skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And it used to be the other way around, with Bavaria being very poor. Decades of Länderfinanzausgleich fixed that.

Now the industries of Northrine-Westfalia have been in decline for some time, so that's been dragging everything down. And Berlin lost a lot of its aid and most of the East is also somewhat northern.
I think a lot of major changes are in Google's apps, not Android itself. For example a big update to the Photos app would be part of a major OS update in iOS but just another regular app update on Android.
No, it wasn't :) [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovos_Moles_de_Aveiro
Its not about length its about whether the term has become so ubiquitous that it identifies a category rather than just a brand. Many, many trademarks have been lost this way and Kleenex is one of those on the verge of being genericized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleenex > In the USA, the Kleenex name has become, or as a legal matter nearly has become, genericized: the popularity of the product has led to the use of its name to refer to any facial tissue, regardless of the brand. Many dictionaries, including Merriam-Webster and Oxford, now include definitions in their publications defining it as such.

Ironically, one factor is the genericization of trademarks is whether the common usage no longer treats it as a proper noun, that is, whether it is used with or without a capitalized first letter. Your use of the lettering `kleenex` would indicate that it is no longer a brand but just a common noun, and get you a nastygram from the Kleenex marketing team about "Kleenex-brand facial tissues". :-)
"Tragedy of the commons"[1] doesn't seem to apply here.

That's applicable where (1) the free dumping of sewage into a common water supply or (2) advertisers get so good at making noisy attention-grabbing web ads that people have a strong motivation to start installing ad-blockers, making ad-based business models try and install more ad placements. It's similar to the Prisoner's Dilemna, where game theory has each player pitted against each other but the outcome is subject to a downward spiral of some common resource.

There is no downside for long-term property owners or the highly paid. If the well-paid engineers at tech companies were equally hurt by rising cost of living, then TotC might apply. They aren't, so it doesn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
It's a direct quote from the GP, that's an entirely reasonable use of quotation marks
So, were the trademark nullified, could Microsoft come up with a google of their own, perhaps on google.bing.com? I mean, they probably wouldn't, but could they?
"duck it"
My Moto X Pure (2015) has no carrier relationship and a very lightweight Android skin. It's still running Android 6.0.

I can't imagine them putting in development resources when they could just sell you a new phone.
I built my (super simple) budgeting app with the vue-pwa template with vue-cli. https://budgetme.surge.sh

Disregard the extremely bootstrap-esque css. I threw it together in a matter of hours to just experiment with Vue.

Not popular at all, as far as I know, but then I don't even have analytics on it to even know if it is popular or not.
eBay has always been a crap-shoot in this regard, even before the P-p-p-powerbook days[1].

[1] Potentially NSFW: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=10..., SFW summary: https://www.engadget.com/2004/05/14/scamming-the-scammer/
All I meant that in my field we are asked to have competence in a wide range of disciplines. In contrast to the 'r/iamverysmart' and consistent with the article, I feel intimidated by those that do specialize in those things I use. I am aware of a lot, but I feel like I am pretender in all of them. I constantly come into contact with the limits of my intelligence and I am not impressed.
I was completely unaware of Robert Downey Jr's drug-addled past - I just knew him as Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. I think the public's memory may be a lot shorter than yours.
Can you replace the battery with an extended one?

That's a deal-breaker for me, and battery cases are not a good replacement since I can't rely on the phone's own battery indicator, have to manually turn on/off and looking at ZeroLemon's case for the S7, it seems to require a headphone extender.

As for the S3's screen I have no complaints. It's readable in the sun with max brightness, I keep it at minimum the rest of the time.

Finally, the S7's native screen resolution is 1440p, meaning it will munch on battery much faster for no perceptible gain (at the distance I hold my phone). And manually lowering the resolution will render a blurrier image than native 720p so that's out.
> despite numerous respectable legal scholars informing him that you could never get in trouble for not using a person's preferred pronoun because of this bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnIAAkSNtqo

As mentioned, his employer's lawyers did think so. The Adversarial Model (legal system) doesn't consider that some parties come to other conclusions. It would be ill-advised to listen to "experts" that are not part of a case, taking the advice of pundits* or other unconnected parties is not compelling evidence of legal finding.

*It's primarily in the US, that the mass media promotes education pundits as corroboration in legal matters.
They don't tell you. My whole YouTube channel was removed 2 years ago, and the only auto-mail I got said "TOS violation". I have no idea what the problem was. When I followed the instructions on how to reinstate, I got a page saying the channel wasn't recoverable. There was no indication of how to get any other resolution.
I think the SMACSS doc is worth a read:

https://smacss.com/book/
The Kindle app store is as bad as Microsoft's one is being painted here. It's crammed full of dubious apps, many of which are clearly only there to deceive people into thinking their the official app from a provider.
I was indicating that my field pulls me in so many directions that I am overwhelmed.. But I see now that I didn't articulate that well.
Given that it's apparently a fairly compelling feature for many consumer end users, maybe it's a way of convincing OEMs and carriers and to actually deliver updates.
Agreed, and I hope they do so!

Though there would still be other things like the lower on-demand rates, custom shapes, networking that scales with shape (rather than being coarsely grouped), being able to attach SSD / GPUs semi-arbitrarily, and so on. For those that care, not having to pay up front for the best price is also a huge deal. You see the same thing in GCS vs S3 as well: Glacier and S3-IA have a few rounding up gotchas that catch many people out.

All that said, I hope we all get to per-minute billing.

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but haven't talked to the Metamarkets folks)
Xerox also nearly became generic. Coke for cola or even any fizzy drink in some places.

I don't think Google is going to become generic.
For a XHTML doctype, you use the first one.

For a HTML4 doctype, you use the second.

For a HTML5 doctype, you can use either.
All death sentences are life long ;)
If you find them, I'd be interested in seeing them.

edit: is it these ones? https://tapdance.inria.fr/woods/download/UCNC%202014%20Woods...
For those new to Vue, Vue-CLI + templates have all the webpack configuration set up already for you. This makes setting up a Vue project very quick and simple.

https://github.com/vuejs/vue-cli
https://github.com/vuejs-templates
Coming to think of it, I too explain my searches on DuckDuckGo to colleagues as a "Google". Irrespective of the underlying reason, this gives merit to the plaintiffs' claim.
>> Avg age of S17 founders: 29.5

So much for a stereotype of prodigy college dropout.
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Wait, why is that a 'straight-up error'? They explained why it would harm other students - because it would incentivize students to choose popular schools instead of schools they actually wanted, in hopes of gaining a good trade opportunity. They don't want strategy to come into play, because some people are better at strategy than others.

It isn't an 'error', it is just a decision that they don't want strategy to be a factor.
There is a nation wide exam called CITO at the end of primary school: https://www.expatica.com/nl/education/Explaining-the-Cito-ex...
Not at all unique to America. America actually falls much more on the guilt side of the guilt vs. shame-based culture spectrum. (For those unfamiliar with the difference: guilt is the emotion we feel when we've done something bad, shame is the emotion when we believe we are bad. Guilt presupposes a distinction between a person's worth and their actions, and assumes that once a person who has done bad things has repented, made amends, and is no longer doing bad things, they are no longer a bad person. Shame assumes that character is an innate personality trait, and once a bad apple, always a bad apple.)

Far-eastern countries like China/Japan/Korea and honor-based cultures like the Middle East tend to be much more shame-based. It's not unheard of in America to go to prison, do their time, get out, and start a huge company (IBM, for one). Or to go bankrupt 4 times, sexually assault women, have this all highlighted on national TV, and still end up president. This would be unheard of in a culture like China, where you basically need a squeaky-clean public image (what you do in private is a different story) to get anywhere.
Even in Columbus, OH this is acceptable and common. People would say this relatively frequently at a startup I worked at (where nearly everyone was white, except a couple Asians), in addition to making really lame “white people” jokes. The only person to ever call anyone out for this was our black chef. Probably because his views on race were based in realty instead of some dystopian political fashion. Well, that, and I think anyone else saying anything about it would have been immediately accused of being racist and probably given some sort of formal warning.
Sweet, I didn't realize there was a formal term for this concept, but it makes sense that economists would have tried to formalize this :-)
I've been using my own kimsufi server for years, and live in Montréal so the latency to their Canadian location is superb. The low end servers are often sold out, but become available every couple months. I went for one with a spinning disk for the extra storage. The server's dedicated so performance is much better than a storage VPS where people share a spinning drive.

However I still end up forwarding everything to to my gmail account and using it as en e-mail client because it makes e-mailing searching and filtering so fast and easy. Outgoing mail sent through my own SMTP server and typically gets through, so I could set up dovecot later.
Yes, none of my pinball machines will fit in a carry-on.

Perhaps we are dinosaurs who cannot understand this new world where everything is virtual.
Isn't that a strawman argument though? The discussion is around engineers making the most out of their salary so why would be lump in folks with different education / jobs?
Yes, the incentives this sets up could be bad for subsequent rounds; that is absolutely a real problem. But this passage seemed to be suggesting that trading, in and of itself, harmed students who were not involved in the trade, and that's not correct.
I thought the argument was going to be that exchanges would lead to poor students applying for top schools only to "sell" their spot to the highest bidder in a swap.

It would seem though that some exchanges could take place within the lottery system itself. If two students were accepted to their second choices, and swapping them would give both their first choices, then that should be an optimization pass run after the lottery pass is done.
Any time I see that some of my results have been culled on Google due to DMCA, I usually pop over to Bing and find what I am looking for.
Well there is now at least one highly motivated statistician out there to analyze the data you suggest. But how do you get the data to him?
Not only is it useless, it can be actively harmful.
My wife had her account "suspended" for reporting too many fraudulent cases when she went on a buying spree from Chinese sellers.
Normally you lose about a 3rd of the things you buy from China due to:
-Non-shipping of items
-Loss of items in transit
-Counterfeit items
-Damaged items
-Completely wrong items
-Wrong quantity items

Turns out she opened too many cases and they "suspended" her account, which is an eBay euphemism for being banned for life.
That means that her account that she'd been using since 2000 was dead and gone forever, and she was no longer welcome on the site.

I agree with other posters. The eBay of old is effectively dead. You are better off buying things from Amazon or Ali Express 99% of the time. The days of great deals on items are pretty much gone. You can still find some rare and unusual stuff that is worth buying, but the dominance of eBay now means that most things are very close to market rate unless (or even if!) they are counterfeit or some other scam. More like a dollar store than an online auction house.
TL;DR version: no.

The only coal plant being built is a tiny one for a university in Alaska. Three more have been in regulatory hell for so long that they're no longer profitable compared to every other energy source, especially natural gas. Coal is dying but no one told Trump.
Did you read the article you link to? It says that it only applies to CSSOM (JavaScript) and navigation (presumably clicking links). Not scrolling by the user.
Reading one book (The Tao of Programming) would be sufficient (but not necessary) to be familiar with a lot of quotes similar to this one. Excerpts from that book are posted pretty often. I think that I probably ran into Tao of Programming around the time that I found The Jargon File, and some other things connected to classic hacker culture.
There's a chance (like there is with every technology that isn't actively developed for a long time) that just when you think coal's dying someone's gonna come along and figure out how to apply an innovation from some other field that makes it so much cheaper/cleaner/whatever that it sticks around for a long time.
It's the same idea, yes. Although, the specification of UNCOL is... a little odd. It has a bunch of cells (referenced by address); instructions refer to a previous instruction, and an address for their arguments---so like a stack machine, but the second argument is always a pointer. Or ... some such thing. The one paper I read spends 80% of its effort defining the representation of text.
> Pretty much by definition, a polymath is knowledgeable about a bunch of stuff.

Certainly. I was (misunderstandingly I guess) getting at the genius part, as that's not really required. Also, I guess SandersAK was giving the islamic perspective on polymathness, not his.
The ether Michelson and Morley were looking for is also the ether in Ethernet.
Have a break.
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You are missing some key points - if they allow trading, they are going to incentivize people choosing popular schools instead of ones they actually want to go to. Since more people are going to choose popular schools in hopes of getting a good trading asset, people who ACTUALLY want to go to those popular schools are going to be less likely to get in.

Your assertion that it is an 'error' is only true if they only allow the trading to happen this year (after the preferences were set), and not in future years. The trades are only pareto-superiour if there are no future decisions to be made; since this is a repeated game, allowing pareto-superior trades this year means that next years game will NOT be fair (by their definition of fairness).

I agree that their definition of 'fairness' is not objective, but it is one they have decided to go with; they decided that the ability to strategize is not evenly distributed, and so allowing strategy is unfair.
The whois shows my company name. I mean since I run a company, I don't really want that private. Also, those IPs are accessible through a simple DNS lookup of the sender domain, so I'm not really losing any security.
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I'd just like to point out that "I don't like Google's monopoly on my internet usage" doesn't directly translate to "Let's give Bing a chance." Other search engines exist.
Ad. 1: If there really was an accident then such concerns would never overrule the feelings of the family and spouse/boyfriend to know what happened to their child / loved one unless one has zero empathy.

So no, it was no accident because only then does Madsen have sufficient reason to lie about it and risk being found out.
Maybe "I duckduckwent it"?
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You had to scroll past quite a few animated announcements and read past several lines of other updates in order to find this 'also-ran' item in the footnote.
> Typically GC'd languages rely on escape analysis to handle this and not the generational GC at all

No, they don't. Most GC'd languages rely on generational GC, because escape analysis on its own doesn't directly provide a lot of performance benefits once you have a generational GC.

> if that fails then you're SOL because the generational GC is unable to keep up and unable to keep things in the fast path.

No, you aren't. Cleaning up dead objects (for example, temporaries created in a hot loop) in a nursery is extremely fast. The entire nursery semispace is typically in L1.
What are universities for and how do they work?
The way this is implemented is that the system will kill any background services your app has after a grace period, just like iOS. In order to have a background service that "good reason" equates to a persistent notification in the tray and icon in the status bar--which nobody agrees is a good product experience.
> Maybe she poke around and tried to sneak/photograph/open/discover some parts of the engine with the purpose to earn some bucks selling the submarine secrets when returning to China.

Really, this is the best you could come up with?

This is a hobby sub, not something that is top secret and run by the US navy. Madsen's sub has no secrets worth a dime.
The single-DA variant they switched to eliminates the swapped first choices.

(when a student is assigned to a school, it is always to the best match available for their position in the lottery)
Has google forgotten how to do great marketing?

You open the page. Scroll down. What should be the first thing you see? Obviously it should be the greatest, the best feature of the new OS. What is it instead? "Quick boot up time". Really? That's the best thing in Android Oreo? That when I reboot my phone once every 4 months, it's going to start quicker? Surely they could have picked literally anything else as the first thing to mention?
It could be done, yes, but you'd have to weigh the benefits of caching against the performance downsides of linking and IR serialization. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up not being worth it in practice.
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One of the mentioned cancelled projects was a coke plant with a small electricity co-generation component. Do steel mills still need coke? If so, the decline of coal in America could be due as much to the decline of American steel processing as to emission regulations on power plants.
What else could the coal be used for?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal#Production_of_chemicals

On a hunch from playing a bit too much Factorio, I tried to look in to coal and plastics, which seems to be a relatively recent (or at least recently commercialized) use for coal. The most reliable thing I can find is a press release.

https://www.honeywell.com/newsroom/pressreleases/2016/05/new...
I wish .net CLR would take its place instead. For one thing, as strange as that may sound, I trust today's MS more than I trust Oracle. For another, CLR as of 12 years ago (not to mention now) was already better suited for programming language development than JVM ever will be, owing to having less baggage and reified generic types support built in from the start.
There is absolutely no way that money went from Google to Nabisco on this one. The Nabisco marketing department would be crying tears of joy at landing this coup.
Columbia prof here.

He is not a professor at Columbia nor even an adjunct professor. He is a lecturer in the school of professional studies:

https://search.sites.columbia.edu/people/sm786

The school of professional studies at Columbia offers "certificate" and "professional degrees" with minimal academic standards. Within the university, it is considered an embarrassment.

Advertising this credential is very misleading. This is a far cry from being, for example, a professor in the world class statistics department at Columbia.

I don't know the gentleman nor the facts of this case, but I'd be very suspicious of someone advertising a Columbia SPS affiliation.
I appreciate your comment. Call me when you're willing to sign off on your code as doing only what it is meant to do, and no more. Call me when you can demonstrate that your code functions all the time, every time.

This is not denigration. I have worked with real engineers that wrote code. Sign off on it, and I will listen.
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That's uncivil, and so was https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15067992. Incivility will get your account banned on HN, so would you please (re)-read the following and not post like this again?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In 2016 18% of YC founders were 40+

https://mixpanel.com/blog/2016/05/18/getting-accepted-into-y...
I'll admit I still use them but only on my own domain as a non-free account. Its just not safe w/o any kind of support channel.
I'm sure he's aware (maybe not), but knew the voters in coalmining towns would vote for him and other conservatives are generally coal neutral.
They used to be remarkably good. Shortly after PG wrote his A Plan for Spam essay, I set up a customized system that used my own spam e-mails as training data. I can't remember the tool I used, but it involved a script on top of maildir which is sure to be far more kludgy than what you could do now. The technique is powerful enough I suspect it still works remarkably well today because it's tuned to your own corpus of spam messages. Nonetheless, for the last decade I've been too lazy to do this and just forward everything to gmail, though gmail does give me a few false positives every couple years.
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The fact that he deliberately sunk the boat strongly suggests there was evidence.
Something being unfair is not the same as something harming someone else. Lets say I have a cookie, and there are 10 kids in front of me who like cookies. If I give any kid a cookie for any reason, it doesn't HARM the kids who don't get a cookie; they are no better or worse off than if the cookie never existed. However, suppose I decide to give the cookie to the tallest kid - even though none of the other kids are harmed, this is still not a 'fair' situation.

You can do no harm and still be unfair. Whether that is bad or not is subjective, but it is still unfair (in the sense that every kid has an equal chance at the cookie).
You are claiming a situation where 100% of merchants take bitcoin (i.e. everyone) and the scale required is beyond bitcoin by several orders of magnitude.
My background is a CS degree from a liberal arts college, and I've found that my coursework in compilers and operating systems has often come in very useful. Additionally I've found that recent grads who have "computer *" degrees (e.g. "engineering" instead of "science") often are lacking exactly the most helpful and applicable knowledge I picked up in undergrad.

That said, I completely agree with your sentiment: Had my priority been to establish a software engineering career, a whole lot of what I did could have been skipped and substituted for things like learning how to write good unit tests.

I also strongly agree with you on "finished apprenticeship" vs. "master."