skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should read up on some of the released data where someone or a family was under surveillance. They had teams of people listening and watching absolutely everything.

I'm convinced one of the factors that collapsed these totalitarian societies was the sheer amount of manpower and infrastructure that went into watching their own citizens. If for no other reason than it was a counterproductive waste of resources.

If they had access to the types of data collection available today they would have caught a lot more people. Of that there can be no doubt.
And the 'reverse' - Plan a week of meals from recipes, and the grocery list is generated. Better, have the list items collected, packed, and ready for pickup at the store.
There's some truth to that. I think it's all about knowing the right tools for the job. If you spend several dev-years on a Sinatra app, then you probably will have a unmaintainable mess unless you have some good architects enforcing a sensible structure on it.

Sticking with Ruby for examples, if you want to put up a quickie site with 4 routes and no DB, then it seems kinda silly to pull in Rails and deal with all of the complexity and expectations. Throw up a Sinatra site and be done with it.

On the other hand, if you're getting more demand for it and now you want more logic and analytics and a DB after all and some user accounts etc, then you should know when it's time to move over to Rails.
Autonomous cars will almost certainly do this in that transitional period before all cars are automated.

I bet they'll even do it after, at least between manufacturers.
Just to be clear, this is a historic document (2001), not a current introduction to x86 assembly. There's entirely new floating-point architectures introduced since this was written (SSE and AVX).
Thanks for pointing this out, useful resource!
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or AA means "automobile association" here, similar to your AAA I believe. We dont have alcoholics anonymous cus nobody here has a drinking problem.

ps. It took me a while of watching american tv shows before I figured that one out. I thought people were going to automobile association meetings which seemed a bit odd.
Who is Dan Luu? Does he have expertise in this area? Is he a leading expert? (No offense to Dan if he is reading this; I just don't know.)
Curious if there are any studies which have A/B comparisons of consumer purchasing habits relative to size labelling.
Probably not, because assholes like me make it a point to tip anyone who does me any personal service, even when abroad, and even when it isn't of a profession that typically demands it.

I don't know why I do it, and I don't really attempt to justify it beyond "This guy did something nice for me and made me believe he enjoyed it, so that is worth at least something" mixed with not wanting to worry about whether or not a tip is expected.

Apologies if I'm screwing up life for everybody else. I do at least pocket tips when I'm told that they aren't required/desired/expected/wanted, but I would much rather err on the side of over-tipping than under.
That app was free at times too. Well worth whatever you pay for it.
For what it's worth, that's how a lot of people get their kvas/milk today in eastern Ukraine. At least in the smaller cities I lived in (Gorlovka, Makyevka).
Why not posting your idea here? It might pique some interest here.
Article says it happened in rough ocean waters, things get tricky in stormy weather. Wouldn't be surprised if they cut it deliberately.
Few people understand that, in a turn, the throttle is the most accurate and delicate steering control (and, from my point of view, the only one you should use). And, on a car with a bit of mass biased towards the rear it works opposite what people are used to with front-biased cars. Accelerating (or not decelerating) around a turn isn't "natural" until you understand why.

I've always found it enjoyable to understand the dynamics of these cars. If you can swing it, doing Nürburgring on anything with decent performance is an absolute blast.
Sad day.
My main feeling reading about this is that in a well designed society there is no logical reason that such opulence should exist.
I've found that it's all about the team.

If it is a small team of close knit developers who communicate well, and expect to work together for a long time. Roll your own setup, loads easier and much more flexible.

If you are a corporation with reasonable dev turnover and good management, you might be able to pull off your own solution too.

If you are using contractors, have high dev turnover, a distributed team, and especially all of the above. Use a framework, any framework, otherwise you will wind up with a disaster within 6 months.

There was a really great talk a couple years ago about Twitter's defunct FlightJS framework. The framework was meh, but something in the presentation stuck with me, "If the shit is in a box, no one can smell it.".

I took that to mean that if your application is structured and organized ( like what a framework imposes ), suboptimal parts of the application will have a smaller impact on the app as a whole, and refactoring those parts is often a matter of just "throwing out the box".

On the front-end React has done a fantastic job of providing lots of boxes for contractors to shit in.
I'm confused. Are you suggesting that we should follow twitter's TOS on this matter and be done with it because eventually politicians and the like will just work harder to filter what they say?

What's to stop someone from creating a service for themselves that has similar TOS (Anything published if later deleted MUST be removed from any data store containing it) then they use said service to communicate everything they want to say essentially giving them an undo/delete button for everything? This sounds terrible to me.
the only "snowy track" is the Alps. Pyrenees has a lot of white gravel next to the road, which might be what you're thinking of (but there's also green grass, dry pavement, and fall colors on the trees.)

I wonder if there's a framerate issue or something that makes times not really comparable system to system. I can run that course in about 2:15 in much faster cars than the Carerra RS (2000 911 Turbo, GT1, 935, all carefully tweaked/upgraded) -- with an analog racing wheel and tons of practice. I've seen youtube videos of people coming in at around 2:05 in those cars by running insanely tight lines. I can't imagine how you could be even faster than that in an RS, with a top speed that's slower than what I take most corners at in my GT1.

And yeah, it's a hugely high quality game, particularly for the era. It was clearly a labor of love. I've got a handful of games from the 1990-2000 era that I still play because nothing else captures the magic quite the same -- DooMII, Descent, and NFS:PU.

(Source port links: DooMII - Zandronum at http://zandronum.com/ ; Descent - Retro at http://descentchampions.org/new_player.php )
Well, that's a bad way to look at it.

A fluid Oz is 1/16 of a pint.

An oz of weight is 1/16 of a pound.

A pint of water weights 1 pound ("A Pint's a Pound, the World Around").

Aside: I actually like the customary system for fluid measurements; it's based on halves and as such is divisible by eye, not requiring graduations.
I think you're forgetting how good the web was ten years ago.
I've learned to avoid such services and outright hire somebody to help with project administration. Its easier and less costly. This person would help with sales, marketing, proposals, etc. Mind you, "freelancing" is a business. it has to be treated as one. When you offload it to someone else you are going to get short changed. Programmers seem to have an issue with getting projects. Which is understandable given how most of us don't care about sales or marketing.

Having patents and lots of experience makes closing a project a bit easier. But it doesn't really help when talking to the decision makers. There is an episode[1] of .NET Rocks podcast where they discuss marketing for programmers. Its full of good stuff and you will definitely get great insights from it. Go listen to it and go from there.

[1]https://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=1181
I think that's the problem for many (if not most) people who are satisfied with their job--a lack of autonomy and ownership.

For example, take fry cook A, who works at Wendy's, and fry cook B, who works at an independent restaurant where the owner gives him a good deal of creative control.

Fry cook B's job is to make the best damn hamburger he can, and he get's to use his brain a bit. Fry cook A's job is to make the exact same hamburger as every other cook at every other Wendy's in the country.

Most humans just aren't very happy trying their best to act like a robot.
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Tipping is poor behavior. It's a disgusting practice in the US that really kills the experience.
You've said 'misleading and incomplete' to two substantive posts in this thread. That's tantamount to calling people liars.
Not really just fine. I went to the movies a lot because the TV was so lousy.

These days, the HD picture is so good I no longer go to the movies.
The people in India are cheap compared to the aging IBMers in US. The push is economical and forced. They could easily make the same push here, but it won't happen in the current environment.
"As a rising [University student / whatever]," - have people really started saying this? "Rising" as a self-descriptor sounds ridiculous. I feel like this is at least the second time I've seen that opener.
"The problem is, if you're not a hacker, you can't tell who the good hackers are." http://www.paulgraham.com/gh.html

Relying on coding challenges or automatically-generated code metrics is deceptive because it tests if people can solve coding challenges, not solve real production issues or work on production apps, quickly and/or produce maintainable code. (It's about as useful as asking "why are manhole covers round" frequently asked questions interview trivia questions as proxy signals for intelligence.)

So, unfortunately, finding top coding talent is fundamentally an irreducible problem because it takes a little time & money to examine if someone is a badass coder by other badass/es reviewing some actual work and/or working with them on side-project/s.
Yes, your behavior is insulting in many cultures and is the reason we even have a law in the US that allows minimum wage exceptions for waiters. Over-tipping is worse than under-tipping on a macro scale.
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How about doing it the other way around? The restaurant includes a fixed percentage charge for the service on all items, announces it prominently, requites waiters to refuse any additional tips.

One can argue that, because the advertised prices would be, say, 18% higher, the restaurant would fail due to customers preferring restaurants with lower advertised prices. But at least the experiment could be run in this case in a more or less ethical manner (costs to the business itself could be absorbed by a speculative insurer that is convinced business will not decrease for that particular restaurant). Might not even matter for really high end restaurants, since they don't advertise prices anyways.
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Strangely, a UK/AU size 8 is still about the same - it's comparable to a size 0 in the US.
I can't find the quote to link to, but back in the 90's Harm Lagaay (head of Porsche design) was asked why the doors hadn't changed in 30 years. He said "It's a good door."
IAAL :)
So, "conflict with the law" is a not-well-defined term.

There are 196 countries, so yes, you could say it varies. But i'm not sure which are the "plenty" you are thinking about, and i'd love to see specific examples of what you are thinking about.

Generally, most countries have pretty consistent law here.
If the contract is a contract for you to perform something illegal (like murder), that will not be enforced.
A contract that says "you must do X if you wish to use our service", in basically any reasonable country you can think of, is not going to be invalidated if you can't do X because it's illegal when done in very certain ways in very specific circumstances.

This is because, again, in general, you can't claim the benefit of the contract (using the service) but not have to have the burden.
It's a great story.

The introduction though - this took place in 1979. The Marshall plan was a limited program in the immediate postwar era. The rise of the West German economy was much more to do with the liberalization of the economy, restriction on government and of course the personal economic, speech and actual freedoms of the West Germans. By 1979 they were already exporting products to the USA and everywhere else by the container load. 'Mercedes Benz' by Janis Joplin was released in 1970 - the West German economy was in good shape by 1979, all from the work of the West German people.
It worked with Uber rating drivers and riders. Care to elaborate on why this wouldn't work?
This comment doesn't mesh at all with my experience at any high-end NYC restaurant, including the place where this guy worked.

The staff isn't subservient; they've got some expertise, so they steer and make recommendations so you'd have a better experience than you'd have deciding independently.

The patrons quite evidently aren't just 'the people who your entire society has decided are worth listening to', since they also include people who sit around reading Hacker News (as well as a good smattering of tourists and couples celebrating their anniversary.)

And finally, if you're an ass to the staff, everyone around you still unambiguously knows and thinks you're an ass.
>Some customers you don't want.

An Uber driver told me that customers are rated for exactly this reason. If a customer score is deemed too low when requesting a ride, then Uber drivers will tend to be a tad slower to accept the ride in the hopes another driver will pick it up instead.
It is really difficult to explain the benefits of static analysis and type safety to people who only work in dynamically typed languages.

The JS community is just now being introduced to compilers, and there is significant push back and lots of people crying for "simpler age". I think it will be a while (if ever) until languages like closurescript, scalajs, & typescript start seeing widespread adoption outside of their fiefdoms (google, fb, microsoft).

If you are interested in a typesafe universal js ( or isomorphic js, whatever we are calling it now ) proof of concept you can check out this project using scalajs and scala-js react.

http://ochrons.github.io/scalajs-spa-tutorial/index.html
If you make less than minimum wage because you're not getting enough tips, your employer is legally supposed to pay you the difference so that you would still make the minimum. Whether places actually abide by those laws is a different story I imagine.
Most developed countries have a minimum hourly wage.
Here in Ireland for example it would be illegal to pay someone less.
I still tip the pizza delivery guy though. I guess cus they are providing a service directly to me. I suppose pizaa delivery is a pretty low paying job and I have a pretty cool decently paying job so I'm just being nice.
I agree you overdid it. Also on the table view, the highlighted row spins too fast.

But other than those minor quibbles, it's neat!
Yes, that would be ethical, I believe. In fact, in many restaurants, this is how things are now for tables of 6 or more.
I was with you initially, but this seems hostile in a way that's honestly kind of confusing. The argument, as I understand it, isn't something like "websites are too complex now," it's that "web-app programming is becoming more complex without corresponding returns on functionality or UX."

Your example, though it's buried under a bunch of stuff calling people dumbasses, makes an interesting point: You're right, there isn't anything simple about 100,000 lines of code in ANY language, even if it's 100,000 necessary lines. What were they trying to do that was so easy to replace? What kind of JS was knocking around in 2005 -- is it all display stuff and wonky jQuery?
Looks interesting, how is this different from Amazon Device Farm?
Same, "Ice Balls" was a fantastic piece of writing. Thanks for sharing.
That article left me feeling empty.
In a well-designed society my wife and I can't voluntarily decide to save up and have a really nice dinner for our anniversary? What kind of person is this designer?
To expand on that a little: The air cooled heads could not dissipate enough heat to support a 4 valve per cylinder configuration and the noise and pollution goals could not be met with air cooling.
The rear engine design of the 911 is still competitive in motor sports [1], as is somewhat befitting of the designation as a sports car. As noted in the article, the weight distribution gives the car a distinct set of cornering characteristics and experienced drivers are often able to employ them to competitive advantage.

Physics is not a technology, just physics.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_European_Le_Mans_Series_s...
recipes suck. They have no life in them. They're technology, man using memory in place of spirit to copy, not create.

there may come a time when I use recipes, but I prefer building pyramids to buying them.
Having met the CEO I would say avoid like the plague.... Interestingly nobody is posting what they are earning on it...I'll be you they are trying to keep that under wraps with onerous legal documents.
This is a problem for men's clothing too. I actually track my sizes per brand, per year in order to make shopping online remotely plausible.
Why are you only tallying NY and CA?
Some solid misandry here...From the article, last 2 paragraphs:

>"It turns out there are a lot of upsides to being a woman. You get to hang out with women. You >don’t have to hang out with men. You don’t have to condescend to people about things like ice. >You notice other people’s reactions to you. People consider you safe enough to tell you their >problems. You get to smile at kids you don’t know. You get to hang out with women. You get to >hang out with women. Your whole life. Between the old guys congratulating themselves for being >able to drop 700 dollars on an ounce of 40 year old scotch, or my mom getting goofy on ice wine >with her retired nurse friends, I know who’s throwing the better party.
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>The well-meaning among you might be tempted to explain to me, hey you could hang out with women >who went to women’s colleges and still get called he or they or ze or hir or you might want to >explain to me that there are so many good dudes who are transforming what it means to be a dude, >and I could join in and transform it with them. Nope. No thanks. I think estrogen is good deal. I >think this female thing is a good deal. Even with the rape and the gas-lighting and the poverty >and the shitty jobs and the sexual harassment and the doing all the housework and the watching >jokers kill the planet and the regular ice, this womanhood thing is where it’s at. Those ice >balls have melted. I’m good."

What some people do not realise is that men wouldn't do what they do with accumulating status and wealth, if women didn't reward them with sex for it.
Men's clothes aren't that different. Measure the actual waists of a few pairs of chinos and jeans and compare to the sizing.

Also worth noting that quality control and variability in manufacturing is so scattershot that 5 pairs of size 32 Levi's 501s will fit very differently.
Recipes are like algorithms. Learning the classics is a good way to get started.

I can't remember the last time I followed a recipe to the letter, but I often use them as a jumping off point.
That's actually the point Daniel Pink makes on his book Drive

http://deliveringhappiness.com/the-motivation-trifecta-auton...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Ab...

"Daniel Pink, in his book, Drive, lists three elements of the motivation formula: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. - "
Someone (Airbnb?) was trying to use Facebook login as a similar web of trust, as a proxy for real-world social pressure to be a reasonable human being. I don't think PGP really says anything here, positive or negative, when we have Facebook, which is far far bigger and much more tuned to actual, ongoing social connections.

(and this coming from someone with a key in the strong set, and no Facebook account)
Can we please stop calling billion dollar companies startups?
Just curious: Will Code staff eventually transition to 1 or N other departments, or are most already maintaining other projects?
I guess it depends on what you mean by "studies" and "A/B" testing since this kind of pricing test has probably been done informally since the sizing was standardized. It may have only become effective after Americans started getting really fat.
I met the CEO and had a chance to talk with him.... from that interaction I would definitely not want to work him. YMMV
So I'm genuinely curious - what's your attitude towards socialism and communism now?
The technology stack you are using is not going to affect the chance of getting into the network. Once you have gone through the screening process, you're will be matched by a team of engineers to prospective clients based on your tech stack, availability, time zone and other factors as well.

When it comes to technologies being in demand, it really ranges all across the board: from the standard PHP, Ruby, Javascript etc, over more bleeding edge like React, React Native to niche things like OpenCV are all there.

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"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data show that the average American woman today weighs about as much as the average 1960s man."

That is a disgusting statistic.
When SJW screen caputer offending tweet which are then deleted (say, during the height of #GG), Twitter takes no action, but when some anti-corruption organisation do, they are nuked...

I wonder how much pressure Twitter had from elected official to take this stance...
They're missing Flexport from this list
I know this adds little to nothing to the conversation but I've had a vastly different experience. I've been buying Levi's 513 34/32s for the past I don't know how many years and literally every pair fits just like the one before it. Whether I bought them from a store in SF when I was traveling, or a Boston Macy's or Amazon. It's probably the number one reason I stick with this jean, because I know I will get a consistent fit.
We should just call them people's projects..
We are of course in violent agreement.

The point to note is that the decision on whether or not the reordering can occur, based on whether or not A and B are the same or not, is made dynamically at the point of execution.
There's one for Yubikeys too, which I like because there's no battery to die.
Lessig's a smart guy and knows that President's don't get to make the laws, they only get to approve them. Making laws is up to the Senate and Congress. One need only look at how hard President Obama has tried "to get laws passed" to see that it isn't a power afforded the Executive office.

The "right" answer is getting two of the three branches on board and that is a hard problem (as it was designed to be) to avoid any one individual (or even a relatively small group) from wielding too much power over the rest of us.
Not until their P/E first returns a positive number.
From this you'll end up with the closed form in terms of the golden ratio. Might as well use that.