skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And employees. Google's embrace of the term "AI" isn't because they need help developing or selling AI-powered products, it's to encourage all the kids to go into computer science and all the existing developers to learn TensorFlow. They can then pick off the best of them as potential employees without having to train them up themselves.
> If we pay everyone enough to make a living wage, then it should cost the same for me to grab my own menu, utensils and water bottles as it would for a server to do so.

I don't see how that follows. The opportunity cost per unit time for a skilled worker is typically greater than the living wage.
Yup, spent 5 years in Ft Polk...
>Why was there a 6% tariff

I'm not sure the exact details but it was all set in Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), spanning from 1986 to 1994 and embracing 123 countries. And then I guess people kind of forgot about it. EU's trade weighted average MFN tariff was 2.3% for non-agricultural products (in 2013) and no one seemed particularly bothered about it till now.
Don't forget their big "blockchain" push (via TV commercials).
Blockchain conferences.
Likely because cost of living has been inflating, and yet the restaurants aren't raising the wages of their workers.
My customer facing time was in a different industry, HOWEVER, that is not what I heard.

The jist was that the /minimum/ wage was what the worker was required to take home, tips inclusive, and that if they couldn't clear that bar (the restaurant had to pay them more) they were retrained and/or otherwise moved around until they either could or quit on their own.
Proof-of-Work’s stupendous power waste is green, apparently
This isn't true...the interstate commerce clause may only regulate wholly intrastate commerce if the law regulates interstate commerce and the targeted intrastate transactions would affect the interstate commerce subject to regulation. See Gonzalez v. Raich (permitting the criminalization of marijuana farming of marijuana that could only legally be sold in-state because marijuana as a good could be sold across state borders).

There aren't any cases governing wholly-intrastate physical goods no such goods exist, and generally when attempting to regulate otherwise purely local commerce (i.e., restaurants and civil rights), it is generally not a case of federal powers but rather of civil rights.
> implementations for OS X and Windows

But they use virutal machines. For me, the disk access speed is very slow for a virtual machine. For example, elasticsearch daemon starts in 8s in Debian on real hardware and takes more than 30s in a VirtualBox. Everything that touches disk works slower.
Isn't that why people have commuted for ages?
Civil forfeiture cases are argued before the judiciary branch. The power is not unfettered.
It's the entire company, not just these Watson groups. They have a history of buying companies or taking over I/T departments and re-badging employee's only to ax nearly all of them once the knowledge is transferred to some 3rd world country workforce.

Stories like this are not a surprise, it's IBM's way of doing business. Maybe Watson will learn HR and just fire everybody from middle mgmt on up..
I assume it's a convenient form of the holy grail of suppliers everywhere: price discrimination.

If you can afford a big tip, and social mechanisms shame you into giving it, then great! The restaurant makes a lot of profit.

If you can't, then the restaurant can still make a small profit off serving you anyway.

As for why it'd increase over time... maybe that's just an effect of people getting a bit richer, but the marginal cost of serving a meal not so much?
the result is arcane shellscripting in the docker image...
And there are plenty of servers who get absolutely fucked by this system. They don't make nearly that amount in tips, and despite the law saying otherwise, most restaurants won't make up the difference. Wage theft is very common in that industry.
I'll bet you have an "easy" fix for Social Security, too :)

Joking aside, I certainly understand the benefits of abstraction. As someone always points out in any discussion about ORMs, for example, abstractions are leaky. Whenever one has to learn about the inner workings of what the abstraction is hiding, some of that ease evaporates.
> How can a self-learner without access to a university or professor check their work?

Their "work" means: Find a solution, AND then check it. So, not checking it by yourself is being lazy too.

Also, if you are learning; software like wolframalpha can help you too to check your solution. [Thanks, throwawaymath for recall this basic answer].

> I wouldn't want a beginner programmer writing "production ready" code without code review, so why should we expect a beginner math student to write error free proofs?

"Code Reviews" are for checking "how did the programmer solved that problem". On the other side; you know if some code is giving good or bad outputs by checking it with "Tests" (In the worst scenario; manually). So, you have to learn to "test" your solution.
The creativity is in how you managed to get the solution and teachers should give insights about your way to solve it and present you easier or better ways to achieve the same. (Just change "teachers" for "senior devs" and now, that is code review).

> These text seem to be designed solely for a classroom where students will get assistance and feedback from TAs and professors.

Probably that's true. You have to consider those types of books as "slides"; just like a guide for the teacher and memory refresh for students.
You can still access com.zone [1], you have to fill a form and have a phone call with verisign and you get access to a good old FTP with a daily dump.

Some other TLDs gives access through Centralized Zone Data Service [2]. Some deny access, like ca.zone.

But I get what you mean, it was really publicly available.

[1] https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi...

[2] https://czds.icann.org/en
Or maybe not. As Oliver was mentioning, China is shifting from self focus to expansion. This is already something I thought when I saw the China sea quarrels.

If it's the case, it's not just only their population opinion that matters, but they need to have a good reputation in the world - that is, if they really want to be a part of it.

With US withdrawing from the world, China has a good opportunity. But the tyranny/autocracy archaism won't fly past their borders.
Show HN: The (Unofficial) Google Messages Desktop Application
Are conservatives pro-government?
And wow, there I thought programmers know it all... Best practices, instances and implementations... Suppose we must get a Google / Tesla AI bot to create and write us an effecient and suitable database (plus structure and auto AI joins :p) haha, what do I know...

Hey: @ryanworl wasn't aimed at your comment, you're right, they should watch and learn it all..
Jess is a BadAss
Do you remember how many language options there were? Adding many seems like a really good reason to replace humans with tech.
>For this system to be truely trustless, the blockchain needs to be owned and maintained by all the people who use it. That means farmer, carrot juice guy, distributor, and retailer need to all have beefy computers with large hard drives to hold the entire blockchain and keep mining it.

Trustless isn't a well defined term so it is hard to disagree directly with what you are saying. However I would argue that most relying parties do not need to have the full state of the system to ensure they aren't cheated. In that they don't need information about other assets to track the assets they care about. For instance the carrot juice guy only needs to validate the chain of custody of the carrots. You could put a merkle proof for each custody change on a QR code on the side of the carrot box. The block headers are 70MB, the chain of custody is probably less than 10KB.

>Sure, it's great that you don't have to trust Amazon or Wal-Mart to trace the links back, but you could do just as well way more cheaply with a well-maintained independent 3rd-party with an AJAX API on top of a Postgres database.

I agree that a running PoW blockchain may be overkill for supply chain tracking. However a BFT distributed database maintained by several trustworthy institutions is probably better a Postgres database. Often blockchain is used as shorthand for "BFT distributed database maintained by several trustworthy institutions".
Check out Commonlounge: https://www.commonlounge.com/discussion/8d5612f5517944059a61...

The courses have hands-on assignments that make you work through real-world problems.
Buying drugs off the internet.
Honestly, in SF, I'm confused that tips aren't like 50%-200%.

I pay $3600/month in rent for a studio. So you need like $120/day post-tax in order to just make rent (and 2-3x that to qualify for the lease in the first place). So let's say you need $300/day in tips to live here. (That works out to about 109.5k/year -- a respectable entry-level tech salary, but that would be just above the poverty line in SF if you were trying to support a family of four on it.)

Suppose that you have a ramen restaurant that's only open for dinner, seats 29, always has a line out the door, has a cycle time of half an hour, is open for 6 hours a night, and has three servers. Assuming 100% of seats are full (let's say you're the best ramen place in town), that means that each server will get tips from 116 customers a night on a $14 bowl of ramen. To make $300/day, you need an average $2.59 tip on the $14 bowl of ramen for the server alone (never mind any haircut for back staff/tip sharing/the owner takes some to cover fixed costs of the restaurant). $2.59/$14 works out to 18.5%.

In a world where entire apartments in the Mission cost $500/month, sure, you can tip 10% on a meal. But given market rate rents in SF now, the math of a 10% tip just doesn't add up.
A day seems long? I’ve not noticed any appreciable difference past 3 hours.

Curious as to why you leave it this long...
> The potential use cases for the internet and cellphones were immediately obvious (instant remote communication) and available on day one.

"Instant remote communication" is abstract. There was no consensus on the specific applications of the internet in the 70s.

The same holds for blockchain. We know the applications are "trusted computing". We don't know what the specific apps will be.
Sounds like the way non-tech companies operate. Pretty damning that IBM can't understand why leadership of a tech company should have a tech background.
This is an excellent example. Thank you!
Turns out the interface was built by Watson and
technically met the spec.
Sure, you can do that - https://themeisle.com/blog/local-wordpress-development-using...

You can also install something like WAMP on Windows and develop locally http://www.wampserver.com

As for the benefit... you can switch i.e. PHP version by simply editing the docker-compose.yml file - this is everything but simple on most Linux distributions.
To start, I am totally horrified by civil forfeiture, so please no one construe this as defending it.

But our personal opinions aside, I don't think the Indiana Supreme court decision is really very surprising from a legal perspective. The eight amendment is selectively incorporated and the excessive fines clause is not incorporated. The 14th amendment gave the courts the justification they needed to incorporate parts of the bill of rights, but for better or worse, not everything in the bill of rights has been incorporated yet, and there is nothing the Indiana supreme court can do about that.

It would certainly exceed their legal jurisdiction for a state court to decide that a federal constitution amendment is incorporated.

And while I hope this case prompts SCOTUS to fully incorporate the 8th amendment, we should also be demanding more of our state governments. Federalism gives states the power. The power to do bad, but also the power to do good. Why is that we so often have to depend on federal courts to protect our rights?

Why don't the legislators of Indiana provide protections against excessive fines in their own constitution, and why do their citizens not demand it? We all want the SC to swoop in and save the day, but we should also face these questions and figure out what we need to do as a society to change this.
I live in Scotland, and was living in Northern Germany before. We do have high penetration here:

https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3029756/scottish-wind-...

And it works pretty well. The last power failure I can remember which was in any way related to wind energy was in 2006:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout

(but wind energy was not the primary cause, the main cause was bad planning)

What happens at large scale is that the fluctuations induced by variable wind speeds smooth out over larger regions. And having a large, interconnected grid is usually much cheaper than battery storage.

What would also help is diversification. In Scotland, there was a fascinating project to generate electricity from wave power, the Pelamis wave power converter. It had working 500 kW installation but was scrapped then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYzocwUfpNg

Fortunately, some Chinese companies seem to have copied the design:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3832029/Chinese-wave...

> If we were as risk-averse with those sources as we are with nuclear, they would be expensive too.

A wind power plant blowing up will not cause half of Europe to be contaminated with huge costs to agriculture, like it happened in 1986. You must also not forgot the extreme health costs of uranium mining.
There is something kind of meta there, isn't there? ;)
Germany had no minimum wage until 2015.

Can you please show us the people that were living in huts there from the post war recovery until 2015.
I think the mice can usually run out of a way of a cow slowly grazing along pasture.
In Go, some evaluation orders in multi-value assignments are unspecified
MacOS Mojave Preview
Ask HN: LaTeX templates for programming books?
Is there any LaTeX templates for programming books? Something you can easily start using, with code snippets and line numbers support
thelounge works great on both desktop and mobile.
Uber Green already exists in Paris, at the same price than UberX
The live 5v5 match at TI should be great to watch.
>Heller v. DC established the precedent that the RKBA is an individual right

Yes. Well, it always an individual right 250 years of clear examples in texts, but a lot of people tried "the militia argument" which was funny because "a well regulated militia" was immediately followed by "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". The idea was that antigun people claimed the militia was an official organization like the modern national guard and not the reality of militias which includes any able bodied person able to fight for defense of state and self. Like you and me.

Heller was "the case" the ended the "collective rights" nonsense argument. The SCOTUS case that means the federal government has no power to keep people from bearing arms. All McDonald wanted to do was keep a gun on him outside of his house and IL/Chicago refused to issue permits - the easy way to see the difference is Heller was the people's right, McDonald just clarified it means outside of your home.
sadly no mention of price on solution, but still a very interesting article which teaches you that even things that are no longer made can still be obtained via the internet in the modern day :)
"I would like to pay/donate to an organization even though no major credit card will let me."
Please don't change the title.
"Real wage increases tie to rising productivity."

Just about every graph on the subject demonstrates this statement to be false. Productivity has skyrocketed since the 70s, yet wages for all but the top have stagnated.

"Compare that to what the city officials in San Francisco are doing with waiters and similar restaurant staff. Essentially, they have decreed (in the name of worker protection) that the cost to the employer of such employees shall increase by 50% or more over a short period when nothing whatever has occurred to increase their productivity. I went years working my way through school doing such work and it is very hard work indeed. The people doing it earn every penny. Yet those who did it 5 years ago at considerably less cost to the employer than those who do it today worked just as hard as their counterparts today. If those doing such work today are doing the same work, and their productivity has not materially increased, yet they are getting paid 50% more, something has to give."

This is also being done because productivity is not the sole measure by which those wages should be judged. Cost of living absolutely should be taken into account.
Docker is the new way of doing "curl|bash".
> You still have to trust whoever created the rules and wrote the code (from maliciousness and errors).

100% agree with you. Seems like a bunch of people are neglecting this factor or misunderstanding what they are buying into.

Blockchain is not 'distributed trust'. In practice, blockchain centralizes trust. You trust your bitcoin wallet to correctly send money to the addresses that you supply, and correctly generate receiving addresses.

There is only one thing to audit/trust now - the bitcoin protocol and its implementation - instead of studying how modern banking and legal systems work. You trust one thing instead of trusting dozens of middlemen. While this sounds like a non-issue to those who live in "first world" countries like USA and only transact internally, it is a big deal for international transactions and some of the less developed economies.
I just now realized a bad typo. Should have read "suicidality is pretty strongly inversely correlated with poverty [and strongly correlated with privilege]"
The table is correct. 100% correct. It's maintained by a law school, and is verified by a professor of Constitutional Law at least annually.

As a lawyer, I trust the Cornell Legal Information Institute. I have used it in my practice.
> if you are eating in a calorie deficit you will not be adding muscle mass without a very carefully controlled diet that most fitness and diet novices don't have the knowledge and discipline to pull off

Do you happen to know any more resources to tackle this? I'm trying to gain muscle and lose body fat, and it's been difficult diet wise. I even think I'm not eating enough sometimes.
Try:

https://www.sharelatex.com/templates/other/programming-assig...
> the employer is not aware of what they're getting in return for being deprived of that employee's compensation.

This would make sense except this article suggests that employees are not given a proper chance to actually present what they do give in return. Rather they spend the whole process defending accusations from their manager.

> She wasn’t invited to watch her boss’s presentation, and he got the last word.

In court, the accused does not get kicked out whenever the accuser is speaking. They should at least have the right to hear what is being said about them and be given the same time to both give a rebuttal and present their achievements and contributions.
> We're starting trade wars on multiple fronts, exiting or weakening multilateral alliances (and simultaneous giving an advantage to our global adversaries), and weakening the balance sheet of the federal government (during a business cycle peak). Of course this is going to end terribly.

I'll add the embrace of nationalism. Many of the leaders through WWI and WWII, including Churchill, put significant blame on nationalism for the wars, which is why they supported internationalism including the EU (or the beginnings of it at the time), UN, World Bank, IMF, etc.

Here's Churchill talking about it:

http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/astonish.html

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and glory which its three or four hundred million people would enjoy. Yet it is from Europe that have sprung that series of frightful nationalistic quarrels, originated by the Teutonic nations, which we have seen even in this twentieth century and in our own lifetime, wreck the peace and mar the prospects of all mankind.

...

What is this sovereign remedy?

It is to re-create the European Family, or as much of it as we can, and provide it with a structure under which it can dwell in peace, in safety and in freedom.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

...

And why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent and why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings in shaping the destinies of men?
The wiki at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome says:

Assistive computer interface technologies, such as Dasher combined with eye tracking, may be used to help people with LIS (Locked-in syndrome) communicate with their environment.
I’ve been hanging around with linguists, this idea sort of emerged from my eavesdropping.

In particular it’s accepted in the field (I believe) that animal languages are not generative, which is to say they do not provide for production of new forms over time. Anything an animal speakes has already been spoken before because the possible set of valid sentences is strangled by lack of variability in the syntax. Intuitively, and this is where I’m going off the rails, I feel that generativity and Turing-completeness are near the same thing - they can describe something that is yet to be. Non generative language can only describe what has already been. That is constructing a new world requires description of the machinery operating that new world, whereas describing an old world you can lean on prior knowledge of the speaker and make do with a much poorer descriptive facility.

https://hubpages.com/education/Language-A-Brief-Treatment
You also have to be precise about what you mean by "elite". Definitely "most runners" don't fit that category, so saying "you simply won't be able to go as fast" is probably overgeneralizing.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...

“If you’re going to run a marathon under two hours and 10 minutes, then yes, you probably need lots of carbohydrate to be able to perform to such an intense level of activity, but once you’re slower than two and a half hours, I’m not really convinced you do.”

Adaptation periods are probably 6 weeks, possibly longer to fully adapt, though adaptation appears progressive.

And training low-carb can have benefits even if racing carb-loaded.
from [1]

>Sourdoughs International is a family business dedicated to the resurgence of authentic sourdoughs. Authentic? Commercial yeast produces something that looks like sourdough but is completely bland and tasteless. Absolutely nothing tastes or smells anything like authentic sourdough. When you bake it with wild yeast and lactobacilli, it will taste and smell like sourdough should. There is no other way.

>The Industrial Revolution created fast rising yeasts that almost eliminated sourdough and did eliminate the lactic acid bacteria. As a result breads baked with commercial yeast have never equaled the flavor, texture and aroma of man’s first leavened bread. And never will!

That could explain the difference in taste.

[1]http://www.sourdo.com/
Personally for me easier is looking at the halfway point between 10% and 20%. So for 15.69 it would approximately be between 1.5 and 3.1 (1.5 + 1.6/2) = 2.3