skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people start to run for the exits, then that number goes down and there's no floor under that number. The system can unwind in a panic until nobody is using the system and the value of the system becomes zero. Which means that isn't any kind of fundamental value, you're just measuring popularity. Fundamentals are supposed to provide support to value when a security becomes unpopular and untrendy.
There is also a branded "liquor" with the same name. I enjoy both the drink and the licorice.
If you presume a terror attack is inevitable no matter what preparations are taken, you just took all the power of the terrorists away.
Never say never...
> Javascript is a legitimately bad language, and Rust is a legitimately good language.

Could You elaborate?
Well sure there are ways to exercise without a club membership. But having access to a facility with good equipment, instructors, scheduled classes, etc sure makes things a lot easier. It's all about removing obstacles and encouraging people to make good choices.
Esperanto has many many more speakers! (People joke about Klingon having more but it's not true.) Really accurate numbers are hard to come by but even based on estimates, it's no contest:

"Arika Okrent guessed in her book In the Land of Invented Languages that there might be 20–30 fluent [Klingon] speakers."[1]

"In 2009 Lu Wunsch-Rolshoven used 2001 year census data from Hungary and Lithuania as a base for an estimate, resulting in approximately 160,000 to 300,000 to speak [Esperanto] actively or fluently throughout the world, with about 80,000 to 150,000 of these being in the European Union."[2]

In fact, Klingon has fewer total speakers than Esperanto has native
speakers:

"As of 1996, there were 350 or so attested cases of families with native Esperanto speakers. Estimates from associations indicate that there are currently around 1,000 Esperanto-speaking families, involving perhaps 2,000 children. In all known cases, speakers are natively bilingual, or multilingual, raised in both Esperanto and either the local national language or the native language of their parents."[3]

(Also Esperanto is much easier than Klingon, has much more material to read, and is spoken by a wider variety of people than just science fiction fans, though there are plenty of those too.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klingon_language#Speakers

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto#Number_of_speakers

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Esperanto_speakers

EDIT: The "160,000 to 300,000" quote was from an older version of the Wikipedia page (I based this comment on an old comment of mine). The current version has various estimates, including Lindstedt's ballpark figures of "10,000 speak it fluently" and "100,000 can use it actively".
when you have to open up your phone and void your warranty, or bring it to someone "certified" to work on Apple devices and show up for an appointment and pay extra just to replace a battery... when up until this smartphone era, replacing a battery was as simple as removing it from the back of a device and putting in a new one...

It's highly discouraging to replace an iPhone battery. Doesn't matter how much skill it takes. It appears daunting and unapproachable.

The average iPhone user needs a website like iFixIt just to feel confident enough to replace a battery on their own. Go back 10 years and replacing a battery on a device didn't require researching a 20-step guide, a community forum, and special tools.
Yup, widely available. Here's a random shot of a bottle I have at home:

https://i.imgur.com/Wy34Uui.jpg

The more common version comes in a black bottle, but there are a couple of varieties out there.

99% of the time when people talk about Salmiakki they mean the candy/licorice, but the remaining time they mean the drink.
I strongly agree (though I'd lose the antagonistic term "battle"). See my profile :)
DeepMind released number of games played (Table S3). 44 million games for Chess, 24 million games for Shogi, 21 million games for Go.
How long did your weekly one-on-one meetings take? Were there other negative aspects to the one-on-ones besides the time sink?
This is fundamentally a value-addition adjustment. For many IT engineers, their value addition to the project/client/company is very limited, primarily because most of them are from degree mills and most of them join an IT company for reasons other than to really work on IT stuff.

There are awesome Indian IT people out there and most of them are gobbled up by product firms like Microsoft, Facebook, Google, etc. IT services firms are mostly left with mediocre IT guys whose eye is mostly on "on-site" positions.

Like many have said, it's going to get even more ugly and sincerely I feel this sort of adjustment is required for Indian IT companies to be ready for future challenges and future demanding work. They have to shed their bodyshop images if they have to be taken seriously. It's time to move up the value chain or die.
Please what?

Do you have proof that you know of someone who water fasted for extended period of time and was not cured or was harmed?

Because I DO have the opposite proof.

So your empty statements and insinuations is just trolling.
Fun? Maybe an illustration into the Byzantine General's problem.

But efficient? I think it's a complicated enough idea that it'll require a bit to outline the problem it solves and then longer how it goes about solving it.
1. Yes you can say that Modelica has some heritage from ACSL. (See https://www.modelica.org/publications/papers/esm98his.pdf) but the short story is that some simulation language creators decided to form a uniform modeling and simulation language together instead of working on their own initiatives, resulting in Modelica.

2. Not really. Usually modified versions of DASSL/CVODES and friends are used by Modelica tools. In Cellier and Kofmans's book on simulation QSS gets prominent display and some of the research at Berkley Labs has been using QSS to some extent, but it is far from mainstream.
The downside of hosting things all in the same domain is that cookies are shared between them, so a vulnerability in one site (e.g. XSS) leads to compromise of all sites. Choosing different domains means they are sandboxed and safe from each other.

Any domain name could be used to host porn. But not any domain name can get linked from a cloudflare blog. I think the fact that it's linked from cloudflare's blog should indicate that it's fine.
You're missing the point though, the point s/he's trying to make is Capgemini doesn't undervalue the price of labour.
Seriously - why would someone like you be so opposed to water fasting?

Think about it for one minute - patients go through extreme treatments like chemo, radiation, Remicade, whatever - anything to get better, right? Why is exposing your body to crazy treatments so accepted, but this isn't? Nobody is telling you to expose yourself to chemicals, eat crazy things, drink concoctions.. really. What's your issue with water fasting? Such a pure process.

So why not give this a shot? Type 2 diabetes people in fact see results in a matter of few days. What do they have to lose? I'm sure you're intelligent enough to realize water fasting for extended but still short enough of timeframe is not starvation, right?

If you could make an effort for 5 days for the chance of never having to suffer from Type 2 diabetes - why the heck not give the patient the information? This is sick, truly sick, and people like you are keeping it so.
Most people in India don't seem to be bothered by a brain drain and don't treat it as a problem as such.

You have to remember that India has more than a billion people and struggles to find work for all of them.

I was surprised to see (in contrast to other countries trying to stem brain drain) that its a stated goal by the Indian prime minister that they want to see some 50 million (more than the population of many countries?!?) workers sent abroad in the coming decade. Whether it eases their unemployment issues or if they see it as a genuinely beneficial strategy is not clear to me. A bit of both I guess.

This plays into another very interesting phenomenon. Indians tend to look up to the western world a lot and I think it shows in their approach to tech.

For example, if you ask most Indians who the top tech people in their country are they'd probably mention Indian CEOs of western tech companies in the US. This is in very stark contrast to say, China, where their own entrepreneurs such as Jack Ma are most influential.

That is to say, rather than build their own ecosystem or companies most Indians aspire to work for Western firms and deeply synthesize their economy to them.
Thanks. I would be willing to try writing a webpack plugin to do the same for Html files om a weekend then :) although I'd only do it as proof of concept for now.

It's crazy that something like this doesn't already exists.. Seems like such a simple idea that can save a ton of headache for all devs.
>> We believe we do some serious engineering.

I am not contesting that you do serious engineering, but just stating your beliefs is moot.

>> There is this west fixation that serious engineering can't be done outside.

I guess this is just anecdotal and to counter with some more anecdotal experience, I (and a few I know) have been reached out from the west, seeking our engineering skills in the niche we operate. So what do we do know? Start believing the other way round, that serious engineering can't be done in the west!!!

>> we do the engineering and it gets maintained by westerners in our organization.

Don't you think you are believing just like the western engineers you were blaming?
That South Park episode on smugness is relevant to the gp
Another translated work: Adventure

http://ifiction.org/games/playz.php?cat=1&game=378&mode=html

Edit: Say, shouldn't there be an Esperanto translation?
Ask HN: How to start a crowd funding campaign in 2018?
I'm thinking of starting a crowd funding campaign but platforms like Kickstarter don't work in my country. Can platforms like ethereum/counterparty/stellar be a solution for it?
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Some would say, "Whales splashing around."

Some would say, "It's a manipulated market."

I would say, "Oooh la la, cheaper BTC, tres bon!"
As dang mentioned already, it seems like a good mix. I've seen libertarian, communists, conservatives, anarchists etc. It's one of the few places online where there is a reasonably polite political discourse on topics which touch politics. Yes those articles are sometimes flagged or removed as discussion devolves into insults. It's just that elsewhere it is much worse.
Can anyone explain what does this mean? How is it different from regular VMs? Is it not booting an OS? What does it have to do with erlang?
Hmmm... I don't know how it should be handled, but trying to prevent Walmart from taking this couse of action seems like it would be difficult to enforce within the constrainst of our legal system. Maybe a blanket policy that if you attempt to blackmail/extort/coerse someone into participating in some arrangement of alternative justice (outside the legal system) by using the threat of prosecution, you lose your legal standing as a victim, and therefore your ability to enforce prosecution? Let's say I was raped, and then attempt to extort money from the rapist in leiu of filing charges, I certainly think I would lose some credibility as a victim, and it's unfair to society who deserves knowledge of the potential threat, at minimum. It's important to recognize that the law someone violates is a crime against society as a whole, not just a crime against the particular victim. In this situation, the law is against shoplifting in general (society as a whole can be the victim), not against shoplifting FROM Walmart, so we should be careful to not let Walmart deprive society of our ability to enforce the agreed upon consequences.
Blue field entoptic phenomenon (Wikipedia)
If you're interested in circuit-like systems, Modelica is probably a good fit. Electrical networks seem to be a core use case for the developers/presenters of Modelica. Also I know it has been used to model airflow networks in buildings, using the multizone approach which typically uses a nodal formulation.

If you've read much about Modelica, you probably know this, but one key to thinking about Modelica is to recognize that you're not defining a nodal system anymore -- at least, not in the way that an electrical engineering textbook would define it. Yes, you can define a network, which can have resistive/capacitive/inductive elements strung between nodes. However, in EE-speak, you would then form either the nodal equations or the mesh equations, depending on whether you wanted to add up currents into nodes, or voltages around loops. But in Modelica, you just state the component relations, and the rules that apply to the connections between components. Then the solver decides how to set up the system equations. Typically the solver uses graph-theoretical techniques to reduce the number of unknowns, or to achieve other nice system properties. So for example if you had a bunch of components in series, you might expect the common current to be a state variable, whereas in another part of the system you might find voltage state variables. Modelica encourages you to think about the components, and let the solver handle the system assembly and solution.

I believe Modelica got its start in the automotive simulation world, where there is a need for large-scale lumped-parameter multiphysics models. I'm not sure how ACSL fits in. In the building simulation world, there was also an earlier language called Neutral Model Format that attacked many of the same problems as Modelica.

It's been a long time since I studied bond graphs, but I would say Modelica is much more general, since it allows discrete as well as continuous components, and since it doesn't require the formalism of identifying the equivalent of voltages and currents in each domain (don't remember what bond graph theory calls those). I think Modelica even allows components to be defined by algorithms, although obviously those components may not have mathematical inverses that can be easily manipulated when assembling the system.
The more years pass, the closer to reality Snow Crash and Neuromancer and Rainbows End appear. In Snow Crash, the central intelligence agency has become a commercial entity that produces a aynducated reality show by putting cameras on their spies.
Here some more links for you to dismiss:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590914...

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-...

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1550413115...
On the contrary. I am not at all opposed to fasting, although extended fasts do carry certain health risks. You have presented a plausible hypothesis. Now do the hard work to validate your hypothesis by following the scientific method instead of wasting our time with unverifiable anecdotes.
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I don't think your first statement is true, there exist polynomial time approximation schemes and approximation algorithms for np complete problems, notably a PTAS for knapsack. In other words, an approximation of one np complete problems doesn't imply an approximation of all of them.

I can't fully articulate the reasons for this though.
This is not possible if you have not granted Location Services access, due to the nature of how iOS works.

This only shows that a coordinate pair is being sent to the Uber API, which may have been cached from a time in the past, such as last time a ride was requested. The author counters this only by driving away in attempt to “reset” it, but instead of sniffing the traffic to see that the headers changed to reflect the new coordinates, they reached their conclusion by returning home and sniffing the traffic and saw that the coordinates remained the same.

For this to work as described, something in iOS would have to be incredibly broken.
22 types of records isn't that much when you're running a business with employees.
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Can you please point to the study that shows extended water fasts carry certain health risks?

Posted some more links for you in another comment.
Still down 7 hours later, but the cache works
See also Prof Robb Willer, whose research at Stanford shows similar results.

https://www.ted.com/talks/robb_willer_how_to_have_better_pol...
"I've seen more full stack skills, polyglots (...) Companies want an FTE or two that replaces an entire off shore team"

Everything points to gaining breadth in order to "move up the value chain".

"US devs will further specialize in to ML, AI, speech, Big Data/Data Science"

In line with the previous statement, you mean increase their breadth, not specialize, right?

"Those areas are quickly being commoditized by the cloud providers, so they're within reach of most US developers."

What makes these areas more accessible to US developers than offshore?
> try getting someone to radically alter their lifestyle for the promise of potential benefit in 10-20 years.

There is an incredible amount of confusion with regard to appropriate lifestyle interventions. Part of the problem is that your predecessors' predecessors (doctors in the 1950's and 1960's) came up with some simplistic and wrong advice that never got properly withdrawn: the hazard of butter and the superiority of refined vegetable oil, the hazard of salt (farmers and veterinarians give animals salt licks), estrogen as "the female hormone" -> DES babies && prescription horse urine (PREMARIN is PREgnant MARes' urIN), etc.

The American Heart Association still warns about saturated fat [0]. If science advances one funeral at a time, what can be done about organizations that insist on being wrong?

[0] https://recipes.heart.org/Articles/1013/Healthy-Cooking-Oils

Modern medicine does have some good advice, but it's very tough to separate the wheat from the chaff. I think medical professionals are just as confused as everyone else. On Christmas I heard someone (a physician's assistant) recommend an erection-killing intervention to help stop her sister's boyfriend's hair loss [1].

[1] https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/news/20120413/propec... - this side effect might not be not universal, but is devastating to the men who suffer it.

"Palliative" drugs are commonly used. This is essentially Elisabeth Rosenthal M.D.'s rule #2 for American medicine: "A lifetime of treatment is preferable to a cure." [2]

[2] How Economic Incentives have Created our Dysfunctional US Medical Market - https://medium.com/@RosenthalHealth/how-economic-incentives-...

Dr. Brewer's pregnancy diet is supposedly quite helpful for dealing with common pregnancy problems. Iirc, the core pillars of this diet are adequate protein and "salt to taste". But conventional medicine never figured this out for itself - I've met lots of women who suffered from dangerously-high blood pressure during their pregnancies. One's diet consisted of saltine crackers - she was nauseous, and had to have labor induced before the baby killed her.

Appropriate lifestyle interventions start to benefit people right away. Coconut oil rapidly helps with alcohol cravings, for example. People can lose most of their excess weight over a period of 2-4 years. Pregnant women immediately benefit from adequate salt intake. Etc.

Doctors are doing much better today than 50 or 100 years ago. I think the industry would greatly benefit from a critical examination of common practices.
Can you give an example of a question you asked?
How do you distribute power with equanimity and keep it that way? I think it's impossible with any sort of inheritance. And with legions of spoiled idiots you get an acceleration of entropy, more randomness to distribute said power from the perfect peaceful normal distribution into a power law. And then you gotta redistribute it all over again.

Yes, knowing who your child is is holding back the human race from a world of perfect equality.

I'm not sure I believe that, or even think there's a way to get there from where we are now. It's truly a bizarre idea. It's just the easiest way I can see to solve the problem as stated.
Well, hello! This is my project -- I didn't expect to see it posted here!

It is as jgh said: "it's basically just a script that provisions a new digitalocean instance via the DO api, installs dependencies, and builds/installs/runs the program."

I built it specifically so people could easily install my open source church software OneBody by clicking a button on the website here: https://church.io/onebody/

If I would have known guests were coming, I would have cleaned up a bit! The CSS looks horrible on mobile I just realized.

Anyway, thanks for posting!
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"...a few kiloteslas..."

This is a really cool paper and abstract. I had to giggle a bit at that line... I think the MRI machine I had images of of my knee was something like 6T?
And really all the blame has to be apportioned to the founding fathers and what not glorious terms used for the Indian IT body shopping industry leaders? (Kohli's, Murthy's blah blah)

Scw these forefathers for they started on a super negative note with a begging bowl (probably a hangover of multiple years of colonialism) and instead not being aggressive for high end work.

Just give me some work was the attitude these fathers started with, no wonder the son's will do the same. Like father, like son!!!

It is high time the narrative starts changing to cause a change in the mindset of young engineering students and this has to start at a very low level, from engineering schools. The first narrative is to show these forefathers in a more negative light, than positive.

>> It's time to move up the value chain or die.

Die, is the most likely outcome (7/10).
It's a unikernel of sorts called Erlang on Zen (the VM implementation they wrote is called Ling). It does not use the BEAM runtime so you'll likely need to recompile the Erlang code but otherwise, Erlang is a simple language so I expect most things would work.

Given that this was written roughly 4 years ago (guessing by some dates on the site), its not clear what their support looks like for newer features like maps might be.

Performance looks good (relative to BEAM) but they are also single-threaded which means you'd need to cluster your instances to do multi-processing... and I'm not sure that'd mix well with ephemeral nodes. They talk a little more about this on their site: http://erlangonxen.org/more/clustering
I had a recruiter after me with a €100k senior role in Berlin, I thought the market rate in Germany was nearing SV levels.
In addition to being an incredibly productive, paradigm-shifting scientist, Dr. Barres was also honest and down to earth about the realities of the field. I'd recommend anyone going in to any type of graduate study to read his essay on how to choose na graduate advisor: http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(13)00907-0
It shows correlations between colors. Consider two images, one with lots of purple and one with equal amounts of red and blue. Since the color purple is equal parts red and blue, we don't expect to see much difference in the one dimensional histograms between the red/blue image and the purple image. On the other hand, when we look at the 2D histogram we do find such a difference. The purple image's 2D histogram will have large values near the diaganol (red scales with blue). The red/purple image might have no correlation depending on the image, or could possibly be anti-correlated, with a diaganol as before, but with negative slope.