skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making the society compatible with that actually sounds like an excellent idea. Why not?
> Walmart is skilled in cut-throat margin markets, with the power to shift the upstream supply in order to meet its own goals.

Granted, so is Amazon.
Great job on the website I can understand the hug problems I'm sure it's more stable otherwise, how long has this been going on btw?

I've been meaning to read Don Quixote for a while now just downloaded it, hope I find the strength to start it.
Bitcoin isn't a market or national currency. Bitcoin in more like a highly volatile equity or commodity. If the price of a volatile stock jumped from $21 to $30 in a week, and then cooled off to $24 two weeks later, no one would call it a crash.

Just add to zeros to all those number, and that's exactly what happened to Bitcoin.
This is the beginning of a "clean break" to LTE. Verizon has announced plans to begin to retire their CDMA network in 2019, so this is a way to get people off CDMA entirely. They don't want CDMA compatibility because they see it as legacy technology with retirement fast approaching.

The first comparison that came to mind was Apple removing floppy disk drives. "Why can't it support CDs and floppies!?" people asked.
Elon makes a good point that it is inevitable that Human should colonize another planet. I don't think Mars is the planet. We are solving a hard problem with the current technology, but we are missing the point that we may have a technology in the future that enables us to explore less hostile far planets that require one trip. Think about the first settlers who came to North America before the Europeans.
I think OAuth logins are a nice compromise. "Login with Google / Facebook / ..." with one click works well!

Unfortunately, some sites use it to just get your email address, and still require you to make a password for them, which defeats the purpose and decreases user trust in the benefits of going through the flow.
And it's not just an idiosyncrasy to maintain that stuff either. If they don't maintain the perception of being a premium brand/neighborhood anchor people will stop shopping there.

Whole Foods gets higher margins because their customer base cares more about various intangibles beyond just the value-for-money. Take those intangibles away and suddenly you're competing on value-for-money alone and Walmart will eat your lunch while smaller, independent grocers go after your dinner.
The Theory of the Firm claimed that those information limitations were the limiting factor on firm size, bit a motivation. (Motivation for large firms being to avoid transaction costs.)

Some very large companies, like Google/Alphabet and Samsung, are more focused on concentration of wealth (ie functioning as holding companies) than on avoiding transaction costs, and hence have internal market economies.

Hence oddities such as Samsung's semiconductors division selling screens and memory, often custom-designed, to the competitors of Samsung's cellphone division - they act as separate companies reach pursuing their own profit.

In that sense, conglomerates are sometimes not "firms" in the traditional economic sense.
> Many of the developers I've seen working in this space seem a few years behind

Could you be more specific what you're referring to here? As it is developing it seems to me like there is a very high chance of companies ending up with a tangled mess of things, but wondering if you're seeing different issues than me.
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> You can't always know, so have as many backups as you can afford.

A backup on mars is basically the most ludicrously expensive backup you can imagine. It's as if when I make a backup for my hard-drive in Europe, I rent a safe in Japan to put it in. That would not make sense unless I think the whole European continent could be wiped out somehow. That's the thing : I don't think anything, not even the possibilities you mention, could make Earth worse a place to live than mars, not even a nuclear war. And I don't see a scenario that would wipe out all humans. Again, not even a nuclear war.

And even if one of these scenarios could indeed wipe out humans, chances are that in a world where interplanetary travel is cheap, mars would not be spared.
I'm perfectly fine calling someone on the phone, but many other millennials strongly dislike phone conversations.
And then you have to hope for soil that is not itself radioactive. Lots of soil on earth contains radon, but I don't know about soil on mars.
I think it has a lot to do with context - I imagine candy with unusual flavors were probably not an everyday purchase 100 years ago, let alone something soft. That, plus the exotica of "Turkish" delight (since there was a lot of curiosity re: the Middle East back then) seems like it might have been why Lewis chose that. Roald Dahl has a great bit on going to buy candy as a kid in "Boy" (http://dhunter.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/5/8/2958381/roald_dahl...) - which makes it sound much more of a magical experience than the jaded way I get m&ms at the corner store today.

An aside: not to be a snob, but the commonly found (especially in the UK) Fry's Turkish delight is kind of a bastardization, and I think the vacuum sealed airport kind is OK but doesn't really do it justice. If you happen to go to Istanbul at some point, drop by Haci Bekir, Divan, Cafer Erol, or one of the other myriad candy shops that have been at it for decades, sometimes centuries. "The Best" is very subjective, but I think all these will have good, fresh specimens. Or go to Pera Palace's cafe and have a Turkish coffee, which always comes with lokum on the side.
Relevant song by Flight of the Conchords:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
I found Power BI's natural language Q & A to be the real killer feature that Tableau, et al currently don't have.

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...

It actually works 90% of the time and helps you answer fairly complicated questions about your data set, visualize them and add them to your dashboard.
That's a great point, thanks. I think perhaps this triggers an instinctive fear of danger that you can't size up because it's (purportedly) hidden away. Even though one is ostensibly better than the other in a practical sense, the fear of being randomly victimized by those in power with no ability to right it both socially and legally, even after the fact, is pretty chilling.

If you assume for a moment that the allegations are true, that powerlessness is exemplified in this thread–you have someone from Japan basically saying that if you're even under suspicion you probably did something to deserve it. Coming from somewhere like the US that scares me more even if that fear is irrational in a practical sense.
Epic course, got great advice and even managed to raise some money during the process.

The best thing is weekly update structure which really forces you to get a lot of stuff done.

https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/148
a) will happen, it is just a matter of "when" not "if." Of course, "when" could mean tomorrow or a hundred years from now, no one is really sure and there are both optimistic (it will happen in 1975!) and pessimistic (it will happen in the year 2500!) predictions.
> It seems that when there is an agenda to advance, all reason and skepticism go out the window.

Perhaps it seems that way to you, but that theory isn't fleshed out by the two pieces of evidence you provided (or any evidence I'm aware of).

I can't use your theory to explain or predict the veracity of stories on, say, the front page, op-ed page, and back page of a widely read newspaper. I can explain and predict that with a theory like Chomsky and Herman's "Manufacturing Consent" (even if I don't agree with every single case study and argument in their book).

However, I can explain and predict the veracity of Facebook fake news links by pointing out they aren't news because don't adhere to journalistic standards.
Here's a plan of the place -- http://www.architectes-bordeaux.com/img_proj_barres_coquet/m...
Well after my payment didn't show up, I put 2 and 2 together and concluded (clearly incorrectly) that the site didn't actually work. :)
Hmm. I've just downloaded Algis Budrys' "Short Fiction" and Lewis Carroll's "Alice", I have to say I have mixed feelings about the files. Both render very badly in Calibre (on Debian Linux, latest stable), very uncomfortable to read with lots of unexpected spaces breaking up the words, yet they render perfectly in Ionic on my Nokia N9 and in FBReader on my Lenovo Android tablet. I've never seen this happen before so I'm not sure if this is a bug in Calibre or in the epub file.

A couple of questions:

- How come there is no search function?

- Why are authors sorted by first name?

- Do the results of the proof reading get fed back to Project Gutenberg, et al.

- Will readers like FBReader be able to add this catalogue?

So, sounds like a good idea and I hope it succeeds but it's not quite there yet.
It needs severely more documentation, heh. Why would I use it over mypy, which appears to have a lot more community investment, thorough docs, and is somewhat official? It also doesn't support python3.6 so it doesn't know about format strings =/
What is the state of Hyperloop? Has Elon Musk invested (financially) in the project?
> Implementing this in stores would be a huge ethical issue.

Not really. It's only effective on their own wifi network. Disconnect and you're good to go.

> Future versions could also be more malicious, such as modifying the price or even availability of the item on a competitor's website if possible.

That would have serious legal implications, so I don't see it.

> This is why we need to keep supporting both technical solutions such as VPNs and https, as well as political solutions like net neutrality.

Or, you know, turn off the free wifi they are giving you?
> > "spend less time [billing] on research"

> is not, and never will be, an effective value proposition

It will be if it means you provide better value for the cost, attracting more and more valuable business.

Or, if you can just deliver the same results at the same cost, with fewer associates and paralegals. Sure, the firm won't make more money, but everyone still in it will. And firms don't have interests, individual partners do; firms interests are just a shorthand for those of the partners.
In the event that the article is wrong or just fear mongering, you can buy unscented coconut oil. It essentially tastes like margarine.
Let's reframe the problem for him. The main problem he is trying to solve is the risk of being tied to one planet. So he wants to buy insurance for humanity. How else can you solve this problem?
Thanks for this, I think you are on to something here! After all, why not free the human potential from manual labour to something more ...humane?
Good luck to you my friend, I hope you're able to see some growth from here on out.

Found myself in a similar position over the last year, though with different circumstances. Fired and burnt out from a corporate stooge job I took a chance on, age 25 now, but still finding myself in the depths of the job hunt process. Roughly the same experience. It's grating. After a year or so of no success, little feedback if any, I moved to manual labour instead of the junior pos. I don't think it would have been possible to be unemployed for a year with dependants. I imagine that would be incredibly stressful.

If there's one thing I've learned so far in my experience (at 25) it's​ that momentum is important. It's difficult and depressing to maintain momentum in interviewing if you get no feedback, can't improve, don't see success, and waste vast amounts of time. It's very difficult to maintain momentum in software in general if you've spent so long outside of it interviewing that you haven't worked on anything of value in months. The junior pos will allow to keep some level of momentum and at the very least that will keep.you paid and moving forward.

Apologize ahead of time for the atrocious grammar. Typed on my phone on the go.
I think this is a bit misleading. In my experience, EBS/S3 and GCS expenses are dominated by data transfer costs. Linode is providing 1 to 20 TB data transfer free with the compute. While comparing, we'd have to compare (one Linode plus block storage costs) to (one EC2/GCE node plus EBS/S3/GCS storage costs plus network transfer costs).
> Yes, think of the poor truck drivers. I'm sure they love doing a dull job.

I have met some truck drivers who DO love their job. They have spoken about the opportunity to travel (that from a husband-and-wife driver team who claimed to enjoy living on the road). They speak of the opportunity to own their own business (although, to be fair, independent truckers are becoming less common).
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Personally, I've tried many:

- Local supermarket (pickup and delivery)

- Amazon Fresh

- Services like BlueApron

BlueApron is a WAY better value, IMO. This is where I see the future being. It's fun, healthy (very), promotes sustainability, is fairly cost-effective (once you consider they deliver it as part of the cost) and is worry-free.

Shopping on Amazon still means I have to shop. Might as well take 5-10 minutes and go to the store :)
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Buffet is interesting. He's an actual investor. Not a stock purchaser like most people. He buys companies and then has enough power to control the business. Under his firm, the company then becomes more valuable through leadership. As a result he can make billions.
> Duales Studium is hardly a novelty. As I said it's actually from the 60s.

The modern concept "Duales Studium" is both a novelty and a fringe. If you want to keep arguing semantics, I don't care.

> In reality the Ausblidung enables further education offerings.

Did I claim otherwise? To put in other words: Unless you have an "Ausbildung" or an "(Fach)Abitur" you are barred from further education.

> Ensures that people actually know something about their jobs, beyond training on the job.

It enforces that people know things they don't need to know. It prevents people willing to work but unwilling to spend three years as an underpaid apprentice from taking part in the market. A 25% drop-out rate for "Berufsausbildung" speaks for itself.

Out of cursiosity: Did you ever actually do a "Berufsausbildung"? University graduates are entering the market as full employees with zero actual work experience. What gives?

> A rather useless recommendation.

No, it's crucial. If you correlate low youth unemployment with the education system, you had better corrected for factors like government programs to "hide" it.

> That's wrong. The dual education model addresses people who want a more practical education. Making a choice does not mean 'weeding out'. The education model allows people later to move on to more advanced education tracks and many do.

The facts are that (in many states) it is decided which child gets to do an "Abitur" (requirement for university attendance) when the children are as young as 10. From that point on, it becomes more and more difficult (albeit not impossible). This isn't particular to "Duale Ausbildung", in fact nowadays if you want an "Ausbildung" in one of the better jobs, you had better done an "Abitur" as well.
This happens often enough for you to need a programmatic solution?
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There's a valid perspective from which type systems are particularly-constrained macro systems. That doesn't mean there aren't contexts where it's useful and/or interesting to distinguish. But if you wish, pretend I had written "traditionally conceived general purpose macros" :)
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Check out our contributors page: https://standardebooks.org/contribute/

Specifically, see our typography manual, semantics manual, and the step-by-step guide to producing an ebook (all linked from the contributors page) for details.

You can also check out our toolset, which automates a lot of what we do: https://github.com/standardebooks/tools
I disagree. Blocking isn't tampering because you are informed of what happened. And that's moot, in this context, because blocking sites is absolutely legal in the US.
TSX has been an experimental new feature --- disable it and all is good again, since there is no production-quality software targeting it. On the other hand, to me it seems that Ryzen segfault bug cannot be simply eliminated. Disabling ucode cache might help. Disabling ASLR "pretty reliably" (per grandparent) resolves it. But I would imagine "pretty reliable", sans official investigation report from AMD, not reliable enough for those operating server farms, which jeopardizes the main value proposition of EPYC. By no means am I bashing AMD's new tech though --- it's just CPUs are so critical that you want strong guarantees on "from this ucode patch onwards, you won't get hit by this particular problem, at least 99.9999% of the time".
What about non-frustrated Scala users, should they drop Scala and Scala.js in favor of an effectively experimental language with zero industry adoption?

Post-Scala is already under way with the new compiler, Dotty[1], which will replace present day Scala.

[1] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty
All these talks are from the Computerphile channel, definitely worth watching for their awesome work on many other topics!
I don't know about the "crime against humanity" but it's pretty hard to disagree with him on that topic. Most opponents fall back to crude insults, as you have. I suspect that a majority of reasonable people would agree that new genders do not spring into existence simply because you imagine them, and that it is completely obvious that all humans are either male or female. Labelling this simple acknowledgement of reality "transphobia" is very dishonest.
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You're right about that extra step, which may be crippling enough to keep users away.
I use couch, pouch, elasticsearch and sql dbs. I never really got the "schemaless" selling point of nosql though.

I do see the point of storing documents rather than rows for some use cases, or dbs extra strong on searches, etc.

But what is the problem with an "add column" or "change datatype" operation is sql..?
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Fascinating topic, and I loved hearing from Tim.

Probably wont win me points, but I have to say it: I wish Craig would improve his interview skills. I didn't feel he led the conversation towards the more interesting topics. Most of his comments felt distracting. Since he didnt seem to have deep knowledge in the area, as the audience I want him to stay out of the way.
It's funny that with all this talk recently about the rise of AI and robots, we continue to just assume that space exploration and colonization has to be done with human beings.. As if we've already exhausted the most robots could do with rovers and satellites.

From a economic and safety perspective, it would seem far more practical to establish a foothold in non-Earth environments with robots that do the initial habitat construction for humans. I fear we are hand-waving much of the risk the first batch of humans we send to Mars have to shoulder - think the Roanoke Colony of the 16th century
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On the other hand, Kiva Systems which is now Amazon Robotics is apparently now a terrible place to work. :(
Worth the downvotes:

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While Venus can support cloud city type colonies, what makes it hard is that you will have to bring them with you, or build them from asteroids along the way.

Since Mars has an atmosphere, you can use it to get the delta-v costs to be in the ball-park of landing on the moon.

If the numbers SpaceX posted for going to Mars are in the right ballpark, it looks like bypassing construction in orbit is the fastest way to backup humanity. Long term it might be more expensive to do it that way, but it would extend the timeline by decades.

Another advantage of doing Mars first is that anyone wanting to do orbital construction will be able to sell their goods to colonists which need lower tech items than the advanced stuff like semiconductors you need for making satellites. This should help bootstrap the industry as making simple, heavy goods (eg: shovels) is easier than trying to make more complex items.
> sending robots first and let them build at least a rudimentary base first and mine resources and teleoperate the whole thing from a save distance

The main problem is that robots (currently) suck without humans to guide them. And with an up-to 20-minute speed of light delay each way, it's really hard to guide robots on Mars. Curiosity, the most complex robot we've landed on Mars, is managing something like <5 km/year.

Autonomous robots would be needed- multiple, very smart and very tough. We don't have that yet.
We completed startup school (https://www.startupschool.org/presentations/470). Took us about 3 hours to create a Keynote presentation and add audio to it.

Hopefully, this provides a somewhat different perspective. We aren't your typical founders in their twenties.

Startup School was overall very positive. Speaking with our advisor, Michael Johnston was absolutely excellent. He is an absolute mensch, very helpful, consistently useful advice and very generous with his time.

That having been said, would I say that time spent on startup school consistently added more value than just spending that time doing one of a) hacking away and pushing forward, b) resting or c) exercising? Nope. If you need outside validation and an external push and someone keeping you accountable for you to keep pushing forward, it's going to have much more value. On the other hand, if you know what you need to get done and your startup is something that makes you jump out of bed in the morning so you can get to it, which is how I feel about our startup, I'm not sure that you aren't better off just doing that and avoiding any distractions.

The startup school videos were consistently very good. I would recommend everyone watch those, even on topics that they think they know a fair amount about.
What they left out of this pithy marketing pitch is that a recruiter will send you an email with 20 questions in it. Many of them are in depth multiple part questions. Essentially they were asking you to submit an essay before even speaking with a human being. When I responded that I would be happy to answer these questions in a conversational setting I was told that was not an option and I was also told "many people have told us they really enjoy answering these questions." No thanks CircleCI your process seemed DOA to me.
Our proclivity to treat all “unskilled labor” as if the people doing them are trained monkeys is one of the reasons customer service in large retail stores is so often horrible.

If you treat your people like valuable members of society/your organization they will develop and improve on the actual skills that an unskilled job needs, like anticipating problems, knowing when an how to escalate issues, being warm to customers, being knowledgeable about the business and your products, and hustling when needed.

If your treat your people like disposable chattel then they’ll show up to punch a clock, check the boxes, and get out as soon as possible.
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Why is half the team in their underwear in their PR photo?
Everyone is going to die, but few will be remembered. Those who first go to Mars will be remembered long after their deaths. Whether they are remembered as being crazy or colonizers, they will be remembered. For many that is enough.