skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In point of fact, barbers and hair dressers are virtually always independent contractors sharing a shop space. It's basically never the case in North America that they're employees; this saves the shop owner all sorts of hassle, but puts the onus on the barber/hair dresser as the responsible business owner and thus the one required to be licenced. They provide their own clippers and barbasol. The hair dresser themself is the management that needs to provide necessary resources.

Compare with the comment above about "should we licence dish washers too?" No, because dish washers are employees of a restaurant that deals with licencing and compliance with food safety laws.
It’s dishonest to refer to the Charlie Gard case as an instance of healthcare rationing. Doctors refused (experimental, zero-chance) treatment for purely medical reasons: it wasn’t the best thing for the baby. The resulting court case was over the question of whether doctors are required to (a) act in accord with the best interests of the child or (b) do whatever the child’s parents want. The answer turns out to be (a). Financial considerations never entered into the decision. The deciding factor was medical: a series of epileptic seizures which reduced the chance of a successful outcome to ~0. It isn’t ethical to torture a baby with ineffectual treatments just because the parents are (understandably) not ready to accept that the baby is going to die.
Brave.
> Imagine if I were to write a 'next-gen' CAD program or an alternative 3D modeling program in Electron. I'm not so sure if the manufacturing or the games industry would take a second look at that. But in our industry, it is seen as normal for our text editors, ide's, git clients and video editing software and our messaging clients to be expensive in memory and cpu time.

Specialized industry software have a (moderate) liberty of picking a platform. They can say that they work only on Windows, or Mac, or a flavor of Unix if necessary, based on various market factors and major clients. They can atleast release for one major platform, and hold out for other platforms until they are really big enough.

On the other hand, general purpose software (editors, messaging, etc) – they need to be everywhere. Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, Mac – at the very least. Because users already are multi-device. Even in the best case, a single user wants his/her important apps to sync between phone and laptop. Your general purpose app is dead on arrival if it does not support atleast two platforms.

Comparing these two is like apples and oranges.
It comes down to the fact that the military (and associated industrial complex) doesn't exist to win wars.
Wow, a pro-sexual assault stance... you clearly have some serious issues

>selfishly clutching their pearls over inconsequential annoyances

I don't even know what to say here. Referring to sexual assaults as inconsequential annoyances is so ignorant and vile I can't even comprehend how people can have such sickeningly twisted points of view

>Japanese tend to have an intuitive understanding that sending an easily tolerated creep to jail will cause damage to everyone in his life including his employer and his family

No one should have to "tolerate" sexual abuse, and good, if you think that behavior is acceptable your life should be damaged and your family should be aware of it

>They lack the impulsive blind urge for life-destroying revenge

Telling the police that someone sexually assaulted you is not seeking revenge, it's the right thing to do. Also, the person that committed the assault is the one destroying their life, no one else.

>Their culture is different but you seem hesitant to respect or recognize that.

Culture doesn't justify sexual assault

edit: 3 people have downvoted this since it was posted. I never would have thought that not supporting sexual predators would be controversial. Would anyone that downvoted like to chime in and explain why it's ok to molest people in public?
Looks like this is his resume http://estiens.github.io, doesn't look like a senior "coder" to me.
I've heard of cases where people don't help even in serious situations, like someone is bleeding on the road after an accident (not in Japan) and this is the reason why. Cops can easily ruin your day, even if you are genuinely helping
In a contained setting it still will sequester carbon. It is more easily monitored for expected behavior. It minimizes risk to other ecosystems.
Web applications are not websites.
No shit Sherlock!

You know what makes patients feel better too? Super large rooms with a lot of light, and designer furniture. Add quality meals and perhaps people will feel ok in hospitals...
USA hasn't really fought people capable of shooting down jets in a while. So the latest is generally the early 1990's with the combat in Iraq.

The only stealth plane shot down that I am aware of was a F-117 shot down by short range SAM in the Kosovo war in 1999. It was a older 1960's missile design. Probably due to a large part of combination of dumb luck on the side of the SAM operator and the Airforce being lazy and having the jet fly predictable routine routes.
I'm curious about this as well. It's now #69, 5 minutes later. I seem to recall this happening quite a bit for global warming stories. Anyone from HN want to explain please? Do all 'political' stories get buried?
Which newspapers got hit hard by Google's June algorithm change?
What an interesting idea. Carbon footprint adjusted import\export tariffs. Community enforceable, incentivises r&d and profiteers towards low carbon FP products.

Maybe the tariffs go into some kind of refugee trust, or disaster preparedness account
> I’m not even going to try and address whatever weird issues a console emulator might have, those always have problems being ported to non-x86 platforms, especially when they include a JIT. As it happens, dynamic recompilation of machine code not designed for that purpose can be pretty damn hard. Take a look at the posts the Dolphin emulator team make about the fun they encounter.

This isn't that! The JIT works when you remove iOS's sandbox (by Jaibreaking). And this applies to every iOS console emulator.
That's an amazing story, I'd have loved that as a kid (or now!)
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The obvious common sense definition of "open source" is "I can see the source." This is probably what everyone in this thread automatically thought of, except those to whom the agenda of the Open Source Initiative is of extreme importance and who thus have memorized their definition.
This was an early harbinger of Apple's return to prominence:

http://www.paulgraham.com/mac.html
I personally think that the reason that some people act callous towards those who are poor/experiencing misfortune is ultimately because they're afraid. If you tell yourself that people end up poor because of a moral failing, you make poverty seem like something that won't and can't ever happen to you, because the very fact that you're not currently in poverty proves that you must have a better moral constitution somehow.
Interesting point, reminds me of this article: https://www.supermemo.com/en/archives1990-2015/articles/geni.... One of the points it makes is basically that abstract thinking is more valuable than specific facts, and that math is basically the king of this. I hadn’t really thought about comparatively weak something like programming can be since a strong focus of it is syntax (if programming and computer science are somewhat seperated).
Given the amount of provisos, conditions, and regulators required to approve of planting, it sounds to me like it is better to beg forgiveness than ask permission.
To combat this it is suspected that Americans use a
technique that involves 'ghosting' commercial airliner
traffic to mask the signatures of their jets against
the lower frequency, longer range, radar.

That sounds fascinating. A quick Googling bore no fruit for me. Can you elaborate, or point me in the direction of more information?
Are you serious? Groping someone on a train is sexual assault
Maybe you can't be patient in the weathering a siege sense, but you can absolutely be patient on a shorter time frame. A little short-term patience can get you a long way as opposed to being reckless or hot-headed.

That said, this study seems to be bogus in that obviously people from wealthier countries will view $100 as less significant than countries with poorer economies. That money will go a lot further in such an economy, and is much more valuable there.
Why a cure for dementia would trigger a crisis
Humpo Sapiens
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PyQt and PySide take full advantage of the C++ Qt library. Performance is as good as a C++ native Qt app, as long as you have no logical bottlenecks in Python.
I found this reference in which the abstract provides this definition: "The age of the Solar System can be defined as the time of formation of the first solid grains in the nebular disc surrounding the proto-Sun"

https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo941

"The age of the Solar System can be defined as the time of formation of the first solid grains in the nebular disc surrounding the proto-Sun. This age is estimated by dating calcium–aluminium-rich inclusions in meteorites. These inclusions are considered as the earliest formed solids in the solar nebula. Their formation marks the beginning for several long- and short-lived radiogenic clocks that are used to precisely define the timescales of Solar System events, such as the formation and evolution of planetary bodies1,2,3. Here we present the 207Pb–206Pb isotope systematics in a calcium–aluminium-rich inclusion from the Northwest Africa 2364 CV3-group chondritic meteorite, which indicate that the inclusion formed 4,568.2 million years ago."
It's funny because at least China and India acknowledge the full scale of the climate change.
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Retrofitting an existing car is also much better from a pollution and resources standpoint than building a new one. This probably is the true way of the future anyhow.
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I often think about what use the modern fighter jet is. I'd be interested to know exactly what role they really play and why a F22 would be deployed risking a pilots life vs. a drone. Maybe the F22 has a bigger payload or more precision?
This may well be the future of scientific modeling for problems that are too hard to find complete analytic solutions to. It's often the case that most of the problem is tractable but there's a core part that's hard/impossible to analyze. Traditional reinforcement learning (RL) has allowed treating the entire process as a black box which can be "machine learned" by approximating it with a neural network. This works remarkably well, but it's inefficient because it discards everything we know about the parts of the problem that are easy to model, like basic physics, chemistry, electronics, optics—whatever domain the problem is in. Differentiable programming (∂P) now allows you to write a program that models what you do know about the problem, leaving a much smaller black box function to learn for the part that you cannot model. You can run this program with a random untrained neural net for the part of the model you don't know, look at the loss function of the result, and then differentiate (aka back-propagate) through the rest of the program (aka model) to improve the black box. This lets you efficiently approximate just the hard non-analytic core part of the model with a neural network instead of having to learn to approximate the entire problem as in traditional RL. Since you already have a good analytic model of the surrounding problem and don't have to learn those parts, this gives a huge—orders of magnitude—improvement in terms of learning speed, while also improving accuracy and reducing the risk of over-fitting.
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What a horrible experiment, too. You could conclude that wealthier people are more able to trust commitment over time. In a $100 context, I would be considered wealthy, but I still might take $100 now just because who knows where this guy will be a year from now. This is measuring time value of money versus risk, imo. Time value of money is also different for someone without money, as well. 100 Euro might buy a quality item now that will last, instead of a cheap version that needs to be replace multiple times in a year.

When I think of patience and building wealth, my first thought is always the college grads who get recruited from university and immediately go out and buy a really nice car. A lot of them even had perfectly functional cars going into their first jobs. In fact, several of them when to work for consulting firms where their nice new cars would be sitting at the airport parking lot 5 days out of every week. Put off that fancy car just a bit and then you can have that little nest egg which will kick off that patience<->wealth feedback loop.
You asked for personal stories. If you want something more robust, check the Harvard Medical School study:

https://pnhp.org/excessdeaths/health-insurance-and-mortality...
I noticed this too! We have no insight in how this works 'under the hood'. But this one really disappeared disturbingly fast.
And then you've just got an underpowered Linux laptop.

Chromebooks are great for what they are. Fantastic for people that just need access to the web. They're pretty much immune to the technically-challenged.
Italy is infamous for its corruption.
Only if they provide an electron app, to which then yes it is a 'desktop app'.

Autodesk's demo is in a web browser, good luck trying this when you're offline.
The article is missing a very important answer: do people get discriminated in the system after jail or prison time ? how fast do system organize court for a recently arrested “criminal”? These are realy important to judge the actions of the police.
Works fine on Safari for me.
The positive tree planting story (with less engagement + comments) is now #1.

Really weird, I don't get this algorithm. We don't even have a downvote for stories.
Accepting the fact that we're just like any other animal on this planet, merely along for the ride until the day we're done, will help curb the rage and grief felt towards the planet's reformation.

This is just what happens here. Species rise and fall, lands rise and sink, yet the Earth spins on until some other shit starts to happen on the surface. We just happened to fuck it up for ourselves faster. Humans have been good at that since day one.
I still don't understand why you are pointing this out? You seem to be the one hung up on the word free. It IS FREE when using the public program- and that's what people want. Calling the police when you need help is free- I don't care how it's been funded. When I need it, I don't need to think about a cost whatsoever.

If you are a disabled person who has never been able to work in your entire life and has never been able to pay a dime in taxes.. yet you are able to use all of these public programs, that is completely 100% free, right?

You say the media is being deceptive when using free.. no, you know what they mean by free, so if anything I would call you the 'deceptive' one because you are intentionally making the discussion more complicated by getting so hung up on semantics.

What everyone in this entire planet wants is to be able to get healthcare when they NEED it and not worry about the cost. So they want FREE healthcare. If you still have a hard time with this concept then just think about free as in "use". If using something means you don't have to think about the cost, then using it is free. Was it funded by someone somewhere? Well no shit- you can put a 'cost' on anything no matter what it is.

Next you will tell me free healthcare isn't free because you need to drive yourself to the doctor, or take a bus. And that costs money. So it's not free anymore! Scandal!
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How effective are Facebook reviews for marketing purposes?
That's a good question. Perhaps the best one here.

You should check out the book "Drone Warrior," by Brett Velicovich,

https://www.amazon.com/Drone-Warrior-Soldiers-Americas-Dange...

Which is a great book, by a drone operator/warrior.
I'll respond in good faith, even though I'm not sure the critiques are. The amount that you can figure out from a small code snippet someone sends you is not very much IMHO.

I'm happy to talk about code I've written, or pair or walk through complex code in an interview, or refer you to my github, but if you ask for a link to a small amount of code in your application that "makes you proud", I'll send over code that made me proud for some reason whether or not it was technically 'good code'. I explained my reasons in the application. I stand by it as code that would have been a good indicator to me of someone's ability to problem-solve if I was on the hiring end.

The second one was basically a "not interested" note, yes. I'm not going to just accept a power dynamic where someone tells me that they already have significant reservations about me, but they are going to 'give me a chance to impress them' - if other people don't mind wooing hiring managers that openly flaunt power dynamics like those, more power to them.
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Imagine you are out at night with a flashlight. Trying to detect a car driving towards you.

One car is painted like a fire truck with reflectors. The other is matte black/gray.

The first one you will be able to spot much earlier and determine things like speed/direction much more clearly. Not to mention that the driver of both cars will see you and your flashlight before you detect them.

It is not that planes are invisible to radar. It is that they can make it much more difficult for that radar flashlight to detect them at long range and/or determine their exact speed and heading.
The whole thing just feels unprofessional, just inform them you are not interested and move on. I know programmers aren’t the most professional bunch and we disregard some conventions, but this whole article felt like the author was unwilling or unable to grasp the realities of what an employer employee relationship is.
The English in this sales page is terrible. There's even a misspelling of the product name in the opening paragraph.
The entire "payday loan" industry depends on this calculation. If you're desperate enough you'll pay almost any future cost for that 100 today.
Dont be ridiculous. There are explanations of the ranking algorithim, and even a cursory glance explains this. Top ranked posts get a couple hundred replies and several hundred likes. This comment will be #20 at my writing, and im already 2 of the others.
You're free to vote into law such local ordinances

Well, it's not quite as cut and dry as that. There does seem to be some legitimate question on First Amendment right to peaceful assembly grounds. Much of the case law has generally upheld these ordinances, however it has shaped them so that municipalities have to be careful to construct the ordinances correctly.
this is the blueprint for how to get people to not use your products
What do miss from C# compared to Free Pascal? Outside of something like LINQ and lambdas i can't think of any other major difference between the two languages (and lambdas are WIP, i think they already work in the trunk), what do you have in mind?
I’m also terribly sick of projects that describe themselves as “lightning fast”
Optical injection attacks in through LED status indicators
I think the biggest problem of math education is that it’s not taught in a way that maximizes long-term memory. There’s a lot of research on it but I think there’s lots of methodology in teaching on how to make students remember better that’s underutilized. An example: interleaving old problems in tests and homework. Doesn’t take much work but from what I remember there are studies that show significant improvement in final tests scores and likely in overall recall. Depending on students to review older material on their own isn’t a good bet.
If you have the time, it would be a great project to translate and summarize all the relevant material about the Familia Toledo.
Felt the same way, but if you look closely, good games are simple games. Heck you could even build simulators that don't involve much imagination as you base them on real life objects.
It made billions for companies. The rule of thumb is to start off "legal", build a big audience with huge benefits to the companies you're burrowing the data from, then quickly shift to legal. If you're not fast enough, you're dead. Web scraping and crawling has become less acceptable because the market leaders carved out the niches before you in a very "legal" way, and DO NOT want you as a competitor.
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No apple watch or AirPods, till there was, and guess what Steve Jobs isn't there. Wearables increased by 50% yoy. There are many different areas that Apple will move into, AR, automation, home, still plenty of room for growth
I'm curious if this applies to doctor offices too. In Japan, doctor offices are very barebones: small, cramped, and only has enough space for the doctor and one patient.

Since Japan has national health care, they spend the minimum amount necessary to keep these offices operational. So there is no art, no big spaces, no "nice to have" things.

If a patient only spends 15-30 minutes in that environment, will it really impact their stress, anxiety and pain?
Where are you going to get vacuum from, to power the brake booster?
> I fail to see why the "big names" shouldn't just be hoisted to top-level domains.

They will: http://apple
Yeah, its not like they made some headphones that 20% of the people you see on the street are wearing.
Its about time that we take care of the blue collar criminals.
From the outside, it’s a hypocritical show when there is an established market of dominant companies, and then a new company enters the scene capturing a new secondary market related to the established market; then suddenly those established companies are up in arms screaming, “Regulations! Regulations!”, ready to support the government to throw the book at the new companies for <reasons>, as long as no regulations impact the established companies and they can continue to selectively skirt around which regulations they don’t like.

And once they establish business units to compete against the new company in the secondary market, suddenly the established companies aren’t so pressed about needing to enforce regulations anymore.
The parents of the kids can be poor though which might lead to a lack of food in the home.
Job is a fantastic piece of Hebrew literature and a great look at an important question in religion: Why does bad happen to good people? I'd be hard pressed to find a better look into it.

Unfortunately, the KJ and NIV translations of Job are, well, almost incomprehensible. You have to read it a few times before you begin to grok it. If you are interested, the CEB translation is a lot more accessible for first time readers:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Job+1&version=C...
China Removes Moslem Symbols
You can move to any unoccupied position in your half in (1). We didn't analyse it deeply tbh, mostly we'd just build an ultra-castle of some sort. And yes, you can put in a new piece to block check. We didn't initially realise this, but the king should be the first piece played, or obviously some smart alec will just leave it off the board.

With the assassins, yes it's just a normal setup. But if your first move as white is to turn over the black d7 or f7 pawn, and one of those is the assassin, then you get to take the king. If they're normal pawns, you've spent the move, setting you back in development. Probability-wise I just mean there's a 2/8 chance that it's one of these pawns.
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In the age of Electron it's worth mentioning.