skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a hard time taking this article too seriously.

>not coming from the usual producers, but from Brazil, Canada, Norway and Guyana — countries that are either not known for oil or whose production has been lackluster in recent years.

Canada ranks 5 in oil exports, Norway 13, Brazil 21. Sure, Guyana belongs in that sentence. But... uh, okay? Rank 5 is "not usual"?

Next part, wtf do you expect? Oil companies are going to bull rush to increase their cash supply in the coming years due to gas car bans coming in the next decades along with the push for renewable energy. Did people actually think these multi billion dollar companies are going to just say, "Oh well, we had a good run. We should take ourselves out to pasture now"?

>Years of moderate gasoline prices have already increased the popularity of bigger cars and sports utility vehicles in the United States

I'm pretty sure that "demand" is a drop in the bucket to the past decade of Chinese demand that's been increasing.

Fun point I really, really like: "The added production in Norway comes despite the country’s embrace of the 2016 Paris climate agreement, which committed nations to cut greenhouse-gas emissions."

Hmmm, so Norway taxes the shit out of oil(which they should, don't pretend I'm for oil). What does that mean? Oh, let's see, 2018 oil tax rev was NOK 155 billion (17b USD), 2019 is estimated NOK 176 billion (19b USD). I have a truly difficult time believing that the government will go, "No, we don't want that money! Away with thee!" Especially in a country of 5.3million. That splits to services among their citizens pretty well. Enough that if oil disappeared, there are public services that are going to get cut back pretty badly.

Uh huh. At a 1.2 trillion NOK operating budget (131b USD), it'll hurt to lose, what is that... oil taxes makes 12% of the gov's income? I'm trying to figure out when the memo came out where we all started to believe political rhetoric.

Don't think for a second I'm "for oil". But I'm a realist. A lot more needs to happen to end oil's stranglehold. Not drum circles, UN circle jerks climate summits with teenagers crying nor bullshit "plant trees" PR stunts(past tree planting stunts have real piss poor success rates of the trees surviving after a year. Single digit percentages. And no one tries to learn from the past ones.)
There is a case study, on CEO with or w/o an MBA, and there was no correlation into the company performance, there was a positive correlation with better compensation.

We’ll post the link when I find it.

Edit: just use google scholar, there are a load of studies. Scanning through the titles quickly shows that a many people are wondering what is the value of the MBA. It does make the schools a lot of money.
Hi, I am author of glChAoS.P
Please tell me more about your problem in OSX (GPU type?)
Unfortunately I got very trouble with (deprecated) OpenGL in OSX, and I'm seriously thinking of abandoning development on mac... moreover the "pure rendering" operations result faster in WebGL versoin

I coult test it only in 10.14.x with AMD GPU.

Please, read also my reply @gunn

P.S.
I'll try to signing glChAoS.P in future release
Sorry, I'm not a expert mac developer, only a "discreet" *uniX developer... I would be glad if someone managed the OSX release in github ;)
How is there a competition when the link you provided is a landing page with an input box to "sign up [...] to find out when it's ready"?
Are you referring to "The children now love luxury...", which is often misattributed to Socrates? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates#Misattributed
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Well, that would be stupid from your part if you kept wealth that should be inherited in Bitcoin-form, not a Bitcoin shortcoming. Just like it is not a shortcoming of cash that you can bury it in a hole in the desert and tell no one about it and expect it to be inheritable.
Really? i thought i ended when everyone was talking about how millennials are ruining companies by not buying affordable products.

Or saying millennials are poor because they like avocados.
Or saying millennials are entitled for demanding a living wage.
Try Plato (http://www.platohq.com). I used it for a few months and really liked it. It's a bit pricey, though, but if you find the right mentors it could be super valuable.
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I have been thinking about joining https://www.platohq.com/ which is specifically what you are looking for.
Answering to a "male problem" (e.g. men pursuing less education) by stating it's actually another example of bias agains women ("that's because women need more education to get the same job") is not really a constructive position, is it?
Listen, really, for storing large amounts, why would you not want to have any backups?

Look at Shamir Secret Sharing and consider hiding the keys in multiple locations that only you would know. You would need N of them from any of N x 3 friends and 1 of them from you.

Remembering where you stored one key is easier than remembering the seed phrase or whatever.

For good measure, watch the beginning of The Bourne Identity.

The rest is strictly optional

If you are worried about forgetting even the location you stored the backup key, you might want to have an additional safeguard, that if you don’t “phone home” for a year, then afterwards you announce on a public platform that you are OK, then the machine storing one of the Shamir keys (the one which only you know) will also copy it to an account that anyone can open using your biometrics.

That means, to steal your money, they have to kidnap you for a year, then go get N of your friends to give up your keys and also use your body to fake your biometrics and somehow get you to publicly announce you are OK (this last requirement would be well known to everyone around you, so if you forgot, anyone could tell you the personal key recovery procedure).

The biometrics must include M of N things that remain stable over years, like your eyes, cardiac pattern etc.
I don't see how personal grievances and perceptions of "many people in real life" are useful and relevant to the discussion. Just like my many real life experiences with guys being assholes is not useful to discussing this paper and its publication.
> the systems should be tight enough to make sure absolutely no-one has access to customer data without consent - and that any actions taken are logged for auditing.

You haven't really done OpSec have you? There is very little absolutism in defining who gets access to what data. In fact barring nations that have historically shared data with their governments is exactly one step closer to how you would achieve this.

> Investors and potential customers need to know.

Says the guy hiding behind a throwaway (new?) account...
This is already a big (and largely unaddressed) problem with the big 3 credit CRAs, if you know enough about a person you can very easily request their credit report and get the keys to the kingdom (so-to-speak) - everything you didn't already know.

I mean, I already request credit reports for my husband without issue, for example (with his permission! - he finds it much easier to just ask me to do those things for him rather than doing them himself).

In this case, since email address is part of the report they could only send the report to the email address on file for "security," which would be a big improvement over what the big three CRAs are doing with annualcreditreport.com.
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> Cloudflare just wants all the competing CDNs, which are DNS based, to get more wildly inaccurate results on picking nodes.

That's a bunch of crap.
Cryptocurrency is just penny stocks (before regulation). Same pump-and-dump manipulation occurs. Why is this surprising?
I believe in content. An editor is just a tool.

A month ago, I offered Adam to use my editor (he is the author of TailwindCSS/UI).

As I understand, he creates static UI components that you can copy & paste to your project. My editor can be a nice feature for that library.

See this tweet: https://twitter.com/kemyd/status/1177659753251651584

I think that a lot of such builders can co-exist, and the content will be the differentiator.

If you want to know more about my philosophy, please visit https://shuffle.dev
It’s not really hypocrisy if the people who are pro-Snowden are also anti-China. Citizens with opinions aren’t hypocrites because their current government’s policies have flaws.
Look, you know what has to be the reply to this, right?

Ok, Boomer
The employer has to do it because they're the one who employs the person experiencing the loss. If this guarantee is written into law, then the company's voice will not have much influence on the matter. This is how labor law works.
> Another requested I email them from an email address they had in their records

Wow. They didn't mail it and require confirmation of receipt, they just required a (trivially forged) mail with that email address in From?
The next natural step is a unified score, social credit score, no?
Explain how it is legal for Uber to send a team of armed men to kick down my door at 3am and forcibly confine me to a cell.
China seems to have noticed how accusations of racism, xenophobia and "white supremacy" are a very effective button to push to try and get western countries to act against their own interests.

The thing is, coming from a country that is practicing cultural genocide against various ethnic groups, we can probably take those accusations and survive.
Yup it’s as if kids didn’t have grandparents and if they do they hold them in contempt.

This is just an exaggeration of a pithy retort that people think is funny (and it is). But that doesn’t mean people “believe” in it any more than people believe wearing a LeBron jersey makes them into better players.

Some boomer should have some “OK SLACKER” t-shirts printed with the tag, “Have a productive day”
Seeing theory is good.

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/
Couldn't that also be explained by the fact that more women attending college than men is a relatively new development, and most administrative/leadership/professor positions are held by older people, hence the gender ratio will take time (>20-30 years) to reflect the new gender balance?

After all, the people that are professors now were studying in the 1980s-1990s, hence the current ratio of male/female professors should logically represent the gender ratio of the field in the 1980s-1990s if there is no inherent gender bias, not the gender ratio of the field in 2019.
You could get away with that, because it's generally accepted as okay to poke male nerds in the eye. Some would even applaud you for "punching up".
> The fact that the data is being sold to third-parties (e.g., Sift) by their collectors (e.g., Airbnb) is troubling.

It looks like Airbnb & co paid Sift instead, in addition to sending it their data: "Sift has this data because the company has been hired by Airbnb, Yelp, and Coinbase"
Maybe you snap a pic of the bike where you parked it and upload it as part of the park/lock/check-in process?
OPEC hasn’t had the power to fix prices in probably a decade now. Saudi Arabia barely complies and there’s way too much oil coming out of North America for them to do a whole lot.
They havent provided me the Google form for Sift. I'll still submit it to them though. I've once been a Coinbase customer so they likely have it already.
Too much of the news involves trying to extrapolate broad societal trends from a few (usually anomalous and hence newsworthy) data points.
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Why GPS? Why not low tech transponders? They're precise enough to help you locate a scooter but too imprecise for navigation or tracking the exact path someone took. Especially if they don't ping frequently.
Yes, performance management is really hard (remote or not): the reality is that it is actually quite difficult to measure the output of software engineers. There are definitely overly bad measures (LOC, etc.), but things like mentoring, quality of code review, etc. are hard to measure if you are not observing them directly.
I have seen this happen at universities too, but I don't take issue with it. They will produce research and tech that is typically available for anyone to use. At this point the options are:

1. Technology transfer to an existing business
2. CERN employee starts a business to commercialise it
3. Nothing useful is done at all

Obviously people that originally worked on this research will have a head start when it comes to commercialising it.
Most research never leads to anything commercial (at least not withing a reasonable time-frame)
I can understand why people got upset, and more variety is a good thing, but it should also be noted that ISC is a US non-profit, and they have to pay the bills as well:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Systems_Consortium

I have no idea what the details were, but if you're going to make a buck off BIND by being a vendor of some kind, then paying for "early-access" is not crazy-unreasonable IMHO. As noted in the e-mail "Not-for-profit members can have their fees waived", so they're not trying to milk folks like the BSDs.
It's going to be a component library by the author of Tailwind, Adam Wathan. I guess my comment needed some context.
Scientists with Links to China May Be Stealing Biomedical Research, U.S. Says
Right, hasn't lazy millennial been beaten to death enough?
No: https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20171003-proof-that-peo...
> subsidies (both monetary and policy) from the Chinese government that make it almost impossible for foreign companies to compete against domestic companies.

You keep saying this sort of thing, but yet, all sorts of foreign companies do booming business in China. The likes of Starbucks, KFC, Volkswagen, Intel, Boeing and Airbus absolutely dominate their respective markets in China. For a long time, Apple was crushing it in China (until Chinese consumers decided the quality/price ratio was too low).

> But as to your point, some of the things that make it difficult for western countries to do business there is the great firewall, draconian privacy laws

The privacy laws you're citing were only just passed about a month ago. They can't have been a hindrance before. The Great Firewall affects every business in China, both foreign and Chinese.

> Just because there are U.S companies in China

It's not just that there are a few US businesses here or there in China. Foreign businesses have an enormous presence in China. It's the most important single market in the world for a very large number of American and European businesses. If that's what business "hell" looks like, I can only imagine how great heaven is.

> The U.S is a much bigger economy than China and that's one of the reasons why you see penetration from U.S companies in China.

It depends on how you measure the size of an economy. In purchasing power parity units, the Chinese economy is larger than the American economy. Going by the exchange rate, it's smaller. The question of which economy is larger is actually ill-defined.

However, the reason why there's greater penetration of American companies in China than vice versa is that the US economy is more developed. There are simply many more leading companies in many sectors in the US. In the late 1970s, China began courting foreign investment, which meant courting foreign companies. Far from making life "hell" for those companies, the Chinese government tried to give them attractive conditions. Many foreign companies invested large sums in China, and made enormous profits out of those investments.

Now, for the first time, Western companies are facing peer competitors from within China, and you suddenly hear cries of how China is taking advantage of everyone. The crazy thing is how all perspective is lost. The massive presence of foreign companies in the Chinese market and the massive exploitation of cheap Chinese labor by foreign corporations are forgotten, and all we hear about are how it's supposedly impossible to do business in China.
Yet I see a lot of young Bernie and Trump fans.
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Hi!

I'm running PDFShift (https://pdfshift.io), an HTML to PDF conversion API for a business that needs to automate this.

I compete with other similar SaaS but also against library (like Weasyprint for Python, mPDF for PHP, etc) and software (like WKHTML2PDF).

My main sources of acquisitions right now are Quora (I've answered tons of questions) and AlternativeTo. I have great reviews on Capterra, G2Crowd, and AlternativeTo with at least 4.5/5 stars, which I mention on the website.

I'm working with Google Ads since I believe it's the best place for me to be (people are interested in my service when they need me the most, hence the results of a query like "how can I convert HTML docs to pdf in php") but they doesn't show great results so far... - I'm working on improving them as of now.

Even though content marketing sounds great, I don't have much to say regarding converting HTML docs to PDF: it's a pretty basic tool.

That's why I'm turning to you, masters of growth, to help me figure out to grow the business to 5K, 10K and beyond.

Thank you in advance for your awesome inputs :)
Not sure how they do it exactly, but one possibility is CCTV cameras watching drop-off locations. You can then compare footage at the timestamp it was reported on-location if there's a dispute.

Combine this with a few anti-theft procedures that don't involve GPS / internet (as commonly used by bikeshare programs in various municipalities) and you've got something that might work.
A plastic bag is about 5.5 grams. 10 bags of groceries would be 55 grams.

A gallon (US) of gas is about 3350 grams. So if you drive 5 miles round trip in a car getting 20 miles/gallon for local driving, it uses 837 grams of gas. The oil in the bags is about 6% of the oil used on such a shopping trip.

Of course that doesn't include the plastic packaging of food, soft drinks, bottled water, etc. which is probably more comparable to the amount of oil used by the car.
Why are posts questioning China’s actions met with whataboutism regarding the US? The comment you replied to has nothing to do with the US.
It's like how class warfare is only when the poor fight back.
Amazon shopping is a storefront software tool, payment processor, and warehouse/shipping company? What value does the guy reselling trader joes for 10x markup out of his basement do that is of a similar level to what amazon does?
I mean people have been subjected to fraud scoring for decades, you get declined, you follow up, and you get in w/ a new data point for the next time.
A big factor is where we are in the economic cycle. It looks like we are heading in a recession, and if it is the case, I am happy to predict that applications will go back up.
Before you worry about the legality of Uber's Maximum Customer Satisfaction Response Team, you'll have to provide evidence that something being against the law has ever stopped Uber from attempting it.
I think that a much larger percentage of Gen Z believe in global warming than boomers do.

Of course, politicians are elected by people so if everyone believes in global warming and votes that way everything will work out.

GenY and GenZ tend to vote for more pro-climate policies, many more of them protest for the government to do something. Many more of them on environmental conscience.

The big thing you seem to be missing is governments should be doing the will of the people, and the will is there for GenZ, but not for the Boomers.
Sure, monarchy is a form of oligarchy, isn't it?
You could even use a mobile phone or something like Raspberry Pi (Zero or 4) as a USB gadget to emulate floppy drive.
Here are the links for those interested:

* PDFShift : https://pdfshift.io

* AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net/software/pdfshift/

* Capterra : https://www.capterra.fr/software/184246/pdfshift

* G2Crowd : https://www.g2crowd.com/products/pdfshift/
Every employee has well defined and actionable tasks that they just have to do (with redundancy in some key areas). As long as they do them everything works. This is what a well refined process looks like. Figuring that stuff out and keeping the process optimized is part of what those franchise fees pay for.
That's not a Greek proverb. It was written in 1951 by Elton Trueblood, a Quaker, in his book The Life We Prize:

https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2017/08/26/a-society-gro...

The book is available to loan from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/lifeweprize00true
Ok boomer
I'd really like to see something like this for the material-ui UI framework.
https://material-ui.com/
There's AntennaHouse and PrinceXML, but both are pretty
pricey ($3-5K / server), and both of these do now support CSS as well.

Apache FOP / Batik is okay for generating nice looking PDFs, but its SVG rasterization is much worse than that of Chrome's PDF renderer (Skia).

As I didn't get the memo about XML being dead, I'm still using Docbook and XSLT/XInclude to structure and filter content written in markdown/rst.

But I will be switching over from XSL-FO to CSS paged media for layout as soon as Chrome supports bookmarks in PDF output, or either WeasyPrint or wkhtmltopdf improve their CSS3 column support.
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I am building a web application for internal use at my internship and need to show individual photos from a tif file (with on average 1000 pictures) onto the application. I am using Java and anuglarjs to build the web app. I would also need a navigation function to "flip" through the pictures. Anyone have any experience working with tif files in Java?
Also, the above article itself shows some empirical data that Uber will not, in fact, just hand over my data when asked.

Note that I don’t think they do this out of the goodness of the hearts or altruism, but rather that they’ve done the calculus and determined that giving this data to the government would cost them enough ill will and loss of revenue to make it not worthwhile. Uber, unlike a government, has to answer to the market, and thus its every consumer’s duty to punish those who would sell our liberties.
Thanks, I looked at it a while go and had some trouble getting started. I'll try it again.
This is pretty much it. My generation has been called entitled, lazy, selfish, etc, for wanting the same things our parents were given, like a living wage, affordable college, or career stability. In what world is that friendly?
Wow, the russkie trolls at it again.
I often wonder if newspapers have a template for these sorts of articles that they can pull out every time one of the completely artificial and meaningless "generations" hits a certain milestone. For the last 5-10 years we've been in the cycle of articles where the current "generation" in their 20s and 30s are settling into career paths and shaking things up with their crazy new demands at work, or how they just aren't looking after their own futures like their elders did. And now that "Gen Z" has hit adulthood, it's time to write the articles where these crazy kids are pushing back on the complacency of their elders in a shockingly disrespectful way. In a few years we'll learn all about how new trends in advertising, fast food, and consumer marketing are all being shaken up by the 20-somethings who just aren't satisfied with the same-old patterns of doing business.

If you go back 20 years you'll find the same articles about millenials. Go back 20 more years and you'll find them about Gen X. Go back 20 more years and you'll find them about Baby Boomers. Go back to the 1920s and there are articles complaining about the Kids These Days, so lazy and disrespectful, taking all this newfangled technology for granted...
The problem is you can’t make any of those products without refining oil — and that is one of the biggest sources of emissions on the planet.
Even make her perform a very awkward wink.

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