skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nah, this is a super slanted view of things. Their business succeeds because they've made a best in class amazing thing, not because everyone begrudgingly wants to see their history, lol
I worked at a place where the anti-bribery training covered corner cases where US law not only allows for bribery but you can write it off as a business expense. I was pretty shocked by this.

> Regarding payments to foreign officials, the act draws a distinction between bribery and facilitation or "grease payments", which may be permissible under the FCPA, but may still violate local laws. The primary distinction is that grease payments or facilitation payments are made to an official to expedite his performance of the routine duties he is already bound to perform.
Martin Amis Book About Video Games Shows How Difficult It Is to Write About Them
Light on the scientific details... Anything anywhere else or a working testable prototype?
What a nice project.
Hi, reporter of the story here.
From their paper, it looks like they didn't. "We intentionally keep the language introducing the tool [VPNs] vague to avoid political pressure from the school administration."
I had an mid-2015 which battery did swollen after 8 months of usage. It bulged the trackpad towards the screen and making a dent. Apple does count that as part of in-warranty repair though.

A very expansive battery repair for Apple.

By the way, their repair would take longer than an entire week, which is worse than most laptops vendors.
> But for new development, I think you're much better off choosing a modern statically typed language if you think there's a chance your program will grow to some decent size.

> By that, I mean C#, Go, Swift, Dart, Kotlin, etc.

I think all of those require compilation. While I loved writing C# in a previous job, the compilation step added some small amount of friction to regular web development.

Though working with PHP requires more thought for the big-picture stuff (no PHP ORM can touch what C# offers) I find it easier to get into a state of flow when developing new features. Once I've completed a given task I can run a static analysis tool (I've made one at Vimeo, but there are others to choose from) that can automatically add most of the types I neglected to add, and can suggest more.
Strange this is so far outside the Overton window that it can be read as a joke.

In cases involving lower valued assets, the owner is almost always punishable: his dog bites you, it's his fault. His contractor lays bad wiring that burns down your house, it's his fault. His kids misdeeds are often legally his fault. And even if he loans his car to someone who crashes into it's legally his fault.

But behind a corporate shield, nothing is ever the owners fault. The more value the company has, the less possibility any owner is to receive legally blame. Not that there's much possibility in the first place.

This remarkable and thoroughly ingrained inconsistency does consistently benefit a certain category of person.

A very practice and effective solution would be to seize some chunk of the shares/value based on the size of the crime and auction them off. The proceeds going to victims or the like and weakening or removing irresponsible investors in favor of someone else. But this option is simply unthinkable and instead there's endless debate on the CEO's culpability.
Seals can copy human speech and sing Star Wars theme tune
China’s cliffside honey hunters try to hang on as the bee population falls
>In addition to cultural attitudes about the value of hard work, she said, some employers reduce costs by relying on overtime, and employees work the longer hours for the extra pay and to please the boss — promotions often depend more on time spent at a desk than actual productivity.

The US game industry - except you don't get overtime pay (maybe pizza).
The researchers made clear that they are "independent of the government." They also assured participants that "we will erase all survey data if we are faced with political pressure to share the data with government or school officials."
They used email and WeChat (similar to WhatsApp) messages to communicate with the students and even hand out free one-year account of Youku (similar to Youtube) to obscure the study's explicit focus on censorship.
reddit 10 years ago would've been all over this.

Q: "what time does the narwhal bacon?"

A: "when the belugas are near!"
As a "full-stack" developer I just don't have the time to follow the JS circus as closely as a dedicated front-end dev would. I switched from Backbone to Mithril a few years back (major improvement to my productivity) and I see no reason to go through the effort of learning a new framework again.

But if I had to find a new framework for some reason, I'd probably go with Vue.
No, it used to be the point. Now a large portion of the point is to cash out existing investors. I do not claim it is the sole purpose, and this is largely true among unicorns, but it is certainly a shift. Look at Facebook: they kept raising huge series of private equity.
Just some fool who paid like $1500 to post articles on Forbes.com. Another contributor article masquerading as news.
Show me in the SEC filing where it suggests Wal-Mart’s executive leadership did anything like that: https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/1331-walmart-sec-set...
The styles defined _in_ the web component do not though (none of the `flex` styles are there). If the component was any more complicated than a pair of `<slot />` elements then the DOM structure would also completely change (and any ::part and ::theme targets would be gone too).

When JS is disabled you are left with a bunch of arbitrary tags in a structure that doesn't match the structure they have when JS is enabled.

That said, I don't think there's a good answer to this problem. Components-as-macros would run without JS, but then you have the LISP problem with composing macros (maybe this is a solved problem, but I haven't read Common Lisp's spec or used Racket in anger).
I've heard chalk is better because the professor has to explain things as its written down, which helps with pacing the content. Powerpoint is easy to go too fast or too slow since the content is pre-generated. Since there's only a finite amount of space on the chalkboard, you might also need to be efficient with how you draw diagrams and formulas, which might also help with the pacing.
Brave browser will do the trick
It's legitimately hard to understand what is actually happening through the bombastic writing in the article. That alone makes me question its legitimacy.
I couldn't help but notice that your comment doesn't address the other parts of his argument, nor did you choose to respond to the earlier reply you received (by dragonwriter) outlining the legitimate flaws in the reasoning you provided with your initial opinion.

Social media has a lot of problems - even this article on just Facebook outlines a number of them [0] but I agree with the above poster in saying that you can't have a societal post-mortem analysis of the effects of social media given its very much _not dead_ state. Advocating that society just presses a 'shut down' button until "we collectively decide how we should proceed" is an entirely unrealistic scenario.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook
>You’re effectively saying they like it because they like it.

no? you asked me why they like chalk not why the use chalk and slate?

>Ok, but why?

how should i know? i'm just reflecting on my experience. if i had to guess it's because math has a very strong computational component - you have to show kids how to perform the steps for to solve whatever problem (perform an integral, solve an ode, QR factor a matrix).

>CS, stats, physics, engineering, etc. classes would all benefit from slowing down and explaining things the way mathematicians are forced to do using chalk.

lol sure but almost no one cares about what's best for students (but about spending as little time as possible on teaching)
$7.659B is the quarterly number, so divide your fine by four -> $917, which would still be quite an expensive speeding ticket, but within the max possible fines in my state.
This looks like a fun project but I would hesitate to use it on a regular basis. There are actual "DMM" chips[1][2] which have the correct filter network on the inputs to avoid common pitfalls (like reading the noise level as a DC offset) and while they typically are designed to drive an LCD display it is easier to hook up a microcontroller to demux what they are driving then it is to design analog circuitry that does what their front end does. So its a trade off of where your expertise lies.

Back in the way back times Steve Ciarcia wrote an article on doing this with a BASIC program talking to a board with a DMM chip called "Try an 8 channel DVM Cocktail." It used the MC14433 which Microchip manufactured as the TC14433 (http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/21394d.pdf)

[1] 3 3/4 digit -- https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/maxim-integrated/M...

[2] 4 1/2 digit -- http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/21459E.pdf
Their 'betrayal' of the maker community occured in the not too distant past.
What's wrong with gate keeping? Gates are useful things. Surely you agree that some writing is better than other writing? It's not all equally good.
From his's wife's diary, it was necessary because the insertion site for the original was not working as expected:

"Wednesday, 27th of August 2015 – Day 9

The nurse explained to me that they put another line in your neck, just to get extra line of blood to the lung machine as you need more oxygen to keep other organs working well. Your lung still is quite sick, the tube into your lung wasn’t working much comparing to the one from the lung machine."

A little more context:

"Monday, 25th August 2015 – Day 7

Your oxygen level requirement is 100% now, in case during night time at 3am, you need more oxygen, and there is no way they can feed you more here in Knox. So they need to cut a hole in your leg to put a man-made lung to pump extra oxygen in your body (as your lung is too inflamed), which can only be done in Alfred hospital."
Clickbait article, why is it here?
Very good point, but only half the story. Marker has another problem: eraser. Most of the time the eraser is already too dirty to use.
> ... in the course of the book, two people’s hair is described as having turned white in a day.

How many here believe that someone's hair can turn white in one day?
The real probably is the focus on short-term, quarterly financial reporting and how that relates to share-price. There is nothing wrong with focusing on maximizing value for the owners of a company, but if you focus on short term measure that look good to securities analysts, you'll actually undermine longer term value. The companies that build the most value ALSO have satisfied employees, happy customers and are respected by those outside in society. Neglecting the other factors might work for a while, but at a very high cost.
Nope, I mean they actually have less spending power than their parents, and that’s new: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/30/672103209/why-arent-millennia...
Pod of killer whales – with a new calf – swims into Monterey Bay for first time
But that is how this works, the Government has a hard time proving intent without a smoking gun. The Walmart execs are smart enough not to incriminate themselves with any emails/phone calls. So the government has a fairly strong case, but Walmart gets to plea agreement which wipes one of the main pieces of evidence (effectively the bookkeeping coverup) in exchange for paying the fine and closing the case.

Both sides are happy, no one at walmart goes to jail, they pay some trivial fine, and the prosecutors get a raise and a bullet point on their resume. The public gets to see justice in action...
Interesting, I wasn't aware of that. That seems somewhat like a reasonable loop hole, though I can easily see how it could be abused. I appreciate the information.
Really? I have so many lithium batteries that are swollen, for so many products.
Women of ISRO: Remarkable stories of grit and determination
Funny; I'm a Lisp programmer, not to mention implementor, but whenever I do electronics, even something simple, I go straight to PCB. I can make those things at home with a quick turnaround time. I prefer manipulating traces in the PCB routing program than messing around with flaky wire connections on a breadboard. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well. After I made my first PCB, there was no going back. I'm confident my circuits will work because I calculate and simulate; and in any case, usually even if the circuit won't work initially, the printed circuit topology will, modulo adjustment of component values. You can anticipate experimentation in a printed circuit, too.
So this is just wild unfounded speculation, right? Have there actually been any validated leaks?
I only use market orders. I generally intend to hold a stock for at least a few years when I buy it. What advantage do limit orders offer me?
If you do a limit order that is higher than the current market order, you stand a pretty decent chance of executing at that price rather than at the more beneficial market price.

Market order just means sell it at what it's worth right now.
I always had the feeling, reading Wilde, of him standing in the firelight surrounded, on all sides, by slavering beasts staring and waiting for him to stray a just a step too far.

At least HH Munro's end was quick.
This is a great website and a very worthy cause. Several of the LFP's in my community I had no idea even existed...the search feature is awesome.
It could be opt-in like on other sites of this nature. Just like you can choose the license of your project on GitHub.
Not quite - this is only true if you discount the outgassing hypothesis entirely & assume that all of the acceleration is from solar radiation pressure. There is at least one good recent paper strongly advocating for outgassing as a more realistic (if less exciting) explanation: https://www.darrylseligman.com/oumuamua https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.04723
Still made, watch for specials:
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MP7W2LL/A/iphone-se-32gb-...
Hell, after going from the iPhone 7+ to the iPhone XS (didn’t want to give up 3D Touch or the telephoto camera) I really don’t want to use anything smaller. I really miss the extra width of the 7+ that made typing in landscape mode usable instead of comically pointless.

I’m interested to see where the new 6.1” model lands in terms of features since Apple seems to be killing 3D Touch altogether, it may end up being my upgrade of choice in 2020.
shiny, thanks!
It's pretty normal for Lithium Ion batteries to swell. You see it constantly with smartphones especially, where it's very obvious given the tight tolerances in modern devices. I say this as someone who's worked with racks and racks of smartphones used for testing. Eventually they pretty much all swell.
Companies are profit-seeking automatons. They evolve and change in response to their environment, but as entities they are not encumbered by human moral impulses or other embarrassments.

Humans operating within companies may experience moral impulses, but the company as an entity constantly urges its humans to act amorally in service of its profit-seeking.
Is it Japanese or Mitsubushi especially? They're pretty much synonymous with high quality work vehicles but very few of the other products they make seem to get exported. I had a great Mitsubishi TV once, but when it had to be replaced they'd disappeared from the market.
I'm not claiming they haven't made an otherwise great product, but if their business doesn't rely on this then why are they doing it?
I don’t have much context for this article, but I was put off from the moment I read the bizarre click bait title of the links in the first sentence...
> support for parallelism

It has support for concurrency, not parallelism.

> and safety

It's not any safer than other GC'd language available today, and likely quite less so compared to languages with immutability and proper persistent data structures in them (Scala, Java, F#, etc.)
I'll predict probably no, and also it will be the usb-c jack vs lightning.
A better analogy:

Holding the CEO liable for employee misdeeds is like holding a principal responsible for teachers getting into fights or having sex.

Or, whatever problems teachers cause
I read the initial white paper on circles before Google+ ever existed; I was super excited that they seemed to grok human relationships in a way FB never did. But the actual product disappointed me and I never could quite articulate why.

(I can’t find the link right now but will update when I do)
Rqlite: Lightweight, distributed relational database built on SQLite
If you don’t have good evidence of intent, you don’t have “a fairly strong case.” Intent is the lynchpin of criminal law, especially when you’re trying to hold someone liable who didn’t do the actual illegal act. You know what gets you a gold star as a prosecutor? Putting people in prison. The guy who put Raj Rajaratnam in prison is now a partner at one of the top law firms.
> murdering a troublesome customer

This furthers the interests of the company?
> when did this clickbait formulation of headlines become the norm even for serious, reputable news?

Before there were clicks to bait. The only thing that makes it not a traditional headline is the length, and “He” instead of “man”.
Wasserstein Dependency Measure for Representation Learning [pdf]
Soo.. what happened to farming amaranth? Is this an posting about digitized news, or the headline? wtf
Sign up for Nearhe.re (once it's out)
The SE is thicker so there’s plenty of space for a big battery.
100,000 is gross revenue. Walmart's was $514B. 280M is then equivalent to $55.
HTTPS Everywhere fails to load the page and attempting to force https:// causes a certificate error.
A 5.4 inch premium phone will capture a lot of market, but I think Apple is missing out by not pushing even smaller. Apple should aim for smaller than the SE.
What are the offspring called...

narlugas

belwhals

..?
Speaking of fountain pens and Japan; in Japan you can find these compact-sized cartridge fountain pens for ￥200. E.g. at LOFT. They are decent; just the handle is simple transparent plastic.
It's kind of their thing, really. Like Microsoft getting the first two of everything wrong. Google gets the second and all subsequent ones wrong, instead. Mostly...
> has excellent support for parallelism

concurrency, not parallelism, and even there it doesn't have anything similar to immutable data structures or java.util.concurrent or System.Collections.Concurrent

> support for safety

Not more than any other available GC'd languages.

> some things really can't be done without efficient GC, and Go gives you that

Only if you care about pause times at the expense of throughput, and you don't have to deal with very large heaps
There are a number of court cases currently in Brazil that suggest that the "Brazilian Way" is not in fact in accord with Brazilian law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Car_Wash

Parent may argue that Brazilians themselves are thereby insensitive to the "Brazilian way" and should be educated by US corporations as to the social values they should hold.
Yeah but should the US be using taxpayer resources on this at all?

The result of policing kickbacks is a kickback?

Overhead cost
You got off easy. I had, in addition to all the crap you mentioned, an ad that took up 3/4 the height of my browser, a pop-up for a newsletter signup, and another pop-up for push notifications.

If Forbes doesn't have the most user-hostile website on the Internet, they're runner-up.
No video, making me even more suspicious of the claim.
That is a very hot take. You're under the impression that nobody thinks slack is a great user experience? What?
I think it was just to showcase Android on tablets.
0.25 to 0.3 tends to be okay. Very handy for writing very small. The thinner traces save ink, too.
Real-time is a huge field. There is hard-realtime with < 1ms deadlines. And there is soft realtime which is often "fast enough that the user doesn't complain", which is maybe somewhere between 100ms and 1s for various applications. For a cloud-connected device I assume it's in the latter category since most transport protocols won't provide much better guarantees anyway. For those use-cases most languages will be fine.
Teddy Bear the Dog Hates Coconuts
I guess I'm an interesting blend of geek and luddite. I enjoy tinkering with computers immensely, but prefer to leave them in their place. I don't like carrying a phone, don't use social networks, don't play video-games, etc. As part of this perspective, I have an intense distrust of self-driving cars. There is a great deal of difference between digitizing analog devices (using new devices to fill old roles), and creating new roles for tech to fill. I'm just a little too wary when it comes to driving. I can't stand the idea of a car grabbing control from me and braking, though some people I know drive such cars and regard it as a feature.

I don't know if this comes because of a technical background or not. As I have learned more about software development, assembly, cybersecurity, etc. over the years, I have become more rather than less accepting of things like self-driving cars.

This applies to IoT as well. I will never, ever, ever have one of those glorified wiretaps they call "voice assistants". What do they do, any way? I don't really care about being able to tell a speaker to order more laundry detergent. Nor do I want any of these goofy "smart" appliances - why do I care about my toaster sending me push notifications when my bread is done? Or mining bitcoin?

I guess I just felt like ranting. I hope one of you can convince me such a cynical outlook is wrong, as I get a bit sick of viewing new stuff with negativity.
I was working for an Indian IT company back then. According to my colleague, they offered really good health insurance (I never pay attention to such things, so don't know how good it was compared to others). I got a dental cleaning and wisdom tooth removal done once, and had to pay $2200 from my pocket since insurance didn't cover those. The dentist told me before the treatment itself, and so wasn't a surprise. Another time, I ended up having to go to a hospital couple of times for an issue. Total bill was around $20k. I had to pay only $50 from my pocket. After I came back to India, I got another letter in my US address from the hospital (nearly 1.5 years after the hospital visit). I suspect it could be another bill. I knew about the letter because I still get the USPS informed delivery email alerts!

My friend also worked for an Indian company. His wife had a delivery and there were complications. I am not sure what really happened. He one day called me and told me to have some money ready (around $2-3k) in case he needs to borrow. He said he had to pay a lot of money from his pocket, and that he reached the maximum limit (after which insurance pays everything?). He was in US for around 1 year, and left soon after because the project was over or ramped down. Just before he left, he got another bill for $3 or $4k and he said he is letting it go to collections. After he came back to India, I asked him about it and he said it was taken care off (didn't say if insurance paid or he paid or he ignored it).
Nexa. Maybe Nexera.
> Where does this negative view of people come from?

Usually, trust is something which must be earned. When we don't have any information about a person, the default position is one of distrust (pending further information), as the cost of being swindled can be significant. A strange side-effect is that we implicitly assume that most people cannot be trusted.
It's strange that a site like Fortune (in 2019) still doesn't support or enforce HTTPS.