skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
10.x soon will get a LTS badge [1], so we can expect 10.x (not 11.x) will be added into 19.04 apt repository.

nvm is probably the easiest way to install it, but of course, you can do it manually:

1. mkdir -p ~/apps/

2. Download tar.gz and extract it to ~/apps/

3. Change $PATH variable to include the bin directory

NODEJS_DIR="node-v8.12.0-linux-x64" # Change version to appropriate
export PATH=$PATH:${HOME}/apps/${NODEJS_DIR}/bin

4. Validate "installation" by version check

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/Release#release-schedule

Edit: There is also a snap package with nodejs - https://nodesource.com/blog/announcing-node-js-snap-linux-us... but there is 12.x (edge channel) not 11.x

snap info node
Google says there’s 2.996×10^12 tons of carbon in the atmosphere. I’m guestimating we have about 1/3 of that which needs to be pulled out to correct for emissions to this point. Do we have access to that amount of olivine?

Thank you so much for your comment!

Edit-As to pricing, if olivine is a common byproduct of other activities and generally common in that sense then obtaining 1 ton of olivine is the cost to move it. Then they need to process and disburse it. That seems like a cheap process.

Edit2-the non-cheap part of this seems the dispersal. How long will it take to disperse all that olivine?
Money is about imbuing items - some of which may be intangible - with power and manna, and also about having an irrational faith that the power and manna will increase in the future.

It's bean counting with imaginary magic beans, controlled by a priestly caste of imaginary magic bean rationers.

Crypto was an attempt to create a different kind of imaginary magic bean controlled by a different kind of rationing.
Why don't you start the trend now? Please post here your personal details.
> I don't understand why people are opposed to collecting and making use of it.

Because:

> Personal information is extremely valuable.

The main problem isn't making use of personal information, but using it in such a way where it is not clear to the user as to what is being collected by whom, and what is the value they're getting back for that information.

Moreover, is is extremely hard to know about and control leakage of that info to parties you didn't consent to directly.
For me, also with quite a bit of experience with Perl and Python, the main reason to use Python over Perl is readability. Especially when it comes to code written or modified by less experience engineers.

Programmers tend to think that writability is the most important when it comes to coding, while readability is actually far more important.

I agree that using Python's re module is harder to write for than regexps in Perl or Ruby. But honestly it's not that much harder, and usually using it leads to clearer, more explicit and more readable code.
Tor-Enabled SIM Card Will Keep You Anonymous on Mobile Networks
How Instagram Parental Guide Helps to Track Your Child Online
Until Apple growth streak breaks and they start to use data like everyone else and using data is a good thing.
It is 25% less because i will no longer use my COBOL experience but will start working on node js, python etc. I will contribute with my domain knowledge. so it is a win-win.

May be they have a budget!
This is wrong. Kinetic energy is not what kills you. Force is not what kills you (the human body can handle triple digit G forces for a short time). Hitting things in the cabin is what kills you. The only way kinetic energy is related is that it also happens to increase with speed.

Using kinetic energy to imply that lethality goes up exponentially with speed is misleading at best.
I'm surprised by the hype around for-profit direct-air capture (DAC) companies because, unlike afforestation or biochar, which produce useful products, there is a very small market for CO2. Somewhat ironically, the biggest market for CO2 is for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), which is exactly what it sounds like: it allows for more oil to be extracted from oil wells.

There is in fact no market for CO2 separated using DAC because it costs an order of magnitude more to separate CO2 (>$100/T) than its value on the market (max $15/T). So, the real question is, who is going to pay for it?

The companies currently operating in this space (e.g. Climeworks, Carbon Engineering) are doing so at a massive loss. In the case of Climeworks, they are pumping the CO2 to a greenhouse.[0]

I don’t think DAC alone can ever make sense, there has to be a second step in the process where the CO2 is converted into a marketable product, so that product displaces emissions. This means something like converting CO2 to plastic or fuel that would otherwise be produced using petrochemicals. Carbon Engineering recently announced that they are pursuing this. Of course, in addition to two technical breakthroughs that need to occur (cheap CO2 separation from air and cheap CO2 conversion to fuel), they will somehow have to get those fuels to be cost-competitive with current fossil fuels.

The thing to keep in mind is that CO2 emissions from man-made sources total 60 GT per year (pa). And eventually all 60 GT must be removed every year. To put this into perspective, the amount of oil produced globally by weight is about 5 GT p.a. The amount of CO2 produced is truly enormous.

The market for CO2 for EOR is about 80 Mtpa (around 1000x less than CO2 emissions)[1]. EOR actually makes some sense as we will be using oil for some time, the carbon footprint of EOR-extracted oil is lower than conventional oil.

At the end of the day, CO2 capture, especially DAC, seems more like something that is run at a loss for public benefit, like public transit, not as a for-profit enterprise.

[0] On the face of it, this seems great because the CO2 is being used, but the problem is that the plants would remove the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere whether they were grown with captured CO2 or not (they might just grow a bit faster in the greenhouse). In fact, the energy required for the carbon capture process means that the carbon footprint of the plants grown in the greenhouse using captured CO2 is likely higher than if they were grown outdoors!

[1] https://hub.globalccsinstitute.com/publications/global-statu...
I agree, but I think it just depends on your priorities and goals. If you're only aiming for a "lifestyle business" or some passive income to pay your living expenses, then I think sales can an optional activity, at least after you've some traction and paying customers. If you don't enjoy doing sales (I hate it), then there's plenty of other ways to get more customers. Don't get me wrong, I love talking to customers that are genuinely interested in using my product. I just hate sending spam emails to random people who usually have no need for my product.

I enjoy having a SaaS business where people can sign up and start paying for it without any sales calls or even support requests. I actually haven't had any success with cold sales, but I've been able to get plenty of paying customers through search, blog posts, ads, etc.

I could probably grow faster if I sent a lot more cold sales emails or even hired a small sales team. But I just don't really want to do that. I'm actually enjoying the slower pace and taking my time to do things properly and work on things that I enjoy.
I don't think that's true, I expect to be told up front, clearly and unambiguously, the true cost of something.

Stores that have hidden charges and gotchas are reviled, just like we should be outraged by websites that sell your data without your explicit consent.

It's a bait and switch con.
My sis-in-law had a necrotic bite from a brown recluse that nearly required surgery to stop the decay. This was in the Midwest. One of the happiest points of moving to CA is not finding them on my pillow. Creepy little creatures. I haven’t met anyone in 16y of life in CA that has heard of them.
Disclosure sometimes helps others. :)
Well, while the market share is an important side note, the point is that they are a platform provider too.

Microsoft had the problem a few years ago with bundling their Internet Explorer on Windows (and making it hard for the competition to have a chance). For Apple, the situation is a bit easier, as they don't allow any third party app stores at all, so any competition would probably encourage their users to break Apples 'Terms of Use', which in turn would make a lawsuit even more difficult.

In my opinion, platform providers should be obliged to open their platform for all kinds of third-party services & tools but I am sure, Apple/Google/Microsoft/etc. will find other ways to discriminate others on their platform and push their services.
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First response: This sounds good, maybe I should consider Apple for my next device?

Second response: Was undermining Google the reason he held the speech in the first place?
The best option is the be Sole Proprietor/company/contractor. Then they send you an invoice once a month. You can use Transfer wise, online currency exchange or your bank (bank fees tend to be high)

There are other ways to hire someone, but it's a legal and paper work nightmare.
In Switzerland too, with some exceptions for public entities.

Still, many pension fund use very optimistic interest rates in their estimates.
AI does not remove bias since AI will reflect the biases of their creators
Brian Eno's ambient works make for good programming music. "Music for Airports" has aged so well. His more recent "Music for Installations" is also good.
Atheists aren't persecuted. They aren't being executed for their beliefs. Christians still are, though, in China, Africa and the Middle East.
There are a few Fela fans around here :)

Weirdly enough, despite already being a jazz listener, I found him because the software I used was renamed to Odoo, and someone on Twitter made a joke with Fela's O.D.O.O. Serendipity ftw.
Apple blew it's lead with Siri and is now trying to hamstring it's competition from passing it by with features that aren't animated emotions or only allowing certified Apple parts in repairs.
Also, quoting friom the GDPR, art. 4

"‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;"

I guess interview notes would fall into this category as well.
it's related to a identifiable `data subject` and related to his traits. e.g. "John Smith is bad at math and he hates pencils"
Related: "The Tragedy of Craftsmanship"

https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/08/28/Craftsmansh...
4chan's music board (http://boards.4chan.org/mu/)
I want quality journalism but exporsure should be payment enough.
The practices espoused here confuse me quite a bit (essentially, variants of not being quoted a price before a thing happens).

In the UK it's common to, say, go to a pub and buy a pint. It's not usual to ask for the price first. It's possible a bar could decide to quote me 500 quid after pouring. I'd obviously decline and walk out.

How is it any different in the healthcare case? If you've made an honest effort to determine a price, been told it'll be about X, and then receive a bill for 10x, it sounds like a scam that cannot be enforceable.
Well Apple can start by making Siri work locally/without internet and then I believe their stance.
Fracking at Lancashire site paused after seismic event detected
True, so can I get paid when I sell my information?
Here is my unrelated to the article perl memory...

I fell in love with perl at school because it seems easier that sh/awk/sed/etc... After I got a job I still used perl for everything. Perl5 came along and made a bunch of really needed improvements [1]

My problem was that at work they used rs6000 machines running AIX for everything and perl5 didn't work on AIX. So I couldn't use the latest toys. So I took time out and fixed dynamic linking so perl5 worked correctly on AIX.
http://web.mit.edu/darwin/src/modules/perl/perl/ext/DynaLoad...

Then later I got an email from Redhat offering me shares of stock when they went public. This was because of my perl contribution. That was clearly some shady scheme so I declared that email spam and threw it away.

1) But yes perl5 is quite a bit more complicated than perl4 and that bothered a lot of people.
The purpose of the mol is to be a convenient measure for us working in the SI unit off grams. We need to get between grams and a count of molecules, that's the number.

Sure, we could work in dozens, but then we would have some other arbitrary constant we would have to memorize to go from grams to a count of molecules. And the nice thing about mols is that you don't have to memorize Avogadro's number to use them; while you would have to memorize a constant to go from grams to any other unit of counting molecules (that constant in the case of mols is 1, it would be something else for any other choice of units).
I created a viz of the map here if anyone is interested, it also displays scores. It's here : https://low-beret.glitch.me/
I don't think you should be surprised because I think you should assume (as I do) that all information will be used in the maximally worst case way. Once you do that, you're never surprised.
If it's a large team how much time are they spending knowing what everyone else is working on?
Many people enjoy privacy.

If your children were followed around with someone recording them with a personal video recorder as soon as they left their house, that’s just public information right?

/s
Partitioning Evolution from Postgres 9.6 to 11
Because person aren't things
F-Droid [1] might be another good option for Keybase and Protonmail. F-Droid offers APK download from their website but also an app which reminds you of updates or installs them automatically if you had an extra permission extension and enabled the feature.

[1]: https://f-droid.org
TL;DR: There are no populations of brown recluse spiders living in California.
Cloud native computing grows by 200 percent
In general async executions really are big sources of race conditions in single threaded program. JS avoids this problem by blocking/queuing tasks until the current task is done but this is not the case in most lower-level environments.

1. Reentrancy. Flow of tasks can be interrupted by hardware interrupts and OS signals. In that case race conditions can happen by interrupt handlers. Bare metal embedded system programmers often have big headaches because of this.

2. JS implementations and JS API design can have race condition bugs. So JS API designers have to consider it. One of example is because of the order of queuing tasks/handlers. [1]

[1]: https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-record/issues/150#issuec...
But I'm telling you people!, the earth revolves around the sun.
---Burn him!!!!

We're currently swallowing the Scaled Agile Framework pill and I honestly think that it's cause maybe 3 serious episode of depression and burnout in 7 person team.

We failed a sprint a while back. No one knew you could do that until we did.

So at least we're learning.
> Ridiculous scoping rules

That's fair, but Python definitely causes its share of confusion there as well. If anything, Perl's scoping (in modern perl5 with warnings and strict) is one of the nicest I've had the pleasure of working with in a scripting language: closures Just Work (tm), and having the choice of dynamic scopes when you need them is quite powerful.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Why did Christianity gain acceptance in the first place? People believe in Christianity not out of fear, but out of hope. Atheism doesn't provide any hope, comfort or love. Just the brutal reality that this life is all there is and that there's no point to the pain suffered in this life. Atheists kill themselves because they have no hope that things will ever improve. That they're utterly alone and always will be. Christians know they are never alone and that at least one person will always love them, even if nobody else ever does.

You're thinking about Christianity like it's something evil. You might have a better time of it if you think of Christianity as the firmware that runs western civilization.
Where is the "Would you like to install the app" header?
And can someone please fix the garbage fire iTunes desktop UI? It makes zero sense for the "description" bubble to be some tiny 20 character wide chat bubble for podcasts.
Is that the same type of moral speech as he did when he said "Privacy is fundamental human right" and then gave keys to iCloud to Chinese government some time later?

He's a CEO of a multi-billion publicly traded corporation. Content warning applies for everything he (or any such CEO/PR service) says.
I've met plenty of direct-talking Germans who wouldn't be mistaken for assholes.
The “parenting happiness gap” is real, new research confirms
> the result is the same regardless of evaluation order, but the implementations (and performance characteristics) are different. You could handwave it away by arguing that they’re “morally equivalent”, but I think it pays to be precise about properties like commutativity of actions.

You have to decide whether they're equivalent or they're not, and if they're not equivalent (for your purposes) you probably shouldn't provide both instances. If you implement <hnmarkupisbad> and ap but they're not equivalent, a future maintainer will get a nasty surprise sooner or later.
Yeah but management consultants can't sell that as easily as they can sell a pre packaged "agile" solution like they do with SCRUM. Fundamentally, agile requires processes that are at odds with traditional management, so companies that sell buzzwords to traditional management aren't going to push anything that requires real behavioral change from the senior team.
This is a double edge sword. We complain about too many adverts on sites, and we complain about paywalls. Without ads or paywalls, how do big sites pay for themselves? If you want quality reporting, then someone has to pay those reporters a fair wage for their skill set.

As much as I'd like 'information to be free' we do not yet live in a 'Star Trek' world where money no longer has any meaning, and where people produce 'stuff' purely for the benefit of themselves and others.

Until we reach that utopia (or dystopia depending on your view) you can't have your cake and eat it; It's Ads or Paywalls, pick one.
There is a reason why most sight-impaired people, at least those I know, prefer light-on-dark. A bright background blurs out the foreground and makes reading hard. Dark-on-light only makes sense when switching between paper and screen frequently.

To me, dark-on-light becomes increasingly hard to read as I grow older. So much so that I have disabled CSS in my browser entirely.
Whether or not clearing cookies would count as bypassing is an interesting question, because Adblockers themselves are legal. The specific BILD case is about blocking and disabling a tool to detect adblockers, in which case it fully denies access to the article.

Ie, the anti-anti-adblock is actively interfering with the site's function on the client side.

Cookies and referer are handled on the server-side and outside the user's control.

I would question if the last sentences of 95a apply to setting a referer and clearing cookies. They are more closer to tampering with computer system (263a).
> Car companies can't even get cameras around all the body to avoid accidental scratches during parking.

This has been a feature introduced by most car companies in the last ten or so years.

By the way, I don't think any Tesla car has this.
Retreading $1000 Tires [video]
It is useful to be aware and as such it is good to know the effectiveness of each action.

Going car-less for a year is similar to going vegan for three years or doing 3 crossing of the Atlantic by plane. Switching over to buy exclusively "green energy" is almost twice as effective in reducing CO² emission compared to a vegan diet per year. All those are high impact changes, while home energy efficiency improvements are medium to low impact changes, with wall insulation estimated to be about 50% compared to eating less meat and up to 10th compared to a vegan diet.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7541
so treat the new employee the same as the employees who have been in the company for a few years and have written a lot of the systems and have internalised the business domain/company setup/system architecture & troubleshooting?

unless a company is rewriting the same 10 input form over & over again, I don't think that will work out great for anyone.
Actually, speaking of Australia - as 20% of Australians are apparently descended from convicts shipped there from the UK shouldn't Austrialia be suffering from terrible levels of crime?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convicts_in_Australia

NB As far as I can tell it isn't.... :-)
That's a bizarre interpretation which isn't compatible with the law as it's written or enforced.
The article does briefly discuss a slightly more accurate version of that definition, and why it's bad (it's convoluted and relies on the poorly-defined kilogram).
https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall
> Now retirees are the economic engine.

There are two sides to that as well, however.

It's not just the few retirees that have a high pension which cause this... It's also the majority of young people not employed in tech getting increasingly shitty wages
The (c) is not colloquial question-begging (or at least not intended so), these aspects (risk-seeking behavior and impulse control) are very specific personality traits that are measurable and have been studied quite much, as they are important for sociology, behavioral economics, etc.

These personality traits (like most personality traits, really) have a clear genetic component. I would consider this as settled science. For a single example, studies show that varieties of dopamine receptor D4 gene (DRD4) influence financial risk-taking propensity, impulsivity (e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1781951/), and pathological gambling. As far as we assume causal relationship from impulsivity and pathological gambling to risk of crime (likely there are studies for that, but I'm not going to look now, this seems a reasonable assumption), this implies that this is one more (of many!) genetic factors that have some (small) influence on the likelihood of committing crimes.

Coming back to your specific objections, can you elaborate the what your issue is with "broad claims about genetic determinism" here? I'm not seeing any serious claims of actual genetic determinism (i.e. that it's "all nature") in this thread, I'm only seeing objections to a "no nature" argument, claims that there is no genetic component. The current established scientific opinion is that the vast majority of personality traits are determined by genetic factors (including e.g. epigenetics) and environmental/social factors and individual variation, with all of these influences being intertwined and each of them constituting a major part of the influence. And this is not limited to extreme cases (i.e. particular genetic disorders), but to all the normal variation of human behavior.
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This is when a team leader is helpful. He would say "Frank, I see that the bug that you are working is in the datafile handler. I know that Jill has has some experience in this area. Frank, could Jill provide some assistance here?"
Offering help: Hey, it's 10pm I'm about to head home for the night so I can login and zero out my inbox. Anything you need from me before I leave?

Giving help: Hey, it's 8pm and I noticed it's getting late. Do you need any help with that task you've been struggling with?

Actual help: Hey it's 4:30 and I'm heading home. If you need anything please let me know.