skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair, I meant as any comparable language. Though, I confess I suspect people could make more progress with C and the like than the advocates of python would like to acknowledge.

And I'm quite fond of lisp nowadays.
Example: rational numbers
Oh it's won many years ago :)
The argument that companies choose open-plan offices to save money is silly. They are fully aware that even a simplistic productivity model combined with easy to estimate productivity losses out of high base salaries nets out to a loss, not even counting other sources of loss like low morale, hindered collaboration due to distractions, etc. It’s comical to suggest medium or large corporations aren’t modeling and measuring these effects. The true losses are likely even higher and this is easy to see using the types of productivity and cost models that many companies already use.

Besides, the amount saved per head in real estate terms is tiny compared to other budget concerns in a lot of companies, or even opulent indulgences (I once worked for a company that took all ~300 employees plus up to 5 additional friends or family per person on a 4-day ski trip, with all transportation, lift tickets, rentals, food, hotel and child care paid for by the company). Even for huge headcount firms, the savings is not that significant. And obvious counter-examples like Stack Overflow just immediately refute this line of excuses.

I am so saddened that as a community, engineers and developers have bought these paper thin excuses for abjectly terrible physical work conditions and don’t negotiate harder to prevent it. It’s very clearly not chosen for cost savings. That’s just the excuse because plainly admitting that it’s for status signalling and indulging fashion is not a defensible reason for damaging morale and productivity.
Stéphane Israël has repeatedly called for European governments to stop competing any satellite launches and guarantee them all for Arianespace, as well as to increase direct subsidies.

http://www.france24.com/en/20150620-interview-stephane-israe...

http://aviationweek.com/space/arianespace-esa-we-need-help

Alain Charmeau has as well:

>Even as Charmeau decries what he calls subsidies for SpaceX from the US government, he admits that Ariane cannot exist without guaranteed contracts purchased by European governments. To make the Ariane 6 vehicle viable, Charmeau said Ariane needs five launches in total for 2021 and eight guaranteed launches for 2022.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/ariane-chief-seems-f...
Already there:

https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/blob/maste...
You'd rather see your own country go into economic depression than Trump's decision working out? How are you so certain that tariffs on China are a bad idea?
Largely the "IP theft" is really "IP transfer". In order to conduct business in China, most non-Chinese companies need to partner with a Chinese owned company, that partnership requires that the IP be shared between partner companies. Each Chinese owned company already has another partner, the Chinese Government. IP shared with the Chinese company is then shared with the Chinese Government. The Chinese Government than takes the IP that has been "shared" and they re-distribute that knowledge to other Chinese companies that can benefit. The Chinese government is sitting on massive amounts of IP that was knowingly "shared" That's why it seems the technology sector in China seemed super charged, because it was.

Make no mistake the Chinese government is actively trying to steal IP, but most of the IP it has was knowingly shared by Western companies desperate to lower costs and get access to the Chinese market.
This workflow can already be done with good old Apple Mail. The ability to open multiple windows all showing a personalized view (both in the selection of emails and what you want to see about them) allows for this flexibility. As a bonus, the views can be compact and take up very little screen space.
Negotiating for more favorable terms is destroying friendships now? Come on now. Obviously there's a boundary, but if there's a known market price, it's obvious when someone is being unreasonable.
Will web assembly make it possible to do all your JavaScript stuff in python instead?
Wait... But... I mean... Of all the companies I can imagine having a legitimate interest in private information, the government seems to be at the top of that list. Please help me understand your perspective.
I assumed you wanted analysis connecting the report to Uber. The actual data is publicly available on the BLS website.

I'm all for greater contract worker protections. People seem to think this is some value judgement on that issue. there are valid arguments that some aspects aren't accounted for in this report. But the perception I had was that the gig economy was becoming a sizeable portion of the workforce. Were it true we'd expect it to spill over in BLS numbers regardless of their deficiencies.

Last month we had no data so that's excusable. But now that we do it should be talked about.
No you are correct.
So is there anything left of DNA, perhaps in bone marrow? I would "guess" there isn't.
Thanks! I use a modified Monoprice Maker Select V2 and a modified TEVO Black Widow (which I don’t recommend due to assembly effort). The CR-10 and especially the 400mm version is what I recommend for building Rover!
How does this work?

Aren't you usually furiously kicking/flapping with your legs when swimming?

Are they actually touching the bottom of your feet, ie your soles? Do they have to time it right to not get kicked?
I really like the point that an API-centric console does not remote well (think ssh).

In general I prefer the WIN32 object-handle model to the Unix file-descriptor model, and I much prefer the WIN32 security descriptor and access token model to the Unix haphazard security model, but very clearly, the everything-is-a-file model is superior at least for remote access: it's easier to design and implement protocols for that since the protocols don't need to know anything about the remote resources' nature. Thus the Windows console cannot be exported via SSH, not without writing a layer that converts text reads/writes into ioctls, because it's not remotely file-like. That the Windows team had to and did write that layer really is fantastic news.
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and are there rules for sorting or do I manually move all of them? Can the columns be customized?
> A significant wage drop is inherently constructive dismissal as wage/salary tends to be most people's single most important criteria for accepting the job.

For a job in which pay directly correlates to job performance (such as tipped labor, or number of passengers driven, as in this case), you would have to demonstrate a number of things, including:

(a) the low pay represented a change (if the pay was consistently and comparably low since the beginning, nothing was constructed)

(b) the change in pay did not stem from a change in performance or the drivers' choice of hours worked

In this case, it's not clear that (a) applies, and it's almost certain that (b) does not, because there's no evidence that Uber made decisions that changed the take-home pay of the driver directly (such as reducing the driver's share, except insofar as any initial signup promotions expired, which would not constitute constructive dismissal).
I think you won me over on this several posts ago. :) I should have made that clear. I do think I was somewhat misunderstood, but I fully concede I think I am wrong, as well.

I'm probably still more amenable to the argument that most people just don't wear shoes that fit. But, I think I would have a hard time quantifying that.
I'm not going to list them for privacy reasons, but they include US and EU, which in my mind are the most powerful for entrepreneurs, especially as a combination.

But you do need some luck and other features. A degree helps a lot, although I don't have one.

I got the US one via the green card lottery, and although that might seem like crazy luck, if you live in certain countries your odds are surprisingly high. I calculated mine where 1 in 10. You just keep on applying.

The EU has pretty amazing visas available if you look carefully (being proficient at the language that Google Translate claims is English is helpful). For instance you can live in several EU countries just by being self-employed. You can then use that to get citizenship over time and live almost anywhere in Europe and even in some Caribbean countries.

Places like Australia (although they're tightening this up) allow you to move there if you're young, English speaking and have the right job or degree (for instance, if you can cook!). Once you're in often there is no requirement to actually work, so you can work on your own project while you pass 4 years to claim citizenship. Then you leave. But you might not want to.

Motivations? Besides flexibility for business purposes and low cost or free high quality health care, I'd say this: the world is becoming a more dangerous place, and being able to escape somewhere safe is comforting.
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 will include support for leap seconds
Doing Windows, Part 5: A Second Try
I don't know about your neighborhood, but in ours, there are no sidewalks and a bunch of teens drive as fast as they possibly can.
It's not just the employees who would benefit. There's a structural debt building up which will need to be paid and patients are suffering, too. It's false economy.
It will significantly raise prices for customers.

Do you use Uber presently(or other such services)?

Would you use it if prices went up 50% or more?
Diet: I am not much of a cook so I eat simple; eggs and oatmeal with raisins sugar or life cereal and banana for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch most days and go out to eat for dinner and always have meat and vegetables, and often rice. This is how I have always eaten and input from health-conscious people is that I do well with it. I only drink water. No soda, juice, or alcohol and I don’t smoke.

Sleep: This was the worst part. I layed awake worrying a lot, which would sometimes prompt me to get up and start working on something in the night. It would throw me off schedule. A sleep schedule in sync with others is useful so I had to force myself to wake up early with the alarm some days. Other days I would opt for the 7 hours anyways.

Exercise: I like running but hate the time it takes but I still had a good early morning running routine for about 3 months; even got an elliptical at a yard sale after my shin splints started up. It was nice but just added to the time that I was not putting into problem solving. Giving it up merely gave me more time and energy.

I fear we have developed a habit of ignoring the problems that are not immediately applicable to our individual threshold of acceptable realities and are not socially encouragable in pleasant conversation. I probably would not have this perspective available to me without a good background in history and sociology + my experiences. I honestly hope I change my mind one day.
Edit: Yeah I'm off the mark, median pay is more like 10-8. I gotta read more closely

I think the "mutually beneficial" is somewhat debatable. If you take in to account the cost of upkeep on the vehicle from increased driving some drivers barely break even or even lose money driving for uber. On median a driver makes something like 3 dollars an hour https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/01/uber-lyft...
So the amount of money spent means people don't really care or it's an illegitimate topic or something?

I'm suspicious of some topics and the support they get myself, but your approach here seems much too fast to dismiss a topic that maybe you don't like. It's way too easy to just say something is not organic or illegitimate when the issue is unpleasant rather than really deal with it. I don't know if anyone has a good way of getting their finger on legitimate, or topics that are more "important" than others in a democracy.
Any non paywall links?
Let me state my personal experience trying something like this. I get a ton of email on all sorts of different topics and projects that may be old or may be currently in progress.

I did something like this inside my file manager. Just download all new messages into a directory a couple times a day. Delete the junk. Put email needing to be processed into one directory. Put processed email into a different directory.

The system didn't work at all. Sure, it works great for certain tasks, like responding to "What time will we meet for lunch?" I had to add extra directories to allow archiving messages by project. An email is a piece of reference material. You appear to be constructing a walled garden that makes it hard to do anything with messages once they're inside your service. What do I do with messages that don't need a response but that provide information? How do I view past email related to a project? Hopefully the answer is not "use your regular email client".

Looks good but unless there's more than shown on this page, I don't see it yet being a solution for the people that would be willing to pay for it, if it does nothing more than sort through messages needing a reply.
Cool project! I'd wish I had so much dedication for implementing this at home :)

You could also take inspiration from the NSA and actually perform random DNS queries & HTTP requests to various sites to disguise the true queries.

Another improvement would be actually offloading the resolver to another location via a VPN and querying from there.
Deep Clustering for Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features [pdf]
I remember reading somewhere that Java 9 modules will solve exactly this, as only the required parts of libraries are loaded, and significantly on the used parts of the standard library.
(so, thank you @bryanrasmussen, I never thought I'd see this here)
Sorry, no experience with that.
And watch the drivers switch to Lyft or one of the many smaller local competitors...
Clearly their response will be to declare
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/more-than-11-milli... to be against the GDPR, and fine the launch company.
This was circulating around HN a few days ago: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar
cool stuff, i actually do kanban on my gmail by tagging them with different colored stars. i'm not sure i want the UI though, but maybe because i'm already used to my workflow
A Chinese company is making sex dolls that talk
Simplest Java APIs for Processing Complex Business File Format Applications
I hear Sceptre is a Non-Smart TV brand from Walmart.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Sceptre-65-Class-4K-2160P-LED-TV-...
A single transaction should not be limited to just two nominal codes. For example, an invoice/payment might be split between Hardware, Software, Haulage and Tax/Vat and the other side would be the bank account. You also don't want to see multiple entries on your bank nominal when there was only one actual payment.
I'm a business owner. There are hordes of hungry people clamoring for their 3rd, 4th and 5th jobs because Walmart will only pay out $3/hr and McDonald's won't hire above $2/hr.

1. I can hire these guys at ~$8/hr federal minimum wage.

2. I can hire these guys at $2/hr and make shareholders very happy.

I don't think it's hard to guess which option many people would pick. No minimum wage just hurts the people at the lowest rung of the economic ladder, by accelerating the race to the bottom.
ah this is great. I need to look at switching to Graal.
Hrm. You might be right. Ego and power are quite symbiotic-in that regard, at least in my opinion. But I can definitely see the inherent distinction that you're trying to draw.
For a Native American perspective on this happening in North America, check out the book God is Red, by Vine Deloria.
I really don't understand why I would want the terminal to be aware of command-line history. That seems completely wrong. On Unix one can have a terminal used by a non-shell application -- what would a terminal's command-line history mean in that case?
Out of curiosity, what neighborhood/borough do you live in? Is it a middle class area?
New way to recycle lithium-ion batteries
Hmm ...

You have landed here because
The Ladders does not operate
in Europe.

So there we are.
What is your non-web WASM backend?
A related quote from this fascinating interview with Jonathan Tow (media researcher)[1] on FB research:

> Often, these companies [like FB] are open to research partnerships and things, but it’s always on their terms. If you do research with them, you’re dealing with IP issues, you’re signing over the rights to the research. It has to be reviewed completely and vetted by their legal process. They often handpick researchers that help them and help their purpose and help their cause — they maybe throw in some sprinkles of criticism. I understand why they would be hesitant to want to work with people like me.

[1] http://www.niemanlab.org/2018/02/news-in-a-disintegrating-re...
This problem will also bite the US launch industry. Hard.

Once SpaceX has proven they can do safe crewed flights and Blue Origin goes beyond testing flights, why is there a reason to pay the huge ULA markup any more?

ULA, as well as Airbus, has a problem: they're constantly being meddled with by politicians without any idea what they're doing and decide stuff that's totally unreasonable from an economical point but helpful for their (or their party's) reelections. Airbus employs 130k people, Boeing 140k and Lockheed 100k, and in addition there are a lot of people in the supplier companies. That's a lot of voters, and the companies are often enough big employers on a regional/local level.

Which means: SpaceX and Blue Origin will conquer the entire commercial sector plus an enormous amount of US government work. EU-founded projects will (politically mandated) stick to Airbus, but the political inability of Airbus to innovate will lead everything else go to SpaceX/BO. And the taxpayer will have to "save" them... or have to deal with hundreds of thousands people out of jobs.
I am a data scientist as well (ML/DL). This thing with RapidMiner surprised me a bit (I don't know what it is THB), but I guess it may be a totally different strand of analytics or stuff.

> would argue that R is ahead of Python in terms of libraries for everything but deep learning

Certainly there are more implementations of various statistics. Still I jump to R because there is something which isn't implemented in Python (some decision tree models, and things related to Item Response Theory - in my case). And just for ggplot2. :)

Yet, with "being ahead" it is tricky. For example, scikit-learn have a limited collection of algorithms, but once it covers something, it is with the same API and typically well-implemented.
I think this is the first article I've ever read about the octonions that didn't include the following John Baez quip:

"There are exactly four normed division algebras: the real numbers ($\R$), complex numbers ($\C$), quaternions ($\H$), and octonions ($\O$). The real numbers are the dependable breadwinner of the family, the complete ordered field we all rely on. The complex numbers are a slightly flashier but still respectable younger brother: not ordered, but algebraically complete. The quaternions, being noncommutative, are the eccentric cousin who is shunned at important family gatherings. But the octonions are the crazy old uncle nobody lets out of the attic: they are /nonassociative/."
The JVM already does that - it only loads things it needs. So you can have a 2M dependency and only use one static function of a single class in there, and it will only load that - but you have to distribute the whole JAR. With Jigsaw, things are split up, so you can have only the stuff you need.
This was a health service storing information on health history. Seems like a rather legitimate thing to store.
No they don't. From your link:

> The first draft of the paper, released last month, said the median profit was $3.37 an hour, but the author released a new analysis on Monday following criticism from Uber. In the new analysis, the researcher reported the higher median profit of $8.55 an hour.

Another quote from your link:

> Alex Tabarrok, a George Mason University professor who called the paper’s findings “dubious” last week, said he still had concerns about the researcher’s reliance on questionable survey data and that he believed the average hourly profit of Uber drivers was closer to $13 an hour (similar to figures the company has cited).
> Everybody developing WebAssembly is interested in making the web better and pretty much only that.

This is demonstrably untrue. Please peruse the design repo, I think you'll find that there are very frequently discussions of non-web applications, something folks are actually quite keen to support.
A layman's quest to understand wtf this is...

>In mathematics, the octonions are a normed division algebra over the real numbers .

wtf is a normed division algebra??

>In mathematics, Hurwitz's theorem is a theorem [...] solving the Hurwitz problem for finite-dimensional unital real non-associative algebras endowed with a positive-definite quadratic form.

... right.

I have the same problem when I try to understand anything statistics related, I get hit by a barrage of unknown words
and my brain just melts.

Is there any place that explains mathematical concepts in ... different ways?
The Kanban the author is using is "software development Kanban", not "lean manufacturing Kanban". There is a subtle but useful distinction. Most of the people who use TPS-derived methods in IT are actually using models that were adapted over time in software development lifecycles. The names are the same, but they're actually different processes. (I find this annoying too, I'm just giving context for why this is) A more accurate term for the author's board may be "Scrumban", but I'm not a Scrum or Agile expert by any means.

You can use e-mail as a sort-of pull-based JIT system. You're constantly getting new resources, but you can't necessarily use them all immediately or action them all at once. So you stage the work in planning, and "pull" work into "doing" when you're ready. The lifecycle continues until an item ends up "completed" and archived.

I don't think work-in-progress is all that difficult to manage with e-mail, as your e-mails are basically feature requests or alerts that lead to a story, and once the story is planned and ready for working, you can determine what a suitable work limit is. The author's e-mail model may need a bit of modifying to create actual stories rather than just tracking an e-mail, which may not be enough in itself to begin working on.
Fulfilled by Amazon, from one of their 3rd party sellers.
It's one factor in a set of variables, that when combined can pinpoint you uniquely. This helps them overcome anti-tracking mechanisms like disabling cookies and such. Basically, by implementing this kind of technology, they know you don't want to be tracked and are attempting to do so anyway.

See the mechanisms used for this browser test, particularly the link for 'fingerprinting' after running the test:
https://panopticlick.eff.org
Your premises are fictional. In reality, a business can't always afford to hire someone at the minimum wage. And you can't hire an infinite number of people who are a net economic drain on your company, or you're out of business. Talk about a "race to the bottom".

Your "argument" is just a caricatured strawman that has no basis in reality. If your position were an accurate reflection of reality, no company would ever pay above minimum wage. And yet that happens all the time. So maybe, just maybe, the reality is that companies pay based (in part) on the economic output the workers they are hiring...