skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
THIS.

Birds shouldn't be kept in round cages, specially not that small. They need to be able to fly and stretch. They are having a very depressing life. I have a couple of parrots and already feel bad about having them at all (they could be flying somewhere), and the only time they are in a cage is when nobody's at home (evil cats are evil).
> it's still important to understand that generations losing wealth isn't a positive thing.

I think it's a very positive thing. The idea that you can rely on wealth is rapidly becoming antiquated, and this strikes me as excellent preparation for a lifestyle where you might lose everything.
Well yes, they are different from addition, but that still doesn't justify a special symbol for a special case of addition.

When your "increment by 1" is really just in the service of iterating over a set, then the natural, obvious way should be to use a separate idiom that abstracts the concept of iteration over that set, rather than dive into the details of how you get access to the next member. Which is what Python does: "for x in ...".

If the loop is not simply iterating over the set, but tweaking some value unpredictably and periodically checking, then there's nothing special about += 1 relative to += 2.
I would call it more managing their expectations and/or settling rather than being happy.

I'm sure if you offered any, if not most, of these people a winning lottery ticket of great fortune they'll surely take it.

This goes for millennials here as well. Just cause they're settling for living in mom's basement doesn't mean they wouldn't rather own their home and their own car. It just happens that living at mom's beats living on the park bench.

The thing is there's two kinds of people: those who will stay in their comfort zone, and those who see want more out of life and will raise hell to get what they want.

Just cause these millennials don't raise hell doesn't necessarily mean they're happy. They're just content enough.
>"You know that any different results you get are due to different treatments for instance rather than the genetic background of the animals you're using."

I don't think this is really true. Perhaps that makes it unlikely genetic differences are the cause of a relatively large apparent treatment effect, but not just any difference.
Definitely not just anecdotal. I think people on HN might be flabbergasted by how many businesses in industries worth billions still largely operate with paper.
Tesla to skip Detroit auto show; Aston Martin returning
$1000 outfit is standard. Boots that don't suck, jeans, jackets, sweaters, watches, accessories add up super quickly.
Do you have a wife or children? What about senior relatives? What about childrens' children?

I think we Americans will soon see the multi-generational household as more the norm, especially with the high cost of care for our elderly.
All I'm saying is that of all the people to pick to own the publishing rights to my songs, Michael Jackson isn't the worst choice. He was probably right when he said it was "just business". I mean, it's not as if McCartney was all that opposed to the practice of selling publishing rights, not only did he sell his own rights, but he also participated in the whole regime by buying other artist's rights.
>Not so much. Drivers frequently run Uber and Lyft simultaneously. There is no "stickiness".

I meant from the perspective of users and providers, not drivers (which are irrelevant in the case of self-driving cars...). You have to get all these users to download another app when their existing one works fine. That's money that Tesla could be further investing in their core specialty rather.

>You'd think so, wouldn't you? But apparently that's the direction Elon is going

Yes, which is why I'm asking; the fact that someone is in fact doing it doesn't resolve this mystery.

>I think its humorous this is thought of as expensive. How much does it cost to build an iOS/Android app and run the infrastructure to match riders to drivers? $3-5/million/year? Tesla has hundreds of millions of dollars of credit available to it. And you know, the cars receiving software updates constantly.

Right, but they haven't trodden the path of scaling up a ride-hailing app and made the numerous optimizations that Uber/Lyft have made based on the unique problems of that domain.
Didn't the betting kick off with I bet you $1000 to a charity of your choice?

The second part of that isn't really something you add to casual repartee.
I hope they will do that with the (1000Cr - corruption) they got as relief package. It's clear the lakes aren't coming back.
Dumping color table entries from the last frame of the "256" color GIF:

> gifbuild -d colorBanding_255colorsOn1920pixels.gif | tail -n 200 | grep rgb | sort | uniq | wc -l

> 100

What happened here is some sequence of color space conversions with gamma correction added/removed that ended up compressing the darks.

A true 256 color gray gradient will not display so much visible banding. Just throwing together a naive 256 color gradient in Gimp reveals some RGB triplets with mismatched values suggesting the encoder is doing some odd color space conversion. Even then, it has much less perceptible banding when scaled with nearest neighbor to 1920.

I suspect most of the examples stem from improper gamma handling than any true demonstration of the limitations of 8-bit channels.
Isn't it just a different word entirely? (English is also my second language)

> Sheeple (a portmanteau of "sheep" and "people")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheeple
The cleanup contracts probably go to the same ones who profit from the war to begin with.
> Once it's verbified, it's hard for competitors to overcome it.

And how much Xeroxing is done on Xeroxes?
Whoa, I too have around two pairs of shoes (for every season, grand total of maybe five) and never owned a car.

"For as little as about $500 a month, You+ residents gain access to a private room with a bathroom"

Whoa whoa, for $500 a month, I imagine you could rent a full apartment mostly anywhere in China, could not you?

Sounds like a very expensive way to own nothing.

Having said that, sharing apartments is all rage where I live. It's cheaper to rent 3 bedroom apartment and divide the price between 3-6 people than renting one bedroom flat for yourself only. In places where housing is expensive this saves young people without stellar paychecks. Company is also nice when you get to choose who to live with.
>Yes, you actually have to read the statement `i += 1` in order to know what it does.

Beginner here. Small detail...

`i++` is read as `i = i + 1` and not `i += 1`. A small, but important distinction, especially for a beginner. `i += 1` is also parsed as `i = i + 1`.

However for `i += n` it no longer parses as `i = i + 1` but rather `i = i + n` which is a step more difficult (and more powerful) than i++ which is always `i = i + 1`. However that is additional complexity not found in `i++`.

(This is why I found `i++` easier than `i += 1`)
Dumb question time: Why would idenTrust, part of whose business is selling SSL certificates, cross-sign for Lets Encrypt, whose business is giving them away for free?
I write literally no German in code, but sometimes use it online.

And I seriously couldn’t work without the international layout - using proper Unicode characters in my comments is just non-negotiable.

If developers would have thought more about localization, and made less dumb assumptions...

But there are even minecraft mods that don’t work on QWERTZ, because they are hardcoded to keys that are dead keys on DE layout.
Maybe they're actually right and they see connections on a broad scale that other people are too stupid to make. Intelligence is after all often described as the ability to discern the hidden structure behind things. (half kidding ;))
Very interesting, particularly the Challenges section:

"Differences between the behavior of MATLAB and Julia’s core linear algebra libraries led to many roadblocks in the development of DSGE.jl. Julia uses multithreaded BLAS functions for some linear algebra functions. Using a different number of threads can change the results of matrix decomposition when the matrix is singular. This indeterminacy caused significant problems for our testing suite, both in comparing output matrices to MATLAB results and in testing for reproducibility among Julia outputs."

Kudos to them for taking this on, I think.
Are you viewing on mobile? Some mobile providers run images through an "optimizing cache", and they use weird bad settings.
It depends on your situation. For example, I just switched jobs and I was fine with simply receiving the standard 10-15% pay increase that most recruiters know they have to offer to get you to move, so I simply told them my current salary. If I was looking to make a huge jump then I wouldn't have done that, but I really liked the company and was excited about the work. It's all about what the move represents.
Possible security hole in Think or Swim (TOS) Software, found by trader
How is younger generations losing wealth a good thing?

I would characterise the fact that the current generation growing up will be worse than their parents as the greatest tragedy of the last decade.
The postfix versions of ++ and -- have no simple analogue. I propose fixing this: z = (a += 1) means z gets the new value of a, but z = (a +: 1) means z gets old value a, same as in z = a++.

Likewise, z = (a : 5), means that z gets old value of a, then a gets 5.

This makes for a nice family of operators. For example, to swap the contents of two variables you can say: a:b:a (or a=b:a). Also you can rotate through a bunch of variables: a:b:c:d:a transfers all the contents to the left, and puts the old value of a into d.

The . operator should have an assignment form as well, so that you can say: p .= next instead of p = p.next

Now you can traverse linked lists very concisely:
for (p = first; p; p .= next) serialize(p);

Of course .: will have the expected meaning: return old value of left side, then replace it with one of its members. So you can say:

while (p) serialize(p.:next)
>there is NO proven link at all between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol absent carbs

I would change "NO proven link" to "only a weakly correlated link (assuming the patient is not a member of the 8-15% of the population estimated to have a mutation related to improper cholesterol homeostasis)"

:D
I recently saw Daniel Craig on the Late Show. He's the "United Nations Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards"

UNMAS (http://www.mineaction.org/unmas) helps with war clean-up in the few cases where peace eventually breaks out as apart from the dead-bodies, mines & IEDs are also painful remnants
Probably for the publicity, because a lot of Let's Encrypt users will want to upgrade to EV certificates at some point.
Or any number of otherwise intelligent people who hold spiritual beliefs.
wow, $1000 for an outfit? Mine costs less than 100$, including shoes and a jacket for the cold. What "accessories" are we talking about? Unless it is an iPhone, one can very comfortably dress in 100$ (and much less in summer)
"The current nutrition fads favour low-card high-protein diets"

What level of card consumption is recommended?
Speed is not the problem. Highways are going to be the first sections of self-driving roads. Because they are simple predictable environments, which requires less hardware, where accidents have high costs, liability issues are small, trips are long and where computers offers an advantage over the human mind in terms of endurance. This is something we will have in 3-5 years.

To tackle all the other problems to truly have a self-driving cars is going to take much longer. Not at least since there will be decreasing incentive to solve these much harder problems in a cost effective way.
It is depressing that my generation is framing a forced downgrade in our quality of life as a trendy lifestyle choice.

In both the U.S. and China the economy is growing, but a greater and greater percentage of those gains go to the owners of capital. Instead of demanding a higher percentage of the product of our labor, we're content to take what we're given and downgrade our expectations.

I am a "highly paid" software engineer who works in San Francisco. Plugging in 30% of my take-home pay into Craigslist yields an anemic, depressing list of available properties. So instead of getting ripped off by some scumbag landlord, I built a tiny house in someone's back yard.

If I could afford it, I would rent something nice, or even buy a house, but even with my 6-figure salary, it's not possible. And this is a scam.

My generation, even those of us that are getting the best deal going under Capitalism, are getting ripped off. and it's time we started talking about it that way instead of pretending like we're "living with less" because of some moral or ethical or lifestyle imperative.

And I should be clear -- I think Americans can stand to live with less, I think that co-housing is a legitimate option and I'd choose it if it were available to me. I also think that Americans should be seeing the benefit of increased worker productivity in their compensation, instead of 100% of that productivity increase flowing to the owners of capital.
I've had chats with a lot of Uber drivers. Some of them use several apps. Competition would need to reward both drivers and customers better than Uber.

For instance, a loyalty scheme for customers (discount on every nth trip) which Uber doesn't do, and for drivers 10% cut of each journey instead of 20% Uber take from the drivers.
As someone forced to do matlab/octacve in college, this is incredibly refreshing to hear. My respect for the octave team just went up considerably.
Implementing smart pointers for the C programming language
Yup. I really think it was worth it though, it taught us a lot about how to make the language.
We're not in an economic downturn, either in the U.S. or China. Workers just aren't seeing the benefits of a return to economic growth.
Why are you incrementing inside a Python for-loop? Are you familiar with ``enumerate``? In most situations, Python provides an iterator that tracks state for you and it's not necessary to increment state explicitly in the loop.
> Morality is, unfortunately, subjective.

That is only true if there are no universal preferences: things like self ownership, all things being equal, is always preferable to slavery.
I press alt+shift and can switch between EN-International (which allows easy typing of é, è, ç, etc.) and EN-US (which doesn't easily allow them to be typed).

Therefore in EN I can {code} and then alt+shift and {comment with proper Unicode characters}. My suggestion would be to have a setup of T1/EN. Code in EN and comment in T1.

Sorry if I'm not being clear or if I'm being confusing...

>If developers would have thought more about localization, and made less dumb assumptions...

I18N can be time-consuming. Especially to test on every conceivable keyboard layout. Dumb assumption allows the mod to exist. I'm all in favor of I18N (and help translate things when I can!) but honestly it is a lot more work for what is often very little gains.

Would you rather spend 10 hours adding I18N for 100~ players or spend 10 hours improving the rest of the code base and adding new features for 10,000 players? Most devs choose the latter. Which really sucks if you're in the group of 100~ players.
Who cleans up after anything we do, really?
Our economic systems lubricate the exchange of work and capital by abstracting away the cost of cleanup, which is rarely well understood to begin with, from view.

Observe any abandoned or unused commercial structure in your town, such as the old building Walmart vacated to build a bigger Walmart 1000 feet down the road. Did the price of building either structure include the cost of cleaning them up?

Thermodynamics guarantees that literally everything we might try to do makes a mess (a net entropic gain), and that includes cleanup efforts. Cleaning up is really just shifting messes around. We spend a little extra energy to make a neat pile but at the cost of producing a little extra poop and carbon dioxide.

We kick the entropy can down the road a thousand different ways every day. And then we do things like shipping cotton across the whole god-#@%^ Pacific ocean, so Chinese slave^H sweatshop laborers can assemble them into clothes, so we can ship them back across the ocean again and buy shirts. The ludicrous inefficiency of our corporate masters sacrificing both natural resources and our country's prosperity to save a buck is conveniently abstracted out of sight by the glorious global capitalism.

Make no attempt to look at the man behind the curtain.
My boots were $250 that I've had for 7 years now. Jacket $600 (going on 8 years), sweater 50, glasses 500 (going on 5 years), pants 50, other random shit. I rather buy super expensive quality items every decade than constantly shopping for small crap.

Only stuff I've bought in the past half decade is maybe like a few t shirts and socks/underwear. Everything else lasts.

Absolutely no clue what you wear for $100 in the Winter. Summer I can understand. I guess it's the boots/jackets that really change the price as 3 piece summer outfits I agree should be below 100.
Yes, it is. This is my strange English humour failing to cross cultural boundaries (again), I'm afraid. The correct plural of "iSheep" is however still certainly "iSheeple"!
I do not recall that part of the comment being there when I replied to it. I must have misread.
Yeah, except a staggering amount of wealth is being generated, and the people generating it are getting a smaller and smaller piece of it.

Is it smart to be frugal and live within your means? Absolutely. But being forced to be frugal because my boss is keeping more and more of what should be my money is a scam.
Mojo? Or they had to start playing by the rules a little more, and stop cheating the game.
Eh, I’m German upper middle class, and a woman, so outfits can get expensive.

Still, you can get a good outfit for below 200€. Watch not included, as everyone has a smart phone anyway.
Zuckerberg Responds to Critics, Explains How He’s Spending $45B
"These days, he shares a bedroom with three others, each paying about $300 a month."

Now that sounds totally overpriced. Is Beijing such an expensive city already?
please help me understand why this comment is so unpopular?
That's just "Promises" right?

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/es6/promises/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Also, don't follow implementation. Follow the spec, and implement against it, not against an existing implementation.

https://promisesaplus.com/
Why do you want this?
What was the tongue face for?
I guess I qualify a bit in that respect. The question I ask you: how do you know they are nuts and not in fact correct?
Summer or Winter? My argument is about Winter because it's Winter where I am.
I just want to spend time with good people

This!

Your idea is awesome. But why restrict only to tech workers? At the least, you could let all digital workers stay?
Whatever Happened to the Cambridge Capital Theory Controversies? (2003) [pdf]
If you had to you could if you've survived it in the past. Clearly if you have the money you can choose not to. Not everyone can. And even when you can now, health, finances, relationship status all change over time.

Over the last 20ish years I have gone from dorm life to living with a roommate to living with a girlfriend to living alone to renting a room in a house (twice) to living with a girlfriend to getting married to said girlfriend.

So many people don't even use a kitchen so I can see where being able to live very cheaply with the bare essentials can be very attractive to many.
He travels the world giving speeches. I met him on a stage in Darling Harbour, Sydney, on a Saturday afternoon, while jogging.
His example is poignant because it falls out of even normative doctrine in the cultural/religious context it's referencing. It's like a double-inconsistency and yet...the guy can separate conjoined twins at the head. (Shaking mine.)
Maybe for someone with a job, but not for the average US college student. Here I'd argue most people wear at most $100-500, depending on how much they care. This is for guys by the way. And like I said, 18-25 year olds without jobs or part time jobs.

I originally typed $1500-2000... I see a lot of Thom Browne stuff here, and that means $350 for a button up, $1000 for shoes. But it's probably a minority still, and you can't tell how much shoes/boots cost without knowing the brand (though I've seen some Rick Owens sneakers).

Edit: Saw you mentioned winter. Yeah that drives my number up. My $1000 was based on fall/spring type of stuff.
Why do you say the title sucks?
Things Americans should know about mass shootings
That’s seriously overpriced.

You need to wait for special deals.

A 400$ jacked can go for as low as 90$ if the season is over and you buy a winter jacket of last years collection in april.

Glasses are cheaper to buy 10$ a year insurance that replace at any physical damage than to buy expensive – 190$ once, plus 10$ a year. (but I won’t count glasses for outfit, as that’s stupid – glasses are a disability tool, and I say that as someone who is short sighted).

Sweater for 50 is far overpriced, look more in the direction of 10. Pants are normal, though. I’d even say a good jeans is more like 80$.
Uruguay makes dramatic shift to nearly 95% electricity from clean energy
MVP is Minimum Viable Product: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
The mythical man-month in responding to hacking incidents
Huh? Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder of NVIDIA donated the money for the building. It's named after him and one of the auditoriums is named after NVIDIA. It's not like they offered up the naming rights to an auditorium for corporate bidding.
6 tips for software selection
Ballmer actually levered up and bought Microsoft stock on margin in the late 80s when it tanked on something silly like a delay in shipping Microsoft Word.

http://fortune.com/2015/08/22/nikesh-arora-ballmer-microsoft...
Easy way to actively involve clients in your project management
I didn't take a screen shot or anything, but it was there quite early.
I'm wondering about that too since I'm running some very low power web servers (ESP8266) and I don't know if HTTPS is even feasible on these devices. I hope HTTPS become the preferred default but is not made mandatory by browser vendors.
IBM i Platform today [pdf]
My current winter outfit, yes. It’s most definitely in the 200-250 range.

I bought my winter jacket, from the 2014 collection, in April 2015. Factory sale at Elkline.

Jeans are normal price, boots, same – bought in march 2015 – again saving a lot.

You are just wasting money by not taking advantage of seasonal sales.
Here in Seattle a driver told me they switched to Lyft just for the tips.

It goes 100% to the driver and can really make a big difference in their earnings.

It's possible to tip Uber drivers, of course, but cash is a pain, and it's less awkward via the app.
The ++ operator is one of the main features that brought me to C and C++ when I was just a kid.
Basic and Pascal didn't have it and it looked so cool !
Then I had to learn the rest of the language which goes around the ++ operators, but I'm not kidding ==> the ability to write code using ++ or -- was the shit back then.

To me, ++ is the signature operator of the C language AND the operator in the title of the compiler that Swift is written in: C++

I guess it wasn't just me who liked it quite a bit ;).

After so many years I still see a bit of magic in this strange repetition of a character..

So I think they should definitely stay, even if (because) it's not the most pragmatic thing to do.
The 3rd Era of Management
Fair enough, maybe "obvious" is too strong. "Arguable," maybe, or worth considering.