skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is indeed meaningless and impossible, because, on the one hand, the spectrum of choices is too large and fuzzy, and, on the other hand, "happiness" cannot be universal, because the interest are naturally in contradiction with one another, so the reason one is happy can make another sad. Which is why we have dura lex for morals. And which is why, for example, a "just" war can be "immoral" or even "criminal" at the same time. The popular saying "No good deed goes unpunished" is an expression of the deep distrust towards any attempts to derive morals from some abstract "first principles."
Because the original investors don't want their shares to be diluted.
The alternative is that companies can select anyone for their board that they want and if they make bad choices, they have do deal with the consequences of their actions. Either with less money or lawsuits or collapse of the whole company.
It looks functional unlike most garbage designers produce.
Why? The whole point of the article is about someone who chooses to remain in the background.
Also tiny fonts with huge screen sizes, and 95% of the screen real estate being wasted. And the installer icon is small, hidden in the top-left corner of the desktop with an icon that has low contrast with the background.
I feel like you didn't bother to read my last comment.
I've never noticed the issue with Risk, though I noticed it more often with Diplomacy the summer I played it multiple days a week (it was at a "pre-college" camp thing for academically inclined students). We were stuck there for 5 weeks with each other, and it was actually a good experience because it taught us to overcome how we felt towards each other. So alliances would change regularly each game, which was nice, and we all learned how to move on after and go do something else...usually Ultimate.
wonderful link ... the scale size is amazing to see how much we have learned about the universe, and how much learning still remains
hey Brendan,

I can see you're getting a lot of negative feedback here, so as a hopefully countervailing force: this was the thread that finally got me to try Brave on my iPad, iPhone, and mac. I like it so far!

I never thought I'd use any ad blockers, purely on moral grounds. But so many sites have gotten completely unusable in the last year or so: half a dozen auto-playing videos, some of which follow you around the page, text that won't stop flying around the screen long enough for you to read it, etc. It's starting to seem like there is no other choice. If I used it for nothing else, Brave is a whole lot better than Safari on iOS for blocking unnecessary crap.

You really shouldn't get into it with trolls, though. You've had quite a few comments in the last day or so that ended up flagged dead. Not a good look for a CEO.
QEX 1981-2016 (1.85GB) - thanks for the magnet :) ... torr download via VPN = 7kB/s (2 days); via Furk = 35 kB/s. The Furks have it.
Hello Sam, very nice! Thanks for writing that up. If you implement more of Andrew Ng’s class assignments, please post them also.
Fair point; the French labor code is the problem, however taxes are related; the high cost of being stuck with someone is higher due to social charges and taxes. Reforming the labor code and lowering taxes would both make the employment market more liquid.
Journalist Jamal Khashoggi ‘killed inside Saudi consulate’, Turkey says
Dont forget about companies that are very open to appointing women, but can’t find any female candidates that surpass all the male candidates available at the moment.
I suppose close friendships is a context in which I can imagine playing this game again. Having six close friends that love strategy games and have a day to dedicate is much harder to imagine.

It’s the weak friendships that I’m concerned about damaging.
I had thought that Chrome's Blink engine was the platform default on Android. But I am not sure.

How does a web developer test for Android compatibility? I have been testing against Chrome only.
If the story is not true Apple and Amazon should sue Bloomberg for misleading the public and hurting their reputations.
Brian Wilson is a genius
ElementaryOS [1] is the only Linux distribution that seems to care more about design than functionality.

[1] https://elementary.io
Scraping is literally just the successful acquisition of content.

You're getting into data parsing. Almost nobody scrapes data without processing, parsing and normalizing it, but scraping is getting the data in the first place.

Scraping isn't easy at scale, though. You have to distribute your crawlers, adhere to TOS (in theory) and avoid getting blocked. It's simple at small scale, though.

I don't know about the utility of this service, though. It handles the less interesting part of data acquisition and processing. I also agree with other comments that most scraping use cases are targeted and small in scope.
Culture and Religion are deeply intertwined in most of the world, even if people are not particularly overtly religious, traditions and behaviours are integrated.

It's pretty hard to convince regular people how they should change their ancient ways to make investors an extra buck.
as long as it's communicated clearly.

Exactly. It's not.
Agree. It goes to show Elon doesn't need to be as hands-on as he appears to be when he has a good 2IC on board.
Google stock is organized into different classes with different voting rights and amounts of shares (a few years ago a new class came out without voting shares but got dividends first, if I recall correctly), and the founders have control as long as they want it. At the time, I thought this was dangerous since the current king might be good (ie the founders) but what if the next king who has control was someone who has wants to control people through tyrannical means using their entire life histories (ie google tracking on everything).
> To this day I don't know how to make a multi-line taskbar like you can do in Windows.

Right click on the task bar at the bottom, goto "Configure Task Manager". There's a setting for how many rows to allow.

The only other thing needed is to have the panel tall enough (You'll have to play, I don't know what this height is) and it will then start doing multi-row/line task bar when you have enough windows.

Also you can check the "Always make rows box" in that same settings dialog to force it to always be multi-line.
And it appears to do that primarily by ripping off macOS. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing…
>You're attempting to deflect the debate here. So let me redirect it back.

Providing a direct example debunking your claim isn't deflecting. You claimed republicans suppressed votes. I showed you that democrats do that same. Not to mention colluding with media but that's another story.

> Most wealthy cities deal with poor people by driving them out via policing, taxes and zoning enforcement. How is that better than San Francisco's attempts to tolerate it?

Poor people have been displaced already. Not just the poor, the middle class too.

> You haven't made an argument here.

Sure I did. It's an argument of definition. No sane entity allows non-citizens to vote. It defeats the purpose of voting. It defeats the purpose of citizenship. But you are free to believe whatever you want.
I am sure Bloomberg had some lawyers in the room when they made that decision.
That's incredibly misleading. The phones were bricked because the screen assembly included the TouchID sensor and the sensors weren't re-keyed. Apple, for security reasons, bricked phones that had TouchID enabled where the sensor didn't match the Secure Enclave. They didn't envision that people would want to replace the displays at the expense of losing TouchID functionality or device security. As soon as it happened, they released an update to simply disable TouchID and warn users that it was now disabled as opposed to disabling the entire phone.
via Erik Meijer

https://twitter.com/headinthebox/status/1049049135226089472
Market segmentation. Apple users are worth more money. Which kinda makes this pivot to the developing world a bit of head scratcher. High ARPC was one of the key differentiators they promoted back during their IPO.
Not sure where you are getting your information but KDE has supported fractional scaling for a while now.
I didn't write a logical fallacy at the end or purport to have written one. I think you may have misread my comment. Can you elaborate? I think I wrote exactly what I intended to write. I gave an example of how someone can make statements that logically imply a statement without explicitly having written said statement.

EDIT: Yes, I need to change a word. Thank you.
If a fence is knocked down you fix the fence.

Quotas suggest an approach that works more like “we know some fences are damaged in various ways, one way many of the fences are damaged is that they have water damage. So we’re going to replace 25% of the poles in all fences, with poles resistant to water damage.”

There’s an argument that if you show that there’s been gender discrimination, you should throw out the entire board and put a new one in place using a process more resistant to all forms of discrimination.

But applying a fix without strong evidence that discrimination has taken place does seem lazy, because you’re attempting to apply a blanket fix. It does nothing to address the underlying issues, and tries to apply a fix in cases where no issue exists.
KDE has been seriously understaffed for a long while, and this is just one of the symptoms. It looks amateurish compared to GNOME.
Sun Tzu lived thousands of years before Washington, yet he was more civilized.

A true general would not need to conduct a war of attrition with scorched-earth tactics against tribes in the bronze age.

Not only Natives had inferior weaponry, they also were not familiar with writing, mapmaking and did not having navigation tools like the compass... limiting any form of military planning.

Washington had a wide spectrum of options and he chose to be immoral.
I think we're going to see less of that. A few companies with founder control through multiple classes of stock have screwed up badly. It's now a negative with investors.

For many decades, the New York Stock Exchange refused to list stocks that had multiple classes of stock, except for a few companies such as Ford Motor that were grandfathered in. But they no longer have enough clout to make that stick.

Google and Facebook got away with it because they were highly profitable before the IPO. Snap was not like that.[1] They went public while still losing money, and with way too high a valuation. It's been all downhill since the IPO.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertberger/2017/03/07/snapcha...
WOW! This is exactly what I need for a project I'm working on. Using a DRF/Django backend for an API with an angular web frontend.

I'm going to start playing with this right away. Awesome job!
LSI-11 http://www.cpushack.com/2017/11/22/cpu-of-the-day-dec-lsi-11...
Consider comment inflation.

Comments should only be needed when things are especially complex and if they are everywhere their average value goes down. Most codebases of good quality that I've seen have not had particularly detailed comments--except where you really need them. The mere existence of a comment already hints that the code that follows needs to be carefully understood before you can touch it!

There might be boilerplate comments before each function to describe the function and explain the parameters but other than that comments are only reserved for the tricky interactions. But in many cases also this information can be embedded in the name of the function and its parameters!

Good code reads well because it's built on top of lower level blocks that are simple and well-defined. And those are simple and well-defined probably because they are also built on top of even simpler things. This removes the need for a lot of mundane comments.

I don't think Clojure is more exceptional with regard to this than other languages. But I think a higher percentage of Clojure code is of good quality, and that probably is because Clojure attracts good programmers who care about these things.
Risk actually has a different problem— the kingmaking problem. It’s easier for a player to decide who _won’t_ win than it is for a player to use skill to win. It’s easy in the later stages of the game to utterly cripple someone who annoys you.
Its a nightmare to modify a moderately large Rails App.
Snapchat may have lost a lot of users across the world, but it's still extremely popular in Norway. I'd say probably more than half the population aged 18-50 has it installed.
Can you remember the questions? I think that I'm relatively good with SQL, but I just realized, I have never been asked any SQL specific questions, even though most of my work has been tied to it. The questions usually revolve around specifics of the engine, not query language itself.
I don't understand the point of it, either. Who is it for?
Choosing Your First Full-Time Job – Five Tips from a Recent College Grad
Just to make things clear, income tax is indeed progressive, and 45% is the maximum income tax and very few get to that level.

However, it is far from the whole story: when you get paid, the employer pays taxes, then the employees pays taxes, and only then, you have your income, which is taxed again.

In the end, you get around half of what your employer pays. It means the "more than 45%" is spot on. It works a bit differently for those who are self employed but the numbers are similar.

It is different for civil servants, and as an associate professor, you are probably one. They are taxed much less, which makes sense since they are paid with tax money.
It isn't just the COO. An organization is successful because of a lot of great people. The CEO or COO are inconsequential.

It's the organization that succeeds, not the CEO or COO or any individual.

It's like a few years ago when steve jobs died, some people were claiming Apple was doomed. The "great man or woman" theory has been debunked enough that we know it is nonsense.

But as you noted, a successful company needs a stellar COO. So why is this news?
As mentioned the RTL-SDR group on Reddit is good. You can also play without any hardware (and with better antennas) using online SDRs:
http://rx.linkfanel.net/
I've been having an issue with scaling in KDE Plasma with multiple monitors. Have you been able to resolve that with Neon? I have my 4k laptop monitor at 2x scaling, but then my 1080p monitors are also 2x scaled, and unusable. I've resigned to using 1440p on my laptop with default scaling.
This sounds a lot like an indirect form of the same mechanism as TMS.
Ken was a great guy. We both lived and worked in San Diego so I would occasionally see him. The last time was around 1980. I had been using UCSD Pascal to write my Go playing program for the Apple II, and ran into him at a party. He and his wife were just heading to the South Seas to go SCUBA diving (a favorite hobby of his). His work positively affected many people. RIP
They have a photograph of the chip and scores of (unfortunately anonymous) sources.

It sounds like some researcher found weird traffic, eventually found there is a chip on some of these servers that wasn't in the original gerber files, and this chip is doing something, and beyond that a lot of people are speculating about who and what.

Apple and Amazon deny that the story is correct. That doesn't mean that there isn't a chip there and they now know what it is doing but are prohibited from saying much beyond the story as a published whole is not true.
New controversial theory: Past, present, future exist simultaneously
Congratulations! It took them only 8 years to implement WebP. Here is the original bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=600919
I hadn't heard of him before, just starting to check out his essays. Great stuff!

Only gee, what an irritating and unfriendly style, throwing in a phrase in Latin in every other sentence, or even entire section titles—as if all his readers will understand it? or not caring?—just makes it really bad prose, there's no way to get around that. And "the unwashed"?!

edit: "He'll be honing onto his target", "being a tag paranoid is probably a good idea", "You'r"...ah ok, the English is bad too. That was surprising, from someone posing as a master of language.
A great niche to get into would be Internet censorship avoidance in countries where Internet freedom isn't a thing. As an expat living in China, I can tell you that there are only a few companies that do this successfully (among them Astrill and ExpressVPN).

Operating this kind of VPN comes with its own set of unique technical challenges, such as avoiding DNS poisoning and offering the best protocols to use. Spinning up a homebrew solution on DO just doesn't cut it as an end user, so we rely on companies like these to provide targeted solutions.

A VPN provider that can focus on avoiding common blocking techniques would be very valuable to a lot of people.
I want Genius and Plodder on my gravestone
India is not a single example.

You don't count India switching to a capitalist system from a socialist system and improving as a single example of the profit motive making things better. Great. What is your point? Let's say it is x number of examples. The claim that was made can only be shown to be true if it is demonstrated that it works in every single example and not some small subset of examples. So pointing out that you think the example given counts as many instances of the claim being true is not relevant.
Yes the amazingly tiny command runner that stays on top of screen and you fiddle with pos in kwin setting to make it appear somewhere sensible. I rather use dmenu/rofi for this.
If you try to differentiate monolith acceptability based on "quality of architecture", you really have never understood why they are hated in the first place.
You make paying 45% for France's system sound like a deal for a lifetime.
We're not. But: good news: people are experimenting with verifying specs at compile time! And since specs come with quickcheck built in, you get a lot of "free" (in developer hours) "compile time" (actually: development time) verification. I appreciate that is not the same thing as a proof system :-)
It's worth noting that a heat pump (like the hot end of an air-conditioner) can have nominal efficiency in excess of 100%. According to the DoE heat pump based water heaters can be 2-3x as efficient as a standard gas water heater.

https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/water-heating/heat-pump-w...
Off topic, but thanks for pointing that cool HN feature out
As an old time KDE fan I had to give up on it because it mostly didn't work reliably after 4.x. I recently tried out Plasma on arch and was pleasantly surprised to see lot of it mostly works well - I can force font DPI and use fractional scale which means a combination of it works better on HiDPI screen than GNOME.

It still scared me few times when the lock screen didn't really lock after waking from suspend. Hopefully the Arch rolling release means I will get a fix soon.
Looks like it'd fit in reddit.com/r/crappyoffbrands
TIL Symantec made the first Java JIT! Did HotSpot use any code from their implementation or was it more of an inspiration?
This is cool, but I don't see anything about security. Surely if someone were to implement this naively on a public server, it opens the possibility for anyone to just truncate your tables?
That's odd. If there are errors in the console. Please open an issue in the GitHub repo is possible: https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine

Otherwise, I am thinking it could be something related to the microphone?
> To this day I don't know how to make a multi-line taskbar like you can do in Windows

It is there by default. Simply make the panel a bit taller. You can also right-click to adjust the number of rows and to always arrange in columns.
KDE always was and still is a buggy, but hot mess. Also, they've been busy dumbing down the UX for a more "user-friendly" Linux which traditionally means focusing on the wrong elements. Which also means that previously easy things became impossible. A good and powerful file manager was replaced by a lame joke.

I really liked KDE 4 once. It was near perfect with 4.6. But then along came Plasma 5. Downhill from there. Instead of introducing new features and design they should've focused on bugs and stability.
Agreed. Didn't mean to suggest that's what you were saying, just to address the general point.
I don't really find that the community is against documenting code, and majority of popular libraries have doc strings for the public functions at least. In general, I do find that reading through decently written Clojure code tends to be easier than languages like Java or Js. The code tends to be a lot more declarative, there are a lot less syntax quirks, and functions are typically kept short. Meanwhile, majority of the code is written using pure functions, so you can figure out what they do without needing a lot of context about the rest of the program. I also tend to just run things in the REPL any time I'm not sure what a piece of code might be doing. So, while I'm definitely a proponent of having good documentation, I find that I have a much easier time reading through Clojure code than most languages I've used.
My understanding is that there is a solid constitutional challenge at the Federal level because the bill specifies designated headquarters rather than, for example, state of incorporation, which means that they are trying to enforce state law on national and international entities.

Regarding 'diversity hires', if the experience in Europe is any guide, qualified women will just be members of even more boards than they are now. There's no limit on the number of boards that a person can be a member of.
>You do not think that established medical treatments generally improve outcomes?

That's not what the linked article claims. The linked article claims that there are specific procedures that do not help in specific situations, yet these procedures continue to be done in those situations.

This is totally compatible with the claim that medical care improves outcomes on average.
A real leader who resigns is no longer a leader; source _The Prince_. A real leader controls power and makes things better. Let's see if he is. (I know nothing about Snapchat but I know word meanings)
I'd go further than that. A bad job situation can make anyone's life really bad. If you spend more than 50% of your waking hours somewhere, how could it not?

Although my situation was not anything like as bad, I went through a similar situation two years ago. The two things I wish in retrospect I'd done differently are (1) get therapy sooner and (2) get out sooner. The feeling I had the day I quit that employer is one of the best feelings I've ever had, even though it was a place I thought I loved. I'm still doing the same job at a different employer, but the difference is night and day.

At least in my past situation, a huge part of the issue was in recognising that I was in that situation in the first place. These types of workplace issues have a nasty habit of creeping up slowly, day by day, week by week, so that you don't notice them. I kept thinking "it's just this current situation around [x] thing", when really it was the whole environment.

Add even a small amount of home/personal life stress on top of that (dealing with very young or teenage kids, moving house, illness, money worries, relationship problems, ...) and it can be the straw that broke the camel's back.

I really wish good therapy (with a therapist of your choice) was something which health insurance/the NHS paid for (at least in the UK, it doesn't). I hate to think of how many people in these types of situations are put off by the cost.
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> a chicken-and-egg problem

The way I see it. Large corporations have the golden egg laying hen. And plebian project like PostgREST have little to no chance.