skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do I feel like etherium is being crammed into all kinds of places where it really isn't necessary, and offers little or no real benefit over conventional solutions? Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here.

As an example in addition to this post, our petroleum company recently began a switch to an ETH based block chain for managing/tracking inventory/data samples. I don't understand how hacking smart contracts together on a private ledger is not total overkill for such function.
> French food is great ... except in France it's very different (and outside of the center of Paris sucks pretty bad)

Can't tell if you're trolling, have never been to France, or just went to all the wrong places. The center of Paris would be the worst place to eat any great French food, unless you only care for pretentious, overpriced restaurants which get featured in tourist magazines. Go spend some time in small restaurants in Bretagne, Lyon, Alsace, Marseille, ...

> Cheap Chinese food in Paris ... you'll be sick for days.

Paris' immigrant Chinese population has been growing pretty wildly recently, and I've been to many Chinese restaurants with Chinese friends who are studying in France who find them pretty legit. Again, sounds like you need a better guide for when you're spending time in France :)

> Turkish fast food, specifically Kebab, is as far as I know a German invention taken up by Turks, rather than something that historically existed in Turkey.

Wikipedia disagrees with you:

"With time, the meat took a different marinade, got leaner, and eventually took its modern shape. It was not until a century later, that döner kebab was introduced and popularized in Istanbul, most famously by Beyti Güler. His restaurant, first opened in 1945, was soon discovered by journalists and began serving döner and other kebab dishes to kings, prime ministers, film stars and celebrities. [...]

In Germany the döner kebab was popularized by Turkish guest workers in the early 1970s with a center in Berlin."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doner_kebab#History
How We Packed More Hours into the Work Day
> This isn’t capitalism — it’s corporatism. Capitalism is messy. It’s wasteful. But it’s much healthier in the long run for society as a whole than central planning and government trying to pick the winners.

> Capitalism allows for small businesses to enter and actually stand a chance. Corporatism makes it impossible.

What you're calling "corporatism" is simply "late stage capitalism". As long as you continue to buy into the delusion that your almoghty dollar will make you a multimillionaire someday, you empower those who have the actual machines of finance under lock and key to act as the new monarchs of your world.
R u location-independent? 30-day res program in Taiwan to gain business insights
also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DashCon
"Imagine some service came along tomorrow that was a better fb or youtube, and real fb/youtube got even shittier (play to anything you know annoys said friend about those plats, or think up things they could do for profit that would annoy your friend)

"Now imagine that that new service can't compete, because fb/goog have a handshake deal with your ISP, so as long as you live here you're stuck with shitty X."

Honestly this ^ kinda thing is all most people would care about if at all.
^^ yep!

There's other more ways in which monetary policy siphons this eroded wealth to the rich. Mostly by foisting people and less-than-full-agency aggregation of 99%er wealth (pension fund manangers, etc) into corporate welfare via the stock market (because you need to make a return on investment to preserve wealth in the face of inflation). Another way the linkage between our monetary policy and economic structure creates inequality is by enabling the wealthy to take advantage of leveraged investments schemes (Forex, ETFs, etc) off of low-interest rate sources - the ibanks that fund these sorts of activities have a much more direct access to the federal reserve than you or I.

The 'capitalism screws the poor' narrative is so tiresome, not because it is oft repeated, but because it truly misses the structural reasons why the capitalist system we have now screws the poor.
So my suspicion is that the fundamental problem with emulsifiers is that they increase the surface area of the foods we eat. Food surface area seems to be a prime factor in how quickly we digest foods. In terms of carbs this leads to spikes in blood sugar and subsequent spikes in insulin which seems to be highly problematic both in insulin sensitivity and in tendency to keep snacking. I suspect a similar process is happening with emulsified lipids as well.
FFRobotics and Abundant Robotics have been demoing experimental systems for a while now. Both can pick apples, but both systems are still too slow and not field-ready yet. There have been working academic demo systems for about five years [1], but they're slow. Or slow and really complicated.[2]

Robot manipulation in unstructured situations still sucks. It can sort of be done, but doing it fast enough to be useful remains tough.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk1Yn0aAURA
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlaNDm88yZo
The Acid Aesthetic: A Brief History of Psychedelic Design
It is a new account, but it's not a new persona, given what I've read of his website. I can only imagine that it's an intentional caricature. That's fine for a website, but here, he's trolling.
I've seen Gobi Manchurian a couple of times (I'm American), really delicious. Also check out Mauritian food if you can, it has those influences and more.
EPA removes climate change information from website
I don't drink often, and when I do it's usually just one or two with my partner to unwind at home. I used to though, pretty heavily, and making that transition was tough: a) I definitely had been using alcohol as a social crutch and felt super self-conscious at parties when I wasn't drinking, and b) a lot of my friends knew me as a drinker and would give me some grief about it.

I've found two things that really made it easy to go to parties and things and not drink:

- Don't make a big deal about it, just politely decline when someone offers you a drink. "Can I get you a drink?" "I'm good, thanks" or "no thanks" is all it takes. If you say "no, I don't drink" to someone who's been drinking, that's way more likely to turn into an awkward situation. Alternatively, "I've got to drive" works too.

- Don't make it obvious that you haven't been drinking. If people are cheering and being loud, participate! You're at a party! When I first cut back, I often tried to talk about whatever it was I was thinking about at the time and was often met with "Dude, why are you thinking about that right now? We're on a pub crawl!" Time and place.

Now when I go out to a party, I'll hang out, do whatever's going on, and usually offer a few people a ride home whenever I'm getting ready to leave. Still gives me a chance to socialize for a while, catch up with old friends/meet new ones, and then I get to wake up and feel great the next morning.

Edit: re: being the "black sheep"... if you're otherwise just going with the flow of conversation and energy in the room, the only person who will really notice whether or not you're drinking is you. Hell, I sometimes even play drinking games (e.g. sociables) with a glass of water. Some people know that I'm just drinking water, some don't, but no one cares because I'm in there having fun with everyone else.

Also, if you're at a party with red solo cups, water is pretty much indistinguishable from any other drink, and if you're really feeling self-conscious about it, some Sprite or Coke or whatever with a few ice cubes is visually identical to a mixed drink. Beer might be trickier.
I used QNX as part of the day job in the 1990's, the reason for using it was real time scheduling and doing stuff for analog broadcast. We had a full 19" rack of 4 Compaq servers, each of them a very large box for a 75 Mhz CPU, with redundancy built in everywhere.

Back then QNX was definitely targeted at real time/embedded but you could also just use it like any other UNIX. Ease of installation to a functional X Windows desktop on PCs was minimal effort (one floppy?).

Somewhere along the way QNX lost this reason to exist - realtime interrupt handling etc. - and it being the easy, accessible tool for quickly putting together real time things, e.g. for broadcast, where the only coding requirement is simple scripts with the OS making it all work realtime reliably. In those days you couldn't just use a normal operating system for such things, it had to be your own EEPROM or something done higher level in QNX - a quick and dirty solution to some extent, in a good way.

Having read the article it now seems that getting started or up to speed on a QNX project is no longer something that can be done in an afternoon, it is all a whole lot less accessible.
I went the community college route, from De Anza to a UC, and I don't think I would recommend it to most people.

First of all, community college is a depressing place to be. It's like a cross between high school, juvenile hall, and the DMV.

For example, a lot of the students at community colleges are stoners who are only there because their parents have conditioned their financial support on college attendance, and those are the people who you will have to compete with for enrollment in impacted classes, and who will drag down your grade on group projects. The labs, libraries, and other facilities are pretty much a joke compared to what you get to use at a good UC or CSU, or even a good public high school. You are unlikely to develop personal connections that will help you build your career.

On top of all of that, transferring is not as easy at it might seem. You have to watch the transfer office like a hawk to make sure they don't screw up your paperwork. I had a guaranteed admission agreement, and even so, I caught multiple mistakes and miscommunications between the community college and the UC which would have voided my agreement, or delayed my transfer for a year. De Anza has one of the highest transfer rates in the country, so I can only assume things are even worse at other schools.

While you are trying to push your way through two years (at least) in this depressing and dysfunctional environment, your friends at CSUs and UCs will be enjoying higher quality classmates, instructors, and facilities, living the real college life, getting cool internships and other career opportunities, and making personal connections with people who will be successful in their fields.

In the end, the amount of money I saved by going to community college and transferring to a UC, compared to going to a UC for four years, adds up to the cost of a new Toyota Camry. That's a trivial amount of money, now that I look back on it years later -- a couple hundred dollars a month in student loans over a standard repayment term. Even people who are repaying their student loans don't bat an eye at spending that kind of money on a car, but for some reason people are apprehensive about spending it on two years of quality education and life experiences.

This may seem excessively negative, but I think it is a necessary counterbalance to a lot of the advice I see when this kind of issue comes up.
Overstock.com accepts bitcoin, are they fortune 1000?
lol. changed my noscript addon and forgot to whitelist HN. thanks for reminding me
I'm guessing they're holding out for a meshnet. Less realistically likely to be implemented at scale (and scale is what makes the internet as wonderful as it is) anytime soon than uber's moonshot of building their autonomous fleet in time tbh

Also even if that is it it would solve nothing, [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14220269
I'd pay 3-4 figures for an on-site sort of my personal Lego collection.
At my age I think I prefer having 3 monitors on my desk better than wearing ski goggles.
> As was mentioned earlier, BlackBerry QNX is not your typical embedded system, and our tools team provided me with the GNU tool chain (compiler, linker, debugger) built to run on an SDP 7 system.

Doesn't this imply some licensing troubles with the proprietary QNX license?
Surprisingly well balanced article that highlights different viewpoints on the issue:

>> Members of the $7.5 billion annual Washington agriculture industry have long grappled with labor shortages
Human pickers are getting scarce [..] “Young people do not want to work in farms, and elderly pickers are slowly retiring.”

>> The work is hard and dangerous, and has long drawn Mexican workers to central Washington [..] He estimated half the state’s farmworkers are immigrants who are in the country illegally [..] many of them have settled in Washington and are productive members of the community

>> ..the industry is deeply interested in alternatives to human labor..

>> The robotic pickers don’t get tired and can work 24 hours a day.

>> “They are scared of losing their jobs to mechanization,” [..] “A robot is not going to rent a house, buy clothing for their kids, buy food in a grocery and reinvest that money in the local economy.”
> walked into a P.F. Chang's, and had General Tso's Chicken

To be a touch contrarian, I'd even argue that the kind of food served in some of the newer chain restaurants isn't even proper traditional American-Chinese food (which seems to have shown up sometime in the late 19th, early 20th century). One of the things I've come to appreciate after lots of travel and lots of <insertcountry>-Chinese food is how well developed and embedded American-Chinese food is as an American cuisine.

There's rough variants of it in Western Europe when you can find it, but it's a little different. But you can find an American-Chinese restaurant in almost every po-dunk country town across the entirety of America. I've been to places where the only places around to get prepared foods was a local gas station and a Chinese takeout. And the menu is both incredibly standardized, but quintessentially American.

P.F. Chang, Ka Pao, and a couple other of the new food places seem to be putting an effort to "de-ethnic" the food and make the preparation and presentation of it shift a bit more into familiar American diets. It's actually kind of hard to talk about without ending up confused with the words, but the nearest I can think of is a spectrum from:

<food somebody from China would recognize> - to - <food an American would routinely make for themselves>

These new Chinese dining places seem to shift a bit more to the American side, and lose some of that scrappy mom&pop Chinese takeout joint charm and replace it with fresh faced, often Caucasian college kids serving healthy optioned brown rice and not too spicy or oily (and not too tasty) variants of American-Chinese favorites.

America has a lot of very interesting quasi-ethnic cuisines that are no longer recognizable by the people from their origins, but also don't really exist outside of the U.S. in any meaningful way.

Some day, perhaps, we'll just think of it as "food" and it'll be solidly on the right of that weird spectrum, much in the way Ramen is thought of as "food" in Japan even though it's also Chinese-Japanese cuisine. P.F. Chang's is a step towards Ramenizing American-Chinese food, but it still makes me feel a bit sad.

My only hope is the more recent trend of more "authentic" regional and modern Chinese cuisine finally starting to show up as a new wave in the U.S. Non-scary (for Americans), high quality, and tasty Chinese foods are starting to appear in American cities, often with an American-Chinese section on the menu.
Actually rice is the main focus in Japanese Sushi - it needs to be treated perfectly - soft and grained, yet sticky enough to just hold together, with salt and vinegar added to a point, pressed and eaten very quickly. Fish is just there to round off the rice. That's why Sushi chefs train for years just preparing the rice - cutting fish is the last step to learn.
I wish that when elevators were built, they would build a spiral slide for those descending next to it. That would instantly reduce the traffic by about half considering that I believe most people would opt for the slide.
Another vote for circle, too bad they stopped taking bitcoin
> French food is great ... except in France it's very different (and outside of the center of Paris sucks pretty bad

Hah! Lyon is the stomach of France, and it is very, very outside of Paris. There are many regions with amazing food in France. You're probably trying to make a point, but what you wrote makes no sense.
I don't think this will hurt Netflix too much, if anything it might lessen the load on their servers...
I think from the ML point of view it would be hard because of the amount of data you need to train an algorithm. ML algorithms in general need a really big amount of data to predict good results. If you have let's say a thousand of cases you know if the person got the offer or not, it still wouldn't be enough to train an algorithm.
Ask HN: Should I buy used car or new?
Brand? How old it should? Odometer?
I get these action emails, and I sign these letters to my congresscritters (as rms calls them), and the web sites say that a personal message can be "very effective."

So sometimes I channel my madness into these "personal messages." Since I assume that Inhofe and Lankford are too busy denying earthquakes to read their fan mail, I take the liberty of copying my latest one here:

Dear Sir,

I must report with some emotion that I and my family are finally leaving
Oklahoma, where you are an undeniable example and leader of the people.

I urge you to oppose the executive order opening up new oil and gas drilling off
our Arctic and Atlantic coasts. Please instead support the Stop Arctic Ocean
Drilling Act and the Clean Ocean and Safe Tourism (COAST) Anti-Drilling Act.

I will never forget the eleven long years I've spent in this place. With every
breath I take, I will be reminded of the natural wisdom of the Oklahoman people
and their deep relationship with the Earth.

Speaking of which, I have heard from some Oklahomans that the Earth is flat. As
it happens, I grew up in Louisiana, a very flat place where the admittedly poor
school system was possessed of its own opinions. As you may know, many of your
constituents have loved this great state far too much to ever stray from its
seemingly-endless confines, and although I have seen for example the Atlantic
Ocean with my own eyes, I confess I would not know how to go about proving to
them its so-called existence.

At any rate, I trust that when the time comes you will be bound to your
conviction, a conviction which I will enthusiastically support.
Just curious, what do you think the main bottlenecks are that cause physical slowness? The naive me asks, "Why can't you just turn up the speed/power/something?" but I assume it's more complicated than that or someone would have done it.
When they he says neurotic the author is probably not talking about people like you who occasionally take internet slapfights too seriously. They're probably talking about people like that dude on 4chan who wrote a 97 page document about another poster

http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/622/581/94e...

http://per.vyrd.net/of/utv.pdf
Solar PV is great distributed power source to install on roofs and maybe that's it. You can combine it with partial storage for household consumption, but even that is a burden.
This is a criminal act, and of course I don't condone it, but at the same time I do hope that some good comes out of it - particularly with regards to the attention which all organisations given to IT security.

Most organisations wouldn't feel comfortable with:

a) Not having locks on their buildings

b) Having known-defective locks on their building

c) Not doing regular audits of the locks their using vs. what criminals can crack

d) Not having reasonable organisation-wide policies to make sure the locks are used properly and kept secure

Yet I don't think that there is quite enough attention given to IT security. It still seems like primarily a "box ticking" exercise, or a case of throwing rules and regulations at the problem which make sense at face value, but are inherently flawed.
"It turns out that the logistics of throwing giant festivals in remote locations are difficult!"

I agree with your statement, but I'm not even sure it applies here. The organizers were charging up to $400,000 a ticket (!) including promises of chartered planes and geodesic domes. They provided none of it, the location is described as "dangerous", and it appears no performers showed up. But they did provide some sort of commercial flights back, which probably cost about $199 each. Sounds like a profitable scheme, particularly if the organizers are basically unknown and now simple disappear with the cash.
There absolutely is. Medium is in that "one of X top sites" while blogs would be in the long tail.

"Without having to buy X" just means you've yet learned nothing of the past. "Without having to buy" is just internet.org and (potentially, ultimately) a good tagline for trial subscriptions of zero rated content.

It's not the money (or "free" gratis) that matters, it's the control (or "free" libre).

People continuing to fundamentally not understand the rationale of controlling your own tech will be the single biggest contributor to "efforts to save the internet" failing, if you ask me.
It has been done in Crimeea last year. Pro gear to cut HV cables = C4. How do you run an undersea cable through the desert?
13 موزه با معماری شگفت انگیز در سراسر جهان and تصاویر
QC 25
ombudsmans are the best invention, I'm surprised they haven't caught on elsewhere.

They don't even cost money - the charges levied cover the costs I believe.
From the wikipedia entry for "blockchain" [0]

> Blockchains are "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. The ledger itself can also be programmed to trigger transactions automatically."

Blockchains are exactly what they're looking for, they solve the problem perfectly. By design, the blocks in a blockchain are a redundant, scalable, unhackable, cryptographically secure ledger transaction (in theory!).

From wikipedia again:

> All blockchains are distributed ledgers but not all distributed ledgers are blockchains.

Ethereum is a blockchain implementation that has programmable contracts. If you're designing a system like this, and need it to be out in the public and self-governing, it makes sense.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Nice work! Very tempted to try it out on a spare machine. Sure brings back memories of the fully functional QNX desktop that fit on a single 1.44MB floppy! [0]

Tangent: It's a shame that Blackberry hasn't captured more of mobile phone market with the QNX based BB OS10 - I got myself a BlackBerry Passport couple months ago and find it is a great daily driver for my needs. Square screen (1400x1400) and physical keyboard ftw.

It's got a rather enjoyable development experience too. Momentics IDE let's you write QML/JavaScript apps that automatically refresh running instance on phone after every save, much like one would expect nowadays with React. Wrote a simple DI.fm Radio Streaming app[1] over a course of few nights - I haven't had that much fun scratching-own-itch and learning new platforms since playing with Delphi almost two decades ago...

[0] http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

[1] https://github.com/slobo/BlackBerry-10-Digitally-Imported
I'd say in the 20-50 person company range, engaged in everything from real-time video analysis to ecommerce.
If you are interested in learn K8S and Rails for example, I wrote a book on that: http://www.apress.com/us/book/9781484224144

I would recommend to start with Docker. Learn how to setup a Ruby development environment. Then try to deploy that same environment only using Docker. Then when you understand the workflow you can try K8S.