skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Optimistically, reduced value of biological roots and the knowledge of them. Essentially as this information is more available, it will be easier to obtain and likely be considered less important. Pessimistically, reduced incentive for adoption on both sides due to reduced pre-adoption anonymity.
It’s well compatible with react. However we dont have a react component at this point of time. We are gonna make that happen soon.
My hypothesis is that everybody fakes their way into Fashion Week. It's all one giant LARP event that somehow spun out of control, and now nobody knows how it manages to keep going all by itself without any GMs, or how to stop it, if there were somehow an emergency that required it to not take place.

Now go re-read the Verge article or watch the video, presuming that everybody is faking, and see if the hypothesis can be falsified at any point.

The part where he gets the badge? That's just some person with a badge printer, playing the part of the registrar.

That part where he's trying to convince Italians that he's Italian? They're not Italian either. "Oh, of course I'll speak English to you, another completely genuine Italian person, for the sake of your photographer, obviously."

It's sort of surreal, actually. Because then you can expand the hypothesis outside of Fashion Week, and it never stops.
The growth of mobile money in Somalia comes with some risks
Oh hey, I worked on this. Paper with all the details here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.10277.pdf. Happy to answer questions.
OK. That's a possible antithesis.

It could be the ROI curve on the technology flattening out, the lack of competitive pressure or some combination.
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Change can come. The factors that I saw that effected it : a purchase of a company that didn't have one and were touted as a wunderorg then the material fact of the audited effort put into the system vs. the lack of evidence that it had any positive impact. Two changes of global HR president as well. But then it went.

For now...
It’s unfair that companies, who have extremely high power in the relationship, can load their contracts up with one-sided and often unenforceable stuff. Employees, who are the party with low power, must accept the terms or GTFO. Then the onus is on them to spend their time and money fighting the legal battle to invalidate these unenforceable bits.

Wouldn’t it be fairer if the party with all the power, and who dictates the content of the contract, must convince a judge that it’s enforceable before a defendant has to lift a finger or shell out money?

Currently contracts seem to be nothing more than one-sided weapons that powerful companies use to get vulnerable people to do things that they otherwise wouldn’t and can’t afford to fight. Let’s not pretend that more than a small fraction of employees out there actually get to meaningfully alter the contracts under which they work.
Sorry... what? In fashionable places these are some of the most common high-end shoes I see people wearing. They're not very hard to buy or artificially scarce, just expensive, so they're not really a target for sneakerheads in the traditional sense of the word. They mostly care about specific colorways or variants that come in small quantities, or shoes that have just been released with constrained supply.
Thanks for bringing this up. It’s possible to create visualization like this using Muze easily. Will create an example and keep you updated. Should we reach out to you once done (if yes, let me know how)!
Merging the locations can easily get complicated. What if the same file exists in both folders? What if it exists in both folders, but with different contents? What if not only it has different contents, but also the same last modification time?
Soft links are supported on ReFS, but hard links are not.
It probably doesn't help the murky legality question when some non-compete contracts are somehow enforceable even in the event that the employee is fired.
The worst is when people deny that is the truth.

"Then model is like 80% the same, just use the same class!"
Might be interesting if collectively they sued the app and sent it into a loop.
The NSA would build it for us, free of charge!
The accent of the "scammer" in the call is definitely not German.
I don't think you quite understand what I was saying. Free trade is the problem, not the solution. Germany makes a lot of stuff and sells it to the southern countries, running huge trade surplus. The southern countries borrow to buy the stuff and eventually have debt problems. There is no mechanism to get money from Germany back to southern Europe in the amounts needed. Before monetary union, Italy or Greece would see their currencies go down and the trade deficit would start to balance out.

In the US the people in rich parts of the country pay more in taxes to the federal government than they get back. This is a good thing, not a problem like many people state. It is not about building weapons for export, it is that the US government spends $600 billion on defense spending, moving resources from rich parts of the country to the poorer parts (to pay for government bases and defense contractors that build weapons for the US government). I agree that there are better ways to do this redistribution of wealth, but it is the only one that seems acceptable to the Republican party. Building infrastructure could be another, but it has not happened since the building of the interstate system ended in the 1980's.

The EU supra-national government (very similar to the US federal government over the US states) has a very small budget (€143 billion for the year 2014, from Wikipedia) and no real ability to raise large amounts of money from taxes it can impose. Varoufakis believes that until the EU has such a mechanism, having a common currency is going to continue to build up financial problems that are like to break up the union in a bad way.
What do you mean by "dynamic"? Can you give an example?
Map the UNC path as a network drive and probably won't notice.
As opposed to what, being a beta tester for life _and_ paying 200 dollars for the privilege like you apparently do with Windows now?
The only way reading the Iliad made any sense to me was as history told by and for mob bosses. The primary concerns are honour and 'face', stealing stuff and killing people with maximum brutality. I think it is hard for a modern reader to admire any of the figures in the Iliad, but seen as a story of rival gangsters, it makes much more sense.
If user ~turtlecloud sees this – or anyone else knows them & can point them here – they should contact me with payment info (PayPal/Venmo/Bitcoin/etc), for the bet that I lost here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18036040

This turned out quite differently than I predicted. I find it a bit odd, and interesting, how the regulator is both saying it's the regulator's fault, but then warning other sportsbooks to be ready to pay errors, but then also leaving open the possibility they might not enforce large-enough errors in the future.

It looks like a subjective discretionary decision based on "what's good PR for NJ gambling", rather than any rigorous legal standards – and where I thought the precedent of not paying egregious errors would be more important than a small PR hit, in the new era of growing casual gambling, that doesn't appear to be the case.
These are the videos for Learn Enough Ruby to Be Dangerous, an introduction to Ruby that's designed as a complement to the Ruby on Rails Tutorial (good either before or after).

I generally recommend getting the videos bundled with the ebook, so that you'll have them all forever, but an online version of the book is also available for free here:

https://www.learnenough.com/ruby-tutorial

Enjoy!
I think I'm a bit opposite in that I find web / short form reading difficult. Most of it is of low or negative value due either to narcissism (no, your tech howto doesn't need 600 words about your breakfast or social life) or to gaming search engines with various techniques. (Do you know how to do keyword stuffing? Many people are interested in keyword stuffing. They ask themselves, how can I stuff keywords, and you've come to the right place folks because everyone tells me I'm the greatest keyword stuffer of all time, everyone says it, and where should they be stuffed? It's a tremendous thing, believe me folks.) This extends to Youtube videos as well. Want to learn how to do good cuttings of some plant? First 8 minutes of the video are about how they scored free movie tickets and then omg last night the bbq was great and blah blah blah. It is garbage, and I've come to assume that any short-form reading or Youtube video has a 98% chance of being a huge waste of time. So before the 15MB of bloat has finished downloading, and before the multiple screen redraws, my eyes are already darting around the page looking for exits.

Side note: a result is that I tend to stick to no-BS sources and since there aren't that many, I invariably lose some diversity of thought. Sigh.

Books are still great though! All my love to the public library.
The general case they have noticed is nocturnal animals start to become active during an eclipse and animals active during the day time start to shut down like they would during night.
Is it worth it though? Now you can't fully rely on your phone number for 2FA, T-mobile is one of the providers notoriously known for transferring numbers without asking too many information.

My daily number, not connected to any 2FA (for which I use Google Voice) is a T-mobile, and a couple years ago I bought a nano sim to replace a larger sim, and the call center operator transferred the number without me having to answer almost anything overly personal, I think they just asked for a PIN which I'd obviously forgotten and with some mild additional information it was reset right there. It was truly shocking, the old sim just got disconnected from the network instantly.

For 2FA via text, Google Voice is IMHO the only choice, by far.

And for social graph implications, on your google account you can choose to not be discoverable to other people via your phone number, and that includes the Google Voice number since it's explicitly listed there (of course I assume it doesn't work the other way around, which seems to be the thing you are bothered by, I'm usually worried about being discovered by others than being shown a list of people I might know).
You can have a low trust society that still functions. They have existed for thousands of years. They exist today.
Great answer, thanks for taking the time!
President Trump Signs Music Modernization Act into Law
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What C and its descendents have instead is numerous repetitions of '\s}\n' to end

if-then-elseif-else
switch-case
for
while
until
functions
methods
classes

and good luck figuring out which matches which when there's more than a screen between the beginning and the end of a block
You can make an unenforceable contract in good faith though. How would you protect those circumstances?
You can even find 4K remuxes weighing in at over 50 GB.
That’s why we have/had unions.
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Microsoft Takes Infer.NET ML Framework Open Source
Good meta point! When you think about it, there is no really good reason to believe anything posted to a forum such as this, from anonymous people you don’t know. Yet we often do. Touché!
The 1541 had a whole 6502 embedded system in it??? TIL.

Yet it was so astonishingly slow, it was a laughing stock among junior high school kids.

Total garbage compared to the Apple II drives designed by Woz, which were just dumb hardware, combined with a logic state sequencer" on the circuit card and registers for step motor control.
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> AWS customers at potential risk

This line of reasoning is the one that powers at be want us to partake in. It normalizes surveillance in preventing some unknown danger.

Putting AWS data centers on a map is not a danger to customers.
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PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0
They are also starting to seriously lean to the left. :-)
It doesn't seem to work very well...

Gpython 3.4.0 running in your browser with gopherjs
>>> x=[1,2,3]
>>> x
[1, 2, 3]
>>> [ v**2 for v in x ]
[USER]: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
Netflix is supposed to have a really great developer culture and work atmosphere/benefits, much more than the other big N. Do you agree with its reputation? Was there any negative aspect that made you leave, or did you just have more of an interest in freelancing?
John Carmack: My personal legal disputes are over
I would say differences in IR absorption might be used, for example, [0]

[0] https://www.osapublishing.org/jnirs/viewmedia.cfm?uri=jnirs-...
> Microsoft clearly doesn't care about "developers, developers, developers" anymore, because I have never lost this much productivity to an operating system in my life.

Azure's APIs are really nice! Microsoft cares about people developing against Azure. Those developers make them money.

And they've invested a lot of effort into allowing you to develop against those APIs on macOS or Linux.

What Microsoft doesn't care about, is people trying to use Windows to do development (outside of an enterprise use-case, where everyone is using the LTS version of Windows anyway.)

I feel like, increasingly, Microsoft sees Windows the way Apple sees iOS: something you develop for (to target the consumers that use it), not something you develop on.

Imagine a Microsoft that didn't have a Windows product, just their cloud products (Azure, Office 365, Xbox Live, etc.) Would that Microsoft build an OS? Or would they just tell you to use macOS/Linux to interact with their software ecosystem?

I feel like the answer to that question tells you a lot about Microsoft's priorities.
Aren't the same tax payers paying for the business taxes as well through the increased price of goods?
You have a lawyer review the contract and they are held responsible if they are approving known-unenforceable agreements.
JavaScript: why haven't you started on it yet?
There's a lot more depth to your insight than you may know. My favorite book of all time is "The Evolution of Cooperation." The book basically takes a biology question, and uses basic game theory and simulations to explore the idea of cooperation between species. The remarkable thing is that given certain evolutionary parameters, the "cooperate/trust first, and just retaliate if you've been cheated on" strategy is incredibly robust.
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From the linked article:

“Having given up on finding the Gros Michel in the wild, I’ve ordered it in from the Miami Fruit Company in South Florida, a tropical fruit grower with so many different bananas they’ll ship you an entire sampler of different varieties.”
> Characterizing that maneuver as routine is disingenuous and indicative of precisely the sort of thinking that creates the slippery slopes

It wasn't routine. It was unusually-large FOMC activity directed by Ben Bernanke's study of the Great Depression. (It appears to have worked at keeping the money supply stable.)

But all of that is not QE. If you don't know the difference between QE an the FOMC, mightn't the nuances of monetary policy be similarly escaping you?
> Employees, who are the party with low power, must accept the terms or GTFO.

I have successfully asked for some clauses to be removed from the contract.
I think that must be what he is saying. The rent on a house in Palo Alto, MTV, etc, adds up to $60K-$100K/year, which is more than the US median household income.
Well we're communicating here and it's not financed by people who want to manipulate us. There's the odd job ad but that's completely up front. When I bought Byte magazine I bought it partly for the ads. My choice - not really manipulation.
I believe the name deliberately refers to the licensing fiasco over who owned the original rights to the L4 kernel that the many spinoffs are based on.
Does the guy who wrote this realize the more expensive listing is for a pack of 2 bottles? I didn’t see him mention that anywhere. It pretty much renders the second half of his argument useless.

Also, the lack of a per ounce pricing could be more of a programming thing vs some conspiracy. Maybe amazon doesnt do that when there are multiple items.
Shameless plug for a data + markup based approach, hiding some of d3.js complexity: https://github.com/PolymerEl/multi-verse.

Codebase is being migrated to Polymer 2.0, and better documentation.
Does anyone know if my understanding is correct? The way I understand it, if you have an unenforceable contract, then as soon as the law changes to allow its enforcement, you're bound by it. Whereas if that clause wasn't there, then you wouldn't be. Hence even having unenforceable terms is a risk. Is this correct?
As have I, but it requires a certain level of confidence and market position (and the knowledge that you can).

A better world is one where this doesn't...yanno...happen at all, yeah?
And the US rocket program was "stolen" German technology - even including the scientists and engineers. And Germany "stole" a lot of technology from Britain during the industrial revolution. And somebody "stole" silkworms from China a long time ago. And the recipe for gunpowder. And for porcelain. Writing was invented in only a few places - I bet nobody of those using it where it wasn't invented paid the actual inventors a dime (or whatever the currency was then and there, probably wheat). Everybody "stealing" from everybody.

Oh please. Maybe information should just be shared, especially with those worse off where "you have to pay for it" would not even work, and maybe that "debt" concept is stupid to begin with (you cannot pay - you will be in eternal debt because first you have to pay me back, for more and more stuff, than interest). Maybe humans should just be more open and kind towards one another to begin with, especially when it does not even "cost" them (the counter argument "but they will compete with us" just means that you have to suppress them, because in any scenario where they do get to rise eventually they will compete with you anyway, especially when we are talking about a billion Chinese and the other couple of billions of people in Asia).
Absolutely phenomenal. I hadn't actually heard of Jaron Lanier until today but now I'm a big fan.
That came out of some NASA research. A lot of stuff did, some mistakenly attributed, some invented before but improved a lot by NASA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies
So are you considering developer traction to be platform age and what people you know are working with?

I'm not trying to be argumentative. I personally like Stellar over EOS as well, but I haven't seen the same developer traction advantage that you're seeing. At least on Stack Exchange, EOS is more active despite being half the age.
Wow, this is a great idea. I can see both sides of it:

"Look, you've always wanted to jump ship to freelance, but it's hard and you're used to being heavily supported by your org. We have that for you."

"Look, you want to hire these people but you can't. I can, and they can complete your project in a super high quality way, you just need to pay for it. We can be there next week."
Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth
There definitely needs to be more stringent protocols in place for transferring numbers, but I have to disagree with the 72-hour delay idea - it may hamstring those who are porting numbers for legitimate reasons.

For example, I lost my phone on a Thursday a couple months ago and desperately needed it for work the following week. Ordered a replacement phone as well as SIM with express shipping. Received both over the weekend, called the provider to port from the lost SIM to the new one, and was able to work on Monday.

Having an unavoidable X-hour long delay before the port went through would've been awful. I'm sure there's another way to accomplish the same goal - perhaps requiring more info than just account number / PIN / password, implementing physical ID verification, etc.
Copyright compromise: Music Modernization Act signed into law
Why the hell is this being downvoted? Collective bargaining is one of the primary purposes of a union
The orbiter was reusable. As for Energia rocket, it burned up but in reality, Space Shuttle's SRB weren't reusable either (it was much cheaper to make new ones than to recover and refurbish spent boosters), and Energia could at least serve as an independent lifter without Buran.

The Russians may have stolen Space Shuttle design (though no one really cares), but they have definitely improved on it.
Thanks a lot for the background on sharedb! Great work, indeed.
This seems to be a dig, but it has no content. I mean, sure, if the funding was greater, the speed of research would quicken in many cases. But you can't criticize from both directions. Do you want cheaper, or faster?

Also, "bureaucratically neutered" is an odd phrase. It's the government, so of course there is oversight and politics at an agency level. But OTOH, the agency's record at not interfering with discrete science findings is actually very good.

What point are you trying to make? [Disclosure, I have published research while funded by NASA.]
You can use a self-hosted federated solution.

Examples are:

- e-mail (effectively a federated system, before it was cool)

- Mastodon

- a social network instance like Diaspora

- Matrix (matrix.org - "An open network for secure, decentralized communication.")

- XMPP / Jabber

- IRC (not federated, but self-hostable)

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I've been on Mastodon for the last 3-4 months and it's been awesome so far. It's basically Twitter without all the drama and toxicity. Also, while I don't run my own instance, I've seen many people running one.
The domains of satire and mathematics don't intersect.
Hey I think you are Dominik (guessed from your handle). Thanks for the reply.

Vega-Lite paper and layered grammar of graphics are the biggest motivations to write Muze. Vega-Lite is still my goto viz library for my ipython and JS work. Hence there are healthy intersections between vega-lite and muze terminologies and concepts.

Would definitely love to check new development.
Sure, a relatively small number of employees have this ability, due to market demand or whatever, so congrats! If you want to feel what it’s like to negotiate employment as a more usual employee, try negotiating the terms of your cell phone contract.
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Why do you think employees have less power? Both parties have exactly the same power: to kill the deal. Contracts only happen by mutual consent.
I find it strange that having people sign contracts you know (or should know) are invalid isn't considered fraud. It seems to me that this is lying for monetary gain at the expense of the other party and should result in both civil damages and criminal charges in a sane legal system.