skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we buy into that (and I fully agree with ddebernardy) you're assuming that those 42 people's accrual of wealthy will continue to stimulate the German electrical and machinery based sectors. I'd cast doubt on that, they probably already have Miele appliances in every one of their homes, all the BMWs and Mercedes they need for when the supercar is inconvenient. Unless they are in the market for a submarine there isn't really much more they can do to drive demand. It is likely the middle classes, and the newly rich middle classes abroad who are driving German exports.

What matters far more is that the unions are essentially asking for a temporary 20% pay increase (plus a 6% permanent one) for two years every so often. Making the, not unreasonable, assumption that pay is a major component of manufacturing costs that would suggest that if the world economy falters (consider Brexit, Trump, southern Eurozone issues, a war on the Korean Peninsula, Iranian protests) German manufacturers might suddenly find themselves very uncompetitive.
> There are plenty of ICOs with legit projects

It's too early to say anything about the economics of ICOs, apart from that people are being oblivious to their risks. Until we see a business redeeming tokens for goods or services which which cannot otherwise be procured and are improved by virtue of their tokenization, ICOs will remain closer to moonshots than investments.
Review site that focuses on Public Domain works, nice!
also don't be confused that even when biased it doesn't change the facts.

I built major things with both react and vue, I like both, but I like vue more.
FB can withstand occasional bad press, but they can't withstand divestiture. I imagine Zuck's knives would come out in full force if Parker announced he was engaging your suggestion.
Wouldn't they only be a force multiplier in the right network? I suppose that's what you mean by "aren't as useful when considered in isolation", though it almost sounds like you are referring to a specific language.
I get heat for pronouncing Iran and Iraq anywhere near correctly, people tell me I sound like a redneck for it.
It sounds like it doesn't disable the recording, but disables the alert. Which can still be abused, but isn't as bad as what you describe.
Montana is considered a Western state, not midwest. I agree it's somewhat surprising, but Montana is dominated (population-wise) by relatively left-leaning population centers. I'd consider it to be a libertarian leaning western state similar to Colorado but without the insanely religious component of Colorado Springs.
Since it's on a block chain, and there is therefore a specific coin that can be traced back to the fraudulent transaction. Can the transactions then be rolled back?

Edit: Assuming the underlying ICO transaction happened in Bitcoin or similar. If the funds were wired in say, USD, it would not be able to be rolled back after 3 days or so.
One Bitcoin miner is buying 20,000 16nm wafers from TSMC per month
I believe Greg Kroah-Hartman is the designated successor.
Scrabble, at a top level, is a game of memorizing as many words and combinations as you can. Some top players in english don't even speak english very well. That's a pure memory game.
Does that include the 513,774.16 ETH (currently about $500M) lost due to the Parity Wallet bug?
> 40h? France has a 35-hour work week.

Yes, in the example of france the norm work week is 35.
Otherwise the same

> Temporary contracts were created to reduce unemployment, because permanent contracts are too expensive. The solution isn't removing them, but making regular labor contracts cheaper.

Well making regular contracts cheaper means lower wages and/or lower fees/taxes on labor. Making full time contracts cheaper means more security and possibly lower unemployment, at the cost of wages (and/or tax income depending on what is lowered).

> You're essentially advocating for measures that reduce employment.

Countries with high wages AND high taxes on labor (nordic countries for example) tend to have higher unemployment but that's just natural. As always it's a tradeoff between the needs of employees and employers. That balance can be found in different ways. Sweden doesn't have minimum wages om , for example.
It does, it can be harder to sell on app on play though.

Also comparing marketshare does not paint the whole picture.

iOS phones tend to be costlier than Android ones. It would be probably better to compare their sales for similarly priced phones.

IIRC (and I have got to say I have not looked at these stats in a while), costly Android phones sell a bit more than iOS ones, but are small fraction of these 85%
Everyone wants to work in California and everyone wants to work remotely. So, I think the combination of the 2 makes competition harder for you. I believe that's pretty much it... 7 billion people on earth, there's always a handful of people better than you (skills). Software isn't a niche anymore especially with globalization and certain countries where billions (not millions) of people have the exact same skills.
You've picked a bad example. NEO is likely a long con based on how much actual work has ever been done on it
"We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors and end users stop deployment of current versions." Intel seems to be saying to stop buying or deploying Broadwell and Haswell CPUs until further notice.
The weird thing about ISPs is that whether or not they are effectively a monopoly is location dependent. It's probably safe to assume that a higher than average percentage of people in Montana have access to one or fewer broadband services. I wonder if that factors in.
It is a bit differnt because windows is bundled with Windows PowerShell ISE which is the IDE I think he is talking about.
How easy is it for a financial institution, who probably doesn't even control their own datacenter or buildings, to opt into using renewable energy sources? Seems like a big decision for an institution to make and a lot of beurocracy and political obstacles. For an individual who wishes to mine, they have a simple choice to make based on electricity prices. Is it profitable or not based on their current rate. Most miners will naturally exist where energy is cheap, renewable, and abundant. I'm making a hell of a lot of assumptions, though.
With the aging baby boomer populations of the UN Security Council it is going to be an interesting next couple of decades. So much brain power will be devoted to global health.
I think the harder transition was from tubes to bipolar transistors. FETs were/are more like tubes.
They mention increased NumPy API compatibility in the article. Seems like that would cover what you’re asking for. FWIW, I agree, there are some things that NumPy does that TensorFlow doesn’t that I’d like to see. .T for transpose being one of them, but maybe I’m not understanding something there. I’m probably just bike shedding a little though ;)
> Many participants seemed to know it was a Ponzi scheme

I mean, anyone that participates in a Pyramid scheme at any level is the definition of a sucker. Not a single one of them has ended well.
Montana has an interesting history. There were stories that said that Montana statehood was delayed by 25 years due to support of the south during the civil war.

Jeanette Rankin, the first female member of congress, was elected twice, in time to be the sole vote against entering WWI and WWII. She was a pacifist and a Progressive Republican.

So while small in population, there might be more diversity of opinion than you might think.

(Full disclosure: 3rd generation Montana citizen, living the expatriate life in Bridgeport, IL)
From the article-

Bitmain, the largest Bitcoin miner on the planet, is now buying a whopping 20,000 16nm wafers a month from TSMC! That's double as much as in the previous quarter and a higher volume than what NVIDIA orders from TSMC.

Related material-
https://www.gmo.jp/en/news/article/?id=764

A competitor to Bitmain just finished their prototype 12nm Bitcoin mining chip and is moving forward to their target 7nm mining chip.
I don't think someone needs to be a genius in order to be worthy of fear.

The effects of Jake Paul's actions, and the misanthropy and deep disinterest in anyone's benefit except his own, are reasons to fear him - or at least oppose him - and the rest of influencer culture along with him.
http://www.virology.ws/2009/06/02/pathogenesis-of-influenza-...

To keep your coworkers from getting the flu, go home as soon as you think you might be coming down with something. The amount of virus you are shedding into your environment is nicely exponential in how bad you are feeling, with one exception: The day before you start feeling really bad, you are shedding nearly as much virus as when you are feeling worst.

If you have to choose, it's better to go home early and come back before you are feeling 100%, than it is to stay at work until you are certain you are sick and stay home longer. It's always better to shift your sick days earlier in the illness.
I can imagine there is benefit to the illusion of perfect mutual understanding between two men when both are considerably intoxicated. The likely defusing of circumstances otherwise liable to encourage violence, for example.

But I have never found any satisfying reason for this phenomenon of mutual understanding at the apparent peak of drunkenness.*

I think the extreme effect of alcohol in this case is actually fairly well known, despite the thought occurred to a friend who managed to turn his own experience into a undergraduate study, that the evidence is infrequent due to the required amount of alcohol exceeding most
physical tolerances.

I have been convinced without any evidence, since university days, that the mind can become exceptionally plastic under extreme effect of alcohol., [Edited, I left in a section that added nothing so withdrew it] Obviously little formal study is probably done, but since I have one nagging fear of failing to discover something so vital in plain sight but missed for sake of my narrowness in vision, and in my fear of the damage done that stays with me despite hangover all forgotten, I dearly should love to hear of science in answer to the phonomenon. Did the unknown language overflow and get routed to the disused section of my brain that once awaited regional programming and can utter or at least gurgle every human sound? That might trigger a familiar and comfortable and safe feeling, the exciting of brain disused since infancy.
44 D vs. ~3 R and 8 comments vs. 1. If anything I was generous!
Growing trend?
Unexpected stops are, by definition, leading cause of all traffic accidents. The question is, what leads to those unexpected stops.
Galaxy Note 2 here. What are they at, the Note 8 or something? My device just won't die after I put Cyanogenmod on and stopped things from autostarting/wakelocking (battery life is great again).

Just like my bluetooth headphones. I had to re-solder a weak connection twice, but after adding some hot glue to keep it in place the second time, it hasn't broken anymore. The battery life is still better than advertised, and I've been using it daily for 3-4 years.

"Throwaway" is a culture, contributing to the problem just as much as (or maybe even more than?) planned obsolesce.
My argument is that even this is a huge step forward.

All historical evidence before this was that state actors could not be restrained by the mere threat of overwhelming force; before this, it seemed that nation state, even the big advanced ones needed to 'give it a shot' and be restrained by the reality of devastation, even when it was pretty obvious from the outset that they were biting off more than they could chew (c.f. the Schleffen plan in World War One, Japan's attack on America in World War Two.)

Post world-war two? it seems humanity, or at least the big advanced nations, can be restrained by credible threats of devastation, which is a huge step forward over requiring actual devastation.
If I understand the article correctly, it is saying that the proceeds of the ICO were stolen.

The impression I got from the headline was that "More than 10 percent of the $3.7B raised in ICOs came from stolen funds".
Pg streaming replication is asynchronous by default and there are some big caveats besides performance when it comes to synchronous use cases, esp around automatic fail-over / recovery. The pg/stolon FAQ hints at some of these issues:

1. https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon/blob/master/doc/faq.md#h...
The Land Before Time really stuck with me. My parents went to a banquet dinner at some hotel, and all the kids were kept in an adjacent room with some baby sitters. I remember them turning the lights down, wheeling in the TV and VCR. I remember us all sobbing. I don't remember the exact storyline, but I remember the mood. One of my most vivid childhood memories.
And Bayes Rule was used to find one of the bombs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_Palomares_B-52_crash#Weap...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_search_theory
> can't really split any part of the company off from ads because that's revenue

Sure you can, but in a different way: tax ads.
Primary Data is shutting down
Thanks for posting!

I put this together in the hopes of making it easier to discover tech conferences. It’s been really hard to find conferences as an attendee, and more recently as a sponsor. Hope it’s helpful for others. Let me know if you have any feedback or find conferences I’m missing.
Cooperating with machines
PowerShell is kind of bizarre. I totally get why is has taken off with Windows sysadmins, compared to the previous built-in alternatives it is amazing.

I think a lot of the bizarreness comes from trying to be multiple things, an interactive shell and systems automation language. It is case-insensitive, with seemingly no consensus on what case to use for things. Kinda makes sense for a shell environment with a case-insensitive file system, but very odd when writing automation. It can be written to look like any modern C-like language; set variables, pass variables to functions, etc. But idiomatic PowerShell seems to be (at least in some circles) piping one function to the next in very long chains. Again, that makes sense in a shell, but becomes somewhat unreadable in an application.

Most of what I've seen PowerShell used for is automation, from small 1000 line scripts to seriously large applications with libraries and databases. And I can't help but think that Python would have been so much nicer, if only it was built-in to Windows. Python has libraries for working with the Win32 API and COM objects, there is even IronPython which runs on the CRL and can integrate with .NET.

I don't think anyone was asking for an interactive shell and a serious programming language to be combined, and it would have been nice if they were separate. Instead they have an awful terminal console, an oddly verbose shell language, and a slow case-insensitive programming language.
Josh Berkus gave a really good overview of Patroni at KubeCon Austin: https://youtu.be/Zn1vd7sQ_bc
How we made Starship Troopers
Gothic Weather
Ya this, for years I didn't know what getting the flu really felt like, it was always couples days and I'm fine but in 2016 I got the flu and it wrecked me for 2 weeks. Doctors confirmed it was the flu. Now I'm the first one in line for a flu shot every year.
The 2018 Web Developer Roadmap
I've been using org-mode with Deft for a few months now and love it. I'm slowly building a personal Wiki filled with knowledge that is rapidly searchable and has no risk of becoming obsolete (unlike say Evernote where you are at the mercy of the service).
Love the concept! Is there a better way to search by city rather than clicking on one in a box?
If an international founder is accepted, does she/he need some special visa - like work visa or those H1B ones?
A pretty solo point. I think that story is more about the candidate than any particular party. Note one of the comments in the article:

Both papers, the Missoulian and the Billings Gazette, issued scathing denunciations of Gianforte.
I agree with this to an extent. The red has a Libertarian tint, but even the Libertarians in Montana are different. The best way I've been able to identify with it over the years is consider myself an independent.
The only reason to use iex is if the thing you're trying to execute is not directly the name of the process. So you need & for `&'notepad'` and `&$string_variable` but not `notepad`
As a native US English speaker, it sounds far more natural to put the emphasis on the first syllable.
Not to say that's what happened, but I wonder how far we are from being able to seed a planet with life? and what it would cost?
Ask HN: Why is Python so popular for ML/DS?
I'd like to start learning ML and it seems like Python (and R) is the default choice. But why? Why aren't languages like C#/Go/Java relevant in that area, or at least a compelling option?
The ship was built in Buffalo. There's only one way out and Montreal had an unusually long cold snap for that time of year.
> I'm honestly really disappointed in it because 99% of the alerts I get from this camera are false alarms. The most frequent offender is light from passing vehicles.

Yup. Have this exact same problem. Non-stop alerts saying "Nest thinks it spotted a person" then it shows me a clip of a car driving by (I've defined zone/regions to exclude the roadway view but that feature does not work either).

The app also forgets I'm subscribed every single month (even though I'm on auto-renew) and I have to uninstall, wipe cache, reinstall app to get things working again. Without the "active" subscription, the app doesn't provide any notifications.

While I absolutely love the camera/history, the app experience is utter shit. I've tried contacting support and (surprise surprise, Google) it's useless and non-existent.
A lot of the phones are like the Alcatel Pop Star 2 on prepaid plans. They are Android phones, but really not very good at running any app. But, when they are being sold for under $50 its understandable and fills a nice market niche.

for reference: https://www.walmart.com/browse/cell-phones/straight-talk-cel...
Product Hunt Golden Kitty Awards 2017
I think that the state can do that, yes. It can't say "you have to do this to do business in our state", but it can say "you have to do this to do business with us, the state government".

The alternative is that the federal government can dictate which businesses the state governments do business with, which is, to put it mildly, probably not a valid use of federal power.
Not to be against state's rights here, but isn't Net Neutrality anti-business? If a state goes it alone, does it risk pro-business components who might leave the state? Curiosity vs. equality slant, so not looking to pick a bone here. Real question ..
So, as someone with no knowledge of the landscape in Montana, I'm wondering: how many ISPs are there who would pick Montana state contracts over the ability to throttle and prioritize traffic?
You should consider costs. This tradeoff is a large part of what the field of epidemiology studies. Turns out vaccines don't need to be that effective to be worthwhile, because of the way disease spreads. There's this concept of a "reproduction number" (r-naught) that predicts how many people a given infected person will pass the disease to, based on a combination of the virulence of a disease, how long infected people remain contagious, how much contact people have with each other, etc. The flu often has a value of around 2, meaning the average infected person will infect two others before they're over it.

You can use this number to estimate how fast a disease will spread, how likely it is to be successfully contained, or in the case of seasonal diseases, how many people will get it before seasonal societal changes (school getting out, people spending more time outside, etc.) will effectively curtail transmission for the year.

Looking at a vaccine on an individual basis, if it's only, say, 50% effective, that sounds pretty awful -- maybe almost not worth the bother. But on a society-wide basis, if every person were vaccinated, that would effectively knock the R0 value from 2 to 1, which is huge. Transmission is exponential: if you infect two people and they infect two people and they infect two people, etc., the total number of infected looks dramatically different than if everybody only infects one person. So in isolation it's only 50%, but societally, with high vaccination rates, there's a huge multiplicative effect that has the potential to dramatically reduce each person's risk of infection if vaccination rates are high enough. And that's still true even if it's even less effective than 50%, and has all sorts of economic and social consequences.
How does that work? Wouldn't the house be considered an asset then and, assuming it's not underwater, put the family back in the black?
I agree with you. In my opinion, people turn their back on chronic pain because, just like with depression (or other mental health conditions), it's something they can't see or measure. They have no idea what it's like to be in your shoes. Most people have never experienced it, so they don't really have any kind of reference.

I would argue that chronic pain is an evolutionary "bug", similarly to eczema, psoriasis, peanut allergies, and chronic depression. Most people can probably understand the notion that there are plenty of minor genetic issues that we all are affected with. I have a friend who has a sensitive stomach, she routinely feels sick and vomits. People understand that we all have unique genetics, but they somehow have a hard time understanding that we all have unique brains and nervous systems. I think the current political climate might be partially to blame: it's almost taboo to suggest that our brains are, in fact, unique, that we don't all experience the world the same way, in large part because of our genetics.

Biology is quite fragile. Humans have about 20,000 genes. Each one of these genes exists in multiple variants in the human population. You are a random combination of subsets of your parent's genes. We've evolved in such a way that most combinations of genes work reasonably well together. However, it shouldn't be so surprising that some random combinations of genes do not, in fact, work well together, and give rise to "genetic bugs". It shouldn't be so hard to conceive that it's possible that some people are made in such a way that they are more sensitive to pain than others. Maybe the regions of their brains that handle pain are hyperactive, maybe it's something in their nerves, maybe it's their pain sensors that fire too much. We don't have the medical technology to really assess these things, but that doesn't mean they can't exist.
Sendmail is pretty much blocked everywhere anyways.
For desktop use, it seems like mold-making combined with a lab heater for ABS/whatever you're going to use would make it cheaper-still.

I used to do investment casting with silver, and that's mostly the way it worked. ABS is much lower-temp and cools faster, so some experimentation with the "crucible" would probably be in order. But that's home-brew for you.
Third party devices were "legalized" by the Carterfone decision in the 1950s, long before the breakup.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/carterfone-40-ye...
Fuck your causes. Jail Krzanich.
If you're defining the potential of the market by the number of people, then yes, it's a potentially huge market.

If you're defining the potential of a market by the amount of money the population of people are putting into it, then no, not so much.

(I tend to go for the latter definition, personally)