skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The shipping container also dramatically changed the geography of international trade, redirecting shipping away from shallow-draft ports (like in the Great Lakes, New England, or much of the American South) and from ports in heavily urbanized areas (like San Francisco or Manhattan) toward a small number of megaports like Seattle, Oakland, Long Beach, New Jersey, Houston, and Hampton Roads. When the old port was close to a new megaport (SF -> Oakland, Manhattan -> New Jersey), the city shifted from trade to financial services. When no major deep-draft container port was nearby (Great Lakes), the area's economy tended to whither and die, at leas relative to past glory.
It's not really an alternative if Trump is also a crook, which he is.
But in the 1800s they were issues of Newton's theory of gravitation.
You can generate these SmoothLife patterns with Ready [0]

[0] https://github.com/GollyGang/ready/blob/gh-pages/Patterns/Sm...

I find USkate the most beautiful, http://mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/uskate-world.html
/s?

(kgraft, kpatch)
Eh, I think it depends on the individual. I have a 1:1 with my manager every three weeks, and that's plenty for me. If something urgent comes up between meetings (which is pretty rare), he's just a Slack message away. But some employees have enough to discuss that weekly is great for them. I think it's nice for a manager to at least give their reports the option of a weekly 1:1; if there's nothing to discuss sometimes, it should be ok to cancel, and if you just need a 5-minute check-in, that should be fine too.
I once read a story on Reddit about a payroll processor with an utterly unholy mess of a system. One day, they get a customer called "Select", and the entire system stopped working.
> People leaving the workforce to pursue homemaking and childrearing shouldn't be a societal problem if it's done voluntarily.

That's a pretty big if, especially given that Japanese regularly comes at the bottom of the table for equality in the workplace. While slowly crumbling in the face of decades of economic decline, the societal expectation is still that pregnant women quit their jobs and stay home with the kids.
This has very little to do with the modern issue of action at a distance vis a vis entanglement, and everything to do with the prevailing belief in an aether during Newton’s time. Einstein meanwhile, was actually commenting on entanglement physics.
I just discovered this from Reddit and yes, I agree with you. Fliktu looks and works much better, even if some functionality is missing. Thanks!
There is no local produce in winter. The only fruits and vegetables available would be those that could be be stored for months without spoilage. I'd be eating potatoes and corn for 8 months of the year.

We could grow just about anything indoors year-round, but it's much better for both the environment and my wallet to grow crops in places where we don't need to enclose, light and heat them.
"We are not immigration services. We are an educational institution. What kind of animals do we have to be to say no to a kid that wants to study?"

There you go, hope in humanity restored.
Let's be real here for a second, what's your definition of dramatic? I don't foresee the EU losing access to more than a handful of services, many of which as in the case above provide questionable products.

As horror stories come out and geoblocking tools become easy to use, I'd say that over the next few years, the vast majority of non-EU sites will have blocked EU traffic. Nobody wants the liability unless they make a large percentage of their revenue from EU countries. Accepting such traffic means exposing your business to instant financial annihilation at the whim of a foreign government.
Yeah, I think this would be pretty useful. I'll admit that I'm not very easy to manage, and with me, less is more. I notice that many managers, especially new managers, seem to think they need to be very visible in their reports' day-to-day in order to feel like they're doing something, but that doesn't work with everyone.

Being able to easily tell your manager up front what you think you need from them, and what you don't, could be pretty useful.

Then again, that's part of what 1:1s are for.
Efficient and concise method for accumulating gradients in TensorFlow
Hmm, not sure how I managed that; must have divided by 2 twice or something to find one-way length.
Thanks for responding! I was hoping someone would finally bring up concrete points after talking to a lawyer, and you have. It still doesn't sound like a big deal to me (you don't mention anything in-depth, only that the law can now actually harm you both in terms of jurisdiction and non-trivial fines), but I see where you're coming from.
> How do you think we ended up with president chump?

You watched too much crap TV and accepted it as reasonable fare. That assent, a small psychological step for you, a big collective "we are, indeed, collectively stupid people" for American-mankind, is what got you here.

Don't blame the poor Chinese.
Why don’t vigilantes solve this, assuming the State refuses to do so? It would certainly be cheaper to redirect some of the passive and defensive security expenditure to intelligence and targeted killing.
Fliktu is another one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oakstar.fl...
The irony is is that that’s is exactly one fo the manor problems with the GDPR.

And the GP sounds like a large business a small business that maybe has 50 orders a month form EU customers won’t be able to afford a top tier international firm, hire a mandatory local representative and open themselves to this level of liability.

The irony is that the companies that can both comply and abuse the GDPR to their benefit are the ones that regulation such as the GDPR was supposed to protect us from.
> I've always admired Canadian culture/values

What is canadian culture? What are canadian values? I've never heard anyone mention canadian culture or values before.

> would love to live in Canada one day.

You are one of the rare individuals. Most canadians I've met want to live in the US. Especially those with money or skills to make money. Better food, weather, culture, history, life, etc.

> - Aggressively encourage/fund/facilitate startups. Unlike salaried employees, startups aren't turned off by the low-engineering-wages. Once Canada can grow 5-10 startups into major established companies with Canadian HQs, that will really boost the local engineering ecosystem and job market.

But they can't compete because of scale. Canada isn't large enough and it certainly has too little internal talent to compete with the US. California by itself can out compete canada by itself. Thrown in the other 49 states.

Even if canada retained all its "brains", it wouldn't matter. We outnumber canada 10 to 1 and outrank canada in every economic facet from resources, ports, infrastructure and foreign talent.

Foreigners with skills, from china to india to the middle east to eastern europe, all want to come to the US to study and work.

It's almost impossible for canada to compete with the US. They have nothing going for them vis a vis the US and their internal market isn't large enough to compete with the US.
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I don't understand one assertion that the author makes in the solution, though:

If it happens that the permutation has no cycles of
length greater than 50, this process will work every
time and the prisoners will be spared.

Obviously that's not true as written, because the first prisoner has odds of 50% no matter what function or algorithm they use to choose the boxes they open. If they fail in their initial guesses, the game stops immediately and everyone dies. What am I missing?

Furthermore, if you simplify the case to two prisoners and two boxes, where each is allowed to open one box, the odds of "success" are clearly only 25%. What happens as the number of prisoners and boxes grows that improves the odds? This isn't a classic Monty Hall variation where the participants have additional options as the game progresses -- it's completely predetermined.
> a lot of interruption aversion we feel is caused by not breaking our work into small enough chunks

Some kinds of work (not just programming) is difficult to plan well in advance because you're reading & writing at the same time.

Doing a good job at creative work is an optimization process and you need to be able to change direction as you explore the space. Staying open to that is a hard mental workload.

In a lot of cases where I outline ahead of time, I end up going in a different direction once I start work.

Also planning takes as much concentration as anything.
I'm generally interested in benchmarks and/or good tutorials on different methods for accumulating gradients in TensorFlow.
If you have a red dot, you only know that there is at least 1 red dot, and you don't know if that one person knows "not all dots are blue". Hence, it's new information when that person doesn't commit suicide.
FWIW, you _can_ opt out of certain employee protection laws:

> You can choose to work more than 48 hours a week on average if you’re over 18. This is called ‘opting out’.

> Your employer can ask you to opt out, but you can’t be sacked or treated unfairly for refusing to do so.

https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours/weekly-maxim...
PySide is Qt4. PySide2 is Qt5. I would suggest using PySide2 but using https://github.com/mottosso/Qt.py in case you need to switch to PyQt5 for any reason.
Fair enough, but many (probably most) of the people this training is aimed at have no idea what a reverse phone book is. I haven't seen a physical copy of one for a couple of decades.

Do you have a source for the origin of the name, or is it just what comes to your mind when you think of it?
Kevin Mitnick's KnowBe4 does it too.
Yeah, as siblings said, BSD. I'm past the edit period :-/
Nope. Just ask Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubla_Khan
The issue with jailing bankers is that nothing they did was illegal. It was highly immoral but we don't jail people for being immoral (they do in some countries).

If you want to jail bankers in the future, supporting institutions like Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and electing politicians that want to pass more strict laws is the only way to accomplish what you want.

In this diametric political climate we have one party that is gutting the CFPB by installing leaders that are pro-finance/banking industry and rolling back protections under the guise of "not being fair."
In terms of liability insurance, which is the claim here though, the reality is the insurer knows that the EU isn't going to dump 20 million fines on every small company making a first offence. The idea that they are going to treat it like that's the likely outcome is insane.
> The only services that can even afford to attempt to comply and have the necessary liability insurance against fines are massive companies - think Facebook and Google.

This is a gross exaggeration. I agree that truly small companies may have issues, but companies way smaller than FB and Google can and are spending the time to comply.
One thing I dislike about medical doctors, is many of them try to "dumb things down" when talking to me. I'd much prefer they tell me the correct technical medical terminology. Some of it I already know what it means, and if I don't I can always ask them to explain further, or go look it up and read more about it.

(My mother and brother are doctors, and I don't get the feeling they are dumbing things down if I ask them for medical advice.)

A professional who talks about technical details, even if I don't completely understand those details, gives me the impression that they know what they are talking about, and that makes me feel confident in their abilities.
Armory is super cool. It's probably the flagship application for Kha (another Haxe framework), and given the death of Blender game engine, seems a likely replacement in the Blender ecosystem.
An initial value of 100 what? And over what time period? It's common practice to not label graphs correctly or at all, but without labels, graphs don't offer any representation of a model of reality (so the author is free to claim the graph indicates whatever he wants it to indicate).

... So if you click the link below the graph for the source data, the data that was graphed was the number of robots per ten thousand workers in the manufacturing industry in 2016.

The report also indicated that the US had the second highest number of robots per 10000 workers in the automotive industry in 2016 after South Korea. Given that the article's main point was that the computer industry distorts the overall growth numbers for US manufacturing, it may be worth pointing out that different industries within the overall manufacturing industry may find different levels of automation appropriate at our current level of technology. Without a clearer picture of the relative representation of different manufacturing industries in each of these countries and what's considered state-of-the-art in terms of automation for each, I don't think the data for this graph can be used to unambiguously support the author's conclusion.

Link to the source report: https://ifr.org/downloads/press/Executive_Summary_WR_2017_In...
40 hours a week is spent reliant on the behaviors of these other people. I'd be surprised if 30 minutes or whatever a week was enough!
That's a great and informative answer, only minor comment that I think OP said the project was 2 years but the database portion was 1 month of that 2 years.

Still I agree better not to roll your own stuff unless it is absolutely critical.
What a great article. Thank yo for sharing
Which cron? There isn't only a single cron.
You're partly missing the point. It's not just about US vis a vis Japan and US vis a vis the EU... it's that the US/Japan relationship isn't radically different from the EU/Japan relationship, or in fact any two highly developed globalised countries.
This mirrors what I've heard from friends & acquaintances that are doing either hardware hacking or import/export in China.

It's rapidly becoming a myth that Chinese products are cheaper because they don't pay their workers or because they manipulate their currency (both of which they've done in the past, but as with most market forces, they can't sustain forever). Rather, the Chinese are innovating heavily on how they make products, and doing everything possible to squeeze out waste in the process. They're simply making things more efficiently than we do in the U.S.

All of this is fixable, but requires that all the layers of management between U.S. factory workers & customers needs to stop doing what they're doing and in many cases eliminate their own jobs. And that is unlikely to happen, because they are the decision-makers on layoffs and it's a lot more profitable to lay off the factory worker who actually produces the product than themselves. IMHO the U.S. desperately needs a lot of bankruptcies, a few enterprising individuals with knowledge of full manufacturing processes to start new firms, and a financial system that directs money to people who actually have domain expertise rather than folks they went to college with, but good luck on that.
Any business model that has any interaction with anything that the GDPR specified as personal data.

Here is an example:

I’m a ukulele maker from Argentina I sell 50 ukulele‘s a month to the EU via my webshop and I use PayPal as my payment processor.

I collect the following information from you that is considered PII under the GDPR.

IP address.
Name and Address.
Phone number.
EMail address.

I don’t need to do anything nefarious with that information to have a huge headache and a potentially huge liability under the GDPR if my data leaks or I don’t comply with a request by a EU customer.

I’m also out of luck if my local legislation contradicts the GDPR since unlike EU member states I don’t have a DPA and my local laws mean squat to the EU.
Linux on Pixel C is now “an usable system”
Courts don’t interpret laws like a Python interpreter.
The Dot Town Suicides appears to be incorrect as stated.

Suppose there are 100 residents and 2 blue dots.
The stranger tells everyone "there are not 98 blue dots"

This meets the condition of the question's "non-trivial" but the residents can relax: nobody has learned anything new. The proposed induction is broken, in my opinion.
Fines must be "effective, proportionate and dissuasive", taking into consideration those factors. A maximal fine for a first, single violation (unless it is a willing and gross violation) is just asking for judicial review.
People have tried to have insurance against speeding tickets in my part of the world (Scandinavia), and those have been deemed illegal and stopped from paying out. I would expect a GDPR insurance would end up getting the same treatment. I can't guarantee that this would happen in all of Europe, but I do expect it would.

When it comes to getting the max fine at first strike. The GDPR is not the first law in the EU with teeth. There are strict laws about corruption, pollution and antitrust here as well.
Do companies get dinged with max penalty from the start violating these laws, not that I've seen. Why should enforcement of the GDPR be different from the current laws?
I worked with a team of remote devs, and ended up on both sides.

As a dev seeking manager time, I wanted/needed information. Diagrams, access, contacts, meetings. There was no onboarding and nothing but a codebase for a massive system. This was more like every other week, though.

As a peer, I ran interference with a lot of the junior devs to make sure they had the info they need, to push for the info they didn't, and to get them hooked up with the people who had it. The lack of information enabled a lot of isolation and feelings of imposter syndrome, and the weekly chats gave my peers a forum to vent.

Being remote, communication & culture require a lot more attention and effort.
If it has cycles of 50 or less only, then they're guaranteed to find their own name (they start the cycle on the box corresponding to themselves, so that cycle must contain them).
Incidentally, the "first prisoner" might as well be every prisoner, because they aren't allowed to observe each other, communicate, or modify the room.
We've automated away the trivial bits somewhat - the remaining bits require far more concentration than most jobs that are soon to be automated away (driving etc)
When you think about particles as excitations of a field, the indistinguishable nature of said particles stops being such a puzzle.
I feel like we’re living in the golden age of free personal financial apps - shocking to me how much we care when it comes to protecting our likes but so careless we are to giving third parties logins to our online banking and all balance and transactional data that comes with it
Yah and that proof-of-concept shows that you need insane amounts of power per transaction, killing the idea completely and making it unusable.

> There are many intelligent people now working on this problem and improving the way a blockchain works, or even pulling from that proof of concept and rethinking the solution without traditional blockchain.

In other words, no blockchain is better than blockchain.
If you don't have offices in the EU, and you don't keep your money in any accounts controlled by EU banks, then why not just refuse to pay the fines?

Might be a good opportunity to make some contacts in the Trump administration too, who will be interested in asserting US sovereignty.
Reads like managers dictating how they are and how things are going to be.

Employee number whatever: Here are your new instructions, deal with it.
Yes, a shame that the FLOSS world never came up with a competitive integrated VB/Delphi clone in a better language like Python. Probably it would have been a huge undertaking, right when web dev was taking off.

Although I've heard good things about Lazarus IDE, probably your best bet for such projects. Pascal is not hard to learn, or re-learn.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)

http://www.lazarus-ide.org/
AFAIK containers where invented in the US.
"missic gpu acceleration". Well, um, that's sort of the only hard part. The rest are kernel drivers that are open source from Android tree
> My ideas are in tangible form as soon as possible.

In programming terms the tangible are the concrete things... the code on the screen in tangible, but when you start inferring meaning, concepts, origin, relationships etc in your head (or the reverse - doing that before you write some code) - that stuff is the quantum probability field that you need piece and quiet for, when that guy comes and asks you a question it collapses and you start over - if your very lucky you might get some state back and it wont take quite as long.

But here's the thing... the more complex the problem the longer you need to stay in that state - building it up larger and then refining it and so on, and the more important quiet becomes. Sometimes I don't mind noise if i'm just hoping from one "tangible" bit of code to the next doing some fairly mindless debugging that doesn't take a whole lot of insight, but most of the time i'm not.

But it's hard we all need to communicate eventually, constant meetings are no good, I find the best thing is this new instant messenger trend... not because I like being pestered but because I can turn off the notifications and then go and check it when i'm done on my current chunk of thinking.
> passes all tests we are aware of.

I.e. your quote relates to xoshiro256+, not Xoshiro256* *.
I can’t comply with HIPPA and GDPR and since HIPPA applies to any US based medical practitioners, that essentially cuts off all Europeans from using our services — so people in Europe who have a US based therapist — we can’t legally allow that anymore — assuming we want to be GDPR compliant.

How can we be required to delete IP addresses in our logs yet also be required to keep access audit logs for 7 years.

A bullshit law written by people that assume everyone is Facebook and data mining.
> The more difficult part is deletion from backups, which is also a requirement.

How long do you keep your backups? If you just store them for, say, 30 days, that's fine. The EU regulators aren't going to come after you for a 30-day lag for all traces of data to be deleted, as long as that process is documented.

There's still one annoyance left: you do need to keep track of accounts/users who have deleted data, so if you have to restore from a backup, you can't restore any data belonging to users who have deleted their data within that window.

Otherwise, this is frankly not such a big deal. If you're storing backups for longer than 30 days, why? Where I work, if we had to restore from a 30-day-old backup, it'd be catastrophic for the business given how much data would be lost.