skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Phoenix is mainly supported by the Salt, Verde, and Gila Rivers. not the Colorado. It gets some from the Colorado via canals but most of that water supports emerald valley through to LA via Aquifer. There is quite a bit of water in the valley which is why it was traditionally used for agriculture before electricity and A/C came to the area. (many growing seasons) I think historically it was a major source of alfalfa until Phoenix grew and took over all that farm land with city.
Can Jobs to Be Done Fix ICOs?
How about we let people have fifteen minute breaks and they don’t start until they get to to the break area

Baby steps.
‘Null’ research findings aren’t empty of meaning. Let’s publish them
How to get by in any language with 2 words
Your understanding is incorrect [1]. Intel ME is another processor running the MINIX operating system. It is used on all Intel chips made since 2008 and can not be disabled. It even contains a JVM for running Java. Inside that operating system contains modules (or "apps") that are running, some even when your computer is "turned off". For example, one application is AMT which can allow you to remotely control your computer, another is an app that controls the turning on of the fan.

There are generally two versions of the firmware which can be used. A light version normally used for personal computers and a heavy version normally used for servers.

The light version doesn’t contain the AMT module, the heavy one does.

If you are using the firmware that includes AMT, it can be disabled.

The problem is we don’t actually know what other modules are running, who can run modules and which ones use network access.

1. https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme
maybe HN crashed the site?

here is the archive url https://web.archive.org/web/20161110180302/http://www.thewor...
So that the UK could eventually conquer the United States and seize all cotton production as per the original British conquest and institution of the colonies.

The rest of what the above poster speaks is true. If you are unsure, you need to examine history more carefully before you think yourself a fit judge of "nut jobs".
Delicious reborn.
Ask HN: How do you manage work on your side projects?
For those of you with full time jobs who explore your own ideas and projects, I'd like to know how you maintain productivity and morale.
Replying since I can't edit:
The sentence for "ソ (so)" should read "The starting points for the strokes line up horizontally at the top".
The cost of those breaches is often externalised - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/externality.asp

https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=42 indicates that 17.6 million americans were affected by identity theft in 2014 .. sounds significant.

The other thing to consider is the impact it can have on someones life, even if 99.5% of Americans aren't affected in any given year and only 17 million were, the impact of it can be huge on an individuals life.

ps just used America as that was the first stats I found. First world is going to be a more prevalent target as they have more money to steal ..
Yes, it's the practical thing for a business like Amazon to do in the current economic and social environment. But you seem to be asking us to take quite a leap of faith from there to "this is how it should be and people who think otherwise are Unamerican".
NAFTA: A continuation of the Union Busting going back to PATCO. Which was during the Reagan administration. Please be especially aware, my point is NOT to engage partisan politics. My point is to illustrate that Partisanship itself is a false dichotomy; both parties in the US take turns redistributing wealth toward the rich, at any cost, and then deploy Partisanship against citizens, turning us against each other to distract us from their bad acts.

I call it "Mining Town 2.0".
In a more abstract sense, if you say 'warehouse workers are being treated badly' it implies Bezos himself both seeks and has a more cushy, nurturing job: and therefore, is responsible for treating others as he would wish to be treated himself. Hence, a moral failing on his part, that works to his benefit.

I don't think it's a simple as that. Being a Bezos is sort of self-selecting: as the 'apex predator' he must motivate a whole corporation that functions on this ruthless moral model. I'm not sure how many miles he runs each day, but as far as people dropping dead of stress I think it's mostly the guy's extensive resources that stop him being one of the dead bodies left behind.

In other words, the CEO is crazy and driving himself impossibly hard. The CEO in turn expects everybody else to push just as hard. But the warehouse guys can't have a team of masseuses attending upon them after (or during) THEIR jobs, nor do they have journalists and celebrities fawning over them for being so hardcore: Bezos wishes to build a company that from top to bottom is ultra-hardcore and driven, but most people participating in the exercise get NONE of the benefits he gets out of coaching a giant corporation to develop that kind of killer instinct.

The behavior is in fact the way to make the corporation kill and defeat other corporations, but most of the people working for Amazon get only very intangible benefits from doing this. Unless they can be like 'yay team!' and personally identify themselves with, say, their CEO and his attitude, they're just chewed up and spat out.

It's interesting to follow the logic of it. By definition, Amazon can NEVER suck up fat margins and benefit its employees and rest on its laurels, because by definition if it does another Amazon will outperform it (at rather pedestrian tasks that are nonetheless valuable). So there must always be the worst possible working conditions attainable by law, from the bottom right up to the CEO. But the CEO gets a lot of side benefits and intangibles that the other workers don't.

It would be closer to fair if people treated Bezos with contempt, knowing that anytime he keeled over or lost his nerve, some other hard charger would jump in and become Bezos in his stead. Bezos could stop being Bezos at any time, but he's the richest guy in the world because he seems like he can't. He is more likely to stroke out in some meeting than to retire. He can only be replaced by someone else who is that ruthless or more ruthless… depends on whether society considers his attitude criminally harmful, and that depends on how he goes about being Bezos. See Kalanick and Uber as a counterexample, where the guy fully embraces ruthlessness but is far less interested in self-abuse and is more easily painted as an exploiter.
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like?
Yeah, but they're new, and there's still a culture of food preservation that we lost here at some point.

US fish buying: Buy a pleasant-looking filet off a bed of ice, get it into refrigeration asap

China fish buying: Bring a plastic bag, put live fish in bag of water, transfer to a short-term tank at home. It's actually superior, you can't get any fresher than "I killed this fish 5 seconds ago".

And then there's all the salted food around spring festival. Plain cabbage has never been so appealing.
Do you cook the food yourself or hire someone to do it for you?
I still remember my very first program. It was similar to the maze, but "animated":

10 PRINT "";

20 PRINT " ";

30 GOTO 10

If you choose the right # of *'s and ' 's you get a series of diagonals moving across the screen (since the semicolons prevented the carriage return). For me, the impression of travelling along a bridge was completely captivating, and I was hooked on programming ever since.
Ask HN: Your experience hiring designers?
How’s your experience finding a good fit for designer roles? (UX/UI, Visual, Communication)

How do you find the quality of applications? Were you happy with the choice in the longer term?

Every answer is appreciated. Thanks!
Good thing censure doesn't deny anyone their free speech! If it did, you might have actually made a well-formed argument.

It's also good that your point is empirically, observably false. Few non-Americans can actually match Americans in the amount of passion that goes into doubting and angrily denouncing American exceptionalism.
I think you meant "too" stupid.
I’m 30, a millenial, the FD in question is in his 50s. It wasn’t social engineering it was negotiating to improve my businesses trading position - something that HN’ers should appreciate.

I’m also an engineer with a PhD in electronics, code regularly and run a factory. All this is to say that I’m not some sales/business development person who is clinging on to an old medium, I’m a business owner using the right tools for the job.
Sound like a need for a “imposters handbook” for Mathematics, just like there is for Computer Science:
https://bigmachine.io/products/the-imposters-handbook
I also found the paper to have more depth than I expected. I was going to remark that it gives the EPR paradox too short a shrift, but I realised that it is not arguing against the actual paradox, but rather the paradox as it is most commonly presented/understood and "mystically" explained.

If anyone is interested, the original EPR paper is readable and profound in that timeless way that characterises much of what Einstein touched: http://www.drchinese.com/David/EPR.pdf
The Ongoing Battle Against Tax Havens
The real issue here is bigger. It is now not possible to doubt or question a woman's story, no matter how improbable it is. All women's stories must be believed.
That's how old media has been doing it for centuries. But media is hard: you have to invest in personal relations with advertisers.

New media just outsources all the hard work to Google and other big ad placers. Easier but you lose editorial control over your work.
> I'm confused. SGML/XML is capable of representing arbitrary tree structures (with metadata attached to the nodes), is it not?

So is ASN.1, but nobody in their right mind would use ASN.1 as a markup
language. The sole fact that it is possible to cram the structure into the
format doesn't mean it's a good idea.
They do typically eat their own dogfood when it comes to the security practices they propose. Dual_EC_DRBG is the big exception, but it's generally considered that most of the rest of their cryptographic standards are secure and suitable for public and government use.

There are likely many conflicting departments and teams within NSA. Many are probably trying to fight for the public's security and have for years, with cryptographers earnestly trying to develop secure and efficient algorithms. They are probably at odds with the other forces in the organization that seek to play the espionage game, even if it puts the country at risk.
I think that about the time I first head about Discordianism, I was running Slackware (and I probably found it through the connect with Church of the SubGenius). That was in 2003 or 2004, so I'm guessing that Slackware probably continued including it past the time that Debian did.
You are right. This has been a common error for me when writing code using async/await, but IMO it is not worse than forgetting to return promises in promise chains, so async/await is still a massive improvement over plain promises for me.
Techno Mixes Forever Ever List Sets (3 Parts)
But I agree the cost is often not significant to companies, yet. Legislation and company costs are going to ramp up though, the pooch is getting screwed too often, and publicly ..

Equifax CEO, CIO, CSO all gone, and may be done for insider trading ..

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/19/technology/equifax-legal-iss...
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/350634-ftc-launches-inv...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-15/another-equifax-cov...
I think that it proves that it's _difficult_ to secure a computer network, not that it's impossible.
Attack on Titan a XXX Parody(NSFW) VR Porn
This is why friends don't let friends run Windows. It's not that hard.
Alright, so I do research in and produce optimization tools professionally. From my biased point of view, someone is better off learning generic optimization theory and algorithms rather than specialized versions like convex or stochastic optimization. Generally speaking, generic nonlinear optimization methods form the foundation for everything and then there's a series of tricks to specialize the algorithm.

Very specifically, there are two books that I think provide a good foundation. First, is Convex Functional Analysis by Kurdila and Zabarankin. Not many people know about this book, but essentially it provides a self-contained background to prove the Generalized Weirstrass Theorem, which details the conditions necessary for the existence and/or uniqueness of an optimization problem. This is important because even convex problems don't necessarily have a minimum. For example, min exp(-x) doesn't have one, but it does have an infimum. The background necessary to understand this book is real analysis and as a quick aside I think Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis is the best for this. Second, is Nocedal and Wright's Numerical Optimization book. It provides a good overview of the powerful algorithms in optimization that we should be using. Now, it's weakness is that it often cheats and uses a stronger constraint qualification than we're afforded in practice. Candidly, I find that the derivative of the constraints will not remain full rank and we will likely violate the LICQ. Further, it covers a number of algorithms that really shouldn't be used in practice, ever. That said, it does cover the good algorithms and it generally has the best presentation out of the other books.

Sadly, I don't know of any killer books for numerical linear algebra. And, yes, I've read cover to cover things like Saad's Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems, Trefethen and Bau's Numerical Linear Algebra, and Golub and van Loan's Matrix Computations. They're valuable and well-written, but don't quite cover what I end up having to do to make linear algebra work on my solvers.

Anyway, this is all biased and opinion, so take what you will. If someone else has some of their favorite references for optimization or numerical linear algebra, I'd love to hear.
>The main purpose is this impl is it to run prolog-in-lisp 1000x faster than the fastest lisps (like SBCL)

This is very interesting. I thought that the prolog implementations done in Common Lisp were fast!

So now you can have not only Prolog in Lisp, but also Lisp in Prolog. Wonderful.
> It's interesting to see the complete lack of self-reflection on Jake Williams' part.

At the risk of putting words in his mouth, but based on chats I've had with people who do this kind of work: Mr Williams probably sees what he does as righteous, legal, and noble while The Others he rails against are evil, immoral, and unlawful. It's not self-reflection because he thinks he was in the right and those other people are not.
this is a sweeping statement, and not true.

for example, i often use xml documents with no text - for example

<contraindications>
<pregnancy/>
</contraindications>

and really the rule of thumb about attributes vs elements is more about if you are going to need chikdren of item - easier to extend elements with child nodes..
You might not make full completion a binary success/failure metric but so many other companies do, that people assume any random tech interview will be like that. Its anecdotal but both my friends and I all have the same experience of making a single mistake and seeing the interviewer visibly check out of the rest of the interview, and only getting offers from places where you passed every aspect of their interview correctly.
When it comes to product development, the customer is seldom right
I wonder why there don't seem to be leaks like these at other superpowers' intelligence/security organizations, like China's and Russia's? Is it the threat of torture/execution (and perhaps the same being done to their family)? Heightened fears due to stronger monitoring of employees? Or genuine loyalty / indoctrination?
Qualcom alledges that Apple shared Qualcom's trade secrets with Intel
Rgm/read52: One essay to think about for each week of the year
Or he shrewdly got thousands of people to map out the first level problem space of this technology, and now swoops in with The Boring Company to capture the spoils of their work.

The origin story of The Boring Company: spontaneous genius while Tweet-driving? or carefully planned PR campaign?
What a bunch of self selected myths. Jeff Bezos isn’t a sociopath and he isn’t Superman, he’s a clueless fucking human being like the rest of us. He’s not special, he hasn’t “figured it all out” and he doesn’t have some secret others lack. His shit stinks and I bet he can’t even make an omelette.

Stop this cargo cult of CEO celebrity worship.
Your reasoning is correct, but the results don't seem right. The horse is too high. Cow, axe & eggs too low. Possibly the data covers too wide a time and geographic span.
$10B Uber-SoftBank Deal Close to Approval with Signing Imminent
Thanks for sharing. I really wish there was a general web subscription with revenue-sharing between all visited websites. I hate seeing the ads on my own sites but have no viable way to replace them. And as a user I would like to support several sites, apart from disabling the adblocker.
I don't focus the should be on the where, I think it's on the who. Focus on being the smartest, most capable person that you can be. Read, watch lectures on YouTube, talk to people about stuff that interests you. Investing in yourself is a lot more surefire than hoping to wind up in the right spot.
Why Disney water rides smell different
Portuguese trawler nets 'prehistoric shark'
clickable link https://beta.nazdeeq.com/
A new book examines German influence on modern day graphic design
I totally think this would be a good container format for these various interactive tools. I think one of the reasons why they are not daily tools for many classes is that so much of math is symbolic. So far symbolic math has been confined to paper, even if a district decides to pay $100 per student per year for access to one of the existing services that will nicely collect your students final answers and machine grade them, students still do their work on paper, and the software is oblivious to it.

On tools like Geogebra, I think we need more interactive tools, but they need to exist alongside the symbolic work that everyone needs to do in most of their classes. Managing a classroom full of students working on computers (which can be distracting), is hard to justify if it is only displaying supplemental material and you also need to transition to "normal homework time".

I definitely need to add a generic diagram editor to make this useful for classes like physics.
Right. “It’s a business” excuses all behavior. It’s all good as long as it makes a profit! I’m sure that made I.G. Farben’s managers sleep better during WWII.
Sounds like a really good match for ML - as long as all the input the physician is detecting is visuals. There could be e.g. a smell or temperature component as well, but it's likely visual is enough to get very high accuracy eventually.
As a marketer, I've found Bubble to be really useful for building out small micro-apps for data-capture for clients who for whatever reason weren't ready to move to a solution like HubSpot.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about using it for anything larger than that, though I've seen some worked examples of Twitter clones etc. There's probably slightly too much Bubble-specific terminology and concepts to make it worth learning if you are not going to become a Bubble consultant.

Also, kind of expensive (monthly subscription) if you want to run a large production app on it. I love the range of API s and connectors though.
A Review of the Voice Dream Reader for iOS (2013)
I've always struggled with dinner parties. I love them immensely, but I found that it's hard to get people to come. Just to get more than three friends in the same room can be tough. The older I get the more I find that people prefer to stay home, or go out to eat. Going to someone's home seems like extra effort
OVH Serverless Functions Now in Public Alpha
> I would drop Skype and other online calling services, they're still no where as reliable as telephones and always a hassle.

Counterpoint: I travel a lot, mostly between the US and Europe and use different SIM cards and therefore phone numbers in different places. Half the people I want to talk to at any given time would have to make an international call, and don't necessarily know where I am and which number to use.

My Skype and Google Hangouts usernames don't change though. Even apps like Signal and Whatsapp that use a phone number as an identifier (which I HATE) continue working the same unless they need to be reinstalled. Sometimes I don't even get a local SIM card and those apps still work wherever there's a Wifi connection.

There's probably some global roaming thing I could pay through the nose for, but it isn't important enough to me to be that easy to reach.
> ~60% of visitors have adblock

This is much higher than I'd expect. Of course, it is a special kind of site, but still. Can we say a model is in serious trouble yet?
While I like react and react native, i still think requireing to run a JS interpreter in order to run a native "like" app is still not good engineering practice. I'm betting on multi-platform-projects (MPP) with Kotlin and Kotlin-Native. Engineering wise much more sound, however the iOS and Android platform should have some more support for Reactive like UI's. Without needing JavaScript.
Just included fourth story in the original post but will write an extensive thing about this topic.
In principle, but...

Venture capitalists for example are notorious for investing in startups and replacing the founder and/or CEO with "more experienced management" as the company grows.

A well known prominent example is the ouster of Steve Jobs at Apple in the 1980s by John Sculley whom Jobs had supposedly hired -- with the support of the lead investors such as "Mike" Markkula and Arthur Rock.

Steve Jobs is not an unusual case. The founders of Cisco Sandy Lerner and Len Bosack were ousted by Don Valentine/Sequoia:

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-ciscos-founders-were-oust...

There are many other examples.
> Zero To One, Peter Thiel.

> Hooked, Nir Eyal.
I did this a while back and saved in a gist. I don't remember if it had any problems though.

s=╱╲;while :;do printf ${s:RANDOM%2:1};sleep 0.001;done
La Buse – The Pirate with the Buried Treasure
Replace exotic white with "upper middle class and of suburban/urban upbringing" and you're spot on.

You can't leave out the Jewish (arguably still white) lawyers, Indian doctors, Asian engineers and whatever other stereotypes of non-white middle upper class people I'm forgetting.

This comment is best read in whatever tone and degree of sarcasm makes it most offensive to you.

The point is that it's a social class thing and not a skin color thing.
I dont agree that choosing a photo of him is in bad taste. What I disagree with is choosing a House of Cards reference though; he played a memorable (IMO) tyrant boss in Horrible Bosses.
That's exactly my point. You can't expect people to behave, let alone corporations. You have to regulate them.
White truffles – how to find them, eat them and sell them
America would like to become a representative democracy when it grows up, but it has a long way to go yet.
One of my long time friends and a fellow member came to visit a few years back. Before he left, he put "Kill Bob" easter eggs (via post it notes) in various locations in my house. These little fountains of Slack remain in place and I will leave them when I move out. Except for the one on the back of my monitor.