skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, we've all heard this a thousand times... on random websites like the "Daily Dot" and from the dozens of writers who capitalize on internet backlash.

Yes, we all suck at reading, the internet is destroying America, the good old days when everybody was reading Serious Novels and Coherent Arguments and the New Yorker is gone forever and youth culture killed my dog.

Marshall McLuhan was way ahead of these guys. He was brought up with literary print culture, and he went through a phase of fear and loathing the emerging electronic culture, but then he realized he was ranting and raving to no good and adopted a different attitude.

From the McLuhan Playboy interview:

> You see, I am not a crusader; I imagine I would be most happy living in a secure preliterate environment; I would never attempt to change my world, for better or worse. Thus I derive no joy from observing the traumatic effects of media on man, although I do obtain satisfaction from grasping their modes of operation. Such comprehension is inherently cool, since it is simultaneously involvement and detachment. This posture is essential in studying media. One must begin by becoming extraenvironmental, putting oneself beyond the battle in order to study and understand the configuration of forces. It’s vital to adopt a posture of arrogant superiority; instead of scurrying into a corner and wailing about what media are doing to us, one should charge straight ahead and kick them in the electrodes. They respond beautifully to such resolute treatment and soon become servants rather than masters. But without this detached involvement, I could never objectively observe media; it would be like an octopus grappling with the Empire State Building. So I employ the greatest boon of literate culture: the power of man to act without reaction — the sort of specialization by dissociation that has been the driving motive force behind Western civilization.

> The Western world is being revolutionized by the electric media as rapidly as the East is being Westernized, and although the society that eventually emerges may be superior to our own, the process of change is agonizing. I must move through this pain-wracked transitional era as a scientist would move through a world of disease; once a surgeon becomes personally involved and disturbed about the condition of his patient, he loses the power to help that patient. Clinical detachment is not some kind of haughty pose I affect — nor does it reflect any lack of compassion on my part; it’s simply a survival strategy. The world we are living in is not one I would have created on my own drawing board, but it’s the one in which I must live, and in which the students I teach must live. If nothing else, I owe it to them to avoid the luxury of moral indignation or the troglodytic security of the ivory tower and to get down into the junk yard of environmental change and steam-shovel my way through to a comprehension of its contents and its lines of force — in order to understand how and why it is metamorphosing man.

https://www.nextnature.net/2009/12/the-playboy-interview-mar...
And that's the author's point. He's not trying to declare the official list of criteria, but just point out that, subconsciously, you do have one. And one small change to one value in the decision matrix might be the tipping point to entertain job offers.

The sooner you become consciously aware of it, the better.
The demo works surprisingly well on an iPad mini 4. Amazing, really.
I think the point here was that the excitable German with the Charlie Chaplin mustache in question did write his famous book in a German prison in the mid-1920s.

Being jailed by your political opponents, whatever the reason, is generally unlikely to hurt your social status if you do get to power eventually, since even non-political charges can be dismissed as politically motivated.
Very few of them, but this isn't even middle school level math that he seems to be forgetting. Anyone calling themselves an engineer should know fractions cold, no question.
> This way people will actually switch.

Or they could stay on Python 2.7 forever.
You mention print in lambda, and it's also in the article. I don't think that's good enough reason for killing the usability of print statement in repl.

I'd consider it quite a weird piece of code if I'd see print in lambda, or passed to something from functools. If "sys.stdout.write" would be there instead of the "print", I'd see it equally weird. Both is (probably unnecessary) giving away the simplicity of Python.

I debug in REPL quite a lot and I don't do functional magic with print at all (at the moment). That's dragging me away from Python 3. Other people might have it different.
I was just about to reply "is that even possible", in disbelief.

But then I read https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/changed-your-mind...

If you buy online you can return a product, even if it is opened, within 14 days of receiving your order, with a few exceptions like hygiene products or CDs/DVDs.

TIL.
But it is his JOB as an expert witness to testify under "stressful" circumstances. I think it is reasonable to expect an expert witness to be able to answer questions in a deposition.
Congratulations Stephen. I have taken your Udemy course, "Build Web Apps with React JS and Flux" and it is probably the best coding course that I've ever experienced. The level of support that you provide in the chat section of the course and by email is unbelievable. It's almost like getting 1:1 mentoring? I'm just starting your Native React Udemy course now.

Do you offer 1:1 mentoring?
A calculator is a computer. Hewlett Packard made calculators, which is why Steve Wozniak wanted to work there until Steve Jobs convinced him to start Apple. The expert wasn't being asked to figure out 3/16ths by memorization, he was being asked if he knew what math was, and then how to execute it on a calculator. That the expert equated such a request with pulling numbers "out of thin air" (if he's being honest, and not just covering up a mistake that he now realizes he made) means that he does not actually understand the very fundamentals of math. It is virtually no different than if he were asked, "Is 1 equal to 1?", and he responded, "I'm not just going to make up the answer for you, we need to use the computer program to get the truth"
I find this article a bit sexist, it assumes that women are only one who raises children. Plus 60 years old plumber with alimony has it pretty hard as well, and nobody will hire him as part time teacher.
In case it wasn't clear, the GP was alluding to Hitler. I was noting that Hitler wrote Mein Kompf while in Landsberg jail on charges of high treason as a result of the Beer Hall Putsch. So he isn't really the exception the GP was musing he might be (being in jail provided the same benefits in terms of disposable time as being an aristocrat).
Btfs is a "glue" between libfuse and libtorrent.

libfuse is used for the Kernel Fuse interface and libtorrent is used as a bittorrent client.

Read more about Fuse on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace
And his past mistake was using Sails.

If the implementation of the Sails as a Rails-like JS framework was as bad as he says, be shouldn't use it for his next project.

A bunch of members of the community apparently had similar thoughts. As long as the idea of Rails-like JS framework isn't fundamentally flawed, they seem to be doing the logical next step: make something better.
OK, sorry, can you clarify what you are actually objecting to? I'm not quite understanding what the workflow you desire is -- you have a patch generated locally, and you want to submit that. What happens if it doesn't apply cleanly? Should it be rejected, or should it give you an option to fix it up, or?
But then they couldn't run pre-roll ads on it.
in your scenario, replace "50 year old" with "black" and "25 year old" with "white". Is it race discrimination to hire an individual that you think you'd be better able to manage?

its age discrimination to imagine a bunch of traits that come with a hypothetical 50 year old that don't come up with a hypothetical 25 year old and then make a hiring decision based on those traits.
What are your rationales for and against mobile?

What are your rationales for and against web?
The reddit discussion appears to be three months old. If you visit the domain now, it appears to be a godaddy parking domain. So, perhaps the resolution was that the poster let it expire, and now basically nobody has it?

A quick cruise around variations on "trumpsucks.com", "trumpsucks.net", "notrump.com", and other such domains shows no clear pattern to me in ownership, each being owned by what appears to be a different person, all clearly not owned by the "THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION" that owns trump.com.

It seems like this may be exactly what it seems; an organization believing that people will be fooled into thinking that "trumpd.com" is sourced from THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION. It seems to me that despite the apparent politically-charged subject matter, that this is just a standard trademark dispute. Which I say without reference to whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. (With the explosion of TLDs it's probably becoming an irrelevant thing; only the very largest organizations are going to be able to keep up with this sort of thing in the full DNS space anymore.)
I'm just gonna point out the metric system that the rest of the world uses.

I had to think for a minute to work out how to convert 3 3/16" to scale by 20 feet to the inch. Now, if you'd said 8cm at 240:1 scale I'd have got there a lot quicker.
I totally agree. I answered yes to all of the above at my last company and left about 9 months ago to start my own company with some former colleagues from way back when in an unrelated market. I had risen quickly, felt very listened to, loved my team, and believed in my superiors. At the end of the day, as much as my last company was the happiest I've ever been at any job, the chance to have my own company outweighed all of the above.
Hive Consciousness: What Does Brain-To-Brain Communication Mean for Humanity?
It sounds like you are in violent agreement with the Trails team, as they share your opinion. Hence, Trails.
It works for relatively easy switch statements:

https://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/compare_vs_disa...

It requires compiler generated code as input (which I don't find a huge restriction, but any assembly code will screw up the output).
VertiGo – A Wall-Climbing Robot including Ground-Wall Transition
it does not assume that.
Exactly. As if hotlinking makes it better.
Looking at the raw transcript from the deposition can be horribly misleading at best. The transcript doesn't capture tone, accents, stress level, pacing, volume, and a variety of other things. A dramatization allows you to color the scene in a variety of ways that tell the story in radically different ways.

Think of saying "wow, that's a great idea!" to your best friend that has a great idea. Then think of saying that to the office idiot who just suggested they can rebuild your entire system in a weekend.

Disclosure: I work in speech recognition systems.
The shortest possible domain names
If Guido was hit by a bus? (1994)
Happy 1.5B Unix Seconds
Free functions are fine, I prefer them also.

What I mean by "C with classes" is the worst side of both languages. Type-unsafe C coding (pointers, casts., manual memory allocations, etc), with OOP (highly coupled complex class hierarchies, virtual calls, etc).

The modern C++ way is to use RAII, value semantics, and STL everywhere.
So how do you become qualified as this kind of expert? Most people here know more math and probably have better understanding of it than this guy. I'd like to be able to bill $930 for a deposition.
I'd be very interested to see the difference in average page size between online publishing/new media and other types of sites. I think so much of this crisis is driven by the economics of that business model. Theres so much incentive to track & analyse users with various scripts, a desire to have a pretty looking site with lots of images (the biggest factor in page bloat) and comparatively little in-house technical resources or spare cash to devote to something as relatively exotic as web performance.
The OP doesn't state what the TLD is, but it seems clear it is not a .com

> I own a domain name that has the domain root "trumpd" (so the full domain is like www.trumpd.xx)
Why such decision-changing positive energy towards hapi? I am not saying you shouldn't, honestly asking why.

I have checked it, and I was not convinced of its superiority over express, considering the express community, modules, SO threads, etc. At least for a small-medium server.
Then they should change title from "female" to "parent".

Anyway it is typical rant disconnected from reality. Why nobody hires me with my doctorate from "communications"?
You're the minority.
So, an approach much like the previously discussed Modula-2 reboot https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10797147

I'm glad to see it. My hobby is programming languages and its amazing how many of the older languages have concepts and constructs superior to modern languages. We keep forgetting things we learned in this profession, and its nice to see someone dusting off the old ruins and rebuilding with an eye to some new understandings.
It's a real tradeoff. On the one hand, a liberal return policy is great for consumers. But if its abused its a source of enormous fraud and waste. Unfortunately I doubt there any good solution to the problem.
Why Are Digital-Privacy Apps So Hard to Use?
Extensive discussion yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10821411 (97 comments)
The thesis is that we read small bits of text all day, rather than books.

If anyone has a graph to show a decline in book consumption, I'd be interested to see it.

In my personal experience, I am much more aware of all sorts of books that I would like to take a look at, and it is much easier to do a quick search.

There are many more places that I see book recommendations. Reviews and mentions are much more plentiful. And of course tech books have exploded in the post-internet era.

My book consumption (reading) is way up because the all the local libraries are connected in a network that pools all their catalogs, and I have an enormous selection of books.

My book buying is probably about the same, but more informed since I can be more careful about the books I want to have permanently.
The article's title is bad but the core of it seems to be that IFF there's a perceived desires/offers mismatch on the part of the employee, then that employee will investigate the labour market.

If your company isn't aligned with the employee's process or life goals, that's a desires/offers mismatch. It may not be possible for the company to solve that, but it doesn't change the underlying pattern.

And then the person is not unhappy, but they look for a better match. To use the terminology of the article their 'shields[1]' would be down.

I don't think it's perfectly accurate, the core of the piece, mind. Because I go out with friends who work for other companies - so inevitably hear about them - as part of having a life. I've not had as many job changes as I've had coffees with friends. But it may be a reasonable heuristic.

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1. As a language point, I detest the idea of calling it shields. It makes it sound like it's something that protects the employee, but of course it doesn't. It protects the employer for you not to be looking for something that better satisfies your desires.
Would this be easy to port over to osx?
Real skills transcend whatever language is trendy today. A 50 year old with 25 years experience including 5 years Node.js trumps a 25 year old with 5 years Node.js and nothing else. In a sane world, anyway.
The startup right next to us at Greentown Labs is devoted to letting people grow herbs and such in their kitchens.

https://grovelabs.io/

I've learned a lot about growing plants under LEDs talking to them. In the long run space exploration will require us to do a lot of indoor plant cultivation.
I agree, this doesn't seem very compelling.

Perhaps there is a use case that is compelling, but this particular one doesn't do it for me.
That doesn't really work does it? That's like saying why would Hollywood make the dramatization of Man on Wire when there was already an effective documentary? Furthermore, why remake an existing drama when there is already and effective previous version?

They're trying to get eyeballs to the NYT and not Youtube or anywhere else. They control that media now, they can re-use it later or do whatever they want with it.
As for the Velcro ties, 31,535 readers have purchased a 100-pack on Amazon, which currently run for $4.99. That’s $157,000 in cable ties, which could add $6,300 into Gawker’s coffers, assuming a 4% cut.

All told, the 10 best-selling items from a Gawker list posted in September might have brought in about $345,000 in revenue for the media company. To be sure, prices may have changed, and Gawker could receive a better rate than 4% on some items, so that revenue figure is potentially higher.

This is a poorly-researched article because at least with Amazon Associates if the buyer buys anything after clicking through the affiliate link for 24 hours, the referrer gets the commission, whether it be cable ties, or a set of speakers. Calculating Gawker's take would be far more complicated than reporting second-hand on what the Amazon widget on one article page shows.
Office 365 is ~40-50% cheaper in e.g. India than it is in the US or EU. Same for Adobe Acrobat. I remember Office 2007 had African pricing at ~50% of US. Steam game prices are all over the map for US/EU/UK (often vast differences, but no clear "winner"), but are very often cheaper in e.g. Russia (which is why Steam stopped people from outside Russia buying steam games there).
Sorry, total outsider to OS X/iOS programming. What logs are you referring to? Just curious
I guess the question is: How do we target them? We don't really think about it much, but there are a lot of methods of horizontal gene transfer even for larger animals (viruses, inter-"species" breeding). How do we make sure these extra potent genes stay in the intended organisms lines?
Probably worth noting that Telegram is not secure: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegra...
Under stress I sometimes have trouble with calculators. I'm not kidding. It's happened to me in restaurants.
Great title...I would have almost upvoted it on that alone, but the content itself is interesting. I'm surprised the writer (though maybe it's covered in the actual book) didn't mention the new surveillance measures in place since the anthrax attacks, e.g. the photographing of all mail (160 billion pieces a year!): http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/us/postal-service-confirms...

Since I'm already auto-and-permanently-opt-in into this...I thought it couldn't hurt to take advantage of their new notification service, "Informed Delivery", where they email you photos of mail headed your way...but I since haven't received anything. Has anyone gotten it to work?

http://qz.com/566668/the-united-states-postal-service-will-n...

http://realmail.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action
Is this basically all the benefits of health checks in ZFS through distributed computing?
Just checking ...

>>> import time
>>> time.ctime(1500000000)
'Fri Jul 14 03:40:00 2017'
>>> time.ctime(1.5*2**30)
'Thu Jan 14 08:25:36 2021'

So 1.5B in decimal will be in July 2017, whereas 3/2 times the computing billion, 2^30, will be in January 2021.
Probably, given the existence of osxfuse (https://osxfuse.github.io/)
A few thoughts:

1. This sounds and smells like 'bait'. The reason it isn't being upvoted is because people question the motive of the OP who hasn't explained why he wants to toss out $2500/month to someone else who retains all IP. Thus, naturally, people think the OP is just trying to get ideas for his own project(s). Or that he's just insane.

2. There are marketplaces for this kind of stuff already. Kickstarter, IndieGogo, etc. Leave us alone, quit trying to get HN points (why anyone cares about these, I'll never know) and go spend your own time hunting in those marketplaces and throw your money there.
replace "25 year old" with "hot". Is it discrimination to hire someone you'd rather look at all day and possibly have drinks with after work? Just sayin, it happens

BTW, I'm not condoning this situation, I think it is bad. But unfortunately, this is still a very real situation that does influence people's decisions.
That's something employers usually complain about. Portuguese legislation was mostly written in a socialist-led post-revolution period, so you certainly have a point.

But what was your biggest issue with employment laws, here? The compensation you'd eventually have to pay when firing someone?
Apple Faces $5M Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S with iOS 9
Yeah, trying it now - but I'd be surprised if it builds

update: nope. http://pastebin.com/Zf8fVh1D
Ok, this article claims the productivity: http://weburbanist.com/2015/01/11/worlds-largest-indoor-farm...

Let me find a research paper and see if it is really valid or not

So, I still don't find any reason why vertical farming, which is indoors is a problem:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_farming

What are your thoughts on this?
I think the difference is that the synthetic benchmarks are generally written in a way that is as tight as possible, avoids allocation and abstraction, and they certainly don't use metaprogramming. That stuff is easier for everyone to optimise.

Real Ruby code uses a lot of abstraction, allocates objects constantly, and uses metaprogramming. Optimising these aspects of Ruby is much more complex and doing it well requires some optimisations such as partial escape analysis and powerful allocation removal that we have and JRuby and Rubinius do not.

My favourite example is this code from PSD.rb that implements a clamp routine. It does it by creating an array, sorting and finding the middle value. You wouldn't normally find code like this in a synthetic benchmark, but you would in real code.

def clamp(value, min, max)
[value, min, max].sort[1]
end

In JRuby and Rubinius that code really will allocate an array, sort it using some library routine, and then index it. In JRuby+Truffle we compile that method to effectively:

def clamp(value, min, max)
(value > max) ? max : ((value < min) ? min : value);
end

There's a massive massive difference between those two. One allocates objects on the heap, passes them into the runtime, runs a general purpose sort routine etc etc etc, thousands of machine instructions, and the other is a just couple of assembly instructions.

When you run this code as a benchmark, we're over 300x faster than Rubinius' LLVM-based JIT.

Of course we still support if someone has redefined Array#sort or something like that, and you could still find that Array instance using ObjectSpace if you wanted to, using deoptimisation.
I see that it's irksome, but as someone who works on the Web Platform, which takes backward compat seriously, I tend to view Python 3 as a mistake. I'm still hoping that they make Python5 that's compatible with Python 2.7 programs but otherwise brings in new features. I'm not holding by breath, though.

The saddest thing about Python 3 is that they made a breaking change to do Unicode "right" and still did it wrong. The right way to do Unicode is the way Rust does it: UTF-8 in memory and no (safe) API to introduce UTF-8 invalidity.

UTF-32 is wrong, bwcause it's wasteful and still doesn't accomplish what people naively expect due to grapheme clusters potentially taking more than one UTF-32 code unit.
Just the fact that you've been at a given company for a while might be enough of a reason. Even if everything is going well you might want to find out how life looks somewhere else; you can usually come back if it turns out worse, so why not?