skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quantum computing is way beyond me but I found this video by Kurzgesagt really interesting https://youtu.be/JhHMJCUmq28
I've read getting a place to stay has become easier, but I still hear people complain about getting a bank account without help from an employer.
The most famous case of foundations being sued for owning businesses is Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Hughes Aircraft, which was then the largest defense contractor in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_Aircraft_Company
As others said, take a long weekend and fly to places you're curious about. You'll see a lot of the cities are the same as ones here in CA. Some as lively, some as sleepy. It depends on what's right for you.

Also, by moving to a state that leans more conservatively or is a mixed back, you as a concerned liberal actually have a better chance of standing as a bulwark against more conservative policies since your votes actually matter more.

A lot of those states get people because of what you mentioned - the high cost of living here. When you're a parent, your needs change, so a lot of young couples I know who can't compete in the housing market or daycare costs here (LA) have been looking elsewhere.

In terms of job prospects, you're unlikely to find yourself in the reddest of red areas, which are mainly rural. You might be a slightly more limited depending on what you do but as long as you have a skill in need, you can probably find a job. There are some major, major US companies in 'unlikely' places.

Here's a geographic showing of the Fortune 500:

https://www.geolounge.com/fortune-500-list-by-state-for-2015...

Maybe that's a good place to start in terms of looking at states with something to offer.
Unibrowser settles flamewar against those who keep many tabs open :)
Firefox surely feels pretty fast at loading and rendering content now, but it still lacks in start-up time. From clicking on the icon in my taskbar to a window showing up, Chrome still beats Firefox on Win10, and I close and open windows enough times in a day that this matters to me.

As to the point of the article, I think it is a lost cause to convince users to try a different browser merely because it is backed by a company motivated by better morals. The Chrome team doesn't appear evil enough for it to matter, and it still puts in excellent work. They make some heavily contested decisions every now and then, but so far it has not affected my experience on the websites that I use daily.

I like trying out Firefox every now and then, and on every fresh OS install, I will install Firefox along with Chrome. However I always go back to Chrome because of some silly detail. Today, it's because of its start-up time.
Once again, when you donate to an charity or buy a product from the shelf you don't know how much the charity or retailer would receive when you pay with a credit card.

Not unusual.

When you check out in Walmart how much is the fee Walmart pays? You have (basically) no idea.
Hard to say, since we don't know what such perfect play would look like. But I expect it would look quite boring, yes.

It's important to state, though, that calling an engine's play "romantic" is not a value judgement. Stockfish and other engines play in a way that give a clear concrete advantage after X moves, whereas AlphaZero relatively prefers move that are "creative" or "beautiful" in the sense that there's less of a clear definite benefit, but instead some sort of slight positional advantage or more attacking chances or something similar. It's harder to prove that it was a good move, but it just "feels" good. In that sense humans enjoy it either since it's surprising, or maybe closer to how we're able to think.

As an example, there is one game I saw analyzed where AlphaZero gradually gives up more and more material with little clear compensation, but gradually its position gets better and better, until Stockfish is completely out of good moves. It then turns the corner, snatches up more material than it gave up, and converts into a winning end-game. Such imbalanced style of play is much more interesting to watch than previous computer slogs of slowly jockying for slight advantages until one side can grab a pawn without giving up much and build into a win from there.
for laptop users, there is an extension to open links in a new tab by double tapping on your track pad.

Unfortunately I think it's not supported by the new Firefoxs. But it was dead useful.
I have disproven the article title with a single counter-example, therefore conclude there is little value in the content.
When was the last time you took a vacation? It might be worth it to spend some time to find someone to try and hold your clients at bay while you take off for a month or even to just tell your clients that you wont be available for that period.

If you can't take the time off, you can try and travel and work at the same time. You can join a coworking space and meet people and build a community and you might gain some perspective. Developers outside the US make significantly less and you may discover a sense of gratitude that you gain from this perspective.

I've been working remotely mostly in Asia with short stints in South America and Europe for a few years now and this has worked wonders for me. I mostly work alone and I can't imagine being back home doing the same thing.

A change in environment may be all you need to engage in new healthy practices like exercising. For example, if you're near a beach in Bali, like I am, it's easy to jog along the beach during sunset. And if you're not, being surrounded by yogis might get you in some regular classes that may help with being more mindful.

Hope this helps.
Ada.Unchecked_Conversion?
I just went based on the information given in their blog post, which said "an additional third party processing fee that ranged from 2% – 10%".

Edit: I'm not exactly sure how to calculate the fees based on the info in their FAQ. Taking Stripe as the example, they say the fees are 1.9% + $0.30 per transaction. So if I pledge $10, I guess that means that Patreon charges me an amount $X such that X * 1.019 + 0.3 = 10? And if so, do they take their own 5% cut out of $10 or out of $X?

Edit 2: I took my best stab at it and replaced the min/max with specific entries for Stripe and Paypal.
> Hackable. It provides Guile Scheme APIs, including high-level embedded domain-specific languages (EDSLs) to define packages and whole-system configurations.

What is the benefit of directly using Scheme for the package declarations over using NixOS's DSL? Specifically, what technical features does Scheme make possible which are not possible in NixOS?
They can sell formulas and names, right?

So it'll only be the charity that's missing.
> You can't change the title of the tab

There is at least an extension for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rename-tab-ti...
Yes, to think that tax cuts would increase employment, you would need to first believe that companies hire people they don’t need for fun.

In reality, they will hire if increased demand for their goods or services requires more people to produce them.
That's amazing! I've been looking for a browser with tree style tab integrated by default. Downloading right now!
That's quite a roundabout way of saying "foreigners are criminals"...

Seriously, I'm extremely deferential to the local customs when I'm abroad. But I felt being pushed into a subway car during rush hour to be quite "harsh and rowdy". Not to mentioned the drunk guys who spit in my faced an laughed.
hmm, okay, WNYC project's version has much better data representation

https://project.wnyc.org/transit-time/
> does anyone else think the system we have right now of BA in 3-4 yrs, masters 2 yrs, phd 3-7 yrs, is a little suboptimal for people who want to just do research

The US is the extreme in this regard. In the UK it's Bachelor's in 3 years, and then PhD in another 3 years, for most people. So six years in total. Some take another year to finish the PhD. I think many countries are similar, but I've even seen PhDs done in 2 years.

People in the US often think this isn't enough, but it's possible because we specialise much earlier. I started studying data structures and algorithms at 17 in what you would call high school, and we also were doing calculus at this stage. This was standard - not some kind of advanced placement. At 18 I was completely focused on computer science - no mandatory other courses except for maths. And at 21 I was writing papers and working towards the area I'd do my PhD research in. (I actually then took a really long break at this point, but you wouldn't have to.)
Thank you piro for your hard work, and thank you for not giving up even though Firefox is really not helping with its new API :/
Imho, in that case "zero downtime" is the wrong term.

Because it implies that nobody's running session went "down".

That's much harder because otherwise you'd just start a new service parallel to the other one, and flip a switch that directs all new logins to the new service.
Yes the bank account is hard. I still use my foreign account.

I setup my company and then got my bank account. I still don't use it.

I'm assuming anyone in this thread looking seriously at japan will be hiring the right operations person to help you. Otherwise, you can't get much done without speaking the language (day to day is fine,

but for example the immigration office expects you to know some japanese if not just bringing someone with you to help you)
False dichotomy there - luminiferous Ether wasn't backed by an overwhelming ton of evidence. It was a simple postulation, not really even a rigorous hypothesis.

In fact Michelson and Morley were amongst the first successful experiments around it - and fundamentally disproving it of course.
zookeeper, etcd, and/or consul function according to something only trivially different from Nakamoto Consensus? That would be news to me. His IT dept must have misinformed him.
I assume this is getting downvoted because it won't actually work. Can someone explain why? Can you not use a stop loss like this in futures trading when you short something?

May be a silly question, but I know little about this stuff.
The issue with this is that the "diet coke and mentos thing" is generally not a requirement to be taught at school, while the Holocaust is.
I like the idea as its an interesting map visualization of the subway across a time domain rather than distance.

I'm wondering why there's such a large difference in certain areas between weekday rush hour and late night though (for instance, clicking on 68th St Hunter College and changing between weekday rush hour and weekday late night is making 59th street go from 2 mins away to 12 mins away).

A few notes about mobile (specifically iPhone usage): Its difficult to use on iPhone because the first tap doesn't seem to do anything to the map - if you tap again at exactly the right place (on the dot), then it will work on iPhone. I think I know what the issue with this is: the onclick event is being replaced with the hover state when you tap once, then the real onclick is called when you tap on the dot again.
I'm eagerly waiting the ability to associate a bookmark with a given container, especially when opening multiple bookmarks at once. Apparently it'll arrive in v59.
Who is backing Coinbase in the event of insolvency due to a clearing or settlement anomaly?
Well, sure. And if there were no legal gun market, they'd come from the illegal market like they do in places like Brazil and France. What's your point?
Nice. In that case, I wonder if you've ever heard of Monero? :)
That's a good summary, thanks! So in addition to not timeboxing the user code what's interesting about this is the heuristics we came up with for trapping potential infinite loops in JS.
More importantly, why is a company that's not doing anything super cutting edge in SF? That's like a textbook case of a company that should be somewhere boring and CHEAP.
My 3 mile bike ride takes 15 minutes or 10 minutes by car. The stop lights are so abysmally timed, 5 of that is sitting at various stoplights.
ok... don't use a new URL for each image in your slideshow please. You're just breaking browser navigation.

On topic: cool idea, but heard it before. The amount of effort it would take to _truly_ pull this off is just enormous. I wish them the best, but I've been burned before (you know who you are... Sean.)
There are still, unfortunately, some rough edges with Nix.

Nix does not use versions for packages, instead relying on channels and pinning, which can be confusing at best.

There is a manual, but not a good wiki. While you can learn to read the syntax, there isn't any good introduction to write it. Nix derivations are very unique, and difficult to approach without examples and guidance.
There's no need to be snarky, even when someone else has a better data representation.
Just put the site through Google Translate, it's a command-line focused Linux sysadmin course, manga-style!!!
i love paw
Yeah, Olympia WA. I know nothing about it beyond spending two days there while I was hiking around Olympic National Park, but I really liked it. I'm sick of having to drive and find parking etc everywhere.

My mortgage is 1400, my property tax is around 750 for reference. I previously had a fancy unnecessary downtown apt (studio) for about $1700, now I'm around 2500/mo after insurance, etc. I put very little down, my bank only required 3.5% down but I put around 10% down. The house I bought has gone up $100k in the last 2 years so I figured if I didn't buy now I'd never be able to buy.

If only salaries went up 10-20%/yr like my property taxes do.
It wasn't meant to be an ad -- I wondered about the differences myself, and figured other people may as well. But in reading about the alternatives, it became a little bit more clear why NSNG has worked for me where other 'diets' have been too difficult to stick with. Anyway -- definitely wasn't intentional. I'll try to add more substance to future posts -- this one was just a quicky, trying to share some of what has really worked for me. Onward... PS just noticed your username -- we have a fawn frenchie named stella :-)
Curious how you decided to trust a particular escrow service. With Coinbase, the leap of faith one could possibly make was that they were associated with YC (gave them credibility in my books at least).
Yes.

Coinbase keeps your private keys.

There are exactly zero reasons why you should keep your cryptocurrency in Coinbase account and not transferring it to your own deterministic wallet.
Rackets like this happen all the time. What makes Bitcoin different is often a lack of recourse.
Yeah, sure complete access to all files is rediculous. I think more of something like: By default every app has its own directory and the user can (easily) grant an app access to additional directories.

That way it can't do much damage and when you trust it, you can give it more access.

I use the localStorage as a cache for some of the offline capabilites but as a persistent storage it sucks as you can't easily open the stored "files" with other programms or PWAs.
Would you be saying that if it had been caught?
Murray Leinster
Wait, what are the benefits apart from 'we let you stay here and do your business and here are some lawyers and maybe a good word here and there'? This is absurd.
Deterministic wallet that is fully restorable from password phrase.

electrum.org and alike.
Same story as always: you take the risk, invest your time and break up your life. If it works you are welcome to stay. If it doesn't work you get cut loose and you likely will take years to recover whereas the other side hasn't risked a thing.

These kind of propositions only make sense if you have nothing to lose.
To be fair, the game you referenced improved with several free updates, not to mention an extensive ARG that hyped up the first anniversary update, essentially delivering the game that was expected on launch day.

I am of the opinion that it was Sony's fault for rushing development of an indie game (the studio had 10 ppl max working on the game at any given time).
This just means the issue needs to be addressed in a separate, "clean" bill rather than being piggy-backed on top of the reconciliation process.

If things were normal in Congress, it would be a no-brainer.
Your experience of being spat at in Japan was utterly unrepresentative. In twenty years I never seen, nor can even imagine seeing, such a scenario. Just maybe in Roppongi on a Saturday night.

As for the subway trains. It's certainly not rowdy. Uncomfortable, sure, but it's as ordered as possible under the logisical constraints present.
Not all of them bark or are aggressive.
The difference is that when medics suggest a certain amount of vitamin D as optimal, they do it because they have done the research. When bodybuilders do it, it's just an article of faith for them and not something you should follow.

It is always possible to arrive at a correct conclusion through entirely incorrect reasoning.

Or, as the saying goes, a broken clock is right twice a day.
Wow, that is very cool. Congrats on getting through it.
This reminds of a Washington Post article I saw [0], that made me start thinking about travel inequality (?), where someone in Podgorica is more or less cut off from the rest of Europe, while someone in Paris may have an entirely different experience.

And that's not considering differences in income... even if they have the money to travel, it's simply more difficult.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/05...
I can say I looked up the ruling history in Oregon and the longest one that I found held was ~6months. Generally courts in OR state are narrow towards non competes. So that's at least some evidence it varies by state.
How does this work with the Mozilla foundation owning a massive for profit company?
An 800M solar mass black hole in a [] neutral universe at redshift 7.5
Try opening a business bank account in Japan. Or any bank account for that matter. Be prepared to start every handwritten form over if you make even the slightest error, and I hope you’ve been practicing your kanji. No credit cards or foreign transfers until you’ve got a few years in your business. Capital requirements. It’s a whole different ballgame, for better or worse.
My guess is they add the average wait time to the travel time. That would match my expectations for a 6 train. They're about 3 mins apart during weekdays. Not sure what that particular train is like at 3am, but I've seen other trains with 20+ minute wait times.
Published 6 December in Nature

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25180

The crucial thing is how they develop their argument that this supermassive black hole (SMBH) and a pair of others (out of a selection of high redshift SMBHs) must have been forming in the "dark ages" between the surface of last scattering (that forms the cosmic microwave background) and the age of reionization, when collapsing matter's radiation began stripping electrons from neutral hydrogen atoms.
>your giant flatscreen TV?

Yeah, I'm not taking advice about the future from someone who still thinks a flatscreen TV is somehow different from a plain TV.
Ah, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier:_Elite_II was a great game... one of many that I've forgotten about, so it is nice to see a reminder like this.
The UK is probably the shortest in that regard and its worth pointing out that they are actively trying to transition away from that model. See the push to setup centers for doctoral training.
Ask HN: Favorite 'best of 2017' lists?
Example: Bill Gates' favorite books of 2017.
I spent two and half weeks in Japan recently, didn’t have a single issue.

Not trying to be confrontational but did you do any research before you went to Japan? Online it says to avoid public transit during rush hour. When I checked into my hotel the front desk even went out of their way to tell me which trains to avoid during rush hour because of how crazy it is.

3.7M people pass through Shinjuku Station daily. It’s going to be a bit crazy.

@OP, the narrative you’re painting is also quite exaggerated. Westerners are going to have to learn and respect the traditions/culture of Japan but with how incredibly hard the people work there it’s a great place to start a company.
>This process is hard but not as nightmarish as people who don't live in the country reading articles make it sound.

Agree wholeheartedly. Been living in Fukuoka myself for the past two years, and I cannot help but notice that the foreign population here has been steadily growing. Although the city is marketing themselves to be the new Startup hub in Japan, I still think it has to be as global as say, Tokyo, to catch up. English is also not so commonly spoken here as Tokyo.
> simulate a physical environment very fast

That's probably only a problem if it is must faster than everbody else.

> let alone faster than what happens in our environment

That is often not very hard. When a bottle rolls off the table, you can catch it by approximately predicting it's trajectory without computing the precise evolution of the ~10^26 atoms that make up the water bottle. Compression is a corner stone of intelligence. The second corner stone is using compression to choose actions that maximize expected cumulative future reward.
There's a difference between "communication service", as in "carrier", and "social platform" as in "community".

When you run a carrier you're expected to be neutral. What people do with your service is not your responsibility. If the service is being used illegally then law enforcement can intervene.

When you run a community you have an obligation to pick and choose who participates. You can strive to be inclusive, but when you start to include those that seek to exclude you'll find your community being hijacked and perverted into someting that reflects the wants and needs of a tiny, dedicated, often highly motivated minority.

It's the responsibility of anyone running a community to police and weed out bad actors. I they don't the good citizens will leave and your community will be worthless. That's probably a bad thing if you've got shareholders to answer to.
I will keep this in mind when researching jobs.
Wigner Crystals
You don't make up for a missing ecosystem of investment by tweaking the visa rules. Japan getting things wrong again.
I'm calculating travel times by simulating a rider starting from the selected stop at a specific time (for example, "weekday late night" is 3 AM, and "rush hour" is 8 AM) and "waiting" for he next scheduled train. That's why, when you select most stops during late night, the nearest stops are pretty far (~ 10 minutes) away — because that's a typical time you'd wait for a train at that time of night. It's definitely not a perfect prediction.

And yep — I really need to put some work into the mobile experience. I'm surprised it works at all!
Yes that adds a year, I think it's intended six months for research training (statistics and writing courses) and a six month window for an internship.
Ask HN: What/Who to visit in Singapore
I’m headed to Singapore next month for a few day on a business trip. I’m interested in maker spaces, artistgoups, music, food, and technology-meets-art.

Any recommendations of who to try and meet/what to visit?

I’ve heard there is a start up scene there. Any interesting meet ups?
This is sort of ironic, because isn't this precisely what the president is accused of doing? Sheltering money from taxes in a foundation? Or is it accusations of laundering rather than tax sheltering? I guess I don't quite get the difference, either.

Regardless, both cases show that it's pretty hard to actually get caught doing it.
"Mozilla Foundation" is not a private foundation, but a 501(c)(3) public charity. That's the difference. Public charities are exempt from the private foundation rules that prohibit excess business holdings.
De Rerum Natura, Lucretius' 2000 Year Old Magnum Opus on Atomism and Reality