jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
We disagree on a more basic level.

I know people can run in to the street without warning. I know drivers get away with no punishment if somebody darts in to the street.

In fact, my point was that drivers get away with no punishment _almost every time they kill a pedestrian_. In NYC they have less than a 5% chance of even being arrested, much less convicted. Driving a car is probably a great way to commit murder.

Also, yes, I think the driver should be charged for driving so fast in a residential neighborhood that they can't stop in time to prevent killing a kid. If I recklessly [flew my helicopter/drove my tank/rammed my hovercraft/ran my bobsled] in to a child it would be met with outrage, so why do we apply different rules to automobiles? (Spoiler - because automobiles are convenient and while we claim otherwise, we just don't care enough about dead kids to change culture).

http://freakonomics.com/2014/05/01/the-perfect-crime-a-new-f...
The "0.5 rounds up" is kind of arbitrary, but it has the advantage of "you only need to look one digit out to round."

4.49 obviously rounds to 4.

4.51 obviously rounds to 5.

4.50, since it "should"[1] follow the same rules as any other number that starts with "4.5", thus rounds to 5.

Say I were looking at a real number of arbitrary length, such that it starts with 4.500000000000... and maybe has a non-zero digit somewhere in it before it terminates. With the "round up on .5" rule, I don't have to keep on reading out indefinitely to round it.

[1] This "should" is assertion.
Are there that many non-enterprise companies using Bitbucket over Github? Most startups and mid-sized companies I know use Github for private repo hosting.
You have to read between the lines of the recent criticism of Mayer: she's sitting on a load of ca$h from $BABA, and their eyes are set on short-term gains. They want to butcher the company up, collect their pound of flesh and be off.

I think she's on a decent path, and by replacing the old upper management with the new hires[1], she seems to be putting the right people in charge. Yeah, she made some mistakes[2], but that's a part of the game.

[1] http://marketingland.com/yahoo-promotes-flurry-exec-lead-adv...

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-on-henrique-de-...
You’re able to like Uber as a service, but also be upset that they’re failing to meet the regulations that have been put in place to protect everyone.

What it sounds like is that people were able to buy/use/borrow “verified” Uber Driver accounts, and upload their own photo into the app to allow them to drive for Uber without the correct background and license checks. I think it’s fair for a regular to give Uber a slap on the wrist for allowing this to happen, whether in purpose or not.
Pretty sure working for facebook is proof or that you are in the upper 1% worldwide.
I still think having a network of drivers all around you and being able to track the status of your ride both pre-arrival and during the ride itself makes rideshare a better product. Depending where you are those dispatched drivers can take a while to get to you.

Of course you can just have a bunch of black car services in your phonebook that are dispersed around the city but.. at that point why not just use rideshare?
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"AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3000 (Castle Leak) Review Roundup"

https://videocardz.com/83333/amd-ryzen-threadripper-3000-cas...
For most of the world, yes you are correct, but in Singapore it’s a moot point: any opposition is already quite effectively silenced.
I've never seen them, they don't operate in my area. That said, your complaint was unclear.

Did they go beyond simple parking into more egregious use of public space, like parking on the sidewalk or blocking traffic?

Or is it about public parking? Would it be okay if they were customers instead of delivery workers? How much of a difference does it make that a corporation is involved?
Where is the Turkiye's soups.
Tarhana Soup is an Anatolian soup.

http://www.turkishfoodandrecipes.com/2009/11/tarhana-soup-ta...

An other Turkiye's soups are here..
http://www.turkishfoodandrecipes.com/search/label/soups
Maybe, yet there is still a lively discussion whether more tools or actions are necessary (e.g. Cambridge analytica, election interference, pizzagate and a guy storming into the restaurant with a gun based on that misinformation,...).

I think most of that is probably already adequately covered by existing laws, but that selective (non)enforcement is potentially a big problem.
At least for Zigbee it was never the case, the encryption is there since the first version.
I'd go so far as to say it _is_ natural to desire diamonds. Jewels have been a major part of human civilization for thousands of years.
On the contrary I think "source control with a nice web UI and no social network" is a category of product that a definite part of the market wants. Look at projects that choose to be "open source, but not open contribution" like SQLite--they don't want a free-for-all drive-by pull request community. They want a way to publish code for all to see and consume, yet be maintained entirely by a single or core set of contributors.
> having a video conference open all day with everyone in

This sounds absolutely horrible.
Although mildly off topic I found this interesting tidbit on their sustainability page [0]:

> Since our company consists of a distributed workforce, the majority of our employees work remotely from home, reducing the need to commute daily to a central workplace, and greenhouse gas emissions as a result. Employees at Automattic are invited to share the distance of their previous commute. On this basis we are able to calculate that we save approximately 18,207 kilometers of travel every work day.

> However, we also believe that it’s crucial to meet together in person several times a year, and those flights can have a very large impact. We don’t have exact data yet, but our rough estimate is that each Automattician is generating about 2,500kg of CO2 per year for work related flights.

Considering that they have 1424 employees listed on the map on their about page [1], let's do some simple math:

1424 employees * 2500000 g/employee CO2 = 3,560,000,000 g CO2/year

is the company's actual current footprint of the air-travel meetups.

Suppose a car emits around 200 g CO2 per km,

200 g/km * 18207 km/day * 365 days/year = 1,329,111,000 g CO2/year

if they forgo the meetups and do on-site instead. (And that's the worst case scenario of everyone driving their own car to work and zero public transportation use.)

Conclusion: Remote + air travel meetups is NOT necessarily more sustainable! In this case the CO2 emissions of remote work is almost TRIPLE.

[0] https://automattic.com/sustainability/

[1] https://automattic.com/about/
Has that thing worked once after Gmail rollout?
https://www.elephantinthevalley.com/

(2015)
And you don't ever have experience working on stuff in the past that others are working now to where you can provide input or notice they are running into a problem you ran into in the past?
I suggest linking to the original article at
https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-old-programming-language-...
rather than to this product-placement filled blogspam factory.
> though of course the M1 destroys it.

SIMD throughput?
so UBI + inflation?
Oh, and the @ ones don't even exist anymore, haven't for like a decade afaik
Brick and mortar stores couldn't keep mainstream faire stocked before the pandemic. The selection is garbage: Twenty different kinds of chunky marinara but zero vodka sauce. Three aisles of cola but no ginger beer. Product variants suddenly stop being sold at all, because of cybernetic market pressure.

If it's even slightly niche, it's not found locally.

Clothing retailers are the worst offender. They stock shelves and shelves of XXXXXXL but no mediums. So I have nowhere to go for my clothes but online.

There's not enough emphasis on minimal packaging, demo ready products. For me the primary advantage of brick and mortar should be the ability to hold the item in meat space and evaluate it there. But the lack of demo units collapses the advantage of brick and mortar over online sales.

Besides daily groceries, I get the majority of my stuff online out of necessity.
You'll get a site with a lot of Crypto fans playing with it, but daily twitter users (like myself) wouldn't every consider switching over to it.
https://www.fcps.edu/academics/graduation-requirements-and-c...

Here's the HS math sequence options from my local school district in VA. Can't speak to many other places but this is what my above comment is based on.
If they’re overworked, what is it they’re working so hard and so ineffectively at?
If they don't there'll be a queue out the door of fraudsters willing to take their place.
The TSA policy concerns me.

The only silver lining I see is that they may be responsive to the public outcry and figure out a better way to screen people. Perhaps, we should get the Israelis to train our TSA folks

http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/08/enhanced-pat-downs.html offers one reason to be optimistic. A number of critical comments talk about "molesting", "groping", "assault" etc. and these comments haven't been censored. The fact that the govt is permitting an open discussion may well mean that they'll take all the feedback into consideration.
Interesting move.
We just bought two Tesla Cards for a university project so I know how much people could save by just prototyping on a "small" card that can do ?OpenCL? and then using a Quadruple Extra Large instance at $2.10 per hour for the actual computation instead of buying a 5 digit Euro workstation
That's what they seemed to be promising with Wave initially, i.e. to make a decentralized and federated protocol. But Buzz doesn't use wave ...
I think the most widely used database is sqlite.
Strings are an easy way out.

You don't, actually, want a log parser. You want to easily work with your logs as a data structure, and your server writes its log as strings. I wish logs were n-ary trees of objects. Imagine, we could replay log dead-easily, and we could do analytics on our logs in a really straightforward manner.
This advice assumes that no one - including yourself - depends on your projects.
This gave me an idea: decades ago I became interested in a natural language processing theory known as Conceptual Dependency Theory (never was very useful to me though, and I was like a dinosaur caught in a tar pit: my fascination with the theory kept me in a stuck state).

Anyway, CDT attempts to extract structured information from text and I thought that if CDT worked, then you could measure something Alex talked about in the article: rating text as interesting if it introduced novel concepts.
AI-driven? What exactly do you mean by that? Do they use AI to determine which articles will gain traction or something?
Wow. At this point I could see wanting to do this just for the hell of it, but personally couldn't imagine doing that just for the spot. Also, who the hell would want to "camp" with two extra sites of extended family!? /s but not really
Does anyone have an iOS Hacker News app that respects the iOS dark mode setting?
> Hydro is a little different though. It requires a lot of land and the right geography in order to work. While I think there are more places where you can add hydro, I think it they are generally running out. It also doesn't help that a lot of well meaning, but IMO wrong ;), environmentalist really oppose hydro for the effects it has on the river critters. That sort of red tape makes gums up new deployments about as bad as new nuclear deployments are gummed up.

Yah, I'm not really saying to add hydro-- there's few opportunities to do this.

But lots of hydro installations are already suited to "peaker" use, where you draw from reservoir just when you need to, and many more can be adapted this way. (Really doing this effectively may require large capital costs to increase the amount of peak generation available from them, drawing down the reservoir more quickly).

> Perhaps. You'd have to somehow incentivize some industrial businesses to participate in the grid smartly. For example, an electric smelter which only operates during overproduction periods. IDK, maybe the power companies get involved in the steal milling business.

This already exists. You can get a big discount on your power if you are a big industrial customer and willing to be turned off with little notice. We need to extend this out to delaying house heat slightly, etc, electric car charging points, as you say.

> the required cost of deploying that sort of equipment would be pretty high

Ain't nothing compared to the capital cost of overprovisioning further or doing storage.

That's what I'm saying: use nuclear as part of a series of things to limit the amount of wind overprovisioning needed. We're going to have extra power during the day most of the time.

But the intermittency at night of wind alone is a big problem. It seems like burning some gas-- hopefully mostly biogas-- is part of the solution, along with leveraging hydroelectric to the maximum extent.

As we add things like electric heating and electric cars charging, etc-- nuclear has a big opportunity to address this increase in base load (and can be effectively combined with smart grid on these uses).

In the end, we cannot build out just wind fast enough, anyways, even if we ignore the overprovisioning required for availability. Might as well build out nuclear in parallel.
I think the appeal of the syntax for those who get used to it is the regularity, like you said.

The advantage of the regularity isn't its human readability, but its ability to macro, no?

What I'd like to see is better tools for reading and editing such a regular syntax. Probably I should just learn emacs, but I'm thinking someone could make a more intuitive structured editor for LISP syntax. No need to mush around blobs of text when everything is nested lists.
I used to develop SSD firmware. Remember that these things need to handle power loss at any point in time. We store lots of redundant copies of information on the NAND so its just a matter of running the code that rebuilds everything.
I made this exact argument in session last week in the HTTP working group at the IETF while discussing the semantics of DELETE. The working group chair is quite passionate defender of the position that GET should never have a body, and in the end I was outvoted by the room.

I'm slowly coming around to the idea that he might be right. The problem is the (semantic) question of what resource is being discussed. The semantics of GET, HEAD and OPTIONS are that (unless it gets modified) the same resource should always be answered the same way. If the resource that we're asking about is identified by the URL + the body, then those requests (and DELETE) all need a body too. And then there's an open question for PUT and POST about what resource exactly is being modified by the request - although as you say, the semantics are whatever so thats less important.

I think HTTP has a problem in that its hard to express a resource name that is complex. Like, "the records which match this specific elasticsearch query" is a hard thing to pack into a URL. If HTTP was different, I could imagine a second body-like part of each request called the "resource section" with its own Resource-Type: application/json header and so on. But instead we just have a URL, so we end up doing awful hacks like packing JSON into URLs and make them unreadable. The URL is long enough for this sort of thing - implementations have to allow at least 8k of space for them, and can allow more space. But they're hard to read and display, and there's no standard way to pack json in there.

So I wonder it'd be worth having a formal, consistent way to encode stuff like this in the URL. I'm spitballing, but maybe we need a standard way to encode JSON into the URL (base64 or whatever) defined in an RFC. Then if you do that, you can add a "Query-Type: application/json" header that declares that the URL contains JSON encoded in the standard way. Then we could at least have consistency and nice tooling around this. So like, when you're making a request you could just pass JSON into your http library and it'd encode it into the URL automatically in the standard way. And when the URL is being displayed in the dev tools or whatever, it could write out the actual embedded JSON / GraphQL / whatever object that you've packed in there in an easy to read way.
Right, and even though today's beachfront property owners aren't the most sympathetic group, they can certainly sell to people better able to monetize our collective sympathy.
Unable to find the paper but can link you to the professor doing the research: https://publish.illinois.edu/glherman/conceptual-change-in-e...

The paper linked adjacent to this comment looks interesting as well. What I gathered from the experience was that if you can capture student activity while they are tracing (e.g. eye tracking, recording incremental changes to a doodling interface and doing some pattern recognition on it, etc) you can fairly accurately and repeatably figure out their structural thinking ability.
I'm not sure if you meant the bit about Direct3D to be toungue-in-cheek: http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/03/11/carmack-direc...
"Apple is absurdly profitable and cash-rich; if they feel the need to compete with anyone on price in order to protect their business interests, they can do so with price cuts deep enough and long enough to drive most potential competitors out of business."

Talk about 'not in their DNA', Apple will never compete on price. They never have and they never will. A brief look back at the history of the PC clearly shows this. They could have owned the PC market, they were first and best. But just too expensive.
Thanks. I'm debating between words or tooltips. What do you suggest?
Okay, fair enough. I shouldn't have taken that sentence out of the original context, which said "By how fun they are." Or maybe I just totally misunderstood palish's point; actually rereading, that seems more likely than not. Apologies.
Thank you. This looks very interesting.

Was trying to find a free version of the article and found more of Parnas works here:
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/...
Just used the service and had a great chat with Chap, one of the founders. There's something qualitatively different when you're talking to someone using voice - it makes it easier to articulate some of the bigger questions that aren't just syntax or "help me debug this" type of questions. Anyway, I think this is a great idea, and love that these guys are making it happen. Kudos.
Nevertheless, your views on Node.js has made me very curious and I will investigate.

I have another question - I'll google if you don't get a chance to answer - how do rails and node.js play together? (real world experience)
You're forgetting about the negative half of the x-axis. When including that, you get a normal distribution.
I know this repo. I've used it a lot of times while interviewing front-end developers.

I would give anyone using it a tip of advice :

Use this list not as a TOC or a check list. Use it to remind yourself what you could actually talk with the person that is applying for a job.

I usually start with the questions and present them not as a real question, but as a more of a "topic of conversation". Like for example :

Question => Transformed into topic

"Which version control systems are you familiar with?" => "Have you used VCS on your previous job? Which VCS is your favourite?"

"Name 3 ways to decrease page load (perceived or actual load time)." => "Have you ever tried to improve google page speed index or your page speed at all?"

Next I will ask in a similar ways questions about HTML, CSS and so on. I could go deeper if I see a person is interested in what we are talking about.

Anyway I've been interviewing more than 10 persons with this list in front of me. I highly recommend it as a base of your interview.
I wonder how well security by obscurity - or at least partially by obscurity - would work in this sort of situation. Do they know enough to ask for the passwords to your randomly chosen sever? Do they know enough to do steg on some random imgur photo, or on your forum avatar? Do they know enough to ask for the passwords for something that's going to be sent to you via the internet, on time-delay, after you've left their custody - and which you'll have plenty of time to send an abort code to, like say asking your computer back in your country of origin for a different file than the backup, if the password is compromised anyway?
"the new study suggests that certain weird quirks seen in our solar system could be explained by Jupiter coming in like a wrecking ball and smashing its original planetary companions to smithereens."

And this is why we can't have nice things.
Here's the copy-paste of my post a couple of months ago:

Let's do some back of the envelope math here.

316 million Americans, at a $30k/year money sample works out to be $9 trillion dollars a year.

The budget that Obama just proposed is $4 trillion dollars (and that has no chance of getting implemented in full). Even if we say you can cut half of that out (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, etc), let's call it $2 trillion dollars.

So we need $11 trillion dollars of tax money to fund this. The total net worth of US private people is $67 trillion or so[1]. The aggregate net worth of the top 400 people in the USA is $2.3 trillion[2]. You could take all of their money, and still not even come close to paying for the program for ONE YEAR.

At that point, you start having to come down hard on the upper middle class. The top 25% owns roughly 73% of the wealth in the country, or ~$48 trillion. If you tax their NET WORTH at 25%, you could fund the program for a year.

Pretty quickly you're going to run into a situation where you're cutting a check to everyone, then collecting the money (and more) back in taxes. And in this case, it's terribly inefficient.

On a small scale, a program like this probably works well. On a large scale, it would be a disaster.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_position_of_the_Unite.... [2] http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
Would you recommend D for web APIs?

How fast is D compiler on a 100k line project?

Does it support incremental compilation?

How's the package management story and where is D heading in this camp?

Thanks!
Brexit, by its very nature was always going to be damaging to the UK both financially and otherwise.

But it really did not need to be this bad.

The UK government’s lack of acknowledgment of reality and absolutely no efforts to prepare for the impacts of Brexit or focus on the industries that actually matter as opposed to those that are just symbolic has made a much bigger mess than it ever needed to be.
Don't give away secrets or insights

Be frank with them
If that's meant to be the schools of thought for pro-Brexit groups, it's sorely lacking. Though it goes unsurprisingly under-reported, there were many different reasons I heard when talking to people about their support for Brexit, ranging from critiques of EU's fundamentally neoliberal nature, to its bureaucratic inefficiency, to issues of decentralisation of power, issues of tall hierarchies being too one-size-fits-all, the EU's future if the federalist factions take power, and so on. And that's just the handful of people I spoke to at the time, plus some casual listening to campaigners.

Even the idea that Brexit was driven by nationalism, while at least partially true, doesn't really dive into what nationalism means in this context - it's usually just used as a no-no word.