skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The horns of Arsinoitherium: covered in skin or augmented with keratin sheaths?
>Are hospitals supposed to just populate their facilities with skull enclosures? How about a funeral home?

Is the parent working on a hospital or a funeral home or some such place? Did they mention they are interested in using it in a professional setting? And even in such a setting, does it say anywhere that the computer has to be in prominent display? And is the presence of a skull decoration such big of a deal, when tons of stuff people buy, wear and sport have prominent skulls and similar motifs?

(Not to mention that hospitals feature skulls all around their premises, from signs outside the x-ray department -"danger radiation"-, to labels on chemical bottles, bins where they throw hazardous material in, etc. Heck, anatomical skeletons are quite common in hospitals / doctor offices as well.

>If you're having trouble understanding why someone may take issue with skull cased computers you should look at your own development; it's not progressing properly.

If you're having trouble not insulting people you don't know about their "development (...) not progressing properly" (sic) because of a question for something which many people/cultures in the world would find totally inconsequential if they saw it in an office ("it's a PC with some decoration, nothing to see here"), maybe you should check your manners?
This feels to me like the war on the Internet has entered a new phase.
I just attributed it to standard SJW virtue signalling. It's meaningless aside to others who understand the same lingo, and agree with it.

Edit: Ah, the usual SJW refrain. Silence any criticism via flags, -1's and other tools available, instead of discussing why the quote is right/not and what it means.
I run an motor insurance company. The vast majority of our services are indeed exclusively IO-bound. The very small amount of non-IO-bound work happens mostly in Go.
leftPad is a very simple example but the goal of these micro libraries is to keep every project from having a utils.js which contain slightly different variations of the same code.
One of the best things I ever heard and I wish this was taught everywhere, is: understand what kind of business you want to build and what the right stage in your life to build it is.

In startup terms, there are cashflow businesses and disruptor businesses (credit to Mike Dillard).

Cashflow businesses are generally sneered at in Silicon Valley ("lifestyle businesses") but in many cases, they are a great place for entrepreneurs to start.

Cashflow businesses can provide you with a level of financial independence on your own terms. Then, if you want more, either start more cashflow businesses or then focus on your disruptor business (Silicon Valley style startup). But if you do you cashflow business first, you are far less at the mercy of fickle VCs, etc.

The other useful thing to come out of this classification is it almost certainly informs your funding strategy.

If you're building a cashflow business, don't ever raise money. If you're building a disruptor business, definitely raise money, as much of it as fast as you can. If you've done your cashflow business beforehand, you'll already be quite well off and can think much more strategically in your disruptor business.
The bidding interface looks pretty cool, it's nice to see more creative dapps being developed.
Well, at least Mark didn't sacrifice his child for that.

What's the end game here? In the early 2000s it seemed like China was going to become this liberal democracy, but it just seems like the government is getting more and more power and control. Is there any sign this (and the rise of several authoritarians) is gonna stop?

This made me think of Fukuyama (1989):

What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_Las...

That looks really funny in hindsight. He's actually changed his position:

http://www.npr.org/2017/04/04/522554630/francis-fukuyama-on-...
How does the blocking actually happen?

What if people used a decentralized service, that worked over https?
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See my other comment. Cashflow business is a much better and more accurate term for this.
> But that's wrong. Everything has a cost. And formalisms like Rust are still pityful attempts at constructing "formally correct" software. There might be some software that is "completely" verified, but at a cost that is simply not justifiable for the vast number of applications. Ignoring the fact that most real-world problems are ill-specified from the start.

You seem to be saying "it's hard to verify everything, so we shouldn't even attempt to verify anything," which is silly. I've found having memory safety to be a huge win, even if the Rust compiler can't verify that my program is doing the right thing.
I actually haven't used half that stuff yet, just discovered the depth of spring loading and the weird objects it supports (contacts / maps) while I was writing that comment. But even for smoother handling of text, images, and PDF files I really like this feature.

As a downside, the interface for picking up multiple objects feels a bit weird and is probably one of the bigger learning curves that iOS has gotten.

Another example I just found - you can drag an email (or several) from Mail over to Documents where they're saved as .eml files. Documents doesn't know how to render these so you see the full markup, but I can imagine that would be a useful feature for something.

Maybe a utility app to view full email headers? I don't think Mail.app has a way to get into those.
I agree, but at what cost?
10% performance hit, sure, no problem, VM's take about that much from running on real hardware. but a 100% performance hit or worse... you must be crazy.

Also, downloading 1GB is no big deal, downloading 1TB is a big deal, so I think your example has more merit in the > 1TB range. i.e. things that don't fit on a laptop easily.
I don't think there's any sign it will stop. The standard prediction used to be that prosperity would bring democracy, but that's looking to be either wishful thinking or bad extrapolation from past events.
The biggest problems I have had with my Mac came from a kernel extension that I didn't know got installed, and didn't get uninstalled when I uninstalled the accompanying program.
Motives? It is sometimes needed to balance rights. We need to fight nazism, therefor we need to forbid those things.

But that's not happening here, there is no balance being stuck. There is just "remove all characteristics of a legal system" (Rechtsstaatlichkeit) on the one side, and the gain is "have the means for absolute power".

Edit: I feel that question leans too much into pure politics, and was hesitant answering. The link with HN is that the story is also about criminalizing encryption. Mein Kampf, not so much linked.
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>What if people used a decentralized service, that worked over https?

that sounds great until you realize that most people don't run tls servers on their computers/phones. so running one would immediately raise suspicion. not to mention that if they can block tor/vpn, they can block whatever tls chat service you have as well.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you're a LaTeX user, your needs are specialized beyond what the average office worker needs out of a word processor. Point taken though.
Who knew steam punk would come in handy :-) Seriously though it is an excellent thought experiment to design a purely mechanical rover. The concept of using a windmill to wind a spring is pretty neat, although at 850 degrees its going to be a challenge to find a spring material.
This is a thing of beauty! Thanks for linking it!
Breezes right over back-propagation, arguably the most crucial part :/
>Of course if Apple’s ultimate goal is simply to continue to wrestle control of the system away from it users, under the guise of ‘security’, I’m not sure any of this even matters

I disagree with this conclusion. All of these features are turnoffable by booting into the recovery system which is available on all macs.

So people who want or need to constantly run unsigned code and load unsigned kernel extensions, they certainly can.

But people who can live with the system protected binaries in the state the Apple shipped them (which is probably the majority of the users) can relax, knowing that (minus issues like the one reported here) malware will have a much harder time to run, much less hide itself.

As long as I can right-click and "open" any binary and as long as I know that I can load unsigned kexts if I really need do, I really don't see a huge issue with this.
I would recommend checking out Mechanical Turk
why do people go to church
It feels to me that stability brings prosperity, and democracy represents one of several paths to stability.
If anyone is interested, please look into Isaac Schlueter's twitter account at twitter.com/izs ( he is the current CEO of NPM )

In the past few weeks his Twitter feed has gotten progressively more incendiary. He now has blocked over 200k people on Twitter and basically declared a personal vendetta against the 30k subscribers to reddit's Node.js subreddit.

This is a person who has over 10 million dollars in VC funding . I don't believe they are acting in the best interest of their investors, or the Node.js community as a whole.
Next step should be enabling censored services to citizens with 4-star+ social scores.
I'm not sure how useful it is to look at the effects of robotics in Germany in isolation. Germany exports a fair bit more than they import, and I'd expect if there are people being unemployed as a result of German use of robotics, it'd be in other parts of the EU that can no longer compete effectively.
Right, no one would care about telemetry if you could turn it off. MS could have it turned on by default, even. I'm sure the amount of data they would miss would be minuscule in comparison to the amount of negative press they've received about this topic.
Unless you're really hot, you're probably better off not wasting time on Tinder
I would love feedback on my project BlockSchool from anyone who is interested in ed-tech!

BlockSchool is an online coding school for kids ages 6 to 13. We hire teachers from top colleges and companies like Stanford and Facebook, and connect them with students who don't have easy access to high-quality instruction.

Our classes are conducted via video chat in a fun 3D block-based world where everything can be controlled by writing Puzzle code (our visual programming language), JavaScript, and Python. It's collaborative, social, and kids love the creative freedom we give them.

We are focused on 1:1 and 1:2 instruction now which isn't 'scalable' but later on, we plan on offering a help service for kids only when they get stuck or need a new concept explained. This will lower the cost for students substantially. We hope to follow in the footsteps of VIPkid on this front.

We are based in Seoul/SF, so we have a number of students in China, Japan, and Korea already, but a majority of our customers are in the US.

If anyone is interested in offering feedback, here is our website: https://block.school

We'll be applying to YC too! Hopefully our project is relevant to what they're looking for. We're also growing quite fast :)
I don't really see how this can be remedied, besides there being a revival of traditional industries (unlikely) or current workers retraining in massive numbers (again, unlikely). It almost seems like this is a post-industrial great migration, where people from distressed areas would need to move to the few areas that are thriving.

It doesn't help that the republican dominated political parties in many of the distressed states are more concerned with cutting taxes on the rich (Kansas) or trying to pass ridiculous and unnecessary laws (bathroom bills in NC, Texas etc). This has got to stop.

Accepting Medicaid expansion, as I see it, is probably one way to immediately kickstart many of these distressed states. The federal money that comes in might just help create jobs in the healthcare sector (or fund existing ones better) that might somewhat mitigate the affects of economic duress. Not to mention better healthcare for the people.
I admit fully that I might simply not understand what work the researchers have done. But, that being said, that quote you gave made me laugh out loud and say 'oh, is that all?' There are many barriers here though, language barriers and the inevitable press release 'dumb it down' barrier. Hopefully that was just an accident of phrase.
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Price, anyone?
This had not already been blocked?
The whole world is in a giant financial bubble.

These acts are desperate measures to control people because they know how bad things are going to get.

They need to be able to control the channels of communication to stamp out dissent.
You've phrased your response in a way that seems to prevent falsification, but I'll give it a shot anyway.

For example-- the Trump administration's initial travel ban executive order was blocked by the courts based directly on issues of consitutionality. Furthermore, if you read the text of that bill you can tell the authors were careful not to use the frank, unambiguous language that Trump used on the campaign trail as that would have been thrown out by the courts even more quickly.

So there you have it-- an example where the current administration did the opposite of ignoring the U.S. constitution, and a court system that blocked the executive order even though the administration tried to skirt the intent of the constitution (namely, the 1st amendment). Does this falsify your statement? If you don't think so, please give me an example of what you think would falsify it and I'll give that a shot.
A nod-ignore-and-keep-reading Lit Crit academese filler thing, then? I guess it stood out to me because the review doesn't have much of that, otherwise, and because the paragraph it's in seemed to be making some kind of point, though I couldn't decipher what it was in such a way that that sentence contributed anything.
I think peer discovery is still a difficult issue?
Usually after one uses non-destructive editing (a la Aperture and Lightroom) everything else is like medieval times.
1Mb vs 1Gb vs 1Tb distinction is a function of information contained in data. If its PII even 1Mb is an orginizational headache from security/risk-management perspective.

Also most commodity compute nodes have allocation around 16 Gb. The big difference comes in 16~256 Gb range where having a single powerful node can make a huge difference.
ES6 Promises: Patterns and Anti-Patterns
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> I wrote about it at https://tekkie.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/encountering-smallta....

Sweet, thanks! There's also the ST-78 system at https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html

> existed in a nether world between functions and macros

Macros are just functions that operate on functions at 'read-time', from my POV. So if you eliminate the distinction between read-time and run-time, they're the same.

> It's just that it takes a form that's more like a COND construct in Lisp.

And even COND isn't special, it's just represented as messaging in Smalltalk, right?

> you could make the logic so complex it was hard to keep track of what was going on

Interesting, I see.
Based on the website address, I thought the article would be about written science fiction, which continues to move forward if you ignore recommendations from people who don't actually like science fiction. I think "The Martian" counts as moving forward, but I'm much less happy with most of the books Amazon recommends for me.

But the article is about television. I really am not qualified to say much about television other than until very recently, it was very hard to have a hit TV show that only appealed to a niche audience. A series faithfully based on "The Martian" isn't likely to get a slot in prime time. The closest you'll get is so-called soft science fiction, which presents stories that happen to be set in unfamiliar locations (usually space), but where science has no influence on the story.

Maybe there's a chance now, with a very different distribution model, but even if hard science fiction fans can be perfectly targeted through Netflix or Amazon, special effects will keep production costs high.
Michio Kaku: These Are the Two Paths Humanity Could Take in the Next Century
The mechanism of blocking is the Internet firewall with deep packet inspection and protocol sniffing, together with lots of human intervention and tracking.
If you have more than one Mac you might want to create a USB install stick so that you only need to download the installer once, on a Mac that you'll upgrade later.
This is getting really strict.

I went to China around 2012:

* Facebook was already blocked

* Google and wikipedia magically stopped working when you searched for "tiananmen"

* Gmail worked fine

I returned in early 2017, oh god what a change:

* Don't even think about Facebook

* Ironically Facebook messenger worked until my session expired

* No gmail, google at all (don't remember about Wikipedia)

* Whatsapp worked fine

And now it is even getting worse....
So brown nosing with comrade Jinping did not have a desired result. For those not aware: Zuck asked him to name his first born. Jinping declined. :-)
I mean no harm to op, I'm sure you're a nice guy. But... the header of this post reads like a parody:

> Medium.com

> Ex-product @Google. Philosophy, Minimalism, Productivity

> 3 min read

> I Listened to Emotionally Vulnerable Strangers on Reddit
Edit: This is not a justification or defense of internet censorship. It is an explanation of why the Chinese public may be more willing to accept strict government controls than the West.

While most Westerners see actions like this as serious violations of individual rights, the Chinese are used to such exercises of control by their leaders. There is a firm historical basis for similar behavior going back thousands of years, and the desire for social harmony and stability which in part enables strict government control through tacit public acceptance is deeply rooted in Chinese culture.

It's important for Westerners to realize that the Chinese never had a Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes. The foundational political philosophy taken for granted in the West has no parallel in China. Their political philosophy is grounded in a very different hierarchy of values.
Your journey was faster with the bus lane. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cbrd.co.uk/indepth/...
He's not actually wrong. I just think leaving the word "sex" out of the description misstates the actual problem. One could start following that pattern, get pregnant in college, drop out, and be slightly better off than having a baby in high school (since you check the "some college" option on the application instead of "some high school").

If the problem is education and socialization, shouldn't the philanthropic classes be educating teens more about the statistics involved in getting pregnant and poverty rates? It seems like we're too busy not judging (which is an admirable instinct) to be explicit in our culture about the relationship between sexual activity, poverty, family structure, and pregnancy. We spend tons of energy on all sorts of techniques to level playing fields and give kids a leg up, but fail to broach this subject. If we think kids are mature enough to decide to be sexually active, we should make sure they're educated enough as well.
Duplicate of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15332147
haha,still it keeps you updated
Well, more and more math is used for non-math purposes too, so the illegality is not exactly as absurd as it seems.
The amount the horses poop while doing work is completely negligible. We did haul a big cart of manure from the stables, like half a ton or so.

Yes, manure is a good fertilizer and promotes a good ecosystem of microbes but it needs animals on pasture (an element in good crop rotation) or bringing it from elsewhere to get the kind of quantities needed.
Ray Kurzweil: Singularity Will Arrive by 2045
You might not have been 'cool' but you were a step above the kids who's "mommas shopped at Kmart"
Sliders. Tracktion Waveform, the DAW I also work on uses almost no knobs. (I think the only one is pan on the mixer). The problem with them is that they are big. When we don't have room we make them small and then a bigger one pops up when you click on it.
That's actually fucking insane. Things aren't great here in the USA, but as another user stated, encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data. Someone could point at scrambled bits on your harddrive and accuse you a crime you didn't necessarily commit.

jeeeeesus
There are tons of literature, books, articles, and more already out there, written over decades, that talk through starting a new business. Even material specific to starting a software-based business if that is what you are after.

The chances of hearing some "new" advice about doing this that isn't just already out there is not terribly high.
> We've all got anecdotes, so here's mine. I was asked for ID each time I wanted to modify my AT&T account with a rep, and as such I produced one in the form of driver's license.

This is a security precaution to edit your account. It's a good thing and this is also not part of a condition of setting up the account.

> At a major city hotel late at night, I produced my ID to a security guard who otherwise would not let me in with just my room key.

Same thing as above. You have to show ID as part of security for the Hotel and it is not required by law.

> At an airport security check, being over 18, I produced a government-approved ID to board the flight.

You don't have to produce ID to fly. Again, this has been shown time and time again.
looks like 6% fundraising for red cross, highest paid employee is $600k. https://p.widencdn.net/wmrybb/FY-2016-Form-990

(linked from http://www.redcross.org/about-us/who-we-are/governance )
And heck, "dry drunks" can go the rest of their lives pretending alcoholism isn't having a negative effect on their lives and the lives of those around them.
This. Germany is one of the few places that Unions are working (mostly) as intended. When Germany was under pressure in the Schröder era, it was the Unions that helped dealing with convincing the workers to accept shorter shifts and salaries, instead of pushing companies to relocation or, worse, bankruptcy.
Agreed that 83b elections are crucial - there is very little a company can do if the form does not get filed within the 30 day window. The consequences of not filing the election can be significant for both the company and the employee.

Clerky has the 83b election form (where necessary) as part of their Hiring package so that when the employee is allocated equity and signs the documents, it is automatically completed. However it is up to the employee to mail it in since it has to be sent via mail and can't be sent electronically. The company should make sure they are chasing the employee to do this and to get a copy of the election for the company's records.
If you count the US's 98 international airports, doesn't that cover the entire country?
And for that 99%, Java or C# or OCaml or any number of other languages were already good enough. Not really sure what Go brings to the table.
Can I put it in the water machine?