.png

That said, I didn't stop gaming all together, a time later I bought a PS4 and some single player games. This holds my attention for an hour or so when I'm completely wiped from work towards the later part of the week.

I now use my time after to work for yoga (2x a week), meetups (~3 a month), doing some freelance WordPress work, and programming my hobby projects.

I also took up cycling to improve my fitness and now I am in bed by 9.30-10pm and get up at about 4:45 / 5AM to ride. On rest days, I still get up early and have a coffee, read the "news", and work on hobby projects before work.

I don't have specific advice to you, and the above is all my own experiences, but what I will say is that my mood, and outlook on life has improved. To that end, I will say there is hope and you are the only one who can impart positive change on your life. Just be willing to try and keep trying and I'm sure you will.

Happy to chat via email if you want someone impartial to talk to. pgord1 at gmail dot com
Chernobyl could be reinvented as a solar farm
Prolog is my scripting language of choice for personal projects. Like HN uses a custom Lisp, I prefer doing stuff with my custom Prolog. But then, i'm a curmudgeonly old fart.
> Now go to the specifications page for a random popular bluetooth audio device, and see if they even list which codecs are supported.

That's an excellent point.

Sadly, I don't think the average consumer knows or cares about the badness that is lossy-to-lossy transcoding.

For those who do, aptX support is pretty easy to find in the sense that vendors tend to make "aptX" searchable in the name and/or description. (If you Google "amazon aptx headphones", you'll see what I mean.)

Finally, this is a great example of how Apple gets to "own" the mindshare for tech they don't invent. If Apple decides to hang their hat on the aptX brand for the iPhone 7 launch, that'll be how most people hear about it for the first time. Since aptX isn't their brand, it's more likely that Apple will simply tout "perfect wireless audio" and make sure customers know to look for "Made for iPhone" headphones.
#3 on HN for the moment is very relevant to some of the discussion in this thread pertaining to websites.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12198572
Limit yourself to casual games that don't soak up your life. Don't even look at an MMORPG or MOBA. It's digital crack. Focus more time on people.
Even if it is not your fault it can still be your problem.
So whats the difference between a co-op and a stockholder organization? Is it a stockholder organization with 1 stock unit = 1 member and you can issue stock for each new member?
Basically: have a real card to play that they think you might play. Companies will empathise to the end of the earth with you about anything, however you have to have that card.
At least you can assume that all of your images will always be full-resolution.
Great idea for a title /sarcasm
Nice, thanks- particularly the x86-64 instruction set learning. I would kind of put that down as grammar induction rather than program synthesis though.
The ironic thing is despite apparently not using solid base templates, the end result looks like it was knocked up by a teenager (ab)using a generic modern WordPress template anyway... until you check View Source and burst into tears

The worst design issue isn't so much the questionable taste as the fact the "AI" doesn't seem to have figured out that the primary purpose of the website - to book appointments - probably shouldn't be hidden away in a hamburger menu.
Why don't companies use FreeBSD as much in production as Linux?
As die-hard FreeBSD user and admin I'm interested to know why FreeBSD hasn't been used more often (yeah I know about Netflix and Yahoo but still)?
One thing to understand is that comparing the $100 version to the retail $63 version is an apples to oranges comparison. The $100 version includes a larger board, realistic upgraded resources, metal instead of cardboard coins, extra cards and power wheels, etc. These extras can be purchased separately (with shipping), but then you end up spending more than $100.
This Is What Brexit Means for You and Your Startup
With the exception of Star Wars: The Force Awaken, I haven't seen any of the blockbusters mentioned, though I wonder how much this article cherry-picks, given that the 2 top grossing movies this year (Civil War, Zootopia) [0] seem dialogue-dense based on their trailers despite being summer entertainment. Also, I would have attributed the disappearing of dialogue to our increasingly dumbed-down short attention spans, something that has been evident in Jerry Bruckheimer films. Also, Avatar, which had such shit dialogue that I found it hard to believe until I looked it up that James Cameron had written the screenplay for his Aliens, which has timeless (if brief) dialogue.

That said, it's completely believable to me that the cost of making universally clever dialogue is much harder than just doing it in one language, and will be the easiest line-item to justify cutting with international audiences being increasingly prized. I've always been OK with reading subtitles but it wasn't until Inglourious Basterds did I realize how jarring and unusual it is to have foreign languages hold equal screentime to your own native language (which makes me respect IB even more for its artistic achievement).

It'll definitely be a shame if plots themselves become increasingly dumbed down for international reasons. One thing the OP didn't mention in terms of the Chinese-market effect on Americans is the seemingly higher frequency of Chinese locales making cameos...though this is something I welcome, as the Chinese-based set pieces in movies such as Skyfall as Pacific Rim have usually been spectacular.
Most of the uber price goes to the driver. So higher prices means more money for the driver. Since NYC is a more expensive place to live, and people have more money, you have to charge higher prices to get enough drivers to drive.

Make NYC as cheap as new mexico to live in, and you will see new mexico prices.
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Where's the kasplat? There was supposed to be an earth-splattering kasplat!
The author's post is written in an abstract setting, where 0 and 1 don't mean the usual numbers 0 and 1, but rather the additive and multiplicative elements of a field. The most basic examples of fields are the rationals, the reals and the complex numbers, all of which have characteristic 0. But, for any prime number p, there exist fields of characteristic p as well. In a field of characteristic p, the result of repeatedly adding any element p times is the field's additive element. In particular, in a field of characteristic 2, “x + x = 0” for any x.
the AI has clearly found the trend with pages over the years and is trying to make the page feel more futuristic
Don't rely on obscurity and obfuscation. Instead build your API in such a way that handing someone the complete documentation would have no negative impact. Assume the client is always compromised. My $0.02
That is the traditional model, but the reality is that little of the Windows revenue come from upgrades and PC sales are falling. In addition to Bing, there is also the Windows store. And there is also the B2B model of Software Assurance.
Last year they sold a bunch of them 60 cores for $200. I got one, the problem is that they run hot and need a server that can support them. I'm yet to acquire a server with bar support, so it's still sitting. :-( Anyways, they are out there for decent price, keep your eyes open and you will find a deal.
Yes and yes https://mpetroff.net/2016/07/new-amazon-dash-button-teardown...

New one also uses 4x less power, cheaper battery lasts twice as long
Arithmetic mod 2 is just your standard XOR (exclusive or) operator. Just think, anything > 1 is overflow, and wraps around again.
I'm not sure the XP/7 situation is a good comparison for 7/10 though. In the former case, the main concern was incompatibilities and the general time and money costs of a large-scale software migration. In the latter case, you have the same issues, but on top of those there are compelling reasons not to move to 10 for some organisations. It's not a case of delaying the move as long as possible to avoid incurring the overheads; they actively don't want to make that move at all.

I agree about the importance of backward compatibility for Windows itself, but I think compatibility is becoming less compelling as a reason for businesses to stay with Windows. The dangers of lock-in are well understood and a lot of businesses have been changing their IT strategies accordingly for a long time.

For example, in the era of XP to 7 transitions a decade or so ago, Office was the de facto standard format for exchanging most information within and between businesses. Today a wide range of online services are used for communication, and the tools for importing and exporting Office files from other software are now adequate for many purposes, and it's unlikely either of those trends will have reversed by 2020 when 7 runs out of support.

As of today, my own businesses have only a couple of Windows-only applications left that we rely on for anything fundamental. They are also the biggest pain points in our whole software infrastructure, also supplied by huge developers that have been moving in customer-hostile directions in recent years, and they are also starting to face serious competition from other applications on other platforms. Whether shifting away from Windows forces us to drop those few remaining Windows-only applications or dropping the applications removes the remaining incentives to stay on Windows first, I fully expect that by 2020 we won't be sorry to see any of them go.
That's wrong. Feel free to present an example.
But an in place upgrade is a pretty complex operation. That being said, something similar is why "Windows as a service" was created in the first place.
People have used folding shovels as a novelty-way of cooking food, though perhaps it was also an impromptu cooking utensil in historical military campaigns: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/07/06/how-to-cook-steak-o...
This is the Microsoft which ran a two year 'Scroogled' campaign.

The old adage, 'never pay any attention to what companies say, only what they do', is as true as ever.
a while back, I interviewed at a company that wanted to use ML (tesorflow was mentioned in passing) to create something similar (they were trying to create Shopify + this).

I was extremely interested in the project, but sadly I was told that my skills didn't align to their new pivoting vision.
the mother of all click-baits
Generally speaking there are two kinds of negotiation situations.

One is a one-time negotiation, for example, buying a new or used car. All you care about is getting the best price. You don't really care if you're eating into the dealer's margins.

Second is a negotiation that is part of a long term relationship. Here you want to exit the negotiation with both sides feeling good about it. You don't want to jeopardize the relationship for the negotiation. You don't want to screw the other side over.

A job offer should be a type II situation. If any of the parties approaches it like a type I then they probably shouldn't be working together. The employee should get an idea of what they'll be happy with and the company should pay the employee what they'll be happy with. If the employee is approaching this with the idea of taking advantage of the company then it basically turns into a type I situation and the company should walk away. If a company is approaching the future employee as a type I negotiation the employee should walk away.

I was really excited in a previous job where I figured out what I thought I was worth based on my current comp and some research and when I asked for that I got an offer that was somewhat higher. That told me the company cared about making me happy more than they cared about the (negligible) extra $$$'s. That was all the negotiation. Both sides were happy and I was very enthusiastic on my first day. Now in a type I negotiation I would have been able to squeeze them for more money but this is not a type I negotiation.

Another situation where a fairly successful small web company offered me less than I was making at the time. When I tried to get some concessions in other areas like extra vacation time or more time working from home I was flat out refused. Their CTO interviewed and liked me, the team liked me, they got the CFO to tell me how they couldn't afford to pay more. They were really surprised when I declined their offer. From my perspective they were treating me as if they were trying to buy my car and that told me that's the way they would keep treating me if I came to work for them.

The way I see it if you've done everything right up to this point and if both sides are interested the offer is pretty much a mere formality. Not a starting point for bazar style bargaining.
Nice remark, thanks!
It almost feels like this piece would be a far more compelling product by itself:

"Our learning algorithms monitor your visitors' behaviour, perform automatic A/B testing and make continuous incremental improvements to your site in order to improve conversion rates and help your website to grow."

I'm fairly "meh" on the main concept of an AI-designed website (though good luck!), but the piece I highlighted above? I'd be way more interested in that, personally.
> go after alternative financing sources

What is an alternative financing source?
Better title is 2 mod 2 == 0
> The old adage, 'never pay any attention to what companies say, only what they do', is as true as ever.

This also works for politicians.
Exactly! I'm still clicking, just can't stop it...
Ingest Email into Apache Hadoop in Real Time for Analysis
I've never used The Grid or anything like this, so I'm curious: How much of your landing page is designed using Firedrop itself? This landing page seems like it's the perfect use case, so it seems like a good opportunity for dogfooding.
Find my iphone also has the benefit that if you erase and lock your lost iphone, then (in theory) the device becomes useless as it will refuse to reactivate, even with a factory reset. (aka "Activation Lock"). The idea is to make stealing these types of devices much less attractive (by killing off any resale value)