jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
There should be both.

Unit tests written by devs are not testing that the system does what it is supposed to do. They're testing that the code does what the programmer intended it to do. They have to be written by the programmer because they're coupled with the code.

There's a separate testing process needed (as you say) that tests if the system does the thing it's supposed to do. The programmer cannot do this, precisely because it's basically testing their understanding of the requirements.

I have my co-founders Q&A everything before rolling out to production. It's a pain, but it's saved us a few headaches where I was just following the golden path and missed some obvious problems.
Citation needed here. Iirc, the media were quite anti-brexit.
I worked with a tester turned dev. He was amazing, his attention to detail and ability to grok specifications was second to none
In a single payer system there's nowhere else to go.

We have private health care in the UK in addition to the national health service (eg https://www.bupa.co.uk/). It's insurance-based, and it pays for treatment in hospitals both inside and outside of the NHS. It's even offered as a perk by some employers. Specifically relevant to this HN story, there's access to cancer treatments before they're approved by the NHS and NICE (https://www.bupa.co.uk/health/health-insurance/bupa-cancer-p...).

I realise that some people are politically averse to single payer healthcare, but please read up a bit about how the UK's healthcare system works before posting about it. You're only spreading misinformation if you don't.

For clarity - the UK's NHS is a single payer taxation funded, free-at-the-point-of-use healthcare system, but we also have companies that offer parallel private health insurance funded healthcare for anyone who chooses to pay (and yes, that does mean they're paying for the government service and their own private service, but that's just how taxation works).
Good for people not sharing the space. Rather inconvenient otherwise.
Some interesting stuff in there but it's a bit scatterbrained and too obsessed with coming back to libertarian dogma.

There is a line of argument that says that most growth comes from innovation. While some of it surely does, I think interconnectedness is much more important. It's sad this just turns into ideas having sex in the article. But then again lots of stuff is important in how inter-human relations develop over time. It's foolish to obsessively attribute much of the growth of the economy to one thing.

For a scatterbrained, but much more interesting and less dogmatic, rethinking of economics theory I recommend Origin of Wealth by Eric D. Beinhocker.
Actually, we're not trying to drive folks to Mahalo with these sites. We're actually happier if they stay on the vertical sites--which have higher CPMs.
I'll be there, should be another fun night!
Curious how you feel about ghostery.
Have you already some apps to demonstrate how it works? Could you give a link to AppStore?
Unfortunately, the author's point about "toxic" advertising such as popups, popunders, etc. doesn't have anything to do with YOUR advertising. Ad blockers are generally turned on after a very negative ad experience with something like a popup-riddled site.

It's usually not the publisher who's creating great content that's delivering those horrible ad experiences. They are generally fighting their ad networks to police the bad ads because they hate them as much as you do.
This is the future for non-rich people living in congested cities. I can even see units constituting a room being shared between neighbors, assuming the robots will clean it in between uses.
> If I were making one of these I'd make several tethers, spaced such that a single object can not break more than one at once.

What I'd worry about is security, honestly.

What if some nation decides that the space elevator existing isn't in the best interest of their national security, or some paramilitary group wants to make a point?

Bombing the base station would hurt the elevator. But of course, we should expect that to be secured. That still leaves the entire length of cable running up and down the elevator -- that's a huge volume of space to secure against anything explosive or fragmentary.
"Raising awareness" is such bullshit. It's a lie people tell themselves so they can feel good sitting in an air conditioned office earning a good wage running a "social media campaign" and never getting their hands dirty or having to meet any of the people they're "helping".

http://metro.co.uk/2010/09/21/bono-under-fire-over-one-chari...
My gut feeling, speaking as an outsider reading the news, is Karpeles was never dishonest, just hopelessly out of his depth and too stubborn to ask for help.

In the normal course of events I also would expect money disappearing over that long a timescale to have to have been embezzlement by an employee, and I would certainly consider that a plausible hypothesis here. On the other hand, reading the IRC chat transcript where Karpeles talks about how he's been under so much stress that it's ruining his health, it's obvious he made the classic mistake of trying to work so many hours he couldn't think straight.

So I'm guessing either he delegated the accounts to someone with no oversight and it was an inside job... or he refused to delegate, which meant the accounts were in the hands of someone too tired to be capable of coherent thought, which amounted to the same result as nobody looking at them, and an outside job would suffice.

Moral of this story for customers: don't risk money you can't afford to lose.

Moral of this story for founders: don't try to be a hero and do more than one job's worth of work, especially in a domain where a screwup may cause significant harm.
I want a content marketing platform that let's you easily turn blog posts into other units of content (videos, infographics, slideshows, whitepapers) without going to 9 different systems.
You're right, my comment was extreme and definitely naive and not ubiquitously true. I was simply suggesting that we not place sole responsibility of that on his employer.

I've deleted my original post because in hindsight I feel that it was disrespectful.
Makes sense, thank you! My use case is much different since I never need more than two ports while I'm portable, and when I'm at my desk the dock/hub means just one cable for power, monitor, networking, and all of my other devices.
I.E. They raised prices and "ensured" scarcity, yes.
Polls also only count the people you poll. If your poll pool has an inherent bias the poll results will reflect that bias.
Dead is dead, no? Ride safe and keep it in the big ring, lol.
How is that racist anything at all?
> Is this not what we should expect from a beta?

The issue here is that the person on the street does not know they are the ones likely to get impacted by a bug/failure of a software in beta. Beta products are usually not released to the public, or are opt-in.
FLAC get's compressed to 320 by google music anyways
You might be thinking of a landing page, try that in Google, http://www.leadpages.net/products/ is a popular service for that but is paid.
Completely missing the point of analogy, I know, but skyscrappers would fly if they were tall enough, right?

The center of gravity far enough should make them sattelites, if they were made from something that can withstand the forces involved?
Getting absolutely tanked on cheap booze is a good example.
Hrmm I really like the web client. It's not great (image viewer is really small) but serves my needs perfectly
Maybe, maybe not. IMO, capabilities-based systems are all around us these days, just not in a completely pure form and not in the way most people expected (it's at a higher level, that is, in the way apps are being built on web APIs).

I also note that Microsoft built a capabilities-based OS (Singularity - it's open source, have you considered building on something like this?) and that one of the most important modern contributors to the space (J. Shapiro) now works at MS Research last I read. Given his lifetime interest and work in the area it's not a stretch to imagine what they may have hired him to work on.
Seconded. I played around with it for a while as well - creating images in a different image editing app and then opening them in photoshop to see when the warning is triggered.
The docs seem to state otherwise

One instance of where this is handy is for
returning a 'sensible default' value if an
expression resolves to false or null

http://groovy.codehaus.org/Operators#Operators-ElvisOperator(?:)
Working at a botanic garden[0] definitely has its advantages :-). By the summer I aim to have thoroughly explored the opposite end, which I've neglected as it's 20 minutes walk from my desk, with three big glasshouses in between.

(What are the guidelines on mentioning jobs in comments? As we've just advertised four developer positions...)

[0] http://www.kew.org/
This web client, even in it's current horrific form, is something I really needed.

Many a times I find myself working on my laptop, with the phone carelessly lying somewhere else in the room. It's a pain to go find it when a new message arrives.

The bottomline is, I guess WhatsApp doesn't need a Web Client to compete with other services. If you've been to India, you will realize how pervasive WhatsApp is, with or without a Web Client.

This is just an added convenience feature for some power users. So it is understandable that they went this route.
If I am the husband, I would into the store, pay $220 for the drug and leave a IOU.

"Here's $200 to cover your manufacturing of the drug, I won't want you to go out of business too. Here's another $20(10%) profit, that's what I can afford now, here's an IOU for the remaining $1780 that I own you. I will pay you once things are better on my end. Signed, a loving husband."
In general, I think it also depends on society maturity (given there are many ways to get to that state).
In Spain and Italy, the countries I know best, thousands of citizens are trying to cut corners and bypass any quarantine obligation.
So we do not trust Italy either. Especially northern Italy where hospitals are on US/European level?
So step one is "found a bank"?
Inform and TADS are the two main ones out there. If you want to do the basic stuff, Inform is probably easier. I hear TADS is more powerful if you want to extend the capabilities, though.
> I don't really get poetry in general but somehow in song form it works really well.

Just to point out, songs are the general case of poetry. They're much, much, much, much more common than nonmusical poetry.
I found this snapshot of traffic conditions in greater L.A. from Friday afternoon to be rather stunning. I've never seen so much green except during the night.

https://www.motherjones.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blog_...
Seattle/King County metro diesel buses gets 50 passenger-miles per gallon of diesel. Better than average, but not enough for preventing climate change. They're also still running nearly all buses empty these past weeks, so that's 0 mpg.
Honestly, I don’t believe we will see a huge depression unless there is war. People are still available for work and all the equipment used for producing value is in good conditions. So long as government provides fiscal stimulus, depression shouldn’t happen.

In case it happens though, you are better of farming stuff like potatoes and chicken than developing software until government steps in with fiscal stimulus, though it will require some existing capital.
Before the employee's taxes, but after the employer's taxes. That adds a good 15-30% depending on the country.
It doesn't matter. The top 1% of a large pool is still bigger than the top 1% of a small pool, so competition increases for the same number of jobs.
Well, I guess you‘re out of programming as a whole then, no? Most languages and dev process involve a lot of configuration or „bespoke tools“ and learning the arcane of their interactions.

Java? Gradle. JUnit. Maven. JavaDoc. etc.

C/CPP? Make. CMake. Various dependency management tools. Maybe your OS native dependency manager

Your OS? Brew / Yay / pacman / app-get / vim config / IDE configuration / environment tools / ...

Deployment? Docker. Jenkins. Travis. Kubernetes.

Coming back to „js monstrosities“, if you ever had the fun to poke around in the literal arcane magicks that are C++ dependency management systems and giant CMAKE files, you‘d love node. In fact, most cli tools are just for templating projects or generating boilerplate for components. They aren‘t arcane or complicated at all.

Configuration is half of programming or dev ops. If you don‘t like it, maybe it just isn‘t for you.
A few things:

The title in the HTML is still "React App"

There is very little information about this. Why should I trust this? I see the option to print, is that my only option?
Would a negative pressure test suffice? (See our website). Smoke may have a false negative, as odorants are many times smaller than the target challenge particles.
Sadly Tesla doesn’t have the tech in their car to pump power out fast. You need their home battery product power wall.

It’s actually very sad, I have a great 75 kWh battery in my garage. Would be happy to power my home with it during peak demand.
I'm was a full stack dev with a similar self-taught background but only 5 years experience and I just started as a Google SRE last year. Maybe it helped that I attended a lot of meetups and conferences.
There is no denying that some of them are breaking the rules and yes the weddings and funerals in which there were 100s to 1000s of people are obviously bad, but that is not proof they are breaking the rules on a larger scale than the non-heredi population.

Just this past weekend the police shut down two nature parties/raves around the town I live in. This happens every weekend. Does that mean the “seculars” are breaking the rules on a larger scale than anyone else? Of course not. You and I do not have enough information to know who is and who is not breaking the rules.
In school I was taught, "You're so lucky to have been born here. We're the best country in the world at everything." I'm not exaggerating, and we were told to expect to be the best all the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism#:~:tex....
I don't think approaching it from a radio standpoint would help, since it's simply a matter of Verizon choosing deliberately not to provision the phone.

For extra coverage while traveling, you could order a SIM from Ting[1] (a Sprint MVNO that I've used and really enjoyed), and switch to it for coverage on Sprint's LTE network; they fully support the Nexus 5. It's not as expansive as Verizon's network, but from my experience it tends to fill in the gaps left by T-Mobile. I say that because my service is with Straight Talk on T-Mobile's network, and my wife's phone is on Ting. Everywhere I don't have coverage, she does, and vice versa.

Ting charges a base price of $6 per month per device, then charges for metered usage. My wife uses about 800 MB of data, about 80 minutes of calls, and about 300 texts per month, and her bill comes in at under $40 per month. I won't pretend to know your travel itinerary, but if all you do is order the SIM and activate it once every few months, you're probably looking at less than $70 per year to have the convenience of extra coverage when you need it.

Or, you could forgo all of that and go back to Verizon on a Moto X, it's the closest you'll get to a Nexus device on that network, but then you're back in user-hostile support territory.

[1] https://ting.com/shop/microsim
I'm going through this book right now, and I'm a pretty big fan so far: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Category-Theory-Harold-Si...
huh? I think there's a lot of interesting (relatively) conversation that can come from fizzbuzz. The whole "is aware of the modulus operator or not" thing is an easy one, but there's also the whole loop & print vs loop through a function that returns debate and also string building with plus equals vs flat output type stuff. Those are all pretty obvious and could cause some illuminating discussion from a candidate.
The public domain CMUCL/SBCL line of compilers (as well as most commercial common lisps) are notorious for being the fastest dynamic/interactive systems since the 1990's. Most dynamic languages are still nowhere near the speed of the assembly code produced by most common lisp compilers while still retaining the impressive dynamic & incremental aspect of the language (although every year they are closing in). In the end, it comes down to how much effort was put into these compilers, rather than the language itself. For years DARPA spent loads of money on a highly trained team of compiler experts to work on CMUCL (later SBCL) led by Scott Fahlman. I doubt Ruby and Python will be able to attain JS speed until more effort goes into on these systems, which so far are still defined by a canonical, byte-code interpreted implementation.
Haskell Developer - 6 to 12 months project - Remote (May 21, 2021) https://www.freelancermap.de/projektboerse/projekte/entwickl...
Welcome to America, where they burn more oil to keep their houses warm or cool than most people drink water in a year!

Like seriously, how on earth do you use so much oil?
All routers should have WPS off by default. Period.
"Only hackers, miscreants and pedophiles use Tor."

Oh please. They're trying to take the moral high ground to justify their behaviour.
> When these fine people came to me with an offer to make four movies for them, I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only…. Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,” said Sandler. “Let the streaming begin!!!!”

This is ironic on a very large number of levels.
Perhaps a better (or at least related) question is: how does one find the time to put into side projects on top of staying competitive as a programmer in an environment where 45-55 hour weeks are customary and expected, and also achieve some kind of work/life balance involving significant others and children?

I challenge anyone to show that the math for this works out. Everyone I know who has put effective effort into so-called 'side projects' is either living off saved wealth, working 20-30 hours/week on lucrative consulting contracts, and/or has an SO that works their ass off in some all-consuming, soul-crushing, high-paying career.
I wonder if at some point some sections of society will voluntarily move to less efficient methods of production to generate employment - aka resurrecting the self sufficient village.
It's this kind of crowdsourcing that I dislike. Mine the efforts of the people and keep the information to yourself. I'm mainly disappointed that because of this limited access, I can't have a better experience browsing the data on the web or in a mobile app. As it stands, both their site and the iOS app are slow, and the iOS app navigation just stinks.
Please fix your title.

EDIT: Thanks.
But this isn't an optimization that I can learn from, really. I mean, unless I made that same mistake in referencing my sprite images, which seems unlikely. Basically, look at firebug and see what all the connections are coming from and fix it.
Great content. I really enjoyed the interview with Dave Paola, the founder of djangy.com & thathigh.com. I saw his AMA on reddit a while back (http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ev2zb/i_run_thathighco...) and was curious about his story. I've read Founders at Work and while it's a good read, I've been looking for interviews with more recent startups, which is exactly what this book/pdf provides. Thanks.
applied :) agree with @deafcheese +21 restriction does not help students/interns to attend to good networking events
For me goggles took the longest I have ever seen it.
Awesome site :)
Indeed, there's not a lot to recommend a Venusian floating habitat over a pure space station, for example.

However, if you look at what's possible with Mars, things get interesting quickly. Firstly, the CO2 atmosphere and local sub-surface water ice can be used to generate rocket fuel with a very low level of infrastructure, making initial exploration dramatically more efficient. Secondly, Mars has plenty of Sun and near-Earth day/night cycle, making it straightforward to grow food there. The day/night cycle also makes relying on solar power much more feasible, and makes direct communication with Earth more reasonable (since a location on Mars and on Earth will generally have line-of-sight to each other on the order of once per day). Thirdly, local martian materials can be used to maintain a self-sufficient industrialized civilization over an indefinite period of time (local metal ores, water ice, CO2, even Uranium ores, ability to grow food, etc.)
> I would explain how my tool cuts code review time in half, but was that actually true or had I just repeated the argument so many times that I stopped questioning it?

Am I missing something here? He says he feels like a fraud but if he's telling people something that he doesn't know to be true.. that's not 'imposter syndrome', it really is more like fraud.
Having the benefit of hacking around jsdom for a while to fix certain bugs, I could tweak Readability to work around the slowness.

Also node-htmlparser now contains a patch of mine so it's a bit more robust.

I think you'll find your code might be a bit more robust than you left it, in part due to my wanting to make our API robust :)
Yeah, we have the best airport security in Israel ;)

I witnessed a case, when a guy, who joked with the "profiling" girl, was escorted to his jet by security guard.

I second, that profiling is not by race, but behavior (and maybe accent). Their questions can be funny and sometimes even rude.

Still it's better than removing your shoes, posing naked and getting radiation.
Would it be that hard? Here's what I would do:

1) Rewrite explorer.exe to work on a slate. A big effort, but probably just on the scale of WP7 or iOS. This gives you a good high-level shell experience for doing things like finding files, launching apps, etc....

2) Make a great touch screen keyboard. Probably make a handful of them, so the user can try various kinds and make the default the one they like the most. Note, Windows handwriting recognition is already quite good.

3) Add a touch-friendly shell on IE9. The shell is already minimalist -- this is pretty incremental work.

4) Make touch-friendly versions of all the built-in Windows apps (notepad, wmp, control panel, etc...). This maybe a large work item, so use telemetry data to hit the 20 most popular apps first.

5) Make Office touch friendly. It's actually surprisingly touch friendly now.

6) Get the top 100 apps and work with vendors on making them finger-friendly. Entice with money where necessary. Targets here would be Chrome, Firefox, Photoshop, iTunes, Zune, VLC, WinZip, Quicktime, TurboTax, Adobe Reader, Mathematica, etc... I suspect the conversion ratio won't be super high, but you'll move what you can.

7) Create a touch app store.

Now this won't be perfect, but I suspect it will be a pretty tremendous start, coupled with OakTrail. This probably would seriously cannibalize the netbook market. I'd probably even get one.
Turned the side projects into a company.
I don't own the game so I was confused by having both the character and their spouse in the image. Sorry about that.
The cost to own an LLC varies a lot on jurisdiction. Even in the USA, it can vary considerably from state to state.