skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Primogeniture doesn't really set in until the High Middle Ages, and even then, there was still a fair amount of splitting inheritance up among sons (that's why the Holy Roman Empire consisted of so many small states: some of the duchies were given to splitting up to give to second and third sons).

The Norse themselves still tended to follow partitioning laws, at least until the Scandinavian kingdoms started to coalesce. The repeated invasions of England between Ethelred the Unready and the final conquest of William the Bastard were not driven by second sons needing kingdoms for themselves, it was driven by England having the best tax base in the North Sea but high political stability, as well as the dying out of family lines.

Key point about the latter: when Edward the Confessor died without issue, the claims to the English throne were:

* Edward's brother-in-law and most powerful vassal, Harold Godwinson (son of the person who put Edward on the throne in the first place)

* William, the bastard son of Edward's maternal cousin. Bolstered by "when he was staying over when he was young, he totally promised me the throne when he died."

* Harald Hardrada, whose claim is "Cnut was King of England. He died, so his claim passed to Harthacnut. Harthacnut and Magnus made an agreement that, should one die without issue, the other would inherit his lands. Harthacnut died without issue, so Magnus should have been King of England. Magnus died without issue, so his claim winds its way back to me, his father's half-brother by way of mother."
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> Would you try to stop a local high school fundraiser for intelligently reaching out to the community

Yes, because it makes inequality worse ;-)
These are the types of jobs that are useful for anyone just starting to build something. You may not need a seed investor if you have the right pointless job
Homij Software Testing and Quality Control
INTERNS | ON-SITE/REMOTE | San Francisco, CA
Timeline: 10-12 weeks (25-40 hours per week)

Organizational Background: Homij is a start-up tech organization that seeks to change the way death and dying is discussed. Our main mission is to connect people by commemorating and sharing stories of the deceased. We encourage everyone to share stories, experiences, and memories of the loved once and instill a supportive community. Homij anticipates to be in a full beta stage by September 2018. More information can be found at: www.homij.org.

Position Description: During weeks 1-2 of this internship, interns will become familiar with the intricate aspects of our application, target customer, and needs within the death and dying industry. In weeks 3-4, the intern will work with our mobile development team to generate the common use cases and scenarios that we can see a customer use our platform. The following 7-8 weeks, the intern will be running the designed test cases against our live application, submitting tickets and bug lists to our engineers. By the end of the 12 week period, the candidate will have gained experience with designing and developing test cases for a mobile application. Ideal candidates have experience or interest in doing quality assurance testing for mobile applications. The responsibilities for this candidate includes test design, documentation, review, and execution of these tests. The candidate needs to be able to work collaboratively with others on the development team. We are looking for someone who has great verbal and written communication skill along with the ability to solve complex development problems. We’re looking for someone to fill the gap between our software development and customers. We want you to work with developers and businesses to ensure our product fits the needs of our consumers.

Inquiries to: homijgroup@gmail.com
Originally from Calgary and I concur with the poster above. Canadians tend to think small. For venture the culture has been so burned by pump and dump penny stocks that there is no patient capital. Canada needs an enormous influx of venture capital. The problem is, is that the crown corporations who can make those bets are limited to investing in Canadian funds. If they could invest 10% into a US fund and the US fund agreed to invest 10% of the portfolio into Canada it could really open up the market.
There's no excuse for using MT for anything important this century.
My guess is you model it and exploit how over time everything normalizes. Bottom line is that 99.9% of users won’t request refunds. And for those that do, well they are micro transactions right?
> We can prove that wrong in November, of course.

The Democrats are no better when it comes to these issues, look at their voting record.
>Like what? I have absolutely no idea what you are talking about here.

Uh, the constant mass shootings that have occurred over the past year wherein, 100% of the time, the perp was already known to police and FBI and had a very public troubling online presence detailing their years of mental instability and virulent racism?

>intelligence agencies don't talk about their activities, even their successes, for very good reason.

The hell are you talking about? The FBI is constantly publicly congratulating themselves when they "foil" a "plot" their agent provocateurs have cooked up.

https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-31-fake-isis-plots-and...

The NSA doesn't like to brag as much as the FBI does but they're clearly just as responsible for dropping the ball on domestic terrorism every other week when yet another mass shooting happens...
Optimal vs. Possible
Citizens United changed nothing.

Money has controlled politics in the US since the very beginning and without exception. In fact, money controlled politics in the distant US past to a far greater degree than it does today. In Rockefeller's time or before, you could do almost anything when it came to buying political favor, there were few limits on buying politicians.

The Chinese foreign funding scandals that followed the Clintons in both Bill and Hillary's campaigns - what was China buying? That was part of the deal that saw Bill spend vast amounts of time & effort lobbying to get China into the WTO during his Presidency, even going aggressively against his own party and voter interests.

"May 24, 2000, Bill Clinton clinched what many believed would be the last great legislative victory of his presidency. That afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to award China permanent normal trade relations, effectively backing Beijing’s long-in-the-making bid to join the World Trade Organization. The historic deal had been Clinton’s top priority in the waning days of his last term—a move he hoped would improve relations with the world’s most populous nation, while cementing his own legacy of using free trade to advance America’s foreign policy interests. It had been opposed by labor unions wary of competition from poorly paid foreign workers and championed by corporations salivating over 1.3 billion potential Chinese customers (the business lobby had spent millions on TV ads supporting the pact). In the end, after much wrangling, 73 Democrats joined 164 Republicans to pass the agreement, which was expected to glide through the Senate."

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_next_20/2016/09/w...
You can eat ramen, ride public transit, and move to a cheaper apartment. But when you need chemo, you need chemo.
>Why not?

>What exactly is the big deal with having just static content?

I don't read romance novels, so publishers shouldn't be allowed to print them.

The problem is that your personal opinion on the legitimate utility of javascript doesn't have any value beyond your own browser, and the entire rest of the world has decided that a purely static web is not what it wants.
Same thing in Germany.

In the political sense, Germany is more liberal than the US (especially economically), but there's this sort personal conservatism that manifests in paranoia about data/privacy, aversion/skepticism around change and technology and risk, less acceptance of weirdness. German culture just feels...rigid. It's stable and very functional, but also inflexible.
Right. Or put another way, UX is the ultimate debate. So long as there is a significant difference, the debate has a winner.
The IPA is /me.a kul.pa/.

So that's a reasonable approximation. The vowels are off. If you know Spanish pronunciation, it's exactly the same for this word.

Specifically, The E sound is actually the single-vowel /e/, not the diphthong /aɪ/. The "uh" in both words is closer to "ah".
* ot: the HN android app could use a preview/quick-edit function :/
In the specific case of webmail[1], I would offer hosted instances.

OTOH, a need to commercialize a FOSS-project is always a latent conflict of interest and I personally only reluctantly make such software part of my stack: I might end up with core devs moving to a proprietary fork full time and not enough other devs to "just fork it".

[1] when did this even become a word?
I apologize if I was being unclear.

It is wire-compatible with PostgreSQL clients, meaning that if you have a PostgreSQL client library for your favorite programming language, you can use that to connect to CockroachDB.

The database features and SQL dialect itself are not 100% compatible with PostgreSQL, and likely never will be.

Also, even if all the SQL you do want to use is supported, it is likely a sub-optimal idea to just port some SQL over to the CockroachDB platform without additional investigation. Some issues, like interleaving values from different tables, should be examined to ensure good performance on CockroachDB.

And even setting aside issues like that, the access patterns you'd use for a multi-region distributed database are going to be a bit different than a high-availability PostgreSQL cluster. Data locality and all that.

The wide availability of client drivers just means you can get started quickly on popular platforms.
Doesn't seem a mess to me.
Omg please do this Apple. My keyboard sucks and I already sent it in once for repair. I can’t keep losing my laptop it’s too inconvenient.
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> Investors in Canada just don't have that kind of money to play with.

The ecosystem [1] that provides dollars to high-risk investments (like tech startups) just doesn't exist on the same scale in Canada. The only players with that kind of money are the federal and provincial governments, which are by nature very conservative.

[1] For example, one source of funding is large pensions and endowments, who take a tiny percentage of their overall portfolio and put it into "high-risk" investments. The funds are so large that the tiny percentage amounts to millions and millions of dollars.
The primary fallacy is that zombies could kill a significant number of people at the start of an outbreak.

How to solve a zombie outbreak:

1. Board your windows and close your door.

2. Stand on your [balcony, garage, out your window], and [shoot/hit with a hard object] any zombies in your neighborhood.

3. Wait for it all to blow over.

Thats why all zombie movies skip over the actual outbreak.
Mostly automation -- you don't have to actually craft the list. It will just spot stuff it thinks it should be blocking and do so. And if you need to correct it (uncommon in my experience) the UI for doing so is right there next to the address bar. Also, it's capable of just blocking cookies for some sites, which is nice when they're hosting common J's libs/fonts or something, and blocking them outright would break the page.
It's the last bastion of what I call the "old internet". (There are other sites out there but it's the most well known one). It's amazing how much content filters from 4chan to the mainstream without anyone realizing it. It's not for the easily offended which is a huge plus. It's the best site on the internet.
"In a statement, Timothy Barrett, a spokesman at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which released the annual report, said the government “has not altered the manner in which it uses its authority to obtain call detail records.” "

This is the issue, this is all legal.
True: Crypto as in cryptocurrency community.
Nobody said the content is bad everywhere. I'm saying ads are causing optimizations on terrible principles, doesn't mean everyone is following them.

Furthermore your comment is akin to "if junk food is so bad for you why is everyone eating it and saying it tastes good". It doesn't take much imagination to understand that there's other factors at play.
The US has a fairly high tolerance for weirdness and novelty in general because of its extreme fixation on individualism. Especially so when you compare it to most other high income countries like Japan, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, etc.
Few, considering the 1+0 lack of redundancy for major life support systems on the Mercury, gemini and Apollo. Their test method seemed to be "fly it unmanned a couple times, if it didn't explode or lose pressure, put some people in it".
Tech workers in Silicon Valley generally have very good health care. Winters in the Toronto area are horrible (I grew up in Western NY and would never dream of returning) and the climate in California is much more hospitable. San Francisco is a very diverse city if you stray outside the tech bubble. California isn't very gun friendly either, and gun control isn't exactly an issue that has a huge impact on where most people decide to live, either.
I've loved every visit to Canada that I've ever made, but when you factor in the weather and lower pay, I would never live there.
I guess this period was a necessary evil to improve the email acosystem and make everyone a bit more concerned to setup their system correctly (even though it's non-trivial)..
I was never a keyboard snob. I never owned a mechanical keyboard, and I never "just had to tell" someone about my new cherry mx pro aqua-purple super keys. All keyboards seemed passable to me, with no further opinion. The new macbook (which i was issued at work) is the first time, actually, that I had an opinion on a keyboard. and it was a distinctively bad one. It was an interesting realization that one could hate a keyboard.
I switched to ASUS C302CA and the keyboard there is actually nice :)
I don't even know where to begin, there are just so many logical fallacies and complete misunderstandings in what you've said that the best I can recommend is for you to just not bother thinking about this stuff at all. It does no one any good.
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> “I work in a college dormitory during the summer. I have worked at this job for three years, and at this point it is still unclear to me what my actual duties are. Primarily, it seems that my job consists of physically occupying space at the front desk. While engaged in this, I am free to ‘pursue my own projects’, which I take to mean mainly creating rubber band balls out of rubber bands I find in the cabinets.

A doorman's job is not bullshit. The job acts as a deterrent for people who shouldn't be inside that dorm. There have been cases where students get raped by a stranger inside their own dorm room.
True, but we're talking about Canadian here.
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Maybe that’s where the spike came from
Yeah, but I doubt it is evenly distributed.
A lot of good advice here - one thing I'd add is that if you're really having problems find a job at a very early stage startup, try something a little bigger but not a huge enterprise. Companies that have raised a B or C round and are trying to scale their business are often looking for people who have experience working at the scale they want to achieve.

Even if you'd rather be somewhere smaller, it'll probably be a better fit in the short term, and after a couple of years you may have an easier time transitioning to something earlier stage.
Thanks for adding those to the Benchmarks Game - I think it was you?

If you are interested in very short running programs, then these benchmarks can be interesting to look at.

If you are more interested in long running programs, like web servers, then I don't think you'll find many professional virtual machine implementors who will agree that this is a valid way to benchmark things.

But we probably also have some optimisation bugs to work out still. There's even some errors in the logs of those.
No, we collapsed the subthread because it's off topic.
This also though could be applied to any system that just happens to have a massive amount of work to get it even above the ground as well. Just change the language to the behemoth in your field of choice and it applies.
No, it's occlusion culling (offline baked as far as I understand it).

It really reminds me of RAGE for the iPhone.

https://blog.tojicode.com/2011/05/rage-webgl-tech-talk.html
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You've missed the point entirely, on purpose I imagine. The impact of Citizens United is primarily with regard to corporate lobbying, not campaign contributions. Super PACs, the biggest travesty to come out of Citizens United, explicitly CANNOT contribute to election campaigns or specific parties.
That's funny because I had the exact opposite experience. I think it just depends on the mood of the border officer.
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Loaves of bread aren't ad supported.

If bread was free but you have to look at ads for Nutella (Available in aisle 4!) then you'd have a point
Here's a forklift with mecanum wheels (1 min)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3OBb_b89k
These people seem to think that the NSA is only collecting data to stop mass shootings and normal crimes.

The concept of using this data to stamp out more systematic terrorism, espionage and other nation state attacks doesn't occur to them.
As to the usage of the word 'webmail', I'd say it's been in techno-parlance for a long time, masquerading as recommended DNS settings.

By 'long time', I mean at least since the mid-to-late 90s. I would often see the word -- not in regular writing, but in tutorials, all the time. Setting up a cPanel instance, for example, you would often be instructed to set up your MX records as 'mail.yourdomain.tld', and your CNAME as 'webmail.yourdomain.tld', just so you'd have something convenient to type in your browser.
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Piezoelectric effect can be applied differently to have different applications. In the piezo diaphragm case, the electric pulse is the frequency driver. If the electric pulse runs at once per second, the diaphragm is moved once per second (bending and unbending once per second). If the pulse runs at 1000/sec, the diaphragm is moved at 1000/sec (1kHz), producing a different pitch of sound. With different frequencies of electric pulse, you can produce different frequencies of diaphragm movement and different pitches of sound.
I'm not sure how much new housing was built specifically for Hanford, since the existing tri-cities (Richland, Pasco, Kennewick) were nearby and within commuting range.
Anyone know why Canadian salaries aren't adjusting upwards, or why more remote work isn't going to Canadians?

And what about startups like Shopify. Do they pay competitive wages? If not, how do they prevent their whole workforce leaving?
They have an anchoring effect.
I have done years of web dev, including modern React UI, as well as years in the past with Java Swing and Qt/C++, so I have a little perspective here. Electron offends my sensibilities for precisely the reasons you outlined. However, these are my thoughts:

1. It enables a large swatch of people that have never done desktop development (which has a learning curve that is hard to climb if you aren't paid to do it) to build cool stuff and ship it. Without Electron, we'd be left with nothing. If nothing is truly better than something with Electron, then this won't be a compelling point. However I'd rather have stuff that I ignore than to not have stuff.

2. Performance in electron can be decent. It isn't always because of bloat and poor implementation, but that can be true of native apps as well (especially java-based ones). The download size is laughable, but hard drives are reasonably sized these days so this is less of a pragmatic concern, and more of an ideological purity concern.

3. The modern paradigm that React brings to the table can genuinely be a better dev experience than the traditional frameworks. The benefits of "always re-render" would have fixed numerous bugs that I dealt with in UI land regarding state and dealing with changing state. Developer happiness is worth a lot when the project is open-source, unfunded, and done by someone with passion (which is how almost all open source starts).

4. I think it's temporary. There's projects like Proton that are already looking at how to get the best of React/JS on the desktop without the bloat of shipping a web browser with your app. The future looks bright.

NOTE for people devving on electron: Please be more conscious of memory usage and potential memory leaks. Desktop apps are often long-running and you've got to pay attention to resource usage and the memory leak traps that can cause your app to gobble up insane amounts of memory (cough slack cough)
I mostly agree, but I also think there's a batch size under which things will be fine.

A neighborhood food co-op or a pub's fantasy football league will probably actually benefit. A megacorporation is probably just too big to do without human arbitration in the face of violence, as you point out.

However, we might be closer than we think to, as you say, property being digital or at least wholly representable digitally.

We'll see. I'm both of the belief that smart contracts are awesome and that their usefulness is limited.
In response to the tuner app, you said "make it a native app". The alternatives we're discussing are not static HTML vs JS, it's native apps vs web apps. Both kinds of apps can spy on you, both kinds can ask for tons of permissions they don't need, both have exploits, tracking, and advertising.
I guess you haven’t heard of logic? There’s two ways to gain knowledge.
Infrastructure week!
Mass shootings have tripled since 2011.
They 'll have a lot less to collect this year with GDRP. Or maybe not
Like with any law the intent matters if it won’t it’s going to be even more of a clusterfuck.

Technically a pop up saying we do not provide service to EU residents is sufficient.

My biggest fear currently is that PayPal will force people to comply or refuse to allow EU users to checkout on non compliant storefronts which may impact a lot of small and or niche merchants from being able to sell to the EU or and me form buying form them.

This is what the payment processors do in the PCI world and for PayPal to be GDPR compliant they need to make sure that anyone they share data with are also compliant.

Not mention that within the EU a lot of blockchain related companies are scratching their heads in how to comply with the data deletion requirements of the GDPR if you write any PII to the blockchain.