skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've fantasized about this very thing, albeit with far more emphasis on the logistics angle. Building out a massive Amazon-scale logistics network and then offering that advantage exclusively to individuals. No chains, franchising or large-scale ownership permitted. Subsidies would be provided to those without capital wishing to start their own shop.

It'd be more or less a turnkey solution. The small business owners would be bringing their own decor, atmosphere, style and charm to the table; something other than a corporate chain or big box feel.

Of course, the appeal of big box retail is that everything is in one place. Therefore it might make sense to make this a real-estate play as well: group shops with complimentary offerings together, or even facilitate a market/bazaar style setup.

Why go to Walmart when you can go to a high-tech bazaar backed by modern logistics and bleeding edge point of sale tech, that offers the same goods at the same price.

Creating Amazon-scale logistics is no small investment though, so it's not really feasible idea unless you've billions to burn bootstrapping it.

That said, the idea of liberating capable people who are currently stuck in hellish retail jobs is very cool. Granted they'd still be in retail, but as shop owners with relatively high amounts of freedom and a living wage. It'd be a huge win for individuality and quality of life. The same function to society would be fulfilled, but with massive benefits to both the worker and consumer.

I hope someone does this one day, because bigbox retail and massive corporate chain restaurants need to fucking die. Their monoculture and asthetics suck the magic right out of society. There's no better illustration of this than comparing variety in big city commerce to a typical suburb. Most suburbs are veritable wastelands by comparison, and that's not even considering the extreme cases where the only store in town for most essential items is the local Walmart.
With the new twitter limits you can put 16x16 characters with 24 characters to spare. If you use the braille character set, this puts you at 32x64 available pixels. Realizing this, I figured the best use of my saturday was to make tetris. If anyone has any questions, let me know!
> A particular advantage to intuition comes with the famous e=mc^2. Since c is 1, and 1^2 is 1, e=m

Since mass also determines the speed of time to the observer, isn't a time machine basically just a thing that converts energy into mass?
I like the parenting part: he let his kids use sharp knives at 4yo because if they hurt themselves, they'd learn.

"I'd much rather have a kid with nine fingers than a resourceless kid."

I love the idea in theory...but really wonder if I'd have the guts to actually pull off something like that in real life.
Having experienced the weakness of the scientific institutions in several low tax states, I wouldn't expect this effect to be very strong.
The measure is pre-decimal English currency, dating to the Norman Conquest (1066) and used until 1971.

Generally:

pounds (£ or l ) of 20

shillings (s. or /-) of 12

pennies (d.)

(240 d. per £)

The wages section will give you a sense of spending power. A labourer's wages in the 13th century was about 2£/yr, or about 1.5d/day if working 6 days / wk. In practice, employment was not so constant, so 2-4d/day was probably closer the truth.

Remember that prices generally translate to labour required to generate income necessary for a purchase: so many hours, days, weeks, months, or years income for an item.

http://projectbritain.com/moneyold.htm

https://www.milesfaster.co.uk/information/uk-currency.htm
Not OP, and this is only one aspect to consider, but it's from experience - when generics were added to C# the language became nicer to use, but it caused a lot of churn and added complexity. The base libraries have the original non-generic classes as well as newer generic ones.

As I've written above, there's huge potential to be the language that doesn't churn, when just about everything else does these days.
Their job is to say "uh the computer isn't working" if you show up looking like a lowlife
OK, by way of acknowledgement of splittingTimes' downvoted clarification, it seems the phrase "the boundaries of our perception are set by basic laws of physics, and that we reach the limits of what is possible" comes verbatim from a text in which the context is clearly the detection of photons. So it wasn't intended to be a claim of optimality for the human perceptual apparatus in general.
It's not presented very effectively, but my understanding is that 'd' means penny. Pence is the plural form of penny.

"The French Livre, sou, and denier are equivalent to the pound, shilling and penny (Latin liber, solidus, and denarius)."
Or Powershell:

While ($True) { Write-Host (Get-Random '\','/') -NoNewLine }
It's not reductionist, it's honest.

I don't see what Snapchat has done that's new. Disappearing messages? When I was a teenager we used to call them "gossip" or even just phone calls.

If the tech industry spent the amount of energy used to glorify petty crap on something more useful we would have been defeated poverty and all diseases a few weeks ago.
Is "treat your lowest paid employees like dirt" and "if people are desperate and really need the job, as long as you employ them you don't need to treat them humanely" part of it?

How about "If you are a rich owner you can safely distance yourself from lower management that does 'whatever it takes' to keep profits up and play the ignorance card"?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/11/amazon-ac...

http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/at-work/its-like-every-s...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2017/01/13/ama...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/22/amazon...

http://www.businessinsider.com/brutal-conditions-in-amazons-...
Sure they do. Mine (Android) at least, has an option to decline the call and send one of a variety of text messages to the caller including exactly that one (I'm busy right now, call me back in an hour) with one touch. Does iOS not support this sort of thing as well?
The eyesight of mantis/pistol shrimp is similarly crazy in it's complexity and it's in an invertebrate. Evolution seems to pick out some crazy stuff when it comes to animals near the water-air interface. For instance, they are able to detect circularly-polarized light across multiple octaves of light with a single receptor, covering all the Stokes' vectors. I've done a fair bit of optics and I have NO idea how to begin constructing a quarter-wave plate that would cover multiple octaves. So crazy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantis_shrimp#Eyes
That was a typo … the article it referenced says he reads 50 books a year, or basically one a week.
You probably noticed that you pay more if you sit down. Drink at the bar and it’s usually cheaper.
Quantum magic: A skeptical perspective (2011)
To have a meaningful discussion I think we need to identify which specific AI we're talking about first.

If it's general intelligence then I definitely think the hype is real. I don't think machine intelligence gets us any close to general intelligence than say a calculator has.
The second paragraph ("money goes as follows") explains the notation. 'd' is for pence.

Translating prices into modern coins is a hard problem, because you're not comparing like with like. When two countries/markets trade, prices in one can be compared to the other. But across time, when the available products are drastically different, and when the very concept of money and of price was different from today, it's not clear what the comparison would even mean. For instance, the price for very many things (e.g. food, and the wages of many professions) was fixed by law and could stay constant for centuries.

If this had not been the case, there would be no meaning in compiling a price list that includes dates across 3-4 centuries, but only one price point for each item listed.
Anyone got a rough ETA for when the CSD stuff will make it into main? (or any other hack to hide title bar in MATE/xfce once hidecaptiontitelbarplus addon breaks? sorry to beat dead-horse topic)

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/08/firefox-client-side-decor...
Ah, so a bit like Firebase+Bootstrap? Or Meteor?
While that is technically true people (generally) will heat with some form of combustion.

In the desert you can cool quite a bit with evaporation.

But then you need water but not all the oil to produce the fuzzy stuff in parkas so... IDK. Complicated formula with lots of inputs.

Aside from the environment (or rather, regarding a much more personal environment), people do die from heat in the desert. But it's not common. As long as you have shade and water you'll survive with no protection. On the other hand, a night outside in Minnesota in January is pretty much guaranteed to kill a person without protective gear. (To say nothing of cars sliding off the road in ice storms).

I suspect (although don't know) that it requires less energy to make a livable climate in desert summers than northern winters.
As the author of this blog post I'd just like to say:
1. Thank you everyone for the positive tone of comments
2. Thank you for the feedback and perspectives :-)
Blue Origin doesn't really launch yet. They launched a few (I think, they are famous for being much more secretive than SpaceX) test flights, but nothing to orbit yet.

This was a Orbital Sciences/ATK flight (two somewhat old-space companies[1] such recently merged).

[1] Orbital Sciences was founded in the early eighties, and ATK was old enough to be the contractor to build the shuttle SRBs.
To understand the underlying principles, but not to use it. In this case, it's a point and click -- if they like the effect, keep it. Literally no maths are required for understanding, yet the outcome is achieved.
Very true. Who would have predicted Apple overtaking Microsoft?
Remote Desktop Manager Enterprise 13.0.3.0 and Key Free Download
“Lucky“ in the sense that the tutorial you followed didn’t miss a step, that you followed it perfectly, and that you correctly understood what it did. How often do people copy the wrong thing from stackoverflow, for example? Or miss an important step, or the last character of text?

I rather doubt many people will try to hack their own DNA by keyboard mashing a new sequence.
It is superior for readability and parsing, and combined together with ident: Type, you have a very consistent syntax (unlike other languages with generics, where you define e.g. generic methods one way, but call them in another).
In QBasic you had to put a RANDOMIZE TIMER statement to get a different seed whenever you run.
I think it's pretty well accepted that the story doesn't hold up. The real question is what were they really doing. Reminds me of some teenagers that get pulled over by a cop and then tell some elaborate story about why they were speeding, who they were fleeing from, etc. Just forget their story entirely and look for evidence of what really happened.
Troubleshooting Pc Beep Error with These Simple Steps
Yes, utter crap.

Some guy got lucky, nothing else...
Your assessment is flawed. Because income taxes are generally progressive, you will have a lower rate applied to a portion of your income and higher rates towards the top end. Effectively paying a lower absolute rate. But you would pay the full sales tax on all your purchase, leading to a similar net effect.
Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A.
If an attacker obtains a few of your passwords, they can infer some things about how you're generating them and bring down the number of possibilities closer to the entropy of your method. If you use a high-entropy generation algorithm, no such attack is possible regardless of the information gained by the attacker.
And yet every other week there's another news outlet publishing tweets from "Julian Assange" that aren't actually from Julian Assange (here's one from last week [0]), because twitter refuses to verify him and the people copying his account do it very well.

Now imagine that at the presidential level. No thanks.

0: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/927671065379262465
Have a look at .NET Native with .NET core, it support AOT compilation with GC, and a very fully featured language and cross platform targets.

see
https://blog.rendle.io/what-ive-learned-about-dotnet-native/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29609993/difference-betw...
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/net-native...
I never consider interviewing to be a waste of time.

First, no matter what happens, it's great practice.

Second, if I impress the people I interview with I could get another job offer from them in the future.

Third, I get to meet some interesting people and find out a bit of how their systems are set up.

Fourth, they might be able to be negotiated up -- after the interview, and after they decide they like me and they want to hire me. There's comparatively little negotiating power before the interview.

Fifth, even if they finally can't meet my salary requirements, they might be able to offer me something else I value in compensation. That's what negotiation is all about.. and that's what you won't get to do if you disqualify yourself from consideration by naming too high a number before you've interviewed.

Finally, even after the interview, I don't name a number first. I wait for them to make me an offer. Then we go from there.
+1 I put a pinch of salt in my coffee. It modifies the flavor in a subtle way that is hard to describe.
Looks like a textbook Navy PR stunt. A very poorly directed one though...
Let’s make a JavaScript Wait function
> But weirdly, they claim to have gone through 90% of their food by the time they were rescued. So did they bring six months’ supply or a year? And how did they go through it so quickly?

well, if they had to feed 2 dogs, too...

anyways, back to reading.
Google was coy on their plans in Arizona involving Lyft. They did share there would be news in the not too distant future. Google ride sharing in Arizona need to be supplemented with human drivers for trips Google can not do automated. My guess is Google will use Lyft will this service for the humans.

BTW, Google also owns 9% of Uber.
Life is too short to work with tyrants.
Nature doesn’t ”want” lethal pandemic diseases. It’s evolutionary suicide to wipe out your own host.
Did I miss the part where a tyrant boss is defined or did that not happen? I'm not exactly sure what that is. Just a boss you don't like?
It's not just cities; it's also ways to do things. So one region is doing German-style operation, another one US-style, another one Italian-style etc. as close as they can reproduce it. The same for education. Then they evaluate what works where and why and adjust/spread the winner.
Why not just quit and get another job?
Nope, he's tried (and has been trying for a while [0]), and he regularly calls Twitter out for it and the trouble it causes him due to news outlets getting confused by impersonators.

0: https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/841636931666612225
Be a problem solver not a problem bringer.

Er.. so you want me to do his job too? I can give him options if he mature enough to take them and not blame me for then later
RSS is great, but for community voted sites like HN and reddit I wrote a tool to 'slow down' the links: https://github.com/srid/slownews

A live running version of mine can be seen at: http://slownews-naivete.herokuapp.com/
You surely can’t get a meaningful amount of caffination out of those tiny pods - even with the Nestles standard manoeuvre of loading them with robusta. Those steam toys are awful.
There have been a few local inventory search startups, but there are a few gotchas:

An in-stock item may be bought by another party before order or pickup.

Inventory may show more inventory than actual. Shoplifting is one reason for this.

In the end I think prioritizing in-store shopping conflicts with pick-and-ship operations.
His is truly the only way, if he owns the company he will soon lose business if more people do this and if he's middle management then his bosses will see where the problem is
Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers
Yeah. Qt support was actually in good shape in Firefox in the past, but Mozilla never backed it officially, and it fell apart.
Hey, that's me! (Six figure income, stopped paying credit card bills.) Aside from the interest that continues to accumulate, you are absolutely correct: the debt does decrease:

At the 7-month mark one of the credit card companies (I owed them $15,000 at 29.9% APR) sent a piece of registered mail: if you send us 3 post-dated cheques for the next 3 months for $1200 each (total $3600), we'll consider the debt paid off.

I ignored them and did a Chapter 13 instead. (Well, the Canadian equivalent).
It's a "smart city", not a sustainable city. Not the same thing. From the article:

Belmont will create a forward-thinking community with a communication and infrastructure spine
that embraces cutting-edge technology, designed around high-speed digital networks, data centers,
new manufacturing technologies and distribution models, autonomous vehicles and autonomous logistics hubs
From TillWinter's response:
> Also: doing the master is to understand that you don't know anything, and doing your doctorate is to learn the others know nothing as well.

I had always heard variations on the first part -- that going to a good school was supposed to humble you by showing you how much you don't actually know.

Never heard the second part. That's great.
After reading the Nespresso supported article: it is an observational study. The types of coffee described are not considered because the studied population does not usually drink them.

The ironic side of the study is that since expresso coffee has more cafesol than filtered coffee (but less than french press), if people start to use more their nespresso the population study would probably change.

See this: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/2015/02/23/ask-...

Quoting:

9. Is drinking coffee made with a paper filter healthier than drinking boiled coffee or other types of coffee?

Coffee contains a substance called cafestol that is a potent stimulator of LDL-cholesterol levels (12). Cafestol is found in the oily fraction of coffee, and when you brew coffee with a paper filter, the cafestol gets left behind in the filter. Other methods of coffee preparation, such as the boiled coffee common in Scandinavian countries, French press coffee, or Turkish coffee, are much higher in cafestol. So for people who have high cholesterol levels or who want to prevent having high cholesterol levels, it is better to choose paper filtered coffee or instant coffee, since they have much lower levels of cafestol than boiled or French press coffee. Espresso is somewhere in the middle; it has less cafestol than boiled or French press coffee, but more than paper filtered coffee.

Urgert R, Katan MB. The cholesterol-raising factor from coffee beans. Annu Rev Nutr. 1997;17:305-24.
Yes! The #1 determining factor of my productivity and contribution across my career has been my boss, and quality of relationship with boss. Don't waste your precious time trying to please assholes.
It’s stupid, because your kid might lack the motor skills to handle a knife.
Uber’s Driver Dilemma: Fare Hikes and Cuts Don’t Change Pay
As someone who has founded and runs an adserver for a living (we deal only with legitimate publications, nothing sketchy), I found this thought provoking.

Since I deal mostly in niche/local advertising, I might have a unique perspective. It turns out that the more relatable a banner ad is, the less offended the reader is.

That may sound obvious, and it probably is. But the general effect is that users engage with and are sometimes genuinely interested in banner ads for their favorite restaurants, venues, and other spots. Local and niche advertisers are part of the community. A Ford or Chevy ad is generally much less relatable.

So my overall point is that the nature of the publication and its advertising clients is going to impact whether some readers are turned off - so it's difficult to derive a rule of thumb for banner advertising as a whole.
The way it's reported is confusing but after a second, more careful read-through, I still can't see that the "engine" they learn is anything like an ordinary game engine that can be compared by a human player's inputs.

Specifically, they don't mention anywhere that their engine was played by a human- to prove its playability. Maybe that's an omission or they didn't consider it important, but it makes it very hard to figure out if this is at all possible.

Finally, there's this bit on the 4th page (next to the algorithm box) where they say:

"At this point we can guarantee that we have an engine that can
predict the entire sequence of frames from the initial frame.
Notably this means that the engine can only reflect changes that
actually occur in the input sequence of parsed frames".

I take this to mean that, given a specific starting frame, their engine wil always predict the same sequence- which must mean its prediction does not take into account player input.

But it's true that this point is very hard to figure out.

>> Maybe they are generating these rules conditional on the player input without telling the training process what the input was.

Basically, yeah- that's my understanding.
When I was a child it was normal to play with knives, go off somewhere without telling your parents and even play in the road.

Of all the people I knew back then I'm pretty sure they all survived into adulthood?

The only thing that has changed really is that roads are a lot busier nowadays so you may be forgiven for exercising some caution with that one.
Interesting; do you know which distros do that? I know Nokia started the Qt stuff (for Maemo), but wasn't aware that anybody was continuing to maintain it. But I haven't looked at things at a level that would have let me know in quite a while.
That sounds more like a fancy quote than an actual tradeoff.
The same way that a temporary solution postpones any definitive solution of any problem. Every time.

And, as the GP pointed out, the sum of practical temporary solutions will have a very bad long-term effect. Of course, that doesn't mean that anybody will change course.
Are you inspired yet? /s
That was a nice summary — sounds like a great, insightful interview.

The inevitable congestive dissonance in readers’ responses never cease to amuse me.

Starts with, “wow, yeah, Bezos is a legend. I’d love some insight into what makes him tick, so I can be more like him!!”

Then we quickly get to:

1. Oh, no way would I risk my child losing a finger!

2. Hey, work-life balance is important! It’s bad to work so much!

3. Maybe Bezos can focus on one task at a time — serial multi-tasker — but that’s not how I work!
He actually dispenses the idea with work-life balance. That’s different than “superficial comments on work-life balance.”