skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you've had symptoms for a few hours that are untreatable by medication (like I said), then you call your doctor. Your doctor will tell you whether or not to come in. If it's chronic old-person pain, your doctor will find that out, and tell you next steps.

If you've had symptoms for weeks/months, well, I guess that's probably not a heart attack, good job? Still should have gone in within the first day.
Interesting. Can anyone recommend a book that gives a good overview of current climate science? And what hypothetical scenarios may exist in the future?
As a former serial startup employee (I used to be young an optimistic) I cannot count the money I earned doing crunch and being underpaid ...

Because I have none of it.
Specifically what I understood about NZ labor law is that you can't easily fire someone that isn't working out for whatever reason. You have to have a history of documentation and written warnings to validate the cause. While this can be nice for an employee. An early stage company can easily get sunk by this. Again, this is just what I understood from talking to others but it was enough to make me nervous about doing any hiring there. It certainly can and does work for people regardless. Good luck with your venture.
Techniques for noticing you're almost shooting yourself in the leg, then suddenly saving the situation very last moment, mi amigo :)
How can this be purchased? Imagination claims that CPU and associated GPU both support hardware virtualization.
i seriously thought this was a figment of my childhood imagination.

and there it was.

the 1 show that got me hooked on technology.

~\_(ツ)_/¯
> Or are you saying that the client first has to make a round-trip to the server to generate the ID, and then use that server-provided ID for the actual POST?

This is always the case for REST given HATEOAS, ie. you've already made some hypermedia requests to obtain the URL of the endpoint to which you will POST.

Unless the resource you're posting to actually is the public entry point of your service, but that would be very unusual.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that a consequence of this is that it's better to store, for example, angles as radians from -pi to pi rather than as degrees between 0.0 and 360.0, in order to take advantage of all that precision between 0 and 1.
Probably shouldn’t include –0, which is used to represent underflow of negative numbers.
-0 is "below zero, but for so little that we cannot represent", so it's outside [0, 1].
> That's fine, but in general these software licenses do not cover "display", they cover _distribution_.

Yes, that means that "display", insofar as that corresponds to a copyright-protected exclusive right like performance, is not licensed by the license, and (if you aren't the original copyright holder) you have no authority to grant a sublicense to GitHub that covers display.
Geo-engineering projects could not come too soon.

Because of how grand they are in scale, they don't seem to get much attention from the mainstream scientific community, but it seems feasible technologically (albeit expensive) to put forth major projects to reflect sunlight over deserts and capture significant amounts of carbon from power plants and oceans, amongst numerous other creative approaches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_engineering#Proposed_s...

There was an article on HN recently about a new material that is excellent for cooling due to radiating energy primarily in the long-wavelength infrared spectrum. Just another option, just a matter of mass production and adoption.
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Still, a very small amount of money for content this valuable.
Serious question: are the growth numbers scrutinized? How exactly are they calculated? It seems like down-playing growth numbers pre-IPO could leave more room for "awesome growth" in the first few post-IPO years. Maybe switch the way the numbers are calculated at the appropriate times.
It seems pretty clear that nobody is controlling any of it very well. And regarding the Chinese, I do appreciate the justice in cutting some GCC slack for less-industrialized nations. But since China has become such an effective economic competitor, that slack has become very spinnable.
You guys are shipping consistently impressively. How many people are on the VS Code team?
That only checks for atrial fibrillation, not heart attack.
The feedback loop peaks out at a global temperature increase of 5-8 degrees celsius, if the models and past events are to be believed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleocene–Eocene_Thermal_Maxim...
I've built something like this for Python projects.

You add your repo and a bot is constantly checking for insecure and/or outdated packages and sends you a pull request if you need to update.

It's free for open source projects at https://pyup.io
The number I've seen around is that Snap keeps messages on it's servers for two weeks for the authorities(presumably that's also their timeout for a user to download the image).
They were PRs that required approval and merge from the Github project maintainers. Here is a search to see some of their work:

https://github.com/search?q=%22Upgrade+Apache+Commons+Collec...
If you've found the next Uber, that's exactly when it matters.
It's not just about this point in time, but to increase the priority of creating accessible resources. Everyone generally believes "disenfranchisement of the disabled is a problem", it took a law to make society at least realize those costs. Building handicapped ramps and accessible bathrooms is a massive upfront cost for businesses and institutions, funds which come from the same pocket for services and benefits intended for the non-handicapped.
Thanks for the suggestion. It is something I had considered; to replace the motherboard and the CPU with the new AMD Ryzen. But if I remember correctly, it is difficult to find motherboards that include video output (especially through Display Port). So I would have, as you mention, go with Intel, which seems a missed opportunity given the new AMD processors?
I'm sure they're requests.. They'd need to be deployed to production too.

Still pretty awesome.
"But I can (and have) run a massively simpler service with better overall uptime because it increases our options during upstream black swan events."

I'm not saying it's impossible. But I am saying it's dangerous to omit from this conversation the idea that introducing the very --point of option-- can cause worse reliability than just using the downstream thing in the first place.
I'm glad I've been ahead of the curve for so many years going to bed at 3am
Tiny fossils indicate early life present on Earth up to 4.3B years ago
Don't ask me, it was mostly luck in my case. In general I think in chips even more than elsewhere you want to work at a small place to get big responsibilities quickly, and from that angle, right now doesn't look like a great time to enter the industry, since FinFET mask costs are 10x what they used to be in bulk CMOS and so the expected payout needed to justify risking the capital went up a lot, so less projects starting small. Maybe if node shrinks stop and mask costs go back down and people will start making plenty of specialized lower-volume chips since you won't be able to win just by shrinking high-volume architectures, it will be a good time to enter the industry again.
I would love to see that along with the founder and early employee stakes broken down on the company side. This is all so easy when you read it on various websites and haven't actually done it on your own. Then you get in the driver seat and there's all this crap flying at you that doesn't fall into any one bucket. The guy who is critical to your business doesn't care how much equity he gets. The gal who is not as critical is ready for a cage match. The investor wanting to throw you 5 million makes the offer over a burger and a beer. The guy in the next town over wants pages of documentation for his $20,000.
Essentially a fluke and not a general case people should follow.
It might not actually get better for architects. After all, the job is a combination of creativity and data points (will the building stand?). The data and knowledge bit could theoretically be taken over by a computer. Suddenly, normal folks can design their own house. After all, the system would know (based on current at the time knowledge) if the building is a sturdy enough design. I think that advancement would also mean it suddenly gets easier to do home improvements as well.

Most new construction would still follow fads, since humans tend to like them - look at the popularity of the McMansion, after all. A few designs from creative folks, who are not architects, would be simply beautiful or simply weird.

The folks in the supply chain - or whoever owns it - would wind up being more profitable because of more demand, though.

edited for an afterthought.
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Would someone explain the significance of this? IIRC, Purism's goal is a completely open platform, hardware and software, and I know coreboot is open BIOS, but I'm not sure how big an advance this is.
That seems reasonable if you can find Seed investors willing to sell. The very fact that the new investor wants to put money in at a favorable valuation may be the type of thing that makes the seed investor think "this company might be getting hot" and decide they don't want to sell.
Indeed. In some countries, people book doctor appointments using WhatsApp.

SnapChat has always looked like a solution to a "first world problem" to me. Very US and LA/NYC-centric.

Granted, I'm old, but even in rich European countries, I'm not sure it has potential to do well? (Honest question, I really wonder).
It's running on localhost, so it's not it's own machine. It's local to the servers running the application code.
High school students have a lot of influence on what their parents spend on them for certain things like consumer electronics, restaurants, family vacations, clothes, etc. "Mom please buy me an Xbox for Christmas!"
DataDog was my customer...
Well, yes, and it's a pain in the ass, and I say that as a native Korean speaker who wholeheartedly loves my own language.

To see why, consider that in Korean schools, people use different registers when talking to someone one grade older. There are situations like "Joon is one year senior to me, but he's actually friends with my friend Min, who entered this college a year before me, and Joon was born on January of 1980 while I was born on November 1979; so how should I address him?"

(And it certainly contributes to the large number of old male asshats who think they can treat a store clerk like his personal servant, just because the clerk is forty years younger.)

The sooner we get rid of this ridiculous system, or at least drastically simplify it, the better, IMHO.
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Yahoo’s head lawyer takes fall for hacking; Marissa Mayer gets her pay docked
Ya it's a great addition. It was a really common issue for many getting started with Jekyll.
An excellent introductory book is Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen. It speaks to the science and directly addresses the common objections that deniers bring up.

What surprised me is that the science comes at this from multiple angles, so even if someone were to dispute the computer models, then we have other lines of science that still back the theories, e.g. looking at the environment over geologic time scales where we can see what the climate was like under certain CO2 levels.
Ya, a non profit sorta like how the NFL was :) It's more or less an industry advocacy group, so it's a bit different than a typical nonprofit advocacy group.
Sure, but what would be the accuracy of the transcription? In addition, I can't imagine someone able to transcribe high-level English would be very cheap (then again, I could be entirely wrong; I can't say for certain).

Furthermore, I can't imagine any public university administrators wants to get questioned by legislators about why they're outsourcing work nowadays. Nor do I think the administrators want to admit that they're paying (by first world standards) sweatshop wages.
While technically correct, I'm not sure how this is useful. You use HTTPS to communicate with an endpoint you trust, and anything beyond that is internal network infrastructure which is much more reliable than the HTTPS hops. The utility of local retries on this last hop don't seem compelling.
Not that surprising with all the new companies jumping into the VR market
No, security clearance relates to this contract that AWS has:https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/the-d...
My car was built in Europe so the turn signals are to the left of the wheel and the wiper controls on the right.

I'm used to it now but I can't tell you how many times I put the wipers on instead of indicating when I first got the car.

The car is a right-hand drive car (I'm in Australia) and a manual, so I actually think it's a bit stupid because both the gearstick and the indicator are on the left side of the steering wheel.

So it's not really possible to indicate while changing gears.

Perhaps that is part of the reason that people with European cars are so infamous for not indicating!
Does it really matter? Uber is more popular than the other services, but it's still not profitable on its own and it is not established enough that it can afford too many major PR hits.

If nothing else, this will hurt their hiring on every level, which does hurt the company in the long run.
I appreciate you taking the time to explain. I'm in the process of making decisions on a new cloud storage provider so this is helpful.
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Which is exactly why the auto insurance industry heavily funds MADD, to the point of driving MADD's agenda: the credit people give nonprofit advocacy groups with a superficially socially responsible purposes makes them a very good tool for industry.
The Wii U does this, and with much better battery life. I can kind of see where moving the whole console into the controller is a logical step forward, but at the same time I feel like they should have just beefed up the Wii U to have Xbox One/PS4 specs or better. But maybe then it would be harder to sell as a "new" console?
> Does anyone know more about this? Are there any chips out there that support it?

Not an answer to your question, but I found out recently that there is definitely significant interest in ideas like interval arithmetic in hardware among mathematicians.
The application I am somewhat familiar with is "brute forcing" proofs of inequalities, which can get very annoying, even for apparently easy stuff like 2 variable ones.

Indeed, "The Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics" edited by N. Higham et al has an entire article on this (in section II.20). In particular, the article has a reference to a library called filib++
(http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~xsc/software/filib.html).
I unfortunately have no idea how it performs/how good it is.

By the way, thanks a lot for the Unum reference; seems like it is still in too early a stage for inclusion in the book above.
> Why don't you just study for your exam and write code in audio?

I see no reason why, given enough work, a sufficient audio-interfaced IDE cannot be created. I think that is the way we should go. A real AI tied to a speach processor and a polog-like system would be the best UX for programming possible.

Think of Star Trek, "Computer, do X, Y, Z and then run that program".

I definetly don't think text is the best interface with a computer or any system for that matter. That's why I'm saying what I'm saying.

And for now, we're talking about telling the time, not expressing a perfect proof for infinitly complex ideas. I think Siri is good enough for that query as it stands.
I don't see why that would help. Of course there is more precision in terms of decimal places around 1 than around 360. But if you use 360 each 1 represents a much smaller piece of the circle.

To put it another way...it's about significant digits. A float has about 7 and a double about 15. It does not matter whether you use 0 to 360 or 0 to 3.6 million...the number of digits that are meaningful remain the same.
Fronde*

I don't know what Frondie is, and it's weird to see those companies mentioned on HN. Yes, they're all terrible body-shops to work for and they outsource a lot of work.
Aerial photos and satellite photos are also an easy way to spot 1MW+ sized diesel generators and heat exchangers. I have found a few wall street trading firms' unadvertised disaster recovery sites that way, when combined with other on the ground publicly available info.
I hope you didn't have to do any hill starts...
My own personal experience closely aligns with this.

I think of languages as musical instruments. Of course nearly anything can be played on nearly anything, but the character of each is entirely different, and the way one plays or composes for each is going to differ significantly.

I'm still me when speaking different languages, but each language I use is going to convey that differently, and bring out different sides of my nature.
No, it was pretty much exactly the Yahoo directory, only they allowed the public to add sites...sort of. Someone would claim the editorship of some area and it was up to that person to decide what was allowed. There was no clear process, last I knew, to kick an editor out if he/she weren't doing their job and some editors seemed to have a very particular slant in certain categories, sometimes commercially or otherwise competitively motivated. (I don't want competitor websites added to this category I control). It stagnated.
Is there a difference between "mixed reality" and "augmented reality"?
OpenSSL: Add AGL's “beer mug” PEM file as another test input
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for now the only board platforms supported are dice.com, but maybe I will add other ones if you pay me haha.

Now shouldn't I be getting a cut of the $300 or so dollars dice gets for each job post! :,(
There's an overview with data and sources in another section of the website [1].

I think the key difference in Australia and USA is that the Australian government, due to our extensive Medicare coverage [2], bears most of healthcare burden for smokers. Thus, for Australians, paying for smokers' medical costs nearing their end of life is more expensive than keeping them healthy.

[1] - http://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-17-economics/17...

[2] - http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/02/20/how-does-austr...
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I think language might be piggybacking off cultural norms and expectations as well.

For example (generalization incoming) in Portugal the farther north you go, the looser tongues get. People from Lisbon (central Portugal) and down south are far more proper and don't curse as much.