skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are one or two that come close but the precision and variance of Lego blocks is the stuff of myth that professional mold makers talk about on their lunch breaks. You have to really get close to the parts to see how incredible they really are, with the naked eye you won't see enough detail. The trick is repeat accuracy and that's where Lego is far better than their competition.

That said, they've been cutting quality, moving production to China, using cheaper formulation plastic. That's a bad move imnsho. The brand image is quality and people pay for that, if they ever seriously let that go it's going to be game over for them.
If diamonds are anything to go by, it is perhaps unlikely that the asteroid miners would dump the whole lot on the market in one go. It would be in their interests to maintain prices in order to maximise their profits, would it not?
First Version of Redis Written in Tcl
This is a great resource for someone to get started preparing a trip but when you're ready for topo detail, I highly recommend: https://mappingsupport.com/p/gmap4.php

It offers 8 different collections of topographical maps, some that include trails
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Note that I didn't make any value statement towards Docker - I don't have that much experience with it and found their infrastructure to be rather clunky, when I tried it. So, I'm not sure I'm qualified enough to make definitive statements about its usefulness.

I can see, however, a benefit in encapsulating different services in different containers, as this potentially gives you some control over them (available disk space, network usage etc.) * . On top of that, I imagine starting out on a "machine agnostic" approach can be rather useful if you have to change your network landscape further down the line: If your database already is configured as if it were running on its own server, there's certainly a bunch of unintended coupling effects you can avoid.

That said, I can't see Docker being the silver bullet it gets hyped up to be sometimes. But that goes for most new and shiny things in the tech space...

* And yes, that's already feasible without containers. Docker's approach to this seems to provide a way to do it in a much more automated way than most alternatives though.
OK, I "missed a subtlety", you intimate. Only one comes to mind: His website, and all of his posts here, are fictional, an over-the-top parody of a terminally vain fool. But if that's the case, he's just trolling here, which is disruptive and sociopathic.
The NTY calls it "theft" when it in fact is just copying ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
Every collector of Lego sooner or later becomes a collector of storage systems :) (Don't ask me how I know that...).

I use some relatively cheap plastic sliders stacked 10 high, parts go by length from the top down and by width left to right. Then there are departments for minifigs and associated parts as well as irregular stuff like base-plates and so on. Storage could easily be another blog post all by itself! It's a crazy problem.

For technic, which is many small parts I use small bins and bags inside the larger bins, but you probably could use a raaco rack or equivalent if you don't have too much of it.
If you make a correlation like this one, without explaining any potential causative steps, then everyone will rightly or wrongly assume racism.

It's not your fault, but such writing which amounts to pairing black people with something bad, without explanation, is a 'dog whistle' for racists---silently letting them acknowledge each other without being overt.

No, it's not enough to say "but black people are poor, thus dragging us all down". One is supposed to not acknowledge race unless it is pertinent, so to many your example is akin to a tautology of "poor people are poor, America has more of them", after the mental erasure of the racially irrelevant text.
Two accused of making white supremacist hand signs in White House
Introduction to the Blaze ecosystem
In my mathematics education, the standard has been that first year courses are "almost always" taught in Norwegian, whereas second year and higher are taught in English if there are non-Norwegians present.
Maybe this description of the two games might help clarify the link.

Game 1: Player 1 chooses a dice, then player 2 chooses a dice. They both roll numbers, say a and b. Then player 2 gives player 1 (a - b) dollars.

Game 2: Player 1 chooses a dice, then player 2 chooses a dice. They both roll numbers, say a and b. Then player 2 gives player 1 (a - b > 0 ? 1 : -1) dollars.

You can kind of squint and see that game 2 is the same as game 1 just with (a - b) "rounded" to either 1 or -1.
The belt movement is continuous, parts that do roll around on the belt are coming out crazily warped because in each image the belt has moved 3 to 5 mm and the part has moved the same but probably in a different direction than the one the belt is moving in. Those images are useless. This scheme would work if you could always get the parts out of a single frame on the camera but they're much too long for that (24 studs long is the maximum).
What ?! Do you have any experience in android development?
Remember that everyone is till stuck in a null filled java 6 feature hell.
And don't come at me with half ass backported lambda expressions and no real java 8 features.

I wouldn't go back, EVER
Thanks, posted. I am however also interested to hear from non-technical stakeholders who have supported something similar.
The article has many points that are not correct. I was a foreign student who did studienkolleg (preparatory university course), bachelor and master degrees in German in Bavaria. In total, I spent 6 years in their educational system.

One thing to highlight is that German universities are very different to the American system of small groups, interaction with students, labs, hand-holding, etc. Traditional German education is one where you are not obliged to go to classes and you only have one final exam at the end of the semester. Some classes had up to 800 students. In other classes, we never got to see the professor and we were taught by a PhD student. Nobody knew your name and you were just another face, if you ever showed up to class. Thus, the marginal cost of having an additional local or foreign student is minimum.

This system is not for everyone and given that my classes were all in German, it was very challenging. University-level German (vocabulary, idioms, etc) is very different from the one you learn at the Sprachkurs. Most foreign students dropped out and went back home. This is also accentuated by the fact that if you fail an exam 3 times, you are expelled from the university and you are banned from studying that study field for life across all German universities.

Moreover, German universities do not have their own sport facilities and luxurious campuses as their American counterparts. Normally, for sports, there is a shared facility for all local universities and you pay an extra semester ticket to have access. The average German university has old facilities and no luxuries. Thus, the cost base is completely different to universities in the US.

Back then, we were told that Germany offers education to foreigners to foster relations with foreign countries. If we foreigners study in Germany and are shaped the German way, once we go home, not only we will be well qualified, but also we will be keen to establish business relations with German companies.

During my study times, around 2006, they introduced at my university fees for everyone. The idea was not popular and it was not covering the cost of education. The idea did not last long. Some years later it went back to be free for everyone. German universities are very left-leaning and in the German society there is a wide consensus that university education should be free for all.

The CDU and FDP, two political parties on the right spectrum, constantly push the idea of charging foreign students to help finance public education, but the idea has never gotten any type of support in the society.
I can't agree that if you can detect illegal activity you invariably will act against it efficiently, one of the examples from the top of my head is the Amazon Deforestation.

You're conflating a simple statement that presents factual information to a mindset.

One in fact can use that information to try influencing people to be scared™. However that is not always the case, and people can for example offer an alternative.

The case in point is not that I agree or not with the passing of the law, but that passing it may have unintended consequences, so that you need to account for that.

The analogy was intended to be used as a context for a debate against decision makers using factual data, the fact that it's mining or liquor does not make difference. It was devised to counter-attack your understanding that just by warning of something bad if you do something else you're being defeatist.

> Some people might see it as sort of a defeatist stance to take. Is it harder to detect illegal mine or to regulate all mining?

Since you're assuming something implicit in our discussion maybe you can answer the question yourself.
Currencies actually fail quite regularly (hints: Zimbabwe, Venezuela) - it makes a lot of sense to hold wealth in a form that will survive that. Maybe someone wants to claim that any individual country "will never" suffer from a currency crisis. I'll just point out that America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump in one election then agree to disagree.

Countries want an asset that can hold wealth through a crisis where the way things work radically changes. This asset needs to be:

* As indestructible as possible

* Easy to transport if an adversary is approaching (see also, European history :P)

* Hard to create

Gold satisfies these requirements really well; and as an added bonus it is nearly useless so hoarding it doesn't risk the real economy (see also; the US helium reserves and the risk to medical imaging or such when they run out).

EDIT I'll add that the 'easy to transport' part is what makes this Fed-Bundesbank business so completely weird - this quantity of gold is physically quite small and should be easy to inspect and audit.
Speaking of maps, is there a good app with offline maps to use with your GPS?
>First, despite constant media reports saying otherwise, there is no major talent shortage expect in very few niches.

"Shortage" is not the right frame of refrence here, because it implies a fixed-size pie. Having an educated population tends to grow the pie for everyone (on average over a longer observation period).

It's not like there is a fixed number of jobs mined from the soil of each country. This sort of flawed thinking is at the core of most "immigrants are taking our jobs" sort of fears.
Rattleback
No, unfortunately some banks (in Cyprus, for example) still charge. They also ignore the directive in terms of time to process transactions
Live and learn :)

You should have seen my face. Also, try to explain to your s.o. that you're about to buy an extra garage solely to house something that you have no idea how it will all work out and when - and if - it will ever go away again. And that was two years ago.

It really is hilarious. For me it's more or less business as usual though, I take lots of chances. Some work out and some don't. This one is still undecided.
Could you share the names of the places that they consider to be acceptably authentic?
Price range? Ill assume cheap.

500-2500 1988+ civic with less than 160k. Make sure timing belt has been done if over 80k.

2500-5000 Should get you a lot of choices, go for the best maintained. Well maintained 100k is better than poorky maintained 50k. Avoid european makes, luxury cars, suvs. Japanese is still best, but many others are fine.

If buying used, get a mechanics opinion. If seller refuses, walk away. Do not buy anything with no title ot errors on paperwork, leins, or from someone not on the title. If unsure, call the local police and ask to run the VIN, creeps will get scared off. Buy the car as-is, never with promises of fixes. Get a signed bill of sale as well as the title and any emissions required.

Beware fresh paint jobs, new axle/suspension, new motor, and other big work a car should not need unless wrecked badly. A wrecked and repaired car is never as good as new.
I agree, we were told the same thing, when I was a full-degree foreign student in Bavaria: They do this as part of their foreign policy and they expect us to go back home to help develop our country and ideally do business with German businesses.
What I mean is, it looks like the researchers only looked at whether or not the "/s" was intentionally placed at the end of the comment, not whether the comment was actually sarcastic or whether the person that wrote it understood that "/s" is meant to convey sarcasm.
Speculating here, but as a defeated and occupied WW2 power - indeed still hosting U.S. troops to this day - Germany might not have had very much say in where its gold got stored.

Compare and contrast with speculation about what happened to Ukraine's gold: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-18/ukraine-admits-its-...
Did Switzerland sell them themselves, i.e. were they flown back to Switzerland first or was the sale done by the Fed?
Yeah, the author seems caught up in his idealism.

"The problem with Academia.edu is that it is a commercial enterprise. It is not created to serve the common good – diffusing knowledge. It is also not created to serve democratic ideals, but to make money."

I wonder if this guy has a mortgage or kids, and how many unpaid hours he puts in per week "for the common good". I could understand if they were gouging people, but as you say 8 euro per month hardly seems unreasonable. The site owners are under no obligation to run a charity simply to appease Mr. Maly's morality.
Subaru are a maint nightmare. Avoid after 80k. Head gaskets and turbos die and are hard to change, requiring dropping the whole engine.
Mineral resource exhaustion is just a myth: study
Your comment made me more interested in this solution than I was at first glance. I tend to prefer pragmatism over elegance, which is why I like using a webbrowser as a runtime, for instance. It'll work everywhere.

If this idea has similar pragmatic advantages over the would-be best solution, then I'm game.
And in fact from the additional attention that Netflix has gotten from this leak I would expect that they get more new subscribers than they would have if the series wasn't leaked.
The word 'huge' looks suspicious to me.

Also, if it is progressive why couldn't you still AOT the client side?

You could be completely right, but your comment smells dodgy.

Note that as it's typescript it will be transformed to JavaScript anyway, all the comments stripped, etc. so very much doubt it will be huge. And minification is becoming ever more irrelevant in the modern age because of http2.
Is this a joke? Racist hand signs?
or just emoji e-log as emoji electronic log
It is not so easy. It takes a lot of time to get a good level of German: At least 1 year of intensive courses, eventually 2. After this, you have to take Studienkolleg, if you want to have a chance at graduating. German universities are really challenging. In addition, as a foreign student, you will take longer than your German peers to graduate.
In total to get a bachelor, you need to invest somewhere between 6-7 years. It is a lot of time (and money) for most people.

The worst part is that you do not have a guarantee that you will graduate. I knew many cases of foreign students, who invested 3-4 years of their life and were expelled from the university for failing their final exams. They returned home with nothing on their hands.
I will have to disagree with you on this. The answer is not cut and dried though. Code slowly starts to become spaghetti when you start putting in more and more UI logic into it. At one point of time, it just becomes a complete mess of if conditions, $.each loops and when you start putting $("#div").("data-something", "value"), you know its spaghetti time.

Personally, I feel the components approach keeps it sane. Just let your v-dom layer do all the work. Use a state management library if needed.

Just my 2 cents.
It isn't nearly that hard to find authentic Chinese food. It probably isn't on the menu because it doesn't sell, but most non chain Chinese restaurants are pretty capable of putting together a nice authentic meal.
China pushes global fisheries to the brink
The begging is just so they can get free money. They know their audience are a bunch of saps. It is greed more than desperation.
Public policy is not politics. I was happy to have an opportunity to comment about some open source tax modeling resources.
That argument is countered in the article. I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to read it.
A far better comparison would be the Taco Bell Chalupa which shares the name with a Mexican dish but has nothing in common with the Mexican dish.

Taco Bell, much like American-Chinese food, or McDonalds, accelerated past cultural escape velocity a long time ago.

See also the concept of American Lite-Beer-like-beverage vs German Beer.

The concept of cultural escape velocity applies to more aspects of culture than just food.
>all of POSIX is available

That's nowhere near enough for application development in 2017, POSIX is nice, but it's the bare minimum - kind of like WTO rules for international trade, nice baseline, but you still want better deals with individual countries.

> It's what home routers and similar devices ought to be running instead of Linux.

Given that QNX is closed source, the state of BlackBerry, the NSA leaks, the subversion of BB Messenger security etc., I'd contest whether that's a good idea.
How big is a row? If you're saying the change speed is "100s of records per second or less" you could easily connect to each database as a replica and stream the change data capture to Kafka/Google Pub/Sub or Kinesis and stream the inserts into your destination table.

This should be possible for much less than $100,000. Assuming each database gets its own process for reading the change feed, you're looking at 20 (add more based on individual table/db needs) instances for the change data capture, 3-5 instances for Kafka/ZK brokers, and a handful of machines for reading the changes and writing them into the destination database.

The important thing here is not the number of databases or the size of the tables - its the speed at which inserts happen. 100 inserts/updates per second * 30k tables = 3M per second. That can be handled by the architecture I described above.

If this is a real problem you are trying to solve, I'd love to talk to you. I'm a co-founder of stealth company that is building better tools for engineers solving problems like this.

Our product can solve this exact problem very easily. I'd love to hear what you are working on and show you what we've built. Let me know how to contact you.

Edit: corrected my math.
> 1 - Why do Germany and Netherlands even store their gold in the USA?

Today: because it turns out they cannot get it back. Originally because countries did not want that when they were invaded by others that the invader would also run off with the wealth. So keeping it on the other side of the world in a 'neutral' country looked reasonable.
It was a little difficult to believe that such a property (dice being transient) was possible. But a little simulation in python 2 (using the Wikipedia example) makes everything crystal:

https://gist.github.com/spapas/9b29e1dec752b85fc1d6ad660af7f...
The author should ask his librarian how much the school pays for access to journals, preferably while seated and not eating anything lest he choke.
For that, just running my stuff in tmux is generally sufficient.
> I think 8 euro a month is not a huge price to pay.

It's a price that readers (people who wish to access scientific articles) have to pay: this is unacceptable no matter the amount.

> [arXiv] had near death experiences in the meantime

I have never heard about this before, do you have any specific reference?
Poll Reveals Brits Most Likely to Lie at Work, Chinese to Their Family
The problem is that roads are too usable. They can be used by your political enemies just as they can your friends.
Many big companies (like SAP) are totally fine with English only. I know a lot of people working in Germany for many years already, almost without speaking a word in German.
Well this would have been very useful 6 months ago, when I started working on my undergraduate dissertation.
Considering how much institutes pay for journal licenses or the $20 - $50 I pay for a single article, I don't have much of an issue with $8 a month to find the right article.

Not to mention, you can still find articles for free if the keyword is in the title or keyword abstract so the $8 a month isn't necessary.

That said, I wouldn't mind seeing a rev-share model (like old platforms like Squidoo) for popular article authors who are sharing their work for free. With a growing amount of works coming from poorly paid adjuncts, while journals, publishers and institutions continue to rake in huge money, it'd be good to see some of this flowing back to the researchers who work to support the open access of knowledge.
I would say that when a device is used to prevent cranial deformation rather than cause it, that is exactly the opposite (not sure what it is called, google brings up "cranial remolding" and "molding helmet") of artificial deformation.

What I am saying is that most feet, as with most skulls (and even, I daresay -- as e40 humorously mentioned -- most brains), form naturally, without external "assistance".
Slightly off topic but I think Brave New World is more relevant in today's world than 1984.

Majority of people couldn't care less what our government does as long as they have Netflix, Facebook, and their drug of choice. You should also check out Amusing Ourselves to Death
I agree that security method a) seems useless, but b) is still good if you take time into account. You know when the account was 'secure' and the forwarding address that was setup can be considered a safe way to recover the password if the user opts in on that (there is surely some use cases for the forward that I'm not thinking about).
In Baden-Württemberg, KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) is the "place to go" in computer science.
Most of academic research is not a for-profit enterprise and aims at serving the common good: scientists don't make direct monetary profit from the articles that they write.

Knowing that this "idealist" system appears to work, one would expect that a not-for-profit service analogous to Academia.edu would not be a completely unrealistic dream... This is why Academia.edu is disliked by the author and other academics: they are building a for-profit service on top on the not-for-profit system of academic research.
I would assume the gold is typically never traded by moving it physically between location, but just brought into a vault where both parties have an account (like the Fed, or London)

They didn't say how much gold they had at the Fed, just that they used to and that they no longer have any.

https://www.bullionstar.com/gold-university/central-bank-gol... has a bunch of data.

For example with the sell via the BIS, I assume they just transferred the gold within the Berne vault to BIS (BIS has an account there), and then let the BIS handle the sale. The London gold was likely already there.
There is very litte content in the blog so very little to not trust. The situation as described is hardly news. Foreign countries have troubles repatriating gold and that is hardly surprising. The US are in a better position to negotiate here.