skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very common theme with labor laws. Most people are very, very bad at predicting second- or higher- order effects of a regulation. If the market encourages some behavior one doesn't like (like firing people), it may be the case that one is simply too myopic to comprehend whatever large-scale stochastic optimization the market is doing, and what's going to give when one stops that optimization from happening.

As a result, many (most?) well-meaning market restrictions end up hurting more than they help, often in indirect and difficult to quantify ways spread out over thousands of different interactions. This (friction introduced by the inability to fire people who should be fired) is actually one of the easier examples to point to.
An intelligent assistant app that allows you to teach
I cover this at the end of the article. Hinting is generally just a transformation applied to the glyph outlines before rasterization; it doesn't affect the vector graphics renderer itself. Adding hinting would not cause problems for the algorithm. (I personally consider hinting obsolete, but I would rather not argue about it.)

I'm not sure what you mean by "subpixel rendering". If you mean subpixel positioning, that is correctly handled, though not fully exposed in the API yet. If you mean subpixel AA, that is straightforward to add, and I expect it to improve performance relative to the CPU rasterizers by effectively tripling the glyph area.
You might want to take a look at https://www.digitalocean.com/solutions/ and/or https://www.digitalocean.com/customers/
Level Up and Learn: Team Teaches Science Through Video Game
On Saturday morning, 200 hackers at UC Berkeley gathered
Checkr is looking to hire devs with 4+ years of relevant experience. Company is 2.5 yrs old, 90ppl, 20 engineers, already quite profitable, a lot of fun :)

http://bit.ly/checkr-full-stack

http://bit.ly/checkr-backend-eng

http://bit.ly/checkr-ml-eng
> along with detergent and toxic toilet cleaners.

don't forget corpses

http://www.planetcustodian.com/2015/10/19/8134/over-50-scary...
Format Preserving Encryption – FFX for Erlang
I ended up "fixing" this by installing the Stylish extension/plugin on Chrome, then downloading a dark theme (then I went crazy and did the same with a bunch of other sites, too - including HN)...
Perhaps schools should lose their tax-exempt non-profit status if they over-pay their administrators or over-spend on administration versus education or if they pay their employees so little that their use of assistance programs is a burden to other taxpayers?
Ancient Jars Found in Judea Reveal Earth's Magnetic Field Is Fluctuating
> Do we really need to make employment as unpleasant and stressful

That's a large oversimplification. Employment is stressful because the business world is stressful.

By entering into a contract with an employer, the employer is not only giving you a salary, but some sort of assurance that you'll be buffered from the market because the employer has larger cash reserves to ride out market fluctuations.

Nobody can stop you from freelancing, which gives you ultimate freedom, but also doesn't insulate you from market conditions. By making it more difficult to fire you, the employer has to reduce compensation, benefits, and protections because the overall value proposition has shifted, since the employer now is far less flexible in dealing with market situations.
"I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers"

easy, ID linked tickets that you pick up after entering the venue and get transacted at that point, and you cannot reenter.
Interesting, I'm seeing this on clang trunk.
Google DeepMind can backstab with the best of them
Actually not with this one, unfortunately it has been discontinued.
Rwanda is a pint-sized dictatorship governed with an iron first. Delhi is a howling cesspit of chaos.

In addition to the obvious enforcement problems in Delhi itself, Delhi is only a small part of the National Capital Region, meaning tons of plastic will flow in from Haryana and UP even if Delhi does manage to clean up its act.
You are making incorrect assumptions and running with them.

As i stated in the article, and on this HN comment page, my issues were not with antiquated browsers. Safari on my iPhone 7 was failing to connect to sites other browsers were handling fine. I went down this rabbit hole of IP-based differentiation specifically because of that issue.

There seems to be some sense that i published an article about the hardest way to achieve this. I promise had relying on SNI worked liked i expected it to, the IP-based section of the article would be absent. But it didn't and, like i said, IP's are cheap. Adding 1 step to a process of ubiquitous support seems like a reasonable approach to me.
(Real) Cadbury's chocolates or Spotted Dick?
We use Digital Ocean at shopblocks.

We use it for both production, and staging, though we do offload our database to Google Cloud.

On DO we host our application servers (frontend and backend), as well as our caching, search and monitoring services. These are all load balanced behind Haproxy.
Humans can learn from blow flies about attraction on dating apps
Maybe. There are no immediate plans for it, but depending on the performance it might be worth adding.
I feel like it focuses on a lot of linux specific details that a OS agnostic book would when using linux as a 'development environment' definitely wouldn't.

There are many topics other OSes like Windows and Solaris do differently and talking about them even for a little bit would be beneficial, but I haven't seen any trace of it.

Search for Windows, Solaris, shows up nothing, and search for unix shows a single page about unix signals.
Minimum 3 nodes * node pricing of $.90/hour = 30.924*30 = 1944/month.
I love things like this, but I find I have about 30 of these sorts of things bookmarked, and I never think to pull them up when I'm in need – I immediately go to Google and find something like the Mozilla ref @shpx mentioned. It's a real problem I wish there was a solution for. Other than of course having a better memory.
I wish that they could find a way to do this in the Islamabad/Rawalpindi area. Due to a lack of budget and government coordination for large scale trash pick up, nearly every stream and ravine in the area is the designated trash dumping grounds. It's thoroughly littered with plastic shopping bags and plastic bottles. It won't solve the problem of people throwing trash on nearly any available piece of unclaimed or unusable land, but at least it'll be paper based or biodegradable.
https://www.eff.org/sls/tech/cell-site-simulators/faq#faq-Ho...?
I am reminded of a check-box proforma that circulated in the 1990s, pointing-out the flaws any time someone proposed a 'clever' solution to spam:

'[X] You are proposing a technical solution to a non-technical problem'

The border agent of ${COUNTRY} doesn't care if you wiped your phone accidentally or deliberately; his flowchart says 'access subject's chat history on phone'. If that's not possible, goto 'reject'.
Where is your user input going in the end? If it's going to a server, I sure hope you're validating it there.

Anything you do on the client side via JavaScript can be bypassed by the end user and provides no guarantees about the input you receive.
Astronomers observe black hole producing cold, star-making fuel from hot plasma
Admittedly ESRB was formed after the government (senator Joe Lieberman, famously) threatened to regulate the video game industry if they didn't form such a voluntary group.
Wednesday + Friday *

Also this is an extension of the Jewish tradition of fasting on Tuesday/Thursday. AFAIK, the only reason the Church changed it was simply to distinguish themselves from the Jews during the height of the Judiazing heresey.
Amazing! But why does this feel like such a de ja vue all over again.. (surely I'm missing something).. They've spent 5 years telling us that we just CAN'T scale SQL.. Now they'll tell us that actually.. they've figured it out! :)
cloudflare can whitelist crawlers like google. The fact it blocks other automatic robots is more of a feature than a flaw.
Matrox SX-900: X86 Accelerated GPU
The parent response exhibits, politely, typical problems I've experienced with Wikipedia editing. It debates details, policies (with citations), customs, but does not address the actual problem (in this case, the hassles of contributing) or help advance the core mission, which is the content.

My experiences are similar to the GP, and often the responses aren't nearly as polite as the parent. It's just not worth the time to contribute.
It was remarkable to me that I could not think of a good example for you. Apparently I myself to not have any good C# to share even though I have worked with the language a lot.

Anyways, I suggest you use Visual Studio, use the code formatter, and stick to common good programming practices such as: using proper accessors (public, private, protected), don't duplicate code, name variables with style, document things that you think you'll be curious about later, and use git to keep track of your code.
>I'm talking about conservative politicians - external actors, not internal.

Yes, I'm claiming (and evidence supports) that internal actors politicized these disciplines. Do some research into these fields. All of them were politicized in a remarkably short amount of time. Conservatives are just responding by denying public funding to self-identified partisan political activists.

> Also, I'd love to see some cites about the issue you raise from reliable sources.

I gave you cites from reliable sources. The second link I sent you is a review article of all of the research done into this subject. I'd highly recommend checking out some of the citations in that paper, they're very illuminating.

Another good one to check out is this paper[0] from Stanford which measured the implicit bias association test applied to political groups. In all of their studies (I believe they recreated 3) they found that implicit bias is as much as 50% stronger for political identity than it is for racial identity.

From that paper: "Compared with the most salient social divide in American society—race—partisanship elicits more extreme evaluations and behavioral responses to ingroups and outgroups. This remarkable patterns applies to both explicit and implicit measures of group affect and holds even when the tests of ingroup favoritism are unobtrusive
and completely nonpolitical, and partisans are incentivized to treat copartisans no differently from opposing partisans."

[0] https://pcl.stanford.edu/research/2015/iyengar-ajps-group-po...
95% of tomatoes in California are machine-picked. Farms that use toughened tomatoes can use very high powered machinery.[1] There are gentler machines for more fragile varieties [2].

Now in test, picking robots for more fragile fruit.[3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3EpFTyN26E
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YeGOv87JE4
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS0coCmXiYU
People are bad at predicting effects. Absence of market regulations can also have bad effects.
There's "Early Access" (which wasn't even touched upon!) for titles like those.
Yeah, no one before 1600 knew anything. Thousands of years of compounded experience? Just straight-up garbage.
Never heard of Staffjoy before this.

Honestly, the hardest part of a startup is simply getting known and spreading the word that it exists.
Ubuntu coming to the Fairphone
Let's be honest, Craigslist is a horrible product and the only reason it's so popular, is because of network effects. Never underestimate the power of incumbency, and getting in on the ground floor of a rocket. The same thing can also be said for half the monopoly-companies out there, and half the politicians currently in office.
New early warning system flags global financial crises
Update: just sent you a PR that reduces the amount of code by ~70% while increasing the speed by ~30% for the Fortran version.
Your comment comes off as harsh and ignorant, but is IS a fact that pollution from two stroke engines (and other inefficient burning things) is a huge problem in large developing nation cities. Go look at the air in Lahore or Karachi on a bad day and view the blue-grey smoke emitting from every two stroke motorcycle and motor-rickshaw.
We outsourced our database to Google Cloud after having pains with percona on DO with clustering. Might be worth looking at that. No regrets for us so far, except that restoring backups is painful if you want 1 out of many databases restored.
Convincing a Linux guy to use FreeBSD [video]
Study Shows Youth Flag Football May Not Be Safer Than Tackle Football
Redux Form really goes against the spirit of Redux in my opinion. It uses Redux internally, but you can't really directly access the reducer it uses, so from the user's perspective it is almost like it's not using Redux. The one serious library choice mistake I made in my first React/Redux app was using Redux Form. It was almost impossible to do things if the library hadn't anticipated my exact use case. I ended up having to rip out a bunch of code, and I switched to React Redux Form[1] even though it was a very immature library at the time.

[1]: https://github.com/davidkpiano/react-redux-form
Stopped reading at "reached out..."

FFS. Just stop it, people!
Microsoft HoloLens – Official Site
I've dealt with the ICT department of Munich many times and was always impressed with their expertise and can-do attitude. This feeling of power and independence is more valuable than any of the monetary calculations.

Free software is about empowerment.

The functionality required of office suites in government is usually simple. A simple office suite with dedicated people can create a happy working environment.

I'm a daily witness of the drudgerous mindset that is the result of working with a locked down computer. It saps the will to live and makes people irritable and hostile towards the citizens they are meant to serve.

Choosing freedom is the best option.
PostgreSQL Worst Practices
صور+انستقرام+2017+اجمل+صور+كتابيه+رمزيات+انستقرام+كتابية
3-D Printing at Home Saves Cash
Let's break a World Record: 10M Purple birds
Dont forget to share
Jones Act Proposed Revocations and Modifications: Public Comment Period Extended
https://www.facebook.com/ebuzzzzz/photos/a.173706833091307.1...
Sure -- but it is an exceptional amount of memory to use for tiny objects like those. If you're working with four billion objects at a time, they're probably more substantial than eight bytes.
> PG maintains a pool of pre-forked processes so there is typically no process startup delay.

Nope, we don't. You can use an external connection pooler like pgbouncer to achieve that however.

> Shared memory regions and SysV cross-process locks facilitate IPC. Back in the day this is how threads were done in user-land:

Well, that's how IPC is/was done in case of multiple processes. I'd not call that threading however, that'd imo require at least a single process space (i.e. shared virtual memory space).

The big advantage of processes is increased isolation. I.e. problems in one process are much likely to affect others, there's less locking required (e.g. in the memory allocator for local memory allocations, internally for mmaps and such). The big disadvantage is that dynamically scaling the amount of shared memory is quite ugly in multi-process models. It's hard to portably allocate shared memory after the fact and guarantee it's mapped at the same address in all processes, thereby making pointer usage hard/impossible.
Quickly skimmed this.. how is comparing Cloud Spanner to a VM running MySQL comparable?
Mmmmhhh most languages are, more than anything else, their own standard library ... Although there are languages with a very small standard library that are not "batteries included", but they are lower level so it's an apples to oranges comparison.
India Now Has the World’s Worst Air Pollution
Seems to make sense with something like tomatoes, where you can destroy the plant during harvest like that. But looking at the apple one, I'm not sure if it's as fast as a human being, and if it would be cheaper than human labor.
Yes but Delhi currently has a clown for a Chief minister. He comes up with notorious schemes like this. Recently he came up with odd-even rule for traffic and with clever exemptions for women, taxies and what not leading to a complete failure.

Water logging is a big issue in Mumbai and perhaps there this policy was useful.

Delhi's air pollution is not because of Delhi but because of surrounding areas. Nothing can be done there.
Why wouldn't more farmers just let their crops rot to make more money?
In some places it's actually illegal to intentionally skirt the labor laws by using temporary contractors for jobs that are not of temporary nature (seasonal agriculture workers ok, cashiers not ok), but yeah, it's not enforced that much.
Apple and Google make exceptions for their blessed push-notification services - just those services get reliable long-lived connections (and also have re-connection of course). Other applications, even with processes using some official API to run in the background, can be suspended or otherwise cut off to save power.
It'll be interesting to see what happens when the tenured start dying off en masse. They're not going to replace everyone with tenured faculty — what is the university going to look like if almost no one has tenure?
“Criminals tend to try and make tracking their data more difficult, so this kind of mass collection of telephony data will more easily find our political activists, our civil society leaders, and just regular people,” he says. “If the courts—if the public—knew how powerful these tools were, they would move to restrict their use.”

The mass surveillance system is about control, not security, and I think time and time again that is being proven. On the constitutional post-warrant data anlysis tools I have these issues:

1) This is local law enforcement wising up and playing a similar game to the big three letters.

2) I have concerns about the privacy protections for those associated with suspects, and see ripe abuse potential for guilt by association or even "using data from a warrant to get the data on the person you really want but can't get the warrant" type of situations.

3) I have concerns with the level of data sharing between the LEA's, and the post shared protections of said data.

4) I have concerns with private companies providing these services because private companies often have sub-par data security practices, and often have strange third-party data selling loopholes so they often end up "scrubbing" data and selling it, but most of us know it's not that hard these days to "unscrub" that kind of data.

All of this is assuming we are just talking about constitutional methods too. What I find even more insidious and dangerous is the unconstitutional tools like imsicatchers and others being used for parallel construction.

Bottom line is this: the LEA's and LEO's need to remember that they swear an oath:

"I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same;"

The problem as I see it, is that I tracked down the law that punishes congress for a few specific violations of oath of office (5 U.S. Code § 7311), but I have yet to find any law for punishing people in the executive branch for violation of oath of office. If anyone knows of such, please let me know. IANAL, so perhaps 5 U.S. Code § 7311 could apply to the executive and I just misunderstand it.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make. My point is that you can't reasonably claim that all laws go out the window just because some constitutional protections are suspended. Saying that it should be legal to lie to a federal agent under those circumstances is roughly equivalent to saying it should be legal to murder said federal agent under those circumstances (which is obviously not true).
Its evented, not normally event-sourced. I don't know of many production uses of redux that also store the events for replay.
Thanks for the advice.
Edited comment with double-space prefix.
They have also X86 alternatives since 2016 (and a third offering since a few weeks)
Capital expenditures might shed some light on this. I don't think there's enough public data to be clear but in 2015 Amazon (4.8B), Google (9.9B) and Microsoft (5.9B) were at least on the same order of magnitude in terms of CapEx, whereas other major "datacenter" companies like Rackspace (475M) are much smaller.

I don't think you can draw any definitive conclusions from this, but calling it a class of size 1 or 2 is probably an overstatement of Google (+/- Amazon)'s advantage over Microsoft at least.
It's not just in the humanities. Plenty of scientific theories, technology, and other developments were originally panned by many experts and critics.

A few startup founders might recognize that experience.
So what of the modern illumination of the health benefits of ancient techniques like meditation and yoga? You're saying don't practice until we're 100% sure they're beneficial?

Can that even actually happen?
Because you have nothing to sell even if demand goes up. Does you no good.
I'm not from Delhi, but similar ban has been in effect in south India for many years now. Water/soda bottles are not included in the ban, it is usually the shopping bag and eating utensils like cups and plates.
>First, because I don't speak any German, and feel very uncomfortable traveling to a foreign country on my own. I know most Germans speak English, but that doesn't ease my concerns all that much. It's scary to me to travel alone, sorry.

Found this odd. What is scary about traveling to a presumably a big city in one of the richest countries in the world?
A graceful shutdown of a funded startup w/ money still in the bank is a classy move. +1 gold star for you. Sorry it didn't work out the you hoped.
The border agent of ${COUNTRY} cannot reasonably deny you access because you aren't in possession of a smartphone with personal data on it. What they can do is get you in trouble for deliberately wiping said personal data after they ask for it, but it's perfectly legal to choose to travel without carrying your personal data.
Congratulations guys! Welcome to 1995.
"It should be noted that, while cell phones do use encryption for content, the encryption can be turned off easily by a cell-site simulator itself, and there’s no notification that encryption is no longer operating."

The incompetence of telecom companies / chipmakers knows no bounds. Of course, it could be by design.
You have to think bigger about materials level embodied energy.

If you go about looking at energy density without evaluating the feedstock materials and embodied energy, your maths won't achieve the desired result.

I was doing the math on the back of a napkin, but there's quite a few papers on the topic.

www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/15.WINDTURBINE.pdf

I might be off by 25M-50M tons, but I think the overall assertion is valid.

My belief about how to fix the problems with energy grid:
http://engineersf.com/things-humanity-could-do-right-now-to-...

Any sort of libertarian or free-market approach to this problem will likely fail. This is one of those mission critically deal breakers where human behavior can't be modulated in a desired direction.
Totally agree. My point was Autophagy, sort of provides the scientific foundation for benefits of fasting.
I thought this was just a rude comment until I realized the photo jumps around, which is kind of neat and indeed creepy.
Maybe, but I don't know when I might need it in the future, and when the time comes it's already too late. That is why I'm interested in this topic now. That is also why I'm not dismissing the idea because of some possible charges that might be laid against me by some possible border control person some time in the future.

I have nothing to hide personally. I'm more concerned about business secrets and SSH keys.
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