skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you know doctors in Japan? There may be a strong cultural element at play here.
> f you can afford private care, and are lucky enough to have good insurance through your job

Isn't that basically saying "lucky to be full-time salaried"? I don't know anyone in such a position who has bad insurance.
Tesla shares spike, dealing short-sellers a $1.7B loss
I have to say, despite the article trying to put the most favorable light on the Luddites as the author could, the really do sound exactly like how the phrase is normally used. You can put as much nuance as you can on it, they destroyed technology because they were afraid of what it might bring. They don't strike me as being any different than the people constantly writing articles about how AI is going to leave everyone penniless and redundant. Maybe the Luddites had a point, but they were certainly afraid of what automation might do, and I see no problem after reading that entire article calling Ted Kaczynski or the author of the next AI scare-mongering article a Luddite, or calling the 1800s Luddites on the wrong side of history.
Have you tried registering with “Google My Business”? I update a local businesses address though that (when they moved location) and it was updated on the maps immediately (possibly a few days delay at most).

Who refused you? What other method did you try?
Most people's prime taxpaying years are after the most common going to college years, so that's exactly backwards if it is the same “you” in both halves.
> I specialize in memes before memes became dank.

Now's my chance to ask a professional: when did memes become "dank"? Mid-2012?
Almost all of scrum process are intended to enforce agile delivery. Generally speaking, the more mature and disciplined the team, the less you need to enforce formalities like standup etiquette. If you can achieve agility without scrum, you absolutely should. Scrum is like guideposts. A means to an end.
I thought it was implicit from context but I should have included "...[for a decentralized] currency."

I should have made it explicit that I meant "trustless + equitable" with respect to minting new currency.

> Why can't exchange of goods or services substitute for proof of work?

'exchange of goods or services' can't be used to mint new currency. When you want to issue new money, you have to give it to someone. If you take goods or services, who should get those? Let's say you come up with a method to solve that, equitably. How could you prove to everyone who got those, and how could they trust your claim?

> Why does proof of work _have_ to be power-hungry number crunching?

It might not have to be number crunching (I didn't say it did), it just happens to be the most popular. However I think that 'Work' here is the physics sense of the word -- the proof-of-work is evidence that you consumed energy.

Another mechanism is to just delete the "trustless" requirement. Just issue the currency via some trust-the-individual(s)-who-created-the-coin mechanism, like some DPoS coins do (e.g. Nano). They can use a fountain with a CAPTCHA, and we have to trust that the fountain is indeed fair. This coin is popular for the sake that it does not require PoW for minting and has no inflation.
Why is squatting a problem that needs to be solved? Serious question.
Unfortunately, it is very common to have difficulty with paradigm shifts :-(

Those of you near Denver can come to my BLAST 2018 lecture at 5PM on August 9 at the University of Denver with the following abstract: https://plus.google.com/+CarlHewitt-StandardIoT/posts/hh5CYE...
Just mining testnet coins though right? I imaging you won't be able to use what you mine now when they go live.
Are portfolio sites specific to designers, and/or what used to be known as Web Devs?
I have a lot of debt from a private university, so I'm aware of that side of things.

But, in-state tuition at universities can be very affordable. The average public four year tuition is $6,841. Knock out two years at junior college and it's even cheaper.

There are pretty generous subsidies based on income, where you can get junior college almost for free.

Yes private university tuition is very expensive, but public colleges are not.
Mission accomplished:
https://xkcd.com/810/
Going into study abroad in Wales, as an American, I had this notion that Europeans were more sophisticated and responsible drinkers.

Naaaah.
the most important one is missing. when you don't need to work anymore. fuck restaurants
Unfashionable I know but I feel strongly like this about Java.

We chose Java maybe 2 decades ago when it was newly minted.

Some decent swathes of code written back then are still running in production.

Its enormously satisfying looking at anything in your stack which has really stood the test of time.

I harbour similar feelings about the Oracle DB but I'm a little more conflicted there.
> I feel like I'm missing a big bucket or two. Not sure what though.

Considering how huge an employer the public sector is in the US, it stands to reason there's a huge value to in the government-as-an-enterprise, even if only considering cash value of assets, such as real estate (including natural resources!) and equipment (including military).

Of course, it might be very tough to calculate, if one includes every public entitity down the the local level and takes into account the debt of each entity.
To Be Continuous Ep. #46, Microsoft Acquires GitHub
It's a good idea to waste valuable engineering time with "bullshit" (in a good light) small talk? OK…

I likely will never understand the great minds behind management.
That's an absurd article...
Wait.

"UK schoolchildren sometimes tease each other with insults like “I bet you wear y-fronts.”"

Why is it an insult? I'm wearing it now, and I'm sure it's quite common here (not UK/US).
Junk brain food diet
I have to say this is an impressive achievement for Apple. Good on them. Although I am sad that an insane amount of wealth is being accrued by the few. The top 6 US companies (all of them tech) are worth more than 5 trillion. That's almost 30% of US GDP.

In the last few years there's been an unprecedented rise in wealth yet as both a nation, and a part of a global civilization, we are moving back in some aspects. Even locally, housing is a shit show in the valley and trillion dollar valuations makes it worse for the service class.

Extreme poverty in US is on the rise, tons of people are dying of preventable health conditions. Healthcare and education are getting more expensive. Global warming and pollution aren't really turning back.

I guess the only mega billionaire I respect is Bill Gates because he's truly putting his money where it matters. Funding all sorts of moon shots like clean nuclear energy, wiping malaria e.t.c

I'm not saying its Apple's job to fix it. It really isn't anyone's job to fix the big problems. BUT with the insane amount of cash the big tech cos have, that's hellova resources that could be invested towards bringing the entire human civilization forward to a peaceful, clean, educated and a healthy planet where everyone has the basics and we're not dying because of very preventable issues.
Just to be clear, when you use the phrase, "afraid of what technology might bring," you are referring to these people no longer having jobs or being able to take care of their families.
"Chronic" conditions don't get fought off--they persist. That's what "chronic" means.

And, yes, doing this does remove calories from the ability to fight off "acute" conditions.

It's a tradeoff.
Keeping your body temperature constant is the biggest caloric burn in your body whether it's fighting against heat or cold.
Somewhere I read the comment that, to a first approximation, everything is related to everything else. It comforts me a little when I see another example of these incessant articles about how X may cause Y.
That was years ago when Samsung was on 14nm (vs TSMC's 16nm). Apple completely moved all US based A chips manufacturing to Taiwan.
Standups is just another example of something that someone had to makeup for the Agile methodology in order to be able to say that "people are communicating"...kumbaya.

It was probably invented by the same guy that invented the demented concept of open office.
Seriously. What’s a backend developer to do?
We're more trained, that's all. In Germany you can legally start at 16 with beer and wine, and the hard stuff is available at 18. Both in ordinary supermarkets, gas stations, wherever - the only thing that's forbidden is automated vending machines.

Compared to the US where the age limit is 21 in many places, well that's 5 years of drinking practice aka alcohol tolerance...
Yeah this claim:

> is faster than all other WebAssembly implementations tested

is pretty meaningless once you realize this.

I'd be really surprised if this outperformed V8 or SpiderMonkey, but I'd love to be proved wrong.
<sings>

For the love of money

People will steal from their mother

For the love of money

People will rob their own brother

For the love of money

People can't even walk the street

Because they never know who in the world they're gonna beat

For that lean, mean, mean green

-- For The Love Of Money, O'Jays
I find links by clicking on different Twitter users' links or clicking around on "indieweb" blogs. But today has been amazing - having a chance to look at a variety of designs and blogs shared by their creators.

These designs you linked are more modern than the others that I've seen. It made me realize that there is a lot of nostaglia - either utter minimalism or vaporwave - floating around in personal pages right now - which I do enjoy. But these go in giant page directions. Another good example in this direction is: http://aaf.nyc. It's not a long page, but has a large feeling.
See my edited response to yodon. I'll also add, that they free up innovation in a valuable way. Take Augur, for example. If you're not familiar, Augur is a decentralized prediction market. In order for a non-crypto startup to create something like a prediction market, they'd need to develop serious banking relationships with banks. The banks could simply refuse to work with them, charge them exorbitant fees, and otherwise encumber the process.

However, since Augur is built on the Ethereum network, they didn't need to ask anyone's permission, and they don't ever need to have custody of anyone's funds. This is an example of 'permissionless innovation', to use the buzzword of the day. Permissionless innovation is understood to be one of the most important drivers of economic dynamism, and right now any sort of application that touches the financial sector is heavily burdened by the fact that our financial system is predicated on trust. Smart contracts solve that problem. This is a very subtle point, but it is extremely significant, in my opinion.
> You can’t change my username.

But what if they could?

The issue here isn’t that Google got the name wrong, but that they actively chose a new one and could change it to the new one because the public depends on a private entity’s map system and that private entity is able to manipulate the representation in their own private interest.

>If< I didn’t like you and I were able to change your name on every non-public record to “Fucking Idiot” (Job applications, Facebook, Twitter, GMail, etc.), maybe you wouldn’t mind that. Or maybe you would mind it and I convinced you to not mind it by explaining how it wouldn’t effect your government records. (I doubt the residents in question mind the name “The East Cut” either, but they already had one and preferred it. In many of these name changes, the effects can mean rapid mass development, raised rents and evictions, etc.) For you, this name change would mean at least a lot of explaining how this obnoxious poster on Hacker News was trying to make some disparate point but it has nothing to do with your qualification for the job, getting your account banned from Social media sites. You could start a new one but you’d lose all your posts and followers. At the end of the day, you should probably have been able to stop me, but you couldn’t.
>Extra hour of OT pay (average pay $11 per hour)

$11 is just below the in-store FT min wage. The avg is more like $13 with 1.5x (overtime?) that would be $19.50 + $2 package and .54 per mile..

4 pks per night, 5 nights a week, driving 10 miles and taking 1 hr would then be $164.5 which is the income of an extra 12 hour shift for working an extra 5 hours...

P.S. (((4×2)+19.5+(.54×10))×5)÷13 = 12 hrs
Nobody gets to upper management in an established company, ESPECIALLY not in sales, by using their own judgement to override everyone else's.

No matter how right they may be.

If you want that sort of position, burying your own ideas deep and hide them in shame (use them to impress interns if you must) is the only way to go.
That sounds like they were trying to do deliveries and ride hails at the same time, and would struggle to get the deliveries done because they were getting interrupted by the hails (or had horrible hail rates because deliveries took them out of the hot zones).

It may have worked much better if they didn't comingle the jobs, and had dedicated horus for deliveries separate from giving rides.
Blockbuster's failure will be an important example for Walmart just as soon as people can download groceries, clothing, toothpaste, and lawnmowers.
I find it amusing and not surprising that a country like France would ban it at the national level.
To add more anecdotes to the fire I definitely find myself pining for the 97-2000 days. Slashdot, goofy Geocities pages, good times.
What if TLS traffic is recorded. Future technology may be able to decrypt it. Your secrets may be out later.
"If this is the case, than that's a sad state of affairs for the team. Instead the Team should have retrospectives to freely talk about, what processes/ceremonies work and add to the teams efficiency at getting things done and which do not or are even detrimental."

I mean, that sounds great, but in many of these situations, which are quite sad, the biggest problems they face are management that doesn't completely buy in, but still wants to tout that they're "Agile". So no getting rid of any ceremonies.

"With each iteration of a retro the Team should slowly but surely progress towards a local optimum, where they shaped their work environment such that they can work best."

Again, not all the issues are ones that the Team directly can address.

"Stand-ups should be only for the team and SM."

Should. Should is the operative word there. And I understand what you're trying to say in your comment, but it just completely ignores what reality is like at some places.
That's a nice effect. Are there other pages?
Sometime in 2014 a Reddit post became popular using the gnome child from Runescape [0]. This was likely the first dank meme and a catalyst for what was to come. Using Google Trends [1] you can even identify that late 2013 a few people were already looking for dank memes, but it wasn't until late 2014 when memes started becoming dank.

The dankest they ever were was in October and November of 2016 - they've become less dank over time but the economists over in /r/memeeconomy keep their eyes out on /r/dankmemes for the latest and dankest memes to add to their portfolios.

It's a thriving industry with lots of karma to be had - it takes experts to identify a dank meme before it is ripe.

[0] https://vgy.me/lCZkJ0.png

[1] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%...
"Don't wait until the standup to ask for help if you don't have to."

I didn't mean to imply that, but one of the purposes of stand-up is to give a place for that to happen.
In the US, "units of alcohol" are not a thing or part of the government recommendations.

One standard drink in the US is tied to 12oz of 5% beer (or it's equivalents in wine/spirits), not the UK definition of a "unit" of alcohol.

When there are US health recommendations made, they are referring to standard drinks.
In the field of condensed matter physics.
Imaginative people are bad too, they predict the wrong version of the future.
Teaching mathematics is lying to kids all along, at least in France :

- No, you can’t do 2-3. If you have 2 apples, you can’t give 3

- Well, in fact you can, it’s negative numbers. But if you have 5 apples you can’t split them equally between 2 persons.

- Well, in fact you can. They got 2.5 each. But you cannot solo 2 apples in 3 equally !!

- Well in fact you can. That’s 2/3 each.

- etc...
If you're doing kanban and work in an environment where product direction changes quickly, then definitely this.

If your standup can be replaced with everyone posting on a slack channel, then it's just a status update as there's no discussion and alignment happening, which are the valuable parts.

Most teams should experiment with their process more.
Yes, the lightning is nice. I am on Firefox and also cannot scroll. I wonder what's down there.
will they make an esp32 basicstation ? :D
“Expensive” private universities often have lower net costs for the poor than public universitied, even though the sticker price is higher, because they can offer their own need-based grants.

(Lots of poor people applying for colleges don't know this, of course, and restrict themselves to “cheaper” public schools.)
> The biggest mystery in the field... of science?

The biggest mystery in the magnetic field at their laboratory. /s

They probably meant something like the field of HTS material physics.
Using this we can actually predict the smallest exponent that fails for other bases:

base	exponent (6 digits)
10	0.043429
11	0.041703
12	0.040243
2	0.144271
3	0.091024
4	0.072135
1000	0.014476

(the calculated exponent for two is actually 0.144270, but since it ends in zero the first failure occurs at 0.144271)
The historical context was completely different though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_labour_law_in_the_U...
Can you please elaborate on your reasoning?
Very well organized. And PDFs that go into detail on the design.
I have to agree; when a comment on the YouTube Google Forums[1] is reasonable prior art, maybe it's not really such a great or original invention.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/uykx9...
Re web Vs CLI: I think most browsers have a readability mode or something where you can click a button and just the article body is retained; without CSS formatting and stuff. But yes you're right, accessibility is a really big problem with the web. There are screen readers but some pages even break those :( at least with the CLI, there is no real need to add colour beyond vanity (and i have no issue with it being used for vanities sake either, just so long as it doesnt render the text unreadable on my term)

Re CLIs should be more graphical. I both agree and disagree. The issue with user input and mistakes etc is more down to the tooling and/or user experience than the CLI itself. This is actually why I'm writing my own shell at the moment. I'm trying to address some of the discoverability issues that traditional shells have. A bit like Fish tries to do except mine is more programmer orientated.

I do actually think modern terminals would benefit from supporting richer content but I really don't think that should be at the cost of breaking the basics we come to expect (tools can be pipelined, shells can be customised, etc). I think if the web has taught us anything, it's that developers cannot be trusted with UIs. I know that sounds harsh but every webpage is themed differently and on the whole it's a bit of a UX nightmare. Where as CLI tools need to work homogeneously together. Coloured output breaks this because many developers (particularly the nodejs ones it seems) forget to check if the tool is outputting to a TTY or not. This matters because it prevents the user from doing the following without writing a load of crap escape sequences that won't render in your text editor:

todo list | grep urgent > urgent.txt

This is a point I think some of the more recent converters to the CLI miss. They view their tool as an application like a webpage or desktop GUI where as CLI tools frequently need to be used like Lego brick that connect to a bigger build. (Maybe I'm being a bit unfair here and the stuff I've seen posted on HN in recent months isn't representative of the wider scene?) But in any case, even with the arguements of accessibility aside, my personal preference would be developers avoided using colour until they've learned how to dynamically detect the appropriate times to use it.
Some rigour is expected when discussing history. This article does not apply this rigour to recent events in its introduction to what we are supposed to believe the Luddites were protesting against.

In the introduction we have it implied that 'Modern Luddites' invent malware to 'disrupt the technologies that trouble them' with the nuclear power plant in Iran being cited as an example. Wasn't Stuxnet one of the NSA's Tailored Access Operations (TAO)? Are the NSA considered 'Modern Luddites', up there with the Unabomber?

Furthermore, students of history know of the Magna Carta and the right to a fair trial. So then we have 'the cave-dwelling terrorist sometimes derided as Osama bin Luddite'. It may not be fashionable to dare to say it but the idea that this cave-dwelling 'Luddite' was the one that 'hijacked aviation technology to bring down skyscrapers' has not been proven beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law. Asserting this to be the case to then write some drivel about the original Luddites is extremely lazy for a historian. It might be okay for journalists and politicians to do this however less controversial examples could have been found to introduce this story.

Incidentally the Unabomber did get a fair trial with the FBI doing their job properly. This was in the days before the 'post truth' world we live in now where something repeated often enough becomes truthy enough to be passed off as fact in lazy articles.
Side topic: how do law schools do it then? They have lower score requirements for under represented minorities.

(I work in LSAT prep, and need to know a bit about admissions. But I'm not american, so I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge of the system.)
> That person doesn't exist.

I agree, beyond a select few individuals who have not posted on HN at all, I do not see or believe that anyone is calling for unnecessary deaths if they can be avoided.

I do believe that we're letting optimism and good intentions get the better of us, by allowing our interests in the betterment of the humanity to align with the interests of business, which would like to see autonomous cars on the road unencumbered, unregulated and unquestioned as soon as humanly possible.

Hence why I am advocating for a level of healthy skepticism. I am imploring posters who are taking it on faith that autonomous vehicles will solve the problem of automotive deaths if we suspend our disbelief, to apply the same level of skepticism to this field as they would, say, biotech.
From a Scrum Master PoV, I feel like this app sort of misses the point of stand-ups. Stand-ups are supposed to be daily interaction/live communication between team members—not a daily report. The point is to further inter-team communication in order to better overcome impediments. A pre-recorded update isn't very useful if other team members has comments or questions. Stand-up is also a great opportunity to ask if the rest of the team has any input on a problem you may be dealing with.

From the website:

> Often times we miss standups.

Sorry to be blunt but then you're doing it wrong, or maybe it could be worth reconsidering the choice of framework if it's not possible to implement the most basic features of Scrum.

> To avoid updates that are rather long, we implemented a timebox of 1.5 minutes [...]

This seems oddly arbitrary. You don't necessarily need to limit each individual's speaking time. In e.g. a team of 4 people it's fine if each person speaks for 3 minutes as long as its relevant for stand-up.

If you're removing the conversational aspect of stand-up along with timeboxing people then it seems to me like doing stand-up over Twitter.