skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The book is superb.

But to appreciate the book have to understand that Lem, in his serious mode (he also wrote comedies and light-hearted adventures, which are quite different), is not very concerned about plot, nor about most things American sci-fi has always been about: There are no heroics, no politics, no space wars, no McGuffins, and there's only minimal world-building.

Lem is an engaging writer, but also a somewhat dry one, and Solaris is a sort of essay on science, camouflaged as a novel: Like his other masterpiece, His Master's Voice, it is a critique of science. Whereas HMV attacks the scientific field pretty broadly, Solaris is more of an investigation into the limitations of the human mind: A scientist visits a far-away research station and comes to realize that all previous research (by decades of so-called "Solarisists") isn't even wrong, it's irrelevant. About a third of the book is spent on a wry summary of all the scholarly research that Solarisists have been performing and collecting in journals. Even after many decades, Solaris has funded many scientists, and yielded endless observations, but also zero insight. (At the time the book is set, most scientists have simply given up, and the station is largely abandoned.) Solaris is an inscrutable alien organism that the human mind can simply not understand. Ironically, even the main character comes to think, towards the end, that he has understood Solaris, when it's obvious to the reader that his conclusions are just more of the same, a reflection of our human-ness.

Of course, both movie adaptations got this wrong, or chose to ignore that aspect of the book. They think it's about people reincarnated from memories, and that it's about love. In the book, the "ghosts" are actually dealt with rather simply and matter-of-factly; the scientists find themselves being tormented by them, and quickly move to destroy them. Lem, however, doesn't bother with the emotional melodrama you find in both movies.

I don't remember what Soderbergh's version aimed for exactly (other than being a sort of Last Tango in Paris in space), but Tarkovsky's is very much inward-looking and concerned with the nature of artifice and truth (the "ghosts" are not real, and neither is Solaris, in a way). Tarkovsky didn't really want to create a sci-fi movie, and so you get something which is not entirely convincing.
The case for wind that the article argued for can be additionally bolstered by the what I just mentioned. I dont see why that's off topic?
I hire contractors. I don't have time for people to ramp up on the job. I need them to come in knowing the stack we are working in.

If I were hiring full time devs, I would take a chance but I would expect them to meet deadlines as if they were fluent in the stack - meaning if they have to work weekends or more than 40 hours a week to be just as efficient as someone who knows the stack, they should do it.

I put myself to the sane standards when I'm an FTE. If the company advertised they wanted a proficient React developer for instance and I was honest with them about my lack of experience and I convinced them that I was willing to learn, I would make sure I produced 35-40 hours worth of productive work even if it took me 60 hours to do it.

I'm not putting in extra hours necessarily for the company, I'm doing it to further my own career.
You are not writing code for just you. There may be times when people fresh out of college who do not speak English as their primary language may need to understand your source.

There is often back-story that needs to be explained. Something as obvious as input sensitization may have a more specific meaning behind the specific implementation, for example a legacy Orcale DB client that chokes on certain special characters. A comment in a case like that can prevent you from getting woken up at 1am because a well meaning attempt to apply the same naming rules to schemas as you do to everything broke things.

If someone says they "don't understand your code" then either they suck at understanding code, you suck at writing it or both.

Comments are a tool to increase the speed and accuracy with which someone else can understand your code.
It's really exciting to see wind and solar becoming so cheap to generate. As the price of wind and solar drop further, grid-scale energy storage will become more and more attractive (and necessary). Investment dollars chasing the dream of buying this cheap-to-generate electricity and sell it back to the grid at prices competitive with fossil sources.
In high school, persistent and large-scale bullying is generally dealt with by the school before, as you suggested, the student on the receiving end takes the much more drastic step of moving schools.
Here is my take on what SendGrid does: Sending an email is pretty easy. Sending a metric butt ton is hard and so is hooking it into your app. So, we help you with that because screwing that up could be very bad.
Then those websites are not targeting you and could care less what your needs are.
> In this case you're "paying" with your data, which has even less voting power because you can't even opt out of that payment just by not using their services. You'd pretty much have to stop using the internet entirely.

Huh? You can use Firefox, Bing and another email provider.
And the XMPP Federation couldn't provide that ideal?
Start your own tech meetup in said city.
SAP (formerly Sybase) SQL Anywhere
What's an ICO? Let me break it down in under a minute
I've never understood why people like G2s. They always feel a bit scratchy to me. I prefer 207 0.38s, which are about as scratchy as G2 0.7s, but with a much thinner tip (207 0.7s are much smoother than both 207 0.38s and G2 0.7s).
Location: Indonesia
Remote: Flexible
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Email: d2F6YUBmYXN0bWFpbC5qcA== (base64 encoded. decode it by pasting it into base64 decoder)

I design platform-agnostic software, construct software, help people write software better and more effective. It is very thrilling for me to build high performance, maintainable, and scalable software. I've worked on high traffic systems with $1B+ monthly revenue and maintaining it at very high uptime.

Time wise, my experiences include 5+ years software development and leading a team in various platform. My experience fields include Fleet Management software, geography mapping, remote device tracking, credit card payment, SEA payment, commerce (promotion, discount, voucher).

In my spare time, i love to leverage developer communities by sharing some insights. You can see my talks here: speakerdeck.com/mufid.

I open to any new opportunity, including going abroad (I need visa sponsor to work outside).
well, yes and no. The apollo program operated on a tick-tock schedule where they did progressively harder missions. I interpret this as a series of proof-of-concept deliverables which allowed the team to develop expertise.

Then later they could define & hit their tolerances for orbital mechanics, fuel budgets, system redundancy.

Same deal with faraday / maxwell / einstein. The experimenter (faraday) measured & applied new phenomena, then maxwell came up with general laws, then einstein figured out their implications.
Initial Coin Offering. An unregulated fundraising method.
FWIW, I'm presenting a talk on exactly this topic tomorrow at 12:30 at the http://www.db-tech-showcase.com/dbts/tokyo - unfortunately I do not think it will be recorded.
I feel sorry for your employer then.
IME, everyone advises portfolios, but nobody looks at them.
It's true of almost all ICOs launching ERC20 tokens because on Ethereum you can write code that automatically turns your ETH into ERC20 tokens. A couple pages of code and it all just happens on the blockchain by itself.

If you take bitcoin contributions, you need something offchain to track who contributed what, and issue a bunch of minting transactions.

Some ICOs do that, but if it's ERC20 that's generally in addition to automated minting via smart contract, and since the token and ICO are running on the Ethereum blockchain it's predominantly ETH that gets contributed.

Liquidity on exchanges later doesn't have much to do with any of that.
picodollars - you've lost me, even though I'm tech.

I don't think this website should be made to "look better" i.e turned into some corporate garbage, but it could definitely look better... looks kinda like an open source programmers best shot at making something look good.

There's a middle ground between looking corporate (irrelevant) and looking unprofessional.

In your shoes I would be going for a style of "very plain, but very neat" looking. Aiming for perfectly spaced between elements, attractive font, minimal but matching colors. Function graphics only.

This kinda looks OK:

https://weirdkid.com/emailchemy/
Ketones are a superfood? That doesn't make sense to me as superfood isn't a real term.

Here's an article stating that improvement in BP, lipid decrease, and increased insulin sensitivity occurs in fasting. Not so sure about the rest of the vague claims made in the article.

https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2...
Chances are that the gatekeeper won't know enough to be interested.
Here's an ebook on the subject: "How to Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language"

http://createyourproglang.com

Here's what some programming luminaries had to say (lifted from the website):

“The book I want to read.” — Matz, creator of the Ruby language

“I really love this book.” — Jeremy Ashkenas, creator of the CoffeeScript language
Odd place for me to ask this but does anyone know what's with the ring of twitter user wth the usernames ending in gives,gibs, givs as in johnGivs, jasonGives as an example. They all say they will release account "methods" for Spotify, Apple, PlayStation , steam etc for retweets. I came across the pattern a few weekends ago noticing they say to each other they keep their accounts on ghost script and they were all mad it was down one night. Is this just a ring of stolen accounts or stolen account cards?
Yeah, it was pretty bad - contacts who were "upgraded" to Hangouts just had me disappear from their contact lists, and on my end it looked like they were constantly in "away" status but they never got my messages.

With no announcement of any of this ahead of time.

Complete mess.
Illumos has a lot of nice features I'd like to use. But my product is a small low power ARM device and I'd run out of money long before I'd finish adding minimal ARM support to illumos.

Things are not as simple as you suggest.
A tree in the wind is random, a turbine is not.

edit:
I love wind noise, it doesn't mean I also love car alarms because they are also noise.
Actually this is a topic very near to my interests. You mention it in farming (and that interests me, but the extent of my farming knowledge is growing a small garden of tomato plants) ... but I think it's a more general trend that technology tends to be developed with an eye toward massive scale, with small-scale efficiency as an afterthought.

Could you give some examples of opportunities you see in developing technology for farming at the small scale? In particular, examples where the technology designed for the large scale farms wouldn't be appropriate?
I've been working remotely for ten years, in a city with a very small but friendly tech scene. A lack of local meetups doesn't always indicate that there's no tech scene, either - when I first started working remotely I was the only person I knew who was doing it, but just by being vocal about it I quickly found others. If there are no meetups in your field then starting one is a brilliant way to tick a bunch of boxes here:

- You will bring people out of the woodwork who are in similar positions, but haven't taken the initiative to start such a group themselves.

- You'll gain contacts in your scene, both locally and in other cities.

- You'll gain experience and profile that will help you in a search for remote work, as you can point to community engagement activities that say a lot more about your dedication than a couple of udemy courses in some particular stack.

If you really don't want to start a local group (or if there's no nearby community large enough to support this) then look for user groups with active online communities (mailing lists definitely count) and try to make some occasional trips to other cities for meetups and conferences.
This particular project doesn't inspire confidence, but I've been thinking for a while that it'd probably be good for rhinos if we could make convincing fake rhino horn powder and get it into the market.
I am glad that our website help you find the right book. This is truly our purpose of creating this website.

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And have the name match?

Tell me they check the name... Right?
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At dice.com we just released a free career path tool that shows you possible transitions from your current role based on our years of profile data in the tech sector. It will also show you what skills are typically required in each role. Hopefully this can help you explore some options while you decide how you want pivot - url https://www.dice.com/career-paths
> Well duh, but those policies only exist because YT is trying to sell those features.

That's totally within their rights as a business, is it not?
The merged patch does have some significant points of difference from the one described in 2015, though.
So a multihundred billion dollar web company doesn't have the dev resources to support Firefox? Even though it already works when you spoof the agent string?
google used them to train their go AI AFAIK.
The number of years thing is bogus. Just ignore it and apply. I remember seeing posts asking for more Rails experience than DHH himself has. Something like 8 years of Rails experience when Rails was only 6 years old. Those requirements are almost always written by some of the least competent people in the company.
i must be thinking of a different Martin Shkreli...
I would also like to see it used on faces, the mnist digits data set doesn't showcase each method for me either.
i do.
This sounds more like a build tool than a code "packing" tool...
Buffered Python generators for data augmentation
http://camel.apache.org/

Front page of the Camel website:

Camel empowers you to define routing and mediation rules in a variety of domain-specific languages, including a Java-based Fluent API, Spring or Blueprint XML Configuration files, and a Scala DSL.

This means you get smart completion of routing rules in your IDE, whether in a Java, Scala or XML editor.

Apache Camel uses URIs to work directly with any kind of Transport or messaging model such as HTTP, ActiveMQ, JMS, JBI, SCA, MINA or CXF, as well as pluggable Components and Data Format options. Apache Camel is a small library with minimal dependencies for easy embedding in any Java application. Apache Camel lets you work with the same API regardless which kind of Transport is used - so learn the API once and you can interact with all the Components provided out-of-box.

Apache Camel provides support for Bean Binding and seamless integration with popular frameworks such as CDI, Spring, Blueprint and Guice. Camel also has extensive support for unit testing your routes.
It's iffy for Chinese nationals to run VPN services. But then, it's similarly iffy for American nationals to run other sorts of services. Such as online gambling. Or money transfer businesses that don't respect KYC regulations.

That's just how it is. Each country gets to choose its policies. I mean, that's one of the fundamental points of being a country, isn't it?
That's an ad. Don't know how they got it into Bloomberg, but that's an ad.
New Equation Explains Quantum Chaos
What the fuck.

I really, really don't know how I feel about this.
Hey all you pro audio people: you gotta see what Clojure has to offer for your world. Having come up in CSound Clojure's Pink and other libraries are first class, and the language's semantics pair so well with the audio mindset. Rich Hickey wrote Clojure after dealing with broadcast systems for 20 years. I think of transducers like a side chain. Check out Rich's additive synthesis stuff and you'll see the ethic and thrust behind this language. When the word Composition is invoked it means applying aesthetic, thinking about time, and the rigor that comes along with audio production. If you're a hacker/musician at heart you'll find a home within the Clojure community right away on many levels.
The British East India Company as a thing by 1776 (its stock collapse, a few years earlier, is highly likely to have cloured Smith's thinking on joint stock companies generally).

In 1672, the English East India Company finally secured a trading post in Taiwan - ten years after the Dutch East India Company had been expelled from the island by the Chinese. The Company was soon engaged in direct and regular trade with the Chinese from that base and was permitted to make regular voyages to Amoy, Chusan and Canton. By the turn of the century, the Company's base for the China trade was transferred from Taiwan to its "factory" at Canton. With its Royal Charter, the Company was granted the privilege of monopoly of trade in the East Indies until 1833.

From 1700 onwards, most foreign traders were confined in Canton, where rigid restrictions were imposed through the practice of Co-hong, a guild of Chinese merchants, the sole recognized agency between foreign and Chinese merchants.

http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/china/guidesour...

You can also find David Ricardo and Malthus in agreement on wages. Ricardo gives us the subsistence theory of wages (I associate this as the Iron Law of Wages though that may be incorrect ... ah, J.K. Galbraith, whom I've read, makes that attribution):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages
I work as a contractor and that is kind of similar to what I do. If I have to use a new tech (an important one in the stack but not the main one) I will normally invest 5~10h of my time pre-anything in learning the basics of the stack.

Then if I get stuck at something I'll try to fix it first, then learn more about the stack to see if I'm missing something basic and finally ask for help. These go normally for free if it's because of my lack of knowlege; otherwise I'll charge for them ofc.

I've also found out it's quite important to explain this to whoever is hiring you. That way they don't feel cheated on (money) nor like you are slacking off and working only X hours instead of 2X per week.

PS, your comment sounded quite negative/exploiting, probably that's why the downvotes.
Not really - if a control frame is received the KTLS file descriptor will report an error and disassociate itself from the TCP file descriptor, at which point you're supposed to transition back to using the userspace TLS library. You'll also need the userspace TLS library to do a clean shutdown.
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Hardly a word about reducing production and consumption.

There's no mystery where the plastic is coming from -- us. We can live without it, certainly with a lot less of it.

While we wait for legislation, at least on a personal level we can take responsibility for our externalities and reduce our personal consumption.
Having inked in mechanical drawings, even with good Rapidograph pens, it sucked.

There's a reason that AutoCAD was incredibly successful in the 1980s. Any CAD system was at least an order of magnitude faster than pen and ink drafting.
>"Also, don't say you're 'pivoting' yout career. Just don't."

I tend to find such polemics unhelpful. Usually when someone tells me "just don't", I end up really wanting to know the mechanism behind what is causing such a stern warning.

For example, if I asked someone, "should I jump out of an airplane with no parachute",...

and someone says...

"just don't, because unless you have lots of luck and can defy lots of laws of physics, you will most likely be killed"...

then they have revealed a very clear and concrete reason, which strengthens their assertion of "just don't".

I see no such evidence for or against using the word "pivot", and I can imagine scenarios where the word even resonates with certain types of people.
The market is only efficient when it's competitive. It is necessary to break up monopolies in order to maintain that competitiveness.
There might have been plenty of time, but no apparent reason at the time. You can be perfectly rational and wrong.
Explaining the Most Recent Record for Quantum Computing: A 51-Qubit Array
What's the brand and model of the fingerprint reader featured in the Watsi animated gif?
How much plastic in fish flesh compared to say leaching into a bottle of water or dust from plastic clothing? Which fish are worst, where is tuna on this list? By what mechanism is fish liver function effected and will this translate to humans?

It goes without saying we should avoid dumping plastic in the sea, but we have no information how harmful fish twice per week is really.
Can you please list which biographies of Carnegie and Rockefeller you recommend ?
I don't know what HN's criteria are, but Safari recently blocked autoplay videos and I suspect other browsers will add this functionality soon enough that this problem will disappear.
I accumulate some (ok, I lie: Is a lot!):

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/mamcx/e1743571b9a1ea163a7...
Pick a new stack. If the technology has only been around a year, then everyone is a senior.
> That's just how it is. Each country gets to choose its policies. I mean, that's the fundamental point of being a country, isn't it?

Yes, but that’s not what’s happening in China. The fundamental point of being a country is to serve the common good, and to protect the life and liberty of your citizens. In China the ruling party doesn’t care about any of those things.

A policy such as this would be a lot less horrible if ‘the country’ actually chose their own rules and rulers instead of a small handful of permanent party appointees. 1.3(?) billion people who have no say in these policies or in those who make them should be a tragedy no matter how cynical you are.
Who's out there doing foodtech ventures?
What are you doing in foodtech? How far along are you in your business? Where do you engage with peers online?
sigh. p=np, because
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_machine
is a solved problem.
although, [ts/sci].

oh well, there goes another account.