skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you do have do have to read them multiple times, and while while a descriptive name is good, there is a point where you are taking things too far and causing more problems than you are solving.

If I'm reading a variable name and by the end I've forgotten the first half of it's name, the long descriptive name isn't helping me nearly as much as the author might think.

Really, the variable name has a context, and I want to evaluate it within that context. That is, within the function as named, or the class and method, what does this variable name mean.
The insult isn't in the word sassafras, of course, but in being supercilious in a discussion. The reason you shouldn't do that is not because this place is "fragile" but because it's a rude thing to do.
Creating data can be expensive. Analyzing data is cheap. People who come up with a new theory get a lot more fame than people who publish raw data. The incentives are then to suck your data absolutely dry of theoretical insight before you publish it.

The solution would be to realign the incentives by giving more credit to the creators of the data.
'PwD' is inherently complex. I have mild clinical depression - it's a disability, but I don't need any welfare for it. That's one end of the spectrum. The other end is the GP's quadriplegic brother.

There should simply not be a 'PwD' element to BI - that should be a separate item altogether, otherwise it's just the thin end of the wedge. Leave it in healthcare-based welfare where it belongs, where both complexity is expected and health issues are better understood.
That's possible. But the current model of "give us money, use our code, and we'll host your data" is pretty clearly broken.
The Catacombs was a public health issue. The older graveyards were full and bodies were rotting in the open. I can't remember if that also coincided with the collapse of a road into the tunnels underneath, but that was around the same time. +/- 100 years.
No that's a misconception of what dark matter is. It's weirder than that, it neither emits nor absorbs light, which 'opaque dirt' does.

Per Wikipedia:

For many decades, astronomers assumed that dark matter was made of the same baryons (protons and neutrons) as all other known matter, but in a form that had been overlooked because it was non-luminous. It could not be in the form of a diffuse gas or dust, as that would be apparent when backlit by visible stars, but searches were organized for other astronomical bodies emitting little or no electromagnetic radiation such as massive compact halo objects.

However, evidence eventually accumulated that baryonic dark matter could only account for a small fraction of the missing mass. The study of nucleosynthesis in the Big Bang gives an upper bound on the amount of baryonic matter in the universe,[20] which indicates that the vast majority of dark matter in the universe cannot be baryons, and thus does not form atoms. It also cannot interact with ordinary matter via electromagnetic forces; in particular, dark matter particles do not carry any electric charge.
Build a quality product...sell it...back it with outstanding customer service...rely on user experience (satisfaction) to scale it...

Time-tested advice...no argument from me...

Over-reliance on marketing, a cheap way to achieve quick (reportable) gains that end up being hollow is not the optimal ethical approach...

Again, no argument...
Also, if Apache is configured well, using the Event MPM (or even the older Worker) and sane thread counts for the server it's running on, it's a lot faster than it used to be. I can't say how fast compared to Nginx because literally every comparison between the two I've seen has hamstrung Apache by using the ancient Prefork MPM (and I haven't done a rigorous comparison myself), but I expect it's at least on the same order of magnitude.
What exactly do you mean? Perhaps if that student founds a startup or joins as an early employee immediately after dropping out. I doubt a student who just washes out or lacks work ethic gets a particularly valuable signal if they decide to apply to a startup some time after, although it's probably easy enough to present the departure in a more favorable light, in which case the dropout would regain some prestige.
Moved and seconded
What about the Beltline? Things seem to be going well in ATL.
Well designed in that an Industrial Designer probably put a lot of effort into it. A lot of people use that term to describe something sleek. I prefer it when art and engineering work more closely together, but that is just me.
I've had those experiences too. I'd say that the teacher that I am TAing with, who was my teacher for the corse, is actually one of the best educators I've ever had the pleasure of meeting.

I also have met a few teachers in other classes that have been very inspiring.

I just feel that there is something lacking. I wan't something a little more.
Exactly, and government is the largest bureaucracy out there. My point is that people, particularly libertarians, like to ascribe to malfeasance government behaviours that are better explained by poorly designed systems and misaligned incentives.

There are very few government employees and elected officials actively looking to screw over taxpayers. Almost every single public employee I've spoken to has expressed how much they care about the job they do and how constrained they are by bureaucracy and lack of resources. And elected officials are overwhelmingly concerned citizens who want to do everything they can to help their constituents.

The fact that they often fail to do so has much more to do with maladaptive systems and perverse incentives than it does with the motivations of the people involved. It's tragically comic that the people on this site, who should be hyper aware of the effects of bad architecture on an system's output, are so quick to write it off as a cause and instead resort to facile ad hominems about the people in question.

You don't blame the silicon when your app becomes unresponsive. It's weird that we do so for countries.
A failure of many youngsters is that they think everything annoying or boring is "bullshit".

For example, I have to practically threaten employees in their 20's to actually fscking pick up the phone and actually TALK to a customer rep. Yes, it can be annoying--they're going to try to sell you something as that's their job. But some of them also know what they're selling better than anybody on the planet. The only way you will figure that out is if you talk to them.
The postgres documentations says exactly that. Other databases might do something else so it's best to read the documentation.
Charles Bulfinch for Boston.
This article reads like the rantings of someone who was well educated long ago, but has since watched daytime news every day.

The world is more peaceful than ever. You are less likely to die to violence now than at any other point in history. Medicine is better than any other point in history. As populations grow larger, they also grow older and people have fewer kids.

We aren't going to overpopulate the earth. We aren't going to run out of materials. We aren't going to destroy the environment. We aren't going to blow up the earth.

That is lazy thinking. Life has grown and expanded for billions of years. Humanity will continue growing and expanding into the future. We couldn't stop it if we tried.
Lol yep, it was horrible.
Yeah, he could have at least used RC Cola as an example. Coca Cola vs. Pepsi is more comparable to Harvard vs. Stanford -- I'm sure some people have strong opinions favoring one or the other, but they occupy the same stratum, in Silicon Valley at least.
> Microsoft implemented it back in their glory days (irony intended) by changing the file formats in new versions of the Office suite so that documents created by newer versions of Office could not be read by older versions, thus forcing everyone to upgrade to the newer version in order to share data.

In fact, Microsoft released updates for older versions of Office (back to Word 2000, apparently!) which allowed them to read the new formats [1].

[1] https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Open-a-Word-2007-do...
I use Azure and prefer it to AWS. You can get managed Azure or AWS solutions through Rackspace too, if you don't want to rely on Rackspace natively.

Anyhow, Microsoft's revenue is exploding in this space mostly because it lumps in Office 365; not really because of Azure itself, which I think is a great product. Azure has a few short falls that are annoying...still preferable to AWS though.

AWS is still very popular with extremely popular apps which drive its revenue lines. Netflix, Tinder, etc all use AWS. However from my experience with Azure they could lower their cost if they had Azure installs, AWS likes to keep instances up and spinning which eats into your costs (and they are enormous) Azure has better auto-scaling and it shows. I can't bare to imagine how much Amazon makes off of Netflix's AWS usage, you'd think they'd want to get off of their competitor's platform...but I guess it costs a lot to migrate.
Shock can also be via the casing of the Macbook.

I may have one of these dodgy plugs from a 2011 11" MBA that I started using as a spare so to preserve my most recent replacement. (third or fourth bent/broken cord)

When you place either hand on the MBA casing beside the trackpad you get what feels like a buzzing in your lower palm. If you are shirtless (common on these balmy summer nights) and touch your stomach against the edge you get a definite kick like you burnt yourself.
>When Apple introduced El Cap, it deprecated iPhoto in favor of Photos. Photos is missing a crucial piece of functionality: the ability to export an album as a web page. Apple wants you to share your photos using iCloud. Well, I don't want to use iCloud. I run my own server, and I want to share my photos there.

I'm frequently bothered by the shockingly anti-competitive nature of software today. Walled gardens and lock-in are pretty terrifying. If you want to continue to control your data, you can't trade control of it away to a software company for convenience and a shiny user interface.

My collection of music managed by beets[1] (and properly id3 tagged) will never be inaccessible to me because all of the data formats are open and standard. If I were using iTunes, perhaps that would someday be untrue.

I'm not a big photos person - do any awesome FOSS photo management programs exist?

[1] https://beets.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guides/main.html
I'm in a similar situation. Currently looking at OneSignal (https://onesignal.com/). Definitely open to other suggestions if anyone has any.
> There was pressure to ignore warnings because President Reagan was scheduled to be present for the launch.

I never heard that before. Is there a source?
Bank of Japan introduces negative interest rates
> XML's saving grace was that it came with good schemas out of the box, so turning something from XML to, say, a Java object, was not very difficult.

Huh? How do you know what types <a><b c="d"><e/></b><b f="g" /><a> has? How do you transform that into a Java object? For that matter, if you manage to turn this into a Java object, how do you know how to transform it back into XML? What members turn into attributes and which turn into sub-elements?

Or are you referring to XSD, which showed up years later, is not required, and often not used? Yes, XSD grafts typing onto XML quite effectively, but this is a bolt-on just like the JSON approaches. It just turned out to be a widely-adopted bolt-on.
I've ended up using third party apps that aren't sold through the app store. More and more developers are getting sick of apples shit, and a lot of good-enough alternatives exist out there that you can have a decent setup without dealing with it.

The app store is such a clusterfuck anyway, I hardly ever open it except by accident.
Yes, Rigol is a strong competitor for low cost bench scopes. As a small startup, we don't have the pricing leverage Rigol has with chip vendors. We plan to get there in a few years. Our edge over Rigol is our wireless capability and portability. Wireless is nice for remote measurements or anytime you need isolation from mains ground.
Congratulations! Writing a book is one of those things that makes you feel proud even long after it's complete.
I use send to kindle
Haussmannize San Francisco!
94 if((a−>naels%incr) == 0){
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Seriously?
kat.cr have torrents of all the old Mac OSs
What about security vulnerabilities that get fixed in those updates? You don't want those?

This got us Chinese bot nets on outdated XP machines...
Is it an open source release of the core Parse product? I am genuinely curious, hence the question.Correct me if I am wrong, but this means that most of their product is the Parse server and whatever migration tools they used to store data for users.
That... doesn't follow. What's to say you'll have salary transparency afterwards? Not you. You're merely speculating that they might be the "primary agent".

Maybe there's a smoking gun I've missed. In TX at least, I think police salaries actually are public information. Check it out: http://salaries.texastribune.org/dallas/

Those salaries look, on the whole, pretty modest overall compared to the private sector. The "CEO" of Dallas makes maybe twice what a good programmer in SF might. The median police salary is under $60K. That's a decent living, but it's far from extravagant.

That takes into account Police and Firefighter raises were suspended for a few years: http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/2013/11/proposed-3-year-c...

All while the unions and collective bargaining was in place.

Which makes me think that talking about busting unions is a political sideshow to the original complaint.
They launched a new comment feature yesterday: https://github.com/blog/2097-improved-commenting-with-markdo...
Couldn't agree more. Many people seem to confuse our exponentially increasing ability to report on real or predicted negative events as proof that everything is getting worse when virtually any social metric that we have long term data for shows the opposite. Even climate change, which will have major negative consequences, will in no way mean the end of our species, we will move, food-growing areas will shift but we will carry on.
who owns washington post and spacex?
Slashdot was a big part of my early years in the tech industry. It had it's own cultural quirks, but overall was a great place to get general 'news for nerds'. I still visit every so often as it gives a slightly different angle on the industry to HN. Much like lxer.com.
But not as popular as Chinese chess (xiangqi) as a game people actually play, though. Go might be more popular than xiangqi as a spectator sport; I don't know.
Version X.1 is not X+1. X.1 should contain no breaking changes. Otherwise your versioning is useless. If any change to the version number implies breaking changes, then you could replace the version with Rand() and it would do the same. If you're shipping versions like X.Y.Z for 3rd parties to consume, you should learn to use those minor and patch versions meaningfully.
It's not welfare that makes life suck for Aborigines. A lot of the problem is from being considered outsiders by the wider society they live in. Take away the welfare from the drunken troublemakers and they're not going to magically turn into middle-class professionals. The whole situation is incredibly difficult and complex, and to lay it at the feet of "welfare did this to them" is doing a disservice.
This is a logical consequence of non-free software. I'd add that even in the free software case, there's a non-zero cost to supporting legacy software as first-class citizens, to the point where it often just doesn't make sense.
I wish them every success. I used to use both sites extensively. I still have accounts on both (and a "coveted" 5 digit user ID on slashdot), but I rarely go there these days.

Maybe they'll turn things around.
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Don't have a standing desk. I try to go to gym during lunch a few times a week for squats and deadlifts though; works a treat for this programmer.
Blackberry launches its first Android phone ‘Priv’ in India
It wasn't a public good, it was a Microsoft marketing campaign to push people onto the Silverlight platform.

MS never made the Feynman Lectures free for all to read.
> Frictionless and painless.

I can't imagine this is true.

What if you are flat broke? What if you have an elderly dependent in a nearby nursing home? A relative in a nearby prison? A child in the local schools?

It might be easy for some, but not for all.
Not to mention the fundamental differences between pre-2007 and Office 2007 document formats. I tend to think that the format change wasn't a forced deprecation of older software, but rather just a simple business case. Simplify maintenance and support, and create an open-ish standard to avoid competition + support industry.
Rand Paul Wins Debate According to Poll
Seems you took the wrong lesson, rejecting solutions instead of trying to understand them.
Apple even gives you directions on how to do it:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

Save it for however long you'd like. I actually used my Mountain Lion thumb drive to boot my Mac to fix the problem with my Yosemite thumb drive when it failed to install a bootable Yosemite.
Good hint, thank you!
At BetterLesson[1], we have found them and made all their excellent lessons available online for free (Grades K-12). These lessons are mainly for teacher consumption, but have some great teaching strategies for all to learn.
Some examples: http://betterlesson.com/lesson/432502/intro-to-trigonometry-... http://betterlesson.com/lesson/448934/adding-and-subtracting...

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> we look at this memo with perfect 20/20 hindsight

On a tangential note, I've always wondered about this sort of idiom. 20/20 vision is the equivalent of a 100 IQ -- it is equivalent to that of a "typical human". Perfect vision would be 20/ε (you can see at 20 feet what an ordinary human could only see from an infinitesimal distance), and mundane glasses will often correct vision past 20/20.

It seems like such a low bar for hindsight to meet.
Hm, I think though there will be serious societal consequences to climate change in particular - particularly around scarcity of resources (we may not "run out" but there is a finite amount of resources that we are rapidly using up) and territorial claims (I think they will shift from land to sea, as we're already seeing with the South China Sea and the Arctic) - while humanity will continue growing and expanding, it's about consciously shaping what we want that expansion to look like. I really liked the point about multiple perspectives - "Most important, we need to give up defending and protecting our truth, our perspective, our Western values, and understand that truth is found not in one perspective but in their multiplication, not in one point of view but in the aggregate, not in opposition but in the whole."
Doesn't seeing two of the most successful BaaS services get shut down after acquisition raise a red flag for you?
They have been sold....how many times now?
Preserving the world's oldest living species
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@gfosco Thanks for everything.
Is the open-sourcing of Push delivery, Analytics, and Config, planned for the near future?
> We definitely need to do that with our APIs and designs (aka. more incremental refactoring).

Not with APIs we've shipped. Then it becomes breaking changes that appear pointless to others. Even when it's logically worth it to go back and fix APIs, it's rarely worth it practically. If no one is using your APIs, then do whatever. If your APIs are popular, you might find yourself in "version next" limbo like so many major projects that redesigned and couldn't convince their users to follow.
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(Cross-posted from a similar thread)

Has anybody studied the outcomes on American Indian reservations from having basic income guaranteed for generations? I'm not an expert or well-read in this field, but I think anybody advocating basic income would be interested to visit a reservation and observe the lifestyles, dreams, goals, and successes found there.
Consider moving to Couchbase Mobile (http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile). Why?
- Its an open source solution that allows you to build mobile applications that work online and offline.

- With Couchbase Lite, you have the full power of a Couchbase database locally on the device. You can create, update, delete, query, sync and much, much more.

- Couchbase Sync Gateway gives you everything you need to securely sync on-device Couchbase Lite with Couchbase Server in the cloud.

-- Replication
-- Authentication
-- Access Control
-- Data Routing

- Couchbase Server is a high performance, scalable, always-on NoSQL database in the cloud. Sub-millisecond, high-throughput reads and writes give you consistent high performance. Couchbase Server is easy to scale out, and supports topology changes with no downtime.
I also had very mixed experience. In Switzerland I now avoid them like the plague and I go to certified service partners instead. Problem there is that there's always an issue, like screws not sitting tight and falling out after service, or some non essential component not being reconnected again, like keyboard backlight.

Lately my position on Apple is: I buy their iPhones and their iMacs. One has comparatively good service, the other rarely needs service because it isn't carried around and doesn't contain a battery. For laptops I was hoping that Windows 10 tablets would be any good, but was severely disappointed again, especially by the software side, Windows is a total mess. Right now I'm at a loss at what my next portable computer is supposed to be. Maybe Lenovos upcoming classic thinkpad line with Ubuntu?
Visual Studio Code, WebStorm have excellent support for TS built-in. There is also CATS (https://github.com/jbaron/cats) that's targeted towards TypeScript.

For Sublime, Atom, etc. there are a bunch of plugins that you can download:

https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript-Sublime-Plugin

https://atom.io/packages/atom-typescript

Check out the DefinitelyTyped (http://definitelytyped.org) and Typings (https://github.com/typings) for type definitions to most of the popular JS libraries. There is also a list of some useful tools and utilities on the DefinitelyTyped website but here are a few that might be useful:

https://github.com/palantir/tslint

https://github.com/TypeStrong

https://github.com/sebastian-lenz/typedoc

https://github.com/ivogabe/gulp-typescript

https://github.com/Asana/typed-react
Medium's Sitewide Encryption Confronts Censorship in Malaysia
> The only way you can run Lion nowadays is if you find a working machine that has Lion installed on it.

No. If you’ve previously purchased OS X Lion, you can still download it via the App Store, but it won’t be included in your list of purchased items by default.

To fix this, choose the “View My Account” command from the “Store” menu, and click the “Manage” link next to the “Hidden Purchases” field. You’ll now be able to unhide each hidden item by clicking the appropriate “Unhide” button.
Couchbase can be hosted on Azure, Amazon, Google, Docker, pick your favorite platform.
Many have open-source photo managers have come and gone but imo Digikam is still the best. It's not perfect, but probably the most robust, and one of the few that has shown it can survive the gauntlet and keep users around for years at a time.
Excellent website and very easy to use.

1.) Why no US ski resorts? Google maps covers most of the big ski resorts here. I was hoping to see them in piste.io as well.
2.) Why does it require iOS 9.0? Any plan to support iOS 8.3.
Though it's a C API, CGBitmapContextCreate is notorious for this.

While it doesn't address everything you're alluding to, I'm a big fan of Swift's nonnull/nullable making its way into Objective-C since some of Apple's APIs don't play well with a nil parameter (e.g., -[NSString isEqualToString:]).