skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, I'm currently re-reading the 1632 books, and one thing that's frustrating me is how to read the various German and other non-English names in the book (I cannot read without subvocalizing the dialogue). On one hand, I know how most of these words should be pronounced. On the other hand, there's no way that most of the uptimer characters are going to not speak German with a heavy American accent (and it doesn't help that the authors anglicize a lot of place names, such as Thüringen -> Thuringia). So part of me wants to subvocalize the dialogue the way the words are supposed to be pronounced, and another part of me wants to subvocalize the dialogue the way the uptimers would actually pronounce them.
I don't know where you are thinking about implementing your"solution". There are a lot of people trying to solve the problem you are solving, even governments have. I am writing from Ghana and the government has tried two times and failed. Two questions you need to address: 1. does your solution really align with the people's need ? 2. Is it sustainable? After you have found interest, you ask if the people are also interested in managing the program, after you are gone. Is there the required infrastructure to support. I am in development work and this is really core to making impactful change, I was going to say lasting change but I took it back. There are other level of questions but please answer the two questions above before you even move ahead with your idea otherwise it's a waste of resources.
I agree and that might soon change. Missouri’s attorney general has launched a probe into Google. Others might follow suit soon.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/11/conservative-bac...
IPFS is a protocol for file-sharing, not for file-hosting, right?
There were warning strikes and negotiations are set to begin this week.
If by "very thin" you mean up to 2.5 meters thick, then yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_icebreaker
Oh wow, I totally forgot I had one of those (the T Rex) growing up.

Ended up being one of my favorite bath toys.

Memories.
GENERATION YOUTUBE MAKES ME SICK
Fortunately there are quite a lot of people in the UK who are wondering which country they’ll be living in around 14 months from now.
You can't generalize and say all ICOs are scams. Sure, a lot of them are useless. But look at NEO (formerly Antshares). It had an ICO a while ago and it's becoming a top crypto.
Amazon Go debuts, and its prying cameras foil our shoplifting attempts
Here's something to add to the discussion. China was the first nation to approve a gene therapy for use in Humans. I don't know if it is effective or not.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt0104-3 (over a decade old)
But this can cause other problems. An example would be the way that Powershell for a long time aliased the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to both 'curl' and 'wget'. This was supposed to be a convenience feature, but it broke all sorts of scripts that were written to use "real" curl or wget because Invoke-WebRequest didn't accept curl or wget option parameters (oops).

They've fixed this in recent versions by shipping actual curl binaries, but it's a useful illustration of how just aliasing popular shell commands to their Powershell alternatives isn't necessarily helpful.
Combine this:

https://makezine.com/projects/make-41-tinkering-toys/diy-inj...

With this:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Plastic-Injection-Moldi...

Alternatively, you can purchase a hand injection molding machine as mentioned in the above instructable, if you don't want to build your own:

http://www.easyplasticmolding.com/model_150/home.html

...for $1800.00. So - if you have more money than time, materials and skill - well, it's possible.
"Apple is to be admired as the world’s most valuable listed company for the simple reason that it makes things people want to buy, even while facing fierce competition."

Really? Apple gets a clean chit for everything?

I live in the Linux world,
can the BSD (including all the variants) contributors / maintainers enlighten if Apple is contributing anything back?

(NB: I am aware of what the BSD license allows. I'm mostly interested about Apple's behaviour from the "being a good citizen" POV.)
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It's not like Germany doesn't have immigration... There's the whole pool of the EU who can pretty much immediately start working in Germany. Immigration for skilled workers in Germany with employment prospect is far easier than for a lot of other countries (certainly easier than e.g. into the US). There's also a significant influx into the work pool from refugees and asylum seekers, although that should certainly happen more smoothly and with more support.
Debouncing ReactJS Events
All startup fraud will have moved onto the internet, where it belongs.
There are more than enough measures available to employers in Germany in bad times (eg Kurzarbeit, "short work", which all but saved the German economy in 2008), so bad times needn't be an argument for restricting participation in the wealth of good times.
I'm gonna just be honest here and say that I don't really know the difference between "microservices" and "service-oriented architecture" except for the notion that "microservices" implies breaking up your services before they get too big and hairy, which kind of seems obvious.

If some companies go completely nuts and deploy 5 microservices per developer, then yes, that is madness. If all of those microservices are REST/JSON microservices, that's madness squared because you're wasting half your time in serialization/deserialization. If you're managing all of this stuff with Kubernetes because it's trendy rather than because it's actually necessary for your use case, then you're probably making a bad call.

But ultimately, services give development teams ownership over features in a complete, end-to-end way that is fundamentally impossible with monoliths once you're past a certain size.
If people are interested in tech monopolies, innovation, and government, here are some great books:

- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, by John Gertner: A running theme is how AT&T was motivated to "give back" to the country to avoid anti-monopoly action by the government. I take today's talk about Google/Facebook/Apple/Amazon to be a negotiating tactic to motivate them to act similarly, although I wouldn't be surprised to see real government involvement either.

- The Chip by T. R. Reid: the invention of the integrated circuit near-simultaneously by two different people/companies.

- Where Wizards Stay up Late by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon: the origins of ARPANET at BBN.

Two other closely-related themes in these books are:

- Patents (a limited monopoly), and how the patents for both transistors and integrated circuits were licensed very freely, allowing much faster innovation.

- Government spending, e.g. how the space race and arms buildup paid for the early years of IC development before they were commercially competitive with just wiring up lots of components.

. . .

OT, I found all these books more interesting than The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder. Although it won a Pulitzer, it never felt like any of it "mattered" in the same way. (I had never heard of the Data General Eclipse.) It just seemed like another story of engineers killing themselves with overwork.
> It has become clear to me that sub-40 hour work weeks don't really work from many perspectives

Can you elaborate? This seems interesting and not intuitive to me. Personally, I feel more productive at around 20-30 hrs/wk
So? The survey is older than the present. The comments I've seen online and in person show that people actually do support it, which will only increase once higher paychecks arrive.

Are you arguing for the sake of arguing?
It has already impacted tourism and international student enrollment in colleges. Logically, business creation would follow. Canada is reaping the benefits. Tourism is up 20% and college enrollment is up by significant percentage as well.
Great work, the whole system works amazingly well
As far as I recall, you can download code to your desktop but not your laptop, unless you’re doing something like iOS development that would be difficult to do over say ssh -Y.
It's quite obvious that he's intend to reduce immigration. That's not likely an immediate problem for white founders from Europe. But there's obvious potential in Africa, the Middle East, or Asia. And it's crystal clear that if Trump gets his way, Elon Musk would have a rather hard time getting permanent residency in the US.

Apart from these actual, specific challenges, emigrating is a huge step for most people. The general hostility against "strangers" would definitely make me think twice about moving to the US today, even though I once spent a year in the Southwest and had a wonderful time.

Just dealing with customs officers at the airport has become a nightmare over the last decade: Being fingerprinted like a criminal is the most obvious change. But I've lately noticed that the attitude more and more resembles the thuggishness usually associated with police states. They have always had all the power, but lately they seem to relish to show it to you. Need 10 seconds to find your flight number? "Go to the back of the line, NOW, and try again with the respect the greatest country on the face of the earth deserves". (actual quote).
Neither Bluth nor his studio had anything to do with the TLBT sequels, aside from perhaps signing over the rights. and collecting the royalties.
Somewhat unrelated, but on the topic of detecting motion, I have a Nest Outdoor camera and subscribe to Nest's "Nest Aware" service for $10 a month, which enables me to save a week's worth of video and also is supposed to give me "intelligent" alerts when motion is detected, and is supposed to use "advanced cloud algorithms" to let me know when important things are happening and whether or not I should be notified.

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. It is worse when it has rained and the reflection of headlights can be seen in the "zone" I have set up to send me alerts. You would think Google would be able to drop false alarms down to nothing for the common things like everyday street traffic, but apparently not.

They also have a weird rule where you can only get 1 notification within a 30 minute window. So if I take my garbage outside and the camera sees me, it will send an alert. If an axe murderer comes onto the property 20 minutes after that, the camera won't alert me.
I think there's also a risk of conflating 'education' with our 'education system' that teaches citizens to be good productive workers but doesn't teach citizens how to analyze and debate about the nature of our society.

I believe the parent might be referring to 'education' as in logic, political history, philosophy so that the student can retrace the historical steps and recreate a societal scaffold that may or may not look like society today in the same way civil engineers are taught trig, calculus, static mechanics etc so the engineer can retrace historical steps and engineer the structures that may or may not reinforce or criticize our engineering approaches today.
I liked this, but the repeated 'fuck you for X' took away from the quality of the writing.

Which is a shame - still good, but would have been really good without it.
The thing is - I find it almost impossible to recognise peoples' voices on the phone, unless they have a particularly distinctive voice - usually the accent is the distinguishing factor. But I think I'd get this straight away, even over the phone. Maybe something to do with being a (very amateur) music producer, though.
>>If everyone understands English and primarily speaks it, there is no real need, or opportunity, to learn/use a second language.

This hits upon the key motivating driver (or lack thereof) of language acquisition: multiple languages generally act as a force multipler[1], but aren't as "useful" when considered in isolation.

The other problem with language acquisition from a purely utilitarian aspect is the fairly large time commitment which might be better spent elsewhere (e.g. studying core subjects in the resident language). But the paradox of the force multiplier factor is that you ideally want a fairly strong base to amplify in the first case (e.g. Math/Science). Even though people may not break it down this way, this seems to be the intuitive reasoning use by [semi-]multilingual parents, and is often another reason why the "culture/tradition" or "fun" aspects of language learning are emphasized as compensating factors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_multiplication
Good job Montana. If I recall correctly, the FCC ruling also prevented states from creating their own NN laws. I am wondering if there will be litigation around in executive order.
You are only 18. You have two options, go finish school and get a degree so you have proof of being able to finish things people ask you to do (thats what employers want), or think of a real world project. One that solves a problem, or is marketable, and complete that and use it as proof that you can execute a project. Working on random personal projects is great, and it shows that you are driven by your own interests, but will you be as driven working on someone else's idea? There are some people out there that have a really hard time taking direction, and it comes down to proving that you would fit in a work environment.

My advice is to get a degree, there is much less risk involved, and you will have a base to fall back on. If you don't, you always risk the personal project not working out, and you will have a much more difficult time climbing in the work force, unless you really get lucky with a personal project that gets exposure and has an impact (seems like its happening to people left and right, but don't let the interconnection of the internet fool you. Those are 1 out 100's of millions of people).
Something I find interesting is that, although on the surface this seems like a way to deal with rotations in general, it only works for certain angles. For instance, with a 45 degree rotation, you have to scale the image, too, and the resulting tile contains two of the original image.

Topologically, an underlying problem is that there is not a continuous family of rotations for a torus (the topological space corresponding to two independent periodic dimensions).
I've long felt that nVidia is going to rise from the ashes of Intel, not AMD.
Not sure i like the "private party" less than the massive advertizing bullsh*t jungle ICOs are going to bring if they become mainstream.

At least if someone gets ripped off, it isn't some poor needy person hoping to win the lottery.
It also doesn't mean it is. You could say the same about companies raising venture funding, or the stock market, or private equity dumping companies onto the balance sheet of other companies, etc
How is that an example of one of the failures of anonimization of data? To me it just looks like AOL did a shitty job, not that the concept as a whole is a lost cause.
Should I abandon any hopes of winning the Nobel in physiology any time soon ?

In my defense the parent comment was asking for anecdotal evidence.
In theory, we could either have one of us run a mining node for long enough to confirm the transaction or we could find a third-party miner to do it for us on whatever terms we could negotiate directly with them.

In practice, running a mining node without specialized equipment is prohibitively expensive so we're stuck finding a third party. Most of those third parties are looking to do a volume business and aren't interested in one-off small dollar transactions, so it's centralized exchanges or nothing.
and it's much cheaper to work. If you're only doing a couple thousand moldings, you don't care as much about mold life
I used to work strict 35 hours weeks in Germany. I think my productivity was higher then. Most people were actually working during that time. Now I often sit in meetings where nothing gets done and people just go through the motions. Having a hard upper limit is an incentive for management not to waste time.
There's one for Big Hero 6 too. Don't care much for the animation style; if they're gonna go 2D I'd rather they used something that looked smooth and dynamic, like Kim Possible. But plot-wise it keeps up much of the vibe of the film.
"Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning"

Children don't need that special mindset to learn. They learn all the time and pick up the language on the way...
I might get flack for it- but we did get by without this technology level before- and we might do so again.

Also im against this view of the people beeing some puppets easily swayed, they might ralley behind people yelling for a downfall - because technology actually changed theire lives for the worse en mass?
Montana. Now that's an unexpected source for business regulation.
Approximately 7 years ago I applied to YC, and rightly so I was rejected [our idea sucked, our presentation of it sucked even more...i had a lot to learn in general]. Having said that, given how far the world has changed in that time, but how little progress YC seems to have made [other than diluting their value across a larger number of companies per cohort], I don't know they're still as interesting in the world today.

Additionally, i hate Bay Area "culture". I feel like it's got a lot of the problems Hollywood has, and frankly even if it didn't, i'm not sure I'd want to live in an overpriced apartment in the burbs. On the plus side, the weather is great...
You're doing great!

Being a self-starter and educating yourself works just fine in the new world, especially for programmers. School can be useful but is by no means required for many people.

Now go read some job descriptions, build up your list of skills to include most of the required ones, and start applying for real world jobs!

Or, if you like to invent new products, you could start a startup. YC applications just opened!
> They use temporary contracts because permanent contracts are too expensive. Making temporary contracts (which were actually created to flexibilize hiring) more expensive won't solve that issue.

Sure. But they hire 40h weeks not because hiring 50h wasn't want they wanted but because it's illegal. I'm not saying it's easy to outlaw temporary contracts but it's worth a try.
VCs have the resources and capacity to pursue due diligence, even in very technical domains. Indeed this occasionally fails and you get Theranos. Yet for the "public", Theranos will undoubtedly become the norm.
Why would he do that? I completely agree with him on that, and I already told him I've been pushing back on it since I first heard about it a few weeks ago. Although there are technical reasons why we might need IBRS_ALL as a stop-gap before we can get to a proper solution, we bloody well ought to have line-of-sight to a proper solution in the same way that RDCL_NO says "it's OK, we fixed it" for Meltdown.

But that's a separate topic. As I explicitly said, I limited that answer to the things we can do on current hardware.
A giant market with a single gatekeeper.

Does anyone have thoughts on alternative app stores like Google Play or Amazon? The markets are obviously much smaller, but there's also much less competition.
those managers had to care for at least the existence of details if they allowed you to do what was needed to honor those details. A truly "I dont care about details" manager would ask you to do something, you'd explain it cant be done that way for X, Y, Z, etc., and they'd say, "I don't care, do it anyway". A manager might not know the details of the thing you are doing for them, but they need to have an appreciation that details exist, which probably means they know about details from some other field they've been involved in, like sports, carpentry, art, or something else like that, such that they understand when someone says, "we need to do it this way because X, Y, Z", they know that those are details, you know them, and that's important to honor.
We also have shifted from the 6 or 7 day workweek to 5.
Not really. There is a fix. It is not "proper" because after implementing it, few businesses and people will continue to buy Intel products
That's spectre, not meltdown with the in-browser PoC
> that's a minor issue?

Compared to a government shutdown? Yes, very much a minor issue.

Like I said, important in it's own right, but not in comparison to this.
I'm in the southern hemisphere (NZ) and I got it after new years, It's the first time I've ever had the flu during summer.

I got the flu shot late last year, but it didn't help much against this strain. I'm just getting over it now. It's a quite a nasty cold.
I disagree. No one has ever lost bitcoins from keeping them in cold storage with multi sig keys distributed in safety deposit boxes. Literally no one. Its secure.
Charging infrastructure is getting near ubiquity.

https://www.tesla.com/supercharger

https://www.plugshare.com/
The Last 747
But if he doesn't think it's a mistake... what could it be?
> Unfortunately unless worldwide culture changes such that demand for produced goods drops dramatically in favor for intangibles (humanities, happiness, etc.) any small union that does this will basically become irrelevant in no short time. It's important to note that the union in the OP has huge leverage.

This is exactly the theory behind socialism. Capitalism is great at increasing our productivity, but past a certain point, you can't continue valuing productivity more than worker happiness. Socialism is less efficient than capitalism, even Marx admitted that, but at some point it begins to make sense to shift our values. When will that point be? Probably not yet, maybe not as soon as people think, but probably not never. If the metalworking industry is productive enough so that it makes sense to shift their values, then more power to them.
I would presume that something this low level is quite commercially sensitive so unfortunately we might never find out.

As far as I can tell they have not released any technical information about how the original microcode update worked.
Or that time a U.S. Bomber crashed on U.S. soil (North Carolina) with 2 nukes on board during a training mission; one of which was armed!

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_Goldsboro_B-52_crash
> Shelves are stocked with shape and color variety in mind, and they have rigid item-placement spots. Those factors combine to make it very difficult to put stuff where Amazon doesn't want you to. Got the wrong butter? There's only one reasonable place to return the butter of your discontent.

I wonder if Amazon has applied this approach to their fulfillment warehouses. I imagine it'd cut down a significant amount of the overhead and help reduce the amount of "hostile workplace" complaints they've received over the years.
There is more to it than just time..

As a History major all I ever needed to do was read all the material. I dedicated enough time to do that and was fine in all my history classes. 90% reading 10% note review.

For CS and Biology, I read the material but that didn't mean I understood it well enough to map it onto the material that came afterward. I never really knew when I understood something well enough, or how to know be confident I knew something well enough to move forward.

Programming eventually came to me through websites like CodeWars, where I could repeat the easy concepts Over and Over again as simple games. After months of playing around, I understood them in a more subconscious way. Although I still don't know how to make this progress efficiently.
I mean, we've had a small percentage of the planet's human population * 65 years or so to engineer code complexity?

Even given intelligent (depending on the code's author) design vs random evolutionary pressure... every living thing on the planet * billions (/Sagan voice) of years is a long time to compete with.