skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean when they think of how US is the politically structured. Sadly, less Americans vote in local elections than federal.
Mondido Payments Is Hiring Data Enginner
Mondido is a data driven online payment solution that enables merchants to seamlessly accept payments on the web and mobile devices. We remove what’s difficult from setting up and offering various payment methods by working from a user perspective and believing that all customers are unique, have their own needs for design, payment types, and statistics. Our main focus is always to offer the best payment experience that we can, while offering swift and stellar support.

About the position

We collect and generate vast about of data in order to facilitate payment transactions and grow success rates for merchants. We have the possibilities to use this data to innovate, create new tools and make smarter decisions. This role will drive innovation and product creation based on current and future data, and will report directly to CEO/CTO.

Here are some of the challenges that we are working on:

How do we learn and identify patterns to help end users?
How do we package data so merchants can increase conversion?
How can we prevent malicious actors and fraud?
How cam we identify market opportunities and trends?

We're hiring for our Stockholm/Sweden office and can sponsor VISA.

Read more: https://jobs.mondido.com/jobs/784876-data-engineer
From my personal experience, not wanting help is rather common. Its a core problem with most drugs and addicts. People have to want to get better or what ever you are trying to help them will fail.
It's kind of disappointing that the pioneer "RFA" projects are all "more of the same" SV. I don't see anything audacious , like "build a chip that competes with Nvidia" or "build a pharmaceutical model that improves over what we have", or "find a way to do high quality journalism without a paywall". For that matter, I don't see any inkling that any of these ideas have anything in particular to do with their self-styled goal of helping outsiders get in.

For reference, here is what their main page advertised as what they seek: "We fund projects and startups built by ambitious outsiders... Apply with any type of project you need help with. It could be a company, physics research, journalism, or art..." The RFA is basically a message, "but really, this is what we want"

I guess it's easier to talk big than take risks with big money.
> Non-existent gambling doesn't make it illegal.

It's illegal outside special zones which are virtually non-existent. Yes, it's virtually illegal.
Tedious work and creativity are completely orthogonal.
There have been studies predicting the opposite. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...
You’ve been downvoted because in the west we’ve been conditioned by over a decades worth of negative media exposure so it’s difficult for people to have a rational response for anything positive said about the region.

This media blitz started in 2008 right about at the start of the Olympics.
According to a two-year-old study, the opposite will happen and climate change will weaken wind energy. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/dec/11/global-w...
The market for GCP architects and data engineers is quite hot for now.

K8s might be a game changer for data in the next months:

- Spark can be run inside k8s.

- There are some "spark replacements" in development that get routinely tested on k8.

- Kubeflow (data integration + data science) on k8s is quiet good _now_.
> We've now banned natural gas

Wait, really? Just for heat or also in the kitchen? Electric stove tops fucking suck. Ugh.
With O_TMPFILE, you can also write new data, and then automatically replace a file on disk.

How? Using "linkat"? That's not automatic.
Number 7 seems like a no-brainer. Is there a reason this hasn't been done yet?
Thank you! This is probably the first clear explanation I’ve read about Urbit. I’m far more interested in the project now. Good luck on development.

It would help to have a condensed version of your comment on the website, as opposed to space metaphors and pictures of rocks ;)
I’m not sure I would call it quitting tech, but after studying computer science at university and dabbling in some start-ups that went nowhere, I was a property developer for a while.

Learnt an incredible amount from it, not least how punishing physical labour can be (demoliton, being the first and probably least-skilled job on a project, made up most of the hands-on work I did — the rest was left to professionals).

I’m not a founder (yet), but now working at an early stage startup, I’m finding so much that carries over to the business of tech. Assessing the market potential of properties available for auction, the poker game of the auction itself, making profit projections on the back of extremely shaky estimates of the time and resources needed to complete a project, the difficulty of scheduling myriad interdependent tasks, to be carried out by a small army of subcontractors.

On that last point, an especially memorable lesson was learned after uncovering hidden structural instabilities that needed immediate repair (huge cracks in the back wall of a 100 year old row house, caused by an undersized window lintel, covered by a suspiciously low false ceiling — I’m sure there’s a lesson in there about hiding mistakes). Dealing with the cascade of jobs that had to be rebooked was extremely instructive in the need for slack in a schedule.

Clear specification is another thing I now value highly. I taught myself to use architectural CAD software in frustration at a number costly mistakes, which traced back to misinterpretation of imprecise verbal instructions or freehand sketches. Especially when people are proud of their abilities, they’re inclined to read between the lines of the directions they’re given, which won’t necessarily line up with your vision — especially if you haven’t actually communicated that vision.

I could go on, but in short: absolutely no regrets. And something I’ll almost certainly do again, when I hopefully have more capital to work with, and can hire a project manager to execute my vision!
Pretty sure LegalZoom does this?
And losing the domain for "unlawful content" is bullshit.

The OP wouldn't be talking like this if he were actually responsible for the "unlawful content".

And seriously, does Twitter lose its domain because someone posted malware or child porn or whatever?

Edit: So where's a safer place to register domains?

Maybe China?
This worked for me up until Algebra 2. Up through Algebra 1 I'd just do everything in my head, never show my work, and thus solved a lot of problems using non-standard/creative methods on the fly. Ended up hurting myself a lot. I didn't have any muscle memory for solving the trivial parts of problems as I progressed from Algebra 2 through BC Calc. This led to me choosing a non-mathy degree in undergrad.

I could breeze through higher-level logic courses, but was essentially remedial for higher-level math.
> in emacs lisp, if you write ‘foo-frobber, you know it’s probably from the package ‘foo, and that it’s a frobber.

It's a convention, not an actual mechanism. But it's open to interpretations. What does ANIMATED-WINDOW-DRAW mean? Is it supposed to be WINDOW-DRAW in the ANIMATED 'package' or is it DRAW from the ANIMATED-WINDOW package? Probably there is another convention for that.

Note then that in Emacs Lisp the concept package means a software library, where in Common Lisp the concept package means a symbol namespace.

> Whereas in CL, isn’t the norm to use the package system everywhere?

It's widely used, but in slightly different ways. Some use it as a poor module system replacement. Often it is used a way to structure code into larger symbol namespaces. Sometimes you'll find code bases which do everything in one package.

> So you can’t just pass ‘foo-frobber to arbitrary packages and expect it to work.

'Passing to packages' is not a concept in Common Lisp. But you can use symbols from all packages everywhere. There is no enforced hiding mechanism or module system which hides things. The only thing packages actually do is being a namespace for symbols. Thus it is possible to have many symbols with the same name, but they need to be in different packages or need to belong to no package.

> For example, (intern “foo-frobber”) returns a symbol.

It does. It uses at runtime the package bound to the current package to intern the symbol.

The current package is the value of the symbol

*package*

> But can you just pass that plain old symbol between packages without having to explicitly indicate its origin?

You can pass the symbol around. Its package can be queried. If you want to refer to the symbol in written code while being in another package (another symbol namespace) one has four options:

1) use the symbol fully qualified FOO::BAR. Note the two colons.

2) use exported symbols as FOO:BAR. Note the one colon.

3) use the symbol after importing it into the current package as BAR.

4) programmatically lookup the symbol: (find-symbol "BAR" "FOO")
Did they call it something else? It's the concept that matters, not the exact phrasing. Every structure, windmill or otherwise, has a wind speed at which it will break apart, possibly even if not rotating. It seems important to know what that speed is.
I have read similar stories all over the community in general. The support simply doesn't exist or takes 2 weeks for a simple, useless response, generally.

Given your vested interest in Ads and Google in specific, I am sure you know this already.
A better solution is just to not connect your smart TV to the internet at all. Buy a separate NUC (tiny computer) and use the TV as a dumb screen for the NUC. You get the same functionality but you now control the computer component directly.
Oh man I remember the first time my buddy showed me his Zaurus out front of a bar in NYC - he had some kind of Remote Desktop with a Linux shell in that tiny screen. He had to scroll around to see stuff with the stylus in a not-so-user-friendly a manner and the input was slow as balls but I was absolutely enamored. I at the time was very proud of my newly released Motorola Razr in my pocket yet here was my buddy with this magic device showing me up. Thanks for the trip :)
Search engine can be broken up regionally and the regional versions allowed to compete with each other globally. So Google France competes with Google Germany competes with Google Spain etc. This happened with Ma Bell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
Republic, in the sense that we do not use majority rule; as it's inherently less stable and easier to break and cant protect inalienable rights and equal protection.
> It felt like, "Those are the smart programmers. I should emulate them."

That’s probably the main reason why so many C++ codebases are unnecessarily complicated. People look at what standard library developers did, and emulating it.

The complexity of the standard library is actually justified: containers need to scale from 1 to 1E9 items and more, algorithms need to work with whatever broken classes users throw at them, the whole standard library needs to be extremely generic.

None of these requirements apply to code of most applications, yet I have seen many C++ projects where people designed their code the same way the standard library is designed, without thinking about the reasons. The result is template heavy code which takes long time to compile, and hard to modify or debug.
I don't recall to have heard about it before and to be honest the far right and racists remarks posted by others about the project founder make me uncomfortable, but the last few lines where they introduce the "Dojo" with a REPL and a Lisp like syntax, that was interesting...
Yandex taxis are only popular because they bought and extinguished Uber in Belarus. They're much worse in terms of quality of the service, people only use them because there isn't much choice.
Germany lost free speech long ago, along with many other things we take for granted. If they are a model, it's what not to do.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhVq1M3bhs
Thoughts on Patent FTO for Startups
For those of you in industries where patents matter - I wrote a blog post about “freedom to operate”, and why it might not be the right approach for startups.
(Friends link so not behind a paywall)

Thoughts / comments are welcome!
That sounds amazing. I never really got to play Colonization but I pored over it a lot in magazines.
1995 Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines: http://interface.free.fr/Archives/Apple_HIGuidelines.pdf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZhVq1M3bhs
Learning in the New Virtual Classroom
Will the future of work be ethical?
An experience like no other (2015)
Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage
Is there a word for this effect in education? Where the teacher forgets the context of the learner?
In Germany, the country in question here, the current stance of the federal supreme court (links to Wikipedia case below, ruling is dated 12/2018) seems to be that even photography of public domain works can retain copyright with the museum. To be clear, I find both that stance and the behaviour of the organisation behind the museum appaling but I'm really not sure how US copyright law or unrealized EU directives are all that relevant. Intellectual property rights in Germany are complicated and when in doubt usually err on the side of copyright holders.

http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2019/02/digitized-images-of-wor...

https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Text=I%...
A thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12002419
Do you have a good reference or example or explanation of the FTC for folks who are learning calculus?
Why is the idea to "just pop a pill" on a daily basis not wrong? It is. It totally is. You should not need to drug yourself to get through the day.
Depending on the language, you can do this for some things. The fundamental challenge is escape analysis: when this function returns, what might have been retained elsewhere?

If you can answer that, then you can optimize accordingly.

E.g you can choose to allocate objects that won't be retained on the stack instead of the heap, or in separate blocks.

You can even potentially benefit from this even if you can't 100% know. If you use a generational collector, an object that almost certainly escapes could bypass the nursery, for example.
Yes, but I think there are two problems with that idea, and that it can be creative:

1. There is no digital ground truth, so you can't actually objectively tell whether your adjustments are making it more accurate. It relies on subjective comparison and sometimes manual patching up (3D equivalent of photoshopping).

2. There are many different equivalently accurate representations, some of which are better for some purposes. E.g. how the surface is tessellated or otherwise represented, which bits are more important and deserve more fidelity, 3D printing (and what kind) or CNC router or virtual movie prop, etc.

I think it's copyright rather than patents, as it's very manual and subjective (not a well-defined process or algorithm).

Of course, I am not a lawyer, so I don't know how much of what I'm describing is sufficiently creative to count as a new work.
Why you should try pyinfra
Things get busy at Thanksgiving, who knew?
Do you mean this story[0]? It's the only reference I could find.

[0] https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Broadcom...
Files Are Hard (2015)
Cosmic Crisp: New apple launched that lasts for a year
I'll add to that, people in that region eat plenty of vegetables and fruit... during summer and autumn. But fast/street food is mostly meat, potatoes, cheese, anything that can be sold all year round.

That reminds me of British mushy peas, even served at expensive restaurants, which no one outside the UK seems to like heh
Doing it perfectly requires a suitable language design, but even a pathologically statical analysis unfriendly language like Ruby still allows you to determine it in many cases. You just need to accept that for such languages it is an optimisation, and you still need to fall back on full gc.
My better half was having an unsanctioned romance reason he needed a kid, I have constantly speculated him however there was no confirmation until it arrived at a point where I needed to contact Theredhackergroup@gmail.com for help, I had to know without a doubt and I got what I needed, I saw that every one of my feelings of trepidation are in reality obvious, he was undermining me and I need to leave him
Top Science Fiction Books
"The curse of Knowledge"
Will it be acceptable to the member states of the EU, any configuration that makes some members more equal than others?

Also in countries like India, this could offer a perverse incentive for states to refrain from population control policies.

Also some states having larger populations than others is a historical accident.
I strongly disagree, gigabit is especially useful for concurrent users and getting the occasional big download out of the way fast so you can move on to other tasks.

Examples:

* Multiple users watching youtube/netflix at 4K
* Downloading an update to a game so you can play with your friends in a reasonable amount of time
* Uploading youtube videos
* Pulling in packages from a package manager, or updating your OS

It is absolutely important for the home, just not to _you_.
Just opened a random echo conference archive [1], and thistype of quoting is everywhere. Maybe it's the regional thing, of course, or just because everyone used GoldEd editor, which supported such quotes very well.

[1] http://www.fandom.ru/fido/ru_fantasy/text/303.htm
DRM is old news and will never make any logical sense :). I’m pretty sure Netflix has no choice as DRM is likely required as part of licensing deals. Although Apple managed to famously drop DRM...
Why such a strong reaction against the idea?

For someone who has to sell stuff, this would be incredibly valuable if executed well. It's possible to build something like this using only publicly available data about people and organizations.

Genuinely curious - where is the ethical problem?
They don't just have startups EPAM, Wargaming are multi-billion companies
This could be accomplished with a fairly simple macro. Patches welcome!
The problem with wind is it's uneven distribution across hours and days.

Because wind usually often weak and below rated speed, you need to build extra capacity to get enough electricity in normal days. When there is enough capacity, the price goes to zero or negative during days when windmills work close to rated speed, then increases dramatically when there is no wind. If wind power generates profits only when there is wind but not enough to saturate the demand, profitability suffers. Energy storage increases the price and is unsolved in large scale. Bigger smarter grids over large areas and solar compensate to some degree.
It supports a limited subset of Clojure code. I will update the README to reflect this more accurately, thanks for the feedback!
About the author, Curtis Yarvin:

> Curtis Guy Yarvin (born June 25, 1973), also known by the pen name Mencius Moldbug, is an American far-right political theorist, blogger, and computer scientist.[1][6] He is known, along with fellow "neo-reactionary" thinker Nick Land, for developing the anti-egalitarian and anti-democratic ideas behind the Dark Enlightenment. Yarvin and his ideas are often associated with the alt-right.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin
You're right. But not for this statement.

At most, he could have written "The slope of a linear equation or "line" is constant. This is a known fact."
The goal is noble, but Urbit is destined to become a case study in the dangers of isolation and obstinacy.

This project has gone so deep into its own inner sanctum that they've lost tabs on wider reality. While the result may have glimmers of technical excellence for brave souls to excavate some day, the impact of the juxtaposition between latent expertise and overwhelming derangement is enough to scare away (literally scare away) basically everyone.

This style of issuing a large corpus of dicta that comprise "the One True Way" never works, not even in actual bona fide religion. Systems and protocols that last are built iteratively by collaborators across institutions, each piece finding immediate utility as it's integrated and deployed.

The big question around Urbit is not whether it will succeed -- rather, it's whether Yarvin will appreciate that he's rapidly disproved the nascent brand of proto-monarchist philosophy Urbit was meant to realize. [0]

See also: Pontormo at San Lorenzo [1], Xanadu [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

[1] https://blog.garrytan.com/always-be-shipping-a-lesson-from-j...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
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Why do we have such an emphasis on making our tools open source?

How much does the license matter?

Would it be feasible to release source code for inspection while simultaneously retaining exclusive rights to operate the software?

Would that garner a negative response from the developer community?
Everest Base Camp Trek 8 Days – A Perfect Package for Adventure Lovers
a mechanism for overriding the popular vote

So is CA's and NY's practice of awarding all electors to the plurality winner instead of proportionately.
Thanks, you should also look at "k3sup app install openfaas" which also uses helm and possibly takes even less time to set up :-) https://docs.openfaas.com/deployment/kubernetes/

Have fun
ESP32 Marauder: WiFi and Bluetooth Pentesting Tool
Oh, that's a great video. Enough detail to understand how it worked.

As usual in that era, the big problem was memory. Memory in crossbar switches was so expensive that the programs are on paper tape loops. By then, they would have known how to put programs in crossbar memory.
It may also be a case of different strategies for different channels.

If I were a VC, I might prefer to solicit these kinds of solid, boring business ideas in an RFA and source moonshot ideas through my personal network. If I looked for moonshots from my open application process, I would probably end up wading through a lot of applications that would be time-consuming to vet.
The privatisation in post Soviet Russia was even worse than you tell. It was fraud, theft and deception.
Expert blindness.
> These words don't have clear, practical meanings.

They do. They mean in the US, not everything is decided by simple majority of votes of everybody living in the federated republic. Rather, there are more complex power structures where different states (note they are named states, not electoral districts or census areas) retain significant sovereignty not subject to either federal control or that of other states. It is very practical thing without which it is impossible to understand how US politics works.

> All of them are "representative democracies" with a congress/parliament.

Yes, but the USA is not that either. Or, rather, not only that. People thinking it's only that misunderstand how things are.

> has any bearing on a "democracy or republic" question.

Imagine there's a town where mayor decides to redistribute people between families to optimize housing arrangement - so if you have too many kids, your kid is going to me moved to a family with no kids, and if you live alone, you may be assigned a partner to live with you. For efficiency. Let's even assume this all done by proper vote of the city council and all legal formalities are in place. Would you think it's an important change which totally changes your opinion about what's going on in the city and how it is ruled, or it's a minor adjustment that is of interest only to philosophy geeks dwelling on deep meanings of abstractions? If you can appreciate answer to that question, you probably also can appreciate why "democracy or republic" is not as abstract a question as you think.
>the One True Way" never works,

It works for Apple.