skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The irregularity probably makes it a better test, but it's annoying

This made me take a look at what they're doing and the sRGB vals map fairly close to their Munsell counterparts. The value has been fixed which is nice for this kind of test, but yeah non-linear hue progression. Probably helps as a discernment test considering how much closer the center colors are to each other.

[Possibly unordered] 10R 5/6, 2.5yr 5/6, 7.5YR 5/4, 5YR 5/6, 7.5YR 5/6, 10YR 5/6, 2.5Y 6/6, 5Y 6/6
[0]https://github.com/germ/munsellScript
1.Adventure travel Lovers. age range 18 to 50, user of mobile or tech.

2.They are Tourist. worldwide.

3.Problem: To find options for different offering on same site or city.

4.location based solution.
This could be neat if combined with haptic gloves.
VRchat or something of that class, will be the VR killer app with cheap haptic feedback.
Indeed, even if you decode the supposedly "cracked" Beale letter, you get nearly complete gibberish:

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https://nibot-lab.livejournal.com/tag/beale%20ciphers

It's almost certainly a hoax.
lol, clearly the best solution. (please note sarcasm.)
Doubtful, I did the same and got a 0. No photography experience.
The goal should not be to have people follow your lead. The goal should be: get your team to follow good ideas, and not follow bad ideas. No matter who proposed them.

Smart people often have good ideas, but they can have bad ideas as well and a team needs to be prepared to reject them.

Likewise, the lowest ranking person in the organization can have a trillion dollar idea and your organization should be prepared to profit from it.

Then, no consensus building approach has a bulletproof guarantee that a consensus will happen.
Maybe I'm a bit too cynical here, but there have been so many of these discoveries that "could" solve the water and food problems of third world countries, that I'm inclined to read these kind of titles as "a seed that won't bring clean water to millions".
DreamBank Visualized – An interactive visualization of over 26,000 dream
BhagavadGita.io (Bhagavad Gita – Simplified)
How Trip Inferences and ML Optimize Delivery Times on Uber Eats
Why Pro Matters – Sebastiaan de with – Medium
And for the regular travelers among us it’s 40min before departure - using the fast lane and knowing that boarding won’t close earlier than 15min before take off
True, for me in Berlin its about 25min to go to the Train Station and 30-40Min to either Airport, so not a big difference.
But, considering i would arrive at the airport 90Min before take-off and it takes another another hour (including walking) to get from the Munich Airport back to the City Center (where the Train Station is), the difference is still small and I fully agree that a train (as long as its not overcrowded) is the more pleasant way to travel.
I guess it's a regional thing then. In my corner of the world, Pascal was already dying commercially in 1992, Delphi gave it a final breath of life, but not enough to save it.

Windows was starting to get adopted, Unix was not yet a thing in the homes (but enthusiasts DID start Linuxing by 1994-1995), Assembly was getting irrelevant except for demos, games, and the occasional tight loop, 16-bit was seriously dying -- everything new was 32-bit with dos extenders, Watcom was the best compiler ever, and DJGPP was common -- C and the shiny-new-but-not-yet-convoluted-C++ were kings.

And there was essentially no viable Pascal for PCs other than Turbo Pascal -> Borland Pascal -> Delphi, so it doesn't really matter what the standard said.
"Certainly, one of the risks that we’re taking is the development of artificial intelligence and the artificial intelligence people also are now, I would say exaggerating the dangers and pretending to be more dangerous than they really are, but that remains to be seen."

I work in the intersection of AI and another discipline. Unlike some people (e.g. Elon Musk), he actually knows what he is talking about.
Even though the rolling stock is technically more advanced and loaded with sensors (sometimes resulting is degraded service aka. lower speed for security reasons) the main cost definitely lies in infrastructure. You basically need to rebuild the whole track for highspeed trains. And with Australia being a litigious nation it will also take a while to acquire and execute the land rights.
Myself living in Berlin I'd still take the flight (and I did usually).

First of all, it's nearly legendary how unreliable the trains can be here during winters and hot summers. Second, flying is actually cheaper (I rarely fly with a big luggage).

Finally, it takes me 15 minutes to get to Tegel airport. All the security and boarding procedures are highly optimised there. I usually leave my flat around an hour to the boarding time.

Then the flight to Munich is an hour or less. In the end (with the train to the city center) it takes less than 4 hours.

On the other hand I wouldn't mind taking a long distance overnight international train provided I had a bed there.
Is Intel's upcoming 10nm 'launch' real or a PR stunt? – SemiAccurate
>Producers can copy and extend whatever any human has created but in return they have to produce enough to look after them.

Which is just a royalty with extra steps.

The problem with most attempts to subvert a capitalist/market economy is that they all only manage to obfuscate the usage of money and ownership and replace a lot of it with centralized control.

Your idea still requires ownership of IP and compensation for it.
Social Media Strategies to Enhance Blogging Productivity
Steve Yegge made this argument in a more dramatic fashion in 2006, with his now notorious "Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns": http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Yep, guanxi is roughly the Chinese word for "connections" or "through the network".

I think its perceived more negatively nowadays by the Chinese with 'newish' (more 1990-2000s) terminologies such as the "关系户" (guanxi-hu) which is roughly translated into English as person with a lot of connections and/or is politically savvy and can gain a large advantage in society or conducting business through their network. Note that Chinese govt. (especially the lower rungs) tend to be corrupt/non-transparent and society is more about giving gifts (originally between friends and families, basically bribery if asking for a favour) so this tends to give a much more unfair advantage than Western society (the politically transparent ones).

Chinese people (usually media) either think negatively of these kind of people as they see them having an unfair advantage while some respect and aspire to be guanxi-hu because of how well-connected they are.
> If you could email javascript, what would you email?

Malware. Specifically, crypto-mining malware.
I'd prefer non-counterfit batteries. If one explodes, who is liable?
Do we really want to democratize access to uranium? For nonproliferation it seems really convenient that uranium access is so limited.
Doors trigger our minds loading screens. Memory is loaded from disk. Old context is ejected new is injected. The ego or “i” concept is allotted small attention/memory to carry over stuff. If attention is lost in the middle, the background swap can happen subconscioslu and something you thought you placed nearby can be moved.
How could I have forgot that. 4 layers of duct tape and that computer-case LED still went through enough to be annoying, unbelievable.
There's also pot legalization differences between states, combined with Federal concerns.

Go to Colorado and buy some edibles, you're fine. Carry some over the border into Kansas, and not only are you breaking Kansas law, but if caught they may hand you over to the Feds and penalties may be severe. (Crossing a state border makes it a Federal issue.)
"What I study is important and everyone else should value it more too"
Open Cooperative Ecosystem
There are multiple points of integration between Visual Studio and github, yes.

What there is not is a comprehensive end-to-end support for github based workflows (issues, projects, hooks, wiki-branches, releases), as first class citizens across the entire MS platform. Github Enterprise, sufficiently tailored for MS shops, presents some huge opportunities for scaling dev teams and integrating with other languages and tool chains. I believe there are also significant opportunities in academics: something like VS Code + Jupyter notebooks + deep Github integration, aligned with K-to-PHD and classroom support, strikes right at a core MS's market and would provide significant capture of key users and key metadata.

These are not hurdles of a technically challenging nature, just product design, and will improve their offerings markedly. I see them as givens for their next product updates.

The best that can happen here is a new breed of pre-shared, DCVS based, open source projects and learning tools. MS can't do a lot to stop that, as the tools are already available for GitLab or Atlissan or a monied interest, but MS can do a lot to enable it.
You’re shielding industrial chip manufacturers by using Chinese kids.

Petty nationalism will ruin this world. If every country needs its own silicon manufacturing facilities to participate in the tech economy either you’re advocating cutting most people off from the wealth it generates or your advocating for the propagation of toxic manufacturing to every state.

Both positions hurt kids. Hope you can sleep at night.
Well, that took very long... it's 2018 and finally a real high-speed connection between Berlin and Munich. In France they had that since forever, and also Spain and Italy have a much better high speed network than Germany.

If anything, why Germany is so late to the party?
The JavaScript that arrives at the browser is usually not source code in the way that licenses tend to define the term (which is the preferred form for modifying the program). It's usually at least minified.

It's kind of an interesting situation since it looks like source code even though it really isn't.
I start doubting my perceptions when I can't tell if my actions are having an effect.
You're right: in general, corporate structures do not trust the worker to independently handle her own time and energy.
Tech debt created from old business decisions.

You want to know why we added the isPancake method? You'll have to ask Lucy who's back from holiday in two weeks, who mentioned talking to Greg the intern from last summer, who said his old manager Anna said it's very important.

Please don't modify it until you've done that.
Two stars will merge in 2022 and explode into red fury
It's quite simple: the scammers who create the scams can't market a security to non-institutional investors, as they would have to go through strict regulations. They give discounts to VCs who can sell their tokens to retail investors in a week with huge returns after they ,,invested''.
The article claims that catching up on sleep during the weekend doesn't work. This is most likely wrong information, as shown in this very recent study [0].

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jsr.12712
Federal prison does do time off for good behavior. 54 days off per year, so a 20 year sentence would at best be cut to about 17 years.

If you have a life sentence you're not eligible.
The Linux netlink-based TCP connection flow printer
In such cases I would think the optimization is basically for ASCII, and then extend that to Latin1 because it happens to be the first 256 characters of Unicode, which means processing is trivial and you don't waste the other 128 byte values that way. But I figure that 99.9% of those strings would be ASCII-only.
Actually OP brought up leaving kids a better world then he inherited.

The unnecessary, protectionist subsidization and expansion of toxic waste generating industries leaves ALL kids worse off.
wasn't it gosling who, when asked what he would do differently on rewriting java, famously remarked that he would leave classes out ?
This is a non sequitur. You can, and should, leverage the flexibility of cloud computing without being too locked down to a single vendor.

That’s one of the things tools like Terraform, Kubernetes or Mesos were designed for.
Examples where OOP has worked really well: iOS and macOS. The Objective-C and Cocoa combo must be a large part of the success of these platforms.

Where it has not worked so well: Web-backend programming. To me OOP has always felt out of place there.
Or the chemical process. But you're right, that was probably a simplification from the museum.
I don't disagree. Illegal immigrants in the US are treated horribly, paid poorly and pay taxes for benefits they don't even receive.

However, there are a lot of industries in the US propped up by the low cost of illegal immigrants and often abused by (ironically) Republicans. We can't actually fix those jobs because the margins are too thin to survive without that source of extremely cheap labor. We've created a dependence on what is effectively slave labor, and those jobs are generally critical to our country especially as we move more towards isolationism.

These are all important issues to consider when thinking about real immigration reform.
Indeed. TBH the post reads like advertising for the alleged savings of going "cloud" vs on-premise.
Referring to the broken min max scores? Should put median though.
Patenting doesn't automatically convert into production, customers, and sales.
Android App Devs Find Clever Trick for Fooling Users into Installing Crapware
MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf]
It was the first of any American immigration laws to mention any nationality by name. The laws that replaced it subject countries like China to quotas that continue to unfairly restrict migration.

These restrictive laws have roots in the same petty nationalism that fuels protectionist subsudies.

These laws prevent kids - the kids that you claim to care about - from having a better future elsewhere.
Kilauea Fissure 8: Lava moving very quickly [video]
YouTube blocked videos from Blender Foundation for unknown reason
Certainly agree with most of this. It has a couple of underlying ideas that I've also noticed.

1. Use empathy to both overcome resistance and do the right thing. The strategy in Step 2 for reframing an interaction in a way that gets the person to understand that you're trying to help them, and also reminds you to remove your ego and that the goal is to improve things for everyone, is one I've used a lot. Not because people think you're trying to be difficult but because it overcomes defensive barriers and helps ease them into the context switch of thinking about the problem.

2. Get a foothold with iterative progress. The author did this by splitting adoption and (the process for) configuration. Especially with tools and processes, people will often try to jump to the final state and if they can find any holes or issues with the proposal as is they'll be inclined to throw it all out at the start. If you instead make it clear that we're a) trying something new that will b) be improved as we learn more about it and c) can always be reversed if we decide it was a bad idea, people are usually much more open to it.

One thing the article mentions though is "spending" leadership capital. I like instead to think of it as "investing" capital. If the decision you invested it in ends up being bad, you lose it. If it ends up making people's lives better, you've gained more. Thinking about it this way also can get junior people, as mentioned in the article, to be more inclined to help with decision making. They don't have a lot of capital to spend but they can choose to invest the little capital they have in order to grow it.
What Golang Is and Is Not(2016)
> So what makes Functional Programming any different?

It prevents bad programmers to fall into messy OOP.

Languages are less about readability and features, but always about what it allows the programmer to do, so that it prevents him for writing bad code.

I came with the idea that a programming language is a frame that surrounds the programmer, and only allows him to do things in a certain way that is tolerable and not abusive in term of design.

I'm not a fan of rust, but all the ckecks rust is doing, are very rigid, yet it is exactly what I am talking about: you help the programmer to avoid doing things he might regret and not know about.
Thank you for the posting. Uber is what their Team maketh the Uber. Kudos.
Same was true with Italian pharmaceutical industry until about 1960.
The German government is extracting usually around 1 billion € yearly out of the German railway company.
Why did they use anti-aliasing? Doesn't look very retro.
Quoting a highly biased source, Ken Burns, and then misinterpreting it is not beneficial to the argument.
My own learning from some amount of introspection is that I work best when under pressure to perform. This might be due to a hard deadline (missing which has serious costs for me), when long term reputation is on the line, when time is too short, when money is running out etc.

When I'm comfortable with my life and relaxed, I tend to slack and mess things up in the long term.
That's why I love C++. If you avoid using OOP, it quickly becomes a good enough language to use.

I just wish it was just faster to compile sigh.
In recent year MBP have been a near monopoly for developers machines, at least in small-to-medium startups.
That's extremely surprising.

I see two possible explanations (both of which may apply):

(1) You're getting the cloud servers for a remarkable discount, which, as other commenters mentioned, may not last if you don't put in the engineering effort to be vendor-agnostic (though I'm not sure I agree it's as huge a cost as otherwise implied).

(2) You're grossly over-paying for your current environment. Given what I know about the purchasing habits over merely large (nowhere near the size of F50, mind you) companies and, more importantly, the pricing of "enterprise" hardware and support, this seems likely.

If the second is true, then I expect you could gain the same savings, if not more, by implementing your own "private cloud" by emulating the purchasing and ops habits of larger-scale startups or established tech companies (but not yet so huge as to be too custom) who run their own hardware.

You'd still have to retrain and put an end to manual configuration, but I expect that would ultimately be welcomed. Some might be able to keep their jobs almost as-is.

What likely would not be welcomed, and therefore might make it impossible to do, is the political upheaval, since you'd have to put the kibosh on buying expensive, brand-name gear, all but a few bare-bones service contracts, and the level of enterprise sales perks that the decision makers have come to expect. You'd probably have to hire someone who knows how to be frugal like that from an engineering/ops standpoint for architecture/purchasing and is willing to work for such a large company and isn't already employed by FAAMG.
College professor and Jeopardy winner may go to jail for hacking
Given the context, wouldn't 'out of the money' options make more sense? You win big if the price goes into the money.
"It stopped a piece of shrapnel produced by strafing from a US Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Was she "in bounds?""

Civilian casualties are generally avoided if possible. I'm happy that your grandmother was saved, but it's not relevant.

"Can you see how using Body Count as a metric would tend to produce "targeting" of the metric which would result in the targeting of people to turn into corpses?"

No. 'Body count' is used in every war and has been since the dawn of time, and we continue to use it today as one of many metrics.

Using this metric will not encourage professional soldiers to arbitrarily murder civilians.
Thank you for the information. I hope Google play store will take this notice and rectify it sooner.
Never – Functional Programming Language
And in the case of string theory, we have explanation for data we don't have.
Specific university courses will have additional requirements, for example my science course required an ATAR of 95, but also required a minimum score in a maths unit, and required that you completed some number of science units (I don't exactly remember). So based on the requirements, you couldn't ace English and then enrol in a science degree, for example.

In practice the minimum scores required in specific units are more easily achievable than the ATAR, so the ATAR ends up being the limiting factor most of the time.

Here is an example:

https://www.monash.edu/study/courses/find-a-course/2018/scie...

You can see the scores required in individual units are all 30. 30 is the mean by definition, whereas an ATAR of 95 means you're in the 95th percentile, so obviously if you're in the 95th percentile it's pretty likely you were above the mean in the relevant units.

> Do the universities these students apply to just see the ATAR number, or do they also see which courses went into its calculation?

I've been told by an administrative person in my department that there is in fact no system in place to verify that the students have completed the prerequisite high school courses or their scores. This is surprising to me but there you go.

My memory is unreliable so this might not be quite right but I think I heard from the head a department that they just get ATARs and whether the applicant is from a socioeconomically disadvantaged background. So if that's the case and is true for other universities, then the advertised subject requirements etc mostly have the effect of encouraging students to self-select. Presumably after the fact, the university could ask a failing student to provide their high school transcripts, but basically they're not enforcing it up-front automatically.

But I also get the impression things are just not as competitive as in the US. Most people live in the major cities and just attend the best university that their score allows, out of the universities in their own city. They don't care enough about going to the best school to move cities for it. The differences between the top 8 universities are not great enough for it to be worth moving when there is likely one in your city already.
That’s where the ‘perfected’ part comes in. I wonder what they did before watches or how Western Switzerland got good at metalworking from nothing.
What i understood of this 12M investment was that it invested in its team, not CruyptoKitties, to explore this type of gamification using blockchains.
ESA Council Decides on the Conpletion of Ariane 6
Backtracks on the title's claim in the opening sentence. Then states some basic well-known points that even advocates of OOP would agree with, even in 2013. Then neglects to suggest solutions except alluding to functional programming a couple times.
Hello. Article author here. You can do this and it might be the appropriate approach in some situations, but you run the risk of degrading your reputation with management. Putting aside the personal risk, I tend to think of maintaining your reputation with your teammates as more important in the long run than accomplishing something or being right about any particular issue, since it preserves your ability to persuade them in the future.

Also I've found that if management is resistant to change they usually have good reasons, even if sometimes they can't or won't share them, so circumventing them can sometimes be counter-productive. Usually better to just be on the up-and-up.
Big mess of privatization of the rail operator and then decades of non-investment in infrastructure maintenance while overspending on badly planned flagship megaprojects (this one was completed 17 years behind schedule)
The memory cost of these abstractions is staggering. Runtine seems ok, though. What does that teach us?