skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few people have said that going from Technician to General or General to Extra is difficult. It is not totally easy but I did find a tool when I was studying for my Extra exam (passed). I don't post to much here so if I am out of bounds please let me know and I'll remove the comment. I used a tool called HamTestOnline, https://www.hamradiolicenseexam.com, and it was a huge help. I paid for the service and I am in no way associated with them except as a customer. I worked in technical training for 20 years and this guys system is as good as online training systems we shelled out well into six figures for.

Like I said if posting a link here is bad form tell me and I'll take it down lickety split. Only want to share something I found very useful.
Not generally, it depends on the country, from what I gather. Can’t fly with an FAA license in a German plane in Germany.

It’s funny, you can fly a German plane with a German license in Germany (safe, apparently), and an American plane with an American license (safe), but not a German plane with an American license or vice versa, AFAIK.

Some countries make exceptions - I believe it was ok to fly a UK plane in the UK with a FAA license (but then you couldn’t fly it to Germany, while with a US plane or UK license you could).
"The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. At this late date nothing can prevent a substantial increase in the world death rate...."

Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb, 1968

His first sentence appears to be correct - just not in the direction he meant.

He's still making similar doom-laden predictions, and still getting paid lots of money for them.
This is an idea that I _want_ to believe, but the piece lacks substance. The author seems insistent that this is universal truth, but doesn’t provide any examples outside of Uber and (barely) Facebook. What other companies are out there that have suffered consequences by acting antisocial?
This statement may be nice to believe in, but it is wishful thinking:

"You should see bad eudaimonics as a deferred cost: every bit of well-being that you destroy will one day have to be repaid in some way."

There is no cosmic law of "karma." It is a type of logical fallacy, one that may make us feel good, but it is not real.
As much as I want Uber to implode for all the negative things it has done, I don't believe that it is, just like I don't believe the big American banks will despite all the negative things they have done. If anything, I see companies that create garmonbozia, not eudaimonia, flourishing.
Despite all the crises, Uber the service seems to be running fine with no discernible impact. Maybe less is more, as far as headquarters is concerned. The more execs leave, the fewer management initiatives, and the greater the chance of profitability.
(Breaking some HN etiquette here but I think a large portion of responses so far have been from people who've only scanned the introduction - there are some good bits in the article, you'll just need to skip the first few paragraphs to get to the meat)

Sorry for the cut-and-paste but it's only a fraction of a pretty long-form article:

The other conclusion we can draw from the evidence, Scott says, is that there is a crucial, direct link between the cultivation of cereal crops and the birth of the first states. It’s not that cereal grains were humankind’s only staples; it’s just that they were the only ones that encouraged the formation of states. “History records no cassava states, no sago, yam, taro, plantain, breadfruit or sweet potato states,” he writes. What was so special about grains? The answer will make sense to anyone who has ever filled out a Form 1040: grain, unlike other crops, is easy to tax. Some crops (potatoes, sweet potatoes, cassava) are buried and so can be hidden from the tax collector, and, even if discovered, they must be dug up individually and laboriously. Other crops (notably, legumes) ripen at different intervals, or yield harvests throughout a growing season rather than along a fixed trajectory of unripe to ripe—in other words, the taxman can’t come once and get his proper due. Only grains are, in Scott’s words, “visible, divisible, assessable, storable, transportable, and ‘rationable.’ ” Other crops have some of these advantages, but only cereal grains have them all, and so grain became “the main food starch, the unit of taxation in kind, and the basis for a hegemonic agrarian calendar.” The taxman can come, assess the fields, set a level of tax, then come back and make sure he’s got his share of the harvest.

It was the ability to tax and to extract a surplus from the produce of agriculture that, in Scott’s account, led to the birth of the state, and also to the creation of complex societies with hierarchies, division of labor, specialist jobs (soldier, priest, servant, administrator), and an élite presiding over them. Because the new states required huge amounts of manual work to irrigate the cereal crops, they also required forms of forced labor, including slavery; because the easiest way to find slaves was to capture them, the states had a new propensity for waging war. Some of the earliest images in human history, from the first Mesopotamian states, are of slaves being marched along in neck shackles. Add this to the frequent epidemics and the general ill health of early settled communities and it is not hard to see why the latest consensus is that the Neolithic Revolution was a disaster for most of the people who lived through it.
The author's wishful thinking.
What is static analysis?
I own both a GH and an a 1st Gen Echo and I find Google Home's language processing much better than Alexa's. I can give the GH a complex command and most of the time it will understand and execute the request. So even in a somewhat noisy room if the TV is on or people are taking, I can usually get it to understand on the first attempt. Therefore its great for home automation. However, with Alexa, I have to be quite a bit more precise with my verbal commands or I have to rephrase and repeat the command. So not the best for home automation at this point.

But Alexa does seems to have a head-start with third-party integration and services. So for now I own one of each. I'm hoping that maybe both of them will reach parity at some point and I can finally settle on one of them.
click-bait title, no support for claim.
10 Examples of Companies with Fantastic Cultures
That's extremely fascinating, thanks for sharing the link!
Not to mention TypeScript has 10x the number of community typings as flow.

See slide here: https://bcherny.github.io/Talks/why-typescript/#31
Oracle is in massive trouble if the central thesis of this article is correct.

And oh brother, I hope they are right.
Open Source Pioneer Bruce Perens Says New GraphQL License Too Restrictive
Wow. I think that’s more of an anti-American article, rather than something to learn.
Very good. I'll use this instead of Coinmarketcap to see how the coins are moving from now on.
Can you elaborate? I have my guesses what you mean but want to be sure I'm inferring correctly.
I don't think that assumption is correct. Why would subsidies help family farms over "factory farms"? In fact, Big Ag is one of the biggest advocates for the entire constellation of Ag subsidies.

It's not a good idea to artificially inflate prices. The article mentioned the food riots in third world a decade ago. There are real consequences to this sort of crony capitalism, and in this case very poor people actually can starve when the prices go up.

Not to mention that growing crops is incredibly energy intensive, so it turns out that ethanol really isn't good for the environment. In my opinion, terrible policy all around.

Edit: made my comment a little less confrontational :)
I can’t tell if you are playing, but by storing the most unique part of the credit card with last name you are not reducing the desirability of the target much.
My farm. 6 gallons in tractor fuel and 2 gallons in truck fuel. If we didn't raise corn, we'd raise wheat which has similar fertility requirements as corn. Maybe a bit more urea on corn, 50 pounds or .11 barrels of oil equivalent.
> women generally have higher levels of emotional intelligence than men. Estrogen is a hormone for emotional bonding.

I'm not saying women have poor social skills, just that they perhaps have a different set of social skills. Bonding emotionally with someone is important in a family setting. Less so for platonic relationships.
Losing the London license was not wishful thinking. That happened!
Nice! What is the source api?
Probably also worth mentioning Shelterpods and Responsepods for disaster relief deployments to this crowd; they're designed to take a lot of wind and rain:

https://store.advancedsheltersystemsinc.com/?___store=shelte...

https://store.advancedsheltersystemsinc.com/responsepod/vip/...
Auctus, an Ethereum Project Disrupting the $36.4 Trillion Pension Market
Not a whole lot is reliably known about pre-contact North American Indians. Even population estimates vary from 12 to 100 million.

From what I've read about pre-contact bones, they did suffer from periodic episodes of famine.

I've read nothing specific about California Indians.
Except you could still perceive the differences. You'd just have to resort to other modifiers, i.e. 'light', 'dark' or 'bluish', to describe them. And you could easily invent a word if you needed to. It really doesn't have anything to do with distinguishing them but more to do with describing them.
But do they provide anything that would help me with layout/presentation? (think something remotely like CSS, or flexbox)

Or do I have to make it all from scratch?

(Not familiar with game engines)
I'll second this, and note that this is a problem more significant in practice than in theory.

Speaking as a physically inept "software and pure maths" person with consequently no authority whatsoever on this matter, I believe this is mostly on account of the usual "thumb-screw and rubbery no-slip pad" construction of typical non-camera-specific mounting hardware: while it's hard to imagine any lens without its own tripod mount is capable of enough torque to loosen even a hand-tightened bolt, as soon as the non-slip pad ceases to be effectively rigid, very little torque is required to loosen the bolt. And as with most (all?) "rubbery" materials, stiffness of a given non-slip pad at constant compression is a function of temperature.
If you want to actually learn the relevant material, but tailored toward passing the exam, the ARRL books are very good [1] [2] [3].

The exam structure is quite conductive to just memorizing the answers [4], but it is really better if you try to have some understanding so I recommend the books.

You can take practice exams, or drill with flash cards, or review the entire question pools at hamexam.org or hamstudy.org. Make accounts at those sites and they will keep stats on how you do for each subsection of the test questions so you can figure out your strengths and weaknesses.

There are mobile apps for iOS and Android that provide functionality similar to hamexam.org and hamstudy.org.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/ARRL-Ham-Radio-License-Manual/dp/1625...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/General-Class-License-Manual-Spiral/d...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Extra-Class-License-Manual-Spiral/dp/...

[3] See this comment for some more on the exam structure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15353793
The thing to learn from Uber is that Uber is losing because it is unethical? As if companies that are succeeding or are avoiding sanctions are ethical. Here's the concluding paragraph of this essay if you want to preview its inane arguments:

> People like things that are bad for them. But in good ways. Staying out all night dancing till the sun comes up is fun. It might be harmful to your health, your job, and maybe even your relationship, but for precisely those reasons, it’s good for the soul. These things? They’re too often just bad in a bad way.
Most CDNs started by offering video, not necessarily latency reduction but a ton of bandwidth. Many of them allow you to upload videos directly.

Check out cachefly.com for instance.
Obviously the worst comments are utterly obvious:

// Get the users name
name = get name();

There are lots of cases where inline comments are very useful though.

As an example, most of my team isn't strong on regular expressions, so when I use one, I'll usually put a comment explaining what it does in slightly more detail than I normally might (to the point it would be a bit too rudimentary to anyone well versed in regex).

I've also been writing lots of automation scripts for stuff running at AWS lately, which often involves using strange AWS CLI filter syntax, jq expressions (for JSON parsing) and some other random utilities like sed, cut, sort, etc. Even for myself, I put fairly detailed comments, but I don't use those on a regular basis and usage isn't always obvious anyway.
Your reply is about the smallest part of my comment, but ok.
A button on routers for emergency adhoc mode would be super useful?
A Field Guide to Plastic Bread Clips
More severe than electing the current USA president? "Foreign policy effects" actually are size-dependent.
It all comes down to statistical distribution, and men having a wider range of attribute distribution, so they are more likely to have the best* leadership traits. If you take the top 10 leaders in a tribal society with 150 members then quite a few will be women and they will be the leaders. The leadership positions don't scale linearly though, in a city of 10,000 people you might only need the same 10 best leaders but now most/all of them will be men.

*Best: the best traits to become and remain leaders, a selection quality not a value based one. Being narcissistic might make someone the best in this sense.
If that were correct, they'd limit the size of the subsidy to only the first N bushels of grain. Instead, the large farms get the vast majority of subsidies.

http://www.heritage.org/agriculture/report/how-farm-subsidie...
How much fertiliser?
I have found Enigmail and Thunderbird to be easy and intuitive. Both are open source. Thunderbird is the email client and Enigmail is the plug-in.
An App for Democratizing Street Design
> the wider the key, the better the improvement

Good point, I think it would be nice to add it to the docs.

Maybe with part numbers of goods as an example - in typical OLTP DB they are variable width strings, mostly read-heavy, unique (not as constraint but as the matter of fact) and searched by almost constantly.
You wouldn't call linguistic relativity a settled matter? Because it pretty much is, especially the strong form. And evidence for the weak form is quite lacking, relying mainly on the work of Boroditsky, whose main article has never been published and who doesn't control for culture, education, etc. in her others. It seems to me that culture has much more influence on how someone things/perceives things than language ever could... Which also explains why very different cultures can use the same language -- if language determined your thoughts, wouldn't, say, Quebecois and French culture be fairly uniform, not to add Algerian or Cote D'Ivoirean (is that even a word?) in.
There's also the Nearby Connections API (for Android only at this point AFAIU) which'll use any radio chips on a device.

https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/overview
It also seems to ignore the existence of war in pre neolithic species like chimpanzees. While it might be difficult to argue that a direct correlation of behavior exists, it shows a distinct seperation of war and agriculture.
If you wish to go full fairy tale, you must always remember to include the they-had-no-word-for-war meme.
so cool -- kinda like sendy but better!
Lexis/Nexis does drug testing ?
Not a fan of ethanol production, but CO2 released fermenting and burning bio fuels is carbon neutral - the CO2 was bound in the plant by photosynthesis, then released by these processes.
>Nobody is questioning whether dentists should be payed more than fast food workers, it's just how much more.

This doesn't actually answer any questions or address any actual issues, unless you're willing to force dentists to work with your so-called "appropriate salary" with the full force of the law.
Great job! I hope'Popcorn time for MOOCs"is coming out soon too.
Except that even in the Bay Area you're paying a marginal tax rate of 30-40%, not an effective rate. They're different things. If you're actually paying > 30% effective federal tax rate you'd have to be earning > $600k (assuming married filing jointly)[1]. At that level of income, anywhere in the world at all, getting by and saving for retirement should really not be a problem.

1. http://www.effectivetaxcalculator.com/
> I'd be living mostly outside, shivering, wondering if I could get enough food to live through the winter

I'm not particularly well-versed on hunter-gatherer societies in this regard, especially in Paleolithic societies rather than those that persisted to the modern day. But given that hunter-gatherers were generally nomadic and had a much more diverse source of foods than settled agriculturalists, you probably would have worried less about food lasting you through winter than if you had been in any agricultural civilization up until 100 years ago or so.

> would have little hope of living past 40

Lolnope. Hunter-gatherer societies had longer lifespans than sedentary agriculturists, and even the shortest-lived societies generally had life expectancies of over 50 years of age if you made it past 5 or so.

> I'd suffer from routine episodes of famine, backbreaking labor,

Once again, hunter-gatherers are probably more resistant to famine than settled agriculturalists. It is now well-known that hunter-gatherers spent very little time working: about 2-4 hours per day of work was required, far less even than modern society.

> and the tribe booting me out to die when I was no longer carrying my weight.

Probably not. Old people hold valuable knowledge, such as which foods are edible in extreme famine.

> I'd watch most of my children die young, and would fear all sorts of stupid mythical boogeymen.

Fewer on both accounts than you would in early settled agricultural societies.

While it used to be thought that agriculture was obviously superior to hunter-gatherer societies (not least because it was independently developed at least 9 times), more recent anthropological work has shown that on nearly every metric, hunter-gatherer societies outperform agricultural societies until about the 19th century.
Wait. Depending on how loud this thing can go, it could be 100% effectively pivoted as "world's first battery-free wireless headphones". Start a company selling that and use it to fund R&D to remove the PTT switch from the communicator design etc.
American banks didn't implode because they simply weren't prosecuted. Partially because the prosecutors know that they would implode if properly prosecuted and are morally opposed to the "innocent" employees and shareholders losing. Nevermind the actually innocent employees and shareholders at honest banks losing to the dishonest ones.

It's true, you get ahead in American business by cheating and playing the game right. There are revolving doors between prosecutors and big law firms, lawyers looking out for themselves don't make waves because it's bad for careers. If you do cheat and "get caught" it's in your favor to cut a no-fault deal with the government and take your profits with you. So long as you don't piss too many people off (just make sure your cheats are too complex to be easily understood), you get away by paying small fines that mostly just make lawyers rich with internal audits and such.

It's simply corruption, through and through, but it's not simple corruption. It's not a bribe or a cheat, but a system that's incentives line up in a way to maximize profits of cooperative cheats and the lawyers on both sides.

It would take a president and congress who don't spend their time arguing about vapid bullshit to correct the problem and an electorate that was either much more educated or respected and trusted those who were (were it they deserved trust).

If you think the constant cries about abortion and gay rights and such are about those actual issues, you're a fool. Everything but the details there is all figured out, but if people keep arguing about it, they won't have any attention left for the real problems facing the Republic. (and that is precisely the idea)
I agree that the First-To-Ship mentality you mention and other shortsightedness negate the reality of the current environment.

But if the industry doesn't start changing itself, it'll have change imposed upon it.

The Equifax breach alone, especially if it is weaponized by a state actor has the potential to completely undermine our banking system. All because of weak software and inadequate maintenance.

This is not like we have sophisticated attackers going after solidly designed & engineered structures. It's like we have teenagers and squirrels wandering around the back and freely climbing in windows where the specification didn't even include installing glass. And then commenters like GP saying that it is too great a threat to design around teenagers and squirrels.
A problem with your explanation is that from our perspective (which is the only one that actually matters here),
"black holes" will never undergo rapid acceleration due to the extreme time dilation effects according to the gravity model used.

I find it interesting that much ado is made about "black holes" existing when by the theory by which they are proposed, they cannot exist in our finite universe. The time dilation effects, which is a part of the theory, will not allow any such theoretical entity to be formed in our finite time universe.

With that said, the observations of LIGO do not confirm the existence of such entities as "black holes". What these observation do do is indicate that there is something happening. We just don't know yet what this is. Going down the rabbit hole of sticking to the "black hole" model only engenders ignorance.

These are interesting experiments and results and it behooves an open mind to try to further our understanding of what is causing these observational event. Unfortunately, the "dogma" of worshipping Einstein and his "holy works" only locks us into a position of not furthering our understanding.

Note: I have used "worshipping" and "holy works" specifically because of the attitudes of those who will not countenance any different views from Generally Relativity et al. Whether or not, GR and SR have long term merit is still a question being pursued. Some variation of these may be more suitable. But that doesn't mean that GR and SR are correct (as is the usual defence given).

The last couple of decades have been an interesting case study in terms of an unwitting increase in dogmatic push for specific theories and models in quite a few areas. When it boils down to it, these theories and models are subject to change and even throwing them out for different and better models.

To get emotionally caught up in defending a specific theory and model as the "Truth" does not put science in a good light for the general populous. I have said it elsewhere, science is about the discovery of the universe around us and finding applicable theories and models that are useful for our understanding. If you want "Truth" then go and study philosophy and religion.

Every theory you want to follow needs to have a good defence, but not to the extent of getting so emotionally caught up in it that you ignore discrepancies and results that disagree with your preferred theory and model.

How often has the "Truth" that the general science community has promulgated been overturned? We need to be careful not to get so entrenched in a specific viewpoint that we cannot see the merit in other theories or models. It is history that tells us to be careful here.
Wondering what everyones thoughts are on NEO its genereated a lot of buzz recently.