skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A question that really interests me about Stonehenge, Gobleki Teppeh and other such mysterious monumental sites is "how many people did this?"

When we (now, and in the past) look at ancient construction projects, we instinctively tend to imagine fairly "brute force" construction methods. Basically, the way things are done now but with people powered trucks, cranes and such. Think of all those depictions of many people dragging huge loads on rollers or sleds. Very large groups of people using muscle power.

Thousands of labourers, hundreds of years. Herodotus suggests that it took 100,000 builders over 20 years to build a pyramid, 2m man years. In egypt, it's plausible. They had huge numbers of people, an empire, large scale slavery...

With stonehenge in 5,000 ypb britain, there are thought to be far fewer people. It wasn't a massive urban culture like egypt. People are thought to have lived in small dispersed groups at that time, with little evidence of large "political" authority that could command a large labour force.

Gogleki Tepeh's builders achieved similar feats 12,000 YBB. This is before large scale societies are thought to have existed at all, anywhere.

So either, (1) "civilised" society was much more common historically and ancient in origin (2) There were "pre-civilised" ways of organising very large numbers of people. Or (3), they had very clever building techniques that did not require many people.

Any of these answers, or some combination of them could add a lot of flavour to our understanding of the neolithic, culturally.
Great post. I’ve been working hard to encourage my children to understand this very concept.
How much of those commercial unices and the embedded stuff older than Windows are actually still being updated beyond bug fixes?
Full face diving masks are designed to have an air flow that helps minimize CO2 buildup[0]. The greater concern is that they might leak due to not fitting properly, and/or the user might panic and pull the mask off while underwater.

[0] http://www.opstechnologies.com/products/scuba/full-face.html
SendGrid for sending signup, password reset emails. They have an API and SMTP support which we prefer since it avoids lock in.

We use MailChimp for our marketing mails purely because of habit. SendGrid can handle that too.

On the free plan for both for ages and ages so didn’t have to worry about the cost until we started ramping up.

I would advise against your own SMTP server. I maintain one for ‘fun’ for my personal emails and between SPF, DKIM etc. it’s more time and effort than it’s worth for an early stage project.

You also get cool analytics with MC and SG which shows who received their emails, who hit spam, who clicked, etc. very handy for diagnosing signup mail problems.
‘Nothing to worry about. The water is fine’: how Flint poisoned its people
> "Nobody would drag the stones up the Preseli Hills only then to drift them down south to Milford Haven," Ixer said. And going to the sea from the northern slopes isn't ideal, either. "You've actually got to make a long sea journey all the way around the south coast of Wales," he said. "So, it seems a pretty unlikely suggestion."

I'm not sure about this. It was a massive effort to move the stones in the first place, maybe if you could do most of the moving by boat or raft rather than dragging them all the way, it might have been a worthwhile trade-off. It's a long way from Newport (West Wales, not the one nearer to England) to Salisbury, and the terrain is hard going all the way.

We're talking here about people who reshaped Maiden Castle in Dorset by hand, using (as far as we know) tools made from antler and moving the earth in baskets. Who built Silbury Hill using similar methods. Who thought it worthwhile moving these massive stones (and hundreds like them) across the country at a time when any journey was far more difficult and dangerous than today. They were not like us.
It's also an interesting event, and media broadcast interesting things because people like to read about interesting things. Pretty straightforward, no?
To me this underscores the most unspoken point. Redux is meant for when you specifically want to build your app around redux. It's not meant to tack on some global store to an existing UI. It is UI agnostic way of separating your business logic and side effects from the UI iself (which could be react, vue, angular, whatever)
I feel this is important, one of the things China has felt they have been held back on is chip production, especially something like the x86 and x64 chips. Now they are good to go on something that is a national priority. They can produce hundreds of thousands of cpu's as many as they want now with no limitations from the US Government since now they can do it locally.
scientists tend to pursue these adventurists/esoteric opportunities to try and provide unique solutions that may have utility down the road.
> 1k$ surplus income per month on a 18k$ bill means you'd have to forfeit all surplus income for 18 months.

Sure, if you were intent on paying it off as quickly as possible. Most likely your payment plan would be less than that.

Ultimately if enough "what if something else happens?" happen, you file for bankruptcy.

There's no such thing as financial security for anyone when you deal in the world of what-ifs.
It's always fun when people try to design publicly accessible APIs that nevertheless aren't public. Unfortunately they keep finding ways to make it happen by force.
Black text is always justified. And you can never go wrong with a pale blue background.
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They do have free speech, but the company can and should be allowed to fire you if you are sexist or racist towards fans, free speech does not mean free from consequences.
In this case she wasn’t sexist but inappropriately pulled the victim card in an attempt at vilifying a fan. That type of behavior is just as hurtful to women in the development industry as other types of sexism. Therefore it is against their communication policy which she should be familiar with and follow if she wants to be free from concequences.
Sonic Pi: Compose electronic music with code
there's an infographic halfway down the article that explains. yes, you have to click the link in order to see it, i'm very sorry.
Show HN: Midibin – Turn Clojure code into MIDI music
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I'm so fed up with science and politics journalism.
1. It is very interesting to note that Freeman Dyson considers Von Neumann to be a frog rather than a bird.

Considering Neumann's wide ranging, and prodigious work, I always thought of him as a superman who could survey the entire landscape of mathematics. Dyson does give some persuasive reasons why this may not be true.

2. Dyson reminds me of Isaiah Berlin's THE HEDGEHOG AND THE FOX essay: https://www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk/crag/files/2016/06/the_hedgeh...
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Not your main point at all, but Hulu has Elementary episodes if you can get access to Hulu.
I'm fine with governments being the only ones who can view domain registration details. Heck, I'd be fine with nobody having access, forget the whole whois system: if the government needs to find who runs freemovies.example.net, they can ask (or subpoena) whoever was paid to register it (i.e. the registrar).

As far as I understand, the WHOIS system was made in the 80s when it was useful to be able to look and ring someone up. Literally everything was in beta on the arpanet, and direct communication makes debugging a lot easier. But it's 2018, and I do not want 4chan to be able to look up my home address in that system. That creates more mayhem than it's worth by far.

Thinking about what use I ever had from the whois system, I guess it's only abuse email addresses for IP addresses. And I hear that people make use of the registration date of domains to calculate spam scores. Neither of those require the registrant's private information to be in there.
Not everybody's. There is whole China where the certs remain installed.
Related: [1], "Scientists research man missing 90% of his brain who leads a normal life"

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-...
> since certificates are all publicly logged now.

Only some of them are. All EV and some DV get published.
Yes, it is discrimination based on sex and race. I think you are arguing that what matters is the feelings of the person when they discriminate. The intent is the same - choose one over the other because of their sex and race. But if they feel they are righting a past wrong then it is not sexism/racism, whereas if they are doing it because they dislike one group then it is sexism/racism. And that is where the fundamental disagreement lies. I don't subscribe to the feelings argument.
You left out a very important contraction from that quote, namely "I'd". The subject of the sentence changes its meaning entirely. As you quoted, it reads as an imperative, something I did not say.
Summary: "Christopher Columbus encountered the chili pepper in the Caribbean in the late 15th century. Soon after, Spanish and Portuguese traders, obsessed with controlling the spice market, spread the chili around the globe. "

So the likely route is: Carribean -> Spain -> Portugal -> India, Macao and other far east ports -> inland China
There is financial security for me. I don't have to worry about not being able to pay my hospital bill. I won't have to file for bankruptcy because I'm unable to pay because that doesn't happen.

So there is certainly some financial security for anyone in the world of what-ifs, atleast as far as medical coverage is concerned.
Sure, but why should that information be public?
Yes, think of ChromeOS.

You are locked to the browser sandbox and web sites, which you will never see the code running on their servers.

X11 terminals are back, just prettier.
>Telescript is still something that intuitively seems like a good idea for a certain class of problem.

It has been available in other forms -- e.g. Distributed Smalltalk ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/170223/ ).
Did you read the letter [1] that was linked in the article? It is much less hyperbolic than the article makes out.

Paraphrased:

Yes, of course you can keep registration data for your own legitimate usage. Contact information for the lifetime of the domain is fine.

Storing it for 2 years after expiry is not necessarily problematic, but you need to document why you legitimately need it.

You can't make private contact information public without consent.

However, you can disclose it to 3rd parties who make a legitimate request, but you should record the request.

[1] https://regmedia.co.uk/2018/07/05/edpb-icann-whois.pdf
Isn't ICANN collecting this data from registrars? I cannot recall myself entering my information on their website. I am sure a lot of people that buy domains don't even know about ICANN getting the data.
Oh definitely. Yeah, I've got 4 real ones and 4 DIY squeezelite's in rotation at the moment.

And even while you can build you own, the used market is still strong. Hardware that's been used daily for 10 years selling for 70% its original retail pricetag. Practically unheard of for consumer tech.

Basically, Logitech are idiots. They could keep selling what they did and still make money but it'd be trivial for them to step back in and pick up development, but hey ho.
which case do you refer to about prosecution over free speech?
Maintenance projects bring in revenue for the company today—perhaps even most of the revenue. But they're not the future of the company. Perhaps these projects are serving out the remainder of a contractual obligation that is profitable but not wildly profitable. Perhaps they are feature complete and adding more risks complicating them. Perhaps this line of business is declining every year.

Companies put time and effort into projects with greater future returns.

Rewriting your maintenance project does not just affect you. It requires other people: QA, systems engineers, etc. It carries risk that something breaks. It requires energy and focus, when it is essentially a distraction from future projects. There is a moneymaking machine in the basement that requires turning the crank once an hour to continue working. You are the person employed to turn the crank, not rebuild the device. Get it?

When I say propose new projects, I mean new projects that make the company money. Work within to change the landscape of your job. Learning how to do that is infinitely more valuable and rewarding than a $10k bump at another company.
> No airplay, bluetooth, etc. support. This means you cannot use Sonos to replace all audio speakers in your home.

Not ideal, but you can hookup an AppleTV to line in on a connect:amp and airplay this way.

Insanely expensive buy in for that feature. I just happened to have the amp as my first sonos product and an appletv I no longer use (switched to Fires)
From the Merriam-Webster English dictionary:

> sexism
> noun sex·ism \ ˈsek-ˌsi-zəm \
> 1 : prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women

> racism
> noun rac·ism \ ˈrā-ˌsi-zəm also -ˌshi- \
> 3 : racial prejudice or discrimination
>I wonder if Google has become the place where famous people go to...not do much

They don't have to do much. If they just have 1-2 major insights per year, or help teams make the right decisions because of their experience, that's enough to justify millions in salary -- even if they don't write code or project manage themselves but just sit on their office playing Pong and waiting for someone to ask them a question.
Thank you.

The source can be found at https://github.com/lmorg/murex

Happy to discuss any questions or comments you might have on it.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to get hold of the matebook x pro?
It's garnered favourable reviews all over yet it's seemingly still unavailable in Europe or even through Chinese retailers like gearbest or banggood, is there something stopping it from being sold in the EU?
Whois is not about that at all, it’s about offering that information to the public at large.

GDPR does not limit the collection of data that has a legitimate business use as long as it is used for that business use only and removed when the use no longer exists. Otherwise how could you do billing?
I don't understand your complaint. I suspect you have a fundamental misunderstanding of identity management in practice, irrelevant of whether it's implemented with OpenID, OpenID Connect or SAML.

If you want people to register with anything, then just let them register with an arbitrary username and password. You don't even need an email or a domain.
The article speaks about "the critical Whois service". Can anyone tell me what it's critical for? I can think of two reasons:

- abuse contact info
- registration date

(The latter is used in spam score calculations, I've heard.)

Neither of those are the registrant's private information. I don't understand why we're pushing to have private data in a public directory in the first place. (I never understood this, but being young, I first registered a domain around 2008, long after it was common to ring Joe from USAF up because their FTP was down.) The registrar has to store it for billing anyway, so if a domain is used for something illegal, the police can get at the info anyway...
It wasn’t a general assumption: he said as much in a tweet.

“Got more great feedback from Thailand. Primary path is basically a tiny, kid-size submarine using the liquid oxygen transfer tube of Falcon rocket as hull. Light enough to be carried by 2 divers, small enough to get through narrow gaps. Extremely robust.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2018”
>Ones that had customers, such as Bot and Dolly, were shut down. For several years, many people thought Google had some big secret project in the works.

That works wonders to inflate Google's stock too (on such vague promises of future tech), way beyond they ever spent on them.
Problem is, some domain and number holders have no incorperated body: they hold the resource as a private individual. Hard to formulate consistent data law around WHOIS when its both people, and corporate entities.

I was in the WHOIS as was from SRI-NIC. I kept GM85 in my current nic-hdl for resources as a memory of the days gone by: they even published a paper copy of the listing.. the phone book of the internet, how .. quaint.

Yes, the protocol is designed for days gone by. but the GDPR laws apply to RDAP, even though it has HTTPS and could in principle use Oauth or similar to constrain whats shown to open access.
I'm sorry but their sound quality is pretty abysmal for the price; there is a reason they're lampooned. I agree that a lot of the headphone market is poor but 20 minutes of googling will get you some good headphones for a decent price. That aside, I certainly agree with you they were able to build a brand, make mostly junk products pretty fashionable and sold a lot of merchandise.
What is “unjust” about this?

Descrimination in and of it’s self isn’t racist / sexist. Unjust descrimination is certainly racist / sexist.
And in some cases, like their speech synthesis and recognition APIs, Windows has been pretty darn good about having the APIs in the first place, maintaining and improving them over more than a couple decades, with the APIs being quite rich and supporting third party components like voices, synthesizers and recognizers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Speech_API

While Apple's speech APIs, for all their huff and puff and other legitimate work on accessibility, are totally lacking, way behind, locked away from third party developers, and sadly deficient for application developers who need more than the most basic off-the-shelf features.

For example, SAPI has for decades been able to a send mouth positions (visemes) synchronized with the speech, to animate the lips of the Wizard or Rover the Dog or Clippy (or whatever a paperclip uses to articulate), which is proven to improve speech understanding. But not a peep from Apple's speech API -- their lips are sealed.

https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/1609/Converting-Text-To...
So as a salesman, you would be trying to convince customers to buy the other brand you have on store?
The article even makes mentioned potential fraud: "[Thomas] was forgetful and sloppy, but at worst he was being deceptive" Without any further explanation.

Science "journalism" certainly has the reputation it deserves.
I’m just baffled by this, there are many high profile sites that barely work on the misc mobile browsers I use. I avoid them, obviously. I can’t be the only one. The only thing I can think of is that due to business demands, and code cruft, the developers just “make things work” on their desktop.

Then when the managers ask them to speed up the site, they literally can’t do it.
What I don't understand, is how or why this model works "only" in China as it stays within the x86 license boundary.

Why hasn't Apple, Microsoft Xbox, Sony PS 4 use this route for their semi custom SoC?
"The first mention of the chili pepper in the Chinese historical record appears in 1591, although historians have yet to arrive at a consensus as to exactly how it arrived in the Middle Kingdom. One school of thought believes the pepper came overland from India into western China via a northern route through Tibet or a southern route across Burma. But the first consistent references to chili peppers in local Chinese gazettes start in China’s eastern coastal regions and move gradually inland toward the West—reaching Hunan in 1684 and Sichuan in 1749—data points that support the argument that the chili pepper arrived by sea, possibly via Portuguese traders who had founded a colony near the southern Chinese coast on the island of Macao."
It _is_ a form of racism and sexism, by definition. You can make an argument that some forms of racism/sexism are not harmful, or even beneficial, to society, but let's not re-define words based on your convenience.

And before you reply, I suggest you look up the definitions in an English dictionary; personally I referenced Merriam-Webster, but most accepted English dictionaries will tell you more or less the same thing.
Consider she was fired from previous job for similar displays.
I can't even find what the ICANN proposed in the article. (The article contains little more information than the headline does by itself.) What interpretation did the ICANN come up with that you think is reasonable but is still not GDPR compliant?
My only point was: Maybe the situation is more nuanced than how it is presented in the article (which is usually the case).
Thai news reporting that the first two boys are out of the cave. No report yet of their condition.

Edit 1: News media being kept away so they will be light on details for the time being.

2: Chiang Rai health dept head says the two are being examined at the field hospital near the cave.

3: Timely updates in English here https://www.bbc.com/news/live/44755093
"Kaleidoscope" [1] needs to be mentioned here as well. A brilliant shareware to apply a "scheme" (graphical theme) to classic MacOS. Wanted your UI to look like Windows, Copland [2] or BeOS? Kaleidoscope allowed you to do that.

Here's a link to previews of some popular schemes (from the Internet Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20060925184709fw_/http://www.kal...

Sadly, modern OS will probably never allow this level of customizability...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system)
Indeed, their "typesetting" is mostly done by people with no subject expertise who is more likely to introduce a mistake than correct something that matters.
The article was less about how the chili got to China, and why inland Sichuan and Henan. The answers postulated are poverty and mass starvation (cheap, robust, nutritious, integrates with existing spice combinations), and that there's a link between chili consumption and risk taking.
If you understand games as a system of rules, an engine that lets you simply describe those rules and then set up starting positions becomes very interesting. I've been playing puzzlescript games from the gallery, as they come out, for a while. Would love to see how far you could push this idea.
I give some weight to a CS degree from a top engineering school, but beyond that I haven't observed a correlation between education and capability.

I give a lot of weight to intellectual curiosity and self-directed initiative, as those are the clearest signals (along with empathy) of being a good engineer.
TLS certs (client or server) are only used during the handshake. After that it’s symmetric crypto, so no non-repudiation if that’s what they want. (Real non-repudiation requires a lot more than just signatures though, otherwise you could just claim that you lost control of your key).
better non-existent fixed 21 million
than
non-existent unlimited printed paper
Of course, how else would you get real footage.
>one of the things China has felt they have been held back on is chip production

Not sure what you mean by held back, As far as we cant tell, ignoring all the JV and shares, this is basically AMD making their EPYC chip in TSMC specially for Chinese Market.