skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There seemed no point in returning Heilman’s check to Ameritor, which was out of business, so instead I tried to track her down.

>I still have the check from Ameritor (signed by Carole Kinney’s husband Jerome), and I’d love to pass it along to Heilman’s survivors

Doesn't seem like the author returned it to the sender.
If you like this method of learning or of teaching, check out Oppia, open source software for building things like this: https://github.com/oppia/oppia

The public site with existing lessons is here: https://www.oppia.org/library

I'm not sure how socratease.in compares. But Oppia has some cool things like being able to set questions which require more than just multiple choice, e.g. requiring you to put a musical note in the right place on a stave.
> At this point, unless you're C-suite, most startups are a really bad bet compared to the BigCos paying out anywhere from $250K-$1M annually depending on your skill set and experience.

I agree that if you can get into one of the established companies in the top quintile of the industry you are probably better off than if you joined a startup. I'd hazard a guess, though, that the startup jibs are easier to obtain and more plentiful than those BigCo jobs.
What dosage do you take daily?
Maybe it's both?
> A platitude uttered by people who believe they have no way out, and are desperate to make themselves feel better about that.

Imho it's way more desperate trying to find "a way out of death" by defining it as something that could be "destroyed" (how to destroy the unexisting?), instead of simply accepting that literally nothing lasts forever, most certainly not rather fragile biological life. There's nothing "creepy horrific" about it unless you make it so.

Our biological lifespans are in large parts responsible for forming our subjective views of the universe, making us ask for a purpose of that limited existence. If we'd ever reach a state where that doesn't matter anymore, then we've most likely left our biological shells behind and reached a level of consciousness which we couldn't even imagine right now.

I'm not sure if such a state would even still be perceived by us as "being alive" and not rather as simply "existing".
Here's my paraphrasing in more straightforward fashion, since I know at least some of us would like such notices to be more to-the-point and less business-speak-ish:

Root Cause: Incorrect router configuration.

Fix Action: Revert the configuration.

Summary: Someone made the wrong settings on a router and made packets go the wrong way in parts of the US. We changed the settings back to what they were before.

Corrective Actions: We'll try to find ways to avoid doing this again. We know who did it.
No, more like ‘nerd sniping’ addictive.
Your criticism only applies if they had said nothing beyond their first sentence.

Sure, their first sentence is irrelevant, but it's forgivable since they elaborate beyond it.
Urbit and the blockchain wars
Maybe there is no correlation because Lyme disease is severely underreported. A couple years ago, the CDC stated that official numbers were likely underreported by a factor of 10. From 30,000 yearly cases to 300,000
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2013/p0819-lyme-disease.h...

There was also the case of actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson being misdiagnosed with Alzheimer's for years. He had Lyme. This is anecdotal of course.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kris-kristofferson-misdiagnosed...
This news doesn't mean it's reversible. If the parliament rejects the deal PM negotiates, UK will still leave the EU - just without said deal.
AB InBev growth and mergers is astounding. The number of companies that form the [original base] of the company is insane.

To be fair to AB InBev, they had to give up substantial portiona of SABMiller to get the merger through which as you said was a $100B+ [cash] deal. Combined company revenue is supposed to rise by around $11B this year. While SABMiller did $19B in revenue alone before the merger. SABMiller sold off at least $25B of the company before or during the merger. Not always for the best price either as all sides knew the sales had to happen.
Yes, you're mostly correct. Most new restaurants fail because they don't handle the fundamentals properly.

To be fair, it's not that easy to learn all the fundamentals without doing the whole process and failing at it.
But note that obesity and diabetes (Alzheimer's is sometimes called diabetes 3 and called part of the metabolic syndrome) are now hitting the third world HARD. Something that was highly predictable, and which I feared and mentioned at the time.
The amenities he wants stem from “more neighbors, closer to me” and the amenities NIMBYs want are the opposite.

One is cooperative (cities get better as they grow, new residents and businesses and buildings add to the energy) and the other is exclusionary (once too many people live somewhere, it’s ruined).
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But no mention of vitamin K2. Not necessarily for cancer but for calcium regulation and the synergy of working with D3.
They are a good ways behind stable: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/issues/262. You might be opening yourself to security issues being this far behind.
It's interesting because it will allow debate, something that has been in very short supply during this whole process.

The British people deserve to know what is going to happen to them in 2019, even if it's irreversible. The current government has made it quite clear they don't agree with that, so they'll have to be forced into it.
EU rules don't allow article 50 to be reverted. The binding vote is between accepting the deal and a hard drop.
The signing into an account in chrome is the killer feature for me. I have work and a couple of personal accounts that I have signed in in different browser windows. That allows me to keep things separate (extensions, mail, browsing, bookmarks, etc).

How do FF users do this?
I had the opposite happen to me with my EA account.

It was stolen and I was getting emails in Russian (I think) but I didn't care (mostly because of things they do like this post) until last year when I wanted to play BF2:BC so I contacted EA's customer service thinking there's no way I could get the account back, especially after 4-5 years. They asked a couple of questions and got my account back in about 15 minutes.
The electronics would be locked down. You can't even steal a phone these days and use it without the owner's password.
Exactly, Firefox is slower for both me and my girlfriend, I am a kind of "typical non-typical" and she "typical typical" user, and it got annoyingly slower for both. And now I've just lost all the extensions too, including NoScript and the dictionary(?!?)! See my other post here for details.
The idea that Article 50 is unilaterally reversible is an odd one. I know that one of the people that helped write it says it was written with that intent, but the wording gives no indication or mechanism to reverse it.

And if it is unilaterally reversible, surely that's a really bad thing? There are two reasons I can think of for that. Firstly, countries might start to use it as a form of leverage and brinkmanship in order to extract concessions or exert their will over the EU. And secondly, if the EU doesn't want a country to leave for whatever reason, it's a huge incentive to stall and mess up any sort of talks or prospective trading relationship in order to scare them or force their hands. Basically it allows for a lot more "playing politics" and makes for a far less honest exit process.

A retraction of A 50 followed by a multilateral vote to accept or reject that reversion, I can see that working.
Yes, that's the one! But it was just text, not a graphic novel. It must have been in my Jack Vance e-book.
> which resulted in this rather famous image

What am I looking at?
The burden of aging falls most heavily on the poor, though it has to be said that the differences between rich and poor are small in comparison to the absolute degree of harm done by aging.

It has been a disappointment to see the Gates Foundation near entirely bypass this area of research up to fairly recently, presumably because they do hold this strange view of aging being either a non-issue, or a problem of wealthy regions.

From a utilitarian perspective, nothing that goes on in the poorest parts of the world rises to the level of harm done by age-related disease. Not even close.
Indeed. Plus, that's 40 hours per hero, not including improvements and gear for the base classes.
Indeed the right to buy a stock is valuable, but as an employee / the state you should postpone the taxation to when the value is actually retrieved by the person you tax. It's a bit like saying 'You're house is worth X, you should be taxed regarding this price, even if you don't have yet made any profit'
It is of course possible and just requires a board vote, but since the company doesn't receive the funds and have them, it wouldn't be a good idea.

So it's possible of course, but isn't done 99.99999% of the time.

Now if they were purchasing $1B in preferred and another $100MM in secondary maybe, but certainly not when the common shares amount is $9B would put the other existing investors in jeopardy for their own preferred shares providing their invested capital back should things go south.
> EU rules don't allow article 50 to be reverted

Those rules can be changed by the unanimous opinion of European states. Practically speaking, the deal Britain had before is gone. It might be able to re-enter if it gives up its asterisks, though. Bone-headed move by its people, either way.
Understood, thanks you for the clarifications.
I'm not a Reddit user.
tl;dr go read your old TODO notes.

dont't know what I was expecting...
Adapteva has nice write-ups on the challenges and a solution that worked for them in their market:

http://www.adapteva.com/andreas-blog/semiconductor-economics...

https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1266...

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1330568

There's also companies that are a cross between ASIC's and FPGA's called Structured ASIC's that can get the initial NRE down for a prototype. eASIC and Triad Semiconductor are two. eASIC has a lot of IP on it already.

The last point is that operations such as DARPA show that government funding can knock out the worst of the NRE. India is using government funding. The reason we normally see things done that way still being very expensive is that those receiving the government funding are trying to maximize profit, get lots of patents, and eliminate competition that threatens that profit. An alternative for those aiming for public benefit is to work out the bugs from an initial CPU or SOC whose NRA was government backed to then release just over cost or at a decent markup. Each new wave of funding that produces new iterations soaks up the high NRE with the steady sales revenue doing the rest. Might work.

OpenPITON and PULP are two things that came to mind as having potential there with one an alternative to SMP/multicore in server side and other for embedded. PULP actually used that model that I can tell.

http://parallel.princeton.edu/openpiton/

http://www.pulp-platform.org/
I hope you're proud of yourself for actively making software user hostile.
I feel like this makes the situation even worse as we either get access to what Europe and UK negotiated or we leave without a deal...

It looks like a disguised way of putting at least some of the responsibility back into the parliament as a way to say "not my fault"
Surely if you have options or stock in an illiquid company where you can't sell it - they are worth zero on a mark-to-market basis, so you dont need to pay tax on it?

If you can easily sell them for a price it makes sense that you pay tax on it.
> ... so it's not as if diehard SW fans have a choice.

Why not boycott? I mean it would suck for the diehards for sure, but how long would they realistically have to wait? If EA misses 1 quarter's revenue goal, they'll be singing another tune.
Let the code speak!
How Hiroshima rose from the ashes
I was so Alice for much of my career. I know this is going to sound totally cliche because this book get's recommended everywhere, but How to Win Friends and Influence People really did help me.
I am in the deficient range for years even though I walk under the sun a few times per week for about 15 minutes each time, that's still far from enough it seems. I will take supplements now.
So Ive been thinking about biometrics and phone security a bit, and it seems to me there is a pretty easy way to tell how secure your phone needs to be on an X/Y chart where Y= Security needed and X = Data sensitivity/Personal-ness.

Id say the ideal plot would follow an exponential curve, and seems that if you didn't keep a lot of personal data on your phone and all your social, financial and mail accounts can be reset quickly via the web, you don't need much security provided you maintain custody of your device. That said, Im glad that any claims as to the security of biometrics are not just taken at apple's/samsung's/google's word.

I remember the iPhoneX event stated that there was a exponentially smaller chance that someone else's face could unlock your phone, and that masks "wont work". I could also be mis-remembering, but there is a way to tell the iPhoneX to not allow your face if you find yourself compromised in some way. So unless someone has access to make a 3d rendering of your face, the means to make a mask and the opportunity to take your phone before you can signal that you want to authenticate with a password it seems pretty secure...
60% of the "boycott Modern Warfare 2" Steam group plays Modern Warfare 2 when the screenshot was taken.
If there is such a correlation (I didn't know there was) couldn't that just be due to people in wealthier countries generally being taller due to better nutrition? Most of the world's billionaire's couldn't double up as NBA players. I'm not saying I wish anyone to be short just so they can fit in a bus seat better, being tall is great, but not too tall, I don't want to be any taller than I am and wouldn't mind being a couple of inches shorter. Even washing the dishes can be a pain.
Investing in Bitcoin from India
.Net isn't the standard, it's Microsoft's implementation. (Or rather, .Net Core and .Net Standard are each Microsoft implementations.)

The standard is either CLR (Common Language Runtime) or CLI (Common Language Infrastructure), I'm not entirely sure.

Edit As far as I can tell, yes, even Miguel de Icaza is consistently misusing these terms.

Edit 2 - Nope, I'm wrong!
Gee I didn't see that coming.
.Net Standard is the standard. There is only 1 standard.

.Net Core is one implementation of the standard. .Net 4.6 is another implementation of the standard. Mono, Xamarin, Universal Windows Platforms are other implementations.

The idea is that any code written for .Net standard, will work across the different implementations.
Are Google doing anything along the lines of Servo/WebRender etc?

I'm assuming the Chrome code suffers from the same issues the FF did/does: you simply don't shoehorn in shared memory concurrency in some nontrivial piece of C++ code.

Mozilla threw some serious research and time at the problem. Is Google doing that too? Or are they confident enough that Chrome will be fast enough in the future without major architectural refactoring?
4, 4, 4, 4. Checks out, totally random.
How user testing refines our pattern library development
It would be better than my accountant telling me I need to cash out my 401k to pay for taxes on something I'm probably never going to be allowed to sell anyway.
You are not alone in your way of thinking!

Also, I had never previously seen the code cartoons produced by @linclark...but now seeing them (and digging a little deeper), count myself a fan!
You are mixing a lot of things together and it's making it confusing for me.

Dividends, income taxes are a separate matter. If you think the combined tax rate of corporate + dividend + income taxes is too high, then you should say that directly and have the discussion be about that.

This discussion has been about whether Apple is taking advantage of the tax code in order to not have to pay the 35% federal corporate tax rate. They could easily bring things back to Nevada (they do already to some extent is my understanding) and avoid the California corporate tax.

So all that being separated out your argument basically strikes me as: the corporate tax rate is too high so of course Apple is going to take advantage of tax shelters in order to avoid paying it.

I think this story is getting people upset because multinationals should not be free to leverage countries against one another in order to avoid paying corporate taxes. On paper Apple is a multinational corporation but both you and I know that it was American taxpayers who educated most of their employers. It was American taxpayers who provided a safe and prosperous environment for the corporation to flourish. And therefore, morally speaking, if the U.S. wants to tax Apple at a rate of 35%, then it should be able to. Unfortunately the world's tax codes have enough complexities still in them that all multinational corporations can avoid paying these taxes, while smaller corporations such as the one alluded to by the first comment in this thread do not have the capacity to avoid the taxes. This is what strikes me as against the "spirit" of the law. At the very least, multinationals should be more white-hat: sure, find and exploit complexity in the international tax code. But then you should report these things to the federal government. Maybe if there was a bounty :)
I understand what you're saying, but is it possible that the author sees this from the point of view of Java?
I'm confused by it, too. The main reason I've preferred Firefox to Chrome for years has been performance. It's pretty much the same in responsiveness and uses far less memory.

Chrome being the fastest browser is ancient history.
There are a number of airlines that have made their name on being more pleasant than others. Virgin was one. Largely the financial results seem to have borne out the status quo.
The simple answer is to concentrate development around transit stations and to increase frequency and length of trains on existing service. For example, by-right authority to build towers, but only within half a mile of a BART station.
Warm blooded (endothermic) dinosaurs are currently thought to have been the majority, or possibly even the entirety. Crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, etc) likely diverged from endothermic dinosaurs, as they have features shared with other endothermic animals and not with ectotherms (cold-blooded animals) such as 4-chambered hearts.
Practically speaking, if the United Kingdom on January 1st, 2019 declares its previous Article 50 declaration was unlawfully issued, I have a hard time seeing the EU gathering the stomach to essentially enforce sanctions against the United Kingdom. This could all end up being a weird "did you know Britain isn't technically in the EU?" factoid in a hundred years.
More than 15,000 scientists from 184 countries issue 'warning to humanity'
Did it? With FF 56 on Ubuntu lately I have to restart Firefox once in a day or two because its memory usage balloons out of proportions (> 1 GB for 4 open tabs) and it starts getting sluggish. It felt speedier a few months ago
Me too, actually had tingling in my feet. Doctor prescribed 10000 IU once a week and symptoms went away.
The same approach works for unimportant tasks/ideas as well. Put them on a list, and if after a few days you don't care about them anymore, just delete them and be happy that you didn't waste your time on that.
.NET Standard is an interface/spec and .NET Core and Mono are implementations of said interface/spec. .NET Core and Mono are currently focused on different needs/niches (as pointed out somewhat in the article here), partly born of their very different histories. .NET Core and Mono also share a bunch of code as it makes sense to do so with respect to their histories/needs/niches.
I wonder what the rationale behind listing the site's CA in the public instance list (https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances).
At the same time, wouldn't that talent be equally wasted at "Uber for cat-sitters"?
It's a statement of agreement, followed by an elaboration on their point. Seems completely fine.
They mention that people in the Southern Hemisphere get more sun and have a lower incidence of cancer, but is that also true of Australians? Cause on average, people from the Southern Hemisphere have a lower caloric intake, which has also been linked to lower rates of cancer in general.

That being said, I really enjoy the fact that scientists are following so many rabbits in the war against cancer. This is going to pay huge dividends on the long run.
Never is also a valid option.
Granted, but the stock GC is optimized for throughput.
Do you have one of these blacklisted GPUs? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...
>men with severe obesity have only one chance in 1,290 of reaching the normal weight range within a year

Based on my personal experiences, a pool of anecdotes from friends, and the generally accepted advice of the medical community: sustained weight loss of more than 1 lb per week is incredibly difficult and not realistic for most dieters.

Since, by definition, most "severely obese" people are more than 52lb from a "healthy" weight, statistics like this seem inevitable even if the person does everything perfectly and achieves results that they're satisfied with.

Example: I've totally transformed my body with diet and exercise. But I've failed by this metric, because it took longer than a year, and I'm significantly heavier now than at my lowest weight (albeit much more muscular)
FF just came out with multi account containers about a month ago ->

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I think the best way that RISC V can be successful is to market to people who want open hardware which they are doing . IoT would be a good place to market it or just electronic prototyping for Makers. The HiFive does this.
Enceladus heats up because its core is like a sponge
Firefox 58 has "persona" tabs. Coloured tabs that keep their own sessions. You can just configure multiple personas and work on them all simultaneously from the same window (or you can use different windows, if you prefer).

It's good even for creating fake accounts, test accounts, testing apps from the perspective of different user sessions etc.
You can dish if you want to
Embeddability. I've mentioned it on this site before, but Chrome's embeddability story (Electron, nw.js, CEF, Qt, etc) affects adoption more significantly than Mozilla prioritizers are giving credit for. Sure it's not an effect of Google itself, but that it exists only on one browser is something Mozilla should actively target. Of course there are a few attempts here and there, e.g. positron, but there needs to be a real effort to make the entire browser easily buildable and embeddable w/ an easy C API (doesn't have to conform to CEF like Servo was/is trying). Provide prebuilt libs and the headers and you will see adoption go up.
I think you can trade Bitcoin OTC
I was rather asking about performance for your girlfriend.

Regarding addons, I'd say give it time. It's a chicken and egg problem that will be solved with time. I was not expecting to switch until end of the year.
Yeah, but all the risk of that bet is put on the employee. The employer faces none of it.
5G is more like an evolved 4G. So nothing changed much. (Qualcomm still biggest Winner ).