skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun Talisker story. I'm at a nice underground (literally) bar here in Melbourne, Australia, with an excellent selection of whisky.

A young-ish but well dressed lad next to me was eyeing off the selection. Clearly wanted "a whisky" but had no idea what.

"Talisker is an excellent choice", I said, knowing that some of the heavier stuff – I go for a Lagavulin – would probably be a bit too much for his uninitiated palate.

He looked at the bottle. He realised it was "only" ten years old. And he said "no, I need something older".

I let the foolish young chap make his own decision.

(Oh, and curse you Americans for your ludicrous booze prices. A bottle of Lagavulin 16 here is $75.)
Minor correction: Syfy doesn't produce The Expanse.

The Expanse was entirely conceived, financed and produced by Alcon, an independent film production company. Outside the US, Netflix has the exclusive distribution rights, and in the US, the show is also carried by Amazon. Alcon also produced Blade Runner 2049 and Villeneuve's earlier film Prisoners.

No doubt Alcon needs someone else to pay for the distribution rights now, and I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up on Netflix or Amazon, both of which are pushing sci-fi pretty hard. Amazon would be a good fit: The Expanse was co-produced with the Sean Daniel Company, who are also working on the new adaptation of The Witcher, and whose new production startup Mythos recently signed with Amazon Studios.
Similarly, could something like this be useful to extract out a command that a user wants to run from a transcription? For example, "Add a user named Jenny to our client list.", which results in the command, 'create user Jenny'. Or, "Could you add Jenny to our client list?", which results in the same command, 'create user Jenny'. Perhaps instead of outputting the next word, output the expected command from a set of commands?
Body Camera Maker Weighs Adding Facial Recognition Technology
Once again, this highlights the point that all of the rapid change towards a better cleaner future relies on us actually accounting for the cost of polluting. If your coal plant produces carbon emissions you should have to pay for carbon offset credits. This cost should be passed on in the electricity price. Similarly, if you are burning fossil fuels, you should be paying for your carbon contribution (probably at the pump). The net effect is that consumers and producers will aggregate towards solutions that avoid these costs - cleaner energy production, and rapidly accelerating demand for companies that can solve this.
Universities were never non political. What you more likely mean is they used to agree with you more. None of these social institutions were ever non political, the political context has changed, the national politics have changed, and you've changed and I've changed. I just want to push back against anyone thinking anything going on is new, all of these social and political institutions have always been sites of political struggle.

Perhaps they used to be better at producing an aura of speaking and deciding from up above or from a mythical social consensus that "everyone" (suitably filtered) agrees on.
To seed life on other worlds?
A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine
Note that they've got the patent for keyboards with speakers in, which is why you can't get them anywhere else.

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Maybe it was because I was a junior developer at the time, on my first real job, but I found LinkedIn to be practically useless in New Zealand, specifically Wellington.

The Wellington tech scene is small enough and tight knit enough that I had no need for LinkedIn, things tended to get around by word of mouth as much as anything.

Since moving to Australia, I've actually started using LinkedIn and it was very useful for finding leads for work, and I still get recruiters periodically contacting me for positions.

I still see no utility in LinkedIn beyond using it as a job hunting tool though. I've never posted anything to LinkedIn, and never read anything on there either.
I won a silent computer 5+ years ago as a prize at a lan party. SSD drives, two of the best passively coolable gpu at the time (ATI I Believe?), passive CPU cooler, and the whole case was lined with musicians sound absorbing foam. I think it did have an optional 240mm fan but I never heard it even when I turned it on. It was so nice that I have built my newest computer in the same way (though I did put some big storage drives in it).
I'll use an iceberg analogy: There are moving parts behind the scene making websites' wheels turn that you're not considering. I'm sure there are projects behind the scenes at Airbnb that are interesting but aren't apparent from an outside perspective. Don't judge a product's complexity by their landing page.

Since you worked for Uber, someone could say Uber only has a mobile presence so it's less complex and less interesting than a full website.
Owls are useful.

Rather than using rat poison and setting up mouse traps, an owl can take care of rats very effectively.
This ought to go perfectly with my IBM Model M keyboard.
The last link is from the Paris Review, not Paris Match. I get where the error comes from, but I chuckled.
This discovery of so much more water ice on the moon than previously thought is such a boon for ISRU and future moon habitats and industry if we ever get around to continuing the space race.

We could crack lots of cryo propellant, and far more easily than the old plans. The moon could become a huge propellant, fuel, structural materials and life-support depot with a very easy gravity well to get out of--way easier than Earth. That makes it very important for future Mars missions as well. It's easier to stop off at the moon for a bit than to go straight to Mars from Earth.

Regolith has all kinds of neat stuff in it, such as aluminum and that legendary helium-3 which may or may not be a miracle fuel if fusion ever breaks even (and we figure out how to do it with aneutronic fuels, which is way harder). The aluminum can be made into solid rockets, which are good enough to get off the moon but damn near useless for anything else because of their pathetic specific impulse. But it would be a great way to get this water off the moon without having to waste much on shipping.

If we set up nuclear furnaces we could crack some of the minerals to get oxygen, but it would be so energy-intensive compared to melting ice, and hydrogen is super rare on worlds with easy gravity wells. Hydrogen likes to sublimate off into space and there's practically none anywhere this late in the game. That would be a big bottleneck on ISRU. But all this water ice hidden away near the surface really changes things.

Now if we'd only get serious and go nuclear and get people back in space. Check out the always incredible Atomic Rockets by Winchell Chung for great spacecraft diagrams, mission profiles, pdfs of charts and graphs and nomograms and more. It's a treasure trove for space nerds who wish NASA went the way we thought it was going to go in the fifties and sixties.
http://projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Any details about the font? Download links?
Oh, I thought this was some kind of play on words for the Wine software, turns out it's literally wine.
That's partly why Douglas Crockford wrote his JS book, JavaScript: The Good Parts, to try and eke out a subset of the language that was better than the whole. But "better" is always subjective, so I think we'll have to live with "worse is better" for a while longer, if not indefinitely.

What would you think of WebAssembly becoming the de-facto?
The biggest Bitcoin miner is turning into a venture-capital juggernaut
I don't believe Verizon would "discourage" Tor. It would either block it completely, or continue to allow it.

The tiny percentage of Tor users don't concern Verizon. The miniscule loss of advertising revenue isn't as big of an issue as the bad publicity that messing with TOR would get them from media.

VPN users might be a thing they get concerned about, at some point, but I'd expect them to come out with a VPN service if that was the case.

So I expect this will be traced to some kind of incompetence or error, not a deliberate effort.
There was at least one similar, and slightly more scientific test done on this. In this version, white wine was dyed red with food coloring. And nobody could tell.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
What Stephen Hawking’s Final Paper Really Means
This is a bit like having a taste test of frozen vegetables. But, yes, you can taste differences, and often those differences correlate to a certain "kind" of wine.

If you give me a wine to taste, I may tell you "this tastes like a zinfandel". And maybe it's not a zin. Maybe it's a pinot that was grown and processed in a way that ended up tasting like zin. Of course I can tell when intense blackberry/blueberry fruit flavors are flooding my mouth, and all the dissolved solids fill the crevices of my mouth and weigh down my palette, just like you can tell the difference between strawberry jam and raspberry jam.

The question is not can you taste a difference. The question is, can you guess what it was supposed to be? Hell no. Grapes with red skin can be used to make white wine. Of course I may be wrong about what grape it was, or what percentages of which varietals, or from what region, or year, etc. But I know when something tastes strongly of blackberries and when it doesn't.
I agree WHOIS is completely useless! Anyone can fake this info anyway and anyone using there real info can be SWATTED (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting)
60 years ago, Soviets launch Sputnik 3
I've had a few friends ask me about my system for taking and accessing notes, so I decided to write a post explaining all the parts of it. Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions on how I can improve it!
As wheels suggests, try the Talisker, but go for Dark Storm. I think it's a bit of an attempt to take over Laphroaig's market. It was recommended to me by a scottish lassie :)

How "cheap" is the cheap end? If you're fine with about 100 quid, have a look at the Bruichladich distillery. They have three whiskies; the Bruichladich is unpeated (and quite good); the Port Charlotte is sold as "heavily peated" and the Octomore as "super heavily peated". I expect the latter will probably be to your liking - yours for just £125 a bottle.
What about the second-source vendors? Historically I know there were Hitachi ("HD" prefix), Toshiba ("TMP" prefix), and Signetics ("SN" prefix) parts. At one point I saw a modern-looking Atmel data sheet for a TS68C000 (Thomson/STMicro license?), but I don't know how recent that actually was.

The Hitachi line, at least, seems to be explicitly EOL by Renesas. I'm not familiar enough with the other vendors to know who might have picked up their licenses.
Dropping Via from a response is roughly in the same category as ignoring the TCP Urgent flag. Most widely used standards have vestigial bits.
Home based unsupervised coding tests are fine I think, as long as you ask the candidate to talk through their solution when they come in to meet in person.
I like the ceremony involved with the cork : |
Ask anyone from any sort of minority community how often their members get charged with resisting arrest vs how often they _actually_ resist arrest. Even allowing for self reporting always making the comparison skewed I suspect most non-minority people won't even believe the difference.

Over here (Australia) they call it "the trifecta of charges" - offensive language, resist arrest, assault a police officer - and it's well known to be used as "Arrest as a method of oppression".

These regularly get thrown out by victims capable of fighting them in court (eg: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/arrest-of-student-for-of... ) - but they're overwhelmingly used against groups who're least likely to be able to do that: "Indigenous Australians account for 15 times as many offensive language offences as would be expected for their population." http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/2004/53.html That's not because white folk are any less likely to tell a cop to fuck off, it's because there's systemic racism built into the police force here - they "know_ they'll get away with "the trifecta" against "people who look a certain way".
My Experience with MOOCs
The rapid emergence of single-celled life on Earth is not necessarily evidence that it was an easy step for evolution. See the discussion surrounding “conditional on success, all the hard steps, no matter how hard, take about the same time” in this article: http://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/greatfilter.html
My personal favorite is Paulaner. Erdinger is also good, but in general any German hefeweizen way surpasses any American wheat. The closest I've found is Widmer. And as far as I know there are no US examples of Dunkel Weizen, the dark German wheat beer.
The sheer challenge of the undertaking, I expect.
Proxies used to (and some still do) compare last-modified and date, if the date header is present. [0] They are not required to trust this header as accurate.

For reference around and clarification around the Date header, the "should" comes from the loophole that nobody is required to have a time source. The previous RFC's made that harder to understand, as the loophole was in another section.

[0] http://devel.squid-cache.org/rproxy/dateheader.html

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-7.1.1.2
You might want to google whether that's legit (tl;dr: no)
Yup, mostly because unlike other similar devices, the RT was limited to only what was available within the store, and within that only those items specifically targeting the RT.

It's not even as good a situation as you have with things like the google play or apple stores, as the architecture restricted the ecosystem.

Example: There are pretty much no browser options on Surface RT other than an obsoleted IE. Certainly no Chrome or Firefox. Even 'supported for five minutes' cheapie android tablets are better than that, and this thing was shipped by Microsoft?
Choose a registrar that doesn't charge you extra? Your name stays in, of course, but your (electronic and snail) mail addresses and phone number can be replaced by registrar-managed ones where they forward you incoming stuff and (mostly) keep the spam.

It's a pretty common thing with European providers, I think.
How long should a CV be for New Zealand companies?

A friend in Wellington (Andrew Amesbury) recommended that I rewrite mine with more details, even though it's now 7 pages instead of 2.

I worked at Fisher & Paykel Healthcare in Auckland while on a Working Holiday visa in 2011-2012. I still have some friends there, but they now outsourced their recruiting so internal references don't help as much. My previous boss (Mark Titchener) is retiring.

I'm looking to move to NZ later this year. The Skilled Migrant Category visa is the fastest route to PR anywhere in the world. I've been in Taiwan to get the required 3 years of continuous relevant work experience.

If LinkedIn is important, then please tell me what to change:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-burkimsher-b855bb8/

What are some popular web forums in NZ? I've found a couple of jobs through online communities, and was invited to visit Google in Taipei based on a post here on Hacker News. But staying in Taiwan won't solve my nationality issues, whereas moving to New Zealand would provide a safe, stable place to call home.
Obviously, to determine whether there's an inherent taste difference between red and white wine when other variables are controlled for.
However isn’t the point that references are people who have worked with you and (hopefully) managed you. By calling a backdoor reference, you may not be calling a strong relationship and getting hearsay. For all the recruiter knows, they could be calling a coworker that asked the candidate out on a date and was rejected.

The whole point of references is that given the opportunity to put your best foot forward, can you find people to vouch for you. It may fall short, but so will calling a tenuous relationship.

I did quite well at my previous job (my boss has been a reference twice, in addition to my employee who took over my position when I left), but had a another specific manager been asked, I would have received an awful review, unrelated to my job, but because he hated my boss and therefore hated me and my team. We rarely worked together, and he has little idea of my accomplishments, but it wouldn’t be crazy to ask a director at my previous company for that backdoor reference.

Basically my issue is that I don’t believe that backdoor references are in any way more effective than regular references, but are tremendously unethical, and could lead to false negatives.
It’s not the terminal, it’s the people that feed information and research. The terminal is just access to that information.
Overvaluation of tech companies by the private markets could be understood as part of the same mania that was so pronounced in the case of Bitcoin -- namely, that everyone believes that tech (crypto) is the golden path.
The grass is always greener in the other side.
I'd like to see the math on this electrolysis-via-gravity theory of yours. Usually it takes the likes of a nuclear furnace to squeeze oxygen and hydrogen out of a rock.

On airless worlds with less gravity than ours, water near the surface tends to sublimate and float off into the great old void. It's extremely rare to find it in places that are relatively easy to access. Even Earth isn't a great source, because all that atmospheric drag and gravity makes water a pain to loft up and out.

This new store of ice on the moon is right on our doorstep. Europa is not on our doorstep. Having it on the moon changes all the plans for future manned missions outside Earth's orbit. With hydrogen and oxygen readily available on the moon--and without nuclear reactors and massive chemical processing plants--it suddenly becomes a complete no-brainer to go over there and start making stores of cryogenic fuel for our more ambitious plans.

That is if we ever undertake another ambitious plan. New Horizons was amazing, it really was. But it's nothing like a manned flight.

People say robotic exploration is just as good, but the intangible things really matter. They really do. Think of just how much the moonshot in the 60s drove people into STEM and got everyone excited about the future. Look at science fiction then vs. now. It went from utopian and focused outward to heavily dystopian, obsessively focused inward. It's so sad.

It's impossible to calculate the value of the inspiration of the moonshot, let alone the advances in technology (solid-state computers anyone?). Just imagine how much of a boost it would give our society to go to Mars. This discovery makes it a lot more closer.
Reminds me of the great battle at Kurukshetra. Arjuna fought because he was a warrior, he won because he chose God.
There's a hyper-local newspaper [think a small city's version of a high school newspaper] where I live. I should subscribe, especially since the neighboring larger-city's newspaper recently laid off their beat-reporter for the smaller city where I live.

"Just Local News" appears to be increasingly niche.
They've won and been nominated for multiple Pulitzer prizes, they aren't exactly middling quality. That's extremely unfair to label them as such.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denver_Post#Pulitzer_Prize...
To amplify that -- often whisky doesn't get better with age, or at least, not significantly enough to justify the price hike. I've tried (at the local whisky festival) most of the Talisker range, including distiller's editions, up to the 25 year old. The 10 year old is their stand-up whisky.

But beyond that, Scotch ages particularly slowly, because it, by law, can only be aged in reused barrels. A 10 year old bourbon is as old as the stones, because the barrels are, unsurprisingly, most reactive before being soaked with spirits for several years. Scotch, uniquely, mandates that the barrels cannot be first-use -- they have to be reused barrels from something else, which necessitates the very long aging times.
My debit card from my bank works just fine overseas (I only ever have issues in the US where some places only seem to accept magnetic stripe, which seems less reliable).
I once drank a bottle of some white wine from the central valley, I have no idea what it was, but I had several people taste it in case I was losing my marbles, and it tasted like chocolate. REALLY like chocolate. A white wine. It was not made with any chocolate.

Aromas are just chemicals floating in the air, anyway.
I am more positively inclined to British beers like Spitfire and Bishop's Finger which, although I'm not sure they're technically IPA, are definitely quite bitter. I don't think I've ever seen them in the US, though.
As well.

"Indigenous Australians account for 15 times as many offensive language offences as would be expected for their population."

http://www5.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/AltLawJl/2004/53.html

:sigh:
Just to chime in with more 68k nostalgia and trivia: The 68000 didn't have cache - but 68010 did.

Three whole instructions worth of cache.

"Wha...?" you might say? Tha' heck good is that? The point was that the 3-instruction cache could cache tight loops, like the kind you would use for mem-to-mem copies, which is a terribly common thing to do. I put one in my Amiga 1000 (geez, did I hack that thing...) and got about a 10% overall system performance increase.

It was neat! More lovely details here: http://www.memphisamigagroup.net/diskmags/198803/68010-kit/M...
> Different tasters will rate a given wine differently because taste isn't objective. But it's not subjective either. It's a composite of both. They'll comment on "subtle notes of chocolate" because wines—like beer, coffee, and everything else—have tons of flavor compounds.

Not only will different tasters rate a given wine differently, a given taster will rate a given wine differently, most of the time.

http://letastevin.org/Hodgson%202008%20Examination%20of%20ju...
Without return traceroutes from tor26 this guy can't prove his claim at all. No proof that the problem is even within 701.
Tough space but making CRM easier is a problem for someone to try and solve. Every time I bring up a team I tell them "I hate Salesforce more than all of you, but you already know how to use it so barring a better solution we are using that."

As an aside, I would very much enjoy tools (including a CRM) that allow me to switch accounts/companies quickly. I have 4 companies at the moment and use no CRM, Streak, Prosperworks, and Prospereorks. It's a gnarly way to go through life.
I don’t use any of those sites and I do freelancing via brokers mainly.
Yeah, you could do this in '1 line of code' if you just made another wrapper.
Wow. That thing has more surface area than a motorcycle engine. I guess it really needs it with such a relatively low temperature gradient, not to mention the absence of airflow from movement. I'd love to see how that really performs.