skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. And it's finally OK to mention the custom security chips or even LOAS (which already existed in some form before Aurora), because Niels Provos brought it up on stage: https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/715373975182807040?lang=en
The incipit (thanks schoen, see sibling comment) was also in the link that got me to the article initially.
Well, what if the union was more of a supplier of Benefits if contract worker (Group healthcare plan, dental, vision), had a lawyer on staff to checkout contracts to make sure they're up and up for freelancers, helped encourage companies to raise incomes for devs across the board, and also had a marketing team/sales team dedicated to helping freelancers who are primarily introvert sell their skills for the top dollar...though -- you could work for an outfit like Topcoders which does do a lot of these types of things..
...so those who are part of the <20% who get into those top schools are "lucky," and that's why they get in?
Give me a thin mat that I can put next to me at my office desk, in the kitchen, on the night lamp stand, and on my car console between seats, and I can guarantee you you have billion-dollar in sales!

That's available, and it's not selling. Qi charging pads are available for about $20, and many Samsung phones will charge from them. They're available in wood, bamboo, and built into tables.

There's also MagMIMO, a startup which is using RF beamforming to get a range of about 30cm. That doesn't seem to be getting much traction.
A really vanilla use case that Alexa can't do yet.
We are a very long way away from having quantum factorization of integers. Quantum computers will be more useful for things like chemistry problems in the near term.
Repos of Unusual Size? I don't think they exist.
I've found myself doing the same thing. I am not changing my configuration for your website to get past a nag screen. If it doesn't work, I'll go somewhere else. There are very few pieces of information on the Internet that are exclusive to one source.

On the other hand, do an exemplary job, and I'll seriously consider donating or buying merchandise. I've chipped money to Wikipedia, Reddit, and LWN, as well as Debian, the FSF and the EFF. Not everything needs to be for profit, and not every website is entitled to making money. If the work you do is important enough, it will find a way.
Legalisation is the most important thing countries can do to curb violence towards sex workers. Like drugs, the idea that government enforcement could wipe out the 'oldest profession' is silly.

When prostitution is illegal, the girls have little recourse if abused or threatened. They might have an enforcer who could help, but that's not always possible or reasonable. If an escort is kidnapped, she may have no way of informing her enforcer of where she is being taken, and he likely has no resources to search. There are also situations where a single man isn't enough, e.g. a gang kidnapping. If the police are called, they both get arrested along with the client.

When legalised, both prospective kidnappers/abusers/murderers know that there are no impediments to fully involving the considerable resources of the police force, making such scenarios less likely and, if they do happen, less likely to result in tragedy.

There are other nice benefits as well. Health codes, for instance - like a restaurant! Enforced by government, clients could be assured that they will not pick up and diseases from the prostitute they visit, and she can more easily force clients to prove they are clean as well. If she does contract an STD, she can confidently receive treatment from her GP, without fear of being suspected and reported to the police.

I live in NZ, and we legalised prostitution over a decade ago, under a female prime minister. Helen Clark presided over the law change for similar reasons to those presented above. She is an amazingly pragmatic woman, and was an excellent PM. Love ya, Aunty Helen.

These days issues in the sex industry are discussed on prime time tv and breakfast shows. There is even a sex industry association with a spokesperson who appears on tv and advocates for sex workers, and I presume they also lobby government.

There's really no downside as far as I know.
Certainly. I don't work on Chrome, but I'm being sincere and I'm curious of the use case. There may be a better solution here.
Yglesias has more than a passing grasp of economics, and I guarantee that he understands reinvesting profits to grow a business. It's not that hard a concept to grasp. GP's quote was deliberate hyperbole, IIRC, and was not meant completely literally.
variety is probably the most important criteria...
I'd like to be personally involved in some transactions. I think this will be a major use case for smart watches and a major feature of home interfaces (phone, smartwatch, or whatever has the totp) in the future.
This is not surprising at all. Our govt is now very firmly anti-consumer, anti-poor/middle class, anti-public service, and things will only get worse.

Meanwhile the rest of the world gets free public health, close to free Internet access, open research and actual science, while we increase spending on an already ludicrous and nonsensical defense budget justified by imaginary threats.
Hypothetically, capitalism and meritocracy work because people who provide societal value are rewarded. When those rewards are diverted to others who have created no value, the system does not work. We call that nepotism and cronyism.
"Too bad engineers can't organize like that to protect ourselves."

When 19 year old kids build billion dollar companies without finishing a degree it seems insane to even suggest such a walled garden approach to ensuring high wages for engineers.
Formerly, you could only queue moves in territory you owned. Now, you can queue anywhere.

It takes away a key advantage in obtaining territory.
How should we account for humans with photographic memory?
> You assume they will be charged extra by the ISP

Given that ISPs aren't charities, yes - the cost will be passed on. And the first time a major ISP agents in a dispute about the charges and access is blocked, everyone will know - look at the various ESPN/cable/directv disputes over the years.
So? Whats the issue? That's the point. I work hard to help my kids.

Yeah, we all want to help our kids. But they weren't referring the middle (or even upper-middle) classes; but rather to the super-rich. Which have their own set of privileges and advantages -- which are rather different from what the rest of us experience.

But the opposite would be a much bigger problem.

Bolshevism, you mean? (Really now, it's not that helpful to always think in terms of polar opposites: "Either we leave things the way the are, or we begin an irreversible slide into the Pure Hell of its exact opposite"). But if that's not what you mean, you can at least be more specific about what you mean.
Since NeXTStep v3.0, mid-90s, the compiler toolchain had the ability to compile multiple-architecture binaries. Of course Apple bought NeXT and much of OS X is still based on it.

I forget the exact magic method, and don't know if it is still in shipping versions of OS X, but I would be surprised if at least internal-to-Apple versions of their compiler and toolchain didn't still have this available for use.
> My contrarian opinion: Walmart is going to create some hard times for Amazon.

Not just Walmart.

In Germany, Amazon actually reduced their reliance on DHL, UPS and DPD... by contracting out almost their entire logistics to Hermes.

If you've never heard of it, Hermes Logistics belongs to the OTTO Group, Europe's largest online retailer group (you likely don't know them, but basically every store contracts out their online shops to OTTO, and OTTO also has their own shops)

It's interesting when even Amazon contracts out their entire logistics to a competitor.
Although articles like this

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-blueprint-unveiled-large-scale...

make it seem we're getting much closer...
They could make a phone with an audio jack.
This is fascinating. It hadn't dawned on me that very small children growing up with these in their homes will have a very human response to them. A relationship regardless of the actual intelligence of the device.
No, get another business model that is sustainable.
Maybe! It's just an option that abusive advertising should not have started, and now that there's a fight back they complain. There's also the option that abusive advertising/malware is ruining it for benign advertising (if that exists). What is certain is that we won't get anywhere unless we stop pointing fingers and start working for a solution.

It is also a matter of preference I'd say (actually preference vs annoyance). I install adblock to everyone mainly for the malware+abusing; I wouldn't go to such lengths otherwise. AFAIK I did it with the default "allow non-intrusive ads" checked.
A lot of the "progress" is masked by a "Wirth's law"-style effect related to the requirement for quantum error-correction in order to carry out long quantum computations. Briefly, a quantum memory can never be perfectly accurate, and the limit of known physical implementations is close to 1 error in 1000 "clock cycles". In order to overcome this, error-correction is required, which creates overhead. The long-term outlook is still generally positive.
If by revised you mean changed, then I don't think he has. GP's quote was a joke (see below) about Amazon's behavior and intentions rather than a condemnation. I'm going to go ahead a pull a few quotes out of your link that I think are illustrative:

Amazon has not, historically, been a profitable company because Amazon's leaders don't want it to be a profitable company. In the future it will continue to not be profitable for the exact same reason. In the past, Amazon has managed to turn a profit when it's forced to by skepticism from Wall Street, which suggests that non-profitability is a choice.

Indeed, it's a choice that CEO Jeff Bezos has explained to the public in response to a joke I once made about the company's unprofitability:

and

Fundamentally, Amazon will only start booking large consistent profits when the company's leaders run out of new ideas to invest in. Right now they are not out of ideas, as you can easily tell from the wide range of businesses they are halfway into.
I've no words. Very cool.
> I'm not at the point of deleting the account yet. Small steps.

I'm in the same boat. I hardly use it, but I keep it around because it is the favored way to contact certain people and organize events, and I don't want to miss out.

I console myself by deliberately injecting noise into my profile (e.g. fake likes) every once in awhile.
That can't be farmed the way personal data can be.
Read Steve Yegge's Google vs Amazon rant: it's amazing.

https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
Those people sent letters and sympathy cards - actual handwritten ones! And they called too - actually spoke on the telephone. I know, it's a little wacky, but it works.
My guess is they don't delete it because your data is valuable to them and they don't want to lose it, though they may use fake regulatory and legal excuses.
New Zealand legalized prostitution?!?! WOW! I'm thinking of working there for some time until I get experience.
It's bad because it's random. Parenting makes no difference, it's just a lottery.
> increased my family's quality of life.

Seriously, man? I get that you want to justify the thousands you spent on home automation, but come on.
The foreign creators of the statue put the words of a poet of questionable allegiance on there to reflect how they wanted America to act.
Yes. I know that sounds harsh, and I don't expect it to reach such an extreme. But at least in principle, offending people to the point where they disrupt your entire industry and you cease to exist, is one of the many risks faced by any business -- particularly in media and communications.
I wondered how long this would take...
I don't think anyone would argue that parents shouldn't be able to send their kids to top universities. However, despite top universities accepting significant quantities of low-income and minority students, those students remain under-represented among the top earners; implying that it's your parents money and not your elite education that ultimately determined your earning potential.

I think a less contentious interpretation is that this data simply supports the theory that intelligence is mostly hereditary. And that a predisposition for intelligence can account for both the parents' as well as their offspring's high earning potential.
Your numbers are incredibly stretched.

I'd like to see your sources.
I am not disputing that "some" level of methanol is created by yeast fermentation. But you are not going to get anything approaching a significant amount of methanol out of it, unless you have an infection.

Especially if we're talking about blacking out, as the GP post was saying. If you have enough methanol to be problem, it's because you're equipment is dirty. You'll get more methanol from a week-old jug of orange juice than you will out of making grape wine in warm conditions.

But this is typical of people. You're so quick to gleefully jump and declare someone "WRONG!" that they don't take a moment to figure out if their evidence even means anything. It's why I can't stand being on most programming or brewing forums anymore. Folks like you ruin it.
Hey Jake!
What about something like geocoding, where you have to query an HTTP API for each record? It seems like doing transformations in SQL will always have a ceiling relative to a scripting language like python, no?
Another avid player here, also ranked in the top 10 for a decent amount of time, now in the mid one hundreds.

I think the primary difference is now that moves can be infinitely queued, whereas in the past moving into an enemy's territory took time and concentration. Now, if I know where enemy cities are, I can order them to be attacked within a few seconds. Previously players were required to constantly expend time and concentration on each move, making multitasking and balancing a much more fine dance.

The new system tends to favor troop numbers above all, prioritizing strength over strategy. Before the update, if I had 2/3rds the troops of an average opponent by the time an 8v8 was down to a 1v1, I had about a 50% chance of winning. Now it's _maybe_ a 10% chance.
> ban inheritance, which would be all sorts of bullshit

Well we already have a partial ban, in the form of the estate tax. We could make it a full ban.
I'm not sure if I should upvote this or not... I mean, I went to a "less competitive" college to start out with, then ended up at a major university for a masters and then another major university for a PhD. I have definitely been upwardly mobile due to my education and it didn't cause me much debt. No, I'm not a 1%er, but my station in life improved greatly from the humble place I started from. That's the American Dream, right? No guarantees, just maybe a chance at something better.

I would stress about all these legacy rich folks--a lot of them don't amount to much. They party, do drugs, flame out young.

And then again, in some ways I totally agree with what you're saying--it isn't fair to tell a kid they can become a CEO when in fact the people who become CEOs are picked from a very select, elite group.
Are your software engineer positions available in Boulder, or only SF/Glasgow?
Holy hay, I've never heard of anyone blame the Armenian genocide on immigration.

The Ottomans suffered military losses in the Balkans, and kept losing territory to the Russians. The Three Pashas massacred the Armenians to try to stay in power.
Will there ever be an easier way to do all these kinds of caching? As in, do nothing at all?
TCP-ENO: Encryption Negotiation Option
Other research has shown that inherited wealth is usually gone within two generations. Not sure if the creme de la creme are immune from that--you start talking billions of dollars and it is hard to imagine anything but perpetual wealth.
Ask HN: Remote Developers, what tools/apps you wish you had? [for product idea]
Remote jobs are getting really popular now, and I'm curious to know about the potential for new products/apps for remote workers. E.g. nomadlist
If you are a remote developer, do you have any particular tool/app/website that you wish existed and would make your life easier?
Something having nothing to do with heredity does not mean it is random.
There is merit in being able to work well with others. It's actually much more important than "raw lines of code tapped out on my own."
Personal anecdote: I concluded it was making me slightly depressed, so manually unfollowed everyone (but kept them as friends) and un-liked every single page. Use it basically to reply when someone comments on a post (effectively trying to make it a "write-only" log)

Turns out you apparently cannot do that, as every time I log in, I find myself re-following a few people (2-10) - some of which I had unfollowed long, long before my "isolationist" move...
> you passing judgement on something you have zero personal experience with

How do you know that? In fact, the opposite is the case. And having given this issue considerable thought over the years, I'm pointing out where I see this discussion as a bit misguided. Most importantly, psychological differences are largely a matter of degree, not either-or.
That's right - I don't feel anything when I am eating myself, or even when I am at a lunch table with others munching with me. It's only when I am not the one eating. I also get irritated when I am on the phone and the person at the other end is chewing or lapping.

Also, I don't think it's cultural and I suspect it might be hereditary.
Haha, nope I'm just a normal person who listens to that podcast on the way to work and did some internet searching to dig up his dissent. Maybe I need a more popular hobby? I feel like more of us should be reading the background information instead of ad hominem accusations of astroturfing.
Latin was required as part of my program in high school, some 20+ years ago now. It wasn't until tonight that I remembered we weren't supposed to read Catullus. Some of the more adventurous guys (all boys school) would make reference to his poems and our highly conservative teacher would have a fit.
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So, basically, loud proclamation to "don't do X", followed by a bunch of semi-related ranting, and barely a word about why to not do X.

All I could mine from that was something like "don't do it because it's a lot of work." But, most things in life worth doing are hard work.

Very convincing...
[mfetch] Make your fetch api become more powerful
Have you ever rented a VPS, Colo space, or served up content from a cloud service? Practically every service already charges for outbound data. The idea that somehow net neutrality will lead to an increase in those charges seems unlikely to me.
Lots of blues, folk western artists in the 40s 50s made most of their money in menial of semi skilled jobs. Some became famous, some not. Some occasionally, when people came looking after them due to late discovery, didn't even want to acknowledge that part of their lives.
Surprising in the case of the Model S, especially as Tesla has previously bragged about crash test scores[0]. I wonder if the Model X really is the "safest SUV in history" as Tesla claims? It's worth noting that in the 2016 Tesla shareholder's meeting, Musk said that the discontinued Roadster was "completely unsafe".

Even modest cars like the Chevy Malibu and Ford Fusion manage perfect scores on the IIHS small overlap test. I expect the Tesla's heavy weight will help safety in the real world though.

I wonder if Tesla will respond with one of their trademark combative press releases?

[0] https://www.tesla.com/about/press/releases/tesla-model-s-ach...
I agree on the general feeling. On one hand, I don't have any particular reason to think that these folks are shills. On the other hand, rayiner's classic product line "Here's why Your Biases and Suppositions about Telecom Policy are Ill-informed Garbage" has proven perfectly suitable, so why take a chance on Brand X?
True, it doesn't necessarily mean that.

A lottery is one way to have zero heredity influence.
Drive-thu pickup exists, but it's not widespread. Where I grew up in Ohio there's a chain that has had grocery loading since at least the 80s. You drive up, give them a number and they put the groceries in your trunk.
In major Indian cities, there are already small players who provides home delivery groceries(including vegetables and fruits). The delivery charge of order of any size is rs 30-50 which is very reasonable.
the environmental and social costs of buying cheap garments from places like Walmart is absolutely, shockingly enormous.

I looked at your first link and to be honest, it seems like we have a lot more important environmental issues to address.
Interestingly, there are two sellers that sell it, and both of them just launched and have no customer feedback:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B01M7Z2IMH/ref=dp_ol...

The photos show a generic package that has no brand name on it.
mfetch will provide you with a strong ability to request resource management, at the same time, you can use it very simply
Do you care to refute the description of that podcast you referenced as a lobbyist think tank?
Deleted FB years ago and haven't missed it one bit. Get out while you can and block all FB domains via hosts or on your router.
It's not like she's the only person at the company. I'm sure that they've got at least some engineering under that VC Capital umbrella
Clearcase performance for many builds was specifically impacted by the very poor performance of stat(). You could make very real improvements on build times by reducing the number of calls to stat(). It was sort of amazing.

Clearcase also suffered, at least in my experience, from a clumsy and ugly merging process and deeply unintuitive command set which meant everyone who "used clearcase" actually tended to use some terrible homegrown wrapper scripts.

Still, considering it was the last remaining vestige of the Apollo Domain OS, not bad.
There are no norms for working from home. Hence nearly the first thing you discover is how much you respected the norms you were familiar with before and how far afield you will go before you decide to rein in your lifestyle.
Citations? I think the top 1% is a much more stable group than this indicates. Top 10%, I would completely agree with here.

And I fully accept I could be wrong. I'm currently googling a few things, to see if I am off here. I'm asking not to be a jerk, but this is put forward as fact here. So I'm assuming you have actual numbers to back this up.
There are some folks cheating the system like those right-wing militia ranchers who “adopt” dozens of orphaned children and then make them do hard labor, while collecting state support for it.
I think there's a typo in the createQty function: shouldn't it return (uint16 0) if n is less than 0, not greater?

Otherwise, great article. This is exactly how I learned to program with Scheme: mosel the domain carefully, slowly building up helper functions, and conposing at the end.