skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The perpetrators are repeatedly performing an activity that hurts specific targets. It's hard not to consider this an attack.

I agree that it's probably not Cuba itself doing it though. My own suspects, based on nothing but wild speculation, is that this is Russia, rogue elements in Cuba, China, or the CIA testing experimental technology.
Yes, but there is no evidence that that is happening. Bitcoin has a $200B market cap. There is only approximately 800 million usd worth of Tether on the market. It's easy to make up stories about what might be happening, but just because it's possible something is happening doesn't mean that it is.
The Nut Behind the Wheel
> Example: a customer's VP of Engineering has ten direct reports and feels very overworked. If a product saves each engineer 1 hour every month but creates 2 hours of work for the VP, that will be a hard sell if the VP is the buyer. But if the product saves each engineer 30 minutes while also saving the VP three hours, that'll be a much easier sell. In each case, the customer's company saves 8 hours of engineering time per month (1 x 10 - 2 = 0.5 x 10 + 3 = 8), but the second product will be much easier to sell than the first.

Or, indeed, if the product creates an extra hour of work for each engineer but saves the VP 30 minutes, it'll be an easy sell. The VP ought to care about his people's time, but that not nearly as common as it ought to be.
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Would you mind taking a look at the guidelines? This not a civil comment and not how we conduct ourselves on Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Google Unveils New Android Software in India to Power Cheap Smartphones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent
A slave is a type of replica, but all replica are not slaves.
This is probably the most correct answer.
There was an article on HN not long ago [1] about professionals leaving their jobs in record numbers to pursue life as a farmer, producing and living off the land.

How do we reconcile on the one hand farmers by trade leaving and wannabe farmers wanting to join a farm life?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15771168
And yet the argument is underpinned by financial data and analysis that is wrong.

Basically, if you (not YOU you, but rather the impersonal 'you') want to have a discussion about the morals and ethics of loot boxes, fine, but don't try to back it up with false claims. Using numbers in a moral argument fools everybody into thinking that there's more certainty around the situation than there actually is. At best it's misleading and at worst it's malicious and dishonest.
Because you are not beholden to billions of dollars of infrastructure just "working".
I am a fan of open salary models inside the organisation, but don’t see the value in sharing it publicly. It’s something we implemented at the non-profit I co-founded and it has increased the sense of ownership and buy-in from everyone on the team. One reason for not sharing the actual amounts is that non profits generally pay less than for profit companies and I don’t want our team to be pegged to their non profit salary when they decide to move on.
you're on the wrong site troll. Reddit is that way ->
Going to church has been easier for me, and it also connects you to the community. Also only once a week.

Since this will inevitably come up, I am liberal, and yes I still go. If you’re liberal and don’t like church, one thing I would suggest is that by going to church, you can actually make it more liberal instead of leaving it to others. Also fyi gays are the new jews and will be fully integrated like Jews were between 1930-1960 (until 1959 it was legal in Houston, Texas to restrict Jews on the deed restriction!!).
oops right, I mixed up IOTA with HashGraph.
I mean, instead of buy proprietary devices like Fire Sticks and Chromecasts, you could just connect a computer to your TV, have it all, and call it a day.

Of course, "all" does not include 1080p playback on Netflix unless you use Edge or Safari
Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars
This doesn't work for me. I've tried it many times and I run into the exact same problem, just half as often.
So is anyone double spending the sh*t out of this, and if so, where?

would we be able to tell?

Thats the kind of post we should be seeing on hackernews
I concur, IOTA doesn't seem to offer one iota of value.
Americans see different expectations for men and women
From CarTalk years ago: "The difference between two headlights and one headlight is a lot less than the difference between one headlight and no headlights."
I think you explained what I wanted to say better than I said it. Thanks!
I asked our global developers for the top nerdy gifts of the season
I can't talk for Spain in particular but keep in mind that employer's social contributions can be pretty hefty in Europe. And working remote for an american company is opening a bag of hurt regarding taxes and banking.

For instance that guy making $128k in Montpellier in France, that's €108k right now. Assuming he works 45 weeks that's a daily rate of 480€. Not crazy for an experienced developer.
The tangle is live right now with real transactions going on. If it's so insecure, why don't you go take as many IOTA as you please?
Double blind study shows that vitamin D supplement improves sleep quality
Colorisebot and OpenFaaS on GKE
Local farm services guy had this to say: "Used to buy truckloads of fertilizer, then the coop would buy train car loads and undercut us. So we bought a train car - they bought a train. We bought a train - they bought a barge. The margins are disappearing entirely"

Almost everybody is being squeezed out by 'economies of scale'. And its going to get worse, when we start making simple foodstuffs electrically (starch, sugar, protein). Then we'll see the entire farm industry turned upside down.
Tripping Is Hiring a Front End Software Architect
Sorry if I hit a nerve. I can see why it would be difficult.

I'm on the outside, so my the reading I did probably doesn't represent the full situation. I asked that question because I was genuinely curious - the resources I found seemed to indicate that constructive termination could still constitute wrongful termination in CA.

By the way, if you have a specific resource you want me to read, I'd love to have the link.
Not watching YouTube isn't a realistic option in some cases (e.g. there are jobs where you'd get fired if you refuse to use YouTube, or you need to watch YouTube to be part of a social group).

I can buy DVDs somewhere else, while most Internet videos are only on YouTube nowadays.
Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
Stealing momentum and stealing a product are entirely different things, I never said using open source products in your business without contributing is stealing. It can however rob a project of momentum. Yes a business can share their progress, but without the gpl they do not have to. I should have known that was a loaded word, what word would you have used there so that I don't upset you in the future?
I've had recruiters in NYC and SF reach out to me with roles paying $250k+. Some of those were with (funded) startups smaller than Buffer. But in general, you're right: the best pay is found at bigger companies.

So what?

The fact that Buffer can't compete with market salaries for top talent isn't my problem, it's theirs.
> our developer revenue stream.

This sounds terrible to me. From a POV of a platform vendor, the only "developer revenue stream" I'd care about would be popularity among developers. Give away the basic tools, sell slightly more specialized tools for the price of a pizza, get as many people hooked up as possible. Send your machines to universities at a discount. Sell older machines to hobbyists, and support the community. Help open-source projects run on your hardware and take advantage of its unique features (if any).

Of course, there is a niche to actually sell top-notch enterprise-grade tools for your systems, too, because corporations gladly buy support and stability. But this is usually a tiny trickle compared to the hardware sales, and its very existence is entirely dependent on your system being widely popular and ubiquitous.

As a bottom line, it's much better to get a 5% margin from a $100M market than a 25% margin from a $10M market.
The problem with this analysis is: what does Russia gain by doing this with a sonic mystery weapon? If Russia wanted to divide the US and Cuba by attacking diplomats, wouldn't a sniper be simpler and less obvious? Or paying some Cuban Nationals to physically attack diplomatic staff? Or just use of any known weapon/tool.
I don't know about its IDE support, but it doesn't have as large of a community as Go.
Very stark difference between choosing the trade and it being handed to you. If you choose to go into the trade, you still have a way out that a lifelong farmer doesn't.

It also doesn't help that rural America is dying in general, but that's a different matter.
> Not sure if I understand the double taxation argument though. Say local/state/federal tax is 1%/5%/20%. Without the SALT deduction of any form, you get taxed 26% on each dollar which seems intuitive and fair.

It does seem intuitive and fair, but I could (to myself at least) conclude it's intuitive and fair to not tax the money I use to pay taxes to someone else. To me, it's more that the taxes just keep coming - after those income taxes, I'll pay sales tax, property tax, etc.

I will say that part of my argument is probably a little irrational, and that stems from the fact that I don't agree with how my taxes get spent at the federal level. For what my town takes in property taxes, I feel they do a great job - the roads are in nice shape, the snow is cleared before my morning commute, services are timely, etc. The state does a pretty good job, even if we do pay one of the highest state income tax rates in the US and have a ridiculously bad governor (Maine), and I agree with a lot of where it's going even if we've needed the ballot box to do some of these things (like expand Medicare). My disagreements at the state level to what we're not spending money on, but that's a slightly classier problem than not liking where the money does go. The federal government, by contrast, seems to light a good portion of our money on fire, and then borrows some more and lights that on fire too.
If I worked somewhere that tried to rationalize why they were cutting all of the employees salaries but leaving the executive salaries in-tact, I would leave immediately.
In this physicist's opinion, that's a fairly strained analogy. I sort of chuckle a bit when I hear things like "code coverage" and "test driven development" and the like. These things are dressed in the robes of empiricism, but there's very often a lack of genuine rigor that makes the analogy a bit of a stretch.
> interest is still required, because money now is worth more than money later, due to opportunity costs

But where can I get the kinds of returns that banks get from student loans? Especially without doing any real work?
Even funnier when he actually served food and people wanted to return.
A lot of it was cliché at the time. But sometimes a whole string of clichés is greater than the sum of its parts.
Cool idea, I'd like to see how much distortion this causes on the Wifi channels though. They are already overflowing.
Why? This is precisely what it's been called like for decades, to call it something else would introduce unnecessary confusion.
driving, buying, restocking

How so? You can already order online. All this devices replaces is the clicks it takes to do that.

A cellphone means you don't have to choose between receiving calls or going out. It's incomparable in its utility.
Exactly what I was thinking of too. The company that created MEDUSA (WaveBand Corp) was awarded a DoD grant in 2005 for a 3m^2 "Millimeter Wave Profiling Deployable Dosimeter".

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/349546
As worker in Eastern-Europe, their salaries look totally awesome to me. You'd be surprised for this money how many good people you could find.
The search box in Firefox has a pulldown menu that lets me choose from 8 different search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and others. My default is set to DuckDuckGo because I'd rather not be tracked, but if I think another search engine may give me better results for a particular search, the choice is just a click away.
This removes the only real source of revenue Mozilla has. How do you suggest they fund development?
I was under the impression that anyone in the Philippines was encouraged to kill drug dealers, which just masks culture/sectarian clashes?

Police-only is much different. (Though still immoral IMO)
Like some other government that has historically carried out anti-US operations in Cuba..
I have family that farms in Iowa and I also worked in the agriculture industry there for a while after leaving the military. One thing that increases the stress on the farmers is the way they avoid income taxes at all costs so they rarely save any of the profits from good years to help them float during the bad years. This is all anecdotal but I have personally talked with several farmers that would rather buy new equipment they say do not even need than pay the taxes to take the money as income. This mindset causes them to experience a huge amount of stress every season. The farmers would talk about struggling, but have a brand new semi-tractor sitting in a barn unused 10 months out of the year.
Actually in this case, the US has been impressively measured in its response toward Cuba when it comes to framing it as an attack by the Cuban Government.

The US Government has so far never said or implied that it was the Cuban Government. For at least two reasons: it's obvious they have a lot to lose, and it's questionable whether they have the capability to pull off that attack.

It's very reasonable to frame it as an attack. It was highly targeted at US embassy staff (and one Canadian was harmed I believe). I've seen no major media sources pushing the line that it was likely Cuba.
I think it makes it more concrete to have actual victims talking about specifics of their incidents and then applying those to the bigger picture. A hashtag movement is much more abstract and harder for readers to connect to, which would be less powerful and do a lesser job of getting the message across.
Or I just buy the automatic laundry soap ordering thing.
If you shop at stores that have a modern cash register, buy gas at most gas stations, drive through most traffic lights, etc. you are using the IoT whether you know it or not.
Large-scale industrial farming (hyper-competitive, boring, "work") vs. small-scale hipster farming (microgreens, heirloom vegetables, heritage breeds, "lifestyle")
Agree. I get the need for public accountability for government salaries, but I feel like having the data be anonymized would be better. The public needs to know the salary distribution, but not what Susan Baker made last year.
Because their way of life is over. You can't be a small farmer any more-farming unfortunately scales really well so bigger concerns run the show now. They've got nothing left-they're up to their ears in debt, their way of life is gone, so whats left to do?
Cuba has been a long time ally of Russia, and Russia has been aggressively trying to reassert their power on the world stage.

The other thing is, that a large part of the spy game is that intelligence agents often work out of embassies. The way the game is played is that as long as intelligence personnel stay in their lane, there's no trouble. The US has spies working out of embassies around the world, and foreign intelligence services have spies working in embassies in DC.

But for an adversary like Russia, maybe they would try to attack people on diplomatic passports if they knew there were some way to make it untraceable or covert. Cuba might do the same if they felt they could thwart US spying.

Note that there was also an alleged incident like this at the US embassy in Uzbekistan:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5126383/US-embassy-w...

State Dept. denies it, but if there is an intelligence angle to this, denials would be standard.
I worked on Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes.

I can't answer your question without breaking NDA.

edit: Okay, I get that this is being downvoted for not contributing to discussion, but I just wanted to be clear about why I'm not chiming in on this one in particular, given that I'm generally very actively involved in discussions about stuff like this.

I enjoyed working at EA very much, and I enjoyed working with the folks at Disney/Lucas as well.

And as for the person who said 'just violate your NDA' - I openly associate this username with my real name and provide my contact information in my profile. I don't believe in hiding behind a username - this is me, these are my thoughts and opinions, not some amped-up avatar that I use to blow off steam on the internet.
This was a single person gaming the system as a hobby with no reward. How well do you think you can trust this system when in reality there are restaurants with a real financial incentive and the ability to invest?
Monero is downright user hostile at this point!
>The representative adds that "most fraudsters are only interested in trying to manipulate the rankings of real businesses", so the "distinction between attempted fraud by a real business, as opposed to attempted fraud for a non-existent business, is important". To catch these people out, TripAdvisor uses "state-of-the-art technology to identify suspicious review patterns" and says, "Our community too can report suspicious activity to us." They then quote a 2015 study that found "93 percent of TripAdvisor users said they find the reviews they read to be accurate of the actual experience".

If TripAdvisor can't catch out a restaurant which is entirely a farce how can they pretend they're catching out real businesses who might be nudging their results up a bit?
Fun fact: you can see that without installing a special app. See https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/search-tools/
all garbage with the exception of the Logitech keyboard.
Is this for philosophical reasons about taxes and government? Or is it just a big chunk of money they're trying to save?
I'm not an expert in the field, but there certainly have been efforts here and there to make "lightweight" crypto that needs little computational resources (and therefore battery power). One example would be KASUMI[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KASUMI
The Fourier transform and its computational offshoot, the Fast Fourier Transform. We wouldn't have any of modern electronics and telecommunications without the mathematical insight that the FT brought. The fact that you can go from the time domain to the frequency domain and back again is nothing less than astounding. Optics was also benefitted by the FT because you can use is to filter unwanted optical frequencies and diffraction effects from your images using Fourier transformation.
For your use case, RabbitMQ will probably suffice. It can work very well with a single server, and, if you set it up in memory-only mode, is at least competitive with (if not superior to) Redis in terms of performance. If you use Rabbit's push-based subscriptions fully, it will far exceed Redis (edit: is Redis doing push-based pubsub these days? I'm told by a coworker that it is). I only mention this since you said "high-performance message-queue" in your comment; the out of the box performance of Redis and RMQ with zero tuning is more than enough for most people.

While Redis's protocol is simpler, it is a full memory database (with enableable persistence) plus optional queue/pubsub extensions. RabbitMQ is trying to be a full queue/pubsub system only, with memory and persistent options.

Its replication and durability features, if you want to add more servers, are also much longer-standing/more battle-tested (though far from perfect; I'm looking at you, "pause-minority" failures). Redis's persistence is quite good these days, though, so that's less of a competitive point.

RabbitMQ's setup is on par with Redis for simplicity. Client libs exist for PHP and Nodejs, and, while the protocol is more complex than Redis's, that usually just means "copy lines from $how_to_guide for startup/shutdown and then just publish/consume like you'd expect".

If I wanted a cache server that I occasionally needed to subscribe to, I'd use Redis no question. For a performance-oriented queue that needed either durability or throughput scalability, I'd start with Rabbit.
Using Bayesian Methods to Clean Up Human Labels
Apple Plummets to Lowest Ranking Ever in Glassdoor's List of Best Places to Work
OK, we've updated the headline by omitting words from this phrase from the article, “...3-D printing plastic objects and sensors that can collect useful data and communicate with other WiFi-connected devices...”.
I remember that discussion. I also remember the major criticism was that a good portion of the people who are moving from tech to farming were already independently wealthy enough to bootstrap their farm into a good place. And on top of that getting to choose where their farm is located. Contrast that with a farmer who may have inherited what he has from his parents and may not be in as good a financial state, or their land holding is too small or has too much local or regional competition to make it profitable.
The techniques in the article will mitigate the effects of storm water. As was the case in Houston, urban flooding results from global weather events. No matter how Houston had been planned, all the water had to go somewhere and it was going to the low spots. The only counter-factual in which Houston would not have had some flooding is if there was no Houston.

Ancient cities in Mesopotamia flooded. Ancient Rome flooded. Cities flood because they are built on or near bodies of water and bodies of water flood. The reason cities are built on or near bodies of water: water is a necessary condition for any city. Water is also an economic engine: fisheries, agriculture, waste removal, transport, trade. This makes flooding a price of doing business.

It's not that mitigation is a bad idea. The bad idea is that a city will never flood. Though it is theoretically possible, it is practically unlikely.
Mild shock that the conclusion isn't "Monsanto"
> The two parties will drone on about how other candidates are "spoilers" who only benefit who you see as the worse choice. That's nonsense, your vote should go towards who you think represents your interests best.

You need to learn Civics. I could write in my own name since my opinions are closer to my opinions than the Green candidate. What would that accomplish?

If, one day, the US introduces proportional or preferred representation then the calculations will change. In Australia, for example, you can vote (1) Green, (2) Labor (say) and then if the Green candidate is eliminated your vote is counted for your second choice. But if the Green candidate gets enough support then you get your first choice.

Even then, Democracy is difficult. In proportional systems, small parties can have disproportionate influence.
Keep in mind that Moore was removed from the bench for failing to follow higher judicial decisions. Twice. We are talking about a judge who does not believe in the rule of law.

The fact that Alabama voters don't care about sexual harassment allegations is not surprising.
Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back
Cantor's diagonal proof that א ≠ ₀א.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument
They're public employees, paid with everyone else's tax dollars. That's why you get to know their salaries.