skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disregard the link with the confusing title and think critically for a moment. Do you really think the US government is forcing all companies to bring any and all profits earned and stored overseas back to the United States? That’s what you’re implying.
The Awl and the Hairpin’s Best Stories, Remembered by Their Writers
Yes, that link provides a list of all my connections, so we've made progress. However, they don't allow filtering on anything but first or last name. Pretty limited, but yes, they do let users see all their connections.
We currently get $0 in tax revenue from the cash Apple is hoarding overseas. This tax “holiday” (a term I dislike because it incorrectly implies that no tax is being paid on the repatriation, when it is simply a reduced rate) is resulting in $38 billion that we would not have otherwise received.

$38,000,000,000 > $0
That makes no sense. Then the government would get nothing, plus give up future leverage, so obviously it will not do that. Comparing what happened to having no tax is a straw man.

What happened here is that the government finally set a rate that is agreeable to both parties, which is of course in its interest and long overdue.
A New Tint to Ubuntu – Unknown OS {Discover Yourself}
Old School Radio Shack Cell Phone Ad
Wow. That's interesting. I was looking for contact info for an old colleague and I was having a hard time finding how to browse my contacts list in LinkedIn after the redesign. I assumed at the time it was just horrible UI, and I gave up and located the info by searching old emails.
Old clothes that are made from natural materials like wool, cotton, and linen can be composted. The trouble is that many times the thread and accessories (buttons, zippers) in the clothes are not natural and the compost needs to be sifted to remove these. Thread is particularly difficult to remove.
Non-paywalled: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-tax/apple-plans-sec...
Founders getting liquidity sooner through a loan solution?
Have any employees with significant equity from any of the large, blue-chip tech unicorns checked out a loan-liquidity solution?

Companies like, Troy Capital Group, are allowing employees of companies like: Uber, Lyft, Palantir, Airbnb, Slack etc. to lend against their privately held shares rather than sell them. The loan solution allows the employee to hold onto the continual growth of their shares as their company continues to appreciate & grow, rather than lose out on all the future upside as would be seen in a secondary.

Has anyone taken a look at this approach as a viable option for liquidity? It seems like it's a win-win if you work for a fast growing company & you need liquidity immediately.
A lot of the Manhattan Project scientists were naturalized citizens, including many of the greats: Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Hans Bethe, James Franck, etc.
Health cookbooks are the worst for this. They'll call for 2 lbs of beans, 2 onions, a cubic foot of leafy greens, half a dozen carrots, and 1/8 of a tsp of salt. They seem to be ashamed of flavor like it's a naughty sin that they have to hide from the decent folk.
> 80% of traditional IT hocus pocus can be automated or performed by an office manager or admin.

Then you clearly have never worked at a business where IT or technology isn't a core function of the business. Middle America wasn't and still isn't ready for understanding IT. I say this as someone who has worked with over 150 companies (mainly mid market, middle america) doing IT audits.
> If you ever had to make it faster, or make it work better on different hardware, you'd be starting from scratch again.

Optimizations like these a great area for tests because the test files can keep all the various implementations and can benchmark them as you like.

This enables the tests to prove that the a new implementation is indeed optimal over all previous implementations, and continues to be optimal even when there are changes in external dependencies such as hardware, libraries, etc.

> But it doesn't explain anything about why it works

IMHO it does, for all the areas expressed in the original link and the parent comment.

Here are the original link examples:

1. "What [TDD] doesn’t do is get you to separate the code’s goals from its implementation details."

IMHO first write the code's goals as tests, then write the method implementations. The tests may need new kinds of instrumentation, benchmarking, test doubles, etc.

2. "[D]oes the description of what Module 3 does need to be written in terms of the description of what Module 1 does? The answer is: it depends."

IMHO write modules with separation of concerns, and with clear APIs that use API tests. If you want to integrate modules, then write integration tests.

3. "Quick! What does this line of code accomplish? return x >= 65;"

IMHO write code more akin to this pseudocode:

return age >= US_RETIREMENT_AGE

return letter >= ASCII_A
... because filling out an absentee ballot is so arduous.
Sadly travis has some problems right now and that is what's supposed to be compiling my OSX binaries. See here: https://www.traviscistatus.com/

They should be there soon.
> It's almost certainly more correct to list umami as one of the basic tastes, rather than savory.

I really don't think so: 'savory' is an actual English word while 'umami' is a Japanese one. Writing 'umami' like writing 'arugula' instead of 'rocket' or 'cilantro' instead of 'coriander.'

And 'umami' isn't really any more accurate than 'savory': it's a 100-year-old neologism from the Japanese word for 'delicious.' Given a choice between two words which aren't necessarily perfect fits for the concept, why not stick with the native one?
Saigon is my reference. But a lot of people like Quang's on Eat St in Minneapolis (I think it's meh, and Lu's down the street from them is better).

An interesting alternative - and an interesting restaurant! - is Ngon Bistro in St Paul, which is basically upscale foodie Vietnamese. They do a much more, well, serious banh mi than the more trad places, with better ingredients. Debatable whether it's an improvement, but it's worth trying, and Ngon Bistro in general is brilliant.
Imagine if personal income taxes were drastically lowered instead? then, walmart could keep the same pay, but ALL its customers (not just its employees) now have more take home pay to spend at walmart.
I think we need the capability of listening to music at 2-3x like we have for video and podcasts so we can have time to do it!
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gamesblog/2012/apr/27...
For Founders: Jira meets Entrepreneur magazine [waiting list]
During the Obama years, economy went from 10% unemployment to 4%, yet all I heard from the conservative press on how bad things are.
Newcomb's Problem and Regret of Rationality
I need to write book called "StinkIn and the rise of the slow web" one of these days.

("From Web.20 to the Slow Web and all the crappy websites we hate")
I am not 100%, but i could have sworn that Woz talked about other members of the club playing around with something similar the day him and Jobs went there to show of Woz's would-be Apple 1.
Try https://www.3dconnexion.com/products/spacemouse/ - it's designed for 3D authoring but can be used as a simple trackball type device and there is a non-wireless variant. The wireless variant can be tethered and untethered. Kind of pricey but great for CAD/CAM type work.
> Each week's album must be something you own in physical, "hard copy" form, because the experience must involve interaction with the object as a whole. You will read liner notes and lyrics, and engage with the artwork. Become familiar with names of band members. Learn the producer's name. Where was the album recorded? What time of year? Can you hear this in the music?

I absolutely hate this fetishization of the music creation process, and I think this might be the writer's real problem.

These stories about the studio and the producer and the band members' favorite flavor ice cream sell records and give context for the music, but they aren't the music. To obsess over these details is to not see the forest for the trees.
Looks like another victory for http://ampletter.org/
https://legiblenews.com/

A clean, simple, no nonsense news site.
canada, not california
> It's very telling that most of the announcements of benefits to workers purportedly attributable to the tax cuts are in the form of one-time bonuses.

It's sad that it's one time. It was probably the quickest way to reward people around the holidays. For many it's a few car payments and maybe a month worth of rent. Yeah it is peanuts for anyone living in on the coasts or writing software or both.

> Only workers with 20+ years of service are getting $1,000.

Walmart wasn't the only company which did it. Sure it was a PR stunt just as much, and it would be nicer to have other things like universal healthcare, but at this point that's a nice fantasy and this is something that made people's live better.
This is an interesting consideration when it comes to video content as well. Sometimes I wish Netflix allowed sorting by how many accounts "watched more than once".
My HHKB2 actually has it as a Delete key also. I had to flip a dip switch to change it to BS.
You claim people never asked promotions to be moved into a separate folder. As a user of Gmail, this is one of my favorite features. I'd first like to address real emails, like for instance from my mom, and then, if time permits, look at promotions. It's EXACTLY how things should be
The whole concept of fuel-based transport should be at question here.

Hybridization would be more efficient by far.

EVs in general (energy production + transport to plug + battery efficiency losses) are more efficient than the biofuel option (growing/fertilizing/harvesting crops -> turning into fuel-> transport/storage->burning in a vehicle)

But what's being discussed? Which crop or where it's grown? Shuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
a burger is flavorless comparatively.
Giant PR move. Amazon was already doing all of these and opening a new HQ without all this "tax" bill PR.
The issue GP is taking about is with lots of client side plugins and CSS files, and not with WP taking too long to render the HTML.

So how does this product helps in this case?
Google has made it simple for anyone to tap into its image recognition AI
In theory, yes. In practice, most burgers are terribly imbalanced and simplistic (in a bad way) compared to banh mi. Too much meat! Greasy toppings! Crappy buns! Banh mi is far more vegetable-forward than any burger I've tried. Meat isn't the star of the show. Balance is.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16158463

240+ points
As you said, they are being incentivized to do so. It isn’t mandatory, which is what this whole argument is about. I don’t know how it’s “pure fiction” to point that out, when your own comment literally says what I have been saying.
If I may be allowed a tiny nitpick, it should be descendant of Isildur, as it was Isildur who cursed them to linger in the Paths of the Dead until fulfilling their oath by helping one of his heirs.
I think you misunderstand me. I'm definitely not implying America, or any country is perfect, far from it. I think that we do have something special here, which not many other countries have...

> Cross-pollination of ideas is what makes progress happen...Personally, I think a full-on "leave behind your old self" approach doesn't yield the most benefits for either the individual or society as a whole, unless your origin country is indeed an unequivocal shithole.

I mostly agree with you, up to a point. I don't see it as an all or nothing question. While, I strongly believe that there are some things, beliefs, superstitions, and bigotries which would be better serve everyone (humanity), if they were left leave in their respective 'shitholes'

To me it's a gray area, I don't want or expect people to completely assimilate, but unless you're a foreign national, here for an extended period of time without the intent of becoming a citizen, it's just plain weird to display another countries flag in the country you've chosen to move to aside from fun hollow displays in celebration or whatnot.

(I understand the larger discussion of whether nationalism itself is an outdated concept...but i digress)
PDs are overworked, true, but they do care deeply about the people and the job. It's not too hard to go get a much easier position with a JD. Most, if not all, PDs are there because they care (the loan forgiveness helps, but is not really worth it)
>what a food is supposed to taste like, and pursues recipes based on this imagination.

They're much more utilitarian about it but this is basically the Cooks Illustrated/ATK approach as well. My main complaint is that it can lead to really fussy recipes though I think they've toned that down a bit in recent years.
I would recommend working on as many Kaggle competitions as you can. Try your best to understand manipulating data quickly and efficiently (use Python). Using the correct algorithm is typically trivial and a solved problem for most typical business issues (classification of text, imagery or audio data). At first you'll have to look at other people's code and copy/paste/edit/learn/iterate. Also, don't underestimate the complexity of creating good training, validation and potentially test sets.

95% of your time will be spent massaging data. People say it so often, it may sound ridiculous, but I promise you, it's not. This skill is also readily transferrable to other domains.

I would start with classifying text using sklearn and Facebook's Fasttext.

Then try the dogs/cats image classification challenge and get familiar with Keras and its utilities. I created a few hours of content around recognizing Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos, then trying to recognize 2 types of dog breeds. I outline the challenges of creating "good" training and validation sets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hffX-jC98&list=PLImyDqSBQb...

For every hour you spend looking at some equations, you missed an hour expanding your skill-set to manipulate and get data into a format which can be fed into well understood and maintained algorithms. Once you feel like you get produce results, go back and think about the underlying mechanics. My 2 cents from experience.
Containers vs. operating systems
Yeah but uh... Trump. So this is bad. /s
NASA says skyscraper-sized asteroid headed toward Earth: “potentially hazardous'
but Trump is going after Bezos..?
Single data point: Many years ago, I suffered a severe concussion and was unconscious for a while. For a couple of days I heard voices calling my name even when alone.

While my inner dialogue is clearly internal, those voices were spontaneous, which felt eerily external. I think those were flashbacks of people talking to me while I was unconscious.
Oh yeah, nothing says Cyberpunk like “Service Unavailable” in 2017.
The licensing stuff was simple: There wasn't a licence. Some people creatively misinterpreted M. Bernstein's page, explaining what one could do under the law in the U.S. as it stood even without a copyright licence, as a licence. But that was a misinterpretation.

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/law-licence-free-softwares.html

Daemontools ironically wasn't weird at all, as evidenced by the fact that over the past almost two decades the daemontools world got us changes to softwares, all of those do not daemonize options that have appeared in that time as well as things like removing mysql_safe and other Poor Man's Dæmon Supervisors, that made it a lot easier to use those softwares with other service managers.

* http://jdebp.eu./Softwares/nosh/mariadb-and-mysql.html#Promp...

Some of the things that people use instead of daemontools are not much less reliable. (-:

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/daemontools-family.html
They should probably stick away some of it under the cushions of their Irish sofa, what with that $13B EU tax bill still pending. But you are correct of course, that money are the proceeds from their tax evasion schemes overseas.
Quite often they just don't know. Is it pneumonia in the lungs or has the cancer spread? Likely a bit of both. If we can clear out the infection can we start chemo again and buy another year or two? If people want to err on the side of taking a chance at living, let them.
The crazy thing about garlic is that the harsh flavor disappears quickly with cooking and leaves only a mushy sweetness.

I tried this out recently and it was delicious and not at all what you would think if you're only familiar with raw garlic:

https://altonbrown.com/40-clove-chicken-recipe/
Is Vietnamese fish sauce stronger than Thai fish sauce? My parents cook Thai food, having lived in Bangkok for a few years, and fish sauce never registered as "smelly" to me.
Thanks. We've reverted the submitted title from “CA: Indefinite solitary confinement in prisons ruled unconstitutional”.
It may be an over-simplification but it is more universal or common than you might think. I recently discovered that my father's entire family emigrated from their home country as a result of political persecution. This is a pretty common theme in American history. In fact, much of the progress and greatness of the United States was built by immigrants because of the opportunities this country gave to them.
The end state ends up looking a lot like (the user-facing side of) an operating system, except that:

* the filesystem is cloud storage (Drive/Dropbox/what have you -- the Unhosted (https://unhosted.org/) architecture)

* the apps are insecure but open-source by requirement (interpreted jS)

* ... running in a controlled sandbox (the browser)

* ... using a standard UI language (HTML/CSS)

* with functionality modifiable/overridable by user preference (extensions)

It's pretty much the ecosystem you would want if you were building this from scratch! Except you'd want Html/CSS/JS to be much more intelligently designed from the start (I'm waiting so eagerly for the day that browsers natively run more scripting languages than just JS...)

It never could be done in the 90s because everything ran too slowly, but it's feasible now.
Cloud is definitely the preferred way to get started if you are on AWS. When running the On-Prem version you also have to manage (and pay for) storage. Cloud also puts less load on DynamoDB, which can dominate your spend.
Apple has a couple of data centers across the us. The opening of one in Reno is not the new campus.
For upscale brands (vineyard vines, polo, etc) used but excellent condition men’s and women’s clothing is selling online at places like poshmark. I haven’t been a seller but I’ve bought several pieces in the $20-30 range that retail for well over $100. Style Encore is a chain retail store that sells used high end women’s clothing, shoes and handbags.
lol, like Booz Allen... you're joking right?
AM is basically and audio signal applied to a carrier wave, while FM is a whole different beast. Meaning that AM is quite similar to what pass down a speaker wire.

I am not a professional, but my impression is that AUX mode basically just pass the input audio signal directly to the speakers.

I am not quite sure what you mean by an open ended cable though, nor what end of the setup you upped the volume one (i suspect the PC).
Bitcoin Falls Below $10,000 as Virtual Currency Bubble Deflates
I wasn't going to share a link to a barely related discussion from last month, but:

Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste' | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15888827

... China doesn't want recycling anymore!
Watch the 2018 Doomsday Clock Announcement
Or maybe it will open the floodgates for tech companies to escape high costs of SV/California/West Coast.

It is a hedging against increasingly expensive work force.
The HTTP Archive could help test this expectation. Disclaimer that I work at Google and help maintain the open data on the HTTP Archive.

For example, here's a query that measures the 95th percentile of first meaningful paint (FMP) grouped by whether the site is a known WordPress site (eg based on detection of resources like `wp-content`): https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/savedquery/226352634162:4b...

The results show that the tail of WordPress FMP is actually about even with the rest of the mobile web:

WordPress: 10.9 seconds
!WordPress: 11.4 seconds

Of course, FMP is just one heuristic for mobile web performance. We could look at other metrics like speed index, time to interactive, onload, etc.
Lol at anybody who is surprised by this event.
Very cool! Do you know if this product is currently HIPAA compliant or if there are plans to make it so in the future?
Phew! for a moment, I thought this was some obscure new js framework :)
I was also surprised to see no mention of hatchbacks ("hot hatch" if you're so inclined). They're filling a really important sedan-like role that crossovers and SUVs are too bulky to achieve.
Raises are likely to be more useful to employees than bonuses, particularly over the long term. These bonuses don’t preclude the possibility of more bonuses down the road, however. It’s unclear at this point exactly how things are going to shake out along those lines.
If after three years you think so only "probably", you probably still aren't confident about your requirements.

You don't say to your girlfriend "We had fun the last three years, but probably I'm better off with my ex" unless you have no clue what you are looking for.
It seems to be a common confusion in the EU. A lot of people refer to CS as IT where I live.
The thrift stores in my area are as busy as ever, and the online market for used clothing is huge. I get most of my clothes used on eBay or Poshmark. (Aside from swag shirts and underwear, which I buy new.) Sounds like a lot of the people chiming in in this thread are in the same boat.

The article isn't really talking about that market though, it's talking about the market for recycled textiles. If it's as cheap to manufacture new textiles as it is to use recycled material, then it's harder for recyclers to compete. If those recyclers go out of business, then rubbish clothing has nowhere to go but the landfill.
> but the same thing would have effectively happened had Democrats been in charge instead of Republicans.

Wasn't that the case when Obama was first elected? And yet, it didn't happen. They've kind of painted themselves into a corner with the "the rich and corporations aren't taxed enough" rhetoric, not sure how they'd successfully sell a corporate tax holiday to their base.
I could swear this was no longer available last time I looked - thanks!
A better analogy would be going to a prostitute and insisting on a condom, but then the prostitute pokes some holes in it and becomes pregnant "because you seemed lonely so I thought a child might be best for you".

Not a better analogy. The same analogy. It's a counterpart to the unwanted sex change from the Doctor. (From what I've read, it's certain that an unasked for sex change was performed by some doctors on some infants.)
No I don't think it's the "Read" call, but rather your program doesn't see any input in stdin until an enter is pressed. (In cooked mode).
would you give an example?
This may not cause you to lose your current position, but could be detrimental next time you are job hunting
There is no law anywhere that can stop you from killing yourself, much less punish you afterward!
(disclosure - I wrote this article and work at LogRocket)

The product is built-out in the sense that we have many customers who use LogRocket daily to fix bugs and support their users.

Of course we've only just started toward our long term goal and have lots more work to do!
I honestly can't for the life of me understand what you're trying to say here.

Thanks for confirming one of my theories.