skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is that all this marketing prevents people from making real improvements. I know people who wanted to switch to better nutrition but then they saw the cost of "superfoods" and organics and gave up. I told them to just eat regular vegetables but it has to be either superfood or nothing. Same with exercise. Either you have to do Crossfit to the point of exhaustion or just stay on your sofa.
So did you reconsider your thinking that it is dumb as a concept or do you regret not speculating actual money on it?
In California, the problem is quite serous. There is a food cartel that runs on undocumented labor. The California food industry maintains artificially high prices because the people in it are racists. These sick people will do anything to manipulate their victims, including using words like "superfood" to trick them into a false sense of security.
Wal-Mart Courts Lord and Taylor for Online Challenge to Amazon
Two reasons are pretty clear from the article. It was fun. And it could be sold to management as safety PR.
Ask John McAfee
My Trezor wallet and all the crypto on it
The act of "confession" is meaningless if it cannot result in consequences.

Yes, it's better than remaining silent (and continuing). But it's still far worse than never having done these things in the first place.

For an employer who didn't already know, the net result of such a confession is obviously to see the person in a worse light than before, and firing them makes sense.
CTAs tend to have built in risk control :)
I believe this is because we are still very low on the adoption curve. Once it gains mass adoption and it is used more as a form of payment, the price will stabilize.

2x was made by businesses for businesses. It is supposed to solve the high fees and long confirmation times (at least on the short term) which are crippling businesses.
I think the main take-away is that there is no magic bullet. No single app, class, methodology, etc - will teach you the language. I finally started being successful with Japanese when I stopped looking for a single magic bullet and started pursuing whatever leads were proving effective - now I have a varied study approach that's suited to my needs. After about 6 months of study with this approach, I can hold a conversation in Japanese and read elementary/middle school aged manga.
... which subsequently went into commercial service, for 19 years!
I have...
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The AI Risk Isn’t What You Think
Turns out, security drives cloud adoption – not the other way around
that's not how it works. having bought a lottery ticket was still not a good idea even if you won. meaning, bitcoin is still a risky asset, like back then, there is no reason little reason to reliably assert that it will still go up, and not down.
You may not need a higher efficacy, herd immunity does not require 100%.

Chart of herd immunity thresholds for some diseases:

https://www-tc.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/assets/img/herd-immunity/im...
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Yes. To relieve stress on the stabilizer.
NASA chooses not to tell Congress how much deep space missions cost
Do you really think a system where 1 mile = 1760 yards = 5280 feet = 63360 inches is 'just as convenient'? I think you're not being honest.

The metric system is standard in scientific practice because it is more sane than the imperial system.
That article is missing point. The point of eating local food is that you eat what's in season and what's available in your area. Obviously if you live in Canada you won't be able to find 'local' Avocados, but the idea is you would forfeit eating Avocados in favor of eating whatever is locally produced, instead of shipping those Avocados from Mexico.
Regulators Can't Keep Up with Wall Street's Robot Invasion
Good point - even protostars have distinctive spectra, I think.
> No one anywhere else gets to count hours being educated as hours worked

Work experience is education. That's why you get paid more for past experience - it saves the company on a cost they would otherwise have invested in you. Doing a PhD is just another way of getting work experience, except you get paid a lot less.

I think it's reasonable to claim that PhD's are compensated a lot by virtue of the "cost" of educating them and other benefits. But this education is something you receive in a normal job too. And just like in a normal job, the employer gains a lot more out of the exchange. Grad students are typically worth a lot more to universities than they cost, otherwise there would be no sense in admitting so many. I'd wager the ratio of value to cost is perhaps greater in academia than it is in a lot of other industries.
Why do you think that is? (both the depressed salaries and only younger devs)?

On a side note: make your way to SF. As a software engineer, you will feel like a king and there's a meetup for every niche topic you can think of..
Interestingly my comment above is still being voted down! I find it a bit sad that avoiding this sort of needless annoyance is apparently a minority sport.

Maybe that's why as a start-up, though I have very much done the 'disruptive' thing in the past when needed, I didn't do it to be 'disruptive' for the sake of it, and I always try to find a gentle path to what I want to achieve...
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Allan Savory's theories are wildly unsound and have been debunked... But it seems like good intention.
What's the solution to the hundreds of death threats problem though? My understanding is the death threats come from twitter eggs, or replaceable accounts where it doesn't matter so much if you ban them, and it would require a lot of work from the moderators to do the banning, and the recipient would still get the death threats in the first place.
> Central banks have (without evidence) claimed that deflation is a universally “bad thing” in order to justify inflating the currency every single year (AKA stealing from savers, and transferring wealth to the people who are the earliest recipients of the inflated currency).

TIPS. JGBis. Linkers. Come on man, this makes you sound like a crank.

Gold was the standard. It didn't work out very well.
There are definitely better smart pointer semantics than others -- see the now deprecated auto_ptr.

But it really doesn't fit the argument as framed. All smart pointer implementations are some valuable niceties wrapped around a naked pointer. It has nothing to do with preferring references to pointers; at the end of the day you just have a pointer -- just one that gets default initialized to 0, and deletes itself when you are done with it.

Frankly, the type of C++ developer that spends any serious amount of time trying to come to terms with a smart pointer API; even one they haven't seen before is the type of developer I wouldn't really want manipulating naked pointers.
Getting people to value waste byproduct is pretty awesome hacking. It takes a special kind of imagination and guts to say "this trash, I can turn it into treasure."
Looking back at Fedora Workstation so far
The thing is that most people don't want completely uncensored social media. Most people stay away from 4chan. Reddit remains much more popular than voat. Assholes are creative and persistent so you have to keep them away.
Yes, it means he pitched down even more.
Perhaps you are right. My wording may have also been too strong. But I still think that unions are not in the best interests of the faculty.
Come to Dublin. Where I work, we'd love to hire more experienced people. I'd say around 15% of my colleagues are >40, with 3 or 4 > 50.

I don't think it is at all unusual to get paid significantly more than €40k..
Code changes all the time; you can fix the calls you know about, right now, but you're relying on everyone who calls your function to infer some extra context about it and get it right every time. The defect will keep reoccurring. Whereas if you make it part of the function's type that it can't be called that way, then the compiler enforces that it will be used correctly, automatically, and you never have to fix the same problem again.
The line itself links to another article regarding sustainability and tech/device waste, a quote: "All the manufacturers talk about sustainability but when it comes down to it, their security and their brand is way more important than how the material is recycled"

The writer could be calling them out just the same. Because a lot of people use Apple and the mainstream 'tribe' subscribes to the mass brand appeal, the writer seems conscious enough of the way they operate the business.
> The problem is your reasoning is based on these 'wisdoms' that aren't actually real facts or which are simply misunderstood, for example

This is what communists always say: "Communism is just misunderstood and has been poorly implemented. We'll get it right this time." 100 million people in the 20th century say otherwise--well, they would, if they were alive to do so, but they were killed by communism.

I'll try to be concise:

1. Communism and anarchy are not the same thing, because in communism, sharing is not optional.

2. Communism is not stateless, because the laws are enforced to enact communism, and whatever entity enforces the laws is the state.

I guess you're thinking that communism is "the people" rather than "the state," but that is a false distinction, because whichever of the people dissent are forced to comply by the other people, i.e. the state.

This is like saying that there is no "state" in the United States, because it is "of, by, and for the People." However, this is a false distinction, because the state is not the People, rather it is authorized by the People, and its powers are delegated to it by the People. It remains a distinct entity.

3. Therefore, anywhere there is a government, there is a state. The only stateless society would be total anarchy, like nomads roaming the plains thousands of years ago. Even then, they had tribes, which were essentially mini-states. So to claim that communism is stateless is essentially playing semantic games.

4. You said, "Communists and anarchists have the same end goal, these two 'groupings' are one and the same in the end." This is interesting, because most of (if not all of) the "anarchists" we see today are actually thinly veiled communists. They advocate anarchy to destroy the existing society, hoping to then create a new communist state afterward. But you seem to think that communists and anarchists are the same because you think that both are advocating for a stateless society (which is not the case). So we agree on your conclusion, but apparently for different reasons.

5. Communism is not classless. Whoever is in charge is in a class above the rest.

> Your whole post is more of an argument against authoritarianism than anything else in my opinion.

Yes, it is--and communism is authoritarian.
What’s wrong with him asking for assistance? You could’ve just ignored his comment lol, no need to be so rude. Im dissappointed anyone upvotes you. This is bad behavior, shouldn’t be promoted.
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This isn't deflation, but convergence to a stable value. It's an S-curve.
I found native speakers who are also trying to learn English. We set up a timer and switch languages every 5 minutes. This system makes it so much easier to speak with language exchange partners. Even if you're awkward and flustered in your second language, you only have to deal with it for 5 minutes. The best cure for awkward use of a second language, making mistakes and asking lots of questions, is to frequently switch to confident use of a first language - giving corrections and answering questions for your partners.
I am not doing this as a generalist. I picked a specialization and within that specialization I picked a specific ecosystem and then ground out some seniority in that ecosystem.

Once I had that I could pick from anyone who is invested in the ecosystem.

I don't believe that has actually heavily impacted what I am paid in the sense of the credentialing being worth more to individual companies it has just made it easier to get through hiring filters and interview loops. That has made it possible to focus on companies that pay well.
true - however what has been happening in the last 20 years with paper fiat is not how fiat is "supposed" to work - though granted, it seems that EVERY paper fiat eventually leads to increased inflation/hyper-inflation. With Bitcoin, that is impossible. This allows the whole bitcoins, as well as the individual sitoshis to increase in value - much like the dollar of 1900 (it has since lost 99% of its purchasing power due to all the increased printing, loss of the gold standard, etc...

while I don't think it will ever fully replace fiat currencies, it will - and already is - acting as a secondary money/value exchange, so there is NO downside to getting in. None.
Twitter's API is aggressively limited, so limited that third party clients barely work.

Believe me, I've tried.
Lot's of people gave up on farming hardscrabble New England in the early part of the 20th century which resulted in reforestation. Farming is making a comeback in niche products, but nothing at the previous scales. This article (sorry for the paywall) gives a good summary: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/11/21/how-new-england-....
An embedded program using NULL may cause some serious damage, even physical. Code has bugs: avoiding the most serious failure modes is important pragmatically speaking.
I wrote an CIL-to-JS translator too:

https://github.com/chrisdunelm/DotNetWebToolkit

It's not complete, certainly not usable for anything remotely real, but could handle quite a bit of C#.
And was fun to work on :)
It probably shouldn't be that big of a surprise. Police officers are almost entirely decent people that shouldn't feel the need to change their behavior just because they're being recorded.

Regular citizens would already be on their best behavior around cops, the camera doesn't change much.

I think people get a skewed perception of the police force from a relatively small number of highly publicized incidents.

Counter option: The DC cops are so brazen that they don't even care if they're being caught on film. This doesn't seem likely, since it would be such an easy payday for some hungry defense lawyer.
There is one major thing which turns me down about Ireland - I'd have to rent a place to live.
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In Brazil, it’s a traditional remedy if you have a bad stomach. It’s also sold at a lot of tourist destinations fresh from the coconut as it’s very refreshing.
We love Middleman for static sites; curious why you chose to go with a server instead of S3+Cloudfront or Netlify. One of the biggest reasons we use static site generators is the ability to CDN the whole thing, making it dirt cheap and blazing fast.
I have had issues before getting Channel 9 to be whitelisted because it was a "video site"
The OP asked: "Many people think that a supervisor or a manager should make more money than the person reporting to them. I ask why"

You responded: "In general the supervisor or manager provides more value than an employee under his command."

I asked: "why do you think this is the case"

And I got the pretty much textbook economics reply. But I am not asking about what economists think, I wonder about what you think. Why do you, personally, think the work of the manager is more valuable? So I was wondering how you understand the value.

Based on your response, you seem to value scarcity of either positions or suitable candidates. So do you think the president should have the highest salary? There is only one. I am also not convinced that scarcity itself is "providing value".
Lyme disease isn't passed from human to human so herd immunity is irrelevant.
Geologist believes he found the 14M-year-old ruts of ancient vehicles
I watched a talk by Bob Martin in which he claimed that the number software engineers in the world doubles every 5 years. For a huge majority of those new engineers, it's their first careers. Thus, almost half of the world's software engineers should be between the ages of 22-27. So, tech companies are dominated by the young not because they hate old people, but because there are so many young people with technical skills and that number is growing rapidly.
Not so. From the TOML page: "TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format."

Ren is intended to be a general purpose data exchange format.
Say what you will, but this irrational exuberance is precisely that; irrational. I knew about Bitcoin 6+ years ago, when I read a blog about someone buying a sandwich with this newfangled currency. But I didn't rush to mine it. I didn't rush to buy it either. I was simply indifferent to the prospect of it, and I don't regret it.

Here's why. Bitcoin's thesis is that it possesses inherent value because it will become a medium of exchange i.e. people will trade in bitcoin, thereby using it as a store of value, and making it valuable. And yet, that hasn't happened yet. While it's hard to estimate the velocity of money for something like Bitcoin, and the "Bitcoin days destroyed" metric isn't accurate either, it is quite clear that as Bitcoin as a store of wealth rises rapidly in value, its utility as a currency correspondingly drops in value; thereby invalidating the central thesis on which the question of its value rests.

Here are rough estimations for the velocity of money for BTC;

http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-velocity/

https://charts.bitcoin.com/chart/velocity

Even if these are filled with inaccuracies, the general trend seems to be quite clear. People use BTC as an asset not a currency. And as such, the idea that it's a savvy investment belies the fact that it's value as an asset is entirely psychological in nature and completely ungrounded from actual metrics like fiat currency (though again fiat currency does run on trust, but the difference is that it's a marker of exchange thereby measuring the economy and its productivity gives an estimate of its value).

Further, even if it was a valid currency, then what we're witnessing over here is hyperdeflation in action, and it is fundamentally irrational to expect it to continue.

The reasoning for the above points is quite straightforward and simple. The magic of money and capitalism isn't that you can hoard gold and get rich. No, it's that you can make money. It's the idea that value can be created and destroyed through the economic actions of human beings, and that money as a concept serves as a measure of wealth as opposed to wealth. It's why we moved away from the gold standard - it was fundamentally irrational and in the long run, would have caused the exact phenomena we're seeing with BTC.

If you really think that somehow as a store of value BTC is going to become some significant fraction of human wealth, then go ahead buy this. But if you give it any rational thought whatsoever, then you'll see clearly that this is the tulip mania in action and that timing your actions to beat the market is even more irrational.

So no I don't regret passing up on buying BTC, precisely because it was and is a lottery ticket and I'm not in the business of buying lottery tickets no matter how well conceived they may be.

Right now, the most rational thing to do is to bet for it to fail. And then figure out how to time that bet. Because the farther it rises, the harder it will fall.

Good luck.
From my experience working with web businesses age is irrelevant to hiring, but it strongly influences office culture. As a side note I am a front-end developer which tends to skew extremely young, but I have been doing it for 20 years. I don't consider myself either a baby-boomer or a millennial.

In offices of extremely young teams without a lot of mentorship the big focus is on abstractions and frameworks. The primary technology is JavaScript. I get the feeling of people wanting to move really fast and build cool things, but with huge limitations around their understanding of the technology.

In offices of much older developers the focus is more heavily directed towards code design and architecture. Contrasting to the previous group the older folks feel more confident they can build just about anything and don't mind jumping into the technologies directly, however their focus tends to be more narrow as though there are a set fixed few ways of doing things. This group generally tends to treat web technologies with an utter disregard and prefers to isolate themselves in Java.

Actual fullstack people are rare to either demographic but tend to have a wider understanding of how things work outside their comfort zone.
Not directly. The exploit referred to by the title is a kernel exploit, but to execute the kernel exploit you need to be able to already run user code. They're using a Webkit exploit to run their user code.
> Anyone can repeat this for themselves.

I tried, they came from the disk cache.
We just started using Imgix on our most recent Middleman site as well and it's been great.
Short of kernel bugs, there aren't really reliable ways of getting a user's location without having the permissions.
That's not a JSON problem, that's a problem with whatever language you're using to consume the JSON. Back to my point, you as a developer shouldn't have to worry about this at all. You should be able to add numbers to JSON and retrieve them without it harassing you. To a human, 123, 0.123, 12345789347590837452987543758973459734 are all the same "type". Why is it that you can save your int64s as strings but not as numbers? It's a stupid leak on the part of the language if you have to use this workaround.
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> I wonder how this changes by booting from UEFI (and not using any 'emulation mode')

It's pretty damn easy:

1. You don't write a bootloader since UEFI is that bootloader.

2. You write a portable executable which gets executed by the UEFI bootloader. This executable runs directly in long-mode without any nonsense.

3. You have to link against some different C-libraries, not the standard ones, but that's about it.

Here's an example: http://x86asm.net/articles/uefi-programming-first-steps/
Yeah, or if they do the article didn't convey that. I left the article feeling angry about that - no mention of canopy etc.
that would depend on your country's individual currency movement regulations as well as the different policies of the various exchanges.

for instance, coinbase only allows for a certain set amount of money in/out per week - and its actually quite low comparatively. $15-25k i think? maybe someone has seen more?
I opened up the comments to make just that joke. I'm surprised the article didn't make it.
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Awesome just wish it supported offline mode using something like:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...

EDIT: NM it already supports offline mode. Nice work.
> Overall, the vaccine should almost certainly have not been taken off the market

It's no longer patented so nothing is stopping you from selling it if you think there's a market.
Personally I think police could not only solve their storage problem, but also create a revenue stream and public good will: by simply storing the video on a public service like YouTube. It also increases transparency though, which is probably why it will never happen.
Google does not have adult supervision. Their employees are as disconnected from reality as the Soviets, and Google is now living the reality that Kennan described in the "Long Telegram". In particular, Google is unaware of

- the California food cartel

- the California sex industry

- the California undocumented immigrant crisis

Whereas Google was founded on the principle of organizing the world's information, it currently is in the business of denying vital and important news to Californians.

Google has become filth. It has become an embarrassment. There is no reason for Californians to be proud of Google.

Google is a scam.
Where there’s shit, there’s gold. I’m all for people repurposing and selling something that would otherwise go into landfill, etc.