skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...the general shape of this diagram calls to mind the shape of the Japanese archipelago, so Japanese optical engineers will often refer to a type of glass as a region of Japan. For instance, if an engineer is looking for a glass with low Abbe number but high refractive index (the extreme upper right of the diagram), they'd say they're looking for a "Hokkaido" glass. (Hokkaido is Japan's northernmost island.)

I found this a wonderful little detail that shows the humanity of the factory.
You IIRC incorrectly. It is not based in Russia. Moreover, its founder got relieved of his business (VKontakte), by a state affiliated oligarch, whereupon he bought a passport from St Kitts and left Russia to never return. So he’s pretty pissed at the regime.
Nhập quốc tịch Mỹ và những điểm cần chú ý
Việc hoàn thành cuộc thi kiểm tra tiếng anh là điều bắt buộc để được nhập quốc tịch Mỹ. Tuy vậy vẫn tồn tại một số người đặc biệt được xem xét và miễn thi như những đối tượng dưới đây: người trên 50 tuổi và người sống tại Mỹ tối thiểu 20 năm, thường trú nhân hơn 55 tuổi và người sống tại Mỹ tối thiểu 15 năm, người hơn 65 tuổi và đã nhập cư Mỹ thấp nhất 20 năm, người bị khuyết tật hay nhiễm những bị bệnh thể xác, bệnh về thần kinh bệnh lớn khiến cho việc không làm được dự phần vào việc học hoặc kiểm tra tiếng anh. Loại trừ các trường hợp khác lạ bên trên thì chủ thẻ bắt buộc tham dự kỳ thi ngữ anh và hoàn tất thì được đủ điều kiện phê duyệt chuyện nhập quốc tịch Mỹ. Do đó, việc trang bị và trang bị cho bản thân tri thức tiếng anh không những là quan trọng để có được giấc mộng trở nên người Mỹ hợp pháp mà còn có ích rất lớn trong giao thiệp hàng ngày của đối tác trong cuộc sống tại đất nước này.
Thông tin: http://immica.org/tin-tuc/tin-tuc-di-tru-my/nhung-cach-nhap-cu-my-pho-bien-hien-nay.html
Địa chỉ:
HCM: P.905 & P.1703, Saigon Tower, 29 Lê Duẩn, Q.1
Hà Nội: Lầu 10, Pacific Place, 83B Lý Thường Kiệt, Q. Hoàn Kiếm
Đà Nẵng: Tầng 3 - Indochina Riverside, 74 Bạch Đằng, Hải Châu
Phone: +848 38274888
Email: Vietnam@immica.org
Or is it possible that the distribution here is really skewed? The ones who got the invites would not be here anxious, they probably ate having a beer and are high already. It's just us. Non invites ganging up.
Note: the article is from 2015.

To get better developers need to increase their area (Breadth * Depth). Going deeper and deeper in one area may make you an expert on that topic, but it is easy to become irrelevant if you have no breadth and a disruption occurs. Of course being wide but shallow can be equally troubling, since you can't do anything that requires more than the basics.
I respect Rich Hickey, but let me be a bit of a contrarian here. Feel free to hate on me:

First, try replacing "developer" with a "production line worker" from the article and see how that feels, because that's what I feel "development" is turning into.

One of the most respected qualities of a programmer used to be "creativity". This is not the case anymore. Nowadays developers are so focused on "being seen as a good developer"
than actually thinking about why they are a developer in the first place--to build cool stuff that can have huge impact. It's understandable since "being seen as a good developer" is what makes you money.

The concept of "developer" is turning into nothing more than a production line worker. If you don't believe me, just sit back and try to think of what tools you're using to build apps.

Is it YOU who's using the tools? Or is it the tools that are controlling you? You see this in all the "cutting edge tools" you must learn if you want to call yourself a good developer, such as webpack, react, grunt, gulp, npm, mocha, gradle, etc. etc. You spend most of your time learning these meta-technologies than actually building stuff.

These are great tools, but what they're also doing is automating everything so there's less room for creativity. Everybody builds apps the same way. Note that I'm not saying this is bad. I'm saying the "developers" are unknowingly becoming just a cog in the machine which can be replaced easily.

And I'm sure it WILL be replaceable because we are increasingly surrounding ourselves with these uniform ways of doing things. In the end there will be no room left for so called developers.

And when that day comes, it won't be the "better developer" who will be worth a lot because all these techniques you learned will be replaceable with machines. You may think that's some paranoid sci-fi stuff and you're still making $120K a year so you're just fine, but wait till you find yourself looking like a production line worker who get let go because machines are better at doing what you do. Let's be honest, most programming nowadays is nothing more than plumbing together multiple modules written by other people. These abilities won't be valuable in the future because they are totally replaceable with machines.

What truly matters is your ability to ideate and build something novel. Don't just follow the herd and do what the famous people say or tweet online, because you will end up becoming the casualty.

I guess what I really wanted to say was "don't try to become a better developer, try to become a better creator", because otherwise you'll be easily replaced in the future. It's coming.
Most hot-stuffed pull-up leathers are water resistant because of the incredible amount of waxes and oils added. Pull-up leather is often used in boots and duffels for that reason. Veg tan leathers can be made water resistent with Resolene or a TON of surfaces waxes like Carnauba.

Source: I work with a lot of leather.
I think Japan, for the most part, has been able to avoid having to resort to low paid immigrant labor for their craftsmanship-centred goods.

Sure, some mass produced items in Japan do use cheap foreign labor but it has not yet bled into their legendary craftsmanship industries.
If you look at the Java timeline, the full Java marketing blitz wasn’t in full swing. JavaScript was announced on December 4, 1995 and Java (alpha) was public in March of the same year. A stable Java wasn’t available until 1996. It was more coordinated than riding the coattails.
I believe Google does this for suggested search. I’ve noticed that my suggested search is eerily spot on for my current conversation with someone who is searching or just searched for something that I too am now searching for.
That's absolutely wrong! Tracking protection just results in dumber ads. But they still clutter your pages and waste your bandwidth.
Canon lens factory tour interview (2017)
Any entrepreneurs dealing with cancer?
No water.
Im a software entrepreneur and cancer survivor and have this idea of connecting with similar people. I created a meetup group that has more info. If you know anyone that fits this category and may be interested, plz share. Thanks!
Same here, the app has way better features than WhatsApp, which of course is the obvious alternative. Signal is supposedly very good and has a desktop app to match, but no Windows Phone client makes it a deal breaker for me
Mozilla is paid by Google. WHy would they antagonize their own parent company?
I use containers to keep some activities limited to it. As my primary browsing is open all the time which. For each of these activities I use a separate container; shopping, work, research, banking, payments and social.

I use uBO with dynamic filtering[1] + I've replaced 'CAD' with 'Forget Me Not'[2] works like a charm.

[1]https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-qu...
[2]https://github.com/Lusito/forget-me-not
I know what a one-way function is but what does making the creation of information one-way mean? What information are we creating and what is this one-way that we can not go back? Do you mean to ensure that the information can not be destroyed after it was created? Or do you mean to order things temporally? And how does proof of work do that?
Here's a link to when this was first appeared on HN (March 27): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16688681

The comments have input from the add-on's author (groovecoder).
Carvana acquires Car360 for $22M to improve its car-buying platform
What could you feasibly use this for? The 1.2GHz CPU seems like it would put a bit of a damper on almost anything besides answering email and basic word processing.
If chess clubs are dying around the country because people lost interest in chess, that doesn't mean they aren't looking for something else to play.

When Jesus spoke about churches (ekklesia), he wasn't referring to a building, an organization or leadership structure or rules. He did not speak about "sunday school", singing songs, or any or that.

He was talking about a spontaneous gathering of people who felt "called out of the world to follow him and serve God". It's not like he told his disciples to go ahead and start this "Christian" religion and build the buildings that people would go to every Sunday like clock work.

We are the product of culture and memories. A lot of people have a negative association with religion for a lot of different reasons, but that doesn't mean these people are not spiritual and would not appreciate meeting other like-minded individuals in a non-judgmental environment.
I have only used Kotlin in the context of Android so far, and like the language — I wish Java had many of these features — but almost find it more of a pain in the ass than its worth for reasons like this (kapt). At some point, the build times get so bad I asked myself, am I being more productive having neat language features X,Y,Z or having 15sec build times (already too long) vs 2 minute build times (unbearable). Its like going from REPL driven development to something else.
you're wrong - Spacemacs offers very nice tools for structural editing out of the box and including clever-parens layer. You can also use Parinfer or Lispy. You can customize things to your liking using combination of Paredit and Smartparens.
No. They aren't. They may make decisions that impact millions of people, but they aren't a government. They may 'govern' the technical details of their implementations... But they are not governments.

They have no sovereignty, no expectation to the rights thereof. They do not answer to everyone that their decisions affect. They are social constructs that happen to shuffle around information, own assets, and generate revenue.

It is CRITICAL that no one makes the mistake that these businesses are anything more than the path of least innovation to solving problems.

The tech industry has a major hubris problem. They don't need people mistaking them for legitimate governments to make it even worse.

Every person needs to understand that no software product is really a big thing. The reason they SEEM big is the sheer data magnitudes involved. Most of which the layman has no real concept of.
That's what I do on Android, except I use Brave instead of Chrome/Firefox.

I change the default settings to block all JavaScript by default, and then use the Brave button to whitelist sites I trust and actually want to use.

Browsing the web (especially news sites) on my Android has gone from "a complete nightmare" to "tolerable" because of this.
I don't follow.

LEGO is the singular and the plural form. Thus "a LEGO brick" and "the LEGO bricks" are valid sentences. That's why some choose to correct Americas on their use of "legos." It has nothing to do with trademark law.
I mean, depends on your MUA in practice. I think by standard for server side threading— https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5256 — "base subject" is definitely a valid consideration. I only skimmed though. :-) feel free to extract a spec, I'm curious (but not enough to read 19 pages right now)
> I never understood how these time stamps are trusted and reliable.

I guess for difficulty adjustment purposes, that's not a hard requirement, it'd be closer to "plausible and consensus agreed timestamps". It doesn't matter much if a bad actor can try to slightly influence the raising or lowering of difficulty, so long as the long-term once every ten minutes "clock tick" holds and can be used to define transaction ordering.
I'm interested in UBI, though I won't claim enough actual understanding to say wonderful or terrifying.

Instead, I think the big deal is that the problem UBI is being discussed to solve is not otherwise being taken seriously. Low education jobs are becoming lower wage and offering fewer hours, while the growth of high education jobs is not keeping up.

America freaked out about miners, but mining declined over 80 years, while jobs like trucking, an order of magnitude larger in terms of workers, are expected to have a much more rapid decline.

Perhaps these fears won't come to pass anytime soon. But if we spend 20 years denying the problem instead of considering options, in 20 years we will be no better prepared. Same for any number you drop in.

At a minimum, it'd be good to be studying the issue. Even if technological unemployment is temporary or a nonissue, it would be really nice to have evidence to that effect instead of trite dismissal.
I think you meant to ask why is Facebook treating its users like shit?
"Turbo’s speed & efficiency is largely achieved by utilizing the same techniques modern frontend applications use for snappy performance—tree-shaking, lazy-loading, and plain ol’ XHR/fetch with gzip...
- Retrieves only the files you need, on-demand
- Robust caching with multiple failover strategies
- Lightning fast dependency resolution
- Proven to work at scale

An interesting new in-browser pkg manage to explore.
Another comment pointed out that Netscape originally planned to call it LiceScript but was encouraged by Sun to change it JavaScript so I say if we're going to change the name we go with the original one. Either that or argue that the original holder of the Java trademark essentially blessed the use of its mark and continue calling it JavaScript.
Most mathematical results would be unreachable by amateurs due to the sheer amount of background knowledge, especially of existing literature, required to make progress on a problem (and in some cases to even understand the statement of the problem, e.g. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodge_conjecture).

Elementary graph theory and combinatorics are somewhat outliers in this regard, as there is not so much "theory" per se that one has to build on or work with. Tim Gowers's "Two Cultures" essay is an interesting read on this topic: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~wtg10/2cultures.pdf
One of the great pleasures of working at a research university is walking through the stacks and seeing shelf after shelf of books on the odd and interesting topics—-and they’re all free for the taking.

I’d easily put this in the top three reasons I stay in this job.
By not breaking things, Privacy Badger will essentially let some cookies and trackers pass through which aren't cross tracking but these could leave behind a trail. Some will stay dormant until activated.

CAD or any similar cookie deleting add-on will essentially kill any cookie that isn't required for your active tabs. This way nothing is left behind to track or trail you.
If users need to go through so many hoops to avoid facebook tracking, Best use privacy badger + don't use facebook at all.
It seems unlikely that he would have had the breakthrough without those two years of effort. Step one of the Feynman algorithm is necessary for step two.
That is quite amusing. Nonetheless, Muslims and Jews will NEVER eat "frankenmeat" thats more than 1.8 billion people to begin with. I also very much doubt synthetic meat will take over the market unless unless there's some natural cause that cuts off every human access to meat. Westerners are moving away from the steroid bred in favor of organic breeds. Locals in developing nations mostly source meat locally even though the affluent ones still buy the shopping mall meat.

Synthetic meat will be relegated to junk food status unless they hide the source and process from consumers, that's even if it makes it out of the lab into wide-scale manufacturing.
Shouldn't the onus be on the developers of the applications sitting on top of the smartphones? We don't chide PC manufacturers for video game addicted kids, do we?
It is unfortunate that "ECMAScript" is simply a terrible name. I understand why the term is used, but that doesn't make it inherently good, easy to say, or memorable.

Fortunately the ES shorthand is more workable (e.g. ES6, ES2017, etc).
that's actually pretty helpful! Do you know if there's an equivalent in the POSIX spec? I looked around for a while and didn't find one. I want my daemon to work on more than just Linux, so I'm trying hard to stick to pure POSIX.
Creating application icons with Inkscape
The short and sweet version:

Analytic philosophy comes from the British empiricists (think Hume) and idealists (think McTaggart), and values precision of language and relation of ideas to concrete particulars (e.g., logic). Continental philosophy comes from the phenomenology of the German idealists (think Kant, then Hegel) and values accounts that accord closely with human experience (contributing to the common complaint that continental prose is pointlessly obscure).

The analytic tradition is dominant in American and British philosophy departments, while the continental tradition remains somewhat popular in Germany and enjoys some traction in American liberal arts as a whole.

To make things slightly confusing, philosophers are frequently exchanged between the traditions: Kant has experienced a resurgence in interest among analyticists following Rawls' work, and research in moral psychology has been worked into contemporary critical theory.
You don't need an app. Use it in the browser.

But you need a functioning team/community using it to see how it works.

Mobile is different. From what I hear the Slack client is better/easier to use than the Zulip client. Haven't used either of them myself.
In sorry, but, What's the point of this thread? Would there be a thread for the death of Klara Polzl?
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Even limited to politics, it would be tough to compete with Harriet Beecher Stowe or Rosa Parks.
In Sydney, I think emails should arrive around 3 PM....stressed out !!
Sounds like a bit of practice is needed! Don't have a BBQ, so will practice on-trail. Did you bake bread this way? (I feel it's less forgiving than, say, a roast.)

The arm increases weight percieved, but I really mean "ultra-light" bushwalking. e.g. my tent (a "bivvy") was less than 1kg. So... even a regular saucepan or frying pan is over-the-top in weight! Alum foil is more "ultra-light". :)
Thanks for the nice note! I'm glad you still find it useful.

I do hope things improve over time. I'd love to come back to CL, and actually plan to sometime soon. I'd like to get my pet project, Turtl (which was using cl-async/Wookie in production and is now migrating to node), in a stable place (and hopefully making money from it at some point) and then start dipping my toe into game programming again. I'll almost definitely use CL over anything else. Maybe I'll write the GPG-verifying, version-pinning quicklisp wrapper I've always wanted while I'm at it =].

As far as retrospective, I think I suffered from the part of the lisp community I had always hoped wasn't true (or hoped I could change): people are much quicker to build their own version than to improve on something existing. I think if Wookie had gotten more attention and cl-async had had a few more drivers written (postgres, mysql, etc) it could have gotten a foothold. It didn't though, and I got tired of hacking through the digital reeds with my machete when I already knew javascript pretty well and node had all this stuff figured out already. It's funny, after using Express for ~4 years, I keep having the urge to go back and implement what I've learned into Wookie. I have to tell myself that it's probably best to just let it sit for now.

On another note, my dog, Wookie, who the project was named after, died last week. So it seems even more appropriate to let the whole thing rest. I might re-use the name if I come back to the CL world, though. Seems its doppleganger project got more focus anyway.
Jeff Dean spoke about this topic in his keynote for the Tensorflow Dev Converence https://youtu.be/kSa3UObNS6o?t=27m32s
Airbnb updates ToS for GDPR compliance
Still messes with alignment if you want to do things like keep your comments aligned at the right of the page.
Do you think the same argument, if applied more generally, would lead towards the exclusion of all foreign tech companies from all nations? Thinking here of the deep ties between Google, Amazon, Facebook, PayPal and the US military-industrial complex.
I don't think they compensate so much better than other similar companies. Their vesting cycle sucks too.
I guess it depends on what your app "Javascript" does.

The key idea in trademark disputes/claims is that you are probably ok as long as your mark isn't confusingly similar to a widely known valid mark by another entity/owner. So if your Javascript app has nothing whatsoever to do with the programming language or computer in general, Apple shouldn't take down your app.

Eons ago Apple Computer was sued by Apple Corp (Beatle's record label) for trademark infringement. I wouldn't be too surprised if the Steve's deliberately named their computer company after the Beattles's corporate creature, being that Jobs was an ardent Beatles fan. They settled and agreed not to enter each other's business (ie, music and computer), so as not to confuse consumers. Apple is a bit hypocritical in this regard though -- in one trademark lawsuit, the company sued a mom-and-pop grocer in Poland whose website, A.pl, Apple claimed, violated Apple's trademark, not too long ago and was criticized for their insanely absurd legal tactics.
This comment seems hilarious to someone who grew up with 486s that did those things fine. However, I’m inclined to agree that i would find this machine challenging to use as my daily thing.
it is linked elsewhere on this page, but this will do that
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/temporary-con...
vim now. Visual Studio and Sublime for a long time though.

May try VS Code again soon
To sum it up better : you don't need turbotax at all in France.

http://www.impots.gouv.fr/ . (it would be taxes.gov.us here ) already has all the prefill that all these services have.

I guess it can always be argued that maybe corporations are more cost effective than a government.

We would need to compare the figures though, in France corporations don't spend millions bribing the government in order to do abandon the idea of improving the tax system.
> It looks a bit like a map of the Japanese islands, so optical engineers will often talk about "Hokkaido", "Tokyo" or "Nagasaki" glass.

It is interesting; I wonder if (especially since so much of the glass in optical devices comes from Japan) these terms are pretty universally-applied in the lens-making industry. It's one of those things that makes perfect sense once you've seen both the chart and a map of Japan... but if not, you'd be quite puzzled.
I don't think a $10-20k/yr UBI is anywhere close to the actual cost of allowing individuals to conduct meaningful scientific studies.
I just read that a little while ago. Terrible.
I've been trying my hand at something similar. It's not nearly as finished as mode is though.

https://github.com/Jungle-Works/AllSpark
I'm not a doctor, but I believe cancer is what we call it when cells that evade apoptosis proliferate to reach a critical mass. They metasttisize when they are able to survive a journey through the blood or lymph systems to invade other foreign tissues for food.

I don't believe it's necessarily due to entropy but the process by which cellular division takes place involves a copying of the host cell's DNA and that copying process is not 100% perfect. It is remarkalably accurate, but given enough time, even with all the systems in place to mitigate and repair errors, they will occur. Most will simply cause that mutated cell to die but it's similar to the 100 monkeys on 100 typewriters at scale. Eventually an error will occur that makes a cell immune from apoptosis.