skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced. If you only cared about the short term then yes you would do as you described. But both Bloomberg and the author are pursuing long term strategies. If you publish misleading/inaccurate articles consistently, then people will ignore you. The author and Bloomberg will both loose credibility. This is bad for the author who wants people to read what he writes, and is bad for Bloomberg.
You might think that a device whose first and foremost purpose for existing is telling the time, might, y'know, actually be capable of doing so?
But that cuts both ways: two skilled rhetoriticians in debate each won't permit the other to deploy a logical fallacy. Therefore they will always converge on the truth.

Been thinking about this all day. I didn't want to flippantly disagree, but there was something about your comment that bugged me.

I think maybe you have overstated. I would phrase it this way: skilled rhetoriticians _tend_ to converge on a semantic definition around the meaning of words and phrases.

I don't think they come to any ultimate truth, no matter what the greeks thought. I think what happens in any productive conversation is something more along the lines of shared mental model alignment, which I would argue is vastly more important.

Thanks for giving me something to cogitate on yesterday!
Workers can ask, until 2008 happens again. Then, free sodas and a lot of workers will go. Ask then :)
I’ve seen wrong definitions for fractals (“non integer fractal dimension”) so many times in what I thought were peer reviewed papers (usually they’re not math papers though heh)
I agree with GP's assessment of Mtl, just wanting to make a point on the size.

Montreal metro is 4 million. But Montreal has a special dynamic, by fact of being an island. It's not as well connected as Manhattam.

So there are two "bumps", one north and one south (Montreal has its own definition of North/South, btw)
That has been the answer for last era. I think that’s why tech workers are starting to ask what we’re building it for. Because we’re here at this point because building “for money” is no longer good enough. Because what’s the point of having money when we’re cancer ridden and polluting our planet, and despite living in a rich planet people are starving, and the very resources that feed us are being destroyed. What’s the point of a pile of money when there is nothing else left?
Is that true in all of Poland though? Many people find Trump repulsive, and they will agree with most of their peers if they move to a big city in a blue state.
If you ignore weekly nazi rallies and all the book burning it's not such a bad place./s

Seriously though, Poland is one of the safest place to live in right now, especially if you're a foreigner. Media's portrayal of current political situation in Poland is HUGELY exaggerated.
Time for Bloomberg to add a little more detail to their claims now, surely?
A couple of suggestions:

- If you enjoy going out, like laidback attitude - Berlin. Not super cheap, but way cheaper than SF.

- If you like the sun, sea, surfing - Portugal.

- If you like outdoors, security, ecology, arts - Ljubljana (Slovenia).

I'm biased since I'm a Slovene, but work-life balance is insane in Slovenia, the environment is super clean, everything is super safe (as in no murders). If you're remoting you'll be earning top dollar, but even mediocre senior tech job will net you enough to support a family living in Ljubljana and live very comfortably (long vacations, travel, eating out, nice apartment)...
Chicago is a terrible option:

Major parts of the city are off limits to white people due to threats from gangs on racial basis, but also random violence from crowds of "youths" who troll around nicer areas of the city looking for victims.

Insane traffic, but if you want public transportation, you can look forward to dirty buses and subways, and again, threats of violence directed at you.

Miserable long winters.

High cost of living.

Horrible politics, rampant corruption and mismanagement.

You'd be better served in a suburb of Chicago, but you'll still be affected by statewide corruption and mismanagement and high taxes.
To other nations which they were mush worst. and more evil.
>The video is promoted by RT, there is enough evidence for it

RT is a popular website.

Of course it will link to a viral video. It's no more "Kremlin Propaganda" than anything posted on BBC is automatically "British propaganda".
Yep, a notepad with a direct step by step 1 liners is very effective to get a ton done in one day.

Have it between you and the keyboard so it can't be ignored, presumably not ruining your typing experience.

Straight up notepad or sublime works too.
Sit on its arse? Of course not. As a collection of many client states, the EU will do whatever the US tells it to do to help stir up the old Cold War climate.
Romania has great local food! But not so much when it comes to international cuisine - it's either bad or very expensive.
Internet is fast and stable and on top of that super cheap, compare with other UE countries.
I'd recommend RO if you enjoy nature, specially the mountain/rural side.
French Revolution? Throwing out the monarchy wholesale was a pretty big change in those days.

Don't forget the many revolutions by former colonies of European powers. They were violent, but bought about change. The good kind.
> Should we shun the country and its people because they have been burdened with a bad ruler?

You don't need to shun the people even if you shun the country.

I feel it's already very widespread to avoid any visits to Turkey and Russia (among others obviously), though it's hard to say how much of it is because of the political situation, and how much because of perceived instability. Personally, I would like to see Hagia Sophia but I'm unlikely to visit as long as Turkey stays in the current dictatorial road.
Yeah no. You (intentionally?) forget to mention that she is a huge Putin supporter. And that this video is made in the wake of legalisation of domestic violence in Russia specifically to undermine feminist movement.
Out of all geoengineering solutions that I am aware of, the sunshade is the most likely to work, and with the least drawbacks as it is the only truly global solution. It is also pretty simple physics as compared to other solutions which involve complex system modeling and unknown side effects.

All of the solutions require everyone on board, and quickly. The biggest issue is cost. At Falcon heavy prices, getting the requisite 20 million tons to L1 approaches 100 trillion dollars, according to my back of the napkin calculations. BFR may get that down an order of magnitude. The only way to pay for something like that is the really hard part, a global financial transaction tax, or some similar scheme.

Could you point me to anything showing that the methane release threat is overblown? I would love that reassurance. But even the Trump administration acknowledges 4C by 2100, there is no reason to think that it would stop there.
Oh yeah, Germans "love" the heat

Their attitude towards AC are offset by how early and high they turn the heat on in the year.

But I never had to dry stuff out in the cold. (Lack of AC is annoying though). You might get that if you Airbnb a place from some old lady though.
In terms of quality of living, Pune is perhaps the best city in India. (According to govt rankings and my personal experience of living in various cities in India).

However, that said, there's no intellectual energy. The city is more like a laid-back town. Tech scene also doesn't compare to Bangalore.
Yes but to get there you need detectable movement, a change in the image because of motion. A pixel has to change somewhere, the definition of blur. Sub-pixel blur is still blur.
I think the reason why a lot of this stuff is being called "Kremlin Propaganda" is that real Kremlin propaganda isn't really propaganda anymore. It's not necessarily coming from an evil troll factory in an imposing Petersburg tower. It's a lot more subtle and indirect – more of a cultural practice than a directed media effort – and it might not always be intentional, but people still need a way to link it to the power that benefits from it.

That said, there's a lot of this stuff being produced in western countries, including the EU. It just so happens that the plague of neoconservatism + political division has become state policy in Russia, so it makes sense for EU institutions (whose objective is political unity and inclusive welfare-oriented policy) would link it to the Russian state.
>Yeah no. You (intentionally?) forget to mention that she is a huge Putin supporter

I guess a Kanye video is also "Whitehouse propaganda" because he is a Trump supporter...

>And that this video is made in the wake of legalisation of domestic violence in Russia specifically to undermine feminist movement

"In the wake" as meaning "almost two years later"?
Open Source Firmware Conference 2018 – videos are up on YouTube
Pune is safe for women. Yes, the tech community is accepting of female engineers.
It is. Better and safe than other places in India. There are no zealots in Pune. But you will find a lot of them in Delhi or Bangalore.
As a non-habitual resident in Portugal or Spain, it seems that the dividends are tax free if they come from a foreign source but you still have to pay taxes in the country of origin [1].

So maybe if you set up your company in another tax friendly country, you would be able to pay your corporate tax and taxes on your dividends there.

[1]: http://www.newco.pro/blog/en/portugal-or-spain-two-tax-regim...
Hi there, Sofia is not like, say, Munich, but it’s chilled, people are friendly and there is a good IT community. It’s not that I disagree with you, but you can find your way around as a foreigner here.

Disclosure: I got almost burned out and heavily depressed after living 4 years in Munich where everything is perfect but I could not quite accept that.
A perfect example of the butterfly effect [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect
he criticize turkey based on they leader as not good place for work but he overlooked that his country is considered mush worst and yes if Turkey has dictator USA has terrorist government that allow all kind of shit and misery to innocent people based on hate and racism.
While in certain situations violence is appropriate, here it clearly isn't. If you don't agree on its inappropriateness here it would be indeed upsetting.

edit: added comma
As a born and raised in Braga I can confirm all of this. Also Braga as a background in IT sector for a few decades now.
Mainly because of University of Minho.
This is like saying fake pick up videos on youtube are funded by the CIA. This is a witch hunt and an insult to informed discussion.

There are attention seeking groups like Femen who are known for staging stunts. This group has a fake upskirt video, now this mansplaining video and presumably they will keep trying.

If it works out you get tons of media interviews, attention, become a media personality and spin it into some serious income.
I have a account just for some niche buy and sell groups. No Pic no posts, nothing. I can even use it as a SSO. The only info fb has is when and where.
Absolutely, and aplenty! But be prepared to network/dig-in a little to find exactly what you want. We definitely have people :) and communities which are both technically and intellectually strong.
>the EU will do whatever the US tells it to

Lol you've no idea what you're talking about.
The EU is not the US, that's why apart from the UK leaving the rest of us won't be eating chlorinated chicken.

>As a collection of many client states,
A rather silly view, we have a shared market and our interests.

You're clearly confusing the EU with NATO, i guess from St Petersburg we all look "West" to you.
I agree.

Although Pune has the highest number of expats of any city in India, and is generally safe/accepting of expat men and women. (Although overall India is quite unsafe for women and I agree with you that anyone who wants to relocate to India should first spend a nice long holiday/internship here)
I too played around with War and Peace...but in the russian.

Shameless plug: My password generator that takes text inputs and generates wordish results: https://cmroanirgo.github.io/wordish/

(It's much simpler and less correct than OP's... but that's the point anyhow)

The site is pre configured to use a few different source text excerpts:

- The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde

- Matthew 5, King James Bible

- War and Peace, Tolstoy (russian)

- klingon, anonymous web source

- Lorem Ipsum, lorem ipsim generator
Lisbon, Porto, Berlin, Leipzig
The comment I responded to talked about violence in general, not about this specific instance. That is what I responded to.
Markov chains are cool and text generation is fun for experiments. I would definitely recommend looking at deep learning language models, for a more fruitful investment of time to improve further. (courses on http://www.fast.ai/ are a good starting place)
Libre office is not even 10% MS Office. Don't know why people recommend it. It messes up my word formatting.
>then you understand how insanely inefficient low-trust high-value deals can be.

I think you misunderstand how real estate contracts work.

Real estate contracts are more or less cut and paste, in fact you can generate them here: https://www.lawdepot.com/contracts/real-estate-purchase-agre...

The thing that takes the time is due diligence, finding and arranging money, and/or buyers. The actual contract is the easy part, unless you are putting in custom stuff.

Smart contracts are basically glorified escrow, but with no legal precedence. If something were to go wrong, and your smart contract doesn't complete properly, you'll still be going to court to carry out the remediation steps. Also, smart contract require mutual agreement to work properly, there is no over-riding system to mediate should things become undefined. (well, there could be, you need to program that in.)

The friction in high value deals is the due diligence. it doesn't matter if the contract is smart. Undoing a house move is expensive, having a contract where one party can terminate instantly without warning or redress is a dystopian nightmare.
long shot, but any chance you know a way to find short term rentals in the city center? I currently live in Lozenets and while I love it I’d prefer something more central like say Rakovski street
Research question
The paper is a proposal and introduction chapter of the research on Foot Locker Inc. This chapter aims at shedding more light on the company in question and the issues that are facing it. It highlights the plan that will be leveraged so as to carry out a thorough investigation into the problems identified and how to go about in addressing them so as to help the company survive in the industry. The research question and the hypothesis are also included so that the readers can know what is being investigated and which solution is being proposed as the one capable of effectively addressing the problem at hand. The chapter is intended to help the company investors because through the same they will be able to have a better understanding of the current situation and the roadblocks to the anticipated results. That is better explained in the significance as well as the purpose of the research.
Chapter 1: Research Proposal and Introduction
Overview
The purpose of writing this paper is to provide information regarding Footlocker Inc including its founding, the founding leaders, the historical products, the current products, the evolution of new products and competitors.

References
Churchill, G. A., & Iacobucci, D. (2006). Marketing research: methodological foundations. New York: Dryden Press.
Pitrone, J. M. (2003). FW Woolworth and the American Five and Dime: A Social History. McFarland.
Walsh, B. (2014). Chain store retailing in Ireland: a case study of FW Woolworth & Co. Ltd, 1914-2008. Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 6(1), 98-115.

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"Straight up notepad" means notepad.exe nowadays? That is really interesting
Because you can’t get a raise - the big companies pay the most money.
A 40 year old developer is as unlikely to have knowledge of Cobol or Fortran as a recent grad. Those technologies were as old school in 1998 as they are today.

More likely they started out working in C++, C, Java, etc. Back then more developers worked on desktop apps than web. C# first came out in 2000 (18 years ago), Python is 28 years old, Ruby 23 years old, so chances are their knowledge and experience is fairly modern apart from the current trendy web frameworks.
> There's the super well-known ones like Bitcoin and Ethereum of course, and also a myriad of other technologies and ecosystems: Mastodon, ActivityPub, Perkeep, Scuttlebutt, Dweb, Solid...

P2P technology is at least a decade older than blockchain - it's peak was in the early 2000's with Napster & co.
6 more journalists arrested in Ferguson protests

A total of 11 journalists have been arrested during the protests in Ferguson

Most were only held briefly, not charged

German reporter says he's never been treated so badly by police

https://www-m.cnn.com/2014/08/19/us/ferguson-journalists-arr...

I saw something once that credibly argued that the treatment of Chelsea Manning in prison amounted to torture.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning

The current president of the US has called for his political opponent to be jailed. Not readily finding actual instances of actually jailing political opponents in the US, but I'm not trying that hard either.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/2/1729104/-Donald-Trum...

We also generally treat Blacks and Natives terribly and generally have crazy high rates of incarceration.
Over the past 20something years of being a developer I've found there are a lot of things that seem obvious to me now that junior developers don't do by default. Looking back I wonder when I started doing all these obvious things. Presumably, if I didn't discover them myself, it was when I was told about them or I read about them. If no one is writing these "frivolous" things down then how will juniors learn?

If this helps a few new devs who don't have access to a good mentor (because, say, their mentor makes assumptions about what's obvious..) to tell them about this idea then it's automatically a useful post.
The killer features missing for me

1. Word - track changes
2. PowerPoint - equation editor
You are wrong about White House press access; the current President has been far more open and accessible than his predecessor.
very much agree, lived in tokyo for 1 year, i even had a private japanese tutor, but could hardly even order stuff from mcds, sure you could point to the pictures, but the follow up questions would be something along the lines of do you want this as part of a set or individually ordered, would you like it super sized, and/or would you like to swap coke for sprite or something along those lines. the funny thing is that i found out a lot of chinese students worked those menial jobs, so i could use mandarin to order. the machines were the best, just follow the pictures.

i love japan in general, had a lot of friends luckily that spoke great english, but the cost of living for me was 1700 usd per month (this was back in 2006, of course i lived in high flying shinjuku), and the english barrier was difficult to get over. probably if i was a bit younger and didn't need to seriously advance my career, i would have stuck it out and learned the language. you could probably find a decent apartment for 800-1200 usd, not sure what the rate is now.

i do think the high-tech scene is good in tokyo, the food awesome, the culture one of a kind, i just wasn't patient enough to learn the language.
Yep.

One of the (painful) things I learned and continue to learn once I got into tech coaching is how much stuff we do without thinking about it. It gets into muscle memory and it's gone, as it should be. This is one of the reasons mobbing is so successful -- and why it doesn't make a lick of sense to anybody who codes for a living.

So no, there's no level of detail here that I think would be too much. (It may or may not belong on HN, and there's a question around how to organize this detail so that it's useful for folks, but those are different questions from whether or not it has value)
Australia’s Other Great (and Threatened) Coral Reefs
I agree I'm being pessimistic, but unfortunately I can't find any grounds optimism. You solve one problem, there will be another to take its place. Solar panels sounds nice, but making them comes at an environmental cost that people generally don't talk about: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/energy/2014/11/1411...

In addition to global warming, there is also the problem of over fishing / farming, loss of biodiversity, waste disposal, all of which are getting worse every year. https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/15-current-environmen...

With that said, I'm still trying to do my part to live responsibly: I monitor my electrical and water usage and keep them low, stopped eating meat, and donate most of my earnings to charitable causes to help as much as I can.
> The myth that kids that age are all digital natives and hence much more adept at learning CS amd programming is wrong.

It feels sort of like assuming that kids born after commercial aviation became widely available have some magical understanding of fluid dynamics.
Haha, thank you for making me feel young for a minute :-)
>And that's illegal because?

It's not illegal it's just showing who her paymasters are. but keep up the misdirection..
System76 Bonobo. My day job involves cloud (k8s) GPU stuff and it's the only linux laptop I could find with two Nvidia GPUs. The trackpad sucks ass, the power connector is stupid. It's full of batteries that only provide an hour (max) of battery and it's only a laptop in the sense that it can (technically) fit on my lap.

A coworker recently got the single GPU Serval, and I could see using that daily. Ubuntu 18.04 is a great desktop OS. I have tentative plans to take apart my Bonobo, remove the batteries, put power supplies inside with a standard power plug out the back and cut out the trackpad and fit in an Apple trackpad.

LXD+QEMU makes it a pretty nice machine. I almost don't miss OSX and this [0] project has solved a lot of those issues.

[0] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM
Yes you are a very clever person, who doesn't need this blogpost. Good for you.
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to build the tech to cure cancer and filter pollution.
Cows grow on sunshine and inedible to human grasses. Feed them some seaweed and they don’t even spew methane so badly. Per calorie, plant foods are more draining on the planets resources.
Interesting. I have a Windows partitioned. Can I use that license for a virtual installation?
8-Year-Old Girl Pulls Pre-Viking Sword from Lake in Sweden
We will fail.
When are the web and android versions coming out?

Can you show the video of what it does?
Excellent; but does it ever get done?
If it helps, here's the full paragraph:

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Cossacks”—he pointed to a spot in the forest beyond the village—“and I
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with almost 50 years of unix history.
This badly misstates the relationship between the BBC and the UK government.
I am totally fine with non-free software. I'll check this out.