skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually would use this one because of its simplicity, but the fact that it looks like a mobile site even on desktop is the deal breaker.
Mutation in clock gene explains why some night owls stay up late
> Jobs are created by incentivizing job creators.

Which of course leads to the question: Which job creators are most effective at providing sustainable (and, ideally, scalable) employment for the available talent pool?
I'm not sure I see your point. What GP is proposing is a risk assessment strategy. If your partner ticks all of those boxes (for example), then you better think long and hard about whether the relationship is viable without being blinded by "love".

Anyone from any background can either rise above their circumstances or fail regardless of the help they get. This should never prevent is from thinking clearly and logically about our future with these people based on their backgrounds or past actions.
Being a graph database user, i always have to manage a replication of the "molecules"of my graph in ES for a user-friendly search experience. Ca arangodb help for such a use case? Or may be dgraph?
It's not that much lower. In all the Lyft/Uber/Taxi rides I've taken, not once has the driver ever crashed or disengaged. Humans go around 100 million miles per fatality, if I recall correctly. The bar isn't perfection, I agree, but humanity is still a high hurdle (especially when we cost as little as $7/hr).
Dropwizard and Play are very good alternatives to Spring if you don't need the whole kitchen sink or you absolutely want to use X library for Y application function and Spring doesn't necessarily have very good out of the box support for said library.

The upside of Spring over Dropwizard or Play (or any of the lighter touch frameworks) is that it's so much more than an MVC or REST controller framework. The report in question is literally comparing it against the entire Java EE ecosystem. Spring is not a library or a framework anymore, it's practically an entire stack that you can pick and choose from.

Play and DW are likely to be easier to get your head around than Spring, there's a lot of magic going on in there and (not unlike getting into the JS world these days) you will find that setting the thing up from scratch takes a whole lot more time than you ever would have guessed. There's 1000 ways to do the same thing and sometimes doing it one way is a real issue later on, and worst of all it may not be apparent that that is the root source of some seemingly unrelated issue.

Spring Boot aims to solve a lot of that by taking an opinionated approach to how the project should be laid out, libraries, and default configuarations- more along the lines of a .NET MVC + database, etc. There's still the same amount of complexity and configuration, it's just hidden from you until you need to dig in.

I generally use Spring Boot to start greenfield projects these days, we deploy to AWS and their extra libraries for handling and working with that save a lot of boilerplate that's so common with Java.

I would suggest you get your feet wet with either GP or DW, but don't forget about Spring Boot down the road. I've gotten to the point where I've got a stack including Vault (secrets) + Spring Config Server (distributed config application) + a fleet of various Spring Boot microservices running in Docker on AWS and they (mostly) just startup and run the way I wanted them to. It's really awesome, and wildly overkill for that proof of concept API or personal project we would be doing a lot of, but allows me to run my company without a huge team.
It's amazing all the work that goes into mediocrity.
These are the areas tourists are allowed to see. O.k.--I didn't find these pictures depressing.

The lack of urban sprawl, overcrowded--overbuilt cities, traffic congestion, airplanes is not a bad thing to some people.

Yes--I'm missing the starving people we just read about, and the horrid treatment of prisoners.

I'm just saying, these pictures were not depressing. Then again--I don't find the crowded parts of San Francisco, and New York someting to ooo over. Especially when we just step over the homeless because they are everywhere.

No, I don't like their political system. There's got to be a happy medium between America, and this country?

Why do I feel it's many parts of Europe?
Indeed. The government, like poor people, spend every dollar they take in, which allows that money to circulate. To use a cliche, a billionaire can only buy so many yachts, pieces of art or gold bricks; at some point, the excess is going to land in an offshore account or otherwise be underutilized.

Billionaires grudgingly create jobs.
Yeah I agree, in theory a large corporation should have lots of money to pay your startup. However in reality being dependent on one big prospect to make or break your startup is a situation set up for failure.
How ski lifts are installed: Vail's new Chair 5 (2011) [video]
In spite of the title, the article explains that the cell uses solar light, obviously.

> Those metabolic processes generated an electrical current -- 8 microamps per square centimeter of cell -- for 13 straight days.

That is 80 milliamps per square meter. I cant find the voltage. My guess is 1V or 2V, but let's be optimistic and assume 10V. That is 800milliWats per square meter = 0.8 W/m^2, i.e less than 1W/m^2.

For comparison a solar panel has approximately 100-200W/m^2

(If you prefer Imperial units, 0.1 per square feet vs 10-20W per square feet.)
> It's an inefficient hack

Sure. The creator of SegWit (Sipa) said in one of his first talks on the subject that if you could re-architect Bitcoin from scratch, then you would segregate the witness data. Nodes could potentially throw it away after witnesses were verified, to save disk space. The problem is that it would require a hard fork, which Core wants to avoid if at all possible.

SegWit hacks the coinbase and transaction structure in order to be implemented as a soft fork.

I'm not sure if it's inefficient or not, but it is a hack.

Does the fact that it's a hack mean that it's bad for Bitcoin?

That article talks about all sorts of developer troubles and losing coins without ever mentioning the testnet, which exists to allow you to lose worthless coins. If a company is pushing major updates to wallet software without conducting proper testing, then bad on them. Plenty of bitcoin has been lost to the current complexities of the transaction format. Remember those 100 BTC fee transactions?

The article's conclusion bemoans the plight of the miners without mentioning the actual users of Bitcoin, other than a hand-wave at "community consensus." I'm not convinced.

> Do the Blockstream people even speak out against the censorship on /r/bitcoin? No. Do they prefer to use channels censoring opposing opinions? Yes.

Ok, so let's assume the whole lot is rotten and loves censorship. Does that change the nature of the code that exists in the Bitcoin codebase? Censorship sucks, but Bitcoin is what really matters.

>> If you're spouting FUD, then go back to /r/btc.

>Exactly the narrative Core supporters push.

Anyone who tries the path of moderation and reason within /r/btc is downvoted into oblivion, resulting in de facto censorship of that sub.

Edit:

> Summary of /r/bitcoin, for those wondering.

You forgot the roller coaster price gifs :-)
Already seen these. As another poster has bred, this is not the first time these have been posted.
I agree with your assessment, pjc50. All major European nations lost most of their privileged/gifted young men in WW1 and WW2, not just UK.
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> The abundance of MPs per salt sample ranged from 0 per kg in the salt sample # France-F (i.e. Country of origin: France, brand F) to 10 in the salt sample # Portugal-N

I guess I'll keep buying the French Gros Sel de Guérande from world market, plus the fact that it tastes really good when sprinkled on meat :)
Can Wind Power Revive Jobs in America's Heartland?
If you haven't already watched the video embedded in the article, I highly recommend doing so. It's beautiful work by Erik Wernquist, who also produced Wanderers, New Horizons, and the first official music video for Jamie xx's Gosh.

https://vimeo.com/108650530

https://vimeo.com/132183032

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjNssEVlB6M
Certainly it would. I'm not exactly sure how a longer-term investor would have gone about buying stock then, but probably there was a broker in their city that had a big ticker board showing the current prices (as quickly as some kid could write them up on it as they came in from the tape). And you'd walk up to a window and place your order, and just like today, you'd actually pay whatever price your order was filled at back on the exchange's floor (well, today it's an ECN, but you get my point). Eventually, your broker would deliver physical stock certificates to you.

For shorter-term or smaller transactions, bucket shops were very common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_shop_(stock_market) There's all sorts of shenanigans that went on with those - they were more like bookies; you never actually owned the underlying securities you were speculating on.

It's also worth remembering that things were vastly less regulated and insider trading/outright manipulation were very common (the SEC didn't come into existence until 1934).

Good reading on this time period if you're interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reminiscences_of_a_Stock_Opera...
He questioned his place in the world and did a little soul seeking. It's unfortunate that most people don't have this option but there's nothing wrong with what he did, probably gave him a good perspective that a classroom could never teach.
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Rapper xxxtentacion gets exposed
I have paid for all those luxuries.

Car = I paid for it out of the money I earned

Roads = I pay for them with my taxes

Parking = I pay for this either by being a customer of your business or, if you're a landlord, by paying you rent every month.

Making free parking into pay parking or making pay parking into more expensive pay parking will serve to decrease traffic, but at what cost?

Once you monetize it or make it more expensive than a reasonable price it practically begs to become corrupt. The end result is only incentives to increase parking costs via tools such as premium/VIP parking. Theoretically, a premium spot could pop up and would normally be a regularly priced spot when the inventory of other spots dwindles. The spot itself isn't actually any closer to the destination for the customer but is just more expensive. Sure, you could argue that this is how supply and demand works but that only really applies to supply of goods for which there are similar alternatives. If you raise prices on parking, why not raise prices on public transportation as well, and if you're raising those prices then who is going to stop the taxis and ride-hailing apps (Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, etc.) from raising their prices as well? You haven't actually solved any problems. You've just made more money.
And don't forget to give all the money and power to the offensive agency, while keeping the oversight agency to an intern in a broom closet somewhere.
Which already exists called SPIR-V.
i have an interview with apple for a mechanical engineer. i will report back once its done.
UBports Community Q&A (UBports Continues Work on Ubuntu Phone)
Huh, I didn't know that extension existed! :)
One wonders what exactly happened to this industry, why instead of training, companies are offloading the work to universities, MOOCs, and boot camps.
Just curious if you're inside or outside of the US? I hadn't heard this technique mentioned in my undergrad CS at the time I graduated in 2012.

Going off the MSDN article (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa964145.aspx), MDD, it starts to sound vaguely like how most early-stage startups build software wrt agile. There are definitely tools to generate basic CRUD models from a data model diagram eg UML. There are also tools to generate class diagrams from code. However, they lost me somewhere in the middle of that article where everything quickly detached from reality into abstractions. Beyond those points and using TDD, personally I had a hard time seeing what this approach is exactly and what the value added is.

The Wikipedia article for model-driven software development (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-driven_software_develo...) makes it sounds like you generate code then never modify it directly, only regenerating from the abstraction. That sounds cool in theory but completely unrealistic in practice.
I can't agree enough. I can't find anything else with support that the Spring ecosystem has built for many cloud stacks (my experience is with AWS). Being able to choose from a whole host have identity providers, social, and other things for login and user data that generally just fits in to the normal auth and security mechanisms solves a problem we had for years with new applications.

It's certainly daunting if you're green to it and there isn't a grizzled vet around, but if you're trying to build for more than contrived simple solutions that you need to monitor, scale, and secure I don't know anything else out there that gets you so far down the road almost at the beginning.
Don't count on online backups to protect you from those¹. Anything plugged into a power grid anywhere can go away.

Offline backups would be safe (even from a close EMP, in HDD or SSD form).

1 - In theory you can have your power lines protected against those. But I wouldn't count on somebody's else lines being protected.
I actually approve of your plans to keep the oversight agency really minimal.

That government is best which governs least.
I went from a fortune 500 to a self-supporting start-up. I was surprised not to have a phone on my desk. It didn't take long to realize how great it is not to have a desk phone.
Did you read the first few lines of the page? Or pretty much any of the captions?

> Most tourists only experience the political smokescreen of Pyongyang; I had the privilege in visiting all corners on one of the longest tours ever executed (no pun intended) for foreigners into the hermit kingdom.

Photos from an officially supervised tour, yes, but limited to Pyongyang, definitely not.
But they shouldn't be managing their investments on a day-to-day bases much less basing decisions on conversations with random uber drivers.
Related: A YouTube channel [0] dedicated to videos of "everyday life" in North Korea, from an Indonesian expat living there.

Couple of random examples:

* Walking around Pyongyang in the winter. [1]

* Going to a computer store in Pyongyang. [2]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzvCf_q10UZkUJE0lOav0ag

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If2ZkXz_1U8

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtDWYzwwuUs
More accurately, the article is about the use of unstructured free-form interviews.
> I feel like having a more common language would just lead people to bang their heads against the impossible or implement horribly inefficient algos not really understanding what's going on under the hood

Good point.
I had already read a couple of blogposts relating travels in North Korea, but this is the first one that made it feel like a gleeful adventure. The corn fields, the countryside cities, the small picnic and barbecue parties with food and soju... It reminds me of good times that I had in South Korea. Of course, it always has to be considered that it's also NK's propaganda machine/tourism industry in action, but some of those pictures warmed my heart up.
Another way to answer this kind of question is to know 2^24 = 2^10 * 2^10 * 2^4 and that 2^10 is 1024 which is roughly 1000.

So 1000 * 1000 * 16 = 16 million would be an easy estimate to make.

If you are designing a system and want to have an idea of how much space or memory an approach will take, being good at this kind of math can be really helpful.
About #2, solar storms are world-wide.
I think the point for many is not a net money saved but a reshaping of the cost curve. I am ok spending a lot farther down the road to transfer everything off of AWS if I can spend almost nothing now. Because as a small business or startup, I don't have money now. But if I grow to the point that AWS becomes too expensive I can assume that I will have more money at that time so the cost of switching will hopefully not be too painful.
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Dropwizard is one of the simplest way to get started and remains well suited for larger applications:

http://www.dropwizard.io/1.1.0/docs/getting-started.html
Check avr-vala (https://github.com/apmasell/avr-vala)
For the lazy:

> The selected 2017 Phase I proposals are:

A Synthetic Biology Architecture to Detoxify and Enrich Mars Soil for Agriculture, Adam Arkin, University of California, Berkeley

A Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions, John Brophy, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California

Evacuated Airship for Mars Missions, John-Paul Clarke, Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta

Mach Effects for In Space Propulsion: Interstellar Mission, Heidi Fearn, Space Studies Institute in Mojave, California

Pluto Hop, Skip, and Jump, Benjamin Goldman, Global Aerospace Corporation in Irwindale, California

Turbolift, Jason Gruber, Innovative Medical Solutions Group in Tampa, Florida

Phobos L1 Operational Tether Experiment, Kevin Kempton, NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia

Gradient Field Imploding Liner Fusion Propulsion System, Michael LaPointe, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama

Massively Expanded NEA Accessibility via Microwave-Sintered Aerobrakes, John Lewis, Deep Space Industries, Inc., in Moffett Field, California

Dismantling Rubble Pile Asteroids with Area-of-Effect Soft-bots, Jay McMahon, University of Colorado, Boulder

Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion, Raymond Sedwick, University of Maryland, College Park

Sutter: Breakthrough Telescope Innovation for Asteroid Survey Missions to Start a Gold Rush in Space, Joel Sercel, TransAstra in Lake View Terrace, California

Direct Multipixel Imaging and Spectroscopy of an Exoplanet with a Solar Gravity Lens Mission, Slava Turyshev, JPL

Solar Surfing, Robert Youngquist, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida

A Direct Probe of Dark Energy Interactions with a Solar System Laboratory, Nan Yu, JPL
Yep, it basically looks like core devs have this plan to:

-Keep bitcoin broken so fees go sky-high

-Push people towards their sketchy off-chain transactions

Bitcoin then becomes "bank coin", where large providers handle all the micro transactions and "settle up" with huge 1000+ btc chunks.

It's a scam and while I have my own reservations about bitcoin unlimited and making miners "too powerful" at least their plan is 100% on-chain.

Core dev's plan is suicide for bitcoin, major investors have been jumping ship to etherium driven by their insanity.
when the codebase is old enough, you need to think about all the dependencies of every component you change when adding features. that's the major drag to me.

also, browser compatibility, that also requires load of prep work because of the layers of workaround to get stuff working right.
Graphic said starting though, but I see. That's just sad. In Eastern Europe ~1000 Euros per month is ok-ish to good salary, in some countries in EE it's a great salary. Lots of talent as well, as demonstrated by a large number of small to medium companies providing outsource work. Especially in poorer countries in EE where salaries for 2D and 3D work are between 300 and 500 Euros per month on average (Serbia and Macedonia, namely). In Japan though, that's borderline poverty.
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They're useless if it's attempt to prove you know more tham them about some algorithm that's been implemented 150x times (every job interview in California). I'd rather work with someone pleasent, hard working, and concerned with everyone's well being.
My experience with large customers in my previous startup was that they do all those things: they want demos, they ask for large volume discounts, they wants custom features and a custom license agreement and a 24x7 phone support.

My solution was simple: just refuse to do all those things. To my surprise vast majority of them went ahead and still bought my product (some posed an "offended" stance initially).

I guess for that to work you really have to have the best product for their needs. :-)
The perceptron scheme for branch prediction (full paper) [1] probably works because it uses far more memory for branch history than the usual approaches. It's not doing a better job with comparable resources.

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/papers/hpca01.pdf
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Is it in a state such that you could sell it to a larger product or consulting firm serving the kinds of companies you were targeting? Either as a finished product ready for them to take over or as an acquihire?
In the 20th century we were big on static typing too. My first serious programming was in Pascal, in the 1980s. You have to understand that trends in programming are like clothing fashion, not like progress. My first Pascal was Apple Pascal, which was a UCSD Pascal. In UCSD Pascal everything was compiled to a virtual machine called the p-machine. In the late 1980s we all thought this was a stupid idea and for efficiency we should use native code. But by the late 1990s things went back to the idea of virtual machines, JVM and .NET. Now with Go and Rust we seem to be going back to native code. And with this whole obsession about static typing we are going back to the 1980s too.
I thought of that too, but the expense of operation is very likely not worth it to the producers. The low level of plastic contamination would not seem likely to produce health hazards.
YouTube wants to be TV, but it’s not the same – Recode
Richard Feynman's adventures in textbooks 50 years as told in "Surely you're joking" ago are still instructive. It's pretty embarrassing that it is still so bad. More power to Downey, support him. Perfect is the enemy of good and the ally of the status quo, which is horrible.
Very interesting analysis. Could you list business books that you like?
I'm reminded of an article [0] posted on HN last year about "McDonald’s [being] de-facto community centers". Perhaps difference is that Locol has a 'mission' and is thus seen as a sort of charity, whereas McDonald's is very clearly a capitalist enterprise.

Overall, it seems the proprietors were very out of touch with the community. I have to wonder if they would have been much more successful if, instead of coming up with a hipster sounding name and hiring an architect to design a restaurant that would be "welcoming" to the locals, they had opened it as 'Ez Burgerz' in whatever dilapidated retail space they could find.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11886795
But if you were interviewing for a tennis instructor, wouldn't that be a valid result? You probably shouldn't hire pros who aren't good at teaching when the job involves teaching.

Similarly, as a senior engineer at a large company, you need to be adaptable enough to work with people with less/different experience than you. Adjusting your message to the audience is an important skill.
FWIW, other turbojet airliners had larger intakes. E.g Tu-104 (which, coincidentally, was propped by Comet's fall, becoming the only jet airliner in service for a couple of years):

http://i.imgur.com/L4KLas2.jpg
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Pratt has to say that because Toyota is so far behind. He was hired to build up a self-driving group within Toyota.
Better to give someone a job related task perhaps?
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My mistake; thanks for the correction!