jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Airbnb has tons of things that would be impossible (or annoying to use) without JS: search by map, sliders, availability calendars, price calculation, credit card tokenization, etc.

Here is a recent talk where they explain how they solved some tricky UX problem by using a "modern" JS framework such as React.js

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/airbnb-resolution-center

In this other talk they also explain how (and why) they evolved from vanilla Rails (i.e. more static HTML) + jQuery, to Backbone, and finally to isomorphic React.js

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMvvb6F8dgk
A CS masters is the last kind of degree Stanford would give good financial aid for. For a bachelors degree, you can get need based aid, and for a Ph.D, it's customary that you're pretty well subsidized, but masters programs are where they get you. I'm not sure why.
> I don't know how many hours the author has spent/wasted
> on this topic

The author, John Graham-Cumming, has been extremely active on the GNU Make mailing list, is the author of the "GNU Make Standard Library" of supplemental functions for Make, has written at least 2 books on GNU Make, and has developed commercial products that integrate with GNU Make (namely, "Electric Make").

That is to say: He is one of the world experts on GNU Make.

I'm confident that he did this more "for fun" than because he actually wanted to get the number of jobs.
Unicode support out of the box

utf16 support, which isn't the same thing: https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-unicode

easy manipulation of strings, arrays, and dictionaries

JS objects aren't dictionaries; all keys are coerced to strings, they lack basic operations like getting a list of keys or values, and iterating over keys can bite you if you forget hasOwnProperty.

Python comes pretty close, with slightly wonky scoping and Unicode bolted on

And equality operators that aren't utterly insane, a usable standard library, local rather than global scope by default, classes, namespaces, modules...

ES6 does look a like a large improvement. Mainly because it fixes misfeatures and adds capabilities that better languages dealt with years ago.
Regardless my absolute disgust for any sort of censorship, I must admit that it would be quite interesting to look, through a sociologist-like point of view, how a whole nation has developed (or not developed) without any string attached to the rest of the world, to know what the people there are thinking and what's their idea of the rest of the world. Too bad it's almost impossible to get there and roam around for a western citizen.

Here's a great photo essay for anyone else fascinated by this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mytripsmypics/sets/721576048127...

and here some other travel journals: http://www.blogjam.com/north-korea/
Some similar cases:

http://www.gearthhacks.com/dlcat24/Aircraft-in-flight.htm
This is something that always puzzles me. How come it's accepted as a given that countries cannot seal their borders.
The Soviet Bloc were pretty good at it

EDIT also the border between north and south korea is pretty tight
It's probably overly naive, but how about "100% for their own survival"?
What about the Ultima games, have they been entirely forgotten as well? They were certainly an important influence on Fallout.

In particular, Ultima IV pioneered the concept of a computer RPG protagonist making ethical choices. Instead of "go kill the bad guy", the game simply tasked you to excel at virtues.

Parts VI and VII were the first games to create a truly immersive RPG world. The non-player characters would have a life of their own: during the day they'd go to work, then enjoy a drink at the pub, and then go home to sleep. Static and inventory objects could be used together in inventive ways -- making bread was the classic example. The plot lines were well-developed and touched upon social issues.

(Ultima VIII and IX were developed in 1994-99, after EA had swallowed Origin. Those games are travesties that are best forgotten.)
There's also been specific allegations that BP's cementing specifications to Haliburton were supar to (we assume) cut costs. E.g. use 4 of X instead of the recommended 20 and that sort of thing.

BP were the architects/designers of the whole affair as well as the entity that made the high level operational decisions like when and how to replace the mud with seawater.
I think "freedom" in games is overrated. When game designers focus on freedom, they necessarily sacrifice plot and character development. Games that offer the level of freedom of Fallout 1 and 2 aren't in high demand for the same reason that Choose Your Own Adventure books aren't regarded as serious literature, or even pulp fiction.

There's a certain novelty to being able to do "anything" in a game world, to be sure, but I much prefer games that offer small pockets of freedom within a strong linear narrative. Mass Effect is perhaps the best example, with its cinematic storyline and rich conversation trees.
Cycling computers could probably do this for you. They have your speed & your cadence, and if you entered in your cassette & chainrings they could show you your current gear & the next gear up & down (and how to get to it).

I'm not sure how useful it is though. It's not often I'm prepared to do a back & front gearchange at once - I just loose too much speed when I have to easy off the gears.

I suspect that as electronic gear shifting (Dura Ace DI etc) becomes more prevalent the gear system will take care of this for us, though. One click = next gear, no matter how many physical shifts it needs to do.
The 66 world cup was in black and white the 1970 was in color!
(Looks at karma of tptacek and patio11) Well you need to have karma >20k to know about the club. >35K to join it :P
So far I made one iPad game which turned out to be pretty decent considering that I didn't even know what I wanted it to be when I began. Now I am myself sure I can build a prototype of pretty much anything not insanely complex (and I barely coded at all 5 months ago). Not sure I am going to do games further because I don't really understand how to market stuff that does not solve problems, but still it was a valuable experience.
I am seriously happy that this kind of move is impossible in Germany. I think many people would be so glad to save some dollars, ignoring the risk to their life and more importantly for me, to my life, too.
Yeah. I realized that about an hour in, and turned them off for the time being.
Unsure if you just have an exceptional memory, but I find this to be the opposite for me, to the point where none of the available services do enough for me.

My use-case might be different from yours tho. I do quite a bit of scientific research. Thus I require a vast array of mediums to be able to navigate and store data.
That's the point of the thought experiment in the paper, but that thought experiment includes a description of an actual test that can be made, which is what people call the Turing Test.
>> $25000/year for daycare for two kids
> Wow more than a 1000 dollars per kid?
> That's quite a bit.
> Is that typical?

It's cheap.

We pay 700 EUR/month for 2 days/week daycare for one child here in The Netherlands.
Wow, since the author starts talking about "Omega" without introducing it as a concept of some ultimate language, I assumed he was talking about the Omega Programming Language (In fact, it looks like there are two: http://code.google.com/p/omega/ and http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/_Blaschek/Omega/) and was thoroughly confused.
Maybe I am splitting hairs here, but by explicitly not looking back, you acknowledge that you might have made mistakes, but you choose to ignore them. This is worse than denial.

Strange title overall, not sure who thought that it would be a good idea.
You know what is scummier than Facebook? Posting a blogpost of your new social network startup guised as a public service announcement.
Related - how peanut butter was central in food regulation:

https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/s02-1-p...
The first 3 were fairly standard and can be practiced using the booklet and/or leetcode. I found the facebook recruiting process to be very organized.
I guess, but if so, that's a massive amount of cost to the insurer (and eventually falls back on the consumer) around paperwork/review/approval for something they're going to approve eventually. I really don't understand it. Certainly in my experience, the insurer could get rid of their internal review process and people, just rubber-stamp whatever our MDs are prescribing, and save us all a lot of money and headache.
No it doesn't. If you're a small company paying for shared hosting at < $20 per month is a far better alternative than hiring an admin to run DO instances or whatever. If you have a full time developer who happens to know how to administer servers well it's fine, but many companies barely even even have a full time developer. For them shared hosting makes perfect sense.
This comment should be voted down; it is inline with the current social attitudes in the US but it is scientifically not true. Nothing has been debunked. What we do know is IQ is heritable AND China has people with High IQ. Whether IQ is inherited for chinas case or whether IQ is a good quantitative measure for intelligence is not formally established but the parent-parent poster does not make an unrealistic proposition. I may get voted down on this but shame on people who voted this up for supporting a social ideal over the cold hard truth. Nothing has been debunked.

Genetics control how we look physically across all races, there is no black magic that suddenly makes every race equal in intelligence and behavior while only controlling for physical differences. Uphold your social ideals but don’t let your ideals blind you from the cold hard truth.
Changing Baby's diaper is part of the daily tasks of every young parent. But beware, some mistakes should be avoided when changing diapers. Explanations with Marine Bourgeot, childcare nurse.
From Wikipedia:

> From the issuer's perspective, the key benefit of raising money by selling convertible bonds is a reduced cash interest payment. The advantage for companies of issuing convertible bonds is that, if the bonds are converted to stocks, companies' debt vanishes. However, in exchange for the benefit of reduced interest payments, the value of shareholder's equity is reduced due to the stock dilution expected when bondholders convert their bonds into new shares.
9 reviews and 1-5 installs.

Not sure how those numbers are generated, but I get the same feeling as you.
It's a successor to Python in that many of the non-Google big name early adopters are big Python shops - Cloudflare, Dropbox, etc. My company was almost all Python on the server side and is now almost all Go.

Don't think of "successor" as a similar-but-better language (like I consider C# to be to Java) but in terms of where the community comes from in general. Rob Pike has said how he expected Go to attract C developers and was surprised how it attracted Python-ers in droves.
I'd say they're delusional.

Everyone made this assumption in the '90s, that prosperity necessarily lead to freedom. 20 years later that assumption doesn't look so good.
I'd rather think it proves the point.

Even an organisation as focused on human rights as Amnesty finds it has few tractable options but to use the very tools its criticising.

That tends to undercut the "but you have a choice" / "there is a choice" counterarguments. Those choices come with high costs.

It also highlights the fact that an alleged defence of monopolistic practices -- low costs to "consumers" -- is in fact a principle mechanism of monopoly persistence. By being the lowest-cost provider, the simplest or most convenient choice, what everyone knows, all of which are characteristics conveyed by monopoly rather than intrinsic to the technology or product itself, the monopoly position is highly stable and difficult to disrupt. Just as a river will flow through the lowest, widest channel, without regard to what damage might result from its path, a monopoly position is the path of least resistance. This does not mean it's the path of no or least damage. Let alone greatest benefit.
> You are correct. I was tone policing and I apologize.

Thank you.
To me the biggest annoyance of json is there's no standard way to put comments in there. What's the point of a text-based serialization format if it can't carry comments???

It has one advantage over YAML though, with JSON you know when you're not at the end of the file :-)
I work in an Industrious co-working space in Indianapolis. As I walk around the office and see people's monitors, it appears that about 30% of people are running Ubuntu.

Edit: Query re downvote, too subjective?
This is an overreaction, and really not a very nice way to interact with people.

I was talking about embedded development which doesn't really have anything to do with PCB design, power, FPGA, etc. You don't need those things to be a programmer working on embedded systems or microcontrollers.

Implementing a serial interface in software flipping GPIOs up and down will expose you to a whole lot of the necessary ecosystem and if you can do it, you're well past the point where you should be able to get paid to do it and the point where you need a roadmap to tell you where to expand your skills. I didn't say doing it would get you a senior level position or a masters degree in EE.
But you don't have money for paying salaries ? It seems you guys make a lot of people go through the hoops of online assessment and hire no one just to boost your "number-of-applications" metric.
Sorry for the vague answer, but you can find more details here: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/google-and-aes-...
If you read the article it's about separating people.

The more office spaces you have, the more you can divide people into isolated groups.
The President's whole brand is that he knows more than the experts. I'm listening to him right now, live, saying 'the doctors re telling us we have to shut down the whole world, they want to shut it down for years, but you can't let the cure be worse than the problem.'

He's talking complete nonsense about quarantine and how bad it is to close the stock exchange while saying the quarantine is a bigger problem than the virus because he's created so many jobs and that it'll cause 'tremendous death.'

¯\(°_o)/¯
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isol...

> To help yourself stay well while you're at home [...] take paracetamol to help ease your symptoms

Strictly speaking it's on the self-isolation if symptomatic or living with someone who does page, and not necessarily aimed directly at confirmed cases, but you also get the same advice at the end of the NHS online advice service if you present with (mild) COVID-19 symptoms:

> How to look after your symptoms at home[:...] take paracetamol
At least one public health official i. France: https://www.twitter.com/olivierveran/status/1238776545398923...
It really sucks that people are downvoting your cogent and fact-based response.
the town center has still a lot of old peoples living in flats alone. a lot of facilites such as the medical faculty have gotten damaged (cctv footage from the faculty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTvtQExtuXA) many of the buildings are historic landmarks are destroyed.
I had assumed that this was a solved problem, am I wrong? Isn't this what quants are doing with the markets? Watching x number of inputs to predict the probability of y output?

Can somebody clarify what I'm missing? I'd love to find out more about this area of ML, is there a name for it?
Are there any tools/techniques to test my web site at a higher resolution if all I have is a laptop that goes to 1280x800?
It's wrong to start Apple's foray into mobile with the iPhone. They partnered with Motorola on a phone before that and have absorbed a lot of knowledge.
No, he is 6'6" which I'm sure is in the 99th percentile.
Discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901152
> We don't have a free market to fall back on.

Indeed. Vets can do operations for less than a tenth the price doctors can, so prices could presumably go a long way down given the right market incentives.

But getting the right incentives in place is the hard thing. I don't think there is a really good way to run health care, all the obvious solutins have big holes, e.g.:

- buyer paying for health care as they need it doesn't work because someone might not have any health problems for years then they are suddenly hit by a crippling bill

- insurance doesn't work because once people have a pre-existing condition, they can't buy insurance any more.

- big state-run bureaucracies have all the problems you'd expect with big state-run bureaucracies.
The principal difference in this regard is that Scotland makes no distinction between the two forms of defamation that the English call libel ('written') and slander ('spoken'). The money is in libel.
Another brilliant post, keep up the good work.

I think many startups fail because they don't fake it until they can make it. (I've been on that end a couple times myself.)
pushState() is HTML5 API: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/...
Perhaps the sad fact is that being entertaining and being accurate are conflicting goals. Who wants to listen to a complex explanation for why the "fifteen minutes of videotaped conversation" method (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottman )for predicting the likelihood of divorce is flawed due to overfitting issues (see http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2010... for details)

Gladwell doesn't let complex facts get in the way of a good story.
Losely related: does anyone know of cheap (and fast) microcontroller with von neuman architecture (ie. able to execute code from RAM) and usable amount of embedded RAM (say 32KB at least)?

Only microcontroller architecture than I know of than can be (ab)used as von neuman machine is MCS-51 (and there are even some mass produced products that do that and have self-modifing firmware). But MCS-51 is not exactly fast and moreover this hack requires considerate amount of external components.
Maybe so, but as your parent post says who genuinely cares? That article and poll outcome are not going to be some holy grail that changes any consumer's mind about what to buy, the bias of the employee in the shop that 90% of people who want a phone go to for advice are far more effective.

The other 10% are the ones reading a tech journal online and already have a fixed opinion on what they would get, so the playground analogy of "I want my favourite to win" is very well fitting to this situation.

Let's also not kid ourselves that there was some genuine gold or masterpiece of literature in the comments either (more likely some variant on the laughably naive "when will the world wake up and realise that they DON'T WANT A CLOSED PHONE OS"); the entire world would be better off if stuff like this wasn't even given the oxygen of publicity.
As I understand it using this trick means the TSA cannot open your luggage without your presence, so keep an ear open for your name on the PA.
Wow they developed new backend. They really generate lots of interesting code..
It probably also helps to be a talented public speaker and he is reputed to be a very good one.

http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2010/02/the-secrets-of-malco...

Generally speaking lot of bestsellers, fiction or non fiction, can be synthesized as:

- give to the reader pre-digested, easy, spoonfuls of
information.

- give to the reader something to quote so that he can
appear smart to his friends.

- try to be appealling enough to be interviewed on TV.
"Brain Workshop is a free open-source version of the Dual N-Back mental exercise."

"A recent study published in PNAS, an important scientific journal, shows that a particular memory task called Dual N-Back may actually improve working memory (short term memory) and fluid intelligence.
...."
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/
Personally I find it damn near impossible to use QWERTY after going to DVORAK, even after several years. As for someone else using my machine, well my friends refer to my work machine as having "the klingon keyboard". Handy for keeping people the hell outta your workspace though ...
I started the 30 day challenge yesterday and I was surprised a) how hard it was to get out of my comfort zone and b) how hard it was to actually get rejected.

It wasn't until the end of the day when I finally got a headshake of disapproval and got my rejection.

I imagine it'd be even tougher for a cute and innocent looking girl to get rejected. Good luck to her!
Not really. Try rallying up support against Xi Jingpin on TikTok?
While I don’t agree with his diagnosis entirely, Nietzsche is a good place to start on this particular topic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_morality
> The last trace is unencrypted domain name in TLS handshake and it'll be gone soon.

How can they respond to dns queries if they don't know what you're asking for?
from experience yes, not only psychologically but physically too. i say this as someone who has not only sampled 133 unique psychoactives (yes i kept count) ranging from the likes of non addictive stuff like LSD to highly addictive chemicals like Oxycontin, Cocaine, Meth and a whole host of others the only ones i became long term addicted to were cannabis, nicotine and thanks to the NHS Pregabalin (which has some horrendous withdrawals)

youll have chills, sweats, a complete lack of appetite, be irritable and unreasonable, horrendous dreams if/when you can finally sleep. im sure its not the case for everyoe just as it isnt with alcohol for most or any other chems. addiction is in fact quite a personal thing, whether its genetic, social or psychological i cant be sure but its definitely a real thing
TikTok is, as the title says, a social network for cheerfulness and fun. I don't use it, but I can understand they outright ban politics: 1) they avoid becoming the vile cesspool Twitter has become, 2) they avoid being asked by governments around the world to take down posts, 3) they avoid being targeted in propaganda campaigns.
Interesting that a philosophy column on an ethical issue talks a lot about legality in the first half. I guess it speaks to an optimistic attitude about the role of law.

I love this bit in the references:

"1. Any resemblances between this essay and Brian L. Frye’s forthcoming article “Plagiarize This Paper” (IDEA: The IP Law Review https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3462144) are probably due to the fact that I plagiarized it in several places."
>While you aren't wrong that the Saudi Arabian government tortures prisoners, you're phrasing implies that they are unique when in fact most authoritarian governments around the world torture people in their prisons.

Could you expand a bit on the significance of this? This seems like the kind of response that would be met with scorn if Saudi Arabia were substituted for certain other authoritarian governments in this sentence.

I've been grappling with it a bit myself, lately. When we are thinking about the human rights violations of a particular government or organization, is it important to consider them in context (similar to your statement, if I'm reading it correctly--i.e. such violations are not unique)? But then such attempts to place things in context are often met with accusations of whataboutism (which is sometimes the case in that "provision of context" is actually "attempt to deflect the conversation"). In other cases I'm not so sure.
I was also wondering about the that. Sadly, it is still not enabled by default in the latest Firefox release (version 70).

Furthermore would the Firefox Multi-Account Containers https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... with container per site prevent such tracking (has to be done manually ATM) ?
Actually they did one time when one of the ruthless generals of Algeria was got arrested in Switzerland because of two human rights peoples. but it was released.