skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that the resource curse mostly applies to economies that are very poorly diversified and have a GDP based largely on exports of relatively raw materials. The U.S. Has an extremely diverse economy with a large base in services and domestic consumption, even though we export lots of commodity materials and agricultural products.

Canada (and in a smaller scale, Alaska and Louisiana) are better examples of developed economies with relatively good governance but an overreliance on resources and under-developed services. Maybe Australia/NZ too?

Venezuela seems to have had major problems with price controls as well as resource production (the federal oil company became staffed with under qualified people due to political patronage and even before the oil crash, production and efficiency dropped dramatically compared to Colombia's which is similar in scale, culture and geology but better run). I don't know the contribution of infighting (in a Gang of Four sense, obviously there were contentious elections) but it's at least not the only factor.
Hopefully no one will remap them to allow owning planetoids. That would be pretty nasty.
The whole idea behind investment in asteroid mining is to get capital infrastructure in place to make it cost competitive.

In the past we traveled thousands of miles in boats and caravans to get raw materials that were not easily available locally. Sure, you could grow cloves in France, but investing in and establishing routes to south Asia ended up being an investment that made availability of the cloves easier.
It seems to me like they failed the tech interview then. Just move on...
Snowden Film
How is that "hassle"? Somebody needs to fix it, why should it be the maintainer?

In my experience, not even bothering with style is a good indicator of careless "shotgun coding" and such PRs typically have far worse issues. It's also typical that such PRs won't have real issues fixed either.
My perspective is skewed because I'm a uni student, but although there's really good stuff here, a lot also sticks out to me as the kind of advice I'd be giving to someone who just wants something to pay the bills, not someone who wants to do something they really want to do.

The high volume apps and crapshoot stuff - 100% yes.

Stuff like template cover letters? Nuh-uh. I have a structure that I stick to - hey, saw you guys are doing X and I think X is cool and wanna help y'all build it up, blablabla - but it's not a fill-in-the-blanks template.

> Additionally have a good set of STAR questions ready and memorized. [...] Tell me a time when you disagreed with a manager… those types of questions that we all hate, but you MUST know them and be familiar with them.

I can spot a memorized behavioral from a mile away, and it is without fail a terrible move. I mean, yeah, go through the questions, jot down a note about that time Alice did that thing or you had to help Bob out with that other thing in case you blank out when you get the question, but don't come up with an answer and memorize it. The point of these questions is to demonstrate that you're cognizant of team dynamics and the need to manage and navigate them.
One of the best things about living in a dorm in college was they had common areas, including a dining room. Most of the other students in the dorm became your friends that way.
There are plenty of exceptions to the "resource curse": Canada, Norway, Brunei. There is, however, a lot of infighting in Venezuela.
http://openreview.net/forum?id=rJiNwv9gg

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Exactly my thought. You need a bit of luck along with good project to get viral on HN. Otherday I saw simple PDF memo generator got lots of traction while so many other cool apps didn't even surface up.
Apache Maven Shared Component: Maven Artifact Transfer Version 0.9.0 Released
Footage from the ISS [video]
Modern platinum mining is mostly done from surface alluvial deposits.
I have been looking for a Document Management System, and I would like to understand how does this compare to other open alternatives like dSpace.

I would favor older and more established project, but maybe I'm focusing too much in Document Management and haven't thought about the collaboration aspect. PaperNIC might be better there.
It would be awesome, sure, but if both things can be done in parallel, why not?

This smells of a "if I can't have it first, nobody can have it" thinking. Do lives of the westerners matter so little? Are they not people too?
Most likely lack of planning and applying a it should "just work" process to the scenario at hand...

The thing I've learnt with Docker is that all the other Prod issues still exist. Docker at its core only solves the executable part or distribution of the process to run. Still need to figure out, network, storage, monitoring, backups, discovery, etc...

What starts out as a single host can quickly quadruple once all the other considerations are taken into account and wanting a scalable, reliable and available system.
This was already invented, it's called z/VM. You have CP, which is a hypervisor (for any operating system), and CMS, which is a single-user OS that handles talking to the user.
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We should seriously look into geoengineering. Pious utterances from world leaders notwithstanding, human behavior is not going to change.
> What guarantee is there people aren't lying about the parties they identify with?

You, when you volunteer to work at the polls or as a party observer, thereby increasing the redundancy of the checks.
They persevere, they don't "succeed". I know. I've been leading an open source project since 2001. The REAL question is how to make the software LIVE beyond the involvement of the authors.

See: http://wstein.org/papers/talks/2016-06-sage-bp/bp.pdf
who left academia to try to make his software "succeed".
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> That still doesn't help much with lining up the offers

Larger companies are aware that you might be pursuing other opportunities, and are usually willing to postpone extending a final offer until the time you are ready to accept it or at least have other offers to compare it to.
It would probably be based on a homesteading system. In the case of a planet, you'd get what you changed. In the case of an asteroid, if you moved it into a different orbit and set up facilities on it that's probably enough to count as a homestead.
Design thinking
What do you mean? The earth is venting about 50,000 metric tons of mass per year. The addition of rare materials from space probably wouldn't match that. That's not even considering that the vast majority of materials would be used for space travel itself.
Regarding kyboard shortcuts Mac OS HIG Guidelines says:

> Avoid using the Touch Bar for tasks associated with well-known keyboard shortcuts. In general, the Touch Bar shouldn’t include controls for tasks such as find, select all, deselect, copy, cut, paste, undo, redo, new, save, close, print, and quit. It also shouldn’t include controls that replicate key-based navigation, such as page up and page down.

(https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Us...)
Use Wire then. You can either use you e-mail or phone number. Uses Signal OTR protocol and a single sign in for all your devices. The clients are open source.

IMHO Signal is only usable on smartphones. I don't want to link my desktop client with the phone, so I use Wire on the desktop.

Oh and Wire is a Swiss company. I see you run your blog off the .ch TLD.
This is awesome! I actually had this same idea and built a platform for non-technical people to have the ability to build native apps. We picked Xamarin.Forms as our mobile framework because that way we could target most of the mobile platforms and share as much code between those project. We also picked Drupal a CMS to give non-techies an easy framework to build things out. I am going to keep an eye on this project for some different ideas and maybe one day we can pick your brain with our idea/platform.
The platinum in the Earth's core and lower crust is inaccessible. The pressures and temperatures down there are much too high. Compare that to a cold, light asteroid, and you'll see the big picture.
I was in a similar boat and I recommend angular2 using the CLI. The build process is totally abstracted and the nice thing about angular is that you're never really going to be wondering what router do I use etc, because the framework is full featured. Plus it's fairly intuitive. It will be more complex than a jQuery powered Web page, but I think these SPA frameworks assume you're trying to make a more complex application, ie if you can build the same thing using jQuery, then just use jQuery -- unless it's an educational exercise.
Nope. Think Russia. The question is about the development stage of the society when the resources are discovered.
>That's faster growth than the Internet

Unfortunately there's no Moore's law for cleantech.
What's the point of a secure cryptographic protocol if your messaging app

a.) Sends back telemetry data

b.) Accepts arbitrary software updates without user approval

c.) Contains proprietary components with unknown workings

and d.) Forces you to send all of your messages over hostile servers?
"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

While I sometimes understand the bemoaning of top engineers spending time on trivial apps, sometimes those apps aren't as trivial as you would think when you consider how they positively impact loneliness. Of course, there's plenty of garbage out there, but I do love to see efforts to connect people in ways that can be serendipitous and have the possibility of leading to more meaningful connection.

I can think of multiple long-time valuable real-life relationships I've had where our first connections were on some trivial platform. Sometimes it's hard to see past the glaring negatives that come with some of those platforms, but I'm hopeful that better options will evolve over time.
Hawaii Framework – spring-boot, java8
Then again, election day can be a great social experience in my country where voting is mandatory. Always meet random old friends in the queue etc.
That's a bit too specific prediction.
Lambda-Matcher: Hamcrest Matchers with method references and lambdas
Two words: human nature.
The methodical approach is applaudable, and I'm really glad it works for people like the author. Maybe it is indeed the best strategy. But after a few rounds of doing this, it gets old. Not old as in, "I'd rather be watching westworld than drafting this cover letter". But old as in, "I'd rather be shoveling diarrhetic pig shit than doing this code exercise".

I really love being a software engineer. The job application process is the biggest threat to me keeping that passion.
Dynamic web hosting and OpenBSD (2010)
We Do Streams: Oracle Streams One Way Table Replication 101
Most rare metals have uses beyond just "pretty."
I'm against affirmative action but I find it amusing that I can use it to my advantage. I identify with (white) American, though I'm a quarter Hawaiian and a quarter Hispanic.
Steve Jobs, in 2008, on why touchscreen iMacs are bad http://www.technologizer.com/2008/10/14/my-question-with-ste...

Steve Jobs, in 2010, on why touchscreen laptops are bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeNsqqKadQ4

Jonny Ive, last week, on why touchscreen laptops are bad https://www.cnet.com/special-reports/jony-ive-talks-about-pu...
>It has happened that economic growth has untethered itself from fossil fuel growth almost everywhere in the Western world.

Hmm, then why is 67% of US electricity production is from fossil fuels?[1]

[1] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
Thanks for the reference to the HIG. To be clear, I was using Undo/⌘-Z as an example of how I think about keyboard shortcuts as command rather than the specific keystrokes. I wasn't suggesting that Undo should have a place on the Touch Bar.

Besides providing the reference, was there something you intended to convey with the quote?
Feedbacks on an Android App to follow NBA
Hello,

I create that thread to have your feedbacks on Basket Hoops a free application letting you to follow NBA each day on your Android smartphones and tablets. Basket Hoops is available on Google Play Store : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ssaurel.baskethoops

Basket Hoops gives you all the news, scores and stats for the NBA league. You can discover Basket Hoops in action in that Youtube Demo Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXm6OFH-WcM

Basket Hoops is an unofficial application that lets you to follow the NBA (National Basketball Association) on your smartphones and tablets. The application offers you :

* Latest News with all rumors and trades
* Complete Scoreboard will all the scores and results 24h/24 and 7d/7
* Access to Box Scores of all the games
* Complete Calendar of the season will all planned games with starting time and all previous results
* Standings for East and West Conferences with Wins, Loses and Winning Percentage
* Leaders for all statistics categories (Points, Rebounds, Assists, Steals, Blocks, Field Goals Percentage, Field Goals 3 Percentage, Free Throws Percentage)

Basket Hoops is still in development with more features to come. So, don't hesitate to give me your feedbacks or ideas to improve the application.

Thanks
The end of era, yes. But not what you think. Linux, *BSD and Android (Linux) are in so many devices. And new general purpose operating systems like Google Fuchsia are in the pipeline. It's the end of old closed OS, their time is over
Css supports will change your life
I think this is a great description of the job hunting process early in your career.

Later in your career, if you have kept connections alive, the job hunt should look like this:

"Hi <member of network>,

I'm looking for a position doing X at Y, and I noticed you know Sara at Y. Do you mind doing intros? I'd really appreciate it."

...

intros/coffee with Sara.

...

resume to the hiring manager, perhaps through some automated system, but with a thumb on the scales

...

interview

...

hire/no hire decision based on mutual fit.

Now, this isn't about nepotism, it's about the power of having worked together. While the internet is great and you can learn a ton about a candidate (sometimes) by their online work, sometimes you can't. And nothing is as high bandwidth as having worked with someone. (Well, maybe a family connection.)

So if you can build your trust networks and get informal introductions to a company from someone who has worked with both parties, you're in a very strong position.

That said, as I stated at the beginning (and the author did as well), this post was fantastic for folks without such a network.
I largely agree with that sentiment, but it is difficult to separate oneself from the rest of a society that has made unhealthy choices. The market is driven by the masses and we participate in the market. The salad bar may be unlimited, but there sure are larger areas of it dedicated to serving the tastes of everyone else.
Canadians are getting “blackmailed” by US copyright trolls
Wikidata, uses Blazegraph and the shown services run against that using the SPARQL api/general query language.
Sentient animals should not be treated as commodities.
It shows that they have no ill will towards you.
JasPer JPEG-2000 CVE 2016
Same in the UK. Anyone who can vote can also take part in "The Count", where groups of volunteers count the votes in regional centres.
When a math paper or textbook regards a proof as trivial, do they really mean "unimportant"?

Not being a native English speaker, that's where I got the impression that trivial meant easy/straightforward.
This is what universities, clubs and festivals are for.
I've been to the sudo room but I haven't heard of AMT. Thanks.
The lack of any substantial quantity of residential development other than large single-family detached homes on large lots in cities like Santa Clara, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Cupertino, etc. is absolutely destroying the Bay Area. It forces people to commute from further away, increasing traffic, sprawl, and radically distorting the housing market. We don’t need to turn these towns into Hong Kong or Tokyo, but just build a few blocks radius of 4–6 story mixed-use low-rise apartment buildings around each transit stop, with relaxed parking requirements.

The response of the cities, which is basically to put their fingers in their ears and shout "La la la la we can’t hear you” is a farce. They keep pretending that they can keep indefinitely building office space without anywhere for the workers to live, while maintaining the same small town feel from when these suburbs were first built over the top of agricultural land in the middle of the last century.
If you're in one of the cities that holds them, you should consider going to a Tea with Strangers event: http://www.teawithstrangers.com/
Is this original Adobe research, or is there a paper about this somewhere?
What happens if they find tampering of the seals? Does all the votes of that particular machine become questionable?

If someone were to tamper with the seals on many of the machines, and they target precincts that tilt heavily in favor of one party or the other, couldn't they theoretically invalidate a lot of ballots that are likely to help their opponents?
True...now that I think about it, I can always choose to find some sort of relationship between what I believe & what you believe, even if metaphorical. That's fun :)

> The main danger I see is not trusting your body. Your virw seems to treat all reactions to signals as equal

I'd argue what I'm doing is learning to dampen the bias my mind introduces when it processes signals from my tongue/nose/ears. It's trusting the signals my body generates more than what my mind has to say about them. Rancid food is still going to taste/smell/feel/look spoiled & if I do somehow enjoy it, my body's still likely to react negatively in other ways to let me know it was a bad decision.
Algorithms, etc. by Jeff Erickson
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/5bb0hq/jeff_er...
I started writing a furious "why would you even do this?"-style post, but this paragraph stood out:

>Blockchain technology shares transaction records with multiple computers. Stock trading is typically saved in servers at bourses, but records cannot be referenced when communications infrastructure fails.

>Using blockchain systems, brokerages can continue a minimum of operations, such as checking past transaction records and outstanding balances even when failures occur, although new transactions cannot be checked.

The "blockchain as a distributed transaction DB" concept is more interesting than I thought, and it's probably really easy to get started given all the bitcoin tech around.
How do you even come up with these weird convoluted non-arguments, we have many choices on a single ballot here too. It's called a list. You can put lists on paper.
It works in practice, but does it work in theory?
No, it used to work like that when black market was around 10x-15x the value of official rate.

Nowdays, the money got so devaluated that they dont really even need to trade back into BSF.

The way corruption works now is the following:

I as a importer, go to my Chinese friend and ask him a quote for 100 pair of shoes, my chinese provider tells me the 100 pair of shoes are worth 1.000 USD, then I create a company in Panama and Quote myself the shoes for 10.000 USD, I use the new quote to request gov an USD sale of 10.000 using official 1:13 rate. Govs aproves it (by using my connections). I pay the gov 130.000 BsF for the 10.000 USD wich are paid to my panama company (they never give the money directly to the company who is trading the usd but they actually pay to the provider, but remember, the provider is myself in panama) then I use 1.000 to actually buy the shoes and 9.000 as profit.

When the shoes finally arrive to venezuela, marketer does the same, hes supose to sell the shoes at the very same rate he purchased so if you got 100 pair of shoes for 10.000 USD that means each pair of shoe is 100 USD right? that means 1.300 Bsf (using 1:13) thats cool right? beacuse even if they stole 9k, at least the final consumer would pay the 1:13 rate.. but guess what, they also have some child company in here, that would buy all the shoes at 1:13 rate and then chain it over and over to the moment you lose track of the sell/purchase chain and then the shoe is sold at 1:1700 rate to the final consumer.

At the end, the merchant ends up selling 1 single pair of shoes for 170.000 BsF that is even more than he needed to pay for the 10.000 usd at start.

Thats how bad it is.

SO yea, as I said it, they dont need to even get BsF anymore, with just 1 time usd exchange they already profit.

And yes there is no real demand for 1700:1 or 2000:1 or w.e u name because is not sustainable for anyone, ofc unless you really really need it, like if you are cashing out all your stuff because you leave the country or if u are like super sick and cant find medicines etc.

But if you think that people is just normal trading at those prices, that just does not happen.

Even tho there is scarcity and a big one, you can still find subsides things, so either people cant afford to pay for expensive items (at black market) or they just complete ignore the need of USD because how expensive it is.
I'm definitely going to blog about it, now that you've said that. Thanks for the inspiration :)

I think I'll title it "Olive happier when olive olive the foods." (I live happier when I love all of the foods)
I was curious about this too. My EE (particularly RF) studies didn't go far enough for me to chime in.

Is there power circuitry, etc that could likely (a) generate inaudible frequencies that overlap with mass-market microphone capability & (b) would be sufficiently controllable (albeit likely indirectly) for data transfer?
> Presumably you agree that you could replace all the muscles and bones of a bird and it would still fly

Well here's the thing, I think I have a problem with that premise in itself. Theoretically that idea seems easy to agree with. But in practice, has it ever been done? The answer is a resounding no.

Can we make things fly? Of course, but only by being insanely inefficient at it. Humans have never built something like a common swift, which can fly for 10 months without landing (http://phys.org/news/2016-10-ten-months-air.html).

Can we reach that point one day? Maybe yes, maybe no, I have no clue. But if we are to reach that point, we need to build sound formal models to get there.

Until we have such models for reasoning with things at that scale, I don't think claiming vehemently that these things are 100% known is intellectually honest.
I use ejabberd for a client. Prosody is also nice.
The BBC recently released a video codec called Turing (named after Alan Turing):

"...an open source software HEVC video encoder that allows highly efficient compression of video content with low computational complexity."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2016/09/turing-codec
I can reply for d): end-to-end encryption.
I hope they call it "wife".
> the job position was to be a front-end developer.

You lucked out then, I think. If they were looking for a front end developer and asking questions about semaphores, something is definitely wrong.
Reservoirs are contributing 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions
You can do it still. No need to be "first", IMO.
People aren't concerned their cute neighborhood is going to look like Hong Kong. They're concerned they won't see the rapid appreciaton of their assets and don't make forcing the negative effects on anyone else. It makes me think you should be able to vote in both the place you live and work. I pay taxes to Palo Alto and spend the majority of my waking hours there, yet have no say in what rules and regulations the government makes (or doesn't) while I'm there.