skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the links I visit, when I want to relax is:
https://archive.org/details/computermagazines

So happy when I discovered they had a few DAK Catalogs. So many pleasant memories and a few orders too! That guy could really put a catalog together back in the day:
https://archive.org/search.php?query=dak%20catalog
Dave McClure: Farming Unicorns: Building Startup and Investor Ecosystems
They literally mean "not spending any energy doing the computation".

We spend energy on computation for two fundamental reasons: 1) zeroing data and 2) error correction. You avoid zeroing data by doing reversible computation. You avoid error correction by finding really really well behaved / stable systems.

Time crystals are reversible basically by definition, and Wilczek is saying that maybe there might be some time crystals that are also well behaved and do something interesting enough to encode computations.
> I've worked in small teams where I was the only Asian person among a team of white men, and I neither noticed any hints of racism nor sexism.

I don't think your situations are comparable. Women are ~50% of the population and sexual undertones have nothing to do with ethnicity, but everything to do with gender.
Compare:

"Perhaps you, like I, read The Voyage of the Beagle and found it to be a remarkable triumph of literature and naturalism and science and, dare I say it, the intellect."

with

"The Voyage of the Beagle was a triumph of literature, naturalism and intellect."

Not one fact deleted. There's no accounting for taste -- maybe you like crap writing. But worthwhile ideas remain so even when presented in simple declarative sentences.
Modern SOCs might have 100 complex blocks. We had 3 simple RTL blocks (9 hard macros). Top level communication approach was "correct by construction". Nothing is for free.
I was a bit surprised they were quibbling over a few thousand dollars at that point.
Having your financing together is going to give you a leg up in a competitive deal for sure. Of course not all deals are competitive so it might not matter. In some cases your bank will give you a letter saying they are willing to lend you $X under reasonable circumstances which might help you get in the door with with sellers by convincing them you can close even if you don't actually have the cash upfront.
Ever since I saw my parents' initial skepticism to the use of handheld devices (smartphones, tablets etc.) I have always wondered what such a mental block for my generation might be like. It could very well be an invention such as this that is considered speculative today which might become viable overnight. My kid may someday wonder why his dad doesn't understand basic quantum phenomena.
> So what are the implications of an object that breaks that symmetry? Would it be possible to observe an object in different times in the same state, or the same time in different states?

The object would be in a repeating set of states. First state 1, then state 2, then state 1, then back to state 2, etc.

This is not in itself surprising. Think of a pendulum, for instance. The difference here is that the motion is the lowest energy state. Over time, a pendulum swing decays. This does not: it will continue forever, if not disturbed.

The obvious next question is: isn't that perpetual motion? According to the normal dictionary definition of those words yes it is, which is why this is a fascinating discovery. However, it doesn't violate the normal arguments against perpetual motion, because there's no way to extract energy from the system. Anything you did to influence the motion would require adding energy.
> after they got lucky with how mobile advertising worked to their advantage.

Or... you know... they started realizing the potential that investors and onlookers felt was inevitable.
Looks good, would love to see this take off!
I've been really curious about rails lately - were there any major benefits compared to writing this in PHP?
I'm not sure how much they got themselves manipulated, Iraq isn't a clear cut case as many people would like to believe.

Saddam worked hard to make sure that the west thinks he has WMDs ready to use (and that he is willing to use them) he kicked out inspectors, he staged activity at sites that were decommissioned and suspected sites, and he had his troops marching in NBC suits.

And the US and the Iraqi government does still finds chemical weapons spread over Iraq, the US has recovered 1000's of chemical munitions over the years.

https://theintercept.com/2015/04/10/twelve-years-later-u-s-m...

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleea...

Large amounts of precursor material and known stockpiles have also went missing during the invasion, some of it has been suspected as the source of the reported chemical attacks in Syria.
And overall the condition of these weapons made them not particularly field ready especially considering that the Iraqi army was in a state of total collapse even prior to the invasion, Saddam put a show that oddly he didn't had too.

Iraq didn't had nukes, but it had plenty (as in more than enough to cause a lot of nasty incidents, but not nearly enough to sustain a war) of chemical weapons during the time of the invasion even if they were at a pretty degraded state, and Saddam staged a pretty good show in an attempt to thwart a looming US invasion.
Saddam's WMD's were never a threat to the US, not to any extent beyond it's regional presence, and it likely not have been a real threat to the region at large (yes he could've killed a lot of people, but conventional weapons work just as well for that matter), but it's also not a case of these things being non-existent.

The intervention in Iraq is probably one of the best examples that the road to hell is paved with good intentions in recent history, it can be judged by many factors as unwarranted and counterproductive but it wasn't some conspiratorial scheme by the "neocons".
no, notifications have never worked through oplog watching. It's a custom application layer infront of persistence that sends the mutation transition to registered parties. The oplog is too coarse grained.
Why I hate iOS as a developer
I recall a new Datsun B-210 from the 1970s being around $3k. It's hardly an Eldo, but I thought they were pretty nice cars.
I suspect a lot of the R&D in LED manufacturing has been focused on bulbs which functionally replace incandescent. Creating functional replacements of incandescent bulbs is certainly a noble goal, but incandescent lights aren't uniquely suited to every situation.

For instance, I live in a row house. The south facing windows have shades over them, which I can't remove because I'm renting. This means the amount of natural light is extremely limited inside. I find that if I don't spend some time in the sun early in the morning, I feel extremely sluggish and lethargic.

Replacing the sun is really hard though. Not only does the sun have a "perfect" CRI, but it is extremely bright and provides a very diffuse light. (Not to mention, the sun is really cheap). I've found the easiest way to mimic the diffuse nature of sunlight is to have a number of light sources.

Right now, the only "sunlight" (7500k+) bulbs that I can find that are inexpensive enough to cover my living room, render color well, and are efficient enough to keep on during the day are florescent. Halogen uses too much power and generates too much head. I can't seem to find reasonably priced LEDs with a good CRI above 5000k.

I've only been able to find 2 kinds of "sunlight" LEDs. One is 75-watt BR40 (or lower wattage BRxx lights), which, as spotlights, are not very versatile. The other are "grow-lights", which I am hesitant to buy, since I have little interest in partaking in a no-knock raid at 2 AM. That might be paranoia, but I've heard stories at the homebrew/hydroponic store where I buy my homebrew supplies, and I don't think it's too unlikely.
>> The easy fixes might have worked if we could get worldwide buy-in 20 years ago

This is completely true - it's just sad that even now, we can't seem to make the right decisions. Both democrats and republicans have had the opportunity to head this off and have done little to nothing to stop it.

Every time one of these threads come up, I still see Carter's speech in 1977 about the energy crisis: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-...

That was 35+ years ago, what have we done since then? Not much. Reduce emissions by a fraction here and there while other countries ramp up their industrial revolutions and outweigh any gains we make in this country.

>> Levelling off is no longer good enough, it's too late for that, we need a massive decrease in global carbon emissions.

Not sure how this would even be accomplished. Even if you took off all the gas powered cars on the road and replaced them with electric vehicles it wouldn't be enough - and then you have to contend with the pollution on the Li-Ion battery production and recycling issues.

I'm not being sarcastic, but would like to know what you'd propose that would work. In smaller countries mass transit works well, but since our country is so large geographically and our mass transit differs from state to state, I'm not sure even if you outlawed cars all together and just ran with public transportation that would help either.
190 Countries Adopt Plan to Offset Jet Emissions
It seems like you're confusing COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT and GRAVE ACCENT. These are two separate characters with distinct code points. One combines, the other does not. It's not a property of the font; it's a property of the characters.

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0060/index.htm

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0300/index.htm
Question: Did you acquire the assets with a Canadian entity? I'm assuming so. Did you have any problems transferring the billing subscribers? I'm EU based, and one of the concerns I've had / I have is that some US based customers seem to be getting auto rejects by their credit card provider (i.e. Stripe) when billing. Not exactly sure how I discovered that -- I think some guy wrote about it on a SaaS forum somewhere.
It is. Here's a picture of what it looks like (http://boston.conman.org/2015/06/14.1) and I even wrote about my experience in using it: http://boston.conman.org/2015/06/16.1

The executive summary: it's both incredible (it has features I've never seen elsewhere) and horrifying (wait until you see the keyboard, and you only have 64 BYTES for everything).
> "Perhaps you, like I, read The Voyage of the Beagle and found it to be a remarkable triumph of literature and naturalism and science and, dare I say it, the intellect."

> with

> "The Voyage of the Beagle was a triumph of literature, naturalism and intellect."

> Not one fact deleted. There's no accounting for taste

Which is, in fact, the thing deleted (that is, the former version expressly emphasizes that the conclusion it offers is an opinion -- even as it clearly expects the reader to recognize that it is a quite common one, and that the author expects the reader to be likely to share it -- and the latter suggests it is a simple statement of fact.)

> But worthwhile ideas remain so even when presented in simple declarative sentences.

Yes, but sometimes changing the sentence structure also -- as in the example you present -- substantially alters the idea being presented.
I disagree. Some sexual undertones have to do with ethnicity because of stereotypes of Asian women etc.
For those crying wolf about protectionism...

In general, I think most nations should have more closed door policies like China. My country (which won't be named) does not have a startup ecosystem anymore and we have become a consumption ground for one silicon valley startup after another. Instead of fostering local startups and paying some money (since many bootstrap and do not have big pockets), all the companies just take the freebies of silicon valley startups. We had a local chat start up but slack ate their lunch. Everyone here just uses the slack free tier. How do you compete against free?

Eventually, this has led to all the data of individuals and companies on US soil (or wherever those startups feel like stashing the data). We have no control or say over it. If we are to look for alternatives, there is none in our own country.

And for those who think the world is one giant land where everyone can roam freely, it's impossible for me to move to any of the western world because of visa restrictions. And US has the harshest work visas on the plante.
headphones and music man! cant work without music
How would you do an INT 21 call? It's been too long; I don't remember that being possible except as either just assembler or inline assembler.
Wow, I had no idea.

How do the facts back this up?

It helps when your country is smaller than most international cities.

http://www.travelersdigest.com/7390-how-big-is-singapore-in-...
There there...

This is why I have a stash of whiskey at my desk ;)

(though honestly I haven't touched it in a while. Impairs debugging, really)
Sorry, how is this possible? Lots of users. Lots of value. But no money? Makes no sense.
Also, I think it is MUCH more likely for a team to have only one woman than only one Asian. From my experience working as a dev in the US, anyway.

At any rate, I've never been on a team that didn't have several Asians. But I've had many co workers tell me they've never worked with a woman before (which in itself is awkward to hear unprompted, haha).

Thanks for pointing out that race and sex are not comparable. It's true, they really aren't.
It's not an individual firm that will decrease the supply, but the market as a whole. Largely this will occur as companies go out of business or shut down their LED operations because they're not profitable. Eventually when few enough firms are competing, the remaining firms involved in the market will be able to turn a profit and the market will stabilize. At least that's what I would expect.

Other sectors have experienced dramatic drops in demand, and the world doesn't end, even though some companies might. I expect the few companies that keep selling long-lived LEDs will outlast their more gimmicky counterparts.
It must be able to tunnel into some other structure. The half-life is defined by how much energy it needs to "melt" as the article says.
Endowment Effect and User Experience Design
Eh.. not sure about that. Picking a less-in-the-mainstream database already seems a little bit risky for a business. To also tie yourself to a service strikes me as even more risky.

Consulting we can agree on. I can't imagine RethinkDB didn't have a consulting business.
Every time I see someone using sed or awk I wonder why they don't just use perl-from-the-commandline instead, there are even translators (s2p, a2p) for the lazy.
Why pay more when you can pay less? ;)
I've had great success over the last 10 years with a pair of Sennheiser 280 HD Pro over-the-ear headphones (https://en-us.sennheiser.com/hd-280-pro). They are great at passive noise attenuation across the spectrum (32 dB) and are extremely comfortable for long periods. It doesn't hurt that they sound great (if you like a flat frequency response) and since they are made for pro DJ and studio use, they're durable and the cord, ear pads, and headband pad are replaceable.

If I don't want the distraction of music, but still need to wipe out the sound of people talking nearby, I fire up https://rain.simplynoise.com/.
Neural Net Computing Explodes
Well, now think in Google scale. You said hundred thousand users? add at least 3 orders of magnitude
> an AOL account, which is worse than Yahoo

Worse in what material way? You might be surprised to know that AOL was doing things like encrypting even intra-datacenter links as early as 2006. While they would probably not have resisted such an order they would have at least implemented it competently.
From the seller's perspective you've got to have a buyer and buyers at this price point buy on a multiple of SDE vs. development cost. If dev cost is greater than what buyers will pay then as the seller... you're probably going to have to eat it and take less.

Importantly as the buyer a big part of what you're buying is customers that you can talk to and work with vs. just the code. If we thought Codetree would have taken twice as long to build but had zero customers we wouldn't have bought it at half the price. Having paying customers proves that you've bought something that other people value. Buying code just gets you code and you may find out that no one will ever pay to use it.
Take this one step further, to where people begin avoiding interacting with the health care... "system" for fear of the financial outcome -- one which is largely and unyieldingly opaque.

Not only is the system making care unaffordable. It is actively discouraging those in need from engaging in it.

It is the opposite of preventative care. It is actively preventing care -- not just through cost, but through psychological pressure.

The U.S. health care system is borderline evil, at this point. For some people, it is unquestionably evil.
It's pretty clear that the commenter's intent was not to turn the interview around and get hired, with that remark.
Yep, there’s now a subscription handbag service: Ivory Clasp
I wasn't suggesting that we simulate a galaxy. I was suggesting that we capture the entire energy output of a galaxy and give it to one person. And then do that for every person in the world.

There is a lot of energy out there and a lot of technological growth to go before we hit a "finite" limit.
Not disclosing the details for the reason could prevent a malicious actor to learn and improve their strategies.
We Might Be Living in the Matrix According to Tech Billionaires
Wouldn't standardizing password requirements make them much easier to guess?
I'd read a few prospectuses and make sure you understand them (especially the profit and loss statements - lots of info online about these). Sign up for FE's mailing list to get some prospectuses.

Otherwise, it depends what you want to learn. I'm sure a quick search on Amazon would be fruitful.
It doesn't even have to be a "not deliver" model. It can simply be a matter of "deliver harder" for paying celebs/companies. Not as hard as a promoted tweet but not as ignorable as just a regular tweet scrolling past the bottom edge of the screen. There can be special pricing for highlighting tweets or "temporal persistence" of tweets.
china is a difficult market. if it wasn't for the perpetual carrot of 1 billion consumers i doubt many would bother.
How Utopia Shaped the World
A Functional Programmer's Guide to Homotopy Type Theory
"It’s important to me that recruiters and interviewers are respectful. Nothing is worse than a condescending interviewer."

What does this have to do with 'female'? This is the norm in high tech for everyone - sadly.

Am I under the impression that this girl thinks that she's being singled out as a girl on this? Because I got it most of the time during my career. Not saying it's right, but I don't think it's a gender issue.
> The commercial value derived from OSS Software will shift away from authors to big Tech Co's

I'm pretty sure that the inevitability of that was predicted by lots of people as early as 1990 or before, for pretty much all the reasons you state except for the word "cloud".
Not sure if I can agree with this. Let's pick a random well known public company. Nintendo. They've had their ups and downs and hurricanes of bad news etc. but never is 'selling the company' an idea that gets talked about. Instead, the story is 'what should Nintendo do to grow again. Invest more in mobile games?'. Resulting in feedback which the company now is pursuing. Twitter is a well known brand. Less glorious times need to be dealt with professionally. I understand there are people who'd rather make a quick buck. But the ones that should get the credits and praise in the media are those trying to put things back on track again.
This definition of "can't" means there is no such thing as "won't".
I always thought the term Tofu was "mojibake": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake

Wikipedia disambiguation page: for "Tofu" mentions:
Slang for the empty boxes shown in place of undisplayable code points in computer character encoding, a form of mojibake

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu_(disambiguation)
CRI and color temperature are not the same thing, but this isn't the first time I've seen people get them confused.

These 5100K, 90+ CRI bulbs in your kitchen -- are they fluorescents or LEDs?
> then ask painfully, acutely relevant questions about the company's financials, their development process, their technical debt, and their competition.

Is it rude to do that in an interview? How am I supposed to decide if I want to work for a company without some insight into those things?
You should've laughed to divert any suspicions. When someone makes a racist joke about me I chuckle and wait for my turn. Because I don't want to watch what I am saying all the time. He did not make an attack, he lowered his shield. And then suffered the consequences.
The percent of female CS graduates is ~20-30%.

Why are companies with female % that is similar to the female CS graduate % considered sexist but a company that overhires female engineers (to such a degree as to be suspicious of sexism) is seen as diverse?
> The act of sliding a 12" knife deep into a living, breathing thing is irrevocable, undeniable, and challenging.

It's amazing what some people are willing to do for pleasure. I wish that everyone who consumed animal products had to do it your way. I couldn't do this, so I don't eat animal products. (Yet, I don't suffer a pleasure deficit or any other ill effects, but that's my personal experience.)
Curious to know what company that is - I've never witnessed more than a small ratio.
I recently tried to improve my project's UX.

Based on the experience, I wrote about why we are sometimes reluctant to improve UX, and how we can overcome that inertia.
Yes, that would be even better. Do you just make due with landline?
Also, Rongorongo isn't yet in the Unicode standard. Can't fault a Unicode font for not supporting something which isn't there.
I don't have a security fatigue, but I sure have 'privacy fatigue'.

I should worry about Google knowing this and that about me, I should worry about the stupid retargeting and the fact that if I do something online, it follows me through the web with banners and "youtube recommendations". And that everything is saved and googlable and everyone can know everything about me.

And I used to be worried, but now, I gave up. The assault of the security sucking companies is too high - Facebook and Google has the best engineers and everyone loves their open source code - and it's just way too convenient.

Sorry for unrelated ranting.
What quandary? Let global demand fall off to replacement rates.

So what if there's only one light-bulb factory left in the world and they only produce three bulbs a year?

Heck, in about fifteen minutes or so nanotech will happen and all this is moot. I've said it before: there's an inflection point after which anyone in manufacturing that isn't doing nano is just playing with toys. And we may be past that point already.
It sounds like a JSON_TABLE function:
https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLRF/functions092.htm#...

We are looking to add something similar.
This interpretation sounds similar to Ulam/Wolfram's cellular automata :)
Verizon wants $1B discount on Yahoo deal after reports of hacking, spying
This is an extremely pedantic definition of "some people". As employees of the company doing work on their corporate laptop they can't do it, but that is because the company won't do it, and they are employees of the company.

Also: you shouldn't be using your company laptop for persona projects anyway... get your own laptop :/. So, likewise: "people who by premise are already doing something sketchy because they can't afford their own laptop and are pretending to borrow one under employment terms" is just an awkward place to start to define a reasonable, as opposed to pedantic, definition of "people".