skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except it doesn't encourage harmony. I would say it has the opposite effect for people intelligent enough to see through the bullshittery. In the long run it just harms the relationship between state and citizens. The special treatment that radical islamism gets in Europe is no less than bizarre. You get media appraisal in the UK for throwing milkshakes at center-right politicians and ousted by the same media for saying that Europe has an islamism problem.
"This system, if successful, would provide people in low to moderate population densities around the world with affordable high-speed internet access, including many who have never had internet access before,"
- Tom Praderio, SpaceX engineer

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/spacex-launches-t...
Brexit consumed the last Prime Minister of the UK, it has consumed the current one, and it will almost certainly consume the next one too.

What happens to a society when its political institutions are in such a state that they can no longer function?
WTF are you talking about? Those games are almost exactly alike, except the clone has worse graphics.

Also the search terms for 点击英雄 all point to the game by playasaurus on baidu/bing. It's clearly an outright rip off.
only if they have money for lawyers which apparently they don't.
China doesnt respect any trademark and yet want the rest of the world respect their trademarks... oh man... huawei its not the only ones who deserve to be banned worldwide...
Would it be colonialism isn't really the question. Would it be ethical? That's closer to the question, but really what's important is: what's the most ethical way forward starting from where we are now?
"Sanctuary for all. Community for all. Those who arrive survive."

Are they trying to say something by using the name of a well known cannibal group?
>> Our managers were afraid that we broke something, so they did everything to make sure that we didn't spend our time coding.

that's like hiring football players and not letting them on the field out of fear they'll score for the other team.

please write a book!
Man HR is harsh as hell. While yes, if a proof of RH is found it will probably use advanced tools, ever finding a proof with elementary tools is not totally out of the question. Regarding the Prime Number Theorem, which can be seen as a baby version of RH, experts in the field such as Hardy have been quoted as saying elementary proofs would not exist. Then 50 years after Hadamard and Poussin found the original proofs, Selberg and Erdos published proofs based on elementary methods. No one can say that it's worthless for someone to try the same for RH.
Putting Google Analytics into a desktop application is ridiculous and immediately disqualifies the project for me. Event it it were opt-in rather than opt-out.
You can check this document from the german trademark registry:

https://www.dpma.de/docs/dpma/veroeffentlichungen/broschuere...

German Quote:
"Welche Rolle spielt das Datum der Anmeldung?
Wie bereits unter „Markenrecherche“ erwähnt, gilt im Markenrecht
der Prioritätsgrundsatz. In der Regel hat die ältere Marke – das heißt
die Marke mit dem früheren Anmeldetag – die besseren Chancen,
sich im Konfliktfall durchzusetzen"

which roughly translates to:

"What role does the date of registration play?
As already mentioned under "Trademark search", the the principle of priority applies in trademark law. As a rule, the earlier trade mark - that is to say the mark with the earlier filing date - will give you the better chances to assert yourself in the event of conflict."

This doesn't sound as clear cut and is worded this softly simply because of Very Old (think 50-100 years) German companies having very legitimate claims of prior use that can't be overlooked, although the german legal system prefers the simpler and cleaner first-to-file ruling.

That means in effect for startups first-to-file is the guideline you should look into. I've paid expensive lawyers to learn this lesson.
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If there had been a way for "ethical journalists" to get access to documented misbehavior of the government, you would have a point.
GNU Guile 2.9.2 Beta Released
This seems like an improvement - part of the what makes capitalism useful is information propagation. You don't know what the the true value of the land is until someone comes to buy you out (and even then, you don't really know - it's just a hint).

But it perverts the process of sale negotiation in bizarre ways, coupled to the arbitrary 5 year requirement, which has great impact on the economics of it. Consider - if someone really wants to buy your land, and the only way you can say no is by re-valuing higher than their offer (with a big payout to the government), then a large player could force someone out of business with unreasonably high offers - and then pick up their land on the cheap from the liquidators. Every offer/counter-offer would have to backed by a contract to actually make the sale if the other party agrees, with the back taxes only paid when the sale is made. But then what happens when someone plain doesn't want to sell?
(c) is a fair point.
Yes, it is installed alongside Visual Studio.

But even Visual Studio XAML designer is relatively good. I used it is mostly.

And both do allow to work with live objects and mock data, as well, even if it isn't as clear as with Borland products.
It's still not something to be taken lightly, and it will take a lot of training, preparation and equipment to do it.
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after reading comments (reddit?) and researching they conclude it can't be challenged? how about hire lawyers? I wouldn't be surprised if they can fight this from US or wherever non-China country they are based in. for example, what happens if you try to trademark this name in US now?
You can. It's just pointless because your heirs can't keep it.
Limited propellant (not fuel - they're not burning the krypton for energy, they'll have some electrical power source, presumably solar panels).
Also, the temperature (250 K, -23°C) is a bit chilly to be called “room temperature”. Still, this means you don’t need liquid nitrogen for cooling: a good but standard refrigeration system would be enough (and their insane diamond pressure apparatus, of course).
It is not like they had an option. They are a US based company. They must do it.
In defense of Google none of the smartphone makers have tried to make their own mobile OS based on Android.

Besides I think it more reveals how Google is in the grip of US politics- it might be time for Google to draw up some contingency plans for when America goes completely nuts.
Theresa May Resigns
that's true of any exercise that involves a group
China is not competitive in tech right now, so it needs to block foreign companies in order to have local companies have a chance of emerging, and one day becoming competitive.

On the other hand, the US is super competitive. They must do as much business with China as possible in order to discourage any new company from spawning over there, because it would create competition.

In other words, Trump is doing exactly the opposite of what is good for the US.
Statest propaganda only push one common narrative. Better to be ignorant and closer to the truth, than inundated with zionist propaganda.
This.

lanthanum hydride @ 250K at > 1 million atm.

It's still very impressive though.
Hm. Why don't you put together a travel plan? Or why don't you encourage her to do so herself? There are countless blogs recommending very specific itineraries (when to go, which place to sleep at, how much time to see what), yet if you book it yourself, buy the tickets yourself, you won't have that you are the product feeling.

*

Mountains. There are beautiful and amazing mountains, ridges, peaks, climbs all over the world, not just in the Himalayas. (For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orla_Per%C4%87 -- affordable as fuck compared to anything else basically, and still pretty challenging, yet no need for sherpas, base camps and O2 bottles.)
Or just avoid consulting. There are plenty of other opportunities in software that AFAICT have better hours and higher pay.
> I feel at some point tax payers should be allowed to select where their money goes

They can, by voting.
could you elaborate on the negative effects on your career? were you a contractor or an employee? and why would someone blacklist you specifically? how was that consulting manager related to the project?

i mean as an employee, if i get put in a hard position, sometimes the only choice is to quit, so, in that case, the CV would have an entry that you would not look back at to happily, but other than getting out as fast as you could why would being stuck in such a situation harm your career?
Theresa May to resign as UK prime minister
It also stated that for a larger set is complex and not that easy that's why the article holds up Netflix as a shining example.
Well whoever's getting the money, it's not the indigenous islanders who should be getting it.
Umm... did you earn the kind dof money the pointless project would have gotten you?
someone must be getting it, and it's not the islanders... so it's either the UK government, or someone they sold/gave the rights to.
> it also helps with latency if the signal doesn't traverse the constellation.

No it doesn't. Satellite-satellite lasers can follow a direct route at the speed of light in a vacuum, much like those microwave towers used by high-frequency traders. Done right it'll be lower latency than ground-based fiber optics (which snake over the terrain and only transmit signals at about 2/3 the speed of light).
Metallic hydrogen: The most powerful rocket fuel yet to exist (2010)
> Valuing security over freedom

If I do banking on my mobile device, then yes, I value security. I also value security, when the device contains a non-negligible amount of personal information that tends to be valuable in certain scenarios.

It's not some ephemeral boogeyman threat management you seem to make it out to be. For me, this IS freedom (from Google's invasive practices and questionable business decisions). I choose Apple because due to their business model they at least have far less motivation to sell my data to the Chinese or other entities. Of course we cannot know the true behind-the-scenes.

> Apple's lock down sucks just as hard

Does it for the vast majority of users who don't need to ssh into their phone for (at best) tinkering reasons? How many people are seriously feeling the negative impact here? I'd argue that the majority of non-tech-savvy users are better of this way.

Even as a developer, I am not missing anything in the App Store. Questionable decisions by Apple have so far not collided with my interests but that is too selfish of an argument to make, I suppose. Although I do assume that it holds true for a very high percentage of users. I am open for opposing points.
I suspect something similar. I had a project which had a team of developers for six months; we didn't do anything the first four months (I spent a lot of time on HN during that time!). After those four months, we discovered that during the last month, being December, we were not supposed to release anything (as it might endanger the end-of-year runs). We did the entire thing in two weeks and then deployed it in the remaining two (deploying was a nightmare).

At some point, we discovered that the team lead wanted to be promoted to manager so he needed a reasonably-complex-but-actually-simple project as a "win".
React, Vue, Angular are a good fit with your current frontend experience.
Even if you implement frequency hopping it'll do nothing for China blocking it. The end users need to hop to the same frequencies to receive the signal, which means that a jammer can do the same.

This sort of thing works for militaries (e.g. for GPS) because you can assume that the receivers are secure, i.e. they're guarded by people carrying guns.

That's not really a viable plan when a hostile state can just buy a receiver with the built-in hopping algorithm from a retailer.
It All Ends in Tears: UK PM Theresa May Resigns
I don't think that's necessarily true. The UK has acted badly here and the islanders should have a right to live on their native islands.

Just because it would possibly help other powers, doesn't exclude the idea that the native islanders can legitimately want their homes back
I expected more from Nature.

The core of this device is a Peltier heat pump.

I'm sure it's great for keeping cool in the summer, but there is no way they'll ever work out for cooling buildings. They're fundamentally inefficient due to needing to be built of materials that conduct heat in one direction and insulate in another, while simultaneously conducting electricity and having a large bandgap. Such materials have not been found and are unlikely to exist.

Anyone technical proofing the article should have been aware of that, and should not have allowed such claims to get into the article.

Single phase gas turbine refrigeration can theoretically get to the Carnot efficiency limit, and in reality gets close to it.
Most of the world is unexplored by tourists. Your comments are only valid for "some" touristy hot spots. If you like tourism, stop focusing on the mainstream. The Philippine, for example, has lots of unexplored territories that are "accessible" (relatively speaking) and has pretty much no or very little tourists.

I was in some small town in the Philippine last year. Got into a pizza restaurant and there was a mini-event the locals made where they danced and singed. That's some genuine experience. You can have lots of these because most people are going with the flow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMedyfcpvQ

Youtube video, better quality
Nowhere is it written that a system can only have one version of each library. Indeed, there is an entire system (soname) for resolving which of many versions of a library a binary should run with. There is no reason at all why you couldn't have a system where all the libraries are shipped in your application folder, but it uses the system ones where available. There's also no reason why every distro couldn't have every version of every library, and all software since ever would just work with the system version.

Distros screwed the pooch here.
Couple of unscientific observations:

* More CPU but acceptable on a modernish system

* On FF it's dropping zero frames, on chrome a insignificant handful on mine

* Testtube cookie setting this seems to be 3rd party...resets easily depending on your cookie settings

* Seems solid enough to keep it as default & help push adoption
I'm Ashamed to Say It
She put party above country and made a right mess.

Good riddance.
Took 1/10th of a dose during a party (where everybody was doing it).

I did not feel high but was very unanxious (absolutely no adrenalin rush when 2 guys started a fight near me).

Now the problem is that I started to grind my teeth for one year on after that night.

So basically I did not get high but managed to fuck my teeth pretty badly (now 5 years later I'm considering orthodontia since my lower jaw bone has moved left with respect to the upper part of my mouth).

So yeah. MDMA. What a fun substance.
> Most billionaires appear to have most of their wealth in the form of stocks in a company they run.

That's a lot worse. Owning stocks means having control over a company and thus power. One unelected person having so much more power than others is incompatible with democracy.

A Scrooge McDuck style gold pile, in contrast, would make gold slightly more expensive but wouldn't influence the economy otherwise.
Chess Computer Ratings from 1993
Why and how?

You can look at the difference between iOS and WP. Since iOS was a big market Google wanted [and wants] to be in they made the YT app. And since WP was small and late to the game Google had the upper hand, because MS wanted any users more than G wanted the small number of WP users.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/5/7/4308662/youtube-windows-ph...

Therefore if there were a credible new platform that Google wants to be on, they will develop the necessary apps.
There is a beta app for reverse image searching pills.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.harmreducti...

Its still very alpha, but could make it easier for people that don't have access to kits.

It's not chemical validation tho.
Behringer get a lot of flak for being "cheap" but their guitar pedals at least are mainly just 1:1 clones of tried-and-tested vintage analog circuits. I wasn't aware of their synths - thanks for the heads-up.
> It bothers me that so many of these guides are aimed at passing the job interview instead of teaching the topic at hand.

This is another manifestation of the "Goodhart's Law"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
What do people here think about thee role of the UN here?

Without unanimity in the security council, there doesn't tend to be much action they can take. Even with the SC, the track record of reaching resolutions isn't great.

In principle, it makes sense for there to be a formalized "community of nations" to express a decision. But, in terms of having a practical role that leads to resolving these kinds of issues... would it be better if they now aimed for a reperations/compromise solution?

I can't see british sovereignty or US occupancy changing. Is the right thing now to leave chagosians with a recognized moral right, with no hope of exercising it in practice or to go for compromise?

Just curious what people think.
Peltier units are used where compressors are too large or expensive.

For example, those $20 in-car cool boxes.
Here you go:
https://imgur.com/a/OGbjjQ0
China is shifting its factories to Africa, eventually growing a market there. It won't matter what apps irrelevant markets like North America or Europe want while the rest is using Chinese services.
Beating Up on Qsort
The Emulator was a pretty decent early commercial sampler product:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mu_Emulator

It was called such, because it could be used to 'emulate any instrument' by recording it, and playing back the samples ..
how many generations of people have to live somewhere to be considered "native" then.

In this case we're talking what 4-5 generations, depending on how you count it, that sounds fairly native to me.

The UK acted poorly here and the pressure that this vote applies to them is good, as if anyone has a right to the islands it's the people who lived there for hundreds of years.
The US doesn't either. That is why there are declassification rules that reduce the secrecy level of information after a while.

So yes, you are correct and this trust the government gets to declare something a secret has been abused and the ONLY way to get to the truth was what Assange and Manning did. That this is the ONLY way is pretty important for the legal defense.
Botswana Lifts Its Ban on Elephant Hunting
This is way beyond ridiculous.
Is undeniable that Manning is biologically a man with both X and Y chromosomes. It happens also that psychologically is/feels like/wants to be a woman. Both cases can be applied perfectly. People is complex and can be more than one thing at the same time.
Amusingly, yes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
E-mu made my favourite drum machine, the drumulator.

If you open it up you can lift then reseat an IC (I think it's the only one in a socket) and you get random drum patterns and sometimes those a great.
3D-printed concrete bench / anti-terrorist barriers installed in Times Square
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My own experience doing all three.
Is it about security? Because Trump is saying he wants to have a deal with Huawei now...

Or is it about the trade deficit? In which case Korean and Japanese manufacturers are not safe from prosecution.
The game is an exact copy of Tap Titans. Clicker Heroes is popular in Steam so they may copy the name as well
Those sound like bad gyms. I have been to 10s of gyms in the UK and it's never been a problem. They are rarely on the ground floor and some even explained how to do deadlifts in the mandatory induction. Many gyms have platforms specifically for deadlift and sometimes proper Olympic weightlifting platforms and plates designed to be dropped from a height.
This screenshot of 点击英雄 http://n.7k7kimg.cn/m00/6f/37/01b6d018a2f7485ea9de55f4b02bf2... implies a completely different gameplay compared to Clicker Heroes http://www.onrpg.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Clicker-Hero...

Edit: but the resemblance to Tap Titans is uncanny: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/BfZpbHHc_htTbIla-wzdj1BFtS...

It looks like they cloned one game and trademarked it under the name of another.
> But something along the lines "I will pay you X bags if you send me a signed pdf with a specific hash" makes total sense.

How would it make any sense? Who is there to enforce that I will actually send you _X_ bags? That I will send you X _bags_? Who is there to verify that contract for a non-programmer?

There are literally no use cases for smart contracts because they will always need either a complete trust between the parties or a third-party arbiter for all the things that lawyers and notaries and banks already exist.
Does it reveal Google's iron grip on Android ?

Really ?

I'd say it rather reveals most users' unhealthy addiction to Google's services, without which, this whole thing wouldn't be the 'tragedy' and wake up call it's turning out to be for many.

I have used Android for a decade now completely Google-free and no one could pay me enough money to be tracked and to run pure spyware 24/7 at this point... I enjoy immensely having a laptop replacement always on, always with me, in my pocket. No use for Play Services, advertising companies data mining all I do at all times, or 27, 42 or 59 'social media' applications running to give purpose to my life and 'communicate' with my 'friends'...

File manager, web browser, terminal, editor, LTE... That's what I need or care about. I guess not many of us left.
This is depressing to read. It's still a very in demand line of work. If your day to day is that miserable try finding some place that isn't.
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I agree, it's multidimensional.

If "general" truly meant general purpose, the measure might be how well the system arranges every possible (sequence of) combination(s) of matter and energy in space and time, while optimizing along any combination of these.

But that in itself is not a single objective, but a set of objectives, and not really a utility function.
It would be helpful if the community here could comment about the state of salaries in France (depending on companies/technologies/roles/years of experience), as I noticed it is very different from the US.

I’m living in Paris and having the same concern as the OP, wondering which technologies one could invest in to have a better pay.

I heard the best way is to do contracting, but I wonder what prerequisites/technologies one needs to start contracting at a high rate.
Maybe we'll see a WeChat OS? :)
Who is "expelled" for hate speech? Where to?

In any case, there's a difference between political prosecution and some minor international differences of what's legal and what's not. If it were that easy to get asylum, people would probably prefer it to participating in the Green Card Lottery or H1B Visa process.

Freedom of speech also isn't the only category of "political" crimes. Many Germans consider the (partial) lack of speed limits as a defining characteristic of freedom, yet Americans can't get asylum at 60mph just because of it. On a more serious note, there are a great many political freedoms that some if not all European countries are better at guaranteeing than the US. Elections are administered fair and it's generally easy to vote even in poor neighbourhoods; No death penalty; Public defenders that actually have time to defend you, etc. Heck, the racial disparities in the US criminal justice system border on wilful prosecution of a minority.
Thanks for the clarification. I can't edit the original post anymore, so your reply will have to do.