skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe it improved the life of many more Chinese than it did worsen that of people from the rest of the world

And maybe not. China is not exactly a free trade zone. There was a book written about it: http://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Away-Ladder-Development-Perspe...
3D TV was a marketing iteration for television.

VR is a revolutionary technology. Much more akin to smartphones. It's not hard to imagine the possibilities that VR can bring.
don't forget to check the interview of the witness, so you get the details of the getaway car. (after checking the clues)

grep <Witness> people

compare to

grep "SEE INTERVIEW" streets/*

also, you can add

grep -B2 -A3 Blue

based on that inverview to your second line. once you check the interviews of the two suspects left, you won't have to guess anymore :)
Interfacing of LM35 with PIC Microcontroller
Sandstorm App update: New open-source self-hostable apps
I am familiar with the credit-theory of money as opposed to the debt-theory which we currently use. David Graeber explains it in Debt: The First 5,000 Years[1], for anyone interested in further reading.

[1] https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf
> The spread - that 1.9% - is their profit.

No it's not. There are plenty of costs involved in issuing loans that will eat into that 1.9%.
US Homeland Security's $6B Firewall Has More Than a Few Frightening Blind Spots
But it's sad that not more framework authors tried StampIt or similar instead of reimplementing inheritance (more or less badly)

https://github.com/stampit-org/stampit
Hookbin – Capture and Inspect HTTP Requests
Sure, the judge could overturn it as a matter of law. But the jury is supposed to be the ultimate arbiter of facts.
The rule I've developed for myself is never clean up data for security purposes. There are some cases where it is valid to examine the data for validity; for instance, there's many places where you'd like to filter null characters or "all of the ASCII control characters except the whitespace", and it's valid to look for those things. But if you find them, reject the input. In theory you'd think you can clean it up, but in practice it turns out to be just too dangerous. Too many concrete instances of real-world failure, and reality always trumps theory.
The idea that loans can never be paid back is a myth. I can lend someone money, and have it paid back with interest without more loans being necessary or more money being created.
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[0] - typescript does this I believe
Ha! That's awesome, thanks for the inclusion :)
HAHAHAHAHA you think quoting a mayor is a reasonable defense of a anti-public-union screed.

It's their freaking day job to face off against unions, they are management.
Calling it a disaster is a bit much. I don't think anyone expects the A-10 to face modern air defenses from China or Russia. It's current use is similar to what it was designed for in the first place. Since it appears the US military does have an interest in something like the Tucano, it would stand to reason that the A-10s currently in service will be used for that role until a replacement is ramped up.
While WinJS is not built in TypeScript, there are TypeScript bindings for it[0] bundled in the WinJS repo, so it's easy to use from TypeScript.

[0]: https://github.com/winjs/winjs/tree/master/typings
Thanks! I've moved to a font which looks better on the Windows font renderer. It's fixed now.
Corporations exist only because of the legal fiat of "nations" (nation states, anyway).

But, certainly not. Mercantilism benefits corporations much more strongly. Diseconomies of scale can be mostly inhibited through a strategically designed trade and fiscal policy. Slower falling unit production costs and opportunities for price fixing abound, as the "nation" (well, non-aristocratic taxpayers, anyway) bears these costs. Nor do tariffs necessarily reduce unemployment. The mercantile firm may well decide to keep its selling prices stable at a markup (especially given its lower customer base) and just lay workers off in event of supply shocks or other.

Protection is a Faustian gambit for more rapid growth today at the expense of hulking inefficient corporations tomorrow. Corporations that would not exist without it.
If you care about resources then you should really be using ed[1], not emacs.

"easily in quotes here because really that just means "people who know web languages""

It's my go-to editor/IDE for Rust, which is far from a web language.

"that goal could still be accomplished in a native application that embedded a JS runtime for plugins"

Kind of like Chromium with V8? With full hardware/OS access and linking to native code? If only such a thing existed.

[1]:http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.html
The End of Sanctions and the New Iranian Economy [Infographic]
Do you have a reference for this with more detail? Sounds interesting.
How incumbents can disrupt themselves to remain competitive
> (see the backtracking? me neither)

If I understand the article correctly, the Perl regex evaluator, if given a string consisting of only the minimum required number of 'a's, first matches them to the optional 'a's, and then has to backtrack to match the required 'a's.
Swift Struct Storage
Imagine facebook is a spherical magnet with ten thousand small lead balls clung to it. If you're trying to create a better magnet it can't just be the same as facebook's. Putting the same magnet near facebook's will only collect a small handful of peripheral users. If you want to capture the critical mass you have to energize a magnet with an attractive force so great that it will begin to vibrate users close to the facebook core and attract them through the empty space between to you.
There are some browser extensions available for collapsing comments. Here's one for chrome:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-collap...

I'm not sure why this isn't a core feature of HN; I think it might be in the works at some point now?
That was the only take-away for me, back when I read it maybe 15 or more years ago. But in addition to that, I can't say I got more out of it...
Incidentally, have you seen the original Dropbox post on HN? The second top comment is all about how it's pointless because you can "trivially" build the same thing yourself with FTP and other assorted software.
MS is worth a lot and yes they have helped productivity. Did Gates do that or did he do it with the help of many people before him inventing all sorts and many workers adding software. Were the workers compensated sufficiently for the value they added? Did MS use a pseudo monopoly using the legal system to capture more value than they actually added?

Gates did a lot but he stood on the shoulders of giants, seemed to have some "sharp" business practices enabled by our monopoly loving nation states and a lot of employees did the heavy lifting.

I'm not criticising Gates, I don't mean to pick on him. If we had cheaper land I think the balance would shift to workers being less over a barrel and more able to negotiate higher wages to capture a greater share of their added value.
He alludes to it himself here: http://qr.ae/ROsdtD

And there are a bunch of technical explanations around, here's one: http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...

I remember seeing Cuban himself explain it in detail, that's probably out in the Google somewhere.
It would be nice to see the Go server that powers Parse.com's production servers. I recall in Gophergon 2015 there was a presentation on how they migrated from Ruby to Go. https://gophercon.com/talks/rebuilding-parse/
US Q4 GDP growth comes in at 0.7%, missing expectations
I disagree. There are lots of tried and true businesses out there which have a high likelihood of success with some basic research. It's just that a lot of these markets are cornered, so you probably wouldn't call investing in them entrepreneurship. Opening a McDonalds or gas station has a pretty high likelihood of success with enough research. As does real estate.

Trying to invent the next great technology is hard, and you'll probably fail. But following in the footsteps of others greatly increases you odds of success.
Well trade is free in name only when you consider the fact that the various treaties where its proponents claim it opens markets there are provisions/regulations that either protect specific industries or make it easier to litigate for one party but not others. Every nation tries to press their thumb on the scale in their favor. China does it with its steel industry. The US does it with IP. European nations do for their own industries and so forth. No one plays by the same rules nor are held accountable for their subterfuge. Everyone just flashes their fake smile, shake hands, and look good while everyone on Main Street lives on less so Wall Street can get its shareholder value.

Mind you, I don't believe that economics is a zero sum game. It's just that economists refuse to acknowledge their ideological biases which muddies the discussion. Ideologies are fine if you're willing to state your position and defend it with facts. But that's not how economists seem to be working (orthodox and heterodox schools all do it) an angle to insert their favored ideology into the political machine through fraudulent means (by avoiding public discourse and popular referendum). So the rest of us who aren't at Harvard or the University of Chicago pay the price for their reindeer games. All I have to do is look at my home town of Wichita to see the causalities of all this.
combineReducers is for taking plain objects and returning another plain object. With immutable you need to either write your own combineReducers or use one that someone else has made that taks immutable objects and returns an immutable object.
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I don't think there can really be a distinction between what art "should be" versus what art "is". You could maybe argue that a particular piece or style of art should be different, but does it really make sense to say that art should be something else?

More to the point, I think that definition is a little dissatisfying. By that metric, I have probably never created any art in my life -- because I'm not an artist with limited-edition work in a gallery. To me, that is unacceptable for a definition of art. Artistry is something more intrinsic to human nature than just being a thing made by an "artist" and put in an artistic context to be admired by hipsters and to confuse people.
I think that some of the issues that you're running into might be mitigated by taking advantage of the "key" attribute on repeated elements. There's more here: https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/multiple-components.ht...
Composable UI
MediaCity-based (UK) Bright Future Software lays off hundreds of staff
Well, obviously there are running costs / default risks / etc. I was just pointing out how a small bank works in its simplest form.
Apple Looking to Develop Original Shows as Part of New Video Strategy
Visual Studio doesn't even do a full-blown AST - even though it has a full-blown internal parser. It frequently messes up auto-indenting when using macros involving blocks.

Lexing and producing tokens with a loop is probably enough given that auto-indentation works on a subset of states of the parser, if any. As my comment alluded to, using regex is harder to both write and read than a simple loop; it's also most likely slower.
Except "proper software engineering" would mean whatever is being built simply never gets built.

In many cases it's better to get somewhere quickly with excel then work out if "proper software engineering" is required than never get off the ground because engineering something is too difficult.

Think of excel like lego. Someone can quickly build something out of lego. Now if someone tried to build a cathedral from lego, you might suggest that they find an architect and do some proper house building, but without lego they would never have tried.

And chances are they're not building a cathedral.
I don't understand the Russian bomber part, did they fail to detect the bomber or failed to intercept due to not having planes?

Are you suggesting that the UK totally ditched all of their current interceptors and have their pilots sitting around waiting for the F-35 to show up?

Are you saying the existing stealth planes are a money-making scam because we all know they built them wrong?

The software doesn't allow... "curves"? Why doesn't it allow curves?
> What if everyone did it? We'd all starve

If everyone did anything other than grow/hunt food, then we'd all starve. The entire structure of our economy is built are specialization where only a small fraction of workers produce enough food for the entire population.
So true, I've worked for agencies and clients that spent advertising dollars but still could not get individualized support. The only company that I worked with that had a dedicated rep was an agency that managed Nissan, Infiniti, and many other global brands. They just don't have the bandwidth to do individual support, which is why they direct to the FAQs.
I wouldn't call Word's features obscure. They may not be relevant to you, but it is an extremely powerful publishing tool.
MongoDB is web-scale.
We upgrade from proprietary "callback mess" API to a de-facto standard socket API. There will be non-blocking sockets support, and thus portable way for async socket programming. I'd love to say that we'll support Python asyncio, but that's pretty high-level framework, and thus have somewhat higher memory requirements than I'd like. We keep optimizing it, but some simpler custom async scheduler may be due.

And for people who want to solve C1M/100/100 problem ("Serve one million clients on a 100MHz device with 100KB of RAM", pun at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem), up to going to callback-based API, we may offer that later, but it will be at least based on open and more or less known lwIP API, not on a proprietary vendor shim.
I knew someone would try to skew this so that's why I specifically categorized it into "creating wealth" vs "rentier activity". I don't see your point as valid, of course if we all made kitchenware and nobody made food we'd starve, that wasn't the point of my post.
A clone of a crappy product is at best a crappy clone.

What makes bad products bad is precisely the stuff you're trying to copy. Any clone just inherits the bad parts then inevitably adds other bad parts behind the scenes or misses random features. (Hello Open Office).
You don't need it.

It's an option, and obviously we'd like people to use that and hence are likely to talk about it and show how cool it is etc, but you definitely don't need it.

We have HTTP, WebSocket. Soon we'll also expose MQTT and mDNS to the JS layer; with that you can build whatever you want with the tools and services you love and trust.
How about "Ads over HTTPS, please"? Can't upgrade our sites if our ad revenue drops through the floor.
Getting 502 Bad Gateway when trying to confirm account.
Indeed, no news since 2015. And that is also news because news were expected on the following topics:

- using guns could cause fire ... gun delivery was said rescheduled for 2019;

- senate asked for an evaluation of A10 vs F35 because A10 was to be retired and replaced by the F35 the marines where not eager for this;

- storm hit could cause fire on board;

- budget was drifting like hell;

- the 800K$ helmet full of software had a lot of malfunctioning...

And recently there is no more news.

Oh yes.

Canada pulled out. Australia is thinking the same.

There is a new problem in the tank and ...

https://www.rt.com/business/320487-f35-lockheed-martin-penta...

Heads begin to roll.

But what? LM was smart : every production units has been given to enough different states and organizations not to bribe the MPs (oh no) but to improve efficiency.

Airbus had trouble coordinating up to 4 countries and nearly died of it, 40+ states is logically way more complex.

EDIT : Did I said that the modern version F16 with all its "modern electronic warfare" get beaten bad by its 40 yo counterpart? USA industry is declining bad. The IT bubble has even contaminated the military production.
Why? Why load information to the system for areas outside the plane's current mission range? Why load radar information for Southeast Asia when the plane is currently stationed in Europe?
This comment adds clarity to a new angle on the discussion. Not sure why the downvotes.

There is a huge class of working poor, who earn just enough (or not enough) to cover real necessities. For this group, there's not much value in advice on economic strategy. Even in the event of a moderate-sized windfall, the history of scarcity makes it impossible to use a windfall to improve your situation in a lasting way.

However, there is another huge class of people in the US who earn more than enough to be free from economic worries and start building serious wealth, yet they squander their huge paychecks each month. For this group, maybe books like this can have some value.
Yeah I've not read that yet, learning french to pass an exam to get Quebec residency so I can escape the hellish UK rentier paradise. Once I've passed I'm hitting those economics books!
This accident is making me realize how much our startup is dependent on email notifications. I am also even more concern now about all those 3rd party APIs which we use. The worse thing ever, 404 returned by Mandill api just broke our scripts execution chain. We are rewriting code so that issues with 3rd party services do not fully break our service. Ehhh... We learn it a hard way, that should be an obvious practice.
I don't really care if religions didn't create moral frameworks. The point is that a religion can justify one. "Why can't I kill Joe, he is an asshole! - Because God said murder is wrong."

Philosophy might be able to do that too, but the west doesn't seem to be aligning behind any one philosophy. And there are no credible purely philosophical moral frameworks to pick from.
Now you're talking about "consumer" debt. i.e. debt to buy a car / house / student debt / etc. That's bad debt.

If it's not intended to be used for investment, I would personally never use debt.
I think that's a bit harsh.. there is still a ton of software hosted only on sourceforge. And plenty of people that need the software that don't know about sourceforge's bad behavior. When I am researching random software or libraries, I find myself on an almost daily basis temporarily overriding the ublock rule for sourceforge.
as the azure numbers are specified it would seems the figures are different i.e.
"Server products and cloud services revenue grew 10% in constant currency" (office 365 I guess)

"Azure revenue grew 140% in constant currency with revenue from Azure premium services growing nearly 3x year-over-year" (actual azure it would seem)
Fairchild is long gone, having been bought years ago and lines closed and moved. You'd be starting almost at scratch.
There's actually an interesting gap between 'building some model in Excel' and 'moving on into a programming model where code and data are separated'. Like generating model code in some normal programming language from a spreadsheet.
Here's a long article on the Super-T:

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/low-and-slow
I think you're misunderstanding hammock. Indeed only (forms of) the salaryman can calculate an hourly rate.
Good fun, I'm going to hope that using ipython still qualifies, and it made things much easier by letting you define functions that join some ad-hoc datasets to look for matches, or read particular files.

A similar approach to different puzzles by Peter Norvig[1]

Other useful (and perhaps less common) utilities I used were 'q'[2], and the standard unix 'comm(1)'[3]

[1] http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/norvig.com/ipython/Fred%20Bu...

http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

[2] https://harelba.github.io/q/ - sqlite text munging ended up being a bit too clunky though, and I couldn't remember/fix the join syntax to make it worthwhile in teh end.

[3] $ comm -12 <(sort memberships/AAA) <(sort memberships/Delta_SkyMiles) > aaa_delta_comm # intersect names in 2 files. Sadly can't handle more than 2 inputs directly though, and assumes pre-sorting.
I guess the new tests could be allies...
> I've never been in the military aviation community. But I'd assume that ID'ing radars is so basic that you'd want to carry it around with you all the time. You know, just in case.

You do carry that basic capability around all the time. Without going into too much detail, what is causing concern is the development of files that accurately describe areas of operation. It's the difference between having a general ability to identify things and having detailed knowledge of what you can expect.

> I've never been in the military aviation community.

Most people haven't, which is why this all looks and seems so strange to them.
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Yes, some people will be able to pay off the loan + interest but this anecdote ignores the others that by design cannot. As Hörmann explains, the amount of money in existence + the amount of money that is contracted as being owed is a negative sum.
> This software is loaded on a mission-by-mission ...

That sounds like they would load different software modules not data.
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Then I think what you're saying is lots of people create millions or billions of dollars worth of value, but few of them capture it. That's fair. I think one of the lessons of this book (at least subtextually) would be to aim to caputure the value you create.
Oh no! Can you send a screenshot to info@remotetogether.com ?

thx!
Managing people is a critical component to a successful business. While he did get his hands dirty a lot during the early years, you can't take away from him credit just because he commanded others to do the labor.

I understand and appreciate you sentiment. You're right, it wasn't entirely due to him, it was a collaboration between hundreds of people. But, if he left during the very early years, it's an almost certainty that MS would not have achieved its success and influence.
Does Atom have an API for syntax highlighting with full parsers? I'm pretty sure it only supports bix trees of regexes for that.
Non-mobile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmentation_fault
You are right, this should be static single assignment.
Global air superiority? Not a geo-powers geek, but sounds implausible.
How about you offer to buy them a new work laptop so they don't need to continue using their existing personal laptop for work.

Also do this for every other employee that is using a personal laptop for work.

Make it a nice laptop too.

In the grand scheme of things this will cost less than losing the company.
It's working again now!
Just like I wouldn't want to live in a house built from LEGO, I'm somewhat wary of Excel models as the basis for investment strategies in major banks. The problem with the quick and hacky solution is that it's never replaced, because that would cost money, and the current solution "looks like it works".
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A message to the aliens, part 23/23 (wat)
Using deep learning to find emoji in pictures
Considering conditions in China it may have been worse for workers. Remember economically if 1 person gains 1 billion and 999,999 people lose 1,000$ that's considered a net gain. (ed: in many macro economic models.)
Huge gas cloud hurtling towards our galaxy could create 200M new stars
Woah, I was stuck in the past! Thanx for the tips!
I have been at computer history museum recently and got a chance to see the Babbage machine. It is marvellous and within seconds, you will relish its beauty. It lets you realise how the computers has changed over the years.
I heard the Lua implementation in NodeMCU/ESP8266 is not good for "anything serious", that's why C is still the way to go (or at least use Arduino 'API', https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino). How will Micropython be be better?