skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And the article is wrong. Samsung has revenue of 300bn and totals assets of 600bn.
Why would they sell for so little as 262bn ? Or were we talking just about Samsung Electronics ?
The decline in functionality begins to be detectable between 20-40, and accelerates with age. This study has a number of measures regarding bone mesenchymal stem cells (which are included in what we collect and store):

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18248663

Ideally, we all store at 18. However, my mother just stored at 70. Her mother lived to 93, and two of her aunts over 100. She decided that in 10 years, she might be glad she did. My own cells are 40. I am 42.
Why not just use sequence ID? I'm confused about why a timestamp is important. The sequence ID gives us ordering, is always guaranteed to be increasing.
> I already have a set of practices that usually prevent relatively simple type mismatches

Care to share those practices? I also primarily work (this year, at least) in dynamically typed languages.
There are a couple hundred varieties of orange, and if you extend it to citrus more generally, there are thousands of varieties.

Compare that to the varieties of grapes - there are certainly more strains of grapes in total (5k-10k), but if you restrict yourself to only wine grapes, they are of similar complexity, and the entire grape industry is based on Vitis Vinifera and Vitis Labrusca, whereas Citrus has at least 4 original species.

And Citrus reacts just as well as Vitis Vinifera to terroir, as well - Citrus grown in volcanic soil vs limestone soil vs california loam has a distinctly different composition and flavor.

You're going to have to face it, wine is special because humans have declared it special, not because it's not similar in complexity to dozens of other agricultural, natural, and fermented products :)
Genuine question - Why does everyone seem to think running a zookeeper cluster is so hard? You can run it on three small VMs and basically forget about it. We didn't have any zookeeper experience at my last startup before we started using it for Kafka and we used a very simple puppet module to install it on three instances in each of our AWS regions. It really never gave us many problems in the several years since.

Also, all the tooling around it is quite mature - there are great monitoring and management tools for probing at the internals which helped when we were dealing with more exotic kafka surgery.
that is unless the bank themselves are fraudsters.
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I'm using an X201 with Win 10 right now. The driver support was significantly better on Linux. With TLP and a lightweight window manager like i3, the battery consumption was miles better than windows. Without Wifi I was able to reduce the consumption to 8-9 W an hour, with wifi it was around 11-12W.

When I first switched back to windows, I was shocked to see the battery consumption being around 22 W. Lenovo's own battery management driver helped a lot. If I'm using firefox nightly I can reduce it to 16-18W an hour.

From my observation it seems to me that windows draws a lot of power when the system under low load, even on battery saver mode. With linux you can tune the battery consumption far better.

Performance-wise, due to Windows background services I experience occasional lags. The anti-malware engine, indexes etc. consume a lot of CPU cycles. The real bottleneck on X201 is the CPU. Due to heavy CPU usage, my laptop sometimes overheats and closes itself. I have only experienced this on Chakra Linux with an unstable version of KDE. Other linux distros and FreeBSD were absolutely fine.

Wifi connectivity was also very problematic. First couple of weeks wifi adapter stopped working everytime after I woke the laptop from sleep.

Now I don't have much to complain besides lags and the mediocre power consumption. Firefox nightly has helped immensely for a fluid browsing experience.

The bottomline is, for x201, if you want stability and performance but a more conservative experience go for linux. If you want a hassle-free cohesive but slower system go for Windows.

PS: Bugs on Windows might stem from X201 being an old machine.
Yes, otherwise I wouldn't have responded.
Because training is expensive and hard and not what companies have traditionally done.

I run a school, and we have had employers pay for training of dozens of employees. It happens quite frequently.
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And mac.com -> me.com -> iCloud.com. E.g. me.com had keychain sync and it took them two years or so to bring it back in the form of iCloud Keychain.

One thing that I learned over the years is: let Apple provide the hardware and the OS, but prefer third-party software of proven vendors (Agilebits, Omni Group, etc).

Demolishing Disk Utility or Airport Utility was bad, because of the limited possibility of a 3rd party replacement.
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Sony ? I do not think so.
Sony Entertainment ? Very likely!
Apple knows that devices and software on their own have no value (for your average joe customer). It's the content that matters and in my humble opinion Apple will aim at companies like Netflix,Spotify etc first before acquiring tech companies.
Many dynamically typed languages offer excellent runtime contract systems (Racket, Clojure) that serve as an implicit documentation at least as well as a statically-type language. Often more so, because you can express a lot of things in contracts that are not easily expressed in type systems.
How do you account for content unavailability when a node shuts down/ runs slow?
Curious: what do you expect as keyboard controls. I've had this on my TODO list for ages and I have my own idea of what they should be, but I'd love to capture the expectations first, so that I don't break them.
I don't think we can have much of a conversation here. I simply believe that foreign nationals shouldn't take out ads to influence the elections of countries in which they're not a citizen. If we can't agree on this, then we'll just have to agree to disagree. And, just in case anyone tries to counter with a "pot calling the kettle" argument, I don't care if the US government has ever tried to influence the elections of other countries. I don't think that's ethical either.

So, just to restate my position, if what Facebook meant by upholding the integrity of elections amounted to preventing foreign nationals (non-Germans) from buying political ads on their platform, I'm all for it.
i agree in principle to the yimby movement, but i don't agree with some of the antagonism described in the article against the mission's latino population.

isn't there a compromise to be reached between the two groups?

latinos want to stay in the neighborhood but can't afford $4K rents (who really can? or should? $48K in rent, yikes!). yimbys want more units. so give developers a sweetner so they can be profitable but also build more affordable units. i know it's harder than it sounds, but it's been done many times before, so it's achieveable. but when it starts becoming us-vs-them, that just makes it so much harder.
Lots of people are having problems. Check out the replies here:

https://twitter.com/stroughtonsmith/status/91239022851777331...
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A permanent resident is a green card holder not an American. It is difficult to obtain that status without a visa to begin with.
he can be considered second generation immigrant - thiel was very young when he moved. For musk, it's different, he seem to have come to states at a later age.
Disk speed is always a bottleneck, much more than CPU generally. Almost every thing you do leads to, or is dependent on, IO speeds. If you disk speed drops by 40%, for example, every application will be at least 40% slower to load. That's a major hit. That horribly inefficient electron app is now slow to load, not just slow to run.

Or, to put this another way: Do you have an SSD? Why?
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Isn't a permanent resident immigrant somebody who has a green card? Surely to be considered American you need to be a citizen, which is separate from a green card.

I'm not american so very open to being wrong on this.
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The quality issue is really interesting. I used to have the Lumia with the 40MP camera. The image quality was, in general, significantly better, and for low light photography (for example a baby sleeping in a room with the drapes closed) exceptionally better.

But. And there's always a but. Apple seems to have payed way more attention to the user experience of taking a picture, so while I could adjust everything on the Lumia, and potentially get a better picture, just taking a snap was so unbelievably slow, the lag between clicking and the image being taken was slow, and the time between taking pictures was slow, so my wife with an equivalent generation iPhone could take 10-20 images in the time it took me to take one.

Quality has to be understood in the context of the whole experience, not just the final image.

I still keep the Lumia charged, years later, because there are times when it makes a decent digital camera... YMMV
I'm sure the Class 345s, soon to appear on Crossrail, do this to show loadings on platform screens (to trying to avoid crush loading in specific coaches while others are empty), but I can't find any source for that. The Class 700s on Thameslink show loadings on platform screens in the "Core" section, but this is based upon CO2 levels within the coaches.
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It's a supply chain issue. Software engineer demand might spike unexpectedly, and for startups, that might mean growing from a handful of employees to a hundred in a short period of time.

Can that startup afford to relocate or remotely train a couple hundred out of work Americans for say, a year, pick the top half of those, and offer them packages?

Maybe? Would a year's training be enough? I don't know, but I doubt it's cost effective for spiky demand in labor.

This sort of supply issue should best be solved by the government, which has a vested interest in the employment of its taxpayers, or an NGO or some other organization. Not the companies in question.
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That model effectively shuts down all news sites that don't make it into the News-Spotify program. Kinda of like how my telcom gives everyone "free Messenger/Whatsapp" so nobody is going to use anything but Messenger/Whatsapp.

Centralization is just going to get worse and worse until the internet feels like AOL back in 2000.
I filed a bug with apple on how broken Disk Utility was in Sierra; I included a screen capture giving a complete movie showing how deliriously broken it was. Apple closed the bug with "not enough information."
Sounds more like YIYBYs to me. Doesn't have the same ring to it tho.
I'm interpreting "finest codebase in [x, y category] that I've seen" to mean only what it says - out of the codebases he's seen, which may not be many, it's the finest.

I tend to run into new large codebases pretty frequently just from having to work with them. I'd say that happens maybe once every month or two for me, and I'm not even prioritizing this. I literally didn't know Ruby two weeks ago and now I've read through RSpec because I needed to submit a patch to some RSpec tests that were doing something unusual. For a CTO who's listing all the things he's seen his entire career, is two dozen codebases really that surprising?
In my experience, the time saved from writing in a statically typed language where the compiler catches the bugs for you is made up by having to work more closely with the compiler, typically write more code (type annotations and other things) and in general spend that same time on compile-time rather than run-time bug hunting. Dynamically typed languages typically involve a lot less code, which is time gained.

That both forms of languages are popular shows that there are benefits in overall productivity to each; they are just different benefits.
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How will the reader know that the article is worth something unless they pay?
I’m guessing given Apple’s previous somewhat close relationship with Honeywell (they already make several HomeKit enabled devices) sort of precludes the need to bring that sort of thing in house for now.
There is also this idea that some people (designers / product managers) prune away features that they feel confuse the user, but I don't know how factually true that actually is.
my dad is a chef - he taught me 2 rules for wine:

1. Drink what you like
2. You will always sound like a pretentious douchebag talking about wine

I find these to be universally true.
It looks like it's abandoned. :/
Why TDD is crap (2016)
Not via Bluetooth, but you can make calls via iCloud-paired iPhone, either using the phone as a relay, or using WiFi calling on supported carriers using a similar workflow.
I don't believe you fully understand the economics of acquiring companies.
I generally wait until version n + 1 is at least in beta before installing version n. There is rarely a sufficiently compelling new feature to persuade me to risk the stability of my system sooner than that.

(Still pining for Snow Leopard :-)
Yes, you probably want Lede, not OpenWRT or dd-wrt. I used lede to flash some old routers last year, and on the whole the experience was similar to my last interaction with OpenWRT only better (more evolved).

https://lede-project.org/start
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There is a call with iPhone feature as part of the Handoff functionality. So can then conduct the call via your Mac or switch to your phone.

So in typical fashion a redesign with a more Apple centric feature set.
Because he didn't need a program like this to come here and found a company. My problem is that we're conflating the immigrants who will be brought here by the rule in the article with all immigrants who found companies. We've got 51% immigrant founding of Billion-Dollar+ companies already, VCs invest in immigrant founded companies already, America is already a great place for immigrant founders. The goal of this rule is not to help immigrants, it's to create them and its goal in creating them is to make it so VCs can buy equity cheaper. That is going to make it harder for everybody, immigrants included, who is already here and wants to acquire funding for their company.
We currently have enough clients that the annual storage fees paid in more than cover the costs of our repository. We are actively pursuing two options to address this possibility: 1) The cell banking service is a separate entity, and all of us who have banked continue to pay into that entity keeping it funded, even if Forever Labs were to dissolve, and 2) An insurance policy covers long-term storage if Forever Labs dissolves.

All of our cells are banked, as are my wife's and family members. We are addressing this.

That said, your cells remain your own. At any time, we will ship them to another biorepository for $300.
The author of dnsmasq says it has to be a PTR lookup: https://twitter.com/SimonRKelley/status/914918747978305537

That's very good news.

Edit: never mind, he says a CNAME answer to a A/AAAA query can trigger vulnerability. That's very bad news.
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Ughh, I hate when articles (and even HNers) use this offensive term. The word "poaching" implies that we tech workers are property like fish and wild game, owned by our corporate lords, who are trying to prevent others from "stealing" their property. Sorry, but as far as employment goes, we have agency and free will to come and go as makes the best sense for our own careers. Our relationships with our employers have nothing to do with ownership of our person--I am not being "stolen" if I deliberately choose to change jobs.
Figure out whatever VSCode is doing and use that.
As the speed test was using a beta of High Sierra / APFS, I performed some tests of my own. I've written /dev/zero to the disk, and read Xcode_9_GM_seed.xip from the disk using different block sizes using `dd`. I ran the read tests a few times, as there was a lot variation in the results. I've excluded the first result of the read results for each FS. The test was run on a Samsung Evo Pro 850 500GB SSD inside a Sharkoon USB-C case connected over USB-C to a MacBook Pro 2016 w/ Touchbar.

Speed in MB/s
HFS+ HFS+ Encrypted APFS APFS Encrypted
1M write 498 473 490 (-2%) 444 (-6%)
1M read 6896 6815 6860 (-1%) 6827 (0%)
4k write 486 477 485 (-0%) 445 (-7%)
4k read 2734 2709 2599 (-5%) 2545 (-6%)

While there is still some performance degradation between HFS+ and APFS, it's within a single digit now.
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Option-clicking on most UI elements in the new Airport Utility gives you the more complex dialog boxes from the old version, not the new wizard/walkthrough ones.

Lots of debug/admin related stuff is hidden behind the Option key in macOS. Try clicking on the volume or wifi menu extras to see some examples of this.
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