skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the idea was to sink the ship by capsizing it, then bring up the intact bottles with free divers. Any mercury leaks would immediately sink, and would probably stay inside the hold of the ship long enough to recover it. If it escaped, it would run into the nearest local minimum on the harbor bottom. If rock bottom, just scoop it up into fresh bottles. If sandy bottom, scoop up the sand with it and separate it on the surface.

So they keep the wootz payment, they recover the cargo, and they don't lose reputation by just murdering the crew of a merchant vessel outright. If the merchants capsize instead, that's a shame, and a result of poor seamanship, and they'll just go ahead and pretend to be sad during the salvage operation.
Watching bleeding edge yachts sail is always interesting. Hydrofoils achieve speeds greater than 3x wind speed though their stability doing it is a bit alarming.

https://www.odt.co.nz/sport/yachting/how-fast-can-americas-c...
Here's a great breakdown of Rose's poor body mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_rdO8OLHZo
Scala still recommends Java 8 for compiling and running Scala (2018)
This terrible desktop experience was created by developers that didn't bother to learn Swing before they jumped into the keyboard.

Writing everything on the main UI thread, not enabling system L&F, reading books like "Filthy Rich Clients", adopting third party Swing components with modern L&F....
Apple has been on a mission to destroy all buttons, so this move wouldn't surprise me at all.
It sounds closer to Haskell to me. ADTs are very similar to associated values that Swift has, although I think they're on a slightly higher type level. I haven't found Haskell too unreadable but that's probably because it ditched C-style syntax whereas Swift stuck with it. Maybe it's a trade-off worth making though, since sticking with familiar syntax lowers the bar.
As I argued elsewhere, a fork is a good example of an illusory choice. A rook/queen fork is not a real choice between keeping your rook or your queen, it is a forcing move designed to take your rook.

A choice between staying in an abusive relationship and killing yourself does not meet the criteria for an uncoerced choice, especially when it is being offered by the people with whom you are in an abusive relationship. Not killing yourself doesn't imply you consent to being in an abusive relationship. You'd have to be trying really hard to consider that a choice except in the most literal unhelpful sense.

Even our legal system (mostly) understands that you can't have a valid contract without consideration on both sides.
It's not a point of whether or not it's supposed to be valid, but whether or not the creator can maintain _exclusive_ ownership of the copyrighted material.

If someone wrote a math book 100 years ago, that math book will still be correct today, even if it's in the public domain.
How SaaS Companies Are Valued
A bunch of three.
I'm curious if scsh still builds.

https://github.com/scheme/scsh
Looks like he made it 8000 miles in 6 months before Istanbul denied him a visa. Came home to find that his wife had divorced him in absentia.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018707656
Though you could power the ship from solar during the night and with diesel generators during the night.
It’s hard to understand, as that’s more or less moving her so he doesn’t kill her.
They don't. They just don't have power to do anything about it.
Population density = media consumption
Teens have an enormous amount of disposable income, because for most of them, nearly all of their income is disposable.
Lebron is also a genuinely good human being and as a Clevelander, I wish him the best of luck in LA.
FoodHome the big thing in Food Security
Umar Saif of Pakistan:

After two years of research and development, we are launching Punjab’s agriculture crop maps. These maps are generated automatically using machine learning on multi-spectral satellite imagery. Our system gives weekly data about the yield of 26 crops across Punjab at 10 meter resolution. Pakistan is the first country to build such a system. We are making our maps freely available (you can also contribute by installing our machine-learning algorithms on your computer).

http://foodathome.org/
Sigmund Jähn: Why Isn't This Man a Hero?
A big chunk of bay area tech workers are on the H1B visa. If they get fired, they might have to go back to their home countries. They simply cannot take the risk of losing their job (almost a $100K downside) for the chance of 10% salary increase ($10K upside).
It's bananas to me how similar these fonts are, and how passionately people feel about them:

> the stupid slanted end bits on letters like c s and r are also really crap.

> Arial is an awful font that I wish never had been born.

> What the hell were they smoking when they made the t and G?

Like, I wish Hitler had never been born. Arial can stick around, haha.
Yeah, and he swept the Raptors by hitting turnaround fadeaway jump shots in the mid-post.

LeBron's versatility is amazing. Whenever someone criticizes him for relying on his driving ability too much, I'm reminded of a famous interview that Michael Jordan had, when the reporter asked him about the comparison with Clyde Drexler, who was a better three-point shooter. Jordan coldly replied, "Clyde Drexler is a better three-point shooter than I choose to be". And then he hit six threes in the first half of a Finals game against the Blazers in Drexler's face.
Fantastic question. A major component of a machine generated ontology has to be a notability score, otherwise it would be practically impossible to store all entities (and their relationships).

Further, for this to scale, Diffbot has to have a way to align their entity IDs with IDs from other notable graphs like Wikipedia, Wikidata, Freebase, Wordnet or even Yelp, and the like, otherwise the data could be potential of diminished value.

How would I know that the "Cardi B" that's in my database with ID 321 and wikidata ID Q29033668 is the same as Diffbot's "Cardi B" with ID 561?
I'm watching this right now, and I love the concept already. I can recommend anyone interested in 'alternative' approaches to conferences go watch this on Twitch and see how it all works.

The link is https://www.twitch.tv/byteconf. I'm pretty new to Twitch, but I really like the whole approach so far.
I'm guessing you don't contribute to open source software then.
I wish they'd update these. I ended up getting 27" 4K monitors even though I wanted 24" because I didn't want to buy 3-4 year old models.
That example would make sense if anyone was thinking or arguing that every individual transaction that increases GDP is inherently good simply because it increases GDP. But I don't think anyone has that narrow of a focus on GDP. Obviously no one enjoys needing to spend money for medical issues.
Why Ubuntu? IE why is any of it distro-specific?
It's worth nothing that the vast majority of Americans have their internet setup as defaulted. So, every DNS request goes to the ISP's DNS servers (your ISP knows every single domain you visit regardless of association with Google/Facebook) and every domain name that doesn't exist winds up at the ISPs own search/not found landing page. Plus if you use your ISP's email server (like my mom) who knows if they're reading your email, too.
Do you mean encryption or cryptocurrency?
The article felt extremely relatable, but it did not arrive at any concrete point and has nothing original to say. It is talking about personal motivation and then leaps to describing the underpaid workers. Yes, I think most people in the valley can see your points and numerous discussions have already been had about them. So what?

Edit: what I would have liked/expected to read is a story of someone making the aforementioned $300k+ year, making enough, leaving and the difficulties/joys of adapting to their new life exploring what they want.
How to Choose the Right Solution for Your Contact Center: SaaS, PaaS, On-Premise
This is very cool.

I actually wanted to build something very similar a year ago.

However, the frustration that was driving it wasn't that I need to make these menus, but that as a visitor to restaurant websites I hated the experience.

Too many restaurant owners are commissioning sites with all the bells and whistles and forgetting the customer that just wants to quickly see one page with

- Location
- Map
- Menu
- Phone number

Anything that stands in the way of the above is another chance for a customer to get frustrated and try somewhere else. I certainly often visit restaurant websites with the intention just to double check the menu and phone number and spend my money, but the website makes me work for it.

If that's covered, knock yourself out with extra pages with silly galleries and blog posts and the story of how the restaurant was founded.

If your service is one step in there being more restaurant websites that stop scaring customers with money away, then kudos to you.
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(I work at Google).

"selling your user data" implies that someone else has access. They don't.
Equal rights is not the same thing as equal outcomes. This law seems very ham fisted.
Nope, initial traction came not from VK.
Source: I worked at Telegram since it's launch.
> Naive question, can we just "backfit" sets of county metrics based on results of the last few elections to determine which ones have effect?

Despite what people say, the candidates in a given party differ considerably between elections (sometimes even if they are exactly the same person). "Backfitting" could only give you the trend among "lifelong democrats" and "lifelong republicans", which thankfully are not a majority of voters.
It renders user metadata and contact lists on request.
>Of the times I've used Asm, there's been far more situations where an extra 32-bit register would be more useful than a 64-bit one

You need a 64 bit register any time you want to store a pointer though unless you want to use some kind of a segmented memory model. I don't think anybody wants to go back to that although I'm not one to criticize weird fetishes.

Clearly when you look at the fine details of AMD64 it looks like a weird frankenstein monster of an instruction set. REX prefix holding the MSBs of registers since 32bit opcodes only allowed three bits to encode 8 registers. Same prefix used to set the width of memory target operands, except that some instructions default to 32bits while others default to 64. R12 has weird encoding quircks because it matches RSP in the "low" register set and that register has specific semantics when used as a base register...

I wonder how much die area is used on a modern CPU just to deal with all this cruft and translate it into a saner RISC instruction set internally.
I wonder how long a magnetic cleaning robot could survive on the hull of such a ship.
I still think Firefox should compete against ChromeOS because more and more of what we do with computers can be done in a browser.

This is something Mozilla should think about. There's a market for something like Chrome OS (digital signage, library PCs, the elderly, schools, etc).
> Well, then, Mr. Spalter, can we count on you to push for the same bill nationally?

Heh. Nope:

> USTelecom has also worked against national net neutrality rules by unsuccessfully suing the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration, and then by successfully urging the Trump-era FCC to scrap the rules.

They would prefer to create their own rollercoaster ride of service for users.
Hi there. Plaintiff here from OPG v Diebold, the first successful case enforcing 512f against knowingly false DMCA takedowns where the defendant was found guilty and owed several hundred thousand dollars in damages. It can and does happen and there is court precedent. Contact EFF if you're on the receiving end of an obviously bad DMCA takedown.
a) not relevant, particularly in 2018 when self-publishing is becoming increasingly common.

b) I specifically said my lifetime. An average work might be covered for two generations. Not a big deal. If Shakespeare's work is so derivative, then I don't have a problem. 50 Shades of Gray started as Twilight fan-fiction. You can be derivative without being a mashup.

c) you're talking about publishers again, as if that's relevant.

As for this:

By your own admission, having lifetime copyright protections does not incentivise the creation of new works

I don't appreciate you putting words in my mouth to form a low-quality argument. At no point did I ever say or imply anything of the sort!
rel="noreferrer" also implies noopener.

https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/links.html#link-type-noreferrer
Yeah. I was in the same situation a couple of times: As a tech guy being asked to review the WBSO request drafted by some supposed subsidy expert, who was hired for a couple of days and for good money. These requests always contained utter gibberish. If I could bring some sense into it, but by using as much complex technical jargon and expensive words in it as possible. Otherwise they might conclude that most of it was not R&D. Rubbish. Did it twice, trying to be as honest as possible in the circumstance, but from then on always pressed my moustache (is that an expression in English? I made myself unavailable) when these things did the round again.
At least the taxi thing was meant to curb road congestion. SFs scooter regulation seems like the intent is "how dare you run a business without our oversight?".
I read an article about the potential of drone ships that claimed one reason ships don't go even slower is the logistics around having a crew on the ship for the entire voyage.
Those aren't part of the technical interview, possibly except for the "approach to tech" item depending on context.
Why We Need to Stop Worrying About AI “Taking Over”
Point taken regarding your first line, though that sword would cut both ways I think. See https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=17886400
regarding the second and third.
Market manipulation
A Beginner’s Guide to Austrian Economics
Just for completeness' sake, the ship is the MS Viking Grace[1]. It's fun seeing the LNG supply vessel AGA Seagas [2] in the early mornings, required since the city of Stockholm did not allow the refueling to happen by tanker truck for safety reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Viking_Grace
[2] http://www.aga.ee/en/products_ren/liquefied_natural_gas/mari...
I repeat with my kids about this very concept like a broken record hundred times.

'Mental obesity' is as real as 'physical obesity'

> Much like modern society battles overweightness, diabetes and all kinds of ailments that stem from poor diet, I think we will suffer a similar fate when it comes to moderating our information intake.
Why do you think it isn’t? People do necessary things because they have to. People do desirable things because they want to. The risk of death can make a difference on whether you choose to do the desirable things, but you don’t have a choice about the necessary things.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVa5xpGHhrM
I think this is a good example where automation doesn’t mean getting rid of all jobs, just 99% (which has nearly the same effect). I mean, we still have blacksmiths hand forging swords ffs.
There's a factor this research overlooked and that's intensity. Bernie Sanders won the Michigan primary with high turnout in Detroit. Those voters stayed home in November and that was the difference.

Even with the swing in Macomb county of Obama Democrats voting for Trump that was much discussed by the national media it still could have been overcome with a 2012 turnout level in Detroit. I'd be curious if that was replicated in other states.
I've actually wondered if having a two-system form of government to deal with the urban-rural divide would be effective in governing. Basically, a government for urban-dwellers with one set of tax rates, services, and laws, and another government with another set of tax rates, services, and laws for rural-dwellers. There would be a common overarching government over the two for dealing with common interests e.g. military, international affairs, necessary infrastructure.

Something that I've wondered as part of this idea is why states after the original thirteen colonies became geographically larger in size. In hindsight, it seems much harder to have common interests across a numerically large group of people spread over a larger physical area.

Afterthought:
I forgot to mention that the parts that are urban, and the parts that rural would have to be re-evaluated over time to see if that classification still holds or merits changing.
Learning doesn't happen in a vacuum though. People generally try to learn things that will be handy for them. AVR or ARM assembly are far less handy to know than x86, so telling people to ditch x86 and learn those instead kind of misses the point.
> Make it illegal to falsely claim copyright on a piece of media and additionally make transparent and fair processes around Notice&Takedown required for all larger platforms.

I wouldn't be surprised if those things are already illegal, but enforcing them turns out to be too hard. Laws you can't enforce are meaningless.
They can be distributed through the App Store, but they don't have to be.

https://safari-extensions.apple.com
> If you are flying that much, you should have the miles to often get upgraded right?

Not really - at least, not "often". The price for upgrades for international flights is high enough that you won't be able to do it for more than a small fraction of flights you take. Unless you're already paying for business class in the first place (which earn miles faster).
When was the Lafayette (The purdue area) on central time? At least 23 years ago it was on eastern, though I think a couple counties to the west was central time, which was pretty common with cities dependent more on cities in Illinois than greater Indiana or Ohio. (Gary, for example, or Terre Haute might have been as well, though that memory is fuzzy).

Source: Graduated high school about an hour from there, then lived in different small towns outside of the area. Was pretty popular for folks to go party at purdue on the weekends if you knew someone there and had willing enough parents. This was both before the adopted DST and after.
I encounter plenty such people among Russian migrants too. Really dig Putin and want Russia to be a GULag zoo for their former compatriots.
I'm curious about the answer to this! I don't have a good intuition for it.

The impact of individual votes is called "voter power," and in US presidential elections is mostly related to how evenly matched a state is -- which means it tends not to correlate to things you think it would, like small states vs. large states.

In simple terms, voters in swing states have more impact, which is why people try harder to win their votes. In mathematical terms, voter power is the probability that a given voter's vote will decide the election. You can measure a given state's voter power by asking, "what is the smallest coalition of voters, including voters from this state, who could have changed their minds to change the outcome of the election?" The smallest coalition that includes Texas voters is a lot bigger than the smallest coalition that includes Florida voters, so Florida voters have more voter power.

There are some measures of voter power based on polling from before the election, but I don't know if there's a post-election calculation around:

https://wallethub.com/edu/how-much-is-your-vote-worth/7932/
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/...

It's not obvious that denser or less dense states would be more evenly matched, and thus have more voter power. But maybe there's some other effect involved that would create a correlation?
Everyone wants free money.

It's not free money. It's passive income from intellectual property.

So even if you believe there's some moral right to prevent others from doing things with some "intellectual property"

It's a legal right. Morality has nothing to do with it, aside from your own attempt to baselessly undermine opposing arguments.

Actually, you're calling a failure to coerce others into to building legal regimes to your preferred specifications a 'punishment'.

Now you're just getting into "property is theft" and "taxation is violence" level nonsense. By your logic, why shouldn't I be able to just park an RV on your lawn and live there? Property rights are just some legal construct.
Often an assert macro can be written using throw/raise as the mechanism but it changes the syntax and reduces some boiler plate.

For example:

try {
someVar.someMethod(params);
} catch (e) {
throw new WhateverError("More detail here", e);
}

becomes:

assert(someVar != null, "Unexpected null someVar");
assertAndContinue(params.val > 0, "Expected greater than 0 val", params.val);
// etc.

someVar.someMethod(params);

It may not look very different but it adds a documentation like effect to the code. It lays out the potential failure cases before the code execution. Even if internally `assert` becomes `throw`.
Hmm, you could call this type of government a federated system. Have it broken into different states and counties, maybe with local city governments. Enumerate some powers reserved for each while keeping a central authority to make sure everyone is assured at least a minimum of rights.

Naw, would never last.
On the workers-on-boards topic I mentioned this quote from Zero to One, which applies here too:

"A board of three is ideal. Your board should never exceed five people, unless your company is publicly held. (Government regulations effectively mandate that public companies have larger boards—the average is nine members.) By far the worst you can do is to make your board extra large. When unsavvy observers see a nonprofit organization with dozens of people on its board, they think: “Look how many great people are committed to this organization! It must be extremely well run.” Actually, a huge board will exercise no effective oversight at all; it merely provides cover for whatever microdictator actually runs the organization. If you want that kind of free rein from your board, blow it up to giant size. If you want an effective board, keep it small."
— Peter Thiel

More board members may increase intransigence, decrease oversight (cover over who is really making the decisions and who is not), and turn US corps more bureaucratic. Never-mind who is joining the board, this is going to increase board sizes, and that's pretty unfortunate for some philosophies of effective management.

If you do not believe this will increase board sizes, then you must believe that all companies are willing to fire some number of current board members to meet their quotas, which seems terribly unlikely to me.

If currently all-male (48% percent of companies have no women on their boards), requiring at least 3 on boards of 6, unless you fire half your current board, is exploding the board size by 50%. Requiring at least 2 on boards of 5, unless you fire ~half your current board, brings the number up to 7. But then you need 3 (its over 6), so you have to add one more, so a board of 5 gets a 60% increase in size to 8 people.

If you want businesses to be successful, you probably shouldn't expand their boards against their will. It is not that female representation isn't a problem, it is that an effective company structure must be foremost, ahead of any other (more arbitrary or ephemeral) requirements. Or else there won't be as many great companies to steward in the first place.
> capital-L Librarians

I didn't know they had a stake in this.
Figuring out what time it was in other states was always a pain. I worked at a call center pre-DST: Our opening hours shifted during DST to allow for proper call time from the rest of the nation.
What if a friend of the candidate is the actual person who contributed the code patch? You can't be too careful these days.
So why do they mention draining?