skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't describe Palestinian Territory as "a small nation of terrorists". If the US took an approach other than giving and selling arms (refered to as "aid" at times) to Israel meaningful peace negotiations might be possible.
The areas I specifically had in mind were places like Saudi and Bahrain. Arms sales to Bahrain were briefly restricted/stopped but resumed fairly quickly once news reels stopped appearing.
Personally, I prefer to be inside a vehicle rather than outside when there's precipitation
Was only in the Sydney store that one time, it took 1.5 hours to get a power cord. The line to get service was running out of the store. This was a few years ago, they had tremendous demand since -- if I recall -- they were the only Apple Store on the continent at the time.

The max number of laptops was in Austin, the store in The Domain.

Just looked into the Volume Purchase Program as suggested in another post... interesting but doesn't help me 3 years ago when I had the problem. Glad they've made moves to fix it.
Unfortunately all these 'lessons' mimic skills that will be needed by adults in the corporate world. Work in groups even when they're dysfunctional, show off and write lots of supporting documentation to get yourself promoted, and learn to tolerate seemingly arbitrary or broken management decisions.
Developers are also users, and a part of the application they use is the source code. Having good quality source code benefits all users, not just developers. Linux is where it is today because of the quality of the code. Things like "use and usefulness, usability or function" have different meanings to a developer looking at the source code.
It's hard to take Amazon seriously given this series of revelations. Probably not everything is true but we all know they have low ethical standards...
This entire idea is so batshit insane that anyone thinking it's a good idea really needs to recalibrate their sense of practicality.
Try to close your AMEX account, then watch the veil of friendliness drop. I had two accounts and called to close one. The lady yelled at me (yelled!) because I didnt feel like I needed to give them a reason for closing the account beyond "I dont want it anymore".
My kids were also pretty bright, so I just taught them how to access info they were interested in... and got out of the way.

When they came to me with tough questions, we would learn together. It was fun, and they seem to have turned out ok.
I'm sure it will be totally fine being iced over, being inundated with salt, and will never, ever have any problems with a car being parked on it.
> So it's to your advantage to try to capture cities since you grow population very fast.

Not really. I lost first two games with that logic. The third game I won without conquering any bases in the early game.

When the game starts all players are low on units. It's much better to use that small army you have to capture enemy capital (and get all their squares) or wait for an enemy to capture a city and then take it over.
Hint: Way more than a bus.
I moved to Python and got back into coding specifically to work with csv files. And from the first time I used code copy and pasted from SO or wherever to import and export CSV's with Python 3 I have not found that I am plagued by unreliable behavior and mischievous encoding. Yes there seems to be a type conversion necessary with NumPy, but it simply is not true that Python 3 has an endemic problem with CSV files!

In fact, the reason I chose Python was because I was able to dive so quickly into real problems like this with no problems whatsoever.

This is a minor issue for someone porting from 2 to 3, it is not a problem with 3
I second the recommendation. I expected it to be mediocre at best, but _Fortune's Formula_ is actually both good on the the technical & philosophical aspects of Kelly, and on the history & people involved.
Nice work, but inaccurate domain name.
If you're thinking along those lines, you might consider that reputable newspapers (and TV news shows) do issue retractions when earlier reports have been incorrect or misleading. There is also some debate about how certain -- perhaps less reputable -- newspapers will print a big front page article that is wrong, and then issue a tiny retraction on page 17 a few weeks later. The concern is very similar to the arguments for RTBF online: disproportionate coverage can leave the wrong impression with readers. Also similar to RTBF, there is talk of stronger regulation, such as requiring retractions to be printed or announced as prominently as the original story.
as i learned when i went to college, figuring out this hack was actually not so clever unless you find ways to keep learning and improving despite the imposed limitations.
It's untrue that they have no meaning.

(1) There is the fact that a certain character was chosen at the time, which can be full of spite, praise, ignorance, or other human characteristics;

(2) There is the character's significance in context (often personal names, toponyms and other types of names are appraised upon aesthetics - for instance if one character has 'fire' and one has 'water', or one character has 'culture' and one has 'weaponry', the name has 'balance' and suggests a certain sort of culture/inhabitant/personal character.);

(3) There is a relationship to other words and transliterations of a contemporary period or similar geospatial origin;

(4) There is the body of other uses of that character with which a particular audience may or may not be familiar, the difference between distinct audiences itself being a possible motivator for character choice;

(5) There are multiple potential pronunciations for a character (in any given historical period) which may layer meaning by suggesting other words or meanings;

... and so on. I agree that translation is not as trivial to approach naively as suggested by the parent, but to ascribe no meaning to characters used is equally wrong. As just one example, literally half an hour ago I just spent a few minutes investigating the different historical transliterations for a local toponym... at least three (3) different characters were used for the same sound through the last 1000 years, and to me this merely indicates its foreign linguistic origin (probably an Yi language, which is classified in the Lolo-Burmese branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family, being closer to Tibetan than Chinese).

Tangentially, I am involved in a cross-cultural poetry group in the city I live in China (昆明), and our pictures were recently featured in the local paper. Local people started stopping me on the street! After 15 years, living in China still sometimes makes me feel like some kind of rainbow unicorn exotic curio. Also, one of the most famous poets of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, was Kyrgyz.
‘Black Mirror’ project highlights lack of diversity in the fashion industry NSFW
these symptoms sounds like career burnout
I flagged this submission. It's not just letting you explore symptoms, but collecting names and ages from individuals without a bare minimum effort to post any kind of privacy policy. Who's behind the site? How can I contact their HIPAA privacy officer (a requirement in the US at least)?
No, none of the sites you mentioned solve the problem I posed.

Bigspeak, Keppler, Eagles Talent, and Celebrity are bureaus and function in a traditional way. Espeakers and SpeakerMatch are essentially speaker directories -- they make money from speaker's paying them a monthly fee or in a lead gen style.

Orate.me is new to me, I haven't seen it before. In a cursory look at their site, it looks like their speaker list is just NSA members.

Also the calendaring problem is easy to solve...

There's enough public data to develop a sentiment algorithm and solve the popularity problem.
Not if you read it as ascii dot lie :)
Users Aren't Enough: Yik Yak Is the Latest Casualty of a Changing Market
LG to Bring Futuristic Washer / Dryer to the US Market in 2017
I had an entirely different experience. I had a similarly priced Sennheiser headset and they were great. I had the exact same issue as well with headset's left speaker stopped working couple of weeks after my warranty expired. I called them up and they said they cannot do anything and I will have to a buy a new one. In the end, it turns out that a connection got loose so I fixed it myself. But I was slightly disappointed with the reaction from their customer service.
Exactly. This is a good time, in my personal and professional life, to move back to Linux/Windows (which was my primary mode of doing stuff before I started buying Macs in 2010). I'm growing more aggravated with OS X (sorry, macOS (how about make it better instead of just renaming things, Apple?)), I don't really like what they're doing to their hardware, and the new MBP is not a good value for the money. I can invest some money and time in switching now without interrupting or messing with important stuff.
Model Holds a ‘Black Mirror’ Up to the Fashion Industry’s Racial Bias (NSFW)
It is not about compromise, it is about the long term maintainability of the code.
People read the manual? ;)
How Stockholm Became Europe’s Unicorn Powerhouse
If you liked The 4-Hour Chef, you might find the O'Reilly cooking book interesting - Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Cooks, and Good Food [1].

[1] http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041207.do
I worked for an Amazon fulfilment centre in Scotland, I don't want to say too much on the matter, as it'd be quite negative. It's suffice to say, this does not surprise me in the slightest.
I'm really enjoying this one!
Will be useful in Amazon package centers for pickers
Learn how to write. This is something I'm working on slowly. But seriously, documentation can separate successful open source projects from unsuccessful ones.

Also when you're working for a client ability to communicate and make sure you're building the right thing will trump building the thing right.
> I'm autistic, shy and depressive - which translates to toxic for any "positive team oriented" companies.

What about remote or contract work? There's plenty of jobs that don't require you to talk every day or be physically present.
This is hardly Amazon's problem: If the minimum wage is not liveable, MSPs such as the one criticising Amazon in the article should work to increase it.
This is just a landing page asking for your e-mail. Why is this being upvoted? There is no content.
I decided to blog every day about my open source shell project, and I did it for 10 days straight at first, and was doing it multiple times a week for over a month.

It helped me break up a lot of longer articles I wanted to write into daily "deadlines". In that sense it was a success; it took significant work but I got in the rhythm.

I've only blogged once in the last week, but that's because I mostly wrote about what I wanted to. Now I have to do some more coding in order to have things to write about.

I just checked the logs and people seem to be still reading it despite the fact that I haven't promoted it lately. And I've gotten some e-mails and feedback about it, so I think it went well. Next step is to set up a comments section.

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/
> to build factories on a smaller scale to Foxconn where employees live on campus

I was recently in South Korea and was surprised to see that there were a lot of large apartment buildings around Seoul which appeared to be employee dormitories from previous decades (1980s I believe). Some even still said Samsung and LG on the side.

However, I don't think this concept would work in Western society. The cultures between Asia and the West are very different. It's common for several generations to live in the same house in China/Japan/Korea, but this isn't the case in the West.

I agree it would make sense to build dormitories, from a transportation and economic perspective it makes perfect sense. Economies of scale.

But people in the West don't want to move to live near the factory/warehouse. They want to have a social life, and dorm life really doesn't facilitate having a social life.
An other option is to play cooperative rather than competitive games.
I try these challenges often! As a corporate worker, I can usually fit self-directed routines into my life without much trouble. "Don't break the chain" psychology also works well on me.

When I was a scrawny 25 year old, I started doing a 7-minutes-per-day fitness challenge with help from an app.[0] This was easy enough to do before jumping into the shower in the morning, and the privacy was nice since the amount of push-ups I could do without visibly struggling was truly shameful. After a few months I felt I was able to do these basic bodyweight exercises very easily, and I was ready to join a strength training group at the gym. I finished the 7 months anyway, even though I outpaced it when I started using weights. Nowadays I just hit the gym two or three times a week, and have been doing this for a couple years.

I also use Duolingo[1] and have streaked into the hundreds of days a few times. It's fun and easy to do, but unfortunately requires an Internet connection. No, I didn't become fluent from Duolingo. I also don't think it helped me learn new words. The examples just aren't that memorable! However, it does provide a place to practice and corrects your errors.

I tried another system of language learning[2], also involving daily practice, which has gotten me to the conversational level in the past 8 months. This has exceeded my expectations! I was never conversational even after 3 years of Spanish classes in high school. This takes far less time, and I think my memory for Spanish words is quite good nowadays! Some flash cards I've made to remember idioms have been useful in conversation, and certainly surprised folks I speak to in Spanish!

Many years ago I did a special diet called Bulletproof[3] on a whim after reading about it while surfing HN. I ended up sticking with it for almost a year. It's tough because you basically can't eat any sugar. I got really lean, which was interesting, but not a good look for me. The coffee recipe is excellent. It's a very interesting experience. It's obvious that but by far the most challenging. My body was very different by the end of it; drinking half of a PBR would make me very drunk and very sick.

[0] http://perigee.se/apps/seven/

[1] https://www.duolingo.com/

[2] https://fluent-forever.com/

[3] https://blog.bulletproof.com/start-the-bulletproof-diet/
That's what I would think. Just keep swapping out bodies to keep pace with the tech
I was certainly very interested in this concept. I admit my instant reaction was one of complete repugnance. Human communication comprises a huge array of different things, the minority of which have to do with abstract reasoning. IQ is a very specific measure of one aspect of human intelligence.

In a sense this concept (the window of comprehension), reductive as it seems, would be more likely to reinforce the problems the individuals mentioned have, by emphasizing human communication as an intellectual rather than a social activity.

In general my experience of very intelligent people is that they have an excellent ability to interact with people of all types, including people with relatively undeveloped powers of abstract thought. After all understanding context is to my mind a strong indicator of intelligence.

On the other hand I'd be interested to hear more from people of very high IQ on this topic - if they think they can get their ideas across to me over the 30 point barrier
There is a clear selection bias here, which is revealed in the first response (unless that was what you're pointing people towards). IDEs are a lot more common on Windows, which has the best adoption rate. The data from the two sources in that comment point towards a large majority of users still using 2.7, which agrees with my experience (which is in the scientific community). The number one reason being that there is no incentive. There is a lot of that attitude is common, "if it isn't broken, don't fix it". At this point we need to recognize that python2.7 isn't going to die anytime soon, unless there is a drastic change.
I'm not sure about Foxconn and others, though Amazon fulfiment employees can't take two sick days in a row, else be fired. This is coming from an aquantence that is human and got sick.

I guess at-will employment is very at-will.
I don't think so. As far as I understand it is accepted that neoconservativism endorses foreign intervention and democracy.

Thiel has been against these misadventures to 'reform' the Middle East and he isn't a fan of democracy.

That Leo Strauss was an influence on the neocons and Thiel doesn't imply he is a neocon. That seems like a category error. It is a common failure mode on both sides of the political divide to lump different but connected groups together.
Doesn't pass physics or business tests. Yeah, bat-shit-crazy fits this. But, hey, NY Mag needed to fill some much needed space to generate clicks. Mission accomplished.
I found these

https://semaphoreci.com/blog/2016/11/11/python-versions-used...

http://astrofrog.github.io/blog/2015/05/09/2015-survey-resul...
>I focus very heavily, especially in peak times, on associate experience.

Why do they call their workers that? I also can't imagine how much I'd hate working for minimum wage in a warehouse for an alleged 60 hours a week with a DJ playing. It doesn't sound all that fun.
Yeah fair enough, I was just wondering about the future. How did you build up to a full board game with your kid? What were the phases? 1. Succeed in not eating the dice 2. ??? 3. Play a game of Sorry! within the rules.
The Scariest Place on Earth
"The RHEL is based on...some decree from above"
My dad used to play a game with me where he'd start listing out a long series of operations ("two.....times three.....plus four......" etc) and I'd try to keep up in my head and then shout out the answer. Try that, it's fun!
or Kuomintang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_camp
> are you meant to be able to chain commands on your own territory and not into neutral or enemy spaces?

Well, that's how the real armies work :)

I just had a game vs a stronger opponent, but I kept constantly messing with his narrow "supply lines" in my territory. Too bad he noticed my sneak attempts to get his general while he was busy fixing them.

It adds a lot to the strategy.
You can use the keyboard to move your army - moves get queued up as long as they're along friendly territory. Moving into enemy/neutral territory is more time consuming than along friendly, so part of the strategy involves conquering territory strategically to maximize mobility.
Not at all, but after a cursory look it seems to solve a slightly different (and easier, imho) problem. I might be mistaken!
yeah he was a better player than me imo.
Amazon is the new Wal-Mart. I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart around 2008 I think. I stopped shopping at Amazon after returning to the states. The real price of low prices is too high.
> I wonder if there is an opportunity for western companies to build factories on a smaller scale to Foxconn where employees live on campus. Wages could be low, but with basic services provided it could be a chance for low wage earners to save up some money. The costs might be too high for it to work on that scale though.

How quickly we forget history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
Amazon is getting tax cuts because it's creating a few jobs.

Maybe it's time we realize that people don't need these terrible jobs in order to survive. They need water, food and shelter - all of which there's an overabundance of, in developed countries. An unconditional basic income would put a swift end to these abuses.
I don't think it is up to us to decide how long someone should go before "moving on." That is deeply personal, and any length of time we set is going to be too short for some people.

Obviously, we set a punishment that is fair in terms of what society gives (jail sentence, fines, etc). But what is fair in terms of the sentiment your peers feel towards you? That is up to each person to decide on their own. You don't get to tell someone they have to forgive someone else, or that they have to move on. They are allowed to hold a grudge for life if they feel it is justified.

Obviously, allowing them to hold a grudge doesn't mean they get carte blanche to harass the person. If they send threats, stalk, harass, or tell lies about the person, they should be held liable and stopped. But if they want to tell TRUTHS about what the person did, and explain to others why they don't think they are worthy of forgiveness, they have that right.

Just imagine the different possibilities. Say a drunk driver kills your child; the law might only send him to jail for a few years, but I have every right to not forgive him for life. If I run into him in the store, I have a right to tell the people around me that he killed my kid. I have a right to write a blog post about why he shouldn't be forgiven. No one has the right to tell me to 'move on'.
I agree with what you're saying about "low ethical standards" -- many large companies fall into that bucket -- but you responded to a comment asking for more evidence with a reference to a "series of revelations" but no link, or even specific mention of you're talking about. "We all know" is also not the greatest argument; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
Samsung gets patent on design of disc-shaped drone
I visit Toronto quite often. They have a moving sidewalk (conveyor system) in Terminal 3 when you arrive and disembark from your plane. The video of the moving sidewalk they link looks to be the one I'm referring to and if you look at the date it's from 2009. That's probably the last year it was in operation.

In the last 2-3 years (and I'm there at least once a month) the moving sidewalks have maintenance signs on them and have never worked. As a matter of fact I put a small sticker on the belt/handrail and it hasn't moved guaranteed in about a year. It makes the walk to Customs and Immigration quite the haul.

It could be that they have disabled them permanently so people don't get to the customs/immigration area to quickly and overwhelm an already overwhelmed system. Don't know....
Waaaay too many moving parts if you ask me.

I have an alternative idea: Electric monowheels(or kick scooters):

-Not fixed-route.

-Barely any maintenance.

-Even the non-exploding ones cost as much as (subsidized) public transport over their lifetime.

-Same speed as this moving sidewalk and bicycles - could potentially share the bike lanes with the latter.

Two major disadvantages though are weight and usability in bad weather. I guess nothing beats cars when it comes to comfort of traveling.
I think that at most public schools there are two separate paths of least resistance:

* Do most of your homework and get acceptable grades. This is what most students do.

* Don't do jack and be consistent. Many teachers will give up if you never do homework, and if you skip enough classes there won't be enough time to sit out all your due detention. It's also well possible that your school has a leaky detention administration and it ends up never happening.
Don't blame the bus, blame the system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransMilenio
It May Not Feel Like Anything to Be an Alien
What I know of Amazon, and why I no longer shop there.

1. They treat their engineers terribly.

2. They treat their fulfillment center employees terribly.

Either Bezos is tone deaf, or just doesn't care. Either way, voting with my wallet.
If a Markov chain could generate something that long and coherent, it would be a much greater find than a simple explanation of gravity in General Relativity.