skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In France, this industry is nothing short of fascinating, it's just an enormous bubble, almost entirely financed by the public sector, it's a market that is so broken it's almost hilarious. You basically have the glass covered by the government, as well as very basic frames, that you will typically not consider, since your company insurance policy probably comes with a plan covering frames.

As a customer, you don't really care, its mostly free for you of course, or worst case scenario you will have to do the deductible. When you go to a store with your prescription, they don't even bother talking about the cost side of things, all they want to know is what insurance you have. In a way it has a few similarities with the US health care system, prices are ridiculously high, often very opaque, sort of like in a legal mafia. In addition to this, the few people who have cornered this business have made sure it's hard to buy contacts or vision glasses in the next country. To give you an idea, just the glasses typically cost something like 200, except per glass, and as you know you will need two. They also have no problem charging you all kinds of useless options you don't need, the classic for example, consists in automatically adding the anti glare coding option by default if the client is an older person.
As a person with a lot of ideas and very little money, I don't like it as much.

NOTE: This isn't about what makes money. It's about what makes heroes.
I think I wasn’t clear, but a lot of people are harping on the specific use case I glibly mentioned.

To answer you, I meant on a Docker image build step- which is where you’d want to install the tool so it’s accessible to people debugging the application during the container run context.
A Catalan breakaway would make Brexit look like a cake walk
Northwestern University's Med school removed the soot from its facade about 5 years ago. Chicago got to see the same thing. I had no idea the building was supposed to be white!
I don't think this would work since you can't effectively measure bandwidth available without stressing the system?
Please tell me you're joking, snakeanus. There is no way you could seriously be trying to make out paedo's as the victim here?

> I fail to see how arresting people for a thoughtcrime is heroic.

Thoughtcrime? No, viewing or possessing CP is an actual crime.

> How can someone who has never raped a child but just views CP on an online forum be a "motherfucking-sickshitbag-fucker"? Who was the victim of this person?

Quite obviously, the child/children in the pictures they're viewing.

> Why do you feel the need to insult people who haven't done anything wrong?

They have done something that isn't just illegal, but unquestionably morally reprehensible. How could that ever be considered 'not wrong'?

> How do you exactly "protect children from harms" by catching people that simply view CP?

What are you asking here? How do you protect children from paedophiles by arresting paedophiles?
> there is fundamentally an interest in the fact that something is written in Foo (and this may indeed depend on the nature of X).

That speaks to a deficit in human cognition, that slapping Foo's name on something makes it interesting only based on Foo's "shininess" rather than Foo's technical merits. Neophilia, perhaps?

Anyway. Go has been in roughly the same state of "another purposefully-boring Java-like, but instead of generics it has a different shade of OO and a full gamut of integer machine-types" for its entire life thusfar, which is why I've never understood most of its hype.

Rust, on the other hand, actually has some serious motivation to its learning curve and its developing ecosystem.
After being exposed to several declarative tools during my career, I must say they age poorly: make, autoconf, Tensorflow, and so on. They may start out being elegant, but every successful library is eventually (ab)used for something the original authors didn't envision, and with declarative syntax it descends into madness of "So if I change A to B here does it apply before or after C becomes D?"

At least Tensorflow isn't at that level, because its "declarative" syntax is just yet another imperative language living on top of Python. But it still makes performance debugging really hard.

With PyTorch, I can just sprinkle torch.cuda.synchronize() liberally and the code will tell me exactly which CUDA kernel calls are consuming how much milliseconds. With Tensorflow, I have no idea why it is slow, or whether it can be any faster at all.
The current record holder doesn't seem to be doing too bad. Although he doesn't seem to be very public in the last few years, but he's still around at 75, I'd like to live to this age.

> completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space

> Polyakov did not suffer from any prolonged performance impairments after returning to Earth
I agree with you, the reason these new tools are useful is they’re much more intuitive than the esoteric flags that have built up over the last 30 years.
Because the reason is plainly stated in the article if you bothered to read it. Also, OSS existed for decades before the blockchain came along so to question any correlation between this and that would be absurd.
> Stock buybacks have a distinct advantage over dividends: they're not taxable

The article directly addresses this argument. Search it for the word "tax".
Are internet packages better in NZ than in Australia? I'm assuming the connection is heavily metered?
Seems pretty cool, but I wonder at the claim that it will use less battery power. From the specs, it is built on Electron, and from my understanding to date, even the basic Electron framework shell is fairly resource hungry in its own right, which could impact power usage on a laptop?

Perhaps it could have been a better initiative to build it using native code and utilising WebKit as the rendering engine? Much like the Vivaldi browser (which I use a lot of these days)
>Do they?

Trump did run pandering to conservative wishes to defund the EPA. Trump won and is defunding the EPA. So yes.

> Or do they want to reduce some of the more obscure, less clearly useful regulations?

So obscure they involve the primary budget for the office and the main regulations enacted by them during Obama's time.
Java at Alibaba [pdf]
Your opinion is BS, because you didn't RTFA, at best you skimmed it. How about the part where the woman is a heart patient who had a quadruple bypass? And you're arguing about $20 for dog food and beer, but ignoring the fact that half her meager income is spent renting a shed?

The bottom line is that, if the people in the article were mentally and physically able to do what they needed to do to get out of poverty, they probably would have done so already. But they aren't so they're stuck trying and failing to meet very basic needs.
> For example, if you have an ancestor who was near-sighted, you are automatically disqualified from any colonization missions (regardless of your own eyesight) due to the presence of potentially-flawed genes.

I don't find the future you describe very plausible. Keep in mind that you only inherit (on average) half of each parent's genes, a quarter of each grandparent's, an eighth of each great grandparent – so even if your great grandpa had some nasty health problems, odds are you didn't inherit whatever genes might have been responsible for them. Also, don't you think by then, our knowledge of human genetics will likely have advanced to the point that we don't need to assume you might have bad genes because your ancestors had health issues, we actually have a complete sequence of your individual genome, along with a much better understanding than we have today of what all those individual genes do?
Yeah, America is stridently anti-intellectual, and glasses make you look like a nerd.
Before taking on debt you should truthfully ask yourself if you did everything in your power to advance. Did you even apply to any jobs you want? Or, did you assume you were not worthy and give up. You identify your own shortfalls (such as your geographic location), but demonstrate no action to change the circumstance. In addition, even Harvard degrees guarantee nothing. There are so many people with the top degrees who are "unsuccessful". If I am not mistaken at least one top employee at Steam started his career at Waffle House. What a genius. https://www.polygon.com/2013/2/1/3941274/gabe-newell-steam-b...

All this said, education is the best investment you can make. Why not just work your hard to get a better job and then take night classes toward a masters? Find some medium size company who might even pay for it and work toward your dream.

Best of luck to you!
>Have you heard any advocacy for say, removing catalytic converters from cars?

Yes. Spend time around car culture and you’ll see there are tons of people who advocate for the removal of catalytic converters and a drastic reduction in emission (and safety) standards. There are people proud to roll coal.

Also “states’ rights” arguments are almost always code for something else. The SR argument is never about the finer points of federalism.
Take the math classes at a community college and transfer. It will be cheaper and help you figure out if its a good fit. I tried CS and couldn't do the Math above Calculus 1. UIUC is a great school and by no means easy. I have friends that graduated from there.
What was your previous degree and work experience if you are willing to disclose?
I have not seen any evidence that banks are shifting over to quantum computing. As far as I can see, quantum computing itsself is far from useable in any production setting -- it is mostly in early R&D stage.
>People nowadays often ask me how much money we get per bottle sold. My answer is that we were paid about £3,000 all-in for the development

This is an awful part of a great read.
The point is you can choose when to sell and realize the gains, potentially in a year with offsetting losses.
The reason corporations exist is to protect investors, not make them rich. A "limited liability corporation" made it advantageous for people to take more risks than they usually would by giving them a guarantee they wouldn't lose everything they own if the venture failed. That isn't possible in a partnership or sole-proprietorship. In those if your idea tanks, you go down with the ship.

The type of thinking you're espousing is the sort that bubbled to the surface in the 1980s where profit drove all decisions. No longer was there concern for the welfare of workers, for the long-term survival of the company, or anything, absolutely anything at all, other than making shareholders happy.

Companies never succeed by simply making profits. They succeed by making good products. Then they're acquired by hedge funds that squeeze them for every ounce of profit they're good for and sell the remaining husk for pennies on the dollar.
According to this map (2017) Chrome is the majority practically everywhere, besides some Central African countries.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/StatCoun...
I've purchased ~6-8 pairs of glasses from zenni, primary because I'm really happy that they don't gouge the heck out of me for lenses with high refraction indexes or various coatings.

That said, the frames are totally hit or miss, with some of them feeling like they aren't worth the $10-20 or whatever they cost. I find though, its no so much materials as attention to detail. The materials themselves withstand a beating. One of my favorite pairs _rattled_ when I got it because the little plastic nose pieces, and the little plastic piece that fit over the end of the arms was lose. Drop of glue in the ear pieces, and a softer nose piece and they are now my favorite glasses.

OTOH, I also owned a half dozen pairs of ray-bans before I switched to zenni, and probably 3/4 of them had finish problems within the first couple years. The coating on the plastic pieces started to disintegrate leaving a sticky residue on one pair, and three pairs with metal frames had the clear varnish like substance start to crack and peel from the metallic finish. Another started to discolor after a couple years. I guess at least rayban has perfected planned obsolescence...
"Using electron" and "uses less battery" are too close to each other.
It’s the same for graphic designers, make a logo and get paid once, no matter how large the company...
Overall, this seems like one of the weaker Mill talks. Since they apparently don't yet have a real OS running real software in simulation, they probably haven't had the ability to test the ideas that affect how software is structured at a higher level.

They don't provide nearly enough ways to transitively grant permissions. Using the mechanisms discussed in the talk, it doesn't seem like you can implement a simple asynchronous queue of units of work to perform, each having their own permissions. The belt architecture encourages these sorts of second-class mechanisms that have to be used in a rigid way, because the details can be hidden in the belt and not be exposed architecturally.

Unless there's something else not mentioned in the talk, it seems like you still need to trust the OS, because when the OS is asked to allocate a page for a spillet there is nothing stopping it from creating a virtual alias of that page elsewhere and allowing another thread to read its data.

The mechanism to support fork() is a total kludge. Why have a single address space if you're just going to add segmentation in such an ad-hoc way for a single use case? Just run the original binary in emulation until exec() or something like that.
I've had relatives that have had quadruple bypass surgery here (Canada) and had to fill out more paperwork when applying for a library card than when checking out of the hospital.

I've also had American relatives that could not, no matter how hard they tried, no matter how many times they called, begged and peaded with their insurance company, to get the treatment they desperately needed. It's like those companies would prefer to drag out the process until you're dead than pay out a nickel.
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If by over-engineered you mean the way the machine worked seems to be overcomplicated and likely to break often, that was my immediate reaction as well. Surely a simpler mechanism could be developed! This is our naïve view though, perhaps simplification is not so easy or cost effective, if it is possible at all.

I think other replies to your post have taken over-engineered to mean that the task is best accomplished by a human. That I wouldn't agree with, as cone deployment and collection is dangerous, sucky work.

Then again depending on your view on self-driving vehicles, how much of a lifetime would any solution in this space really have?
You make a great point, but we can and will certainly do better as an industry in the future.
A bit about me. I'm 35, male, unemployed and unmarried (so I don't have much financial backing)

The lack of a spouse also means you don't have a lot of responsibilities and are fairly free to go where you want and do what you want (assuming you mean: childless and generally unencumbered).

and don't live in a tech hub.

This might be your real problem.

Re college:

If you can get enough in the way of financial aid, like grants (not loans), and can use school as an excuse to move someplace that has more tech jobs, even if it isn't a major tech hub, it might be a good move. You are currently unemployed. If your resume said student instead of unemployed, that would be a better position from which to market yourself.

Another option: Look for gigs instead of a job. Put "freelancer" on your resume instead of unemployed.
VG exposed the largest child sexual abuse forum. It was run by the police
> delivering a different product under the same advertisement?

It's a different product delivered under a different advertisement. Business lines are advertised as "dedicated" X mbps. Consumer lines are advertised as "up to" X mbps. "Up to" does not mean "essentially always." If I see the Microsoft Store is having a sale of "up to $400 off on Surface Pros," I don't expect a $400 discount on "essentially all" the models--I know it's the high water mark.

Compare to how other over-subscribed systems are advertised. To pick a random example: https://www.serverhub.com/vps/ssd-cached. VPS servers are typically advertised as "4 cores." Are VPS providers ripping people off because you can't expect a $20/month VPS to get you 4 cores of throughput "essentially always?"
For frames and single vision lenses, ideally you would be able to find out:

- frame width (temple to temple)
- bridge size (nose width)
- A size (width of lens)
- B size (height of lens)
- temple length (arm that goes over ear)
- base curve / frame wrap angle
- panto (vertical incline of lens)

Frame manufacturer's web site has some info, at least [lens width - bridge - temple] are provided. To determine frame fit, you need sizes from current frame or model numbers from frames tested at a B&M store.

An optician will measure where your eyes are located horizontally (pupillary distance) and vertically in the frame (fitting height). This determines where the optical center (clearest vision) of the lens will be located in the frame. Most online sites for single vision lenses do not have an input field for fitting height, using averages instead. But they often have a "special instructions" field where you can enter custom instructions, including fitting height. HN thread on PD measurement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15154066

Progressive (varifocal) lenses are complex to buy even at B&M, never mind online, because fitting and use-case analysis matter more than with single vision lenses.

Since FramesDirect is owned by Essilor, they use Essilor lenses, which are well known. Other online sites don't say much about their lens manufacturer. http://eyeglasslensdirect.com (US) and http://specsdirect.ca (Canada) sell branded premium lenses at discount prices, online reviews are mixed. There are 1700 old msgs about cheap online glasses at https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?hl=en#!forum/glassyeyes

If the Luxxotica-Essilor merger goes through, retail stores like LensCrafters may start providing fitting/adjustment for online stores. A better outcome would be for independent opticians to unbundle their fitting/adjustment pricing, so you can buy your frames at one store (or reuse a high quality frame), a premium branded lens at another store/online, and obtain your frame fitting at a B&M optician.
Probably a little more practical to say, "Be sure that some of the people you associate with are better than yourself."
> Sure, but what other President has favored basic income schemes?

I thought FDR came close.

I was trying to find evidence of this but most google searches along these lines yield something called the Roosevelt Institute advocating UBI quite recently. I thought I did see a video of him advocating it in a speech.

Regarding the broader topic of Nixon and policies that are now considered left wing, ignoring for a moment that the country has shifted very far economically rightwards starting around the Reagan years, regarding things like the EPA, the way I always heard it from people of age in the Nixon years was that he was rather forced into some of these things by the way the will of the public was shifting.
Tell HN: If you liked 'our minds can be hijacked,' you'll like Robert Lustig
I missed the discussion of the 'our minds can be hijacked' thread that's on the bottom of the homepage, but I have something that I think people interested in that topic may like.

Robert Lustig has written an excellent book on the topic: "The Hacking of the American Mind."

I found that reading the book gave me good insights into how to be happier in my daily life.

If you're curious, his podcast on FT Alphachat is a good introduction and summary of his ideas: https://overcast.fm/+FaTQX2SRE
I wouldn't think that the browser part of Electron is significantly slower than Chromium, which it's built on. From what I remember, the Node part of Electron runs in a separate process.
Clickable: https://overcast.fm/+FaTQX2SRE
Astronauts always seem to be these clean-cut godfearing family-men types.

Maybe antisocial misanthropic weirdos would be better suited.

From a psychological perspective. They wouldnt miss family/friends, and might enjoy living on spacefood.
> Then I would invite you to study it some more.

I am very much a UX enthusiast if not long-time student of that field. I am a constant proponent for usability features.

These patently awful dial pads help nobody but the authors of the blog post fishing for clicks. They're junk. They're worse than useless.

Apple made a "one handed keyboard" for iOS 11 (http://appleinsider.com/articles/17/09/21/inside-ios-11-appl...) and it shows how it can be done. They scrunched it down a bit to make it more convenient to use. They did not arbitrarily rearrange everything into an unfamiliar layout and force that layout on everyone who wanted to use that feature.

Another example is the Matias "half" keyboard (http://matias.ca/halfkeyboard/) which comes in two varieties: Minimal and full-sized. Both offer similar features and are intended to be used with one hand. Note they didn't jumble up the keys, either, they made it as conventional and familiar as possible while still achieving usability goals.
Hmmm, nothing to do with continuous integration?
Ignoring the general 'Electron seems a waste of resources' (with which I partially agree with) comments: Requires 'Ubuntu' or 'macOS'? I seem to know a lot of Electron based apps that run on other Linux distributions or - gasp - even Windows.

Clicking on the 'Download anyway' link brings up the GitHub release tab. With, among others, a file called 'Min-v1.6.3-win32-x64.zip'.
But there is no reason why it is better or somehow more moral for a business to invest more and more in expanding its own operations vs. making that capital available for other kinds of investments.
If the station is large enough. In smaller centrifuges, there'sre noticable Coriolis effects.
> Yeah, America is stridently anti-intellectual, and glasses make you look like a nerd.

Which reminds me how Woody Allen once said, when asked why he was so beloved and respected in Europe, that apparently they might think he is an intellectual, since he's wearing glasses :)
Bananapocalypse: The race to save the world’s most popular fruit
With most colleges (especially in CA) not taking in students who already have a degree, your options are limited to private (Which costs more) or lesser known and less popular colleges who probaly aren't the top tier of STEM schools. That means taking on 4 years of a lot of debt and probably no income, which is worth thinking about.

I wish schools would not turn away students coming back for a second degree especially if the first degree didnt pan out in terms of job prospects, or if it wasn't what they wanted to do in the first place.
Internships and connections will definitely help. I've personally started a couple co-op programs that resulted in permanent hires.

I'd look at TopCoder and other coding competitions for experience. I wish I had more time to do them myself.

You can also gain experience with CRUD app development. Being able to quickly troubleshoot through layers of CRUD, tuning performance by figuring out what the bottleneck is, etc...time spent investigating and learning is good experience.
It's not like they're trying to cram in a music player or IDE in to an Electron app. This is a browser so I wouldn't expect the load to be substantially worse than running Chrome.
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Stock buybacks are also a credible way of showing confidence in times of uncertainty or doubt.