skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the ban was an “illegitimate act of censorship” and an “arbitrary limitation of freedom of expression and freedom of the press.”

Being a filthy ignorant American, all I know about Germany regarding freedom of X is that they do have hard limits on anything related to Nazism. So how "arbitrary" is this really, especially when there's a precedent for a limit on freedom of speech? Does she even have an argument?
February 2001, "Ice and Mirrors", by Brenda Cooper and Larry Niven. Swarm of small mirrors used to cool a planet. Mentioned in this Nature article complaining about the cost: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/061030/full/news061030-6.ht... Predates Echopraxia by 13 years.
Many of us like to compare software development with other engineering disciplines. I like to compare it to playing music. Sure you can learn to play some simple songs in a couple of months, but it takes lots of effort to master an instrument. Like musicians and sports players, there is no easy way to become really good as a software developer if you don't start as early as possible and dedicates your life to it.

Coding bootcamps are just trying to sell a short path where it is not possible to have one.
> For an individual, RPi is cheaper if your time is worth anything at all.

The only reason that's true is because groups have catered to the device and have ready-to-go instructions. Were the same effort put into making Samsung S2/S3/S4 etc phones easily converted, I'm not sure the time difference would be all that much at all.
Go Experience Report for Generics: Google Metrics API
"The data almost makes it seem like there’s not much point in trying to build new apps for anyone but millennials, as they’re the only group showing serious interest in downloading more, a willingness to pay, and the ability to adopt a new app at scale."

Or perhaps since it's ofentimes millennials who are building the apps they don't understand the needs and desires of older users and as such are missing a huge opportunity.
So Germany gets embarrassed by protests and shuts down the website they used to organize? Seems pretty bad, especially when you combine this with Trump getting information on left-wingers who opposed him. Maybe right-wing sites are getting de-platformed but in those instances it's private companies asserting their rights. Seems like the leftwingers are the ones being actively discriminated against by the government(s).
A .psd file is not an end-user asset. I can think of no use case where someone would point a browser at a hosted .psd and expect that binary file to render as an inline image.

A .psd file was, for a good chunk of the past twenty years, the "de facto standard" file format for teams or entire departments of graphic artists who spent all day, every day in Photoshop. I once worked for an online ad agency and Photoshop was used more often, by more people, than MS Word and Excel combined. The Network Effect was in full force. Graphics teams at three different companies cooperating on the same campaign would assume that their counterparts were using Photoshop, and would expect to send and receive .psd files. Man, Adobe must have been printing money in those days.

If you worked in print publishing, digital publishing, advertising, marketing, there was probably a graphics department of people who spent all day in Photoshop... and an IT department that was constantly trying to add new server capacity as fast as those artists were consuming it. Back when we measured server storage in GB, not TB, fifteen different versions of the same massive PSD file could cause real heartburn.
Was that Metformin by itself or was it formulated with Glyburide?

I had the same side effects, but that's ok because I'm actually T1, not T2.
If you're going to put 20 million tons of perfectly identical gram-sized craft into orbit somewhere, it seems a lot more sensible to launch a factory to the Moon rather than launch all that mass from Earth. The CO2 added to the atmosphere from burning 2 billion tons of rocket fuel cannot be negligible.
So true. I acquired the rights to older desktop software a few years ago that had been in use for about 10 yrs by a lot of users. The original creators only charged $50 one time. Some users thought it was $50 per computer so they would pay several times. The owner told me the support costs are too unwieldy and he wanted out.

So convincing the prior users that they should pay $10-40/mo was a challenge. For many that objected, I told them the truth - that the prior creators could no longer sustain it at that price and it was actually severely underpriced. I told them they are free to use the desktop version as long as they want but that we can't support it and we are doing a membership model which will be supported - for devices now and in the future and we'll be adding new features as we had been.

That helped to convert most.

I agree with you that the expectations aren't inline with what it takes because a lot of software is subsidized by ads and we had a long history of desktop apps working for many years. Many users will understand if you position your response properly, assuming you don't have a better, cheaper competitor! :)

Our audience is older and we still get contended on price because people will think of the value they get for what they pay for Netflix or Office. They usually understand when you say that specialty software cannot exist unless it's priced higher and that we aren't a megacorp like Microsoft.
How the Fear of Death Makes People More Right-Wing
This is how big a shadow the Moon makes on the Earth. On a good day. https://twitter.com/WWUPlanet/status/896177474517716992 And the Lagrange point is 4x further away than the Moon. You can cut the total amount of light hitting the earth, but you can't aim it like that.

Edit: Here's the view from a satellite sitting at L1 https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/?date=2017-08-24 and what it looks like when the Moon gets in the shot https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/galleries/2016/lunar_transit and a total eclipse from last year https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/galleries/2016/solar_eclipse
Lex and yacc are still frequently used (alongside similar tools like ANTLR). However, most production compilers use hand-written parsers because it permits better error messages and support for partial parses. The latter is useful for e.g. IDEs, where the code is often not entirely syntax-correct.
Compare the economy they had in the mid or early war to that in the early thirties or late twenties. Germany was in chaos. The output of their economy was still increasing throughout the allied bombing campaign. Duplication was removed, competition reduced, production lines simplified and available models decreased. Vulnerabilities were addressed and production went up, fast.
And yes, by every measure I can think of it wasn't sustainable, but it produced a lot in a short time with extremely difficult conditions.
Just now we have launched weather radar layer: https://www.windy.com/?radar,27.863,-96.237,8
More likely the ones without savings got the latest iPhone than the ones with savings. How do you think each group got where they are now?
what did you study/how did you learn to design FPGAs? I had an early intro to verilog in school but it all seemed so opaque to me. Do you think it's possible for people to teach themselves? Thanks.
The problem with geo-engineering solutions to global warming is that they would require global consent. Anything else would be a drastic violation of human rights, and potentially a cause for massive conflict. We all have to share the same planet, and some peoples might be drastically opposed to (potentially) irreversible processes such as the scattering of chemicals in the atmosphere. Any "for the good of mankind" justification is almost beside the point.
OP here

Obviously the above and below situations are hypothetical. I am currently between jobs, and have never been an employer.

Let's imagine I was aware that a coworker is an illegal immigrant. Do I have any obligation to take some kind of action?

Would it make a difference if one of the C-level employees was the illegal immigrant?
Even a cursory literature review will show you that there are almost no positive articles published regarding climate change, and it is patently false that not a single place or peoples on this planet could benefit from a warmer climate.

There may not be an explicit conspiracy, but there is an emergent, cultural force which has lead to the politicization of sciences, and I imagine you are aware that scientists have quite a bit of leeway in what they choose to study/report.

Anecdote, I know, but I say this as someone who went to school with future climate scientists, and their minds were made up long before they made it to grad school.

Whether you think climate change is catastrophic or not, you must agree that there is not enough skeptical literature available, and that makes it difficult for me personally to swallow the narrative without hesitation.
Isn't this what Mr. Burns did on The Simpsons except for Springfield instead of Earth?
How would you suggest structuring a startup with one founder in Canada and the other in the US from an immigration point of view?

Thanks!
I decided having terabytes of data backed up in the cloud is just not feasible. So I picked about 300 GB which I _really_ care about and back up that to the cloud.

For the rest I got my NAS, and I live with the fact that if the house burns down well then that data goes out the window.

Just because you can back up everything in the cloud doesn't mean you should.
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Raiding people's homes over Facebook posts while claiming to protect free speech is downright wrong, just another instance of censorship and authoritarianism.

This is just like the WTO protests here in Seattle, suppressing the citizenry so you can hold a conference with the bankers and influential politicians from 20 countries is apt to not end well. I'm sure Germany will focus their panopticon to try and eliminate those who seek to organize strong opposition to the G-20 summit.
Thanks @fevangelou! Appreciate you taking time to drop your suggestions.

Dynamic icon - I agree with you that it can be quite convenient to display the top technology (preferably the CMS). We will think about this as an option in the future updates!

Technology submission - That's a great idea. We are adding this to our roadmap. Thank you so much.
as someone who grew up in the HB/FV area, i can definitely tell you're from the area too based on your username ;)
The difference between end of all time in however many tens of billions of years vs the economic collapse of human society in a handful of generations is a fairly major scale difference.
The Earth's orbit is too circular and our axis isn't tilted enough. We're at the maximal energy absorbing posture. In 100,000 years, we'll need this greenhouse blanket to keep our ice planet warm.
What are you doing exactly? Some TN only require 3 years experience
Here are some more rules I like to use:

Use I/O flip flops: the external world should be separated from the internal world via one pipeline stage, and that stage should be in the I/O cells. This is not always easy to pull off (Xilinx, ugh), but when you do it you will get consistent I/O timing from run to run, and basically not have to worry about it once it's working. It's less error-prone than trying to have accurate external timing constraints. This is really for older (board-level) synchronous designs.

Often the FPGA and board designs are happening at the same time. Get a skeleton design working before the board design is complete. This design should include all I/O, clocks and resets. There can be many non-obvious constraints involving these things, so you better have them right before the board design is done or you are in for a world of hurt.

Along the same lines: take baby steps during the design (get blinking LEDs and some kind of software accessible register interface running first).

Oh a big one: use version control. Unfortunately the tools (Xilinx) do not make this easy, but it is really essential. You would be surprised at how often this is not done.
It doesn't matter if the connection is secured if the data itself is not secured. Transport security is a red herring in a complex system.

If you are driving a car at 70mph around a mountain pass, even a really strong guard rail leaves the possibility that you could plummet ten thousand feet to your death. If, on the other hand, you were driving on the Bonneville salt flats at 45mph, there is much, much less danger.

Secure your data. Then paint the bike shed.
The earth doesn't need cooling. It's been cooling since the 1800's https://realclimatescience.com/2017/08/new-video-getting-sta...

This project would be a tragic waste of resources that could better be used to accelerate research into safer nuclear reactors.
There a bunch of LAMP apps on Android. You just need a phone that open enough to let you 'share' a connections. Otherwise you would just be better off with RPi setup as an access point.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esminis.se...
Sorry for not answering the comments. Currently get always the message that I should slow down when I try to post. Will answer all as soon as I can.
I wonder if this will be a wake-up call to those people on the left in the US who have been doubting the value of the First Amendment. It's ironic to me that many of the people saying Nazi/KKK symbols should be illegal "like in Germany" because of "incitement" are the same people saying things like "punching Nazis is cool"; how is that not incitement? Things like this are an inevitable consequence of losing the bright-line rule against censoring ideas.
Node community is going to argue its way into obscurity.
You don't need their permission to look at the code, just use something like http://crxextractor.com/ to fetch the CRX from the Chrome Web Store, then rename to .zip and extract.
i was going to say "maybe US universities are basically bloated, greedy corporate fat-cats that cannot compete in the global marketplace."

but it raised a question i couldn't answer: how do such unproductive blobs of corporate greed survive at all? i mean, if it's not government subsidies. is it some sort of protectionist regulatory regime (e.g. sort of like the TBTF Wall Street banks enjoy)? some kind of collusion? a secret cartel?
LOL well played bro!
It is not at all hyperbole. Companies that sell rescue insurance include lawyers fees in their benefits package.
$50/kg to Earth orbit would be fantastic. One could get to a much higher exit point than the 5.5 km elevation (18,000 feet) they propose for even more efficient system. Seems like a great mega-project for China. They have the resources, drive, ambition, tech, and access to many 8 km+ mountains to build a launch tower on. Hopefully this would spur the US to partner with Chile and/or Argentina to build one on one of the ~7km peaks in South America. Denali is probably out of the question, but as military project, maybe it could be done.
A quick Google for "outlook autoreply headers" gave me https://www.jitbit.com/maxblog/18-detecting-outlook-autorepl... -- a more comprehensive list of headers is available at https://github.com/jpmckinney/multi_mail/wiki/Detecting-auto...

Will some things filter through this list? Undoubtedly, but I would be surprised if it's a significant percentage. Extremely high-volume lists probably need some more specific care, to be sure.
With regard to stability, just use L4 and L5! Park some anchor objects at L4 and L5, and stretch a big tape-like net between those things, in the middle of which is the shading device. Problem solved! :)
Sorry, have to improve the landing page if that is not clear without video. The main idea about link.fish is that it extracts the data of website and lets you work with it (sort and filter). So if you bookmark an apartment you get bedrooms, bathroom, rent, ... you can display them as list or map and that across different websites. For movies you get actors, director, ... for recipes calories, ingredients, ... and so on.
Additionally, can you collaborate with other people in real-time and it creates snapshots so that even if websites get deleted you still have the page saved.

To extract the data it uses the same what search engines use (schema.org) and for pages which do not support it own rules can be defined. That rules are not hard coded they can be created by any user. If a page does not have any data there is the button "Add Domain Support". There you can then select what kind of data should be extracted (like for example a "Product") and what properties (like name, price, image, ...) and then select the data on the website. That has to be done for all not yet supported websites but then it works for all such pages on that website for all users. Not technical people can also simply press "Data Missing?" then we get a message and add support ourself.
Wait, so everyone is allowed to contribute to global climate change without permission, but we need everyone's agreement to prevent it?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15101170 and marked it off-topic.
That's highly disingenuous. Unless you've been spamming your users, it's typical that less than 1% of emails are automated responses. These can be deleted/skipped very quickly.

In my company's case, it's more like 0.1%, but perhaps some are higher.
I think many peoples are drastically opposed to what is happening right now with rising CO2 levels.
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This is addressed in the paper. It's even addressed in the abstract of the paper.

Edit: Second is a concept aimed at reducing transportation cost to $50/kg by using electromagnetic acceleration to escape Earth's gravity, followed by ion propulsion. The paper says that if there are rockets involved, they will be used outside of the atmosphere.
Thank god, a Medium post on how to fix email. Guess that's fixed now, isn't it?

/s
What is an Advanced Freelancer?
He's asking for exhaustiveness checking of pattern matching algebraic data types. Many languages have had this for essentially forever.

It does sometimes mean that when you update some code, you have to update a bunch of other things. But it's rarely spurious. Usually those other things are broken by failing to consider the new possibility.

In the long term, it's a maintenance win.
SaltStack for configuration management, absolutely. We use it to manage our Linux servers, Macs, and the few Windows desktops that linger around the office. We also use it to bootstrap Kubernetes, audit configuration of some clusters, and provision dev machines.

Salt can also run agentless, and is much, much faster than Ansible, and has excellent support for both Docker and Kubernetes, which is a huge plus for us. Everything that can't be put in a Dockerfile gets run through Salt
Fastest way to do it is to reach out to recruiters on LinkedIn with a resume in hand. It helps to have a fully fleshed-out LinkedIn profile for them to reference back to. If you've worked with recruiters in the past, tell them that you're looking again. Good recruiters with a lot of clients can get you into something within a week or two if you're good at interviewing and the client's hiring process is fast (generally, the bigger the client, the slower their hiring process is).

Another way I've done it is by finding jobs on job boards, searching for one of (or the) manager of a team that you're interested in working for and sending them a (short!) message on LinkedIn or email expressing your interest in a job. By short, I mean:

- Hi, I'm <name>

- Your group's responsibilities seem interesting and I'd like to join.

- I'm good at and can help you with <x, y, z>

- I've done projects like <x, y>

- Do you have time for a phone call next week to learn more about me?

They will either not respond (most likely), forward you to a recruiter or talk to you directly. I've gotten better responses from LinkedIn than via email, since some managers have admin assistants who read their email and are good at ensuring this spam doesn't get back to them.

This can sometimes even work if you message a member of that team instead of the manager directly, especially if their one of the top contributors on that team. That can even work better since they'll be more likely to talk to you and can help short-circuit your resume to the right people/their manager. It's a little trickier, though.

Another good way of finding jobs if you're in a big enough city is by checking out local tech Meetups and meeting people. This is a slow way of doing it since you don't want to be "that person" that's fishing for a job at an event that "clearly isn't for that" (most of them are), but it's a good way of expanding your network and finding opportunities that you definitely won't get with recruiters (startups, by and large, don't use recruiters; too expensive).

Good luck!
Doubtful. He would possibly have to stand trial for specific charges, whether or not they are ultimately rooted in truth.

Keep in mind that Assange is essentially the head of a news organization, and famous himself (in a related fashion). He can say both facts and opinions and they will be picked up and carried by others without checking the veracity or likelihood of being true because of his celebrity. Additionally, people will exaggerate his claims based on their own agendas. It's worth looking into the situation before accepting his take on it, or even that of his supporters, verbatim.
It flip flops between the two phrasings depending on what portion of the document you're reading.

In general, I don't mean to say that 23&me has a bad privacy policy. They simply have one written by lawyers in the interest of the company's value and flexibility, while at the same time allay fears over information disclosure.

Personally, I'd like a higher standard for somewhere that stores my genetic information. Especially if a company's interests are at odds with mine ('If you're not paying, you are the product,' etc).

Phrasing like, "We may provide additional notice and ask for your consent if we wish to share your information with our commonly owned entities in a materially different way than discussed in this Privacy Statement" creeps the hell out of me.

Especially if they end up getting re-absorbed into the Google family as a backdoor to collecting genetic information with less risk to Alphabet.
... Except we use it all the time.
Thank you for responding, these are some really good points that really made me rethink my opinion of this topic.

I definitely agree that I do not want extremist groups to grow and become even more of a 'thing' in the US. However, I do not know if I am OK with stripping people of their 4th amendment rights just because they have been 'associated' with a terrorist group (or visited a terrorist group's website...) That's a dangerous path.

I also still fail to see how the information taken from Dreamhost would help them track somebody who committed a crime. What, are they going to subpoena everyone's ISPs to find out who every single person is, then arrest them and see if they happen to be someone who committed a crime? That's wrong. What am I missing here? How could this be used in any way except to build a list of 'potential terrorists' in some 3 letter org's database?
One option is sole proprietor as a contractor. No benefits. Pay for your own equipment, office, telecom. Do your own payroll deductions. Ask for more comp in return.

As an independent contractor the client does not create a tax nexus in your country.
Why wouldn't someone just do that through the software on their phone?
So how does one break out of this catch-22?

How do you become a successful professional if you're never given the opportunity to earn trust where it is also visible enough to develop a strong network?
People greatly underestimate the magnitude of bloodshed that would come with American isolationism.

Because of Pax Americana, most people can't even grasp the concept or seriousness of, say, a neighboring nation dropping bombs on your city just because they want your territory. The US is insulated from such concerns, Europe is rife with them :)