skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.harborfreight.com/brass-sextant-66096.html

That is a typical 'decorative object', not a sextant fit for purpose. They've been flooding auction sites in hundreds of variations, often 'antiqued' and made to look superficially like real 150 year old sextants.

Imagine staring into the sun through that telescope using only that coloured green glass as a filter. Goodbye retina!
When a company refuses to release revenue figures -- which I assume is the case since neither this article nor the Recode article includes any -- its situation can't be very good, much more likely, it's very bad.
If you mean Valve... there's a guaranteed low-effort revenue stream, the Steam client has been awfully stagnant (and the parts that are client-only, like your games library, are the most stagnant of all -- Steam has slowly added tools to help curate the store, but none of those things like tags have made their way to the library, and if you've ever binged at a few Steam Sales and bought some Humble Bundles boy could you use such tools). And a lot of the people responsible for the most beloved projects have left[1][2], and they've had a bonfire of consumer goodwill over the lack of a Half-Life 3 or Half-Life 2 Episode 3. Their last game release was in 2013 with Dota 2, unless you want to count letting Nexon release some free-to-play games using their branding and a VR demo.

What I'm saying is, maybe they could use some managers?

1) https://www.engadget.com/2017/05/02/valve-chet-faliszek-writ...
2) https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/kim-swift-leaves-valve-fo...
The newsletter focuses strictly on content with the following attributes:

- Recent, no more than a week old
- Strictly in an article format, no videos or other media formats
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It is designed to be read once every morning before work.

HN has no such restrictions. I do not think they are mutually exclusive.

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Scientists find behemoth black hole so big it could challenge our understanding
Time specifications, as employed by Uwe Ohse's uschedule and systemd, encode such a rule as

uschedule my-job "Sun *-*-8,9,10,11,12,13,14"

OnCalendar=Sun *-*-8..14
I would suggest subscribing to navlist at fer3.com, and reading through the many old threads there about this subject to get a general idea. In my experience the good and the bad sextants are all mixed on the auction sites. You can always post a picture there before you buy...

Personally I'd never buy a new one, since a second hand one is just as good (if you have a bit of knowledge and avoid broken ones). A sextant doesn't need calibration beyond what's done at the factory and what you can do yourself. On top of that most have been very lightly used.

If you're interested in the instrument itself (rather than simply how to use it as a tool), 'The Nautical Sextant' by Bill Morris is a superb book: https://www.amazon.com/Nautical-Sextant-W-J-Morris/dp/093983... .
You're comparing the entire NK armed forces to one US branch.

No I am not https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_countries...
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From the article:

> The analogy is inexact, but for comparison America’s stockmarket [...]

So the author thought, "I know this is wrong, but I'll do it anyways and add a note"? And they literally call the publication The Economist...

The return on investment of education is an interesting and difficult question, to distinguish the difference between the people who do and don't seek the education from the difference actually caused by the education. The best results come from natural experiments, like sudden changes in the number of university places available; but even those capture only the effect on the marginal applicant. This of course is mostly unrelated to the article.
Is It Time to Give Up on a Single Diagnostic Label for Autism?
Dev here. The game was made with Javascript and Socket.io. Feel free to ask me any questions.
I find that the harder with immutability is to go for it with a blank head. After that it's ok.

Indeed if i use my xp from other languages, my brain screams that it's ineficient and will kill perfs. Old habits die hard.
A "paperclip maximizer" of sorts?
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This is the same feeling I have when visiting the us. Remember coming into a Starbucks staffed by 5 people but only one doing something. At an airport there was a bunch of people whose job was to make sure I had my passport open prior to going through security. And so on and so on. It might just be my cultural shock though when going there. When you go to a different country you sometimes pick up 'strangeness' and generalise it to the whole country...
I am convinced this is some sort of practical joke to see how stupid an idea you can submit to HN and still get upvotes.

Either that, or I'm in the Twilight Zone.
This is a fun game!

If you created this you might want to read the "Show HN" guidelines and re-submitted it later.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
L1A New Office via your company?

Start a US business with a partner so you own just 50% then petition for an H1B for yourself every year until you win.

E1 or E2?

You have a fair bit of options if you really want it and are willing to jump through hoops.
NVMe was more or less designed to offer the lowest possible latency for a block storage protocol. You could beat it with direct memory mapping, but then you're limiting compatibility to systems with working 64-bit I/O addressing and storage media that doesn't require complicated management like NAND flash does.
Just curious as a non-economist, how would you even conduct this study in a controlled way?

You would basically have take two randomized groups both starting with 200k and have one invest it into stocks and another into a 4 year college degree and compare net worth a few decades later.

Even then you would only be answering the question of whether that decision was optimal for that point in time.
Lts is a bad word in the js universe.

And they will tell you upgrade is painless, but it's still work. And then if you have many dependancies (and the npm culture is to make every single function a package...), one of them will be painful, another one will stop working, etc.

And now in this devops world, the same devs will do server maintenance. The next 10 years are going to be so fun to watch.
Things that are removed from Windows 10 in April Update
> The late 1970s is when productivity and wages began to diverge.

Women began entering the workforce en masse. You had a huge increase in labor supply, while consumer demand didn't increase the same amount. Wages had to give.
No, Germany could not issue such a fine for a minor single violation. "Proportionate" is a so-called indeterminate legal term that is open to full judicial review with no interpretative power left to the administration. Our law is littered with clauses stating "fines up to 50 Mio. €" and courts have developed a system of how to make sure everyone gets treated fairly. Other European countries have the same. This is simply a difference in legal traditions between Europe and the US. We don't simply cling onto the exact text of a law and call it a day. Interpretation of laws goes far beyond that. It may be scary to someone not used to such clauses but I can assure you companies around here do business just fine even though they have to comply with a long list of such laws threatening fines this high.

Anyway, "proportionate" isn't as ill-defined as you claim. It's a term of art used in many laws and we (and the courts) know pretty well what the legislator meant with it. Heck, they even list some criteria. If those aren't fulfilled a maximum fine isn't possible. Also, "proportionate" implies that a more severe violation must have a higher fine meaning the maximum can hardly ever be reached.

A law isn't code and shouldn't be read as such.
As a user, I can't stand electron based apps. I want normal ass UI on my programs. In fact, on my desktop, nothing is an app, it's a program... Make your thing a program.
An open source operator for Kafka on Kubernetes
Interesting, I occasionally use GPS in areas I have not been to. My general philosophy is navigation by approximation, slowly closing in on a destination by finding big landmarks first. Its not the most efficient but it makes for great tours and trips when not in a rush.
But what is the solution? Raise taxes for all of us to pay the increased salaries of humanities professors?

There is certainly great value in humanities, but that value shouldn't be determined by "an unrelated field is hot, so let's make hot money too".

Especially when it's other people footing the bill, and especially with what's going on in humanity departments these days.
6? Weren’t we just talking about the major upgrade to Angular 2.0 less than two or three years ago?
I don't think that being able to afford a place to live and being able to pay your student loans is "hot money."
There's a course offered by CMU in Computer Security. You might wanna check that.
4 major version bumps in 2 years!!
Yes, I was talking about the windows notepad. I'm not saying the contenteditable notepad is better, just that I don't like notepad for writing - purely an aesthetic preference. Now it's been a while since I usd notepad, but iirc you can't have an inner max-width, or theming that persists restart (?)
Well off the top of my head there's Skylanders, Crash Bandicoot, Banjo Kazooie, Minecraft, Rachet and Clank...

There's no argument that Nintendo pumps out some great games but its not like the west doesn't compete in the space.
But why do you say they invested particularly heavily into this area?
It is not hard to become healthy. It is hard to be healthy while eating a lot of crap food and not exercising. Your body recovers incredibly well once it fed and exercised properly. You need to adjust your mindset and get away from the gimmicks. Do an exercise program like starting strength or 5x5 and it will work wonders in weeks.
That update.angular.io site could really use some CSS work on iPhone 7 to make it usable.
BabyDuty, or how PagerDuty accidentally prepared me for adulthood (2017)
A related thing I'd like is a navigation system which understands that some turns are not important. If I'm driving on a Manhattan-style grid, I'd like it to say "You could turn here if you want, but straight is good too." I'd probably go straight if it's green and I'm doing 45, but if I'm at the head of the queue and it's red, I'd rather turn right.
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Variable-Byte Encoding Is Now Space-Efficient Too
No, Germany could not issue such a fine for a minor single violation

Yes, they could, as is clearly stated within the text of the GDPR. Regardless, most websites outside the EU aren't going to want to put up with the headache, and will block EU traffic. Who wants the risk?
It feels like this is a natural consequence of the field gaining popularity very rapidly. A lot of unexperienced people come to it and simply apply off the shelf algorithms and methods to new domains in order to publish without understanding the details of the tools.

Not that long ago people where putting graphite or fullerenes into almost everything and publishing articles about “graphene/carbon nanotubes enhanced xyz” as well without doing basic verifications that the additions even made any difference at all, but still publishing because of the hype.
Baiterek-hotels
https://youtu.be/oM51OMn3Kdk
Yes you are.

>US Army 476,000 regulars

And that number goes up to ~1.3M once you add in the Air Force, Navy and Marines. And as I've said, you're still only comparing numbers of service personnel, and ignoring capability, equipment and other resources. You're also ignoring the point I was making entirely.
As far as optimizations go, LTO (Link Time Optimization) solves a large part of that problem
I don't get the title. I don't know Ledger, but I don't see how any company can prevent others from making counterfeits, or buying and reselling pre-initialized devices.
Yes, for starters you would need to install separately one express version per language and workflow.

Meaning something like Express C++, Express C# Desktop, Express C# Web development.

Then many plugins for SQL, GUI design, static code analysis, debugging were not available.

Even C++ had language features not enabled on Express versions, and if I recall correctly it did only 32bit code generation.
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It's too early to tell. My feeling is that you will be right on May 25th, 2018. Nothing significant will change in the short term. But my feeling is also that the parent will be right on May 25th, 2021, if the EU chooses to enforce the GDPR vigorously and if the experience doesn't force the EU to revise - or at least "interpret" - the GDPR.

Let's first be totally clear: GAFA isn't suspending their EU operations, nor is any other company that 1) has already an established EU base and 2) can afford the cost of compliance. What I think will happen is that new players will stay out of the EU, because of the perceived risk (accurate or not) and the cost of compliance. So I do agree with the parent that the GDPR will eventually lead to a slow pauperization of the internet in the EU, the only difference with China being that it is self-inflicted rather than self-imposed.

Note that there are very few regulations out there (EU or US) that have actually helped the internet. Most of the regulation that was drafted in good faith turned out to bring more harm than good to the internet, the recent FOSTA bill being a prime example. At this time, I have no indication to believe that the GDPR will succeed where most other bills have failed. But if it turns out otherwise, I'll be the first to admit that I was wrong.
// CPY loop to iterate from a down to b, c at a time
for i a b -c

// For comparison: pure C++11 and boost
for(auto i : irange(a, b, -c))

After CPY removes redundancy to this extent, sure there's still enough information for a compiler to parse this, but there's not enough information for me to parse this. Remember that you spend a lot more time reading code than pressing buttons on the keyboard, so the number of characters you need to type is pretty irrelevant to your productivity.

Maybe I'm getting too caught up on the name, which suggests a Python-like experience, which CPY definitely not. If anything it is less like Python than C++! Sure it has the indentation vs braces thing, but that is probably one of the least important reasons why Python is so readable. A more important reason is the excellent visual cues in the syntax, and forcing you to spell things out e.g. with named parameters; "explicit is better than implicit". CPY seems to strip out visual cues, as shown above, by its four print functions that are cryptically called !, !!, ? and ??, and by the fact that it's even harder to spot function declarations in CPY than in C++.
Notably it’s a per-user backup which can be a no go for shared computer.

But it’s the logic Apple is pushing for years now. iOS devices never got the possibility to be shared because they are considered "personal". And this is also a no go for some people (I think this logic is ok for phone but more discutable for iPad).

By this logic a backup fall into the personal category for Apple so you need an undividual account. Which again make senses in some way. Because with physical backup, if not encrypted, anybody that put his hand on the disk get access to all the data of all the users.

Usually you trust people you share a computer with more that any company, so maybe it’s pushing the logic too far to force use to get an iCloud account.

But from a practical standpoint you can’t either say it’s useless. Kid grow and get his own computer? Just setup iCloud on the new one and he get back all it’s stuff painlessly. Your shared computer crash and you decide to buy two laptops to replace it? Easy to split accounts.
Everything is already easily doable using the migration assistant, assuming you have a backup, but can be easier in the futur for the proverbial layman.
Good suggestions from others and I know this is not your use case but I'd add to anyone new to navigation or with just a casual interest: get a plastic 'emergency sextant' and try using it along with a digital watch (Casio cheap one). Davis and EBBCO do both do plastic sextants.
Amusing how we let go of some technological item to suddenly re-discover the world.

When I gave up smartphones for a period of time I found myself wondering what I could do to spend the time on my ~1hr commute home. I remember being excited when an old acquaintance caught the same train as me, knowing I could pass the time talking. I ended up getting to know a lot of the Train Transport officers because we'd talk about the weather or some local incident.

Not having Google Maps though - that was not a fun experience at all. Yes, I asked people but usually they didn't know and would whip out their smartphones to consult Google Maps on my behalf.
The worst thing is when you're in a rush or when the weather is bad. You can't afford to spend extra time looking for that place you need to be, especially if you're looking for a public toilet in your city.
The only thing a Marine fears more than a Sailor with a rifle is a Lt with a map and compass.
Yes, Forms. It is legacy, yet loved by many enterprise customers, lots of gigs available.

.NET Core will be relevant for our customers when it finally achieves 1:1 parity with .NET Framework features, until then not many will bother to rewrite their applications, they already have Java for non-Windows platforms with better libraries.

I had to port an application from .NET Framework to Java, because customer wanted it to run on Linux and .NET Core wasn't up to it, regarding the necessary features.
So, you wanna go off the power grid ...
Too far removed from the day-to-day to be reflected that it is more important to keep teaching than go to big company. Likewise, research could never make it out of private companies and that is certainly a less favorable outcome for the public as a whole. The AI professors are probably paid much higher than peers in non-technical subjects but no university is going to be able to match Google or Facebook salaries, especially when these guys are in such demand that private industry is willing to pay $300-500k+ each for them (sometimes much more).
Direct link to video:

https://youtu.be/YTn6YIwybwM
"two kinds of people who lived in America in 2016: people who believed Donald Trump, and people who believed data."

This is scientism.

The question around the effects of economic globalisation, trade relations, the size of china's manufacturing industries, automation and other advances in manufacturing methods... it's not a decided issue. You can't just put quote an economist on "The Long-Term Jobs Killer is Not China. It’s Automation." and present this as a "case closed, science has spoken" decree.
From what it say's: Technical content.
Google Chrome finally kind of includes a Reading Mode but only on Android
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I prefer to discover my city by taking long walks. The car is for getting from point A to B as efficiently as possible.
And if instead of email I was interested in just a RSS feed? An email is expensive to me. It seeks me out instead of the other way around.
Sounds like someone sold them a promise and no one wants to be accountable for it underperforming.
The military is a huge community of people in the United States -- about two million people -- and we can't talk in any other sense than the general one. But my experience directly contradicts your first assertion. Were you in the military? It would be useful to tell us about your experience. Because I would say most people join combat arms specifically for what's described in the article. Nobody joins the infantry for any other reason (or perhaps a few with a family tradition or something). Even then, I never met a soldier in almost fourteen years that joined for the minutiae of guard duty or peeling potatoes or mopping floors. Combat, "adventure", college money, steady paycheck, service to country, family tradition, getting the hell out of town. Those are the big reasons people join.

I think you're still trying to put the Nazi SS concentration camp guard into a category of his own -- which is what most "normal" people want to do, to sort of implicitly deny that they could ever do such a thing. And I'm not sure how else I can address this denial other than with what's already been written, except to say that you don't know what you're capable of if you think that you or your family members or your friends couldn't ever be a party to these kinds of things. People are animals and products of their environment. Add a layer of abstraction, and you are ever bit as dangerous as the Nazis you've read about. This may seem astonishing and shocking, but it's true. Hitler was a human being. Genghis Khan was a human being. There will be another person like this in the future, and perhaps it will shock you to learn that they, too, will be a human being.
Ledger makes crypto currency wallets. In the past they've claimed that the wallet can't be tampered with and have encouraged buying from third party sellers.[1]

Eventually someone found out that it wasn't, in fact, tamper proof and reported it. [1]

[1]: I would usually cite these, but since I'm in bed they're all in the post by the kid who cracked it.

Also, I should have used a better title. I'm sorry, the lack of sleep and feeling of being misled probably triggered me into posting this immediately without much though.
Or maybe a navigation system that has a bit of personality. I feel like they've remained robotic while companies try to inject a personality into their personal assistant counterparts.
The thing that gets me about Erlang and Elixir is that it has transparent and simple to use microservices out of the box. These services are machine transparent, can be called locally and remotely, provide bounded contexts within your application, are robust and supervised against crashes, are simpler to deploy and far far simpler to develop, can be discovered using a variety of solutions or your own code. They also don’t require hundreds of containers interacting to work locally. I would go so far as to suggest that you shouldn’t build a microservices system without looking at the huge time, cost and complexity savings that Elixir or Erlang will give you.
20 years ago, when much less things were expected from engines and graphics alike.

It's like a web framework. Coding one when CGI came out was way less work than now. If you want to match what django or rails does now, it takes years.

I read somewhere it would cost millions if you tried to hire dev to recode django at today's market rate.