skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a different individual... and the story described https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article20800977...

> Zhang, a lawful permanent resident in the U.S., was a rice researcher at Kansas State University and received a doctorate in rice genetics from Louisiana State University. He began working for Ventria in 2008 and was in charge of plant breeding and nursery operations.

> In 2012, Zhang and a co-defendant traveled to visit a crop research institute in China where Zhang once worked. The following year, the two made arrangements for a delegation from the Chinese institute to visit Kansas.

> ...

> Ventria invested about $75 million to develop this proprietary technology and is the only company in the U.S. that has it. The lab maintains seed banks in a climate-controlled environment. Only six employees had access to the storage area. Zhang was one of them.

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The story here is:

> “Tao is alleged to have defrauded the US government by unlawfully receiving federal grant money at the same time that he was employed and paid by a Chinese research university — a fact that he hid from his university and federal agencies,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement. “Any potential conflicts of commitment by a researcher must be disclosed as required by law and university policies.”

> The Kansas Board of Regents requires faculty and staff of its universities to file a conflict of interest report when they are hired and every year afterward for as long as they are employed.

> According to court documents, Tao “knowingly and intentionally submitted to the University false statements concerning his lack of a conflict of interest.”

> The indictment alleges that Tao “fraudulently received” more than $37,000 in salary paid for by the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
My son is 4 and we get a lot of kids books out of the library. I do wonder occasionally whether he can catch a cold from the books since kids are sick quite a lot and they like to put their hands in their mouths, etc
I’m surprised they haven’t had more responses on here already.

We’ve been a customer for years, but the billing has made us pretty restrictive of how and where it’s being used.
Website looks from the 90’s and zero shopper security. No need to worry about a data breach on this one it’s guaranteed with every sale haha
Google has more contractors than FT employees. (100k vs 121k)

https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-contractors-employee...
The Bible does record the fact that historical figures had multiple wives, but it also records the fact that this was an endless source of trouble. The law recorded in the Bible prohibits kings from multiple wives, and also records that they put themselves above this law and the problems this caused. It's more that this practice was tolerated than endorsed. It was certainly not lauded. In Proverbs, the assumption is monogamy.

By the time you get to New Testament times, elders in the church could only have one wife, and the admonition of Galatians 3:28 (and others) eventually led to the phase out of these practices - not based on law, but based on love for one another and looking out for one another.

What the Bible shows is God meeting people where they were at and guiding them to a better way over time. These priests should have paid attention to that.
> Again, the 3/5 compromise was forced on the slave states to reduce their power in federal decision making

To claim it reduced their power is false. It was less than they preferred, and more than the free states preferred

The argument for any consideration of slaves in apportionment included the arguments GP puts forward.
If you posit rentable (by mile/hour/day) autonomous vehicles available for purchase on the market, why wouldn't Hertz, Avis, National, etc. be the obvious owners and operators? They'd need to distribute their parking for these vehicles more than it is today. (Although Avis does own Zipcar.) But that seems like a pretty tractable problem.
Like so many other articles, this one contains no information about the possible causes and motives behind forest fires, just a bit of hearsay. Surely in most countries, land that is forest has to stay forest even after a fire and cannot legally be used as farm land? What is the legal situation in Brazil? Could it be that reforestation has other economic benefits, like new CO2 credits?
PS: DuckDuckGo itself makes it trivial to rerun the search with Google, just add "g!" to your search terms and you'll get redirected.
The guy who stole an invention that cost tens of millions of dollars to develop, to say nothing of its actual market value.
online does not necessarily mean “those apps”. it can mean a message board, a game, etc
lol Blair
> not really a meaningful difference between the two extensions

That is incorrect.

uBlock Origin has filter syntax not found in ABP[1], so there will be a meaningful difference when it comes to what is blocked or not, and also there is a difference due to policy[2].

* * *

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax

[2] https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/j5zk8y/why-your-ad-blocke...
I think you mean that stealing a cure to some disses isn't bad?
Yeah, I tried using Powershell as my shell and that's when I found out Powershell is more about the scripting language than an optimized shell used for everyday use. I was confronted with this almost immediately because one of the things I rely on most in Bash is 'dirs -v', pushd and popd. I have dirs aliased to dirs -v and I usually have 15-20 paths on my stack. I'll leave implementing the same functionality in Powershell as a user exercise.
In case you hadn't noticed: All you are making is assertions. Some of those assertions probably have a tradition behind them, but they aren't any more insightful than "people who choose nicknames beginning with 'b' are stupid in principle". We understand you believe that, but that doesn't make those assertions any more sensible.
GSoC 2019: An open-source music recommendation engine
Is there something special/different about Apple Pay for online shopping versus physical stores?

My Capital One card loaded to my iPhone has worked with Apple Pay in physical stores since the inception of the feature. I use it literally every day. In the last few days I used it at McDonald's and at Whole Foods.
You understand neither morality nor evolution.
I deliberately didn't write UBI since this would be one-off or at least very irregular, and not necessarily an amount high enough to deserve the name UBI.

This means that voters could decide differently than on UBI. Especially if these payments are financed by magic money printing rather than taxes.
I don’t get it. You still need to load all kinds of attributes into an online account, which is perfectly centralized, right?
You did not read what I wrote. What I said does not go against what NASA is saying there. If anything is a corroboration.

Also, how can you say '0 proof', when you asked for government document, and I gave you a link with exactly that, news on government leaked document.
Sure, he can get a cold (and a variety of other things, like hand, foot, and mouth disease) that way.
I can really take stronger biodegradable grocery bags. The corn plastic based ones are an exercise in softness.
Shubik’s Dollar Auction
The lifetime of most common viruses once they are outside The body is measured in minutes, so you should be fine.
Clojure is such a beautiful language. Shame I can't use it at work, blah
Using plasma volume is clearly not appropriate, since the point of the comparison is to compare cost of the equipment, by comparing the volume and size of the equipment between the two approaches (and ignoring that fusion equipment is much more complex and sophisticated than that in a fission reactor.)

The fuel comparison is silly, since fuel is not a major cost driver for either approach. The misconception that fuel costs matter is one of the errors that leads people to think fusion is desirable.
You use your best judgement based on the context, as you usually do when developing software. The only thing you've gained by applying a documented pattern is a bit of help to write your commit message :-)
I second this. In particular with something like Tinder, the only thing that matters is attractiveness. There is no place on Tinder to put details like hobbies, interests, etc. it is just a giant game of hot-or-not.

Other sites like OkCupid are better in that respect.
That's just far too simplistic. Child abuse, mental illness, PTSD from traumatic experiences, traumatic brain injury, can all lead to impulsive erratic behaviors. Sin is also vague, and biblical sin is often completely disconnected from the actual cause of why someone is making poor choices.
>We joke about Datadog among our ops team. When we were investigating adopting them, I signed up for an account with my company email.

The exact same thing happened to me an employer or two ago. Their sales droids were so aggressive with the calls (one time, many of our people were on vacation, one guy answered, told them no thanks, and then that same caller proceeded to ring nearly every phone in the cube farm sequentially) that, to this day, that team refers to getting bothered by pushy vendors as "getting datadogged".
I hope a lot of the lost money goes to the drivers. This is trickle down economics through another path.
Can buying or selling a home be easier? Cheaper?
> You use your best judgement based on the context

This isn't how science is supposed to work.

I work on programming language performance - when I say something could be implemented in a faster way, people don't just say 'yeah using my best judgement that'll be faster', they ask me to prove it. Otherwise I'm laughed off the stage. Why is it different for these people?
Billionaire half life is around 20 years. From 1995 till 2015 around 50% of billionaires dropped out of the league:

https://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/21/most-billionaires-lost-a-com...

Big money doesn't equate smart money.
In my opinion you should stick to the matured technologies, here is what i use
1)php for web. Framework if any used, depends on project
2)python or php for scripting
3)mysql/postgres for db

In real I experiment a lot with my side projects.
I develope android apps, build linux desktop apps in c++, make js micro-utilities,built a unity3d game, write wordpress plugins and list goes on. But when it comes to solid sel3ction I prefer matured tech, they are well documented; major bugs are already solved and edge cases are well defined by community.

Tldr;
Use mature tech for main work. Experiment others on side
I generally dislike building arguments on top of statistics, rather than on theory which to my eye almost always looks more convincing. With statistics it is as if the burden is passed on to the reader to check the veracity and validity of the said numbers, where as if it is an argument constructed out of theory, the whole of it is present there for the reader to judge intrinsically on its own merits.
No. Your credentials/attributes are stored (encrypted) on your device.
Agree 100%. Capitalism is about seizing the means of production
Showing that their material has a breadth of applications, and can be worked into different shapes and contexts?

To be clear, they used their invention to make a shoe.
No you dont need a transpiler. The new language features are exiting, but its really just old concepts from other languages. And IMHO these old conceps are not better and some of them are worse. JavaScript was lucky and got some things right, like first class functions, prototype instead of classes, function scope, no need for getter/setters. Node.js also got lucky with its module system. JavaScript was lucky because it was async. Javascript got adopted in more then just browsers because it was lightweight. Etc.
Prevalent use of these macros in clojure code is admission to the following facts,

1. Lisp code is hard to read.

2. Lisp based languages do not have "small syntax".
I’m not arguing morality I really don’t care what two or more consenting adults do. I think the most “moral” thing we can do as a society is to leave other people the hell alone to live their own life.
Hopefully there are popular services which can allow anonymous comments, posts without creating accounts.

I find it harder and harder to see such things. Today majority of the sites don't even work in privacy mode forget about anonymous.

I believe Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft or any other company whose business depends on customer personal information will have incentive to promote it really. Yes they might have efforts towards some privacy which does not affect their profit. But anonymity will never be supported by then. Try using any of their services over Tor network and see the issues.
Cities Are Saying ‘No’ to 5G, Citing Health, Aesthetics, and FCC Bullying
Next Home Might Be Appraised by a Robot
I haven't gone through this yet- but my understanding is that there are some examples of this here "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" [1].

[1] http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
The whole premise of a monopoly was never sound. There is no cost to drivers to run multiple apps, and no cost to users to use multiple apps. You don't care who is on your network, you only care who can get me the fastest and cheapest ride right now.
Everyone who is Brazilian will tell you it’s a long shot that this is anything but big landowners. They’ve been doing this for ages and they have murdered people who tried to stop them.

The law in Brasil is not like in other places. You think someone will stop a big landowner from getting more land after it’s been deforested? The new President has gutted the environmental agencies so nothing will or can be done.

Here’s an article on rolling stone with some more detail: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/brazilia...

Notice how the local government office is under armed protection. This is to protect them from the big landowners. This is not unusual in Brasil. Please do more research
Seventy versus One Hundred
I don't know what "materialism is scientific" would mean exactly. I never made that claim, so don't ask me to defend it.

Remember, you are the one who wants to fight this "materialism vs. dualism" battle, not me. I'm not saying your position is wrong. I'm saying your position seems inconsequential at best, but harmful at worst.

To illustrate this, let's take a hypothetical "dualist" explanation for disease:

"Disease is caused by spirits that attach to our bodies, but we cannot observe these spirits by any physical means and we can never interact with them in any distinguishable way."

In other words, we cannot perform experiments, we cannot learn anything, so these spirits might as well not exist at all. There is no practical difference.

Now that's all fine and well until you realize that disease is actually caused by physical processes than you can understand and intervene with. Had you been convinced that it was spirits all along, you wouldn't have bothered trying to figure out the physical processes.

Today this example may sound ridiculous, but for most of history similar convictions held people back from turning quackery into real medicine.
It appears the seducer would pay with monetary damages and the seducted would pay with a life in disgrace
No, I actually mean increase. As in the number of available vacant properties is rising.
Open source. https://gitlab.com/Mr_Goldberg/goldberg_emulator
> Don't worry about it, if they follow through and it works it won't have meant much if they said that.

That's a pretty big if though, and if it doesn't work that statement precludes recourse.
Also, the policy described was a lot more than "let's try mildly negative interest rates". And the oil crisis was probably not Switzerland's fault.

The headline is scaremongering.
I can understand your frustration.

However, the unstructuring of data and keeping a single form of communication is what has kept UNIX around for so long and why Linux hasn't collapsed under its own weight long ago.

I was voicing your opinions exactly when I was new to the professional computing world. Over time I saw a lot of structured data schemes come and go and they all fall down with this: inflexibility and improper implementations.

Where do you think does the structure inside the data come from? You need to come up with a standard. Now you need everyone to stick to that standard. You need to parse the entire data or at least most of it to get to the information you need, finding new security footguns on the way. Soon you will realise you need to extend the standard. Now you have not only conflicting implementations (because noone ever gets them completely right) but conflicting versions.

And this needs to be done for every single fucking little filter and every single language they are written in.

Take a look at the various implementations of DER and ASN.1. The standard seems simple at first glance, but I haven't seen a single implementation that wasn't wrong, incomplete or buggy. Most of them are all of that. And DER is a very old standard that people should have understood in the meantime.

In order to get at least a bit of sanity in all of this, you need a central source of The Truth wrt. your standard. Who is that going to be for Linux and the BSDs and for macOS? Linus? Microsoft? Apple? The ISO standards board? You?

And all of this is equally true for log data.

I'm okay with tossing backwards compatibility over board. But not in favour of the horrible nightmare some people here seem to propose.
Sounds likely to me. If you mess around with any ecosystem enough it will change unpredictably
Just because you need a red annotation doesn’t mean they don’t have TCO. Most people consider Scala to have TCO, and you need rec annotations as well. Also I said mutation is discouraged for ML languages, not that it hard. Point taken about the imperative control structures, though.
Sure. So UML is based on two main research areas - UML class diagram is based on rational algebra theory. A correct UML class diagram should follow the same normalization roles as defined by Codd seminal paper - "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks".

You can ask, how does Prof Codd knows that this is is the correct way to describe and implement data. Well this follow directly from set theory. Again, how do we know that set theory works - well here we are the level of axioms of the set algebra.

BTW, this Codd work was also "hacked" again by system R research which invented SQL.

The other part of UML is based on finite state machine, which originated by Turning, and later refined by the work of David Harel on state charts. Again, those are theoretical CS tools. However, the work of Harel on state charts, was originated from the work on the Israel first aircarft (to be cancelled later), where he needed to define the the missile system.

If you are interested on how those tool originated and later combined see the work of David Hay - "UML-Data-Modeling-Reconciliation"

Those tools are useful in scale. For example, system with 3000 different use cases. Or for example you have 200 - 500 classes, each is a state machine.

Again, since there is no software professional standard (not software engineering bar exam), you can or cannot use anything.
International Year of the Periodic Table 2019: an infographic for every element
I really enjoy the Failjure library [1] to make threads that short-circuits on failures. This is pretty close to what monadic error handling looks like in strongly typed functional languages.

[1] https://github.com/adambard/failjure
There are some who work for those organizations that care passionately about civil liberties and work hard to preserve them while still carrying out necessary functions of government.
Also the article is openly quoting Brasilian forest agencies - you think that’s hearsay? That’s pretty silly
It's blogs and sites like Udemy. Their business model depends on people needing to learn new technologies constantly. So when they tell you "MVC is dead" or "Rails is dead", there is a direct profit motive in it for them. They tell you everyone is using Backbone.js, so you move. Then the next year it's Angular. Backbone is outdated, no one uses it anymore. Then the next year it's React.

The blogs drive the technology shifts in order to get clicks. And every time the technology shifts, Udemy sells a million tutorial videos at $10 a piece. Everyone gets up to speed on the new thing just in time for the blogs to find new clicks and Udemy to find new videos.

Meanwhile the real world still runs on Laravel, Rails, Flask, and Postgres.
yes in the browser
Need not forget the incredibly price sensitive crowd that is embracing Amazon.
You cut off the quote too soon. The very next sentence is “(A state law banning such practices has since passed.)”.

Stop making outrage-generating posts like this by cutting off relevant information.
They are speaking primarily from experience and I think they are pretty transparent about that. We're not in a field where many studies even exist on these types of processes. It is up to you as a developer to try them out and assess their merit.
LMFTFY:

(one Lisp code is hard to read for people who don't read lisp code.)

(two Lisp based languages have tree-like structures with a simple syntax)
To take the other side of this coin, where is the evidence that evidence makes a difference? At least, where is the evidence that evidence is what convinces a software developer or manager to change something about their process?

There are entire conferences [0,1] where hundreds of researchers present peer-reviewed studies, case studies, and concrete examples, evidence for various software engineering claims. Thousands of papers have been published at these conferences over time. Usually when those papers are linked here, they don't get much attention, e.g. [2], [3], [4].

As a rule, industry doesn't pay attention to them, except to hire the grad students out of academia. At these conferences, they spend a lot of time discussing how to get more industry participation. But the things they try haven't really worked so far.

To go to all the trouble of generating peer-reviewed science only to have it ignored may not be the best trade available for how Fowler, Beck, et al spend their time. There are doubts about whether it's the best way for academics to spend their time.

[0] http://www.icse-conferences.org/

[1] https://www.esec-fse.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20064211

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20575415

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19714085
you don’t want to go there, presumably because it’s not politically aligned with your beliefs. Which is exactly how it works.
> It's not clear to me why

I commented on this earlier but the defectiveness of PS as a shell hit me almost immediately when I tried to recreate my workflow of 'dirs -v', pushd and popd with a large number of paths on the stack.
Hacking the Real Estate Industry
Hi All. I'm looking for your opinions, experiences, thoughts, and ideas on why the real estate industry makes buying and selling property so expensive. Help us hack the real estate industry! I'm a real estate agent and founder of Realoky.com ... we are trying to make it easy and free! Thanks for your help,
Rich
Am I the only one who first read the title as "nutshell"?
I don't really understand your comment. Shows your ignorance to be honest: have you ever heard of active records? Or optimistic locking? Because these are VERY tangible software constructs and Martin Fowler for example wrote a whole book about them.
VERY BAD, because now someone need to add 'in Brazil' to avoid confusion.
The answer, unless you want to check the price of commodities each morning, is to recycle glass and bottles anyway and let the recycler decide if it’s economically efficient to send it to the landfill or to reprocessing.
I remember "Neptune All Night" on PBS from WHYY that night. It was one the first things I ever videotaped. It was awesome seeing the images coming down.