skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eventually I was able to meet the chief financial officer of my favorite company, Costco. He told me that they don’t hire any MBAs. Everyone starts by pushing trolleys. (I have seriously thought about doing just that. But my wife is strongly against it.) Maybe, I thought, that is why the company is so successful—no MBAs!

that's pretty amazing..is this really true? So if someone applied for marketing or accounting, they would still have to push carts?
One of my small pleasures in life is timing the daily visit to my local supermarket just when all the sandwhiches have been marked down from £3 to 75p to clear them.

You'd think you'd get tired of the "all day breakfast triple", but nope!
And the question to answer here is: Can the bitcoin survive to a big crisis and be still sucessful when prices fall and stabilise?

European aquaculture for example has suffered several similar (aptly named) bubbles and later recovered from them. The history of tulip's trade and market is also far from being finished yet. Nobody measures aviation success anymore based on Hindenburg event.

In the long term many strange markets manage to survive even if the actors change
> Linux

Firefox is the default browser in virtually all distros, even Debian.

As for Android, to make a difference it would need to be installed in Gapps-by-default phones, so Google would have to concede. Maybe if the EU hits them with an antitrust lawsuit Microsoft-style, otherwise it's not gonna happen.
Fossil Q Wander Review – When a Classic Smartwatch Beings Smart
Every successful small farm is built on unpaid labor from what I've seen. Many are making it work and providing some value to these workers, but I shake my head seeing young college graduates working as laborers. All to get experience in a field that has so few good opportunities.
Google Chrome comic (2008)
Why didn’t Apple release the iPhone in 1997?
Gets used by people whose articles I want to read, mostly.
How do you know that, without knowing the non-booster-assisted deceleration rate of the spaceship? (Presumably the hypothetical ship separated from the booster when that was out of fuel, and then the ship continued decelerating on its own to get to a velocity congruent with a stable orbit in our system).
Plenty of museums contain stolen works. Consider all the artifacts from other countries and art stolen during war. There was a film recently about a family trying to recover art they owned, displayed openly in a museum, that was stolen by the Nazis.
Yup I'm aware. But you can't really fundamentally change the core value of your company no matter how you try.

I've seen a lot of "investigative journalism" pieces written by Buzzfeed designed to be controversial. There's a fine line between "let's investigate to let the public know what they really need to know" and "let's investigate to find all the dirty secrets of some successful organization or a person so that the public can publicly shame them and feel good about themselves while doing it".

To be fair, a lot of formerly reputable journalistic sources are doing the same thing, but Buzzfeed is the spiritual leader of this trend.

Which brings back to my main point--it's not a single publication, the entire media industry is rotting and eventually there will come a crash, which is a good thing, since from the ashes will arise quality.
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The only reason anyone noticed the error with the 11th of the month was because we had enough similar phrases (8th, 12th, etc.) that we could make a statistical argument that something was amiss. It would be hard to even detect most other errors in the database.
FFQ is my new daily driver for regular browsing but I will still be developing with Chrome
> what do you imagine are the next steps?

At the moment, its very difficult for people to disassociate "brands" of the parent company with the writers.

For example, I've seen John Kasich write for the Washington Post Opinion pages. But most people expect Washington Post to be a liberal outlet.

Moving forward, a journalism outpost needs to recognize what their power is:

1. The ability to collect opinions from people that matter. Celebrities are a safer testbed: she said / he said gossip columns are necessary to develop the techniques and hierarchy of the brand... but such drivel is often times seen as "non-intelligent". The brand needs to disassociate itself from "drivel" yet still allow it.

"Twitter", for all its faults, manages to do this perfectly. No one blames Twitter for specific viewpoints. Other networks (such as Reddit, 4chan, or Facebook even) have accusations of bias levied regularly against them.

2. People attach themselves to Journalists and Editors these days. Not to papers or organizations. People don't respect "The Washington Post" so much as they respect "Robert Costa". Similarly, no one says they trust "Fox News", but a lot of people trust "Chris Wallace". See the difference?

3. This suggests that a Patreon model which champions specific journalists would work out better in this day and age. The journalists need to create personalities so that the readers can feel like they're connected with them more.

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It means that moving forward: "Journalists" become personalities who deliver the news. These personalities are collected by a neutral-feeling entity and people are willing to funnel money directly to the personality (see Patreon).
I did not change any default settings for FF 57.

Just checked the config: layout.css.devPixelsPx, default, string, -1.0

Edit: Checked the screen resolution as well: it is default, but not scaled.
First, I don't see how they (arguably more like a trader or a sales person than a banker) can possibly determine whether or not you understand the product. You don't generally expect car sales people to determine whether or not you really need a Ferrari or if a Toyota will do.

Second, we all buy financial products that we don't understand and we generally benefit from them. Many people use fixed rate mortgages to buy homes and index funds to invest. I'd argue that they probably don't understand those products as they're relatively complex underneath the surface. This isn't financial advice, but I'd argue that they do benefit from using them.
2% doesn't sound remarkable until you look at how agricultural jobs has dropped since 1800.

http://protecttheharvest.com/2016/01/28/why-people-fear-agri...
For the purposes of this discussion, tax is a cost like any other, and subject to the same considerations: Where and on what is that money then spent? If it's spent on a Halliburton-produced armoured vehicle for the local police departments war on drugs, you and the community are probably better off buying non-local from a low-tax locality.
Well, the main issue is the terrible bread. US sandwiches have too much stuff in though.
Then they are going to make offers at post-accident-market rates not pre-accident-market...
> can take freshly laid eggs and put them in a dark coolish place like my basement on a shelf and they will last well over a month. Do that with store bought eggs. I dare you

The only reason this is true is that commercial eggs in the US are typically washed, which removes the protective impermeable membrane that both covers the egg and makes it look a little icky. In many jurisdictions is is a legal requirement.

In Europe/pretty much anywhere else in the world there are stacks of factory produced eggs sitting out on the floor/counter.

Anywhere else in the world would take your dare any time since that's exactly what they currently do :)

> There is a big difference in veg as well. So for those posters to say there is no real difference clearly have never eaten on a farm.

Grew up on/around farms as well. My parents are organic vegetable farmers.

Blind taste tests prove the difference is highly variable. Some items (tomatoes in particular) are quite obvious, other items you can tell no difference.
New York Attorney General Announced Bill to Heighten Data Security Requirements
Its not self-hosted

AFAIK u need a real ugly-binary JVM to run maxime which runs the user classes.

See also Jikes RVM - all the way back from 90s.
well-respected Clojure developer

With no offence, but what quality code/library/framework has he shared or produced?
Coriolis effects would be more pronounced with a smaller radius? Also, the rotational speed would need to be a lot higher to get the same gravitational effect, so the effects might end up many times greater. Its difficult to suggest what conditions these hypothetical aliens would need, of course..
On a tangent, a miniature aircraft[0] flew autonomously for 3,000km to cross the Atlantic from Newfoundland Canada to Galway Ireland in 2003:

http://www.barnardmicrosystems.com/UAV/milestones/atlantic_c...

[0] well it's not really a 'model' aircraft at that point since it's fully functional
I agree very much - the US does this way better. Even in the chain restaurants and bars, a sammich in the US is a feast compared to most in the uk.
Ancient Chinese yellow soup!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_microbiota_transplant#Hi...

Orally administered, too.
My understanding is that the standard legal remedy is for the perpetrator to be required to make the victim whole, i.e. to restore them to the state where they were before the damage.

So, for example, if I destroy your car, I have to give the money it would take to buy another one. I can't argue that you didn't use the car much and so its value to you was less, so I only need to pay that much.

It's also standard to look at the less tangible losses suffered by the victim (like health damage or pain and suffering) and come up with a fair monetary amount based on that. But my understanding is that this is only done when it's necessary. Without a time machine, it's not always possible to put the victim back in the exact same state they were in before the damage. When it is possible, that's what you do. Otherwise you do the best you can to compensate them.

In the case of pollution, you'd have to come up with a monetary equivalent to the health damages done to the victims if that damage was already done and couldn't be reversed. If the damage hasn't been done yet (e.g. because I just polluted your property very recently) and can be prevented (e.g. because I can clean it up, or buy your property so you can move to a house that isn't polluted) then I can still restore you to your pre-damage state.

Another problem is that $Y is highly probabilistic, whereas $X is not. Calculating DALYs lost due to some contamination works on populations, but not individuals. You, personally, might die from that pollution tomorrow, or you might live to the age of 120 regardless. Compensating you based on the expected amount you'll lose, when the real amount might be much different, means the amount is likely to be incorrect. If we can instead ensure that the pollution doesn't impact the individual, either by removing it or removing the individual, we avoid that problem.
> If you are in a thread about a specific topic, likely filled with people knowing what they are talking about, asking there is only natural.

Sure. But, is it also natural and a win-win situation if your exact question is answered multiple times upthread? Shouldn't you use your browser's search function to see if it's not answered already before posting the question?
Right, but how do you get from that, say, to cats and dogs? Or the evolution of wings?

In the former, you need to have some sort of event that separates the populations for millions of generations or they'd constantly be interbreeding. But allopatric speciation examples are few and far between. OR, you know, there could be ANOTHER mechanism besides random mutation and "natural selection" (handwavy term) that causes speciation.

In the latter, how a morphological feature came to evolve when the intermediate steps would have most likely been valleys in the fitness function is an interesting question. Proto-wings do not seem to confer any evolutionary advantage other than the speculative one trotted out by people who must have the development of morphological features proceed ONLY by random mutation and natural selection.

No one is disputing those two things take place. The question is whether they explain ALL SPECIATION.
I am not sure it is niche anymore. Java 8 added many functional features to Java. :)
Interesting way of looking at it, and capitalism in general
Gains from trade is maximized when traders specialize in their most productive work. When profit is reinvested, it raises the standard of living.
- Econ 101

If for any reason, you truly value your neighbourhood chicken farmer Bob's livelihood though, there's no better means of buying Bob's well-being than giving money straight to Bob.

You would have to reimagine the idea of "a high standard of living" to include the comfort of knowing that Bob's well-being is sustained.

Of course it would be at the cost of excluding the welfare of people outside of your monkeysphere.
Unfortunately it's almost impossible at this point. The object passed pedigree a while ago and is headed back out, earth is in a very poor position for an intercept. The calculations I've seen say even if you use the largest possible booster, the SLS (which doesn't exist now, won't exist for another 3 years, if ever) it couldn't even get a small probe to catch up for a very long time, if ever.

There may be options in using Jupiter for slingshot maneuvers to overcome our bad positioning, and using super advanced hall effect motors, or project slingshot type probes. But it seems pretty slim at this point.

UPDATE: The reddit thread has this comment "Not a chance. Velocity relative to the sun is presently > 39 km/sec and relative to the earth is > 64 km/sec. This is far faster than anything we have ever launched or even could plausibly launch in the near future".

Which explains why you need Jupiter to redirect your probe so you can have it go only 40Km/sec to catch up, rather than 65 Km/sec direct from earth.
From the link:

> The bad transaction no longer exists for people using the longest chain. Therefore, the bitcoins created by it do not exist either. While the transaction does not exist anymore, the 0.5 BTC that was consumed by it does. It appears to have come from a faucet and has not been used since.[7]

Wait... so if you wait long enough then old transactions disappear ? I thought the whole blockchain could allow anyone to track every transactions ?
How is this even a question?
Rapidly increasing obesity rates seem to be associated with a first world/western diet.
Amazon Merchants Continue to Find Ways to Cheat
Or you might be retired; I keep hearing stories about seniors pursuing degrees - though I don't think I've heard of many going the full nine yards for a doctorate.
I read that they sell your information. You could try using a different name, if possible. However, be ware that they might do some type of data consolidation with other services in the future. For instance, a service you do at a hospital in 6 years could help uncover your identity because that hospital uses a third party. I mean, it could potentially even affect your health insurance 10 years from now.
Not in terms of just cost. In can be more efficient in terms of pollution too

http://getmoreeducation.org/Content/Modules/Module1/1_Coley_...
https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/07/25/organic-vs-con...
Autonomous boats in Open Water Sailing are like autonomous cars, only with 1000 times less traffic and 1000 times less obstacles in the way.

This leaves the occasional other boat and some weather dependent navigation, which can already be handles by current AI.

The difficulty is the obstacles.

Edit: Added Open Water Sailing.
I was looking at a course and noticed this:

"This course material is only available in the iTunes U app on iPhone or iPad."

That's lame. For years, iTunes U materials used to be available in iTunes store, accessible via macOS and Windows. Now Apple wants me to buy an iPad? Hell no.

[edited for concision/focus.]
There is an art to the business of making sandwiches which it is given
to few ever to find the time to explore in depth. It is a simple
task, but the opportunities for satisfaction are many and profound.

Reading this in 1992 I was entertained by Douglas Adams's whimsical storytelling talent. But now with this bit of historical context I see there was also, as in many of his stories, a social commentary which had passed me by as an American.

Of course over here we have restaurants such as McDonald's and White Castle. Did those chains not have a presence in the UK in 1980? Or do other countries make a distinction between beef patties on a bun and sliced bread sandwiches?
Go work for a Java shop, and slowly start sprinkling some Clojure into it.

I mean, maybe you can even do so in a C# shop, ClojureCLR is a real thing.
Aside from that, AWS Free Tier is also enough to figure out if your startup is actually going to make money to be sustainable.
> Really, I can hardly believe that any adult can be touched by such a motto.

I grew up in the east block too and I come upon this quite often. The peak of it is the current political situation in the USA.

I wonder if this is connected with the pressure to be young and healthy for as long as possible or at least looking like it which allows you to participate in "young culture" whith everything that comes along with it (tech, speach, dress, views,...). The side effect is a infantile look at the world and concepts that are supposed to run it on all levels.

I work for an US company in Germany and see realities collide every day.
To prove the earth is not 10k years old, you could simply prove that it is 4.5G years old, though. The inability to prove a negative is only valid for binary issues, this seems binary but is actually a statement about a value on a continuum - the age of the earth.

EDIT - obviously in the context of last-thursdayism being used in the article, this doesn't work...
Near ports, the water can get mighty crowded. See, for example, all of the articles about the recent US Navy collisions.
Had a similar issue recently. Reinstalling the app seems to have fixed it.
Having visited Britain, this was about the only food you could buy and consume that felt at least somewhat British.

The joke is that food in Britain is terrible, but I am at a loss to find any food that is British, other than Fish and Chips, breakfast and, well, the sandwich. On the other hand I can list many foods that are French, foods that are uniquely Danish, foods that are German (although I hope never again to have to eat saur-kraut).
> We know that other non-local products can be made cheaper because they are in localities that are lax on labor laws and environmental protection.

That can be a factor, but simply making things in bulk is a huge efficiency gain even with the exact same worker/environment protection.

And on top of that you have transportation efficiency to take into account. A remote farm can send full trailers of product to a distribution center, which then sends full trailers carrying multiple products to stores. A local farm can't send a full trailer of apples to a local store, it has to do much less efficient things.
Selecting Subsets of Data in Pandas
Blockchain Is the Latest Pixie Dust for Stocks
America Won't Forget Net Neutrality Over Thanksgiving
This is great and I'm planning to do the same. Currently working as a software programmer but figured I can move to a tropical country and have a higher quality of rural life. However I don't know how to get started on using computer assisted agriculture to grow sweet potatoes. Do you have any recommendations of courses or resources that can help get started?
My point is that you can keep money local without having to develop everything locally.
> Bill Gates was last person to attain 12-figure fortune in 1999

$100B nearly 20 years ago, just before the federal antitrust case decision against Microsoft. Makes me wonder how much concentration of wealth would occur if regulation was not in place.
'ordu answered as a person who has lived under communism. By "mass media" 'ordu meant "pravda". 'ordu is 100% correct about the communism as it was practiced in the 20th century. You are a theoretical marxist who has never seen what communism is like in practice. You would just say about every attempt to build communism that failed (which is all of them) that it was not real communism.
and without losing 90% (or was it 99%?) of the input energy to heat.
You might be taking spherical cows too far.
Most properties that get bought up by Ziff Davis just sort of go there to die, don't they?
I think this is the same author that published "Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow...". The quality of the book (thus far) is so high that I immediately started Googling about the author to try and learn more (and did not learn much), assuming he must be well known. I did not learn much, but can at least say the book is fantastic.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Hands-Machine-Learning-Scikit-Learn-T...
They could, but not everyone that wants them understands that they do not understand them.
And Orel Hershiser's book on pitching, a bit later.
I have always wondered why they aren't using plasma globes instead of lava lamps. Not only would it give a higher bandwidth, but it would also be a lot more energy efficient.
Sailing is slightly more complicated than that. Take a look at a polar diagram for a typical boat. They're fastest sailing at ~90 to ~120 to the wind, and generally you can't get closer to the wind than 30 degrees or so. Because of this the best velocity made good is often by alternating on two tacks rather than sailing directly toward your destination, even when sailing off the wind.

There's a lot to consider when sailing. None of it is some sort of magic that can't be automated, but there is quite a bit more to it than how you describe it in your first paragraph.
Google and Apple and the inability of Microsoft to cash on both the web and mobile (where all the money was in computing in the 2000's and 2010's) is why Microsoft stock and Bill Gates net worth lost value. Not thanks to regulations but thanks to the market.
Selecting subsets of data in pandas is one of the most fundamental things you must learn to use it effectively. Unfortunately, its one of the most confusing operations as there are many available syntaxes to use.

This is part 1 of a 7-part series that will cover every single imaginable way to select subsets of data in pandas. Each section will be available in a Jupyter Notebook and there are exercises with detailed solutions for each.

Part 1 covers selection with [ ], .loc, and .iloc.

Find the [Jupyter Notebook here](https://github.com/tdpetrou/Learn-Pandas/blob/master/Selecti...)

Find the [solutions here](https://github.com/tdpetrou/Learn-Pandas/blob/master/Solutio...)
This guys boat went from California to Hawaii autonomously.

https://makezine.com/2017/01/25/seacharger/

Maybe the sailing part is the hard part.
All of history up until modern times is an example of unregulated wealth accumulation. It sucked.
That's my point - I don't want them to spend their money on being a general-purpose morality organisation.

I want a browser maker who specifically argues for the most foundational and important of needs regarding the internet. I don't want a social justice crusader who values PR above all.
The unfortunate side effect of LED lighting
>Modern life is a dystopic hellscape from this perspective.

Amen, brother.
Hehe, yeah even for a auteur director Herzog is pretty self involved.
The earth gets hit by similarly sized asteroids every 30,000 to 100,000 years, albeit not quite at this velocity. Average impact velocity for asteroids from our system is 17 Km/sec, so about 2/3s the speed of this visitor. Either way, it's not even close to an extinction event.

And "very close to it" is a misnomer. It came within 24 million kilometers of Earth, about 60 times farther away than the moon is.