skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly it was better optics for her to donate the stock to charity, but she didn't come out ahead from it AFAICT.

A simplified example, assuming one year of income from the shares, and one year of $150mm income from Google.

### Keep the shares:

Year1 = $150 - ($150 * 0.2) => $120

Year2 = $150 - ($150 * 0.55) => $67.5

Year1 + Year2 => $187.5

### Donate the shares:

Year1 = $150 - $150 - $0 => $0

Year2 = $150 - $0 => $150

Year1 + Year2 => $150

The first law of tax is that it is always better to have more money than less money. I could be wrong here, but I can't seem to find a way that you come out with more money by giving it away (ignoring donations to your own dodgy charity). I'm a big proponent of charity giving, but I don't see a way to make it turn a profit.

- https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-12-09/deutsche-...
- https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-06-27/texas-bil...
Well, you can't literally have no accent. I think that the GP means that there is no 'tell' that the people are eastern european when they speak.

In the UK itself, it's estimated that there's a different regional accent every 25 miles or so.
I understand the cell carrier proximity issues, but I'm very interested to see if there's any follow up the server side of things. Perhaps there are some Kubernetes lessons to be learned.
Another factor he fails to account for is that big eCommerce companies are willing to operate at a hefty loss for the moment in pursuit of market share.
Oops! This has been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14828772

Sorry about the dupe. Hiding the post.
Depends on the type of project. For small projects it mainly is about engagement and communication. They have to actually be around doing work and also have time set aside to communicate. They have to actually use the communication tools effectively. A lot of people actually are bad at online communication so you have to correct or work around that. If you are doing online everyone needs to be good at whatever online communication, or trying hard to be. And if most people are using Github issues for example, some people can't be doing their own thing on Skype if they overlap with the stuff on Github.
Github.
A chat tool with history.
Phone calls or Skype or any voice tool.
Make sure people are available for a minimum amount of time every day or few days to discuss things freely.
For me I think it is counter-productive and just stressful to dump a big to-do list in any tool. Concentrate on the most important tasks for that week or two is how I do it.
It was amazing. You could talk to anybody - everyone was very positive. I haven't seen anything like it since.
> Point me to anyone who has had a gun pointed at them to be forced to take a job and I will agree with you.

This was your earlier comment. You were responding to another comment (not mine) where you were seeing someone was forced to take a job although nothing like that was implied in the parent comment.
A minimum of bilingualism is probably the norm in India and trilingualism is very common (I myself speak Hindi, Tamil, and English fluently, and a smattering of Kannada). It is not all that unusual to find people who speak 4-5 languages fluently also.
Anyone who played Fallout should recognize the style. :)
Yep. Once Tor is integrated and people start using it for darknet-type activities, it won't be possible to hold anyone accountable or to shut it down. It's decentralized. Personally I find the implications pretty fascinating.
It would allow using higher performance design where it's supported. Walled garden platforms like PS and Xbox will require duplicating the work anyway, thanks to MS and Sony being lock-in jerks in general. It wastes engine developers' efforts for no good reason, but there isn't anything they can do about it.
May I ask what the $70 Chinese keyboard is?
We're trained not to compare things to the holocaust because it's in bad taste. Somehow lessons of how to treat other people don't translate from case to case. Us soldiers in Vietnam were supposed to be bad people doing inhumane things but US soldiers in Iraq somehow aren't. History keeps repeating and even though we remember it, we always think this time is special.
Ugh, it's a park... relax.
Even so, I find "forcing" a kid to speak a language via any sort of artificial "rules" (i.e. one language with one parent, etc) is counter-productive, and can have potentially negative consequences if the kid learns to dislike a language.

My rule of thumb is we never force our kids to speak one language or another, we just try to give them opportunities and motivations to do so. Going to a different country happens to be a particularly effective one, although obviously not feasible for everyone.

I am also ok with the possibility that they will not speak my native language (English) very well. I think if as a parent you are not okay with that possibility, you will end up putting undue burden on the kids and probably make things worse in the end.

Just my two cents.
Not a rocket scientist, nor do I have any hard numbers, but off the top of my head the Moon has a much smaller gravity well than Mars or Venus. On Mars, you would waste much more fuel just getting back into orbit. And Venus is just comically toxic. We weren't even able to build a single probe that lasted more than a couple hours on the surface of Venus before corroding, much less a permanent settlement.

Also, the moon is only a few days of travel away, instead of months-to-years (so someone on a permanent base could be medically evacuated if they have a tricky tumor, say.)
> The article seems to be mostly written in the context of unilingual parents who want a bilingual child.

Yes. The core target audience of the article is likely unilingual families who will put their kid in French/Chinese/whatever classes to give them a leg up for Harvard admissions, 15 years later (or, in the NYTime's subtle language: "parents who want to give their kids a bilingual boost").

Obviously if the kid only speaks the language in the context of a classroom, true fluency will never be reached. In a realistic context, true multilingualism is very achievable, and not particularly exceptional throughout most of the world as many other commenters have pointed out.
When you give welfare you suddenly end up with people who are willing to immigrate just to claim it. And w.r.t. denying it to immigrants, it's already being denied (legal immigrants cannot be a public charge for 5 years, illegals are ineligible for federal welfare, however some states still give the state's welfare etc) but, because of the 14th amendment's jus soli, you cannot deny welfare to the children of any immigrants who are the 1st class citizens. So as long as you can make babies on the US soil you are going to get welfare no matter what.

Repelling 14th amendment would have had interesting consequences as well (like creating a self-reproducing 2nd class citizen population) so control of the borders seems to be the most rational and practical solution.
It can take a long time to balance back out. Something will develop to fill the empty niche. Things will be fine in the end for nature. But it might take 10,000 years for things to stabilize again, and I don't want to wait that long :)
Concorde is open source and I believe holds the record for largest instance of TSP solved optimally (85,900 cities):
http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/tsp/concorde.html

Note that the licensing terms do restrict its free use to "academic research."
Isn't it the general consensus that the coup was staged?
The team has background in the American intelligence community.

For what it's worth, there is a Forbes article that supports this claim: https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2016/03/16/openb...

"Brian Hoffman, a former lead associate for cybersecurity at Edward Snowden's old employer Booz Allen Hamilton"
Generally you have to get a patent on a country basis though there are some treaties that make it easier to do in a bunch of countries (perhaps EU?)
Yes, absolutely. However, does this change over time? With:

+ increased decentralized decision making
+ less monolithic systems architectures and complex integrations
+ quicker/cheaper ability to take software from pilot to production

Do developers become the new gatekeepers of the large enterprises?
Is there any change to bottleneck. Like previously it was storage, now is it RAM or CPU?
Some people want a single screen to always be the same distance. And most curved monitors geared towards business users are anti-glare as this one is.
Maker has been working on this problem for close to two years.
https://github.com/makerdao/wiki/wiki
"That means that 20,000 calories of just moths per day can be consumed by "A" rock-turning grizzly bear."
How can you possibly read this and think this was about the whole bear population?
Ok, but by that definition, virtually no one travels.
So things are illegal unless you can prove they aren't?
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Also interesting:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
while English has germanic grammar, 40% of its words come from romance/french origins, so it really is a mongrel language. Word origins in english are roughly 30/30/25/15 french/latin/germanic/other, with more fancy words ('newspaper english'[1]) from romance and more daily words from germanic.

[1]https://youtu.be/2OynrY8JCDM?t=6m43s - interesting video overall
Even if it wasn't staged (which it probably was), the big story here is that Erdogan is consolidating power by purging his enemies and expropriating whatever he can.

I wonder if this will be the final straw to torpedo Turkey's EU bid, and to some extent, if Erdogan even cares.
If supreme Court says money is speech and corporations can't be stopped from donating to political parties I don't see how this law is constitutional
Yes this is just a standard JSONP response as served through jQuery; not sure why this wasn't clarified.
Well said. I've heard this before,"Destruction by many cuts will eventually kill us." I think you can apply this to the way we treat our environment.
Your "bi-cultural" point is interesting, and I don't know how much it is seriously explored. Do you think it's possible for someone with no prior connection to a place to "adopt" the culture by living there? Judging by one's personal feeling, perhaps, but can the same be said about how others might consider you? The reaction your classmates faced seems to exemplify this dichotomy.

Your point about the chimpanzee analogy, if I may say, was saddening to hear given the apparently (to me) growing acceptance of people from different backgrounds and histories joining into various societies. I don't know if I could live with that kind of thinking about me; I don't want to make people uncomfortable. I don't want to be treated specially either. I would prefer to be like everyone else, which for all practical purposes I would be, except where I grew up and my physical characteristics.

I'd appreciate your opinion on whether you think attitudes have changed, or that they might change, especially in Japan? Or will I remain the eternal foreigner if I were to ever live there?
As far as I can tell, nobody here has made any claim like that, so I have no idea what you are trying to argue, sorry.
To be fair, the original term lingua franca didn't refer to the actual language of the Franks either...
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Yeah, the knowledge is the most important part. But there's still the issue of public ownership of valuable items.

Let's assume the entire contents of a rare book—or let's say a famous renaissance painting—is digitized at high quality. Is it a moral failing for a public library or museum to hold on to the work instead of converting it to cash and spending that cash on life-saving initiatives? Is valuing these original works an irrational thing that we humans do? I can't logically argue for keeping the works, yet I think something would be lost if all art was sold to the highest bidder and the proceeds used for charity.
HN is probably on a backswing. For a while a few years ago, it seemed like everyone would have expected to be able to create a better-than-flesh prosthetic in 18 months with a team of five coders and a little vc funding.
Percona talk about these tools on their website / blogs. Basically, this thing is for logical backup, where you might want to eg only restore a single table. Logical also compresses much better. Innobackupex binary full restore will still be much faster though.
No, we lived in social housing. Homeownership is generally much rarer in Germany than other countries (see also the Quora answer), but between social housing and rent controls, renting was quite affordable.
Is there a write up or video on this, or just the tweets?
The rail freight ad copy read on NPR was actually something like "Our trains can move a ton of freight 500 miles on a gallon of fuel." That ton-miles/gal stat makes a lot more sense when you realize that trains are VERY heavy. It's like comparing passenger-miles/gal for a car and a 747.

See: https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/the-csx-advantage/fue...
Given the precision of the points, lexicographical order on (x,y) would essentially be lexicographical order on just x, which then induces a lot of jumping around the map.
I think that's it. The PDF clearly looks dated to me, but I think it's only some slight updates away from being something that could be produced today. (Different colors, clearer lines (which here probably is primarily limits of print and scan), slightly different fonts and typography)
It's a long walk from (1, 10) to (2, 1).
No, that is not the general consensus. Even the main opposition party (CHP), the party of Ataturk, blames Fetullah Gulen who leads a cult of 100,000s worldwide.

Btw, every time a Turk reads a comment like this they are further alienated from the West. The US is literally harboring an Islamist cult leader from a NATO ally. This is exactly how the Iranian revolution started.

The best part? The West is blaming the current Turkish government of being Islamist... while harboring the world's most powerful Imam!! Its hypocrisy on top of duplicity.
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Hah fair enough, though with Lightning's progress we're closer than ever
Without more context, my suggestion is to sell to the CIO instead. You are already in contact with him. Get him to initiate a project.

Blueprint-sell, solution-sell, or whatever is the current hotness in enterprise software nowadays :)

Joke-aside, engage with the CIO. If the current sales rep thinks he or she is too "low-level", involve someone higher up in your company, get the VP of sales involved. Hell, get your CTO, chief architect and/or CEO involved. CEOs make great salesmen in enterprise software. Get the CIO and higher ups excited about using Twilio throughout the organization. If you want to hit it big, don't start from the bottom (only). Start from the top.

As for this problem:

> since Glenda is gone and I heard Sally moved to outside sales. Vincent's secretary wrote back to me saying she'd "ping" him and "circle back". That was two weeks ago.

Build a sphere of influence and expand on it. I found out the hard way that it was absolutely terrible for me that I had only 1 or 2 points of contact in a company. What if they moved on (suddenly)? Build contacts within the company, and expand. Keep in contact with them.
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It's pretty easy to imagine a counter-example that would have you traverse the length of the map, when the best route would be to detour on an existing traversal. Consider:

1...2...3...4...5
7...............6
8.......9........
13..12.....11..10

versus

1...2...3...4...5
13..............6
12......9........
11..10......8...7
Do you think 9/11 was an inside job as well? Because your insinuation is just as insulting to me as a 'truther' is to the people who lived through the events of Sept 11.

As for your 'big story', a politician consolidating power? Doesn't sound like much of a story to me... As for Turkey's EU bid, I think everyone knows its hopeless. But to Erdogan's credit, he is still technically pushing it forward and brings it up at international summits. Whether its genuine effort or just a smokescreen, I can't tell you. But most people in Turkey have accepted the fact that full EU membership is not going to happen. At least not in their lifetimes.
The SSD might be faster than the RAM. I'm betting it's going to be the CPU.
I've heard this too. One possible root of this claim is Stallman in regards to Emacs Lisp. I think he made a post where he said that dynamic scoping was faster than lexical scoping for elisp (though this was later shown to be mistaken: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/2129/why-is-let-fa...).

Sorry that I don't have any sources to support this. I can't find the post, and it may have been secondhand info anyway.
I used to work with a Thai office manager, who'd speak bilingually on the phone to her parents. I noticed that she'd switch to English when the comment was about something negative. Not necessarily severe, but things like "oh, we have to wait until wednesday?". Maybe she switched to English for 'negative idioms'?

Her Thai sounded light and bubbly, so the effect was magnified. I have no idea if she also said negative things in Thai, but almost all the English speech was in some way negative. She got on well with her parents and was never in a poor mood after speaking with them, so it's unlikely she was wholly negative in both languages. Curious.

Similarly on idioms, many years ago I knew a woman who spent a year of high school in Finland. She said that it was apparently common to use the English phrase for "I love you", because the Finnish phrase was harsh and tended to 'kill the mood' a bit.
Is there a business model? Compensation for continued development?
The Moon's gravity well is smaller but, with no atmosphere, it's both much easier to escape, and much harder to land softly on. If anything, I'd guess our best bet is a propellant factory on the Moon, using a magnetic launcher to shoot the fuel into lunar orbit to supply an orbiting fuel station.
Oh yeah, I understand that limitation. But if that's those are the terms you want to use: the receiver must register that they received their item then a smart contract just automates the processing of the agreement/escrow payments?

I mean, less action is required in order to respond, and less work required in generating the agreement? Otherwise a new program, or a program built on a framework (eg. how smart contracts theoretically work) utilizing bitcoin would be required each time a sale agreement is made.

I'm probably confounding this, so I'll try again: a smart contract would offer a format to build upon for such a market and escrow agreements with less work than writing something from scratch?

I feel like I'm missing something, but it's late. I've been thinking about this concept for a little while and can't find holes besides what you've described, or engineering errors like the Parity exploit... but it still feels like I'm blind to something.
My guess is author has never heard of JSONP before. Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/1053/
Most of these 'examples' are so revisionist they can't even be found online.

> Invaded the Cossack Hetmanate in 1659

You mean invaded the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth which the Hetmanate was rebelling against in the first place, which is why the Cossacks joined the Russian empire and were integrated into its army for generations.

As for everything about Bulgaria, Bulgaria was initially annexed by the Ottoman empire, but the third Bulgarian state was created via treaty after a war between Russia and the Ottoman empire. Later the Russians/Serbs/Greeks supported them in a war against the Ottomans, although in WWI/WWII Bulgaria was allied with the Central/Axis powers.

Ukraine/Georgia recently are more complicated, but the issues there go back to the colour revolutions, which were rather openly supported by the west.
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The claim is that a train moves a ton of freight at 470 miles per gallon.

> Trains can move a ton of freight over 470 miles on a single gallon of fuel. [0]

The claim isn't that the whole train goes that distance in a single gallon. Each train can carry thousand to tens of thousands of tons of freight. So the train would need thousands to tens of thousand of gallons to go those 470 miles.

This is CXS's calculation [0]

> Schedule 750, Lines 1+3, Diesel Fuel Consumed (freight + switching) = 487,540,790 gallons

> Schedule 755, Line 110, Revenue Ton-Miles = 229,562,353,000245,212,180,000 RTM

> RTM per gallon = (229,562,353,000 RTM / 487,540,790 gals) = 471 RTM/gal

You might think that CXS's numbers are cherry picked, but this matches closely with the numbers of the US rail road industry as a whole which was 435.88 ton-miles per gallon of fuel [1]. The reason that trains are so efficient is that a relatively low speed train on steel wheels with steel rails minimises friction losses[2]. Once the train gets going it doesn't take much to keep it going.

[0] - https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/about-us/the-csx-advantage/fue...

[1] - http://www.factcheck.org/2008/07/fuel-efficient-freight-trai...

[2] - http://www.ctls.uconn.edu/do-csx-trains-really-move-1-ton-of...
Factories need consumers. Already trade agreements require a certain percentage of American material on a product or allow import in exchange for US export.
> It feels like Open Bazaar is poised to become the next Silk Road.

It might be a decentralized replacement for Silk Road. But there won't be central servers to take down, or owners of such to arrest. I mean, Tor devs don't get busted, do they? So rather, I'd say that it could replace centralized dark markets.
ASUS gives you barebones much cheaper. Just buy RAM + hard drive and you are good to go.

https://www.asus.com/us/Mini-PCs/VivoMini-Products/
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I did not say demand exceeds housing technology carrying capacity. I said if the peninsula urbanizes (i.e. denser building, maybe 2-4x, not mega skyscrapers with bunks) demand will keep up. That should not be an extraordinary claim, given how many bedroom communities and commuters already surround it.
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> Note that the licensing terms do restrict its free use to "academic research."

Then it is not "open source" (violates "No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor") nor is it free software (violates the freedom to use for any purpose). It's proprietary -- just because the source code is available doesn't make something "open source" nor does it make it free software.
If you wanted to guarantee you "only have short jumps", it would probably be good to consider that you can teleport to the top of the towers and hang-glide down from them (at the cost of some loading time) much more easily than climbing up a cliff.
I spent the entire day just getting it to work, I haven't had a chance to write a blog post yet. Soon!
What kind of salesperson waits two weeks for a low level functionary to get back to him instead of forcing the issue himself?
The summer of 2017 is going to be a bad year for the miller moth eating bears of the Colorado Rocky Mountains (note: black bears only - there are no grizzlies in Colorado). It seems there was a late freezing rain/frost that killed many if not most miller moth grubs this year. I normally experience an onslaught in the migration as I'm on their path from the eastern plains to the mountains. Normal years I see dozens per night from June 1 to July 15, several somehow squeezing into my house each day. This year there were essentially zero miller moths.
They used to fill my basement when I lived in Wyoming. Huge swarms of them.

So, I don't find the stat too far-fetched.
Ah I see. There is typically gossip on quant blogs?
Like Wilmott and Nuclear Phynance. That might help. Or you can look at

1. Options/Futures etc by Hull
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