skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, they aren't dumb. Notable animals, much like notable humans, really are something!

My very close experiences are potent enough to agree.

Heh, cows have besties! I sometimes look at a field and wonder. Their form limits what they can do physically, but socially? It's intriguing.

Whales demonstrate higher order tribal, familial, pair or partner type behavior. Same sort of dynamic.

What is there when one is limited in being able to build and manipulate? Community, emotions, stories, bonds, sharing of experiences. History.

That's a lot!
What a find. Thank you.
California has an appealing history.
But for today's living (including taxes), Texas seems pretty appealing.
No, i'm punishing you for only providing ads as a form of payment.

Or in the new york times case, for getting ads in spite of paying. Ads are a fucking poison; i will do anything i can to destroy them.
Man I miss this music! What a trove!
So, how much ad money does each user actually bring you? 5€ doesn’t seem like a realistic price.

According to https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/6pxyvy/traffic_pag..., about half of your users are mobile users of the official app, which does not support ad blocking, so at least half of your entire userbase either pays for gold, or has ads. Official statistics you’ve published put reddit at a reach of 6% of US internet users, which would be over 234 million users.

This would mean 117 million monthly users at 4 USD pre-tax each, which would be a monthly revenue that’d rival Google or Facebook. And this is completely ignoring any and all desktop users. So either your user statistics are wrong, or you don’t even get close to the 4 USD revenue per user in ads.

Based on the fact that Reddit officially isn’t profitable, and has 230 employees paid at Silicon Valley wages, and assuming reddit has a factor of 10 less users (so ~11 million mobile users per month, which would assume half of the subscribers to AskReddit would be active mobile users), the actual money you’d get per mobile user per month via ads (again, assuming all desktop users use adblock), would be around $0.21. This also matches much more closely the usual per-user ad revenue statistics.

And $0.21 per month is a price that also is a lot more affordable for people outside of silicon valley. Even a buck a month is still within of affordable range, although less so if you use many different sites. If you visit hundreds of pages per month, paying $4 each would bankrupt people. And no, you don’t get the same revenue via ads either (as explained above, or can be determined via the simple equation that the entire revenue sites you’re visiting make from ads has to be less than the disposable income you spend on products per month).
Why is the distance function not implemented with Haversine's methods?

https://github.com/JamesMilnerUK/cheap-ruler-go/blob/master/...

Is there a reason to do this with looping?
"Even Mozilla currently allows it" Even? I don't think this is very surprising.
Baofengs are not actually cheap. They inexpensive af, but they are not "cheap" in that sense of the word. They're actually $200 radios being subsidized by the Chinese government to compete directly with the Japanese electronics industry. I've got like seven of those things. Those, and Morakniv knives.
Acting Dead, Trading Up and Leaving the Middle Class(2011)
I like goat cheese.. never tried goat milk, now I'm curious.
You didn't answer the question: Do you offer legally enforceable indemnity against people getting malware from ads you serve? If not, then you can't really tell them not to block the ads.
Here is one place to obtain some mental toughness and survival skills at the same time: https://www.boss-inc.com/
Agreed. AdNauseum has no more of a fair trial system, ability to be held accountable, or potential for appeal than the SPLC hate group list. I met a group of nuns listed by the SPLC, and they were a very racially diverse group of exceedingly kind people. Their group was listed in the 80s because a male bishop associated with their convent recommended some books with anti-Jewish conspiracy theories. He is dead now and our local paper did an investigation this year on the listing and found that the nuns are on good terms with local Jewish congregations with whom they respect and accomplish good in the community. The local Jewish groups couldn't get the time of day from the SPLC to reconsider their listing of the nuns, even though the SPLC explanation of the listing doesn't cite evidence of anything done by a woman or by a human currently living or done before the 1980s. And yet the SPLC is gaining more power to censor than most governments on Earth as some tech giants experiment with giving them powers to secretly make content disappear.
It'll hurt the nickel industry!

Seriously, though, like any commodity, dumping lots of excess nickel on the market could force mines to shut down if they can't weather the temporary explosion from a temporary demand spike in cobalt due to this lithium concept. Then when the explosion stopped, cobalt mining slowed down, you'd coast on excess reserves for a while.

When those reserves run out, suddenly you need nickel but the mines haven't been profitable for a decade, it takes time to restart surveying activity, procure specialized equipment, find/train employees...you can't turn it back on like a switch. But you can almost turn it off like a switch with new tech that obsoletes an industry.
Having worked in a meat processing plant, I can assure you that no humans would want to eat anything that goes into "rendering" for use in pet food.

I'm not talking about offal, tripe, small goods, etc., all of which have markets for human consumption. Some of those items are high margin, too.

There are markets somewhere in the world for just about every last bit of an animal. The only stuff that goes into pet food is stuff that has been contaminated or that has no higher margin use in other applications. Basically, pets get the waste.

Fun fact -- The highest margin product in a beef house is fetal calf blood. It typically goes for about $400/liter and can sometimes spike up to $1000/liter.
They mean the learning curve is steep.
tl;dr: A SF supervisor 'launched the "Jobs of the Future Fund", a crowdfunding effort to raise money to nudge the state to study the issue of what will happen to human workers in the age of automation.'

Related article: http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/05/04/tax-robots-sf-supervis...

The fundamental problem: what's a "robot"?

We've been developing labor-saving devices and technologies since the dawn of civilization. Where's the line where a device becomes taxable?

Roomba? Teslas? A tractor? Looms? Machine tools? Drones? Printing presses? Teleprompters? Automated tomato sorting machines?

I'm all for figuring out the future where there are many unemployed workers because there are no longer enough labor jobs. But if we're taxing labor replacement, we might as well just raise the sales tax.
OP, you're basically describing a dream scenario I'm sure many of us developers have. I'd be very willing to take a lower salary if it means a 10-minute commute, and having a lot of time for side projects.

I took up a job that's fairly middle-of-the-road in terms of salary -- plenty of lower, and plenty of higher, around the bay area. I took it at the time mostly because of working with some friends that I knew I liked working with, so I knew at least that part won't be bad. It's still a long commute though and I'm starting to question if it's worth it, especially if there's closer jobs that are potentially higher salary.
They are also on bandcamp:
https://ostinatorecords.bandcamp.com/album/sweet-as-broken-d...
> What they should have done is learned when to move or when to stay by: 1. Not buying a house in Houston and then 2. Gotten out well before it was imminent.

The reports I've seen are describing the Houston situation as a 1 in a 1000 year flood. Does it really make sense to avoid a place based on the possibility of such rare events?
Working link: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2011/12/08/acting-dead-trading-up...
Then they should allow an http header saying "if you're going to serve ads, don't bother, i'd rather look at nothing".
Spies Like Us: A Conversation with John Le Carré and Ben Macintyr
Virtually identical in my experience.
Electronic design automation, e.g. Chip design.

This is not low hanging fruit.
there's a big difference between a tv commercial and a banner ad. one completely hijacks your attention for some period and the other is more like a billboard or poster - if you're not interested you don't have to pay attention to it.

I know some sites have taken to showing full screen overlays and that's a lot more like a tv commercial, which I agree people hate. but for the most part we're talking about banners and their corresponding infrastructure for tracking and targeting (which is more intrusive than the actual ad mist of the time).
It's not on me that clicks are considered meaningful—that's the site owner's problem.
I use this radio for my primary talker.
I don't work for reddit anymore, so I don't offer anything. But no, I don't think reddit offers that, as no site does. That's a perfectly fine excuse to run adblock, but my original thesis was that people say, "If you let me remove ads I'll pay" and those people are being disingenuous when they don't pay.

It still doesn't justify the topic at hand, which is a program that attacks the ad networks and defrauds the advertisers.
There's a great proposal for adding type classes to C# here: https://github.com/MattWindsor91/roslyn/blob/master/concepts...

And I discuss some ways that could be integrated with the extension everything proposal here: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/164

The problem with both is that there's a new notion of "shape" or "concept" that's different from interfaces. It would be nice to just use interfaces for this (which is what I hint at in the video), but that comes with its own downsides and limitations.
Interesting, looks like it's not the highest, but the Japanese government stats say the rate is much higher than that (about 19) http://www.newsweek.com/japans-suicide-rate-finally-falling-...
My intuition based on 20 years of working on large-ish projects, is that code reviews are always helpful, and mandatory unit tests waste a lot of time and effort, at least for statically typed code. I don't have much experience with dynamic languages. This doesn't mean don't write any unit tests, but to use discretion instead of enforcing coverage. So, it's perfectly reasonable for a code reviewer to say, "a unit test could be really helpful here."
Disagree. One reoccurring theme in porn is a person in a position of power coercing someone in a lesser position to have sex with them. Boss/subordinate porn is hardly new, so landlord porn is just an extension of that.

It's topical for sure, but hardly limited to millennials.
This makes no sense. Have you ever used a web forum before reddit? People get banned all the time for arbitrary reasons on forums all over the web, why should reddit be any different? "The internet" has not been turned into anything, it remains the same as it has always been, a place where communities of varying interests can interact at their own discretion, a freedom which includes the prerogative to exclude anything the administrators deem off topic, offensive, annoying or even boring.

The internet gives everyone the freedom to create a community of their own, and it's easier, cheaper and the experience is better than ever when doing so. There are already popular "anything goes" discussion forums (e.g. 4chan, voat) that give much wider room to "freedom of expression", so how have companies like reddit or google prevented others from operating in any fashion they find acceptable within the confines of their own communities? The answer is they haven't.
anachronistic depends on what we are looking for, I for example just got my first mechanical watch, I know it's not accurate as a quartz but that's not the point. I'd like to think about it from a nostalgic point of view, from the days when not everything had a computer inside.
Launching a Supercomputer: How to Set Up Some of the World's Fastest Computers
Lisp buffers? Smalltalk workspaces? Is this capability any different from those?
The American people have made it very clear they like to be pandered and lied to. People love to blame politicians, which I find rather odd given the more than ample evidence that in our democratic system they are just telling us what we want to hear.
In that case, why post anything? 99% of the internet is drivel but people love it.
Indeed.

If I may?

Somalia is a beautiful country. I've been twice, the second time was when I was able to spend six months.

While I didn't go to an music venues, there was still a great deal of music. Yes, people sing and dance - even when they are oppressed. I was last there to hand out aid and it was beautiful to see how people with so little, to the point of requiring aid, were still so generous.

What irks me is the people who try to claim that Somalia is a land without government. No, they have lots of government. People just don't recognize this and they are illegitimate. You may know them by another name, warlords.

These fiefdoms have everything from taxation to laws, to paperwork and permits, and more. They are very much a governed people. In some areas, we even needed permission from multiple groups in order to travel.

Anyhow, if you get the chance, go. Before I went, I got a phone call from some guy who worked for the State Department. They used some choice words to tell me that my government would be unable to help should something go wrong. Yeah, it's a dangerous place but it was worth the risks. It really is a beautiful place that is full of (mostly) wonderful people.
Or, and that’s the other option, if you can get the same offering at a lower cost.

For example, for me, as a user, IRCCloud is far too expensive, because for half the monthly cost I can run a Quassel core (an open IRC bouncer with similar functionality) for 10 users.

So, to me, I have a choice between 4 bucks a month for a product, or 0.20 bucks a month for the same product.

A big issue with this are the silicon valley wages. Most of these services are priced for users in Silicon Valley, where 5 bucks a month are nothing.

But out in the rest of the world, money is worth a lot more, and as a result, the entire cost/use equation changes, making many of these products impossible to afford.
> On 99% of machines you'll run into (your laptop, your servers at work, cloud VMs, etc.), they have exactly one network connection to one network provider, and so the routes are static, or at best provided by DHCP.

Phones can connect to the internet over both WiFi and 4G. But I guess BGP wouldn't be particularly helpful for them for some other reason?
At first we did think of this as a way to add non-nullable reference types to C#, maybe with a `string!` syntax as you propose.

The feature only really started to gel when we realized the important feature was nullable reference types. The thing is, in most code, most things aren't actually supposed to be null. So we want non-null to be the default.

When you start marking the things that should be null as such, you'll be protected from dereferencing those without a check. That's what actually prevents you from getting null-reference exceptions!

And once you've marked them all (usually a fraction of your type annotations), null really doesn't have a place in the remaining spots, and you can turn on the non-null check to eradicate those.

This leaves you with the smallest number of places to update your existing code, and leaves new code the cleanest.
I own a watch from a brand of comparable quality and complexity expertise as Vacheron Constantin. I don't use it display purchasing power - I almost never actually wear it because I like to wear my Apple Watch most of the time. When I do wear it, I am almost never around anyone who would recognize the brand of the watch. Essentially no one I personally know is aware of how much I paid for the watch, no one has ever commented on the watch specifically, and I do not bring it up in conversation even when I wear it.

In other words, I own the watch because I enjoy it for its own sake. It's a beautiful piece of handcrafted machinery. It's not supposed to have superlative practical utility, nor does any serious watch house actually strive for that. These timepieces are a form of art, and whether or not you appreciate them has no bearing on the fact that their manufacturers are under no illusions of their practicality.

Don't generalize your perception of the entire industry based on your experience or preconception of a relatively diminutive portion of its consumers. There are people who buy Rolexes because it's a good way to show off money, but there are many other people who honestly buy them because Rolex genuinely manufactures high quality mechanical watches. My experience as a collector is that most people do not buy these to show off. Rationally, a Vacheron Constantin is an inefficient vehicle for doing so - it looks pretty, but virtually no one will recognize it nor even comment on it.
> On the contrary, if people’s identity is anchored in one or several blockchains, this would give them more control over it and their personal data. If a potential tenant, for example, wants to prove to a landlord that his income is high enough to pay the rent, he need only disclose that bit of information, instead of allowing access to his entire credit history, as is often the case today.

I'm not sure how, exactly, it follows that having my data stored in a blockchain means that I can choose what is and isn't visible to my landlord, or to everyone else for that matter.
Actually, having toured various places where society has collapsed, it's actually not as bad as people imagine. Some people live their entire lives in collapsed societies. There is sometimes still electricity, food, water, security, and sometimes even phone service, depending. And after many years of study, I'd even say that those "collapsed societies" are actually more like most human communities of the past. It seems to be a kind of natural state of human civilization. We're just living in some damned lucky times.
Me and the wife went on hols to the Bordeux region a few years ago. Whilst there I conducted a highly scientific experiment. When we didn't eat out we bought a few bottles of say EUR1.5-3.0 red plonk from the nearest supermarket. I can exclusively reveal my results of this anecdote along with a few others (anecdotes):

* I can sink at least two bottles of Bordeaux region cheap supermarket wine with virtually zero after effects the next day
* I cannot sink at least two bottles of any wine from say Tesco without suffering the next day (I'm GB based)

There are quite a few caveats here but in general I'm actually going to allow for the rumour that them there froggies actually know what they are doing: they make bloody good wine - instinctively. Whatever we get here is broken in some way.

I will continue my investigation and attempt to come to a conclusion - hic
He should... wait for it... hold...

REWRITE IT IN RUST!

Just kidding. The idea about mutually untrusted components is a great idea that just gets better and better all the time.
There's different kinds of leaders for different sizes of problems. It turns out she was great at a certain size of company, but terrible once it became too large for her specific style.

This is seen often in startups where the people who are good at starting the company may not be the ones who can scale it who may not be the ones who can sustain it.
It's better to think of these sorts of watches as art. You don't own a watch like this because you have no other recourse for accurately telling the time. You own it because you appreciate it, like a Rothko or Pollock, or a Barcelona Chair if you're into that sort of thing too.
The FDR4 checker [1] looks pretty slick. I'm not that familiar with the area, though, so I'm wondering how it compares to model checkers? How does using a model checker compare to using a refinement checker? (I've read that there are model checkers for TLA+.)

[1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/projects/fdr/
There is an excellent book written by a science journalist who spent 10 years doing a deep dive on the best available scientific evidence surrounding dietary fats. It explains why it is so difficult to find high-quality evidence for anything in nutrition science and, having been written by a journalist, it also does a decent job of investigating the history and politics that have coloured diet advice over the last century or so.

https://thebigfatsurprise.com

She has also done a TED talk that gives a very quick summary of the book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHGiid6N9Q
I loved this article. I am a huge proponent of development ergonomics, and clojure(script) are really fantastic in this area. Most languages have a pretty similar standard set of tooling, but the pieces that a language does exceptionally well really stand out in cases like this.

I'd really love to see what languages designed specifically with ergonomics/tooling in mind look like
First, it's not "milk" only because it's a white liquid. Second, if people are so grossed out by milk, why do they want to drink surrogates of it?! I understand that there are lactose intolerant people, too, but I'm not talking about them if it's unclear. I've seen lactose-free milk at stores recently.
No, and there isn't really value in its timekeeping either. It's designed as a form of art, not for practical utility.
I went ahead and looked up these patents. This one looks particularly bad:

https://www.google.com/patents/US9370164

This basically grants them a patent on every single cannabis plant which has >3% THC and CBD, and which Myrcene is not the dominant terpine. Can anyone who knows their bud say which strains this could be applied to?

Also, the specification on this is HUGE. This represents a large investment; they're going to filing continuations on this until the cows come home.

EDIT: I found this website: http://analytical360.com/

This lists a number of strains that could potentially read on this, such as Gorilla Glue: http://analytical360.com/m/archived/261533
Quokka adds a nice repl like experience for JavaScript/typescript to various editors. I'm a fan of their products!

Hydrogen is quite nice for python repl development in atom. Hydrogen connected to a remote kernel plus a script to synchronize files to a remote server replaces writing code in Jupyter notebooks for me (I just can't enjoy editing code in a browser ...)
Better now with the amber alert type system. Horror stories of being in a theater and getting hit by a twister with no notice.
Urban legend has it that dead bodies have occasionally been found in rooftop water tanks in Hong Kong.
"I'm willing to give her a pass on that as pandering to the Republican base"

I think it is alright to have doubts on marijuana legalization as long as you can have some facts on your side. But reasonable voters giving a pass because the candidate might be pandering to extremists now and will not act on it when elected in future is bs. This is what got Trump elected (look at recent pardon of Joe Arapaio, putting idiots in charge of all scientific bodies, etc.).
After giving them a fake phone number that costs $5.99 per minute, a home address on the top of Mt. Everest where shipping ads to costs them hundreds of dollars, and a fake credit card numbers.

And yes, this cost is one that they should simply accept, if they want to ship malware. You try to destroy my system, I’ll try to destroy yours.
That's more or less how you work it out on paper, with the hope that when you add it all up it comes out to c, (usually tuned to "1" or unity), but that isn't necessarily what is physically happening. There isn't some part of us that's compensating temporally, for a lack of spatial velocity, it's just that when you add up the numbers or draw something like a spacetime diagram, it should come out a certain way.