skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Molyneux is right about almost everything, but forcible redistribution programs like Yubi don't cause inflation unless they're paid for through seigniorage.

An income tax, and in particular a corporate income tax, is mostly a tax on profit. You're redistributing monies that would have been received as profit, as welfare. This is a popular idea because "the rich/corporations are too rich and don't need billions in profits etc".

The end result of robbing people of the profit that they earn from their efforts is to get less effort, and in particular, less investment. This results in a decline in the growth rate of the economy, or even a contraction in the size of the economy (if the rate of capital formation falls below the rate of capital depreciation - if this happens, then Molyneaux's statement will become correct, as there will be inflation due to lower supply of goods relative to currency units).

The last 40 years have overseen a massive increase in the scale of forcible income redistribution, and thus serve as a good natural experiment in welfare economics. The result of massively increasing the scale of forcible redistribution will likely be the same as the effect we've seen over the last 40 years: slowing productivity growth, and consequently wage growth stagnation.

Of course, people believe what they want to believe, so they ignore the lessons of history and double down on a failed ideology that is the root cause of almost all social ills.
Look at the Swedish forging video someone posted above, they have a "forklift" with a pretty cool mechanical gripper, which is acting like a big hand for the operator.
This could also be a stepping stone to reducing Hyperloop tunneling costs
I think it's a pendulum. I remember when no scientist would say in print that animals could experience pain, and my shock when first reading a peer-reviewed article that suggested that (fish I think it was) did. Back then the Nim experiments were held to show that animals were not capable of understanding language in any way ('cause their syntax was imperfect.) However, before that scientists had been too quick to trumpet any sign of symbolic understanding as "animals understanding language."
Of course, it is also strict traditional (Thomist) Catholic doctrine that animals do not have souls (the seat of experience) or go to heaven; go back far enough and that was a strong limit on what science it was easy to publish.
The problem with anecdotes is that they're easily refuted. For example, I know of someone who uses a Surface as their full time development machine and I've never seen it crash on him...ever.

Just be careful dismissing products due to a singular negative narrative that you've created.
Does anyone know whether this would work on a Vivax TPC-800 [1], which I think could be a rebranded version of the Onda tablet? I was thinking of getting it for myself for less than $120 at my local store and using Ubuntu on it. Will it work properly, and are there drivers?

[1] http://hr.vivax.com/vivax-tablet-tpc-800-dual-os/
Detection worked just fine at night. The problem was: "Although the RAF control stations were aware of the location of the bombers, there was little they could do about them unless fighter pilots made visual contact." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_in_World_War_II
> Using GPS, private users can navigate with a precision of up to 15 meters (m). Galileo offers a precision of up to 4m for its fully open service.

http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/performance/accuracy/

> Real-world data from the FAA show their high-quality GPS SPS receivers attaining better than 2.168 meter horizontal accuracy, 95% of the time.
It's obscene that the US has such control over foreign infrastructure installations in the name of "security". GPS accuracy limits and ITAR/COCOM GPS export restrictions are a farce anyway; even a third-world basement laboratory could construct a GPS receiver sufficiently fast and accurate for missile controls these days.

The only thing these laws accomplish is to inconvenience civilians. I know some people in the high-altitude balloon community who are frequently frustrated by scared manufacturers not wanting to run afoul or ITAR and restricting GPS units so they can't even be used for balloons. Who knows what sort of cool location-based technology we could have today if the US hadn't intentionally held back civilian GPS for decades.
Microsoft Security Essentials, since Windows XP. It's been replaced (incorporated) by Windows Defender on Windows 10.
What Brexit and austerity tell us about economics policy and the media [pdf]
Xamarin.Forms isn't really equivalent to any (commonly used) Java options. Something like GTK# or WinForms+Monk would. There's also Eto and Avalon "in the pipeline" so to speak.

To me neither Java nor C# does well at WORA UIs but they are at parity imo. JavaFx isn't bad, but it doesn't do anything the C# offerings can't do fairly easily.

I'm actually a fan of Qt for true cross-platform apps these days myself
> I've seen engineers promoted to management, who suddenly drink the kool-aid that they're "better" than the engineers they worked beside a month ago. Now that they're managers, they know better.

To be fair, while I've absolutely seen what you're talking about, I've also seen a slightly different phenomenon get blamed for that. Part of a manager's job IMO is to remove systemic paralysis. Some times that means making a totally arbitrary decision just so people move forward. Even if it turns out it was the wrong solution to whatever problem, just making the decision and allowing people to explore the problem space from different directions can have some value.
Another thing to note on the accuracy front is that the US is about to start launching the next GPS IIIA generation, which has higher resolution than the current generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_Block_IIIA
Bondholders, according to a very interesting parent comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13200369
Not really related but as a Shopify customer of 5 years, we are unbelievably happy with the platform.

The thing I love the most is the customer service, we are UK based and it doesn't matter what time of day I call, I get through to someone and they are always incredibly well informed and helpful. I've never had to be transferred, it doesn't matter if I'm calling to talk through a weird DNS issue, ask what the current best way to work on our theme locally is or to simply add a specific feature from the top tier (real-time carrier rates) to our plan, the first person I speak to is the one that helps the whole way through. This is so rare with a tech, and frankly, any company and is the single biggest reason why we never look anywhere else or consider moving.

As far as stability goes we've never had an outage and never had a slow down due to high traffic even after national radio appearances.

And you're right about livelihoods being on the line - our Shopify store isn't our biggest revenue stream but it's the one that generates most of the profit as we make higher margins selling direct, if our store were to go down it would be a nightmare.
A couple points:

1. The npm 2 model breaks down for client-side applications where you want to minimize the size. I don't want 5 slightly different versions of left-pad when 1 will do.

2. I think of semver ranges in package.json as expressing what versions the developer believes should work, and npm-shrinkrap.json or yarn.lock as expressing the latest versions that have actually been tested.

I think it's insane to use npm without shrinkwrap (even though it has its own problems). One of the best things about yarn is it generates yarn.lock by default.

I suppose this view is problematic in the context of RunKit which doesn't have any sort of lock file, and would be challenging to implement UX-wise.

3. Packages with known security issues should be marked as deprecated, which will cause a warning to be printed every time it's installed.

Malicious packages can do a lot worse things than forcing another package's dependency to a specific version, though that is a particularly subtle attack.
I wonder if you could torment diabetics or obese people by spamming them offers to low priced treats.

If gif images are this dangerous to you, I think it falls on the person to take precautions with their browser to prevent gifs from autoplaying.
Just because someone is between homes doesn't mean they're absolved of dignity.
It would be interesting hearing the other side of the argument before passing judgement.

"business conduct policy"

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/AAPL/0x0x443008/5f38b...
Some of them. But I would image the great bulk of them are incarcerated because they committed crimes.
Mapping between HLSL and GLSL
Yes it would be great if the mods could replace link.
Fake News in 1884
They taught me that there's an extraneous comma in your first sentence.
It seems even better than that. My phone can tell me which side of a small road (2m accuracy) I am on 95% of the time. Maybe it uses a WiFi database and dead reckoning to improve on pure GPS.
My goto tool for data analysis is AWK: it's not interactive, but it's succinct, and very good at handling DSV data.

As for handling non DSV data... I dunno. Lisp is pretty nice for this, but it's a pain to get the data into the system. TXR and its lisp dialect are pretty good with this, so that's an option.

But if you really want to handle tabular data interactively, doing manipulation and analysis on the fly... that's quite literally what Excel was designed for.
Cool. I missed the target option list on the right the first time I looked at the page.

The closest I've ever come to this back in the day was running (Borland) Turbo Debugger's assembly view after building with Turbo C (w/ or w/out -O...), as either 8086 or 80286 output - "x16". Yeah, that was a while back :-)
> The end result of robbing people of the profit that they earn from their efforts is to get less effort, and in particular, less investment.

Here's your fallacy. This is simply and factually not true.

(I'll leave it to you to not put in the effort to research this as I couldn't even put in the effort to watch the video.)
This is amazing engineering. Great teamwork for these guys. They seem well-trained and know what they are doing. My first thought is this is very dangerous. Not much safety measures. What if the hammer drops on someone's head?
This. The combination gives higher accuracy, faster fix, independence from a single political entity, and overall higher reliability by redundancy.
AMD has made its next-gen CPU family official
Good.

We often forget that machine recommendation algorithms do not operate in a vacuum. Strange and offensive suggestions in Google search results often appear because curious users notice an odd suggestion and click on it, causing it to rank higher -- not because the suggestion is inherently good or useful.

The problem is only worse on some other sites, incidentally. The prominence of suggested videos on YouTube has some really strange effects on the popularity of certain videos. Similar effects exist with some Amazon products too (as "customers also shopped for…"), as well as with many other recommendation algorithms.
I recently spent good bit of time studying neuroscience. It's fascinating the way brain and nervous system functions. My own understanding is that animals are much more a slave to their neural networks as compared to humans. Because of frontal lobe and series of evolutionary changes, human beings have branched too far. Consciousness is also not fully understood at this stage. But I do concur that on cellular and structural level we are quite similar to other vertebrates. Still different.

Edit: if anyone is studying biology, medicine and are from software background; give me a shout. I would love to exchange ideas and collaborate
Your basic assumption is todo app is not as expensive as the paper in that era. In that era paper was expensive, in this era todo app is expensive which require a smart phone (or a computer or laptop) connected to the internet.
Konrad Lorenz in "King Solomon's Ring" wrote about the fact that some birds, in the process of grooming each other, would emit sounds that are typical of their chicks, rather than grown ups.

This looked remarkably like something many people do while cuddling partners.

Lorenz concluded by pointing that we must not be too quick in thinking that animals "behave like humans", and we should rather realise that "humans behave like other animals".
> Given that it all compiles down to JS before execution, I'm not sure I agree.

Most likely, they meant "simple" more in the syntactical sense than in the sense of language abstraction level.

> Macros are the old LISP fallback, but seem very counter to any argument of 'simplicity'

Macros is just transformation over a data structure, albeit a data structure that is interpreted as code later on. It shouldn't add more complexity than other forms of data transformation.

> I very rarely find need for macros in the front…

Neither do I, but I'm glad they exist. Core.async is built with macros, for example. They are part of what makes it possible to have core.async as a library rather than having to build it into the language.
Phones generally use the WiFi database (plus cell tower info) to bootstrap GPS startup, but that's not useful for fine positioning.
Upstart was being pushed by Ubuntu. Systemd was being pushed by RedHat.

The others where just files in some server, used by almost nobody.

Ohh, and in some cases even the files have been lost: http://git.einit.org/
I thought it was a fair distillation. Any distillation of a field is bound to be incomplete, but what do you think it was missing?
>The government throws out more hardware in a day then most business buy in a year. Literally thousands of perfectly good i7/i5s being destroyed because they don't have up to date TPM / secure boot stuff

With a handful of exceptions you're mostly wrong. It's hard for the gov to throw things away, or even sell them to a 3rd party at scale. There's proper channels for getting rid of anything that isn't literally trash. Government being government the people who run those channels really don't like when they're not used. Especially in defense. Google "DMRO".
I took an introductory management class back in the 1990's at a local technical institute. The teacher worked full-time and taught the course on the side. One of the most valuable courses I ever took.

I don't have specific recommendations, but because managers are everywhere. I'd just ask around to people you know and see if they like their manager. You'll usually find one or two people who are liked by a large number of people. Then I'd save up about $5 and invite that person for coffee and ask them their story on how they got into management. If they do have a book to recommend, go with their recommendation.

The reason for recommending a relationship over a book is because management is really all about people. Some management styles will work in some industries, but be completely useless in others. Sometimes a management style is good for some people and not others.

If you really have no idea where to start, I'd recommend Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People". Sorry that it's not hip, current, or trendy but people have pretty much been version 1.0 for many thousands of years now. Besides, it was first published in 1936 and is still being published. If you're cheap, just read the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Win_Friends_and_Influen...
However, doesn't many worlds also necessarily require one or more dimensions for separating the universes from each other?
No. I don't think I'd like living just about anywhere, tbh.
Are GPS systems just plug and play, or does the software also have to be compatible. e.g. Could I just replace the GPS receiver in my car to one that supports Galileo (even though I don't think any are on the market yet)?
> Complex numbers are an underlying structure that has unified wide ranging physical phenomena

And yet complex numbers are merely a shadow of much deeper unifying structures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_algebra
The dead ideas:

* Business is more competitive than ever. But in reality, we have more monopolies and duopolies than ever. Peter Thiel's "Zero to One" is all about how to achieve monopoly. Businesses in the US hate competing on price. Without strong antitrust enforcement, which the US hasn't had in decades, the number of players decreases until there's no price competition. How many Internet providers can you choose from in the US? How many in the UK or Germany?

* We live in an age of entrepreneurialism. But the big companies are making all the money. The Economist writes: "A large number of businesspeople who were drawn in by the cult of entrepreneurship encountered only failure and now eke out marginal existences with little provision for their old age." All YC applicants should read that.

* Business is getting faster. They compare the fast rise of the automobile. Electricity and aircraft were also deployed faster than the Internet. Progress in the first 50 years of aviation zoomed like the semiconductor industry. Then in the late 1960s, it was all done - the Concorde, the Boeing 747, the SR-71, and the Saturn V had all flown. Everything since then has been a minor improvement.

* Globalisation is both inevitable and irreversible. The Economist comments "In 1880-1914 the world was in many ways just as globalised as it is today; it still fell victim to war and autarky." The causes of World War One are worth studying. Nobody really wanted it, and it happened anyway. Before WWI, Germany's biggest trading partner was France.
> I mean how are you going to find "offensive" stuff in the first place unless you were looking for it and want to read about it?

When Google Autocomplete suggests that users search for offensive queries based on (relatively) inoffensive stems, as explained in the article.
Are you able to explain this magical piece of advice? (Perhaps: "Create a cult, not a business").
Galileo's actual value has always been murky. It's use case has changed a lot over the years. Originally it was meant to be a navigation system free of GPS's Selective Availability "feature" that diluted precision for civilian use. The Clinton administration effectively killed SA (http://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/) in 2000. Galileo was sold as a higher precision civilian alternative that was going to be commercially viable and make money. A few years later the US made improvements to the GPS ephemerides and effectively increased precision of GPS, making the benefits less obvious. The new block of GPS satellites offers even better precision and a lot of the Galileo features (like multiple civilian frequencies). It's honestly quite hard to compete with a free alternative that the US government throws billions of dollars at. Still, GPS can't hit sub-meter accuracy any time soon, so there's a real potential use case emerging for autonomous cars and aircraft.

If you're excited and interested in Galileo it's really worth reading up on how GPS works and was built. The first satellite was launched almost forty years ago and it was operational in the 1980s. It's truly one of the coolest and most amazing things made by humans.
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Single-file C/C++ public-domain/open source libraries with minimal dependencies
Ayahuasca substance increase neuron progenitors in 70%
You can already write Android applications using Clojure[0] without too much trouble. There were a few rough edges when I last dabbled, but that was ~1.5 years ago and I imagine the ecosystem has only gotten better in the meantime.

[0] - http://clojure-android.info/
> Salted cucumbers, sugar, and yogurt might work, but if you count the salt, that’s four ingredients, not three. You might not like the thought of potatoes, mayonnaise and cabbage, but someone has invented a corned beef salad that has all three.

So, which is it? "More than 3 ingredients doesn't count" or "it counts as long as it contains all 3"?
FreeTDS is "good enough" for every time I've needed to talk with SQL Server, including the various Python/Ruby/etc. drivers built on top of it. Ditto with jTDS for Java. Outside of .Net development I have never used the official Microsoft SQL Server driver.
? but they wouldn't take a job as an engineer at that same salary; whereas a kid who is working as a wal-mart shop cart person or cashier, would do CTO-level technical work (if they happened to be able to) for the same salary -- or more precisely the number of such kids who are willing to is not exactly 0. It is larger than strictly zero.
No clue I guess we need to wait for benchmarks
My favorite answer is: tequila, tequila, tequila.
Hubble 'cranes' in for a closer look at a galaxy
I doubt 'ever'. It doesn't matter what OS the person is using, there will be crashes. It also crashes on my sister-in-law. I'd say you are just as guilty saying 'problem with anecdotes is that they're easily refuted'.

I'm not a blind Apple user. The recent MBP changes has me strongly looking for an alternative. I didn't make up my mind. I went out of my way to go to a Msft store and give them a shot. Nope, it failed. At the end of the day, the consumer most likely makes a decision based on anecdotes. There is no 'scientific standard' to 'should I buy a Surface or iPad'. There isn't. Being critical of my opinion is a sad thing. As, all I'm doing is sharing my experience and your attempts to 'refute' my perspective only help refute yours.

I'd encourage you to consider that I'm trying to help people with my experience. You sharing someone else's experience to 'correct' me is mean-spirited. Namely because your desire to correct and not inform.
We were talking of actual single user systems in practice, tablets, smartphones and similar are usually single user devices and even in corporate many laptops are used as desktop replacement by single employees...
My dedicated Garmin GPS (no supplementary GLONASS) unit has 3 meter accuracy.
At a guess, probability.
My point was that if you're doing something immoral, it doesn't really matter if its illegal if you don't get caught.
The first GPS satellite was launched almost 40(!) years ago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_satellite_blocks#Block_I_s...)
JavaScript is important in:

* Web Development is obvious, sure

* Cross platform app development: React Native, NativeScript, Electron, nw.js, and others are extremely powerful, arguably among the best cross platform solutions, and all are gaining in popularity

* Server development. NodeJS is hard to ignore because it's fast, easy to develop in, and has the amazing (if sometimes frustrating) NPM ecosystem.

Software engineering is bigger than that trifecta, but you probably hit the 80% mark if you count all application, web, and server code development. JavaScript is making some inroads into embedded, but it's not as ideal for embedded work, except as a control language from the outside, so I'm not as bullish on JavaScript there.

Throw in TypeScript and a good linter and you have a really strong, flexible, dynamic-yet-statically-typed environment that you can use to hit the (estimated) 80% mark. It really does live at a sweet spot in productivity and software engineering, if you ignore the anti-JavaScript snobs. [1]

[1] Disclaimer: I was an anti-JavaScript snob as recently as about 5 years ago. My background is in games, drivers, C++, assembly language, several other scripting languages, and writing native apps. Things that changed include: 1) Me, in that I gave JavaScript, and later TypeScript a try, 2) I learned to love linters and transpilation, 3) The ecosystem exploded and the tools we have now, including VS Code and build tools like gulp, not to mention the built-in debuggers in every major browser, are now amazing, and 4) JavaScript and TypeScript themselves evolved and upgraded until they were actually both very good languages.
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