skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of false neutrality, tinged with the cynicism of putting scare quotes around "journalists", and the indecency of somehow mistaking their rather pedestrian fare of contrarianism with exceptional smartitude is exactly what I think of when faced with peoples' incredulity at the continuing existence of "independents".
I told my daughter the same thing when she brought home a black man. How many more gangster rap songs and shootings need to be reported before people wake up.
My take is that the human voices have a more emotionally and weightier tone to the voice, while the robot is flat and direct.
Alternative view: "We're successful because we have a site that works simply, without much unneeded complexity, and choose to keep it simple for the sake of our users."
This may sound like a joke but I think it might work - would carrying a pedal/hand generator resolve emergency like this, at least for a little while?
Progress bars: Now ribbed for your pleasure.
I've had an idea for a startup for over a decade and have wanted to go to YC. But hell if I'm gonna go to San Francisco from Detroit area. You guys are freaking insane dealing with that cost of living. BTW, said idea is more than ripe now and the right team could get it running it in a month.

BTW, my concept seems like it needs to be a nonprofit. It could make money but if that ever corrupts it people would be very unhappy.
I did consider trying to find a way to say actually, the beatings shall continue even if morale improves, but wasn't feeling witty enough to pull it off. I still don't feel that witty.

I spent some time homeless and on food stamps. When the lack of resources and lack of compassion for your plight can cause you to literally go hungry -- well, it felt to me like a "beating." It felt actively hostile. That is what I was trying to capture and convey.
Typo on your middle card FYI

"Out ML algorithm will converge to a price that maximizes revenue, sales times price."
Forget about side projects if you are looking for a job. Focus on leetcode.

It is like buying stamina when the next boss can be easily defeated using strength.
There are no exhaust trails or visible jet engines in the footage, so I'd say those UFOs are outside the limits of the physically possible as we understand it.
> * Don't breed them to fight

The article states that the information according to which the dogs were bred to fight was false.
Says a property of the Murdock-Sinclair duopoly(for much of the country).

I seem to be able to access a vastly greater spread of ideas via google.com and facebook.com than wsj.com or foxnews.com
As Trump Tightens Legal Immigration, Canada Woos Tech Firms
Have a look into blockchain sharding. There is also Lightning and Plasma, though they are far less promising.
Not most, but it might be closer than you think: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_... [PDF] (Pages 12–13)
The reason I distinguish non-techies from myself is that while I know my way around a command line, can compile stuff, debug to some extent etc, they/she can't. The same goes for my parents, and hers, as well as our siblings, uncles, aunties cousins etc. So while I may be ok using some application that requires some configuration and setup, the rest aren't.

Currently I'm not using anything, so it will be a case of eating my own dogfood(so to say). Whatever I'll recommend is the one I'll be using. As to why I'm not using anything - eh, a combination of laziness and faith in my own password rule.
Man it says a lot about Google if your profile listing is actually true. How thinskinned can you be? Are you even going to try to respond to what he said? Do you find taking your ball and going home when challenged a winning strategy in the rest of your life?
On the Tube, I saw the father I’d never met
Not OP, but there's two concepts you're confusing: Residency and Tax Residency. Tax residency, for mortals, is normally where you live and work, so for you, even with the Canadian company, it'll probably be the US.
Given that it gives the wrong answer for the moon (even though it's source has the right answer!) and given its spotty coverage of other similar information pairs where there is no credible ideological motive (e.g., sunrise times vs. moonrise times), yes, I think “Knowledge Graph is spotty, incomplete, often inaccurate, and has insufficient human attention” is the Occam’s Razor-compatible answer, despite how fun conspiracy theories can be.
How big would a battery have to be to get a dead EV off the side of the road and 25 miles to a charging station? Can a drone fly a 25 or 50 pound battery? What would the range on the drone be?

I'm guessing a tow truck with the ability to charge a car is more likely.
> The dogs, which were previously indoor animals, were left in a kennel outside with little human contact

Specific dog breeds do tend to exhibit behaviours naturally associated with that breed but if you're going to own a dog, look after it. That's all. Making generalisations about breeds needn't override that.
>People in the midwest generally don't like the government in their business, as contrasted to the coastal cities, they appear to see it as the proper way to fix problems.

You probably don't want to be the "next SV" if you want to keep it that way.
You can call it freedom, others call it chaos. The important thing is that you have a choice. Some servers are judicious with who they federate with, others are very open, and I think it's good that you can choose.
>people are simply culturally uninterested in the future, changing things, or improving on their situation

I'll give you not wanting to change things, but people here are certainly interested in ensuring the future is good for themselves and their kids - there's just a lack of bullshitting ourselves about changing the world by working on a cell phone application.

>People correspondingly are very content; they immerse theirselves in their families, their relationships, Football, etc.

You say all of that like it's a bad thing. The Midwest is a peaceful place, and I happen to like it that way. I don't want or need a constant bombardment of Things To Do, my situation is exactly where I want it to be.
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> Are you practicing crimethink?

-A few hundred years ago, being an atheist was "crimethink", as was religious tolerance towards Jews, Muslims, and so forth.

-A few hundred years ago, questioning the divine right of kings to rule was "crimethink".

-In the early 1600s, Galileo stood trial and was condemned for the "crimethink" of saying the Earth moved around the Sun, in contradiction to the teachings of the Church.

-As little as 200 years ago, advocating racial equality was "crimethink", as was equal rights for women.

-As little as 60 years ago, in the McCarthy era, being a leftist or socialist was "crimethink" and people lost their jobs and/or were jailed because of it.

I do want diversity of opinion because I believe in the values of the Enlightenment, which include the ability to openly voice dissent without fear of reprisal and I have the strength of character to listen to the beliefs of others without feeling threatened; in short, I want diversity of opinion because I am a liberal.
The incentives in academic philosophy aren't really around finding truth, but rather getting published so you can keep your tenure. There are a lot of academic philosophers that have crawled so far up their own asses they don't even know the way out any more. But they don't represent all of philosophy, even if they get a lot of attention.

Philosophy broadly defined is as vital and important as ever, though. I can't imagine a world in which trying to understand it is no longer important. Not everything there is to know about the world has been systematized enough to be considered a science, and any time you have a knowledge domain where the boundaries are fuzzy and poorly understood, there is going to be a place for philosophers to try and bring some order to it, even if it takes a few thousand years.
What is so bad to pay with Cash? It's anonymous and sellers don't pay extra charges to any US company (Visa, PayPal, etc.). Also most of the restaurants hide their revenues from tax authorities (it was recently in the news) - otherwise the prices will be much higher, like our neighbors have (France, Italy).
I don't understand the logic of this article. My side projects tend to be efforts in self employment, not 'click bait' for an employer. While not everyone has the same approach, this article seems to imply the only value of side projects is for future employers. I'd hate for people to get the wrong impression about the value of these projects.
Maybe you don't remember, but WhatsApp used to cost money. I even bought it back then. So how can I opt out of this data sharing then?
>Right now we're encouraging the productive people to pass on their assets, but not the ability to create wealth - which would be better for society, and (totally my own subjective opinion) will lead to a better life for the child as well.

Most productive parents are already highly incentivized to not see their children become totally unproductive wastrels, because the culture that made them productive taught them to value productivity, and good parents typically want to see their children instilled with what they see as good values. I don't think the government needs to do much more there.

> There's still the option of living a comfortable life being totally unproductive - but why let that option waste an unnecessary amount of our society's assets?

There are a couple things to unpack here. First off, wealthy peoples' wealth doesn't just sit in a cave, it's almost always ~100% invested in productive ventures. Even sitting in the bank, the bank is using it to write loans to people and businesses to do things with.

The other thing is that it's part of our very basic social compact that peoples' property is theirs and their family's, not the society's, and only in very limited circumstances can the government/society seize that property for the use of the group.
Can you elaborate on why that might be the case?
I have given the hard copy of Maker Education Revolution by Peter Dalmaris to my EdTech friends (https://selz.com/item/59a5d9f8cca91807c878d875).
This is exactly why "viewpoint diversity" is something people are increasingly concerned about. The basic premise is: we all engage in motivated reasoning. We all accept weak arguments sometimes if they reinforce or flatter our existing world view. If we shut out all dissenting views, we'll let lots of bullshit go unchallenged because we were never forced to actually defend our beliefs.

So I think it's totally fair to call out perceived inconsistency in the WSJ position. Maybe the WSJ has a blind spot where they are more willing to accept consolidated power when it favors them. But I think that illustrates exactly why viewpoint diversity is important. WSJ will have blind spots sometimes, but other times they may be able to call other media on their blind spots.

Put another way, you can think of society as a whole as a mind. Just like our individual minds, the societal "mind" can have conflicting or competing ideas. The mind functions best when these different thoughts can "have it out" and try to convince each other that they are correct.
I am skeptical. FB desperately wants to get into China, which seems way worse than the EU.
Seems like in that case it should be Facebook being reprimanded if they do something with the data that violates the original terms of use. "Sharing" is a bit misleading because as soon as Facebook acquired WhatsApp, they became the legal owners of the user database and data insofar as anyone can "own" user data. WhatsApp is Facebook.
I think it's good to remove "friend potential" from the hiring process. Most people are not jerks, and that's really all you need. I find I'll become friends with anyone reasonably pleasant to be around.

But listing criteria without saying anything about how you test for it - like empathy - is a pretty big gap. Hopefully you have a talented HR member with a psych background who can guide you through behavioral questioning.

I hire 100% remote developers, so my #1 soft criteria is discipline. And I find I can test for that, along with communication skills (#2) by asking them to write about best practices. Disciplined developers love to talk about best practices.
Jerri Nielsen: Surviving the Last Place on Earth
In general, how safe is it to travel (to Canada) once I've received my EAD for a green card through marriage (to an American citizen). I entered the US on a TN visa.
Do you know of cases where parolees have been rejected at the border upon return (assuming a short 2-3 week trip)?
I have a CVT in a Subaru and they decided to make it feel like a "normal" car by pretending to shift. I wish I could disable that. At lower RPMs it doesn't play that game.
Handling Contention with CockroachDB
Thought the the same. For me it's not doing sideprojects to get a job but having a job to finance my sideprojects.
Leaving Apple and Google: Eelo on Kickstarter
1. It doesn't say that, it says "use 5.010".

2. This technique is often used to guarantee minimum version requirements of a piece of code. No reason to lock your code to the latest version of the runtime if you know it requires features from an older one.
This just looks like a plug for peer5.js

It isn't that complex to build out a CDN. Rent out unmetered server, slap together nginx, gluster, and openresty modules.
I'm worried about the intersection with EME and DRM.

No more open web. And the crap will become inextricably intertwined with the content of value.

Right now, it's "for content." There is going to be enormous commercial pressure to make it "for everything".

We should start reconsidering the term "user agent".
I spent last 4 months doing side project in React Native and that's what I found
Fun use of a bell siphon: Pythagoras' Cup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISfIT3B4y6E
No, it's instance by instance. You will see some amount of cooperation, but it's not enforced by any means just a cultural norm created by the twitter refugees to mastodon. GnuSocial has a bit of a libertarian bent, Mastodon instances have a bit of a leftist bent, and of course there's the instances which are both, so it's not really a binary but rather a spectrum. Yes Libertarian and left surprisingly to many are not mutually exclusive.
In many cases, respect the cultural difference, don't try to make other people into what you prefer.

There is a difference between emotional intelligence and willingness to freely express emotion. "I'm fine" in many cases just means "no, thank you".
> But I am looking forward to living in a world where everyone has to comply.

I'm not: the so-called 'right' to be forgotten is terrible: it means that data immutability is essentially illegal, and it means that anyone can demand to rewrite history. That's just wrong.
The Problem with Using HackerRank as a Programmer Screening Tool
I totally stop my side projects when job hunting. There really doesn't seem to be any practical time. Often I find that I need that time to study new concepts and play catch up improving my skills so I can be even more presentable to a company. I mean the tech industry, especially software engineering is rife with testing merge sorts, parsing csv files, and non-real world coding challenges when interviewing. Who has the time? Let alone the shear amount of frameworks and systems you need to understand depending on the companies specific pipeline. Forget your side project and reduce the strain.
Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!
I disagree. The early iPhones had to be memory constrained to get reasonable battery life (CPUs can be switched off, but RAM eats power even when your phone is asleep).

Supporting Flash would have resulted in a system running, effectively, multiple independent graphic subsystems, each with their own font and web cache. Users would have blamed the platform for the resulting performance problems.

Also, Steve had seen what happened to OS/2. Once it supported Windows APIs, as good as nobody wrote OS/2 applications anymore, killing the platform. With zillions of Flash games out there, the same would have happened to iOS.
I love them, but the seeds are a pain.
Diehard thunderbird fan. Using it on OSX and Windows. Glad to see it still being updated.
Hi Peter! I hold an H1B visa and am currently employed at a startup, but got an RFE.
1) Does the increased scrutiny in h1b applications bias towards approving applications only for well known companies?
2) Unrelated question, what are the requirements if I want to open my own startup as an H1b holder? Would I need to move to another visa, does my company need to have a US citizen as a cofounder etc.
It would be interesting to know what proportion of employers even look at your Github, let alone dig into detail enough to investigate your side projects to this level.

I work on quite a few side projects in my own time because I enjoy it, but I've never been asked about my projects on Github or my blog.
With aquaponics you do have to “change the water” with aquaponics. From what I’ve read you can’t take the “hot” untreated waste water and feed it directly to plants. There’s a step in between involving another tank.
In websites using this technique, consent is not assumed until you keep browsing the website. Hence, the notice cannot be in past tense like yours :P
Why is it out of proportion? Leaking, exposing or selling personal data can have much worse and immediate effects on someone’s lives than river pollution.
Krugmans own work in The New Trade Theory adds some missing pieces in the trade theory.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/10/wha...

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/about-the-work/
It's a great deal because BMW has issued a stop sale and recall on all i3s https://blog.caranddriver.com/bmw-issues-stop-sale-order-and...

They failed a NHTSA crash test and don't yet have a fix.
Common law courts (US and UK) have historically looked disfavorably upon the use of traps to harm intruders. Courts draw a very bright line between the defense of persons and the defense of property. Harming an intruder to defend yourself or others is generally defensible unless overwhelming disproportionate. Harming an intruder to defend property is almost never defensible in court under tort law.

Negligence is different--intruders have sued for injuries suffered due to the negligence of homeowners and generally have lost, as a homeowner owes no duty of care to an intruder. (In rare cases, the intruders have won, usually on the basis of facts specific to the intrusion at issue.)
Wow, interesting story. Speaking of altcoins, what are your thoughts on Ripple? It seems promising to me in that nearly a 100 banks are using their BlockChain technology to process cross border payments and cut fees and transfer time (down to seconds from days).

At the same time, I'm wary of investing in altcoins, after reading a whole bunch of scams that people have perpetrated online in this space.

Also, is Ripple ( XRP ) considered an altcoin in the first place??
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Persepolis-Marjane-Satrapi/d...
Good news for Bilo!
Is it possible to feed the fish using waste from the plants?
No, because size is about same after compression.

Average person see no difference at all. Moreover, I tested tank demo right now, and asm.js version is about 6% faster at loading (1.99s vs 2.12s from cache at Firefox 57.0/Fedora 26).
Where Should I Run This Pod? Advanced Scheduling in Kubernetes Explained
Agreed, this is why IMO it's much better to set up a tank with fish you can eat (Tilapia was mentioned in the article, but I've seen rainbow trout setups as well).

Makes paying for fish food a little better, because you get a delicious form of protein as well.
Thank you. Are there requirements on 1) how many years said contractor had to work in such system abroad prior to being eligible to apply for H1B, 2) What are Government requirements to proof a bona-fide partnership with this contractor? Will invoices from Europe suffice?
The article appears to be new.

"use 5.10" enables 'say' in the language.
I totally agree actually, and maybe worded it a little poorly. I love it back in the Midwest and mostly think positively of it, I just think starting a technology company here would be a mistake, since they are inherently risky endeavors, and Midwesterners are culturally adverse to taking risks in my experience.
It's sad that we no longer get names like "antidisestablishmentarianism".
It looks like the movie industry is finally gaining a little sanity with Movies Anywhere (https://moviesanywhere.com/welcome), I really want something similar for TV and the other streaming services.

Does anyone know how the stakeholders managed to come up with Movies Anywhere? _Someone_ managed to get everyone talking. Could such an approach work for TV and VOD as well?
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What strikes me most about philosophy is in how core it is to everything we do — and this is something I didn’t realize for the longest time. The foundations of the economic, social, and political systems we live in are based upon philosophy; on theories of the nature of man laid down by thinkers such as Rousseau, Kant, and Smith. It turns out that “self evident truths” might actually be philosophical assertions. Philosophy is the first principle upon which many ideas we may initially take for granted rest upon, and I wonder if a general lack of explicit attention and examination on the subject is partially what enables some of the "post truth" attitudes we are seeing today. The more I learn, the more I can relate to "all I know is I know nothing."
Can you mention a citation number for publications on average it takes for the green card to be approved? I know it's difficult to get to a number, but I am just curious to know from your experience.
Come to Denver. Better weather than SF and Seattle, and lower (relatively) cost of living.
CloudFront Pre-rendering with Lambda@Edge
I laughed a bit when the video said it made the perceived speed 11% faster. Two significant figures shouldn't be used to measure a perception that is subjective and probably not even linear.

Unless they have a scale of "perceived speed to actual speed" for regular progress bars, that they're using to gauge the enhanced ones?
And if you compost, the fertilizer is free.
The same way that my bank does not own the contents of my savings account... Even if it is allowed to use that money (in highly limited and regulated ways) to, say, issue loans.

You don't own your users' data. Your users do. You may be allowed to use it in highly limited and regulated ways.