skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of this comes back to higher expectations: we now have much larger displays, color depths, instead of simple bitmap fonts we have much higher-quality rendered vectors with advanced layout systems which can complex scripts, etc. Instead of rendering into a shared buffer, each window has at least one (on OS X, two) full buffers and the whole thing is composited, which is great for responsiveness and visual quality but definitely uses In the 90s, 640x480 was a common display resolution — now Apple recommends that developers ship 512x512 icons.

That's not to say that there aren't decisions to reconsider about code size, resource formats, etc. but I think it's easy to forget how much more behaviour has moved into our default baseline assumptions.
For better or worse, the regulatory environment ensures that "old technology" is the only thing getting built on a production scale. So yeah, it is a problem.

Since every plant is essentially a one-off * , the economics are doomed to be terrible.

Honestly, the UN should just annoint a multinational nuclear conglomerate composed of any volunteering existing nuclear companies. Standardize designs, share R&D costs across all, then use UN-approval for non-proliferation or assistance with waste disposal as the market carrot.

It's a bit crazy that for things like space and nuclear technology we're burning so many resources (physical and human) reinventing the wheel in 5 different places, and telling smaller countries they just can't be trusted with wheels.

* EDIT: Did some background reading and apparently this is one of the features of the AP1000 and its NRC certification. It's now certified to be built again as long as the design is not modified. Not sure if this was standard NRC practice, but the phrasing and context make this sound like a somewhat new approach.
Yes & no, consider this like a stock split. But instead of an even split, where your 1 share of GOOG becomes 2, both with the same price, you get 1 (or fraction of) BTC and BCC, where BTC = ~$2700 and BCC = ~$230.

The overall value may go up, but you may also see the cost of BTC drop by the value of BCC (like when a dividend is paid on a stock).

BCC could also lose adoption, and lose value significantly.
been looking for a simple project to store some info or use as a demo app. this is perfect for some experiments.
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there were other rumors pointing to the touch id being integrated on the sides of the device and even worse but discredited rumor of it being moved to the back.

my concern with any facial recognition replacing what is currently in use is that many times I unlock my phone without having to look at it and rely on that. The old slip it out of my pocket and quick glance to see if I need to address something now
Author here, the Rails drop was a strange one, since it just had a strong June, from 85 postings in June to 59 in July with similar total posting counts in both months. From what I've seen over the years, month to month changes can be hard to explain, so will see if it becomes a trend.

The raw data used for the chart is available in the GitHub repo or in the JS file.

* https://www.hntrends.com/data/data-20170702.js
* https://github.com/ryanwi/hiringtrends/blob/master/web/data/
The thing I see failing within socialism is individual work effort--everyone comes to believe that work is someone else's deal and not theirs or they become discouraged by the high taxes and simply go Gault. Then the crackdowns begin, further eroding morale until everyone is just beaten down, poor, and decrepit in body and spirit. Then they are ruled over with an iron fist.

Marxism is the bane of humanity--the ultimate promise of something for nothing which is the biggest lie ever told.
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I think so. My blog is a mix of everything (personal, technical, random). It is a really good way to learn to be a better communicator. Especially when you have trouble keeping thoughts in order.

It also takes time to get better at writing in general so (IMO) the sooner you start the better.

I never consider myself an expert (in anything), even though I think I am competent and get paid to work so clearly my skills are of use.
"Americans are more likely to pee in the pool than Japanese"... I would love to see that study! I have my own racist hypothesis about the outcome, but yours seems quite rational to me too.
> Then further investigations showed that these have always been there and are not evolving. It was safe all along, that was a false alarm. The power plant is then restarted.

Sorry but that's plain and simply wrong, you are vastly misrepresenting the situation and chain of events.

These micro-fractures are not part of the design and they are evolving [0], documentation of the manufacturing can't be found and it's assumed the manufacturer made them vanish on purpose to hide the fact that cheaper materials had been used to build, leading to the fractures.

These reactors have been controversial for years, they've been taken offline and online many times to look for new fractures and they keep finding new ones, fractures which shouldn't even be there in the first place.

It's amazing how you try to turn this into an "everything is safe, there's no reason to be worried, it was always broken!" even tho everything about this screams "you better be worried" and the neighboring German states (and the Dutch) are already hoarding Iodine tablets [1].

Even the Belgians themselves handed them out to their population, tho they used ISIS as a scapegoat at that time [2]

We are talking about the pressure vessel here, not some unimportant plumping part on some auxiliary system, and they just keep on watching as more fractures build up in there. Where do you think this is gonna lead? The warning signs can't get any worse than this considering these reactors are also running past their original life time.

[0] http://www.powerengineeringint.com/articles/2017/06/new-crac...

[1] http://www.dw.com/en/north-rhine-westphalia-prepares-for-bel...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/28/all-belgian-resid...
I have an actual engineering degree and write code that controls some sophisticated hardware. Am I allowed to be called an engineer and not an artisan or whatever?
I don't think there could have been a more hilarious response to clicking a link with that title. Got a good chuckle out of it.
Are you arguing that a solar/wind grid can't be done, or just that it's going to be challenging?
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I thought they did. Well, at least I know of installations that use solar power to heat water. Maybe there are combined panels that do both heat and electricity?
scrolling up also makes CPU usage spike on chrome (and by extension, on the electron app). This doesn't happen with Firefox
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M. Scott Ford is the founder and chief code whisperer at Corgibytes, a company focused on helping other companies with legacy code.

Topics include:

* How M. Scott Ford got into forming a company that works on legacy code.
* Technical debt
* Process debt
* Software testing
* The testing pyramid
* iterative development
* kanban
* readable code and readable test code
Yes, I was writing about the US specifically
The problem (at leas in Japan) is the other way around. If I export an service from Japan to another country, I have to pay the Japanese equivalent of VAT. The importer does not generally have to pay (but I guess it depends on the place) because it has already been paid.

The problem for the Krita foundation was that their employee (who was outside of the EU) was doing consulting work through Krita. It didn't matter that he resided outside of the EU, because he was working as an employee. I presume if he were an arms-length contractor, he could have invoiced the work personally (and that's how they really should have set it up -- I assume he was trying to avoid Russian tax by invoicing through Krita, but I'm speculating).

So it was an EU service done in the EU (even though the employee was physically outside of the EU). VAT has to be paid for that. What I don't quite understand (and what seems to also mystify the Krita people) is why they have to also pay VAT on their donations. That's a pretty crazy law.
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Good to see minimal templates/frameworks. Most of them don't have many demos, here is one with 28 – https://radogado.github.io/natuive/#showcase
I can't think of any benefits, except if it is hard for people in China to get a certificate and they do need another CA. It's hard to tell from here.
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Uh, this is big deal, right? 1st class WASM in the main browser-based module system? Surprised this didn't catch fire.
Workspaces for Mac discounted to $2
You know how much humanity loves retro- only the old reactors get that glow in your heart..
It's right here:

"We’ve let our nuclear industry atrophy for 30 years, and we’ve lost the robust supply chains and expertise needed” in building reactors."

This can be said for lots of things. You put it on hold for a generation of engineers, and pretty much need to start from zero again. Imagine all the knowledge lost, as tradecraft is not recorded.
Relevant, however for a framework to be used in production
Are there any technical solutions solving the nuclear waste storage problem yet?

Before following the HN crowd and becoming pro-nuclear-power, I'd like to understand what problems it is leaving to our children and their children and so on.
Processor is a little more powerful, testing shows them comparable in some testing since Apple can tune the chips a little more then Dell is allowed to. I have twice as much ram which is the real big leap forward, my hard drive seems to be a little faster also.
Here's the thread I'm following.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/6qvofq/someone_just_la...
From my look at the Focus source, it's not Webkit/Blink on Android.
This depends on the level of tailoring. There is a vast amount on the internet about this, but as you asked 'you'...

I do buy tailored suits. They're made-to-measure. That's good enough. Somewhat between true bespoke, the baste is adjusted to fit in-person during second fitting. Good fit for baste is key to a good fit for a blazer. The feel/effect is essentially that I'm wearing the most comfortable T-shirt I have, but it is not a t-shirt, but a suit jacket. Trousers don't really need a second fitting.

For fabric, I really like to first feel and see. Super 100s are usually fine; there's a lot of inflation in higher thread counts.

Mass-produced can do production of good quality clothes without issue, they've done so for decades; for example Armani charge a huge amount for what's a nice fabric but adjusting on final fitting really reduces the point of paying more. Good cloth is worth it, but doesn't need to break the bank. Brands usually don't make the cloth themselves, it is a commodity, if fiddly to get exactly what you want.

One big advantage mass-produced has on custom is quality of stitching. Mass-produced means the stitching quality can be really tight/close and of excellent consistency (take a look at your shirt, how consistent is the stitching? how loose is it? Distance between stitches, quality of thread?). For mass-produced, stitching is certainly not done manually. It is fully automated.

Tailored for wool often works better if the workmanship is top-notch (heavier fabrics) but for cotton mass or semi-mass produced shirts mass-produced often brings a much better stitched that can be adjusted to fit, compared to purely tailored/manually machined/bespoke.

Clarification: I live somewhere where there's a great tradition in tailoring, and prices are not high.
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I hope we don't have another Blue Apron on our hands. Amazon's fashion department is starting to get into this space. I hope Stitch Fix can stay afloat.
Ah, I see. Didn't realize that.
I've never used it (T-Shirt and Jeans programmer; oh so hip!), but there's an overnight delivery service for dry cleaning to my kids' daycare. Also thought that was pretty smart.
Do it!!! When you're feeling better about your writing, you can archive old content or start a new blog. Write because you want to and to share you learnings. Write about the process of learning, beyond the end result. Take notes as you figure things out so you can share the missteps along the way. I think many would find that useful. I did with a glusterfs post I read recently.
Then you'll be happy in chaotic countries where gun ownership is high, like Somalia and Yemen. Still hasn't helped them solve their problems, however. I'm not sure it has ever worked, but it definitely allows for self defense when law and order break down.
>This is a very SF-centric view of the US.

Not really. Every major American (and in my experience, Canadian, though it is slightly better up there) city has this to varying degrees.
MLM sell their products at retail prices to their 'distributors' who then have to mark it up yet again, making the actual distributors the customer base (since normal consumers won't tolerate that level of markup).

If you're buying wholesale stock at retail prices, you are being scammed.
I totally agree.

I'm pondering about build a Fox-in-spirit. I still mantain that NO programming tool today is good for database-development, and we need a modern take on the dbase.

My idea is build a relational language with a lot of the ideas of fox but with a modern syntax.

If somebody wanna to talk about this, and maybe help, I'm open!
As a Venezuelan that left long ago, I feel you. I have had to argue for years with people here that Vzla isn't some socialist paradise.

The worst part? The opposition in Venezuela is socialist! Even without tampons and basic medicine they won't admit they are wrong.
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In my experience SF is the worst smelling city in the U.S. Compare it to Europe's worst smelling places, not the best ones.
sakura? https://github.com/oxalorg/sakura
Do you live in a humid climate? I wonder if that impedes on the dry time at all (having to dry out the air before drying out the clothes drying in the air).
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Personally, if I have to slap a bunch of classes on everything, then something is seriously wrong. HTML should be declarative, and it should be declarative of the content, not necessarily the presentation. Classes should therefore describe what something is, not how it's supposed to be presented. It's CSS' job to describe how it's supposed to be presented.

For that reason, I'll generally choose a <table>...</table> with a default style over having to do <table class="shoelaces-table">...</table> every time.

If you really do want to completely override the table style, it looks like it's just a matter of removing the respective line in https://github.com/claviska/shoelace-css/blob/master/dist/sh... and rebuilding.

Also, most modern browsers have a "developer" mode that shows exactly what CSS rules come from where. If the provided style really is getting in the way, it should be (relatively) easy to figure out what specifically is getting in the way (and then addressing it in your own CSS) instead of just blowing away the whole table style and starting from scratch. Looking at https://github.com/claviska/shoelace-css/blob/master/source/..., it doesn't look like it's doing all that much that'd be likely to conflict with anything in a way that would absolutely necessitate starting from scratch.
As if we have 500 startups...
From the article: Westinghouse Gen3+ AP1000s with greater passive safety.
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Why does it need to be tap to wake? Why can't it use 3D touch and haptics to simulate a physical home button at the bottom of the screen?
As long as you put disclaimers like "This part I'm not completely proficient but I made it work." whenever appropriate, you should definitely do it. You don't need to be an expert to blog, but only humble.
To be fair to the parent comment, your original comment as it is written says the exact opposite; that you'd be willing to trust them due to the acquisition.
I heard Bernie Sanders on NPR talking up single payer--he only touts the positives while completely ignoring the huge increase in taxes that will be required to pay for it. I think of Europe and slowly failing because of their socialism and when there isn't anymore wealth to extract from people to keep it all going, it will fail awesomely fast, just like these schemes always do in the end. So simply observing a place at a point in time does not inform you about the total story. The US has enough socialism going without nationalizing healthcare. I don't have any answers, but sentencing my children to a lifetime of debt slavery is certainly not the answer.
It sounds like you already know the answer:

> I just think it could help me learn more, faster and to improve my communications skills.

Two reasons to blog while you're learning something:

1. When one person teaches, two people learn.

2. Writing things down helps sharpen your own understanding of that topic.

3. (Bonus) You may think nobody would find it useful because there are already so many articles out there about X or Y, but just think about how many times you've been helped by a blog post or tip from some little no-name blog. You may not think of yourself as an expert but there are certainly people out there who know even less than you, who may find your posts helpful.
Also, the cops now know that they just have to press Record 31 seconds after committing their crime.
There's plenty of government grants for minority-founded businesses, especially if they're recent immigrants.
I don't think the benefits to the UK come from its students spending time abroad, but the opposite.

Erasmus allows good students from poorer countries to get used to living in richer foreign countries like the UK, increasing the chances they'll emigrate. Unlike during the 60s, when the migrants from Southern countries like mine were mostly the poor and uneducated, nowadays the opposite happens.

Lots of qualified English-speaking people leave, looking for more than an unpaid internship and a meal ticket, while the others know there's no longer great demand for unskilled workers in France and Germany, and at least here they have their parents' home and their grandparents' pension to live off.

So by removing itself, the UK makes it more likely that the "brain drain" will go to Germany, Finland, Sweden, etc.
Same. I don't use it, but I've heard it's extremely high quality, open source software, which we could always use more of. So I've thrown a few euros their way.
It looks if you're importing services into the EU you need to pay VAT on those services (just like importing goods) - which Krita didn't.

If you do not have other VAT from sales, you will get the money back, which essentially means you do not have to pay that VAT - "would not have to pay VAT" from the article (but declare it).

If you have VAT from buying and selling items, the VAT you've paid for services is deducted from the difference of selling and buying.
You might be on to something. I've noticed that after working out I tend to be a lot more relaxed and not care as much about these things. Inversely, if I haven't worked out for a long time, I get incredibly anxious and over analyze every damn thing.
Granted, guns have serial numbers and there is a list of registered owners. My argument falls apart there.
The standup gave it away, right?
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> There just aren't enough of them.

Blissfully. 3-mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima are quite enough thank you very much.
A quick google Search states that there are 449 currently active reactors. Pair that with 50+ years of mass usage, and we have a pretty large data set that should be more than sufficient to calculate the risk.

And as I stated previously: gas and oil are historically not low at all. They are only low compared to 5 years ago.

Nuclear is reallly expensive and risky. That's why it's failing.
There was no capitalism involved in 2008 & 2009. If we had a real market system, those big banks that were levered 100:1 would all be gone, their billionaire CEOs would be broke. No, we NEED that kind of accountability and we don't have it!
You can also create a clean room implementation of QML itself and license it however you want if you never looked at the Qt code. I don't know if QML is patented though.
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Right, it's not a perfect fit, but I put it up against the main Web frameworks as those are what PHP competes with.
I'm using a Lumia 950 with retina scanner and it works really well. Just as well as the Galaxy S7's fingerprint scanner.
So far as I can tell, just ignore it, which is worrying.

https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/issues/3148
How long until Maduro and his Goldman Sachs allies are bailed out by the IMF?

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/30/news/economy/goldman-sachs-v...

In the end it will be the rest of the world (with most of the support coming from US tax payers) that bails out this country. Maduro will continue his reign and the debt will continue to pile-on. The money from the IMF will go directly to Goldman Sachs to first pay off debts, and then will go directly to Maduro.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-imf-g20-worldbank-venezuel...
How did it lead to a job? And a book deal?
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With the exception of the LISP syntax, I agree with you!

I wanna get a relational / kdb+ / ml hybrid.

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One of the gems of FoxPro was the always-on terminal. It have his own terminal/repl. In the IDE. Always ON. You can do

CREATE FORM name

and open the form as a table

then do

BROWSE

and see how was made. And you could activa the terminal on a shipped app, so you can fix things on the fly.

And the debugger (specially the var windows) was good. To date, no single debugger/var window have bees as good as was with Visual FoxPro.
So what you're asking is are we looking for greater fools?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory

Forget taxi drivers telling you to invest as a mark of a bubble, questions like this are about as clear as signal as you can get.
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The same thing that has happened in Latin/South America since the 70s.
Slack on my computer, with five teams, consumes 1.8gb of RAM.

Microsoft Word, with a multi-page complicated document, is using 200mb.

Just because we _have_ the resources to allow applications to bloat doesn't mean we should be alright with it. Its a similar argument to electric versus ICE cars; just because gas is cheap doesn't mean we shouldn't support EVs. EVs are fundamentally better for the future.

If we focus on performance optimizing the apps we use, it opens up a wide range of new computing hardware. You make fun of chromebooks, but imagine how much more interesting your work would be if you could use a machine with that performance. Battery life would be substantially higher. The cost of the machine would be substantially lower. The only reason most people need massive performance beasts is because we've pushed abstraction hell and bad engineering practices, so all of our tools suck.

Docker is another offender in recent times. Its great if you're on Linux, but few people are. So on OSX, we need to run a VM, so there goes another gig of memory.
I think almost everyone should have a blog and write about whatever they feel comes to mind/on any topic they want. Even if they're not a good writer, it's another great skill to learn! I find writing to be incredibly therapeutic.

As long as the expectations are reasonably set that it will 99.9% likely never develop an audience or make any money, and is instead a creative outlet and a way to develop your own skills, you'll enjoy it way more.