skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess that this was a gap in coverage from one source of data, that was filled in with data from another. The edges just try and blend the two sources together.
Ideally you'd want it to be gamma-transparent as well; otherwise, those gamma photons which hit it are going to deposit their energy into it. This is how glass viewing windows in nuclear materials processing facilities, for example, gradually cloud and embrittle over time, and have to be replaced. I'm not sure how well a relatively thin optical fiber would stand up, especially under the kind of bombardment we're talking about here.
Ground, the stuff they don't build anymore.

Seriously, the area a house is built on is a limited resource. In the US not so limited in theory but in practice quite limited due to building permits and limited availability of working infrastructure (good schools are financed by local affluent clusters). This allows claims on location to act as a store of wealth similar to currency (issued in moderation) or bitcoins (minted in moderation) particularly as long as the population seeking housing grows.

Japan is a very different place due to much more flexible building permit system, an ubiquitous infrastructure, a shrinking population and a confidence bursting bust in the past.

Both situations are sort of mostly stable. An issue in the US is that the housing prices have disconnected from income through labor. What makes this really a problem is that housing is not the only asset where appreciation has disconnected. When this corrects the question is whether it simply corrects or whether the correction follows the path Japan has taken in the past. There are more people in the US but there is also vastly more land and Japan has shown that a society can change its mind about real estate as an asset.
I have sent an e-mail to careers@stapleslabs.com, but it got bounced. Hopefully there is more than one intended recipient at this address, so at least someone has received my mail.
I wish you were right.

I wish it were 50 years off.

Life, however, has other plans:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/02/how-being-replaced-...

(Incidentally there's actually a gif of a robot cooking in there.)
I clicked out of interest, yes. But of course they should be interested, no matter what. 'Conversion rate', I believe it's called.
This is very strong words and you're right. I welcome you to come over and fix this country. And the rest of the developing world, while you at it.
Keep in mind `bio` is a segment being chased after by established supermarkets. There's is such a thing as mass produced bio products (which are not eco-friendly at all) and lobbying to get more things labelled `bio` to the point that you can see some producers dropping the bio tag and privileging direct sells (it's local and bio, que demande le peuple ?).
That is part of it. I think some miners are against any increase because it will lower fees. Without a blocksize limit fees tend to zero, which is fine while there is the block reward but they still want to milk the congestion fees. To say they are pro segwit or pro unlimited is bluffing. They are pro status quo and congestion and high fees.

The idea that lightning will lead to a hub, in the case of Unlimited believers they think this will be Blockstream and therefore think that the core developers who work for Blockstream are blocking a blocksize increase for nefarious reasons when they are doing it to avoid a hard fork and to maintain the incentives of miners while enabling cheap off chain transactions.

That idea that a natural hub monopoly will form is ill thought out as explained here: https://youtu.be/fst1IK_mrng?list=WL&t=6072
Ask HN: If future is AI – how can a company overtake Google/Facebook/Baidu?
Recent raise of AI to mainstream has also meant companies with large amounts of text/audio/video data are 'only' capable of having significant impact/progress. Google/Facebook/Baidu are way ahead in these. Any AI company would want to be with Google/Facebook etc for the data. There is a little paradox in this like a zen koan.

So if future belongs to AI - how should 'young turks coming out of school' plan to make impact or overtake likes of Google/Facebook.
Churches are useful landmarks. Probably quite useful for navigation and even locating photography.
If the article was about Trump restricting entry into the country from 7 nations, I would agree 100% with you.

It isn't about that, though: it's about very specific events and the overall relationship between media and government. It's a fairly interesting article that will, unfortunately, be dismissed by a lot of people because Nazi-comparisons are almost always ridiculous.
I would move to Japan. Maybe I get sick of the work culture etc but damn I loved the month I spend there. New Zealand would be great too.
It was so low because of the per capita income that was equally low, and looking into reasons for such a disproportion would lead to a wide-ranging discussion.
It seems very nice indeed.

Thanks for the feedback.
"Anyway, I always hated manual labor and decided to make a little tool to help me scrape the posts of my competitors and publish them to my group on a regular basis.”

Other things you must hate: morality and ethics.
No, mkfile creates a file with written extents (no sparse or uninitialized areas), while fallocate will (with ext4/xfs/...) only map some extents which are marked uninitialized. So while mkfile 10G would have to write ~10 GB of data, fallocate 10G is nearly instanteneous, because it most likely just allocated a single extent.

xfs_mkfile could do what mkfile does, the description isn't conclusive enough.
Kill your food before eating, then it won't struggle.
Belgian here. Keep in mind milk price is highly distorted and producers are facing aggressive pricing from their buyers.

For example I can buy milk straight from the cow for 80ç by just crossing the street and asking the producer's wife to fill my bottle. Organic milk is around 1.20€ last time I checked, fair milk around 1.1€, brand milk around 80-1.20€ and `cheap` milk is around 60ç.
I think that I'd be way more interested in reading about this phenomena if there was literally any term used to describe it other than "digital nomad".

There's also just the creeps who really enjoy being served by other humans, but can't really afford to own a full time servant class anywhere but SE Asia so that's where they live. Something really rubs me the wrong way about the white people who do this, lots of really creepy stuff going on.
The avoid ORDER BY is the main reason not to fall into per-cpu licensing (most commercial data engines). That's the licensing trap they make.

Also it's the same for other things requiring memory/cpu like JOIN and all that. You don't want to end up walking on eggshells.
I guess this will get flagged soon. In that case:

Please see the FAQ regarding job posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

For the latest post, see https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring

Meanwhile some advice. You need to provide more information. In particular, what can you do, where do you live (country?). But writing it here will not be helpful for you because this thread will get lost. Go to the "Who wants to be hired" thread. Look at the format of the messages, and try to write something similar.
Endangered is indeed the wrong word I guess. What i was trying to convey is that the only reason to whaling seems to be tourism[1], and if you think whaling is a bad thing (which I think it is, as it is pretty cruel), you as a tourist can have a direct effect on this economy by refraining from participating, and going on a whale sightseeing tour instead

Also, must admit, I have had some really horrible hot dogs as well in random gas station ;)

[1] http://us.whales.org/campaigns/visiting-iceland-help-us-keep...
Off topic. Recently I have rebuilt my CV in LaTeX and I want to share it with you here:

https://github.com/letientai299/cv
>> If only all life's problems could be handled with simple engineering.

They can't.

No, complex engineering is another thing entirely.
Rammo plays with a stick. For more information on the CIA, visit www.cia.gov.
> You can use humans to clean the mess

Not this mess, or even that one, really. The "bio-robots", so called by their masters, were mainly collecting debris from the reactor explosion for containment; they were not trying to deal with the core slag sunk into the basement of the building, which at that time was still thermally very hot as well as being ferociously active. Even to approach that would have been immediately lethal.

Given the cited dose rate, the same is true at Fukushima - an acute dose of 10Sv is very likely lethal on its own, and at 650Sv/h you get more than that every minute. Anyone you send into that is going to be unable to work within seconds, and dead inside a couple of minutes tops.
If nothing else, that would at least be an improvement over "let's take a photo of the whiteboard after this one hour ad-hoc meeting and attach it to the jira ticket".
> Comments promoting non-core clients are [being removed].

No, they are not. Promoting alternative client software that is compatible with the Bitcoin protocol is definitely allowed. btcd, NBitcoin, Bitcoin Knots, Toshi, Haskoin, bcoin, Bitcoin-S and pynode are all allowed, because they're all compatible with the protocol are not trying to forcefully deploy an hardfork that has no consensus.

> how are you supposed to building consensus if it's censored? The cognitive dissonance is amazing.

Discussion of ideas and proposals is not censored. You are free to build consensus by discussing your proposal and convincing other stakeholders in the ecosystem to support it. But you cannot go ahead, skip the discussion part, and promote a controversial non-compatible client that is highly likely to hardfork the chain and split bitcoin into two currencies.

All in all, people seem to agree with the moderation policy of r/bitcoin. Everyone are well aware of these policies, yet it is still the most popular bitcoin forum. Apparently people like it when their community moderators makes it possible to conduct productive discussions by removing noise.

> Bitcoin is built around nakomoto consensus, not some flimsy community definition.

"Satoshi Nakmoto" was meant to give the miners one power: deciding which transactions to include in their blocks. It was never meant to be used to decide on the protocol rules and the validity of chains.

Altering the bitcoin protocol requires consent from the entire bitcoin ecosystem, not just the miners.
But is it still true?

The downloadable files containing several time tables say:

Creator: Adobe InDesign CS6 (Windows)
Producer: Acrobat Distiller 10.1.16 (Windows)

While the ones with just a single one say:

Creator: Hafas Print Bahnhofstafeln 4.6.5
Producer: PDFlib 9.0.5 (Win32)
Network buffers are a completely different animal, also harder to optimize...

Disk IO buffers, it's easy nowadays, just use something like a MB, which is just fine for almost any application, and doesn't stack up to much memory use (unless you're writing many files concurrently, which can bring it's own problems as well)
It easy to make such comparisons to fascism without invoking thoughts of the Holocaust: compare to Mussolini or Franco instead of Hitler.
The issue here is not with your country but with your personal behavior. People in this thread are criticising you for actively contributing to the problem (building a tool for stealing stuff), and you're brushing it off, blaming it on your "market".

Instead of warping your mind with a set of rationalizations that excuse your behavior, maybe try to accept the responsibility.
I wonder if any of that $12 million will go to paying out the workers who were left stranded by the company? If the linked story (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36044903) is anything to go by, the employees got severely screwed when the plant shut down.
> I’d also removed the posts that were obviously copyrighted.

I'm not a lawyer, but in American copyright law, anything published is assumed copyrighted by someone, though it may not be clear exactly who.

I'm especially not an international copyright lawyer, so I can't say how typical that is. Point being, you'll get in legal trouble for doing this. You might win a lawsuit if what you are scraping is not copyrightable (raw facts).

Anyway, OP might not be in the US, so maybe all this doesn't apply, but it's generally good manners to ask someone before you copy their work, yes.
That is a very good article! I bookmarked it in 2013 for that reason. :)

The thing just is... A CEO doesn't really care whether there are 1500 or 1502 workers. Some idiot drops one engine on the assembly floor breaking it. Accurate statistics is an oxymoron. The bitcoin transfers are reliable (mathematically proven even), but does it matter if your wallet shows a wrong number in the UI for a while? I had a good friend go to ATM on a Friday night and see that his current balance was 2.4 billion euros. Next morning it was corrected, and nothing really bad happened.

For the business it is more important to find the (very rare) screw-ups and correct them. You don't really have to do it in real-time either. A 1960s style batch job is just fine.

The reason for previous is that the full ACID model system will fail with the same starting values. The difference is that it tells that end user something like "uh-oh, something went wrong and we can't process your transfer or whatever" (common with banking applications) when eventually consistent model allows the process to continue, and the screw-up must be handled at later stage. From the end user's point of view the ACID version is usually much worse.
Bannon does intend to abolish democracy and trump would have no problem with it, as evidenced by his attacks on the judiciary and free press and demands for respect for him and his family. As to genocide, mass deportation has certainly been contemplated, no one in the admin has suggested genocide yet.
I think many people is confused by "semantically a table" because they think of a table as a certain visual representation of data, which also how the word is often used.

The semantic definition of table in HTML is a bit more subtle - it is a set of data structured in two dimensions. (Like how the days in a monthly calendar is grouped by week (horizontally) and by day-of-week (vertically)).
Nothing to Hide
Interesting... You never dd data to a USB3 disk or SSD? The default buffer size for dd on OS X is also 512 bytes. I've been using `bs=1m` on OS X for ages.
I'm not usually much impressed by content on IFL Science, but their post about this topic seems quite good:

http://www.iflscience.com/environment/four-icelands-volcanoe...
So you steal content and publish it as your own. You might as well torrent movies, music and books, and sell them on your website. Way more profitable.
The majority of nomads I've met were nice people and didn't have the master/servant mindset. However, I knew some people who do, though.

As for the term, I don't like it either, but this is how languages work, I guess. There is little we can do at that point.
I have no problem with Peugeots in general, but the 3008 has a particularly problematic driving assist system -- it is actually dangerous.
Chnage one byte a few kilobytes from the end of the file, then share.
مشاهدة مباراة تشيلسي وبيرنلي بث مباشر اليوم يلا شوت
I found a definition that fits https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vice#Derived_terms_2

So apparently what was meant is

correct spacing between sentences instead of after periods
>Mackey has publicly admitted he vastly regrets taking WFM to Wall Street.

Same story we hear from Silicon Valley on occasion: they regret the loss of control of the company, but not the massive payday.

The fact that this chain suffers because there is so much competition for better produce is net positive. Whole Foods doesn't exist where I come from. But big chains with organic sections (even discount chains) do.
If someone is expected to commit two more bad acts than good acts, then it's better to kill him/her immediately. It's better for everyone, even for his/her eternal soul. Looks like a nice society to live in.
It's about very specific events:

> the November 1923 Munich “Beer Hall Putsch,”

> the Munich Post found and published a Nazi party document planning a “final solution”

> the Reichstag Fire and Hitler seizing the opportunity to institute martial law and crush electoral democracy

And so on.

It's an interesting history lesson for those who don't already know these facts, but the author fails to make any substantial connection between these events and Trump.
Same is true in Australia. Copyrights are not registered. You just automatically own the copyright to anything you write unless there's a specific reason not to.

You don't have to go register it, you don't have to put a copyright notice. You own the copyright as soon as you create it.
Interesting post, but this xkcd is really relevant here: https://xkcd.com/833/
the housing crisis happened and cities were broke.

There's a finance paper from the Federal Reserve which describes exactly this issue [1].

We identify five main channels through which the housing market affects state
and local tax revenues: property tax revenues, transfer tax revenues, sales
tax revenues, and personal income tax revenues.

We find that property tax revenues do not tend to decrease following house
price declines.

We conclude that the recent contraction in state and local tax revenues has
been driven primarily by the general economic recession, rather than the
housing market per-se.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201049/201049p... (PDF)
It's a command, not a syscall!
Kan't wait!
No place like home: America’s eviction epidemic
You can use good old `dd` for this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1k seek=2m count=1

Or python:

python -c 'f=open("test", "w"); f.seek(2e9); f.write("\x00")'

Both these calls create a ~2GB file with holes in it. They return almost instantly on OSX.

EDIT: oh wait, this isn't what you want. you want a file _without_ holes, my mistake.
Why are you using dd for USB disks?
I am late in this conversation, I would like to dig more into the IoT and the needs for tooling for spatial analysis. Could we talk more about the problems you are facing? My email is on the profile page. Thank you!
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Even having a shortcut on the desktop would be a reson.

Electron and similar technologies (not sure about this one) have APIs to integrate into the OS, and have access to notifications, filesystem, and lots of other components that are normalltly reserved yo native apps.

This allows devs to build a web app and port it to every platform without much effort (if any).

I was able to use a modern version of Skype this way, instead of the crappy native client that they haven't updated in years.
Writing bootable installation images?
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Apple's iCloud saved the deleted Safari browsing history over the years
First, I accept the responsibility to some degree, and I'm open about it. Second, it's not "a tool for stealing stuff".

I just somewhat dislike people shouting moral slogans, that's all. Especially people that have little understanding of the ecosystem in general. Sorry.
Yes I know Asterisk is ridden with bugs and has very nasty spots at its core (e.g. "channel cloning" or whatever it is called). It was my job to debug the code with gdb and valgrind :)

What is still amazing to me is the set of core design concepts which I've listed - channels, applications... I have a case for comparison here, where the project is of comparable complexity but all features are bolted-on ad-hoc without such complexity compartmentalization which Asterisk has.
And another gem: http://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/episte...
This is my biggest problem with it. I don't mind so much that if I force refresh of the timeline it changes but if I click on something, either on purpose or accidently, and I come back I am not where I left off and the timeline is completely different now.
Thank you for the feedback. I intend to go back and try and find a better basis for the mathematics I used.
You Are Not Allowed to Be Funny
Show HN: Count-Min-Log 4 Golang == better than Count-Min Sketch
Politics Is the New Workplace Distraction
Depends on the company.

On one of my previous jobs my employer wanted to give me a macbook pro.

My view of OSX and Apple in general is very close to your view of MS Office 2013. I told them “let me try virtualization first”, inserted more RAM to my own Windows laptop, and used VmWare virtual machine for iOS development for the next couple of years.
Machine shops aren't uncommon on naval ships. Such a well supplied one is perhaps unlikely aboard a submarine, but missile subs are the largest and generally the longest-cruising of any type, so it makes a deal of sense they'd have as much capability for self-maintenance as possible, especially given their vital deterrent role. Same goes for the pool et cetera - the human crew being as important to the mission as the boat herself, and just as much meriting maintenance.
I love that there's an Air Iceland ad on that page. Placement fail.
Because of the Berne Convention[1], that's how it works in the vast majority of the world.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berne_Convention
I totally agree with you, the 'bio' tag will not provide much assurance about the product if big names start to manipulate it.

I try to buy from local 'marché' however it isn't always convenient if you work full days.
One coyld also argue the opposite: if Oracle wins, lawyers will start burning the software industry to the ground to an extent such that US lawmakers will be forced to reform copyright and patent laws.
Testing out snapshots in Apple’s next-generation APFS file system
Are there any startup robotic companies that are doing robots that can deal with hard radiation? It seems that they are trying to wash off some melted gunk that is blocking their way into the area beneath the vessel where the core is suspected to be.

Will building a robot capable of completing such a task under such an environment attract any funding? Anywhere to apply?
Good point.

I prefer to do at least something addressing the issue in the ecosystem that does absolutely nothing, though.

And I'm open about it.
Without a blocksize limit then block space has unlimited supply so the price will be zero. Miners will get LOWER fees so if they think lightning is their enemy and Unlimited is their friend then they don't understand economics.

Those who want the security of on chain transactions will still pay the fees and those who accept the very slight risk of having to watch for channels being dropped for the benefit of lower fees will choose lightning transactions. There's no conflict and is the only way to get the store of value security and low transaction fees with high volume.

The standoff is the miners milking fees for as long as possible. They don't want larger blocks or segwit. This will be broken by having a less efficient lightning without segwit.
I had a colleague at a previous job who was living in a boat. He once told me tnat the costs to rent a place in the harbour, to maintain the boat and the utilities were about 400 euros/month, which is about the rent he'd pay for a small studio in Barcelona. The rents arec cheaper there but maybe in New York or San Francisco one can save lots of money like that.
There aren't many borders in the world that can't be trivially crossed without ID. Especially on foot.
Yes but mkfile uses syscalls to create and write to the file. With a smaller buffer more write syscalls are required to populate the file.
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Not on business cards & store doors, but WeChat Pay and Alipay both use QR codes for payment, so anywhere between 1-5 times a day. The washing machines downstairs too.