skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the ineffectiveness of sanctions, why is doing nothing not an option? Doing something just for the sake of doing it is bad foreign policy and weakens soft power. Even as it benefits people who propose the action so as to appear to be doing something.
Can someone enlighten me as to why these are always hung from the ceiling?
Yet if you look at places where education seems less broken, it has nothing to do with tech or startups. Quite the opposite.
To non-gamers, Steam looks kinda wacky - there's crazy popups, really intense graphics, nonstandard UIs, and it has to update most times it launches. It's also blocked on lots of networks - businesses, schools, etc. I personally love Steam and its craziness, but that's the main reason - HTC wants Vive to become mainstream and to capitalize on other uses for VR besides gaming.
Well that sucks.

[hahaha! get it? "sucks"? like vacuum sucks? hahaha]

[ahem]
It turns out that effectively separating dependencies is a huge part of building a product.

This is like saying you really want to swim but you don’t want to get wet.
Have a look at videos of jets blowing vans off the runway and you get an idea of how powerful the sucking is. A bird would get sucked through a chainlink fence in front of the engine.

Also you'd be reducing the efficiency of the engine all the time, which would add up over hundreds of trips.
Interesting that so many others in this thread experience the same side effects on their learning capabilities caused by even just a few drinks and/or lack of sleep. I feel significantly slower and much more mentally "foggy" for days after I drink more than 1-2 drinks in a sitting. I'm definitely still a social drinker, but this affirms my opinion that I need to further reduce my alcohol consumption (preferably remove it altogether).
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Do you usually kill all that you love for some fleeting pleasure, when pretty healthy alternatives are available?
If you don’t understand the role of Iran in funding terror groups such as Hezbollah or their long, long history of terror support, notwithstanding their overt threats to “push Israel into the sea,” then explaining how it isn’t just about “selling telecom equipment” isn’t worth the time it would take.
> What tools do we have available to us to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons and persuade bad actors?

Why would a country sitting on the largest nuclear stockpile in the world consider nuclear proliferation a bad thing?

After all, I am frequently told that MAD prevents wars, no?
Your Medium link didn't work -- here it is after a google search:

https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why...
Big companies have an extraordinary ability to overlook what small competitors are good at. Instead of thinking, "This company is setting a new competitive standard that we don't know how to meet," they attribute it to immaturity and lack of scale. I worked for a company that got acquired by a Fortune 10 company, and the people from the "mothership" were downright smug and condescending when they heard how fast we expected to do things, because clearly we were not doing things right if we thought we could them done that fast.

I bet when Amazon's fulfillment speed was brought up as a competitive advantage, the Sears execs looked at some spreadsheets, did some calculations, and said, "This is stupid. They're losing a ton of money shipping stuff so fast. They won't get far before some adults take over and force them to smarten up."
Not quite the same use case, but in some cases, XOD might be a good alternative.

https://xod.io/
It has caused us failures as lambdas have scaled up as it is quite easy to hit a rate limit.
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Thanks, I'll look out for that. @tapland and @jgibson also mention that mobile networks often outsource running the infra.

In any case - I agree with you that this seems like a shitty legal pseudo-loophole. At the very least the company you sign mobile contract with needs to share your phone number with those infra subsidies. But then according to GDPR: "15. 1. The data subject shall have the right to (...) access to the personal data and the following information: (...) (c) the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed". Following this rule one should be able to reach the bottom of the data processing chain.
You're assuming that all your unencrypted data fits in memory. For most of us, that's not the case.
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Yeah, it's as if they're saying the like to be anchored and that unencumbered inquiry is bad. That means that there could be many things left unexamined because they might go against current morality, etc. That does not seem to be free thinking. Definitely philosophy would not be able to advance, if they abided by Slate's principles.

Obviously Slate can do as they wish, but to paint the other as inferior because they have a different outlook seems petty.

But, for a moment, what if all inquiry before 1970 (or go back to 1870) abided by "morality, fundamental policy, etc." we would not be where we are today.
Why does it have to be this company maximizing market share? Releasing the IP would allow others to do that as well, likely increasing the overall meatless share.
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This. This is huge for me as well. There is definitely a societal expectation to drink in certain situations, and if you don't, you're viewed as one of the un-cool guys. Probably another thing that will require change at the leadership level to be really corrected over time.
I'm glad it turned up on HN.
That wouldn't really prevent larger objects from entering, it would just slice them up on entry.
I remember that what became NewEgg opened a brick and mortar store for (mostly) software and such (some hardware) in the suburb of Seattle that I lived in at the time, then a year or two later shifted entirely to online. They pivoted //hard// and made it work.

I don't think Sears could have done quite that, but keeping the catalog and 'order to the store for free (long time) shipping' / 'delivery to home with paid shipping' would have been a much better move and SHOULD have been within their grasp to understand and execute on. All the more so if a customer could look at clothing styles and options and order slight variants or harder to get sizes from the catalog.
So how did you make sure they weren't meat?

That's a problem I would see for vegetarian. That mostly involves trust. A similar scenario already happens with halal and kosher food though.
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People also buy more of things. Before, you saved up $800 for a 35” console tv.

Today, you buy a $199 tv for every bedroom, living room, man cave, etc in the house

We have way, way more possessions than our parents, and especially grandparents did.
Probably not often because software companies don't care about PEs and because Stanford CS graduates are unlikely to apply for positions in non-CS fields (unless they also have an education in those fields).

But yes, there are a lot of jobs out there that even Stanford CS graduates aren't qualified for.

Note: the patent bar's eligibility rules have special exemptions for CS degrees that are not ABET accredited but do satisfy other criteria, so many Stanford CS graduates will automatically qualify for the patent bar based upon those alternative standards. But that doesn't mean the patent bar doesn't care about accreditation.

And it's worth noting that any institution with a half-decent reputation has some form of accreditation. Again, this was the second point of my post -- accreditation is actually does do a very good job at over-approximating the set of educational institutions whose degrees mean something.
Is anyone reading the updated article?

> Court allows Chairman Eddie Lampert another chance to buy Sears, pushing off decision to shut stores
We had a BEST for a while. It’s an ice rink now. IKEA has a very similar experience.
Drones could easily fly in above the effective ceiling for birdshot anyway. A drone at 500m will easily interfere with flight paths and is well above the range of shotguns.
It's not illegal to brew your own alcohol, and it's easy to get started, it's just difficult and time-consuming to do well.

(Although it is illegal to distill without a licence).
It doesn't just _look_ like income. It is income. If I give you $100 as a loan then change my mind and say 'you can have it', you just made $100.
That occurred years after Hauwei and Meng's actions. You're referencing future events.

Since you already have the list, go back and click on each of the sanctions the UN passed before then.. and you'll see China voted in favor.
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How does changing the paying method change the roles in the transaction? At worst (eg financing a car or house) it adds a new role, but customer remains the same.

If there's an issue, it seems to me it's the fact that students shouldn't be treatef like customers, specially by the State.

How will you ensure that your private interest are aligned with individuals, and society needs

How is the current system achieving that?
I'm not sure how to break this to you, but supersonic flight isn't an up and coming technology.

It's decades old, and it's failed for economic reasons.

Climate scientists worrying about the impacts of supersonic flight would be like Ornithologists looking to spot dinosaurs in the wild.
Any proof they were honoring it?

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/opinion/tehran-nuclear-sa...
Sears was intionally gutted, flipped to make a few people money. This is not news. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-eddie-lampert-set-sears-u...
Living in a dorm is not very common in Australia - atleast this was my experience in Sydney. I did not have many friends who lived on campus. Most students commute from home, and among my circle of friends most of us lived with our families.
actually it doesn't identify each card uniquely, it only counts them.
This is what I find astonishing.

If a car is on fire in a normal street, half the people just stop to take photos or start live streaming it (this happened in Melbourne recently).

How did no one pull out their phone and take any pictures?

People takes photos of airports and planes all the time because it’s so different from day-to-day stuff.

It seems implausibly unlikely that both no one took photos and no one shared them online.
The intelligence value of this is enormous. For locating the source of audiotapes and video sometimes the only thing you have to go on is bird sounds because people are smart enough to hide everything but forget that.

The CIA has consistently recruited or been very close to the world’s best ornithologist since the very early 50’s.

I can’t remember the exact context, but in Tim Weiner’s book “Legacy of Ashes” there is a humorous moment where when a division of the CIA is being shuttered, the ornithonologist on staff declares after hearing the news: “well I guess it’s back to those goddamn birds”.
For many things that is an issue.

But I still buy laptops and other electronics from Amazon.
The Workspace offices I've been in have been a lot quieter than the WeWork one I was in -but- a lot of that would come down to lower density, inter-office walls made of concrete instead of glass, etc. (although the shared areas seemed generally quieter too but I didn't spend much time there.)
> OK, so, basically, you have 4 acts, right? Why not call it a 4-act structure?

Because there's a fairly concrete distinction between acts in stage plays, and that's how plays using the structure are tradition broken up (act divisions in film and novels are often more metaphor than concrete, so, yeah, without the stage precedent, it would make more sense to name it for the four parts, two of which are jammed together in the three-act model.)

> And you still don't know how to structure them.

Yes, you do; the general “shape” of the structure had been described in detail for a long time; the three-act structure isn't just “a beginning, middle, and end”, it's a very particular shape (the Wikipedia page is a good brief description, but their are good sized books covering it in detail.)

> It is written for action-packed short stories, obviously, but describes pretty well the structure of most Hollywood successes, too.

Not really; it's got a lot of genre and form specific but, though it's certainly not entirely useless outside of that focus. The Writer's Journey is better for describing the shape of Hollywood successes (Save the Cat does so even more precisely for recent ones, providing very close to a minute-by-minute breakdown.)
> eye-catching design

> To design IBM Q System One, IBM assembled a world-class team of industrial designers, architects, and manufacturers

> ...industrial and interior design studios...

> ...manufacturer of high-end museum display cases...

They are absolutely talking about the aesthetic housing design, not the actual quantum engineering designs. About the closest they get in the Design section is talking about it being airtight and accessible for maintenance.
>>But I did it at SMC at night for basically free (I think $140 or so), and she paid a couple grand for the privilege at UCLA

So the same professor taught at both the community college and the university. Which would make it essentially the same course.
With the exception of fighting malaria, I've never before heard of using pesticide for non-agricultural purposes :(
I am not. There are some of us who disagree "Wayland is the future". Some of us believe Xorg is great, tried and tested through many battles over the last 20 years. I have no intention or interest in switching to Wayland in the near future, too.
Chickens are coming home to roost, finally. This is probably just the beginning.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18861184

"Predatory male scientists abound in such numbers that it would be a Sisyphean task to devote a series of essays to describing their abuses in painful detail; even as this article was heading off to press, pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple women. In addition to cataloguing the trespasses of individual scientists who abuse the cultural power of their position, we have to dismantle the structures that have allowed their abuses to continue with little to no disruption. Just for starters, this means abandoning the myth that the science can be separated from the scientist."
Australians tend to stay in the same city for college, so room and board are generally not required. Most students live at home with their parents. All students have access to government assistance in the form of centrelink [1] (though centrelink is a beauracratic pain to get through), and out-of state students are entitled to more.

In terms cost, UNSW is one of the top universities in the country. (EDIT: this is an ambiguous sentence, I am sorry. I mean that UNSW is one of the top universities, and cost is still lower than many US universities) I understand that US college can be done on the cheap, but it's definitely not the norm. You can always find work arounds I'm sure, but I was just emphaising that going to a top uni for this price sans-hassle is very much the norm here.

On top of this, it's important to note that even minimum wage jobs here pay pretty well (the highest by buying power in the world [2]). Thus, even if you are doing university and working part time you can do ok.

[1] https://www.humanservices.gov.au/individuals/subjects/paymen...
[2] https://money.cnn.com/interactive/economy/top-10-national-mi...
If Microsoft had “won” in Mobile by licensing Windows Mobile, where would it have gotten them? Google “won over” OEMs and got a whopping $21 billion in profit over eight years for their trouble.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...

There was speculation that Microsoft made more from Android for years from patents than Google made.

Besides, Microsoft is still making pretty good money on mobile by targeting developers with Azure and tools like Xamarin
Ask HN: Alternatives to a cell phone for spontaneous communication
After years of reading articles like [0], I’m finally considering getting rid of my cell phone. However, I still like being able to call and text people out of range of a free Wi-Fi network. What are my options for achieving this? Are there companies building something in this space?

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18857220
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The United States also ignored the results of the IAEA's nuclear weapon investigation in Iraq, and invaded them anyway [0]. The United States never found any nuclear weapons, and sentiment of the appropriate subject matter experts today still remains that there were never any nuclear weapons.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War#Pre-war_events
As someone who has worked with a couple data aggregation startups, I find it surprising I am unaware of the laws that classify it as private info(or even the legal definition of what "private info" is).

With that said, I am certainly not a lawyer and was never directly involved. Which particular laws are you referring to?

Edit: I should mention I am aware of laws preventing the collection of certain types of data. But unaware of laws about possession of that data.
It’s not commonly used that way, but does have the same meaning in American English as well.
By now, I think fizzbuzz has been around enough that people know it, have heard of it, and prepare enough to solve it.
I have started using variations of fizzbuzz or additional questions that builds on it and I find myself catching people who only know the fizzbuzz portion.
We try hard to not dismiss them out of hand.

The issue template we use does try to steer the user to the forum or slack if it isn't a specific issue. But if they don't read the template and continue to raise an issue regardless, we will generally provide help in the issue and encourage them to use the other channels in the future.

One of the main reasons we prefer the general support type questions to be handled on the forum is the community on the forum is much larger than those paying attention to the github issue list. Someone asking a question on the forum will get a response much quicker than the issue list. It also takes the pressure off the core development team who ultimately, are only human.

Yes we could use labels and have the issue list as a mix of support, feature development tasks and genuine bugs. But we choose not to use it that way.
Pixel 2 XL also

What else have you tried?
As others have pointed out there are generally two flavors of 'web developers' and I've been on both sides. Having worked at agencies, with outsourced talent, and building web apps with modern tools; there seems to be a divide between the self-taught and the educated.

I got a BS in Entrepreneurship and Innovation and all my web development learning and experience came from my own projects or on the job. It's been difficult for me to find an engineering or product management position despite having experience (one phone interview for ~25 applications). There's definitely more I can do on my part however this isn't unique to me.

Perhaps the fact that many companies have switched to automated screening systems to filter out all the junk resumes has made it harder to get interviews? To answer your question, the need in the market is there and if you are patient, your risk should be rewarded.
Yes, and if college loans were dischargeable upon bankruptcy, the interest would be even higher (to account for the greater risk).
While it feels odd to be advocating surveillance, a massive network of UAVs equipped with infrared imaging would be very useful here.

Have that same network double as forest fire early warning, and it'd probably pay for itself.
Agreed. Although as someone who has studied in both the US and Aus (did an exchange semester at Georgia tech), I'd say that living on campus does have some benefits, socially and academically.
That’s that’s not the point of that paragraph - the advice there is still just as useless for anyone who might actually need It.
It would also probably be worse getting those instructions from someone who totally ignores how difficult it is to actually follow them.
UN sanctions were only on nuclear weapon related items. They were breaking US led (EU accepted those as well) sanctions on banking.

It's says so in the new report above.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_Iran
although wikipedia, it clearly states UN had no banking restrictions over iran from 2006.
"I do not consider animal ... deserving of rights" is pretty much as close to "I don't want animals to have rights" as you can get.
> Is it stepped at all? Do you owe nothing before 50k and then once you cross that threshold you now owe money? That would seem to incentivise staying below that threshold for a percentage of borrowers.

Once you earn over the threshold your HELP repayments apply to your entire income. So, yes, at low incomes you get a pretty significant tax increase when you cross the threshold. I think they should make it marginal like regular income tax is...

https://www.studyassist.gov.au/paying-back-your-loan/loan-re...
This. You might not need it, but the more paradigms you learn, the more easily you’ll be able to learn a new language for work. Once you’ve got the main paradigms down, learning a new language is basically just learning the syntactical idiosyncrasies.
Popularity/affluence and being ostracized aren't mutually exclusive: https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/23/can-things-be-both-pop...
Your viable alternative is on the way

https://www.fastcompany.com/40559474/this-salmon-burger-tast...

https://primeroots.com/

Disclaimer: I am a cofounder of this company, we have recently rebranded to Prime Roots from Terramino
And the chance of successfully doing so is incredibly low, and meanwhile you're out all the computational resources you spent on your private chain that ends up being thrown out.

You'd be better off simply placing big bets at a casino
I love how so many nerdy dudes instinctively side with whomever is accused of sexual harassment, or using slurs.

I suppose it's the outcome of years and years of "playing devil's advocate" in an attempt to appear more interesting than you are, turning into an actual entire personality.
Hey folks, I'm the founder of DTC and have self-funded (and much engineered) the project over the last year. With the polarization of news and social media, I wanted to create a social impact startup that focused on bringing people together to talk about the hardest things in society.

The problem I found with platforms like FB and Twitter is they lack the human element... you can't feel the other person or even really understand their tone. For talking about politics, these qualities are immensely important to forming a connection, and this connection is key to help persuade others to understanding facts or even just reaching a compromise. However, it's a challenge to get people to talk face-to-face because the political polarization is also a geographical phenomenon. So Dinnertable.chat tries to create a whimsical, playful environment where people can get matched to have live conversations about difficult topics, while still keeping some privacy (no video chat).

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Sadly they don't work like income tax. If you go into the next bracket, you owe the new rate on your entire income.
There are and were different groups of people who existed there and considered that land their homeland.
In the late 90s there was Bolt.com, a social network very similar to Facebook and similar sites we have today.

It died in the early 00s. Within a couple years, MySpace and Facebook and others walked on stage and here we are.