skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surprisingly, it's also the only state to require just cause for terminating an employment relationship (not at-will).
no, it's now pending on the insurer, who hasn't yet paid the doctor for most of it (they have sent about 6 letters asking the doctor for more information).
Well bash has (can have) all of that as well.. Those are features of the code editor.. Not the language.
Doesn't Android have like 85% of the global market? Doesn't that make a Google Play MUCH larger potential market?
Open design, take two
I think you're making two points: one is about SV as the center of tech, and the other is about YC and similar "clubs".

For the second point, I think current ICO hype is going to have the exact opposite effect you predict in terms of clubs. ICOs are incredibly risky, and there is essentially zero regulation. To investors, a company being part of a "club" like Y Combinator suggests that some basic due diligence, idea/founder validation, and other de-risking signals. (Whether this is true or not, I'm not sure.) That's why they like investing in YC companies, I think we all agree.

For ICOs to actually be validated as successful longterm investments (i.e. scammy bubbles/pump-and-dump schemes, which many are, sadly), I think investors will need some assurances about the quality/risk of a given ICO. Since that's basically impossible (if investing were zero risk, there would be no upside!), trust and reputation are good proxies. This is where companies like YC and "valley" connections come in.

For better or worse, if ICOs are indeed the way of the future, they'll probably end up giving rise to that of infrastructure. Maybe that won't be tied to SV, as you suggest. But I think the "trusted club member" won't really ever go away, even if it isn't tied to SV.
You can't use political borders in this way. You're trying to make an argument about population differences between cities and their suburbs, but every city defines these borders differently (to sometimes include almost all of their "suburbs", sometimes none, and everything else in between).

The key to recognizing how absurd this is: your argument would have to drastically change if each city moved its political borders +/- 15 miles in either direction, but nothing on the ground would actually be any different (that is, there wouldn't suddenly be more people living in one kind of environment and fewer in the other, although, definitionally, that would appear to be the case).

These lines are politically drawn. They don't support arguments of the kind you're making.

Why does San Antonio have a much larger share of its metro's population than does San Francisco? Because the borders of San Antonio extend to cover ~465 square miles to San Francisco's ~44. What does that tell us about these two cities? Basically nothing. (In fact, this information directly misleads us into thinking all sorts of things that aren't true (for example, that San Antonio might be bigger than San Francisco).
This does not seem good.

The world has never really reconciled the biological and chemical atrocities that went on in Asia during WWII and since, like they have in Europe. The Japanese used chemical gas attacks (munitions of unexploded gas are still found in China today) and did live vivesections on prisoners, amputating their appendages until there was nothing left. Hitler’s SS thought the atrocities so bad in China they asked for permission to intervene at several points. I doubt China has forgotten any of this, as they are expanding funding by several orders of magnitude into research on Japanese WWII atrocities.

To the north, Russia supposedly developed a type of chemical weapon even more powerful than nerve gas at one point in the 70’s. After the Cold War, while everyone was worried about nuclear weapons, Soviet bio and chemical scientists were easily available for hire and research. The Japanese cult that dumped Sarin into the Tokyo subway in 1996 had gotten far towards procuring many nerve agents as well as biological agents this way (developing powder to spread live agents that survived for weeks proved too difficult though).

Everyone talks about nuclear weapons, but biological, and to a lesser degree chemical, weapons have been under the radar for so long, governed by treaties that intellectually are still in 1918, that this needs to be looked at very seriously.
I think history would be a good source. We think we're facing unique challenges but the debates we're having today are already eerily discussed ad nauseam by Greek thinkers. And first sources are already so accessible that it's difficult to land on untrustworthy extractions unless you read contemporary commentaries.
It's not the same at all. `&&` only continues the chain if the previous command exited successfully (i.e. exit code is 0) whereas `;` always continues.
The tech to do what Facebook does (more or less) is easy. The issue is with the network. It's why most of the "Facebook competitors" died. What good is having the ability to receive feeds like that if no one I'm interested is broadcasting?
Good for them. Hopefully Texas will fo-lol I can't even finish that sentence.
Market Sentiment Helps Explain the Price of Bitcoin [pdf]
I think Google is addressing this with Progressive Web Apps. There's a lot of work yet to be done, but web sites that implement native features such as home screen presence, notifications and (key to making money) integration with Android Pay have a lot of potential. The problem is that it doesn't compare exactly with the iOS model, so everyone assumes it is worse. But completely removing app download friction from the process could be huge.
I know, I am neither directly agreeing or disagreeing with anything you said - no need through the fallacy book at me. I just wanted to point out that the issue is deeper than just "innovate vs. acquire." The extra dimension is that we don't often get to see what the market would come up with in terms of competition because after a certain size, there is no competition.
Security through obscurity at its finest, sadly.
Definitely going to be a number of lawsuits regarding this. With as many states doing it or planning on doing it. But I think the only way it's going to happen is if the ISPs sue the states doing it. I'd be surprised if the FCC tries to sue the states over it.
I love his analogy to a tightrope walker. Sure a tightrope walker can walk a rope for a very long time without falling off, but if the rope is infinitely long, he'll fall off eventually. Same with nuclear weapons. We've had 70 ish good years where no one fell off the rope. But we have an infinite number of years to go. Someone will fall off eventually. The better question is, will it happen in your lifetime?
> "Cmdlet is vastly superior to other various argument parsing tooling (optparse, argparse, argv, etc.) I've used in the past."

I can't comment on the other options you listed, but I would agree that PowerShell has good features for parsing arguments (if you use advanced cmdlets, which only require one extra line to enable on basic cmdlet code, for [CmdletBinding()] ). Aside from built-in attributes for enabling common argument checks (like checking for nulls), you can completely customise parameter validation using ValidateScript, which allows you to set up a script that must evaluate as true in order for an argument to be valid. I'd be interested to find out if any Unix command line scripting language offers something similar.
Ah cheers that makes sense. One thing I was wondering would they use stainless steel for moulds, to prevent them rusting?
Fossil Discoveries Challenge Ideas About Earth’s Start
We've been over this several times now. Oxfam uses very disingenuous criteria, and their numbers are not to be trusted. They consider debt to be negative wealth, which means that a middle class family with no net savings and a mortgage on their house is "poorer" than a starving child with 2 cents on their pocket.
Either you come off very poorly for a variety of reasons, or you're interviewing for jobs that don't really exist or with companies that enjoy wasting time on recruiting for sport.

Look for shorter term contract gigs. Those are usually real, and once you get in the door, it's often easier to suss out what is real and what is not, and who the players are in that org. Many of the best employees that I've seen hired at non-entry levels came in through that route.
Well, it seems logical that biotech would boom in a country with less regulation than the US.

At the same time, it seems like for biotech to have an explosion akin to the last fifty years explosion of computer technology, one would have to find a way to well and truly automate the processes involved. Last I looked, a vast amount of research is very much by hand, injecting drug into animal by hand, putting liquids in beakers by hand etc.

And part of it is living creatures are all different, and not just different in the two rocks on a beach or two toys out of a cheap mold are different. Living creatures, even two instance of the same creature, have functioning subsystems that function differently. And this is a multi-dimensional thing [1] . Custom tailored therapies attempt to take this into account but so far seem to have generally failed. I would speculate this is because humans have more than two or dimensions of difference between, even in subsystems like the immune system.

Edit: using AI to combine information on these systems that seem intractable in themselves also sounds promising - still many problem there also.

[1] Biochemical Individuality, Roger J. Williams
why is it that inequality doesn't bother you so much?
A lot of grocery stores have non-employees stocking shelves now, usually during the day. These are reps from the vendors, like potato chips or specialty foods that rent shelf space in the store are and responsible for maintaining them.
Ethereum was an ICO.

Was Ethereum a scam?
Please remember the Nobel peace prize is apocryphally attributed to having been formed because of the horrific invention of dynamite. So far every tool starts out being used violently, and the power of tools increase.
So block it- isn't that the point of having One True Ledger?
I love the fact that the announcement couches the order in the state's prerogative to consume services that it deems best fit its needs, which is very slick politically, however that works legally.
Another executive order... and this one only affecting ISPs wanting a contract with the state government. Is that really the best that can be done?
I benchmarked all the frameworks in cold & warm, Warm is also very slow, no concurrency etc'. how many events/sec can u do with a warm Riff instance e.g. in Go & Py? whats the latency?
Re-tooling the CI/CD pipeline for infrastructure and configuration as code
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Well not all caches, just the part tagged with the mispredicted branch
In this context, "in anger" is a phrase that means "in combat". I've fired a gun, but never in anger. That would be still be true if I was angry while at the shooting range.
Montana has had bad experiences with a lack of regulation in the past. Montana was also the state with corporate political donations limits that went up against Citizens United.
More subtle discoverability point; Go log onto your production box and use get-whatever the hell you want. There is nothing you can do wrong if you stick to get- while learning. That really encourages users to open the console and have a go.
Starting point for understanding why YC would want startups to move to the Bay Area would be be to read "Why to Move to a Startup Hub" by Paul Graham, one of the co-founders of YC:

http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html
Companies I consult are looking all over Europe and have employer branding efforts running in the whole of the EU.
How Striking Garment Workers Used Fashion on the Picket Line
5 Things Grady Booch Has Learned About Complex Software Systems (2008)
That's more of a problem with _not_ having them. When you lose prominent contributors you notice how the things were better before, but you are still better off than you would be if they never existed.
Only if the device has a known root exploit that lets you back up the partition before properly unlocking. For example, this is not yet possible on the latest XZ1 series.
To be clear, "dropped" is different than "lost". When someone describes dropping a bomb they're describing an intentional explosion.
I feel that the article also talks about the ever increasing mistrust among many of our individual members -- which are all human beings -- of our society in our daily life...I found it to be quite resonating with my personal experiences, compared to those days a decade or even a few years ago...
This question has been asked many times before; Paul Graham has answered it in several essays, the most interesting of which I think is "A Taste for Makers".

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
Can serverless real-time databases replace large relational based systems?
Being that one of the big topics for freelance work is porting systems back to relational databases, i still encounter companies wanting to drop all server-side and go full on firestore, and cloud functions. I usually advice against it. Am I wrong?
Absolutely agree, but it's another excuse to poop on it. I don't expect real analysis of why it's a bad buy at half the price of a SSN for a sped up Island class capabilities from the press.
Sure, take a look at Raiblocks, NEO, Lisk.
Any actual numbers for how much worse H3 is vs H1 in general? I know the question isn’t quite so simple as mortality rates change over time after a new strain emerges and starts circulating. But TFA seems to be devoid of any actual quantitative data to backup its thesis.
Other obviously moralistic works by him:

* Thidwick the big hearted moose

* Anything with Horton

* How the Grinch stole Christmas
Indian Banks shutdown Bitcoin exchange accounts
Firstly, I didn't blame HTC, I blamed Verizon, hence "So where the OEM's allowed flexibility, the carriers swooped in to fill that void."

Secondly, throwing the issue of "blame" aside and trying to imply that the planned obsolescence phone is somehow the fault of the consumer, you need to consider that until very recently, you had to buy a specific hardware variant of the phone if you wanted your phone to work on Sprint or Verizon, because of the CDMA networks. It wasn't a matter of being a "Verizon-branded" phone. If you wanted to use the phone on Verizon at all, you had to buy the Verizon-specific version (even through HTC directly), and if so, the bootloader was locked.

Not everyone has the luxury of being able to switch carriers if your current carrier is an ass, because they might be the only one servicing your area. So if you're on Verizon and you want a smartphone, there was a time when that meant you were likely bootloader-locked.
Are you? I don’t think the popularity of the tax cut is terribly relevant, although its unpopularity makes this cock-up worse. You felt it was worth correcting, but you can’t back it up with anything more than anecdotes or guesswork. So what’s the point of arguing?
Retroassembler to C
I'm not sure what's obtuse about the second bit. If the goal is just weakening the US Russia is not the only actor with the motive.
This has not been my experience, not at least in research or IT/research sector. More hours do not translate in more results _or_ more focus.

I've seen also an inverse relationship in quality of work and work streaks also in other fields, for example a direct experience for me was automated textile production. More hours in this case has a direct relationship with more product, but results in more stupid mistakes and more importantly I've seen less overall feedback from the production line, where employee are just more eager to say "fuck it" and simply do the work as opposed to try to help in improving the production process. There is a fine line between using your employees as a resource or a brutal work-force.

This was an eye opener for me. There is definitely a balance in every part of the production line, and less work is generally good for everyone.
While I agree, knowledge workers shouldn't have to work 40 hours a week (due to simple cost-benefit of their true output), it just isn't the observed reality in most knowledge-work industries (at least in America). I wouldn't be surprised that, in 50 years, tech has gone the way of finance, where, in order to attain that highly coveted lifestyle, you have to be willing to work 90+ hours a week at the beginning of your career, just to flatline to the comparably reasonable 60+ hours when you progress. This trend is already the norm in large tech companies with regard to their new hires; just throw heads at the problem, as long as it meets the deadline nothing else matters.
"reboot"

Crash. My PC does not normally reboot without me having asked it to. If it does so, it's a crash (unless it's fucking windows update).
I would take a look at the distribution in the top 10k wallets for Raiblocks versus other crypto to get this data. Mine is anecdotal, but I always take a look at this distribution when investing in a new coin and was surprised to find my small investment was on the list.

I believe they changed the captcha as well during this phase to prevent automation. It was a big source of annoyance for people without time lol.
It's unlikely that VCs have more resources then the collective internet though. Of course there will be scams, but there are scams with or without VCs.

The question is -- should only VCs have the opportunity?
Because if being rich is your goal, no one stops you from achieving it, other than yourself.
This article is good and reminded me of a key issue: herd immunity. I wish I could explain to more of my friends how irresponsible it is to not get the flu shot - they view it as simply an individual decision like "I'm choosing to not get the shot knowing full well I might get sick" - but they don't think of the possibility that if they do get sick, they may play a part in infecting other, more vulnerable people, such as a grandparent. Even though the vaccine isn't that effective this year, as long as it's at least somewhat effective in mitigating transmission, it's worth it.
No, because most of that volume is driven by super cheap phones, and their owners spend far less on apps. iOS phones are all high end devices.
No, less. Android users also mostly do not pay, especially in comparison to iOS users.
Ummm...
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/07/trump-begins-to-...
Nope, I mean dropped as in the first definition, as in fell out of the airplane, plummeting pell-mell towards the Earth
I use powershell a lot to automate a lot of things and I find it great for scripting. However the syntax is a little weird.
>>[...] I can feel myself stumbling every time I speak it.

I'm in the same boat, and the kids pick up on our hesitation and lack of confidence in the language. Since so much of language acquisition is being able to speak confidently so that children aren't confused by the implicit context within which phrases and vocabulary are used, our impaired fluency adds more friction (and detracts from the implicit enjoyment) to the process.
That's not quite correct (and neither is that StackOverflow answer).

If you want to execute the EXE stored in a variable or whatnot, then yes, you need `&`, which I think is borrowed from Perl. But otherwise, the rules in PowerShell are the same as a Unix shell: if it's in the PATH, just type the command name (with or without the .exe); otherwise, use the full path.
Why do you say this?

I ask because, I am from Montana and I often find outside knowledge of Montana consists of "they have an unlimited speed on the highway/interstate" (which hasn't been true for quite sometime) mindset applied to any information about Montana. It is usually viewed as a red state, but it's a different kind of red than what you find on the coasts. Our governor is blue and our state was essentially founded by socialists. Our state is usually pretty vocal on political matters and protecting the public (our most famous and easiest example of course being protection of public lands).
In the FAQ
https://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q21

"Can we do it without moving to where you are?

Sorry, no. We tried this once, and by Demo Day that startup was way behind the rest. What we do, we have to do in person. We would not be doing a startup a favor by not making them come to YC events in person.

However, you don't have to be in silicon valley 24x7. If you have a business that requires that you be somewhere else, we will work something out so you can participate in YC events while also being attentive to your business. Usually the founders will rotate between locations, or fly back and forth.

Of course, after the 3 month program, you can go wherever you want."
I told them it will have to be Ethereum for now
40 seems pretty arbitrary don't you think? Why isn't it 45 or 35? It's probably because everyone else is doing 40. So you are missing others' office hours if you do 35. But you have to consider everyone doing 35 as the alternative here.
Linus Torvalds declares Intel fix for Meltdown/ -complete and utter garbage
So long as Microsoft continues to operate its Linux patent racket I won't be letting PowerShell or .Net Core anywhere near my Linux boxen. People, wake-up. It is NOT OK to let Microsoft become another Linux player without holding it to account for its current and past anti-open source practices.
Kim Dotcom sues New Zealand government for damages
Mobitix cameras have a high level of customisability in regards to motion detection. High end but worth it.
Are unemployment rates across countries usually explained by one simple reason?
What about *BSD ? How are they managing their kernels and other important decisions?

I know next to nothing about the BSD communities, my only interaction with the BSD is discussing the taste of a pizza Theo de Raadt and I shared about 20 years ago and young me had no idea who he was. I later heard he is at the helm of OpenBSD and is used to strongly defend his opinions but it is only hearsay.

I have no idea how FreeBSD or OpenBSD communities are organized but I suspect they might not be relying on one specific individual for their major decisions?