skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have just over twenty remote workers internally and we use a mix. Full disclosure we are a service provider in this space, so I am just taking about what we do internally and freely admit I am biased because of the nature of our business.
1) For short term we engage some folks as independent contractors. They sign a freelance contract, they invoice us each month for their gross earnings and we pay them via international wire transfer. Tax and social security is their responsibility under the contract. We have some contractors who have been on this arrangement more than twelve months and we will try to move them onto employee status this year because of the risk of misclassification. For many tax and labor authorities the contract doesn't matter if they view it as an employment relationship.
2) If we have our own entity incorporated in the country where the worker is (UK, Australia) they sign an employment contract and we pay them through the payroll with full tax and social security contributions & deductions.
3) Where we haven't got our own entity or don't want to run our own payroll yet (USA, Spain, etc)
we use a GEO/Employer of record service. The employee signs an employment contract with the GEO, the GEO invoices us each month for salary + employer costs + their fees, we pay them and they pay the employee.
If you are small or just starting, begin with the first option. It's by far the easiest to administer. Eventually as you get bigger and more stable then you will come to a point contracting alone doesn't work anymore. Then the blended approach has worked very well for us.
The thing which always puzzled me about Xanadu is that all the attempted implementations seem to have been written by other people. Drawing from Wikipedia:

* "In 1972, Cal Daniels completed the first demonstration version of the Xanadu software on a computer Nelson had rented for the purpose

* "While at Autodesk, the group, led by Gregory, completed a version of the software, written in the C programming language"

* "Then a newer group of programmers [at Autodesk] used the problems with this software as justification to rewrite the software in Smalltalk"

From the Xanadu website, regarding their demo XanaduSpace: "The enthusiastic and talented programmer, Rob Smith, of Manchester England, did a beautiful job combining a lot of our ideas [...] John Ohno and Jonathan Kopetz, in Connecticut, spent several years trying to refactor it, but it's beyond fixing-- though as a demo it works just fine."

The related ZigZag project: "The first prototype consisting of two character-graphical views was implemented as a Perl module by Andrew Pam in 1997", and there's a more current implementation by some other people( https://sourceforge.net/p/gzigzag/_members/) called GZigZag

If I had been trying for NEARLY 60 YEARS to get a software project out the door, I would have probably started trying to code it myself after the first decade or so! Every time Xanadu comes up, I'm consistently puzzled at how there's never any sign of Nelson actually doing the grunt work of implementation!

Edit: here's an interesting link from the ZigZag wikipedia page, where a GZigZag implementor talks about their experience (http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/233#comment-1715):

> The GZigZag project did not materialize Ted's dream system as fast as he liked, so he withdrew his support. At first it just meant that he wasn't participating in discussions as much as he used to. At some later time he asserted his trademark (he had earlier given his permission to use it), and we changed the name to Gzz. Around the same time I was burning out, partially due to Ted's distrust and a large part due to project internal chemistry problems. I bailed out on the project in the end of 2002.

> Some time after my departure from the project, Ted asserted his ZigZag patent. The project was forced to abandon all ZigZag related stuff; it was reformed as Fenfire by salvaging those innovations that were not inseparably linked to ZigZag and using RDF as the new core. I hear that's not the last bit of trouble from outside parties the project has run to, but I cannot discuss even the little that I know in public. Suffice to say that even Tuomas burned out on the project eventually.
How is it not news?

The Chinese Communist Party, through actions such as this, shows it has no regard for human rights and will probably stop at nothing to get its way.
I like how we instinctively turn to slavery when there's a grand project that becomes vital.
What do they sue you for? If you are upfront about what you are selling, and you didn't steal any IP, it isn't fraud or theft of trade secrets. Maybe they have patents, and claim you are violating them? I can't see how it is illegal to reverse engineer a part and sell a similar version.
MRR (Monthly Recurring Revenue). Sorry about the typo.
To clarify its from retainers.
This has to be weighed against anecdotal evidence ( good anecdotal evidence is IMO better than your average study/research) from vegans. Vegans tend to have very high occurrence of cavities despite the best of oral hygiene. ( source ex-vegans on their blogs etc.) Eskimos when first discovered by western explorers had a complete absence of cavities despite bad oral hygiene and a diet of almost no plants (Source: A book written by an explorer, whose name I cannot remember)
From the link:

> recent versions of Python have added type annotations that optionally allow the programmer to specify the types used in a program. However, Python’s type system is not capable of expressing many types and type relationships, does not do any automated typing, and can not reliably check all types at compile time. Therefore, using types in Python requires a lot of extra code, but falls far short of the level of type safety that other languages can provide.
Eye tracking and smile for press? Disabled interface?
We get squirrels too. (Squirrels are awesome.) Rabbits, never.
There are good points here. On the other hand, the world's wealth is built on efficiency improvements and in some cases they can be literally lifesaving.

I guess it's just about knowing when to turn it off.
I've (unfortunately?) never need to make code this fast, but it sounds like a lot of fun. Seems a little unnecessary (Intellij with Scala can find usages/implementations pretty quickly for even large codebases), but I appreciate the engineering and dedication that went into this. Moreover, I haven't worked on very very large bases (> 5m lines) and never with VS, so I believe it was a real problem that needed to be solved.

Do other search tools like ag or ripgrep also maintain a cache? A lot of the optimizations he described could be done on none-cached data and I am curious to see how important the I/O and cache size bottleneck are.
Machine guns where also designed as area effect weapons.

And in air combat well .50 doesn't work as well for dogfighting that's why Germany then the UK went for 20mm cannons.
Smile, wink, tongue out, all are options!
When you get to the absinthe part you lose me. It's the same gut feeling I had when I see Redux where it works but it was created at the very beginning of this entire workflow discovery and better tools/approaches have since come out.
They're all wonderful, established technologies and all very capable of making concurrency relatively painless. At this stage, you should go with whatever you would be most productive in: do you already know one of the languages? If so, go with that one (always be shipping!). If not, how much do you like the syntax of each? How much do you rely on static types? How mature are the third-party libraries you're going to be relying on?

I've been building software using the exact stack described in the linked article for the last three years. I don't think about my backend very much, it mostly just works. Most of the work is on the front end. Elixir/Phoenix/Absinthe have been almost completely frustration-free. I'm sure Rust and Kotlin are great too.
They both lock in a price. A long-term lease specifies what the rent will be for the length of the lease.
"What are you proposing is going to happen that would be worse?"

No offense but if you can't see how Chernobyl or Fukushima could have turned out worse, or that unexpected accidents in other locations could happen and could be worse, you don't understand nuclear power. Its problematic because I expect you have read plenty on it in order to want to defend it in a topic about aforestation.

"Water isn't consumed"

Water resource is consumed, sure it rains again - often far away and into the sea. Fresh water resources are scarce and under pressure in many places, ancient aquifers are drying out, particularly in the US.
How about indexing just the <h1> </h1? Is that the intention? We don't want too much information.
> Humans think in terms of symbols to model the world around him. A child is born knowing nothing, a completely blank slate, and slowly he learns about his surroundings.

Actually, the research has found that new born infants can perceive all sorts of things, like human faces and emotional communication. There is also a lot of inborn knowledge about social interactions and causality. The embodied cognition idea is looking at how we experience all that.

By the way, Kant demonstrated a couple of centuries ago that the blank slate idea was unworkable.
If only every person in the world could plant roughly 150 trees...

I mean, this is a great conclusion, but what are we supposed to do with it?
I think his point stands broadly regardless of the specific example you take issue with. The heyday of radical left wing terrorism in the US was the 60's and 70's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-wing_terrorism
Since the 1990s I've been using Pine, Elm, Emacs VM, Mutt and/or Neomutt for mail, with Procmail for filtering mailing lists into folders. Over SSH, in a terminal window. These days Notmuch with Neomutt, with the occasional forwarding to Gmail to view HTML mails if they really need it (although I have other ways to view HTML mails too). I also forward things like invoices and receipts into data processing scripts that populate accounting databases for a couple of businesses, and manually check or fill out data linked to those.

I used to read a huge amount of mail, in particular most of linux-kernel and gcc-devel, and other things like that. Eventually it got burdensome to keep up, about 1000 mails/day incoming, and taking about 1 hour every day of fairly intense skipping through.

For a while I started to find mail traumatic. It was because of one, then another, person being abusive and pushy to the point that handling their mail was taking too much time and stressing me, on top of difficult personal experiences (partner illness, bereavement etc). As a result, I stopped reading mail regularly for a while. Naturally this had some unfortunate effects, and it put me off doing tasks that needed doing.

This was transformed when I started using Notmuch to filter mails, with the default filter being "everything in the last 1 hour", and two secondary filters: "all work mails in the last 7 days" and "all non-list mails addressed to me in the last 24/48 hours".

Even while the trauma issues continued, this one change transformed how I deal with mail, and it meant even when I felt tired I could approach little tasks that involved immediate emails quickly, instead of putting them off; and improved keeping on top of work and related things.

That won't apply to everyone, but it transformed my productivity with mail when I wasn't coping, and I suspect a similar time-based filtering can transform productivity for someone who is coping ok, but finding the quantity of mail, or their "ever expanding todo list stored in email", to be putting them off dealing with it.

Notmuch indexing and searching has also transformed how I file mail. I used to store mail from different people or organisations in separate folders. That by itself turned out to be quite a bit of grind every day (don't dare take a holiday!). Now I tend not to file mail, so much as add new search filters, which I add to auto-tagging scripts. When I add a new search filter, it isn't just used for new mails (as Procmail is). Updating filters re-tags older mails as well.

One of these days I will link my search-tagged mail to an app (of my own) on my phone so that I get notifications for "important stuff", but nothing else. For the moment, I avoid mail notifications, and take a look when I feel like it, every few hours, or when I'm expecting something. If something's important and time-sensitive (like a server alert - I look after a number of critical services), it's linked to SMS as well as mail, so I won't miss an alert. And people know to call me if something is time-sensitive.
Including myself, there's probably many other people reading this who have not read it and would like one or two of its salient points.
You can also map hotkeys to left or right clicks. This is particularly convenient when I am in a keyboard-only workflow.
We're building a deployment system based on the following principles that we've learned:

- Version control of models and datasets

- Code, naming conventions and formatting consistency

- Testing of models before deployment into production (in most cases, this helps gain credibility across engineering)

- Model review process with a senior data scientist

- Kubernetes/Docker for deployment serving as an API or running a scheduled job

- Model performance monitoring when in production to identify degradation
The code for doing the indexing (at least by default) could be built right in to the web server, so it'd just be a matter of enabling an option in Apache or the like.

It would be pretty easy to verify whether or not the index is accurate with a small random sample of pages on the site, and then penalize / exclude (or do a de-novo crawl) for those sites not providing a legit index.
All the grand projects of the past few centuries were based on it. Why change a winning strategy?
Climate Change Denial
George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him
"Vegetables are tying to kill us."

Of cause they try to. It is normal evolutionary behavior of plants. And co-evolution of humans to being able to tolerate this toxins.
I don't know if database admins have disappeared. But we have never needed one to take care of our DynamoDB tables and our "serverless" Aurora databases.

Even though I'm pretty sure AWS needs a lot of them; although not one (or more) for each and every single one of their customers.
Read the T&C (not that they're evil: far from it. They are very clear what you're doing using the site, which is a godsend).

If it's possible to export the map to your own housing it could be made clearer.

Nice clean design. The GUI builder is well done.
+2 for bringing the (ML/stats) code to the data instead of the other way around
Although your precise wording is correct ("prominent understanding"), far greater splits exist, for example, on political views and on income, and arguably even more harmful.
>> what percentage of US students would recognize the Tuskegee experiments continued until 1972

Literally everyone who has ever had to take a medical or scientific ethics course knows this, since the IRB process was born specifically from this horrific abuse of science.

I'm guessing most high schools cover it in US History and/or World History, also, as mine did.
One solution could be to have a verifiable module on servers that creates and serves the sitemap. Something like a signed certificate or DRM.
Apple has adapters so a modern iPhone can play music over wired headphones or connect to 30pin devices. These probably also work with these credit card readers. Or get a new one after 10 years, they’re only $50.
and dolce & gabbana a few months ago

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-07/dolce-gab...
The philosophy behind my approach to research is based on the phenomenon, the science of how things are experienced. I start by working with my clients to identify a human phenomenon at the heart of their business.

I use psychographics to define customer values, opinions, and life-style.
The basic idea is that tolerating totalitarianism is self-defeating, even when done to prop up one's fondest notions of cultural relativism.
Tough Start to Trump Presidency Ends in No Collusion
Universal Health Care Solves 3 Major Problems No One Talks About
I'm sure this isn't going to be a popular opinion here, but for most of the people in the world, "free speech" isn't as important as the safety of their loved ones. If most people in the world wanted "democracy" as it is in the United States, they would have chosen it. Or as the Chinese put it, people are much less likely to choose "freedom" if you instead frame it as a responsibility. Are we speaking responsibly?
> This is a really disturbing attempt to downplay indigenous genocide committed by colonists.

And this is a disturbing attempt to make it seem as I am saying something other than I am. I don't need to bring up the bad just because I talk about the good. Nor do I need to have make my opening statement a apology to the indigenous people, reminding everybody of things that happened in the past every two seconds.

My logic does not defend or refute, it merely is a analysis of what happened and how it benefited human society today. While other events have made significant strides forward we still have a lot of evidence that shows colonizing promoted the exchange of ideas and melding of new cultures that continue to change -- mostly for the better -- today. We have a lot of evidence of places left untouched, or where colonization failed are some of the worst places with the least access to medical, education, internet, clean water, and tolerance of change and new ideas. These are the places where homosexuals, would be killed on site, where their culture still cuts the genitals of children, where voodoo can remotely kill or strike lightening on a given target, where people run around in the buff throwing spears at modern technology.

Is it coincidence that all the places that were so brutally colonized also happen to be where civilization is thriving, technology and medicine are curing and making lives of the masses better very day.

Part of the issue I have with topics like this is the time shifting. It seems that some people are unable to transport them selves back in time when things were different, and understanding that this was "life" back then - for good - for bad. People at one point took shits in bushes, then we tossed the shit out the window, and now we have -- in most of the places that were colonized -- modern plumbing. I am glad I don't live in times like that, and am glad that most of the worlds land is conquered and our country lines are fairly stable.

Acknowledging that what we have now is good, because of things in the past is not "defending them" or is it saying I would chose them or even enjoy the fact. So please leave your personal attacks out of it, and stick to giving me solid evidence showing me I am wrong.
Title is wrong Public Sans not Open Sans
Haven't synthesized the whole thing yet. The chunks I did run through Vivado (spu, mbc, parts of gpu, parts of cpu) have me guesstimating at around 6000-8000 luts once it's all translated and pulled together.
See: history of minorities in America, 1776-present.
When this article came out in March, I tried Swift and TensorFlow on both macOS and Linux - no problems but it seemed like early days, something to check in on occasionally.

EDIT: there is a new drop for macOS from April 18 which I am now downloading.

I really like modeling with TensorFlow but I have a like-sometimes/hate relationship with Python. If Swift support gets stable and well supported then that would float my boat.
> it's how people "both sides" things and it's dangerous to the focus of where we should be worrying.

I'd say it's the people going "But not MY side!" that we really need to be worrying about here.
What do you think of experiments like lispyscript?
Thanks, I saw those and they seem clear enough. So the go code is unrelated to nginx.cfg and app.cfg?
Clients come to me with major and fundamental business issues, characterized by a high degree of uncertainty. Most of my work is focused on helping my clients get a view of their business from outside.
The features of that app sounds too good to be true. Also sounds like a privacy nightmare taking gmail and laying more AI processing on it across more servers.
Scroll down to these pictures:

https://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/620410-aa-a321-takes-off...

Youch. It took quite a bit of that sign with it.
That's pretty much my point ;-) At the time you think, "I have to make this work". You feel like you are failing big time and you have to try harder. You don't necessarily realise the cost of that effort. It's weird to say, "Is this really my priority?" Relationships don't always work out and that's fine. Don't let a bad relationship bulldoze the rest of your life too is what I'm trying to get at. It's great that it's never happened to you -- some people are either lucky or skilled in this area :-) Until I met the person who is my wife now, I was neither ;-)
I'm not sure why you're bringing up the Peace of Westphalia when the topic is how monarchies transformed into democracies. There weren't many democracies at that time.

Spain for example wasn't a democracy until the 20th century and the first attempt at democracy failed miserably and only the second succeeded after the monarchy backed dictator died and the king didn't follow the late dictator's legacy as planned.
>The Guardian

The tech industry isn't sending their best... they're RACISTS... we need to Make America Great Again and clamp down on the SCOURGE of economic migrants gentrifying our neighbourhoods

>Also the Guardian

Are Trumps H1-B visa reforms a dog whistle for his base?

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Gee whiz! According to The Guardian this recent Guardian article is nothing more than a dog whistle accusing Silicon Valley of becoming too full of racist Asians! It's almost like the Guardian isn't consistent in their support/opposition to migration, are only consistent in their disdain for majority groups & the rich, and cynically accuse their partisan enemies of racism for holding the same views as theirselves
Somewhat disagree. Not only do these spending bonuses encourage endebtedness and consumerism, but don't forget that such bonuses likely aren't offered the the poor (read: bad credit score), and the credit card companies use and sell your information to advertisers (and probably hedge funds) while credit rating agencies likely do the same and are basically not held accountable (see Equifax).

If these are companies like JP Morgan - Chase, then let's also not forget how they were helped by the American taxpayer during the recession and that basically nobody was held accountable.

I'm also of the opinion that it is basically impossible for any corporation to do business ethically, so I largely have no problem with it.
Talking about "colonization" in a broad sense as if it was a single uniform thing is totally useless. How much commonality is there between, e.g. the British colonialism in Hong Kong or the Portuguese in Macau, and the Belgian colonialism in the Congo?
> Ok, so let me suggest that it is a problem if the cities have complete control over the course of policy.

The cities are the economic engines of the country. Why should the underperforming rural areas be given an oversized voice in national government?
Maybe https://www.yacy.net?