skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if, had he asked a lawyer before going to Korea, he could have found this out at all? Knowing that Korea has conscription, it wouldn't have been a stupid thing to do, to try to get this 100% clear.

But if the crucial piece of the puzzle was what some 2nd cousin scribbled on some form in another country, it's possible that there was no way to find this out before travelling. The US lawyer would have had his US birth certificate, and given advice based on that. Could the Korean embassy grant you a letter confirming that you are not Korean? I sort-of think you'd be laughed out for asking.
A much simpler concept is that you pay for the trash that you don't recycle.

Switzerland recycles 93% of all glass bottles(color sorted by consumers) and 83% of all PET bottles. Everything else has to be burned in a plant with minimal emission to recycle energy. PET recycling is financed by a fee of around 2 cents per bottle that every manufacturer has to pay.
The "eastern Europeans" rant was a cheap shot. Germany's and most other wealthy EU countries' problems are mostly self inflicted, but it's always easier to blame "those Eastern Europeans" because it's politically corect.
None of the images are shown, due to mixed-content rotection, since this page uses (and redirects to) HTTPS, but the links to the images are HTTP links.

(What is extra silly is that the image links themselves redirect to HTTPS!)
Some small towns like Bundanoon [1] have banned water bottles, but in no way have water bottles been banned across NSW.

There has been a push from leading supermarkets Coles and Woolworths to ban single use plastic bags, with great success. But that's a private matter, not from the government. Other states have banned them, but not NSW. [2]

[1] https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/bundanoon-in-wo...

[2] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-03/supermarket-ban-sees-...
Academia called, they want their quantum theory back. Particularly the parts that enabled transistor-based electronics.
I was very much considered increasing the duration of my course to 3 years. But that would mean I would spend euro 15k more. It would have been ideal to price the courses based on number of credits you take, but that sadly wasn't the case.
Wouldn't holding it regularly near a strong air-blower/sucker suffice?
Yast was never good. I still have nightmares of it happily overwriting and destroying my configuration on several occasions. No warnings shown or questions asked.
How to build a distributed throttling system with Nginx, Lua, and Redis
Most people could use more fiber in their diet.
What? If you're a web developer and don't know how to use them, then you're not a very good one.
Surprised by this. I thought Sketch was doing well for itself.
I think if manufacturing process changes significantly (lord help laywers define "significantly") it should be considered a fraud to not notify customers in clear and explicit manner.
Expensive support contracts, and in case of SUSE, some add-on software channels that come with the contracts (SLES for SAP, High Availability, Containers, etc.) being locked away behind paywall.
Work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.
Looks like a modern version of lobotomy. How can anyone say this is in any way ethical or moral ?
> Acton told Forbes that he left over a dispute with Facebook regarding monetization of WhatsApp, and voluntarily left $850 million in unvested options on the table by leaving a few months before vesting was completed.
(Source: Wikipedia)

I am not even sure what this means but it does not change the fact that he co-founded whatsapp and he did sell it to Facebook in 2014 and it was very clear even back then that they had no good intentions. Also, he IS filthy rich even without these 850 million.
Analysis of what is happening on the Boeing 737 Max
Sure Silicon Valley is great for raising money but it's horrible for running and scaling a business. Why undergo all that overhead? Create a real business in a place you can find talent and sustain. You can always travel or have a presence in SV to raise money. Thoughts?
I'm much like you- with a new fitbit charge 3. The thing is positively addictive. I still wear a sailing watch for sailing, but for everything else I use the fitbit, especially for heartrate when I work out and for sleep tracking, which seems pretty good). I can go 5 days or so before I recharge it, but I've never let it go until it was dead so I don't know how much I can push it.
One of the things I enjoy about his renditions is how much you can discover (and re-discover) about a piece. Dvorak's 9th symphony, for example, which lends itself a lot to personal interpretation, has a lot of variety in its renditions, but few are as haunting and expressive as Celibidache's. After I heard it for the first time, all the others seemed a little bland, even Karajan's.

He was not the most conventional of conductors, but he certainly enriched the world of music through his activity.

As for his personal views and his personal life... one of the first painful lessons I was taught about music is that admiration for one's art is best kept confined to art. It's tempting to think that someone who created beautiful art is a great person. Oftentimes they're not.

Back in high school, I was not just really passionate about music (which I still am), but I also had way more free time than I have now, so I did the whole teenage band thing. I got to meet a bunch of musicians from the local scene, some of them of modest international fame, at least within their genre. I quickly learned that many of the people that I genuinely admired were major assholes. And this assholery, I have found, crosses all kinds of borders. It spans every music genre, every kind of music education, every gender.
I'm a bit confused, if NSA mission is to be able to spy on other counties' military operations, why wouldn't that include the ability to intercept communications coming from outside the country or information going out from suspected spys? What I'm saying is the facility in NYC is not at all surprising, there are a ton of fiber cables that come in from overseas into NYC. Anyone with half a brain about internet infrastructure and has ever read any of the mission directives or legal authorities of NSA will realize exactly what they're doing there. That is looking at cyber operations/attacks coming into the country and looking for covert communications from people who are trying to influence our government for their foreign government's military or economic benefit.

Also, for what it is worth, NSA is also pretty important in ensuring weapons proliferation and military equipment movements (which helps indicate possibly wars, covert actions or invasions) using measurements of various types to track nuclear, biological and other weapons. That is fairly essential for upholding and enforcing international laws and treaties.

Finally I'm also confused when people say "domestic" tracking. Basically the NSA had databases they could look at if given legal authority to do so (meaning they think someone is a spy and show evidence of that) to see interactions between a person and other people (who they call, how often, where their phone is, etc). Apparently it seems now they just have to request or, like anyone else, buy that data from the telecoms instead of it being in house.
Iron is a nutrient, though.
First you need to distinguish paid vs. non-paid variants.

Suse has SLES and IBM has RHEL. I am not in the position to compare them.

The non-paid variants are OpenSUSE vs. CentOS. One big difference there is the support life.
CentOS 6 with an ancient 2.6.32 kernel and upstart came out 2011 and is still supported. OpenSUSE releases are supported ~ 1.5 years. There are different opinions whether upgrading from one OpenSUSE release to the next one should be done or not. I typically prefer new installations because they result in cleaner systems. But I also upgraded once an it was painless.
First step is Refuse.
Refuse to buy anything that has unnecessary packaging.
Otherwise Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

I started bringing my own containers when shopping for groceries. Reduce my trash to 4-5 kilo per week.
So in a hypothetical situation where all people except one are wiped out, then that one remaining person is not a person?
Tbh I see that sort of academia as tantamount to abuse or exploitation.

A close friend was a nueroscientist. I got to watch her PI push her into 70 hour weeks and then guilt trip her for not doing more. I watched her PI extend her PhD for a year so she could contribute more to other projects, and then I watched them selectively drop data (and IMO make up results) so that they could publish on schedule.

Some parts of academia are so ludicrously bureaucratic that folks literally focus on box ticking for years at a time. That’s bound to happen because beaurocracy forces a path of least resistance that is essentially box ticking.
Stop Managing Your Time – Question Your Priorities Instead
You do realize that "cloud" doesn't mean the services are running in water vapour up in the sky, right? There are real computers with real operating systems running beneath all those trendy virtualization concepts.

One of those operating systems is SUSE Linux.
It's actually a way to avoid the efficiency of the free market. Eventually in such a market you get to a point where prices are pretty much costs due to pressure from competitors. If you suddenly and secretly reduce the cost of manufacture you can make a large amount of money up to the point that the customers catch on. You can then use this money to do socially useful stuff like create new and better products (if you wan to keep the company brand), or simply keep the money and let the company run down. Really advanced companies use the money to entrench a monopoly using the standard anti-competitive techniques (another popular way of avoiding market efficiency).

This process is sometimes known as "harvesting the brand". It is a way of usefully exploiting your customer good will..
Greenwald is just one journalist among multiple intercept journalists. He is not leading or managing the group.
Impressive, but I'm not sure there aren't some class of objects that will give it a hard time. From The videos it seems that it needs to engulf the object and to do so the object must small enough and be well oriented. I'm not sure it will pass the remote or smartphone on the table test.
In this context no, burning is not reusing. The point of reduce-reuse-recycle is to reuse in its original form. For example: reuse a yogurt cup as leftovers storage, or a shoebox as a storage box.
Spending time to read the license + exceptions

More importantly: Trying to convince upper management that this license will be ok to use.
* Swiss Insurance Company Will Charge Higher Premiums For Lazy People | Popular Science || https://www.popsci.com/swiss-insurance-company-will-charge-h...
Pi Day: How One Irrational Number Made Us Modern
> Apple takes privacy and data safety seriously.

They might, but for the most valuable company in the world, they had plenty of mishaps recently, from logging APFS encryption password to allowing anyone to log in as root without a password.
Facebook removed 1.5M videos of the Christchurch attacks within 24 hours
You just described the local evening news. I wonder why anyone tunes in outside of being unable to find their remote to change the station.
I'm not sure that is right. From the proposition 's runs' I can validly infer that s exists. This does not commit me to the view that running is fundamental to s's personhood.

Similarly, the claim that if s thinks then s exists does not entail that a further claim that thinking is central to s's personhood.
And I must add Beck's bolero :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1hijzkOrnk
Payer relations?

Does this mean insurance companies are interested in this heart rate data stream, and are making inferences from it? Are they already collecting it? Do any of these wearables provide this data to these companies without the user's express permission?

Is this a good thing?
>Linux worked out of the box. I had to install non-free drivers for the Broadcom wireless card, then tweak a few module options to get better power saving.

This is not, for the record, "working out of the box".
> Uruguayan law says you retain your citizenship even if you renounce it in order to obtain another.

Not sure I understand this. When you renounce a citizenship, you file renunciation papers with the government of the country in question. If you are abroad, you do it with the embassy if that country. Renunciation is a explicit, unambiguous legally binding step recognized by the country in question.

Once approved, you lose that citizenship. How does one still retain citizenship, assuming the renunciation succeeds?

Unless you’re talking about assumed loss of citizenship by taking on another citizenship?
> Accused of Muslim genocide

has been exposed as a furphy time and again. The claim deliberately ignores trigger for the riots to mischaracterise the events as a planned one. The immense anger was caused by the burning of a train compartment of Hindu pilgrims by local Muslims who blocked the exits and set fire to the train.

> Master in harnessing FUD tactics and social media:

what is this, you are accusing him of using the tech tools at everyones disposal competently and extrapoloate it to FUD tactics

> Friend of big corporates

Making sure businesses have a better environment to function is now bad. Cutting down red tape is now helping corporates?

> Doesn't believe in democracy:

so a murder is one state that he isn't in control of is pinned on him as anti-democratic. This in a country of 1300 million people.

looking at the progress in the investigation and the freedom to highlight the case shows democracy is alive and thriving.
Hartz4 while living in the countryside? That’s pretty much synonymous of dead end hopeless downward spiral.
I thought he was brute-forcing phone card pins with wardialers?
As a recruiter I can answer this! I do not speak for all recruiters. As a recruiter who is also a programmer, my approach may be nonstandard.

* I want to see thoughtful README files. If the README is whatever was generated default by the framework and not edited at all, that's a huge groan and turn off and you lose tons of strength (credibility) as a candidate.

* I want to see your code looking pretty. Consistent indentation, run through a linter, good comments, and so forth. Would I be able to contribute to and maintain this code?

That's pretty much it. The most important thing that companies want to see is employment history, either at brand name companies or somewhere where you've already been doing the job they're hiring for.
Can it grab a pebble that lies on a flat surface?

Or would the gripper get stuck to the surface?

(Not sure if the suction is used only to deform the gripper or also to attach to the object)
> Apple doesn’t charge developers for providing worldwide distribution across hundreds of app stores.

Yes they do, publishing on the App Store isn't free. Also, they favor some apps they don't compete with, (Uber), while handicapping others, (Spotify). Hardly fair.
Shhh. Apparently people don't like to hear about an ethical group of investigative journalists. They only want to focus on the ones tied to Assange.
Barack Obama put it nicely I think:

"We have to assume that if a system is perfect, then it’s static. And part of what makes us who we are, and part of what makes us alive, is that we’re dynamic and we’re surprised. One of the challenges that we’ll have to think about is, where and when is it appropriate for us to have things work exactly the way they’re supposed to, without surprises?"
How much does it weight?
I have to agree with this. There is a distinction.
Might it be possible for them to ship models with castrated Management Engine and Mic/Radio killswitches?
Do they have as Shenzhen manufacturing company/aquaintance any more leverage to take re-liberating measures on their boards?
Do we need more open-source Google surveillance software?
Yeah but after that, he never had any problem with it, except sleep mode cutting wifi sometimes. Or bluetooth not pairing. Or the battery lasting half as expected.

Nothing that a few commands can't fix. Zero maintenance.
They removed the API to get the exact battery capacity/charge.
>Academia is a path finding strategy through a forest where most paths are dead-ends.

That's just describing hard problem solving in general, it's not specific to academia at all.
So a race to the bottom then?

In any case, that definition is too Orwellian. That is, today's entertainment should not be passed off as journalism; by definition it is not (journalism).

Not to sound harsh, but that's the equivalent of calling op-ed news; Taco Bell fine dining; or an elected official leadership. We can't allow the wrong words to be used (and the right ones abused) and expect to get the downstream discussions right.
It’s more that private clinics in Europe are i) competing with free and ii) don’t have the same incentives to have crazy out of pocket prices which insurance companies negotiate down. So just turning up and paying for private care is a lot cheaper.
शीघ्रपतन क्या होता है?
शीघ्र गिर जाने को शीघ्रपतन कहते हैं। सेक्स के मामले में यह शब्द वीर्य के स्खलन के लिए प्रयोग किया जाता है। पुरुष की इच्छा के विरुद्ध उसका वीर्य अचानक स्खलित हो जाए, स्त्री सहवास करते हुए संभोग शुरू करते ही वीर्यपात हो जाए और पुरुष रोकना चाहकर भी वीर्यपात होना रोक न सके, अधबीच में अचानक ही स्त्री को संतुष्टि व तृप्ति प्राप्त होने से पहले ही पुरुष का वीर्य स्खलित हो जाना या निकल जाना, इसे शीघ्रपतन होना कहते हैं। इस व्याधि का संबंध स्त्री से नहीं होता, पुरुष से ही होता है और यह व्याधि सिर्फ पुरुष को ही होती है।
Subject is a much older, and so much more convenient term than citizen, what with the laters’ implications of rights and freedoms.
> Battery life is a little over 4 hours with the flush battery (55Wh) and 6-7 hours with the extended battery (80Wh).

Not going to lie, that’s pretty horrible.

> Battery life would increase by 50% if I got PC6 or PC8 idle states. The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack.

lol. One of the things that really drives me nuts is my computer’s fan turning on when I know really shouldn’t be. I have lived and worked with people for whom having their fan randomly turn on for no reason is completely normal, and I just can’t understand how they can bear it. If this happens to me, you can bet I’m digging through Activity Monitor and killing the culprit before the fans can get fully ramped up.
Oh, memories! Does Suse still use yast or did they replace it?
That one not so much; it only counts if it has significant upvoting/front page exposure/discussion.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20dupe%20significant%2...
> Apple doesn’t keep track of where your device has been.

The iPhone certainly does keep track of where it has been. There was even a scandal about it a few years back. It may not upload it to Apple's servers yet, but that's only a matter of shifting strategy and a software update away.
nearly 500 votes, top of show, but chrome web store shows zero users. I don't think popularity on hn anymore indicates product market fit.
I loved the thinkpads. Had most of them. Keyboard was the best.
Environmental stress contributes to obesity and diabetes (2015)
Show HN: Tomato Bot – Gain faster feedback for your tests, in GitHub
Google launches app campaign features to help mob
Spotify responds to Apple, calling it a ‘monopolist’
I was interested in the hassle for making a payment and buying something from China. Counter to my view of how the world is supposed to work. Payment hassles probably due to buying from a small group of enthusiasts, not a large company.

I haven’t done business directly with anyone in China for a number of years (I helped a student on a project about 10 years ago and a media company had me write a simple machine learning model for them) but them paying me was easy, just used PayPal.

Buying not rebranded Chinese electronics interests me, because of potential lower cost, as long as it is westernized in things like keyboard, etc. and has a year warranty. I have specifically been looking at products like GPD Pocket 2.
Isn't that by design?
... War Games, Pirates of Silicon Valley
I used to use SMC fan control on my older MacBook Pro to just run the fan at medium at all times. Definitely miss that you can't use it on the new touchbar MacBook pros.
The ratings are moving away from boring local TV news too. The audience is shrinking and moving to online sources. Local evening news is mainly controlled by the corporate owners, some news gets through but it's primarily a showcase for 3-4 stories from around larger markets.
The Eastern Block computers are completely missing:

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

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

Probably the most interesting: http://www.computer-museum.ru/english/setun.htm
>Descartes, teachers never do so.

When I was taught Descartes, the flimsiness of the whole 'cogito' thing was really emphasised. I actually don't think I've ever heard of anybody in the philosophy world who took the binding between personal existence and thought as any kind of raw fact, at least not in the terms Descartes proposed.

Most of the treatments I (vaguely) remember were about the interesting observation, implicit in the Meditations, that there's something unusual about existential predicates.

I think if you stop thinking of philosophy as a body of answers, and more as a body of in-depth examinations of questions, then it gets good again. It's a bit like maths - nobody would ever suggest that the concept of a Heesh number is an answer to a particular kind of question. It's more an interesting way to talk about tiling.
Where do you get 5:1? Maybe I don't know enough about heart disease but the numbers in the article seem pretty hard to parse.

It sounds like many of those who got a bleep from their iWatch subsequently had some effect detected by standard tests. But that isn't the right number. We don't necessarily know that we should treat everyone who fails standard tests. Especially if our previous knowledge about such tests was limited to patients where there was other evidence.
> The fan only turns on if I’m doing something intensive like compiling go or scrolling in Slack.

That’s intensive. And sad.
> Liouville's number 0.110001000000000000000001000 ... which has a one in the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 24th, etc. places and zeros elsewhere.

Note that this is actually the binary representation of this number; in base 10 this number is approximately 0.77: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liouville_number#The_existen.... Also note that the “ellipses” in this case are not at all obvious; stating that this is the factorial sequence or adding more terms would make this much clearer.
approx. 500.000 Berliners receive Hartz 4
I'm not convinced that the Github profile is for recruiters alone. As someone doing hiring at the company, I want to see it myself.

So what am I looking for? Clean code that's more than just boilerplate. Comments, good logic, some sense of purpose. There can be garbage repos in there, too, but I expect there to be some that show off who you are.

In short, they want to see who you are. If your Github isn't showing who you are, you're not helping yourself by providing it to the recruiter.
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Austria

All these countries throw less than 5% of their trash into landfills.

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/environment/environment-at-a-g...

Germany throws 0% of their waste into landfills.
Hilarious.

Of course, he mentioned no such problems. So please cease the straw man.
This reminds me of just how much I hate whoever came up with chiclet keyboards and ruined laptops forever.