skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work for a chip design company. They would get samples of competitive product and do competitive analysis and also see if they might be copying your technology. Once we had licensed a technology to another company for inclusion in specific products with some royalties. At some point they terminated that relationship saying they are no longer using the technology. We found that was not true a bit later and a lawsuit was initiated.
The melting point does not really budge much for standard water.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Phase_di...
As some other users have mentioned, salaries could be higher compared to SL or NYC, but it's not like they're shit. Salaries are pretty decent, the only complaint would be the house/condo prices are kinda insane at the moment. Even with all that, Toronto and Canada in general is one of the best places to be in NA, especially if your a visible minority.
Can't you buy a prepaid debit card at a Walmart?

I think it's probably fine to let the business decide whatever means of payment they want to accept.
Measuring outcomes of high schoolers taking Computer Science courses
Here's a weird question. Why hasn't the U.S. Government made an electronic cash platform with zero transaction fees yet? This should be something that falls under the treasury, it would help cut down on fraud and provide a backbone for small businesses and large businesses alike. Being able to pay debts is basic infrastructure for an economy and transaction fees are a giant tax on small businesses and large businesses alike.
So because that’s not strictly what it’s called, it can’t be used for that. You can’t be that naive.
This changed starting at the end of last year. They are on a quarterly release cycle now, and they've hit the last 2 quarterly deadlines.
Someone once posted code that they had written in both Perl 6 and C/C++. The Perl 6 code was shorter, arguably easier to understand, and they said it was also faster for their data.

My guess would be that the strings had to be copied more often in the C/C++ code.
General Relativity cannot be (yet) quantised in a predictive way.
In a symmetric system are there documented cases of people becoming suddenly very mentally challenged? Or artists or musicians who suddenly one day could no longer paint or play?
In my home town for one such project they came up with a really cool alternative. The basement of the building is encased in glass and you can go see the ruins. Little museum and everything.

And the building, or underground parking lot I think, still got built.
There is a draft IETF standard to handle this!

It uses a new "alt-svc" header that lets you specify alternative URLS to access a domain.

Cloudflare is using it for their 1.1.1.1 service. If you look at the headers at https://tor.cloudflare-dns.com/, you get

alt-svc: h2="dns4torpnlfs2ifuz2s2yf3fc7rdmsbhm6rw75euj35pac6ap25zgqad.onion:443"; ma=315360000; persist=1

I don't know if the Tor Browser Bundle handles this yet but its a great idea!

https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/fun-stuff/dns-over...
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-alt-svc-10
I understand that paid users subsidize free users, and having paid-exclusive features incentivizes people to pay for their accounts. That doesn't make it acceptable to lock down something as fundamental as IMAP and SMTP access, which is freaking nuts.
It's also worth noting that an all-out effort to help humans thrive in the harsh environment of interplanetary space might have a nice side benefit of curing cancer.

Don't underestimate the power of poetry. In the 60s we used the poetics of the moon landing to fund research. This was an innovation, in that previously we could only get that kind of money together for war projects.

So I see space as the poetics that saves us from spending all our money on war.
> Getting mankind off of Earth and spread across multiple planets and solar system will yield untold positive side effects, and one or more of those may impact cancer research.

And yet perhaps one of the blocks with modern science is people hitting the grave before they can finish innovative research. It takes at least 26 years to train a human from scratch to advance to basic research level in a field. You can add another 10, 20 years before proficiency. At least half the human life until total proficiency (as it stands) is reached and perhaps a quarter of the human life for which researchers can make meaningful contributions.

Arguably, focusing on problems on Earth - like eliminating mortality, solving longevity, curing cancer and dealing with death - will do more for our species long-term than exploring space right now. When your scientists live longer, more discoveries, contributions, and innovations can be made.

Spending $400B on dealing with the greatest tragedies and sources of sorrow known to mankind today - death, disease, illness - would be far preferable to most people than investing in space.
> The secret to reading these "Steve Jobs leadership" stories is that Jobs is usually not the only leader in the story.

This is a good point and probably not an accident. During my time there I worked with middle managers who, at most other companies would qualify as C-level executives. Yet there they were: world class leader sitting there managing small team X on project Y, Because Apple.
This is certainly interesting and informative for somebody who already kinda knows how the code->gpu->screen pipeline works and wants to know how it's made fast, but I'm still missing some of the "pre"/"post" background for how/when the request to the shading system is made and what happens after the GPU is done.

I just started poking at doing computer graphics "from scratch" (working my way up from ray tracers now). I know that modern graphics systems are huge and ultimately your C++ library or whatever is just gonna flip some bits on graphics-card registers/busses or something, but I was really hoping for some background on "here's a bit of code that asks the shader to add depth to a triangle" and then how that gets mapped back to the screen.
I'll assume this is flagged because it's not favorable to broadcast this feature to the public, and "investors" aka HODLers here at Hackernews would want to hide this event.
all you had to do was ask
https://youtu.be/V4vVUXNotI0

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The person I responded to, in the part that I quoted, brought up people without electricity and plumbing as a contrast to spending efforts on exploration. It looks like an either/or to me.

> People are simply arguing against spending more on it when we have more pressing issues to contend with.

But this argument happens every time the issue of funding space exploration comes up. Every single time. Without fail. Not a single time is there a proposed NASA budget without part of the discussion devolving into, "why don't we just hand the money out to the poor instead?" Not a single time do the risks and costs of SpaceX, or a new satellite, or the rovers, or the ISS, or other efforts get discussed without someone saying, "but cancer..."

This is a line of thinking which scrutinizes every single dollar spent on exploration. Left unchallenged, it would eventually halt all spending on exploration altogether.

I, and a lot of other people -- like the person at the top of this thread -- believe that exploring Mars is not just worthwhile, it's necessary, in spite of the many other people on Earth who have more immediate needs.

Dr. Robert Zubrin argued that case far more eloquently than I could: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2Mu8qfVb5I
If you're not just trying to cause outrage, you use more neutral language like "die" instead of "be killed" in your definition of the market. And really, for a functioning market you need a number of bettors who aren't actively involved in assassinating or preventing assassinations.
Switzerland is not part of the EU, though. Enforcement of GDPR on them depends on how well the EU can force their laws on non-EU nations, something which I hope cannot be done. Who wants to abide by the laws of others in their own home without even the chance to somehow vote or otherwise affect them?
I feel weird spending at places like this at all. Not just because of what it does to other people, but also how it modifies my own behavior. What if it had been me? I can't leave the house with just a twenty in my pocket? That's not good enough?

I have to stop, wait, find my wallet, make sure it has a card with a balance on it, know what that balance is, make sure the card isn't damaged (demagnetized, scuffed chip contacts, curled up in the heat of the clothes drier), and if I don't have this singleton plastic token that I cannot easily replace or trade, I can't go to certain places?

Just because your cash register is an iPad, doesn't mean you can't handle real money too. What's really going on? Why would a restaurant prefer anything over cash? In my experience, food service normally loves cash, because they can report it differently. Tips are quasi-off-the-books, within a certain margin. So there must be some kind of motive to hook into a payment provider.

If farmers markets, bake sales and lemonade stands can handle a simple cash box, any restaurant certainly can.

But really, we know Dos Toros is a franchise with more than just an iPad for a register, so for sure they're doing something with customer data behind the scenes. Although how much is that worth to a burrito joint? Perhaps it's free payment processing in exchange for exclusive cashless operations plus a data agreement.
I think that exercise has a strong effect on mood, appetite, digestion, and metabolism. Grazing continuously probably interferes with the migrating motor complex, so we will tend to do better if we refrain from eating outside of mealtimes. Refined carbohydrates tend to be addictive due to the quick increase in blood sugar levels, and tend to make consuming unrefined carbohydrates seem less appealing. Eating some fat promotes satiety, which may help reduce over-eating. So, there are a lot of factors in play.
How Lies Spread Online
I'm going go all internet badass here and say I hope that I'd be strong enough to have have some harsh words and it would take some physical interaction for me not to get to those jackets.... I've been on the water enough to know how quick stuff can go bad and there's no time to get flotation devices out (not enough) to save most folks after it goes bad.
Short answer: No. Shitty people will be shitty people.

Longer answer: No 30 minute exercise is going to instill in someone that the behavior they have had normalized throughout their entire life by those around them is flawed. I mean have you ever tried to tell a C developer there are alternatives?
Well, it's easy to write "credsticks" into a novel, but rather hard to actually implement them. How would they work? The closest thing we have are probably physical Bitcoins, but there you need to trust the issuer not to have a copy of the private keys.
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> I think it's important to remind everyone that these behaviors are actually signs of poor leadership.

Maybe not. Could also just be an example of manipulation on a higher level than what appears to be obvious.

For example take this part from the article:

> Steve spent all day in early Apple recruiting Bill Atkinson, a Phd student in neuroscience. Steve told me he didn’t know if they could have pulled off the Mac without him.

Seems like he is just complementing a brilliant guy, right?

Well maybe not. Maybe he is just manipulating a brilliant guy. In other words part of the plan is to appear to be boneheaded or not as smart. This is almost a cliche "I surround myself with people smarter than I am". As if 'being smart' can be definite the way winning a road race can (in absolute terms).

You find this sometimes also with guys who put their wife up on a pedestal intellectually. Maybe it's true but maybe it's also a way to get them in a place where they feel smarter and you get the benefits of that at no cost whatsoever. Women do this with men as well to get things they want from them.

Once again not saying Atkinson was or wasn't what Steve says but there are also methods to madness that have to be considered just the same.
Nice that

*.

which lists the directory also makes a disk-whirring noise. And Elite!

*RUN"ELITE3"

(* = shift @ on my keyboard)
I have a soft spot for languages with strong type systems and was always attracted by ADA, but newer met anyone using it in the wild.

Is it used anywhere outside of defense and flight industry?
IIRC google and the like solve this using a special time routine in their kernels that literally just spread the second out across the day. It's close enough.. and legal will still accept it for auditing requirements.
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Woah, I learned so much about electronics using the old java applet!
Sure but Canada isn't on that list. How has being a migrant to the US changed for most people recently?
Machine Learning: An Explanatory Journey – Infographic
Plug for Fritter, a decentralised Twitter-like app that uses the DAT protocol. Grab Beaker Browser and check it out:

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter

https://beakerbrowser.com/

dat://fritter.hashbase.io/
How does Conda replaces a virtual environment? (honest question)
I'm very curious, what pain did you see with the repo.py tool?
Augur already showing multiple “assassination markets”
Huh, I was under the impression that Google started doing this years ago and didn't stop, and even tied it into spam analysis... Did your contact elaborate on the extent of their "toying" and any timelines? I guess I'll have to revisit some of my arguments -- a few years ago I successfully fought against adding a tracking pixel to an email template on the basis of read receipt hits not being valid hits a lot of the time (let alone never getting a hit despite being read due to images being off) due to providers like gmail pre-loading them (sometimes more than once at random times), so we should just use click-through metrics on links when the request comes with an authentication cookie.
Which was probably one of the reasons why they ended up writing LLVM.
Banks and cc companies aren’t pushing this because of money, it’s because of data. The fees are honestly just icing on top, and often, even a legacy that you can completely avoid at some companies.

The largest bank in our country let’s you link you can card (we have a national card that’s both a debit and a credit card in one without really being either), regardless of what bank you use, and they let you use it for free. You can instantly and feelers send money to anyone with the app, you can also use it like Apple/google pay completely feeless. Small business can get a free recipient thingie but larger business have to pay the bank for usage, so for them it works like a regular digital payment system.

Anyway, the real currency is data. The cash register scanner tracks every individual item you buy, the time, the location and so on and because this app is universal, our largest bank knows a lot more about our habbits than google does.

It’s the same for CC companies. They know what you buy at the pharmacy, they know how much alcohol you buy and so on.

Sorry for the bad English, I’m not even sure what stuff like the scanner at cash registers is called in my own language so it’s hard to translate to English.
We combined our credsticks into our mobile devices
The total US garbage production in 2016 was 254 million tons[1]. If you assume that compacted garbage has about the density of water(hard to find good figures for this), then all of the garbage for the US for one year can be fit into a space of about 2.30E+08 cubic meters. This works out to a square mile, 300ft thick. A huge pile of trash and would be large to walk around it on a human scale, but geologically an almost infinitesimal amount of the Earth surface.

I would say that current US farmland is about as destructive to the natural environment as a properly designed covered landfill, give or take. With about 1.5 million square miles of farmland in the US, landfill use for a hundred years of US dumping is about 15,000 times less of a problem than farming for the environment. Garbage is very visible and a visceral expression of humans impact on the planet, but farming, ranching, and housing uses of land are the real destroyers of the natural environment, not how we dispose of all the crap we make (in the US at least).

[1] https://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/trash-number...
That discussion doesn't mention that when people commonly refer to Toronto from abroad they refer to the GTA which is a population 6,300,000 or the broader Golden Horseshoe urban area which can include the other tech hub (Waterloo) which brings the number to over 9,200,000.

This just makes it all the more confusing.
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She tried to save his life by removing the knife, then she went in to shock? Probably not the explanation you had in mind. This is not a good metaphor.
The NEO is pretty nice, especially when combined with the Yubico authenticator app for TOTP codes.

One issue with the authenticator apps (eg. Google authenticator) is that if you reset your phone, you lose all your secrets and need to reset 2FA for all your accounts. With the Yubico authenticator, the secret is stored in the key and the phone only gives a time signal and authenticates to the key over NFC. The app is also available for desktops, making it pretty easy to use 2FA without having your phone.

The NEO is older unfortunately, so it's only available in USB A form factor and has weaker crypto than newer Yubikeys (2048 bit vs 4096, iirc) for private keys stored in it if you're planning to use GPG (for email encryption or signing git commits). In practice, that's not a real limitation.

However, it also does not support signing Docker images, which is unfortunate.
This is sick! I hate tracking all of these apps separately
Once and I have a scar from the fork to prove it.
If a person wanted to write ada outside of a government agency, what are the options?
IIRC there's literally a hill in Rome that is just ancient olive oil amphorae (clay jars) shards.
Both Polymer v2 (previous version) and Polymer v3 (current version) are based on Shadow DOM v1, as can be seen in the docs (https://www.polymer-project.org/3.0/docs/devguide/shadow-dom, https://www.polymer-project.org/2.0/docs/devguide/feature-ov...) so this statement is VERY strange.

Although it's true that only Safari and Chrome (through WebKit and Blink) currently have the best support for Web Components, and polyfills are required for everything else due to flaky support.

Google even mentions this in the Polymer README:

"Web Components are now implemented natively on Safari and Chrome (~70% of installed browsers), and run well on Firefox, Edge, and IE11 using polyfills. Read more below."

Source: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer
Rich parents? At a charter school? This does not comport with my (perhaps limited) experience. Besides, $100/hr is obviously excessive. Lots of physicians aren't remunerated at that rate. If parents are paying that for tutoring in high school math, there is something wrong with the situation. (E.g., why isn't the teaching done during class?)

The commons that the tutor exploits in this case is the natural authority that comes from managing the math department. That authority doesn't belong to him. It was entrusted to him, and he abuses it. His words, when disparaging rival tutors and complimenting himself, carry more weight with parents than they would if he were not in that position.
> Another point is that it does not work well with PyCharm and does not allow to put all dependencies into the project folder as I used to do with venv.

This is annoying for AWS lambdas too, because you have to bundle the dependencies and zip it. It's pretty trivial to go Pipfile -> requirements.txt -> pip install -t if you use a Makefile, but it's definitely an omission. I asked about it on their github though and it is a known issue, hopefully it'll be there soon.
And that's partly why Twitter is a 34 billion dollar company while Facebook, their primary competitor, is a 619 billion dollar company.
Toward Open, Extensible Quantum Programming
Sorry, what’s TFA?
It’s similar only if you misunderstand the questions physics seeks to answer. “If we rewind time according to present observations and theories, what do we see?” The answer is a Big Bang event, but that is just the answer to the question posed, not the deeper one posed by the wiki article. If you ask “why is there something rather than nothing?” physics has no single clear answer. Science takes very limited questions and seeks to answer them in a limited fashion with a high degree of confidence. Metaphysics plays word games with philosophy because hey, who can really gainsay you? Maybe it’s D-Branes, maybe it’s eternal inflation, maybe it’s the Great Green Arkleseizure.

The problem is that popular science and people who don’t know better misunderstand the nature of what physics actually does and tries to shoehorn theories into the questions they want answered.
Only if you completely discount the related costs of building and maintaining such an additional API as well as the customer service impact of basically allowing users to screw up their own key management.
Sales numbers over what time period? NeXT reverse-acquired Apple and sold hundreds of millions of units. Sun not so much. The vision of UNIX for everyone, under a best-in-class UI, was very powerful.
05 December, 1995: AP Writes on Microsoft, Netscape, Java, and “JavaScript”
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> have to assume that at least a portion of the business owners behind those cash machines you mention won't just sit on a montain of money, but rather reinvest it in something.

Of course they reinvest it in something. They reinvest it in the same trivial businesses - Farmville, Candy Crush, etc. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of inanity.
Why should you have to?

Once upon a time the customer was always right. A business was supposed to serve the customer's needs and did what was necessary to achieve that. Now the business can insert multiple middlemen with commissions and transaction fees and the damn customers can just fall into line. Sharpish please, and no complaints or we'll close your account.

Do we not see a problem travelling down this road? Or do we have to return to barter and hacksilver to decide perhaps cash was useful?
Because it's always Ron Wyden.
The watermarking scheme would have to survive the compression that YouTube applies to video.
I think the federal government should start using FDIC as a stick here. It could be fairly straightforward: if you want to be an FDIC member, you must offer basic banking. In particular, you must offer anyone who is legally in the US a free checking account. The terms must be more or less standardized. No arbitration clause, no limit on class-action lawsuits, no check deposit fees, no in-network ATM fees, no under-minimum fees, no overdraft fees. If a bank wants to participate, it should be required to offer banking.
Magic Leap Releases Preview of Lumin Runtime in Latest Version of SDK
> It's also that the Romans thought they were going to be around forever so they built everything to last.

Is that a cause or a byproduct?
On my UK laptop keyboard, Shift @ works.
I agree about the CYA measure, but it seems the people that need the training the most are also the ones that never leave.
Sounds like an https://www.reddit.com/r/shittychurning/ opportunity, to me.
Google launches “Shielded VMs” to protect cloud servers from rootkits
Such as? (Genuinely curious)