skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I filter tap water with replaceable brita filters.

Not because it tastes bad, but because tap water around here is hard as hell, cooking pasta once or twice with unfiltered water is sufficient to leave traces in the pan (and yes pans get washed), limescale starts building up in the kettle in a pair of days (though to be fair between coffee and tea the kettle runs 6~8 times a day). Brita filters is the only thing I've found yet which gives me a month between vinegar-rinsing of the kettle (and yes, the filter dies in ~a month, start letting shit through and limestale instantly starts building up in the kettle, it's a right pain in the ass)
banning encryption today because "criminals use computers" is equivalent to banning locks 100 years ago because "criminals use doors"
Indeed, that was strong worded. I should have chosen better fitting terms to make that point.

Thank you for the reminder.
Software Developers' Perceptions of Productivity
>No, the equivalent of breaking userspace would be breaking the Web platform.

Suppose someone secretly believes that the true users of my web browser are the owners of the web sites I visit. (Perhaps they own a web site or they make their living working for web-site owners, which makes it natural for them to care about the freedoms and the interests of site owners more than they care about my freedoms and interests.)

That secret belief would tend to make them overestimate the usefulness of the Javascript that the sites I visit cause to execute on my browser and to underestimate the usefulness and importance of any extensions or add-ons I choose to install on my browser.

I think the true situation is that there are two important userspaces -- one in which front-end web-app code runs and another in which extensions and add-ons run. (There is some overlap between these two userspaces.)

Also, one of the arguments being given for the need to restrict what add-ons can do is security even though most exploits of the browser are caused not by the user's installing a bad add-on, but rather by the user's visiting a bad web page. Yet I see no one on this page mentioning the latter kind of exploits (which an add-on can sometimes protect against, for example, by blocking ads).
Don't worry. In a thread w/300+ comments a hitler reference was inevitable. Real question is whether humanity is capable of learning the lesson about war in the modern age. Nukes make it so that no leader can start a war without risking their own life. Sending others to their doom is much easier, especially when there's the potential to profit. Censorship on the other hand is a sign of weakness/fear and is eventually self defeating.
The big problem is that AS2 and AS3 are drastically different from each other and neither of them can safely be ignored.

Supporting even one of them in its entirety is a Herculean effort. Supporting both is insane.
One man's paltry can be another man's extravagant. If you are coming from R5RS, then that Racket library would be a breath of fresh air. If you are coming from Perl, then maybe not so much.
Your question... surprised me.

I am from Brazil, here everyone filter their tap water.

Also my Startup associate is from France, and he claims in France this is also true.

As for what we use:

This is a classic: http://www.precolandia.com.br/images/product/279021A.JPG

Water filtered with those clay filters (the filter itself is made of carbon, not clay) somehow always feel fresh, sometimes on extremely hot days I can swear that despite having no active cooling, the water that comes out is cooler than the air.

Also this is common: http://www.decorandoimoveis.com/wp-content/gallery/filtro-de...

My mother has this one: http://mlb-s1-p.mlstatic.com/elemento-filtrante-filtro-agua-...

It is really good, but very expensive.
In the meantime I looked for a lecture I watched some time ago and where I remembered that it suggested that fields are not real.

This lecture leaves no doubt that fields are not real but just a mathematical tool. The relevant part are the first 30 minutes. I am still not absolutely confident about that but just because it is so often suggested, including the people in this thread, that fields are real. But I am now at least almost convinced that particles are real and fields are not. Really worth watching.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tnA7bh7dTqY
I like how the guy who thinks Hitler was a good thing because the war he caused spurred a great number of technological (including, incidentally, the nuclear bomb) and societal advances found something that was too utilitarian for his taste after all.
I'm interested in you not creating such a book. While I support the idea of seeking your own improvement and taking advantage of what works for you as an individual, the view such a book espouses is not one of improving quality of life, it's one of More. Just More. Which in my mind is a really dangerous way to go about lifestyle choices. You might as well title it "How to Burn Out in 22 Hours a Day"
Was any technical minded person really influenced by that, other than cringing in front of the TV?

Anyone who has ever worked with any kind of media editor knows that "waving your arms in the air" is about the least desirable imaginable interface for such.
Somewhat off-topic comment from my experience in the Roguelike community: If you're a game designer, PLEASE DON'T PUT MAZES IN YOUR GAME!

(It's a terrible crutch and doesn't make the game any more interesting or challenging. The _ONLY_ exception I know of is the Baldur's Gate: ToB/Watcher's Keep maze level. That is deterministic and actually pretty well-planned out wrt. the no-magic vs. magic-allowed zones.Try it as a Sorcerer, I challenge you!)

That doesn't mean that programming a maze-generator isn't fun... just don't put in the final game.
I particularly hate unrealism which is hopelessly unnecessary, such as showing people using ridiculously bad faux search engines and email clients, or results displays that rub your face in the result: SUSPECT IDENTIFIED with one result on the screen, vs. a list of results the person has to interpret.

Gnome vs. KDE is probably the least technical thing they've gotten right in the show. There were a couple of minor howlers in the most recent episode, unfortunately (up until then, no significant lapses I've noticed -- staggering for a TV show).
Two questions:

How do you deal with refunds? Let's say a customer buys a product, for whatever reason their expectation not met, and a refund is issued. Do you adjust revenue in the month the revenue was recognized? Or do you add negative revenue to the month in which the revenue was received? Or something else?

And for average monthly growth rate, that can vary a lot for the same company depending on where you start. If a company has monthly revenues of 1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, it has an average growth rate of 58% over the past 6 months, but 10% over the past three months (and 7% over the past month). I see startups using arbitrary start dates to inflate average growth rates, and am wondering if there's something standard when presenting this metric.
Coroutines in C (2000)
What China Wants in the Semiconductor Industry
And the remaining producers and service providers will buy the others for pennies and bide their time. Halliburton bought Baker Hughes. Weatherford cut costs and will be fine.

The resiliency of the American energy industry should not be underestimated.
The Apple Macintosh was released in 1984, Smalltalk ran on it fairly soon after this. The problem was that it wasn't available to the general public, only to universities.
We in Europe we have problems with dumb and stupid politicians. :(
While the technical stuff mostly manages to avoid degrading into gibberish, I find the philosophizing about "bugs in the system" cringe-worthy. The show would have the layman believe that bugs are some kind of metaphysical agents of chaos that crack the facade of reality (or something), as opposed to reality where most bugs are caused by sloppy copy-pasting while reading HN with one eye.
mine doesn't at all. ever. in fact i had some in a bottle behind my monitor for a year and it was fine
I've always lived near the Great Lakes in the US, and in general have never felt the need to filter our tap water.

That said, I know others who do (either charcoal or reverse osmosis).

I have friends who live on the east coast and they claim their tap water is awful and they typically drink exclusively bottled water.
PSVita: Acid Snake Releases Open Beta for Ark Menu
We had Zenith Z-19 and IBM 5250 terminals. I just couldn't remember, but it might also be that we didn't really get much of a tutorial beyond here's how to write, compile, run, and submit your Modula-2 / IBM 370 assembler program.

The funny thing I remember was how you typed commands in the ===== at the left side of the screen. It was quite nice for that.
Note that the freelancer startups do this emphatically...

UpWork
Toptal
Gun.io

all list Revenue as total amount via gigs posted not as total amount actually awarded via finished gigs..ie project revenue on system which means that they are over or understating their actual earhed revenue from project fees

Easy to catch as in accounting terms you would list the full project revenue listed on system times the percent project fees as unearned revenue and the booked earned project fee revenue as earned revenue.
The data used for commonality in JMDict is a little dated (1998) and biased (exclusively based on newspapers, which tend to have specific vocabulary), which I guess is why you mentioned they were problematic. However, there are more recent data sets available on the Monash ftp archive. http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/ . For example, there's one dataset from 2008 using blog entries from goo.ne.jp, and another with novels. They could be good additions to your corpus (fwiw, for 自問自答 there are 18038 occurrences indicated in the dataset for goo.ne.jp and 68 in the dataset from novels). Certainly, doing some similar work with current data from the net would be useful too. I wish there was some regular scraping done, so that we could always use fresh data. Hell, I wish Google, Bing or any other search engine were just giving out such word frequencies from their spider bots data (and not just for japanese).
Neat recent example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxM4vN_4jJY
> mocking it for not having any conferences of its own

As someone who has not worked in ruby, I have to say that this reads like great parody of the ruby community as seen from an outsider perspective.
My family has a reverse osmosis filter and it tastes identical to bottled water despite the tap being extremely hard well water. Depending on how much water you drink, it should pay for itself in a couple months. I think ours was $250.
I'd say his brain because he pretty much hacked his whole personality (hint: this week's episode).
Assuming of course she or someone else had set HISTCONTROL to ignorespace (as follows):

export HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
Would this be called a bakery?
1.) Refund:
Yes, I would adjust the revenue in the month it was recognized.

2.) Monthly growth:
It is actually really simple, you just caculate:

(16/1)to the power of (1/6) which equals: 1.58
This means the average growth rate was 58 %.

16/1 is the total growth rate for all 6 months. And to the power of (1/6) because it is calculated among 6 months
For force reload in prefer Ctrl/Cmd-R in the meantime. Although it's more keys to press than F5 I still find it to be more comfortable because I need to move fingers less.

However I agree that software development without function keys would suck (IDE shortcuts, debugger, control, etc.)
Feynman's Public Lectures on Quantum Electrodynamics
BTW, "they" are trying to erode our civil rights as we speak, but this was more of a "as of right now" assessment.
Hints on Programming Language Design (1973) [pdf]
Statistical methods in readable JavaScript for browsers, servers, and people
another one is http://meetingwords.com/
I asked what technology in a fission bomb did have non-military applications. He answered with a product (not a technology) for which the technology to produce has other, obvious, non-military applications. He is wrong, your point about plastic explosives is irrelevant sophistry, and no goalposts have been moved.
According to Brita they remove chlorine and cadmium (a heavy metal), amount other things. [1]

As near as I can tell, "gravity filters" work on the same priciple as Brita filters [2].

[1] https://www.brita.com/why-brita/what-we-filter/
[2] http://www.phoenixwaterfilter.com.au/images/stories/phoenix/...

P.S. I have never worked for Brita and havent used their products in years, so please dont take my comments as shilling.
This article is from August 2014. May want to note that in the title.
You should add that conservatives focus on the government messing up everything so nothing can be solved either. See the healthcare debate,
Notes is horrendous, though.

Couldn't you replace all of these with, say, the business version of Google Docs? Admittedly it's just transferring your allegiance to another corporate and using the browser as a thin client, but for a lot of office work it should be feasible.
In that whole GNOME vs. KDE scene, what's bugging me is that Elliot doesn't seem to be using GNOME. If he's really using it, GNOME was modified quite a bit.

EDIT: Looks like it's a modified GNOME 2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/3bd1ms/wha...)
Gopher is a cool mascot, although I really enjoyed "The Autistic Gopher Hypothesis" I read some time ago.

For humor's shake:
http://www.evanmiller.org/four-days-of-go.html
There's even a scene where the main character and the CTO of another corp (trying not to spoil anything), have a conversation about gnome vs. kde.

Haven't watched the show, but this reminded me of that awful line from The Internship, a film I was baited into watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpdngXQOkBI
Just realized that a maze in a corn field is a maize maze.
(Shower thoughts?)
The Most Timeless Songs of All Time, Based on Spotify Plays
Running Windows Containers with Docker on VirtualBox or KVM
There are no anonymous structs in that slide, just anonymous interfaces.
That sounds fairly typical, yes.

Another way to think about it: if you take the job just to get a job and don't particularly believe in the startup, then focus only on the salary. If you have other choices of jobs, but really believe this startup can succeed, then do care about the equity. Which as I said, sounds fair. You can probably get a little bit more with good negotiations (6% - I'm guessing no way to 10%).
If golang has this much interest in mascot images, then game over. Time to start writing all services in golang. Sorry c# and Rust, you just don't have the same swaggage. Screw generics.
My favorite movie UIs are in Alien (mother's terminal) and the interface in Tron Legacy to Encom OS[1].

http://jtnimoy.com/blogs/projects/14881671-tron-legacy
The Power of Gratitude (2010, but timeless)
Looks like a more user-friendly version of the everything-is-a-module S-100 bus, letting the user plug things together without "forcing" them to open a case and look at circuit boards.

This form factor has been fascinating to me recently. I don't see it in consumer systems but you can see it in industrial, scientific, and military systems by certain manufacturers[1] and in the PICMG family of standards[2]. A recent HN post linked to a NASA proposal[3] that employed a bunch of PICMG systems.

Aside from greater flexibility of design, you can unplug and swap out parts without disassembling the whole system. Mounting cards in slots would minimize vibration, making it easier to ruggedize.

[1] http://www.chassis-plans.com/backplanes.html#BackplanePrimer

[2] https://www.picmg.org/

[3] http://www.vadatech.com/media/pdf_SGSS-NASA-Paper-001.pdf
To quote myself:

> I've personally never been able to wrap my head around how I would use any of the Smalltalk environments I've played with to create and distribute something useful to a real person

I'm not confused about the existence of different pieces, I've just never been able to wrap my head around how to fit everything together within the current software ecosystem to create and distribute something useful to a real person. This may be due to any number of things: poor intelligence or research on my part, poor marketing on the part of the smalltalk community, poor documentation, or a design that just doesn't fit in very well.

I'm not at all convinced it can't be done, I've just never been able to figure it out. I'd really love to read an article along the lines of, "here's how we successfully created and deployed a non-trivial smalltalk application sometime within the last 5 years".
I've been using both Unix and NT since about 1996. I agree with you entirely.

The killer for me is a weird combination of Stockholm syndrome and a seemingly drug-like addiction to Windows that I just can't shift. One minute I'll be swearing at the 15th problem of the day that occured on Windows and then spend all Saturday installing a Linux distribution and killing off my Windows Phone and Live accounts.

By Sunday it's got Windows back on it and I'm at it like a raving crack addict again. But I know it's hurting me. I know Linux well and am responsible for a fair chunk of Linux kit but I always end up with it on Windows again.

Last time: unity won't show file copy dialogs suddenly, duplicity backup won't work due to a bug in Ubuntu that has been open for over a year, my FortiClient VPN drops every 5 minutes, I can't find a RDP client (so I can still connect to my day job) that works properly.

Argh just kills me this. I want to do something else for a living now.
That was, in fact, quiz 9. I have ROT13ed my answers to avoid spoilers.
Zeal: offline documentation browser inspired by Dash, for Linux and Windows
For the ones, that do not want to use Windows/HyperV to prepare and use the VM image: https://gist.github.com/mustafaakin/0cfbc1b4bb346a05a615
Relay and GraphQL explained for visual learners
I'm still a beginner with code. I've been learning HTML (not yet CSS, as far as I know) and Markdown, and I'm also in the middle of learning Python using free courses on Udacity. This is all in my free time. No courses taken. Would this be a good language to learn right now, or would I be better off waiting till I'm more experienced?
null-byte.wonderhowto.com is running a series on the details of the Mr. Robot hacks. Might be worth checking out.
Vim integration is also available: Zeavim [1]

[1] https://github.com/KabbAmine/zeavim.vim#zeavim---zeal-for-vi...
School-Loan Reckoning: 7 Million Are in Default
Two equal LTVs could results in pretty different NPV results depending on the expected lifetime, and using both averages for the discount definitely has some error.
I suspect it was performance, cruft, and aesthetics that killed it more than price. After all, expensive things that get popular generally become cheaper (or have cheaper versions released).

My experience with SmallTalk was that by the time it had any chance of uptake it was already knee-deep in cruft (e.g. multiple overlapping visual class hierarchies that would be mixed and matched within projects to devastatingly awful effect).

In my experience (admittedly mostly dealing with IBM and IBM-sanctioned vendors) a typical Smalltalk demo was a program that ran 10x slower than VB on a computer with twice as much memory (and at least as good a CPU) as anyone other than a Smalltalk coder had.

And Smalltalk programs tended to look awful and not be easily fixed (because of the overlapping cruft issue).

I'm pretty sure that Rubyists are no more ignorant of Smalltalk than Smalltalkers are of Simula.
Neat, thanks for the pointer. Can you speak to what another commenter said about GNU Smalltalk being a not-particularly-great implementation?
1) For a business with consistent refunds in prior months (e.g. money back guarantee), this has the odd effect of always being able to show growth compared to previous months, even if revenue is constant.

2) Right, that's how I calculated 58%, but does it really make sense to calculate the base off of some arbitrarily low first-month revenue? Does it make sense that a company with strong first month sales should have a much lower growth rate than a company with abysmal first-month sales, given a certain current monthly revenue?
Maybe it's not used in your part of the world, but it's #6 on this list by Andreessen Horowitz: http://a16z.com/2015/08/21/16-metrics/
Selfie-taking orbs, VR hats, and new possibilities for communication
Without the Atomic bomb, millions of more people would have died. Thus the Atomic bomb saved lives as well as created a disincentive for Communist expansion during the Cold War. Western Europe would have been a war zone in 1960 if it weren't for the nuclear threat.

Just a caveman assessment of "atom bomb bad, flower good" is intellectually weak. The atomic bomb created a balance of power, the destruction of which would have resulted in countless wars and deaths.
You can argue about his choice of words, but shift workers fare worse on just about every measure of physical and mental well-being. There's always a choice. If I were the OP, rather than try to band-aid the symptoms with medications, I would plan and prepare to change my career to something where I don't have to do shift work. Just the same as if I had a job that I hated. It's just a job, better to find one that doesn't have so many negative impacts on your life.
> and depended on non existent technology

That itself ain't bad. Star Trek: The Next Generation pretty much introduced the world to the concept of touchscreens, back in the time when they pretty much didn't exist.

Also, somehow the "internally incoherent" movie UIs still feel order of magnitude better than what we use in the real world, especially on mobile, which is mostly a mess of crappy and incoherent design.
SlimWiki – Beautiful Wikis for Teams
1. a few rich people control the entire political process by buying out politicians.

in china, the politicians control the rich people, so they become rich instead - i don't think this is much better.

2. where there are frequent shootings and you are never safe due to some idiotic Constitutional amendment.

shootings are lower, but violence and crime are still a pretty big problem.

3. where regularly unarmed minorities are shot dead by the police and the majority jury allow them to go unpunished.

the chinese government's treatment of 'xiaosu mingzu' (officially recognized minorities) is absolutely reprehensible as well. perhaps not to the level of the american indians, and perhaps with military rather than police forces, but i don't see the big difference.

4. where there is no mandate to give workers paid leave include those with a newborn.

i googled "chinese newborn leave" and ... yeah

5. where lobbies can force the government into war and destroy lives around the world.

i guess within a socialist state lobbies are just different wings of the government. but i think you're misusing the precise term 'proxy war,' which is best applied to this point. here, china is beginning to exert its capital and buy influence among poorer countries esp. in africa. having these sorts of allies (read: puppets) sets china up well for the eventual proxy battles over africa's national resources.

6. where there is a high rate of incarceration, primarily due to the motivation of a proxy war against a certain group of people.

yes, USA is between 5-7x higher than china in terms of incarceration. but china is significantly more ... liberal with its use of the death penalty.

7. where the child abuse death rate is one of the highest in the world.

i direct you to point 4 above.

8. where life is just a gamble where you have "opportunity" to become super rich at the expense of everyone else?

welcome to late capitalism (and very few people even get that opportunity)