skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's not forget that banking is a government-protected industry. A big recourse that a lot of people have in the normal, private space is to switch to a competitor. This naturally leads to competitors that try out things that are different to things you don't like. That mechanism is simply not present in the banking industry precisely because it's controlled (regulated/restricted entry) by government.
The details have been posted in several earlier threads, but the TL;DR version is:

1) Detroit was gouging Flint, well into 7 figures per year, (plus the supply pipes from Detroit to Flint have lead)

2) Flint signed a new deal for a new supply direct from Lake Huron with lead-free supply lines at an 8-figure cost savings per decade (or less) -- better water, much cheaper. Construction to take ~4 years.

3) Detroit hears this, cuts off Flint at earliest opportunity (1-year notice opt-out), apparently assuming that they could later gouge even more under the assumption that Flint had no alternative;

4) Flint resorts to using Flint River in the interim (until new Huron feeds from new water system are complete), prepared for the bacterial risks but unaware of lead risks.
One of the best articles I read on the subject was this http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/2014/02/04/littles-law/
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Link to said leaflet?
Not for you and me, but this man prefers to live in Iraq than in Finland.

After all, you and I are not expected to have people dressed as the KKK throwing rocks at us: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/finland/118...
> And these things aren't even Internet-connected.

Thanks for adding a huge round of neurotic laughter to my monday morning! :)
That's not necessarily true. Most people in electric RC hobbies use Lithium batteries without any form of protection circuitry on the battery or cells themselves. The fire rate in the hobby is very low.
> The accents vary so much that people from one section of the country struggle to understand people from another.

Same thing can happen in England, too. They all seem to agree that they're English, though.
Save money. 6 months expenses is a good rule of thumb.

Network (which really means just keep in touch with folks you have worked with or met).

At your current employment situation, keep your ear to the ground. You don't need to move to a big company (they have layoffs too) but you want to be aware of what is happening.

Ask your boss questions about the business, and do your own research too. If your company is "default dead" then ask how you can help make it "default alive".

Cut your unneeded expenses.

Start a company if you have the drive to so, don't worry about the macroeconomic climate.

Source: reading, living through the 2000 and 2008 recessions as a developer.
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Commons-cli is pretty much unmaintained, look in the bug tracker. It would be nice if this project could explain why it is better than Commons-cli. Though in the end only a year long maintenance effort will convince me.
Load average measures how long is the queue of processes waiting for the CPU.

Most web applications aren't CPU intensive, rather they depend on many other services like the database, S3, ...
If a web worker is waiting for another service it should release the CPU until the service responds.

So is entirely possible that all workers are waiting for other services, your app is not responding and the CPU is free.
> I enjoy that Rust just decided to change their "try" syntax for calling a function that could possibly fail to a simpler "?" suffix, and now we get Duffy praising how well "try" worked out for them. :P

The Rust community did no such thing. The status of the RFC is currently that they will implement '?' as a gated feature (which is only available if you're on the nightly toolchain) and see if it is useful. If it's found to obfuscate the code like many people have suggested, then they will take it back out.
> Also Ray Liotta in Goodfellas has no soul, you can see it in his eyes.

> Ciao.

What ?
A company who'll ring Comcast, pretending to be you
10 times a day? O.o I dont know where i read that, but isnt it assumed that we (IT specialists) are productive about 60% of our work time?
I thought the same. It didn't occur to me that this wasn't about the game..
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defaulting floats to NaN seemed a little weird, so I checked what D defaults other data types.

https://dlang.org/spec/type.html

Well, it good weirder. int types are 0s except char types which are 0xFF, 0xFFFF (-1). Except dchar (32bit uint) which is 0x0000FFFF. And all floating types are NaN. Why the inconsistency?

Is there a reason for this? If you are gonna initialize your locals why not 0 for all? It would be more expected, consistent and probably efficient.
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I've gotten one. One was enough. At this point, I accelerate up to the speed limit and stick the car into cruise control unless forced to change my speed. Haven't gotten a ticket since.
Exhibit A: the supplement industry. They have done a tremendously terrible job of self-regulating. If you aren't familiar with the travesty see the Frontline episode on the topic - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/supplements-and-safet...

(Also the internet is filled with 95% garbage)
I think you only need to do a image search for "badger claws" to get your answer: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=badger+claws
Great but fails to explain what reactos is and what it's about.
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I had a Christmas tree catch fire once when I was a kid, but that was probably due to the real candles (!) that were being used as lights.
I've seen similar websites done for my former high school and former employee. I think in both cases it was webmasters showing off and justifying their existence combined with website owners being impressed by their 1337-skillz and maybe having some complexes that they aren't modern enough.

It also didn't help that owners weren't actually users of the website and that the design was probably demoed to them on developer's machine over localhost where it may have performed reasonably fast.
Thanks for the feedback! Your use case is exactly why I started the project, I have very similar issues daily. It is definitely working. the idea behind the free for now was to entice early adopters.

At the current sign up rate I will remove that in about a week or two.

Thanks again for the feedback :)
Sounds great.

audio jack: I like that it doesn't have an audio jack. I already have a Fire TV connected to my tv setup, it should play the audio there.
Funding isn't the problem. Spending wisely is the problem.

California just spent US$7 billion (thousand million in non-US terms) on a bridge that was originally going to be a $400 million project... and the $7B bridge is a piece of crap. A pretty piece of crap, mind you, but much less safe than the cheaper design would have been.
No, I'm sorry. I haven't seen that particular version in actual use since I left the bank I worked at in the 80's and 'video' back then would have meant shooting a VHS tape or something to that effect...

Incidentally, those text mode interfaces were wicked fast given the hardware they were running on.
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In many cases, you save much more on rent because you're not spending $1700 a month to live in a shoebox.

What's really costly is time. That 50 miles in traffic is an hour and a half, so you end up spending 3 hours in traffic every day. This turns your 8-hour workday into an 11-hour workday.
and once you consider how much is technical churn vs true technical innovation- it's almost all noise anyway.

I'd be surprised if a monthly update netted me any less critical info for any PL, they're mostly relying on scraped reddit posts.
>Otherwise you'd realize that species are a human construct, that there's no better/worse.

Go try breeding with a horse and get back to us on that.
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Britain's Princess Anne recently suggested that eating horse being taken more seriously in Britain [1]. There is a glut of horses in the UK, most of which (unless a particular breed) are effectively worth nothing.

A lot of horses just get abandoned on spare fields in what is called "fly grazing".

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/agriculture/meat/10449...
Currently doing that through a big PAAS, we'll see how long it lasts.
> Objective-C, C#, and Java are all on that road - start with C, and add only the stuff you need.

If »starting with C« means »use a mostly similar syntax for basic things«, then yes. Otherwise only ObjC has been on that road, given that C supports things that C# and Java don't. And then it's a »start with C, remove stuff you don't like, and add stuff you need«, which is probably more akin to »start wherever and pick things you want in the language«. E.g. syntax aside, C# probably has much more in common with Delphi in its inception and design than with C.
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Maybe it's time for another redesign…

Site is quite broken on iPad
I don't mind the animations but I just can't stand it when websites mess with the scrolling. The page does not behave as I expect when I scroll using the trackpad on my macbook. I don't know how it behaves with a mouse scrollwheel but I assume it feels strange.

There is no universal way to reliably mimic scrolling with javascript. There's too many different browsers and devices, all of them treat scrolling differently.
hey, challenge will be that these teams are breathing. sometimes they diminish for years and then at some point join again because time, business, trust and money make them working together again.

the biggest challenge will be to make their outstanding advantages visible. As a dev team builder, I was always struggling to make my dev teams performance visible. especially to benchmark it against industry levels.

means: probably if you can solve, making IT performance of individuals/teams transparent and industry wide comparable (and hence connected to reasonable prices to charge), you might have solved your intention already.
> Not necessarily. Unions tend to lower the pay of the top performers.

There are many kinds of union. Your viewpoint reflects a very US-centric view of things.

I work in IT, and am part of a union. I negotiate my pay on my own, as do most of my coworkers, and we get paid considerably more than the union contracts stipulate. The contracts only set a floor on the compensation and benefits.
Obligatory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics_of_eating_meat
How to fill holes in my knowledge?
Hi everyone. I am 27 years old, I finished my IT studies 2 years ago, since then I spent a bit time working as an Android developer, then I worked at a small startup basically as IT generalist (databases, C#, MSSQL, Oracle, etc). Then I left that and started working as a freelance Android dev.

I realized that I have big holes in my knowledge of Android programming. I worked on 2 (simpler) projects as a freelancer and projects I did work fine, but I am not satisfied with them. I am sure that you all know that the point of programming is not only to make the code that works.

I can make things work, but I feel like they are not meant to be made like that. Basically I am a Googler. Meaning that holes I have in my knowledge I manage to fill by using general programming knowledge in combination with a lot of googling.

I never had formal Android programming education. I learned JAVA at University and I have no idea how I ended up with Android, but I like it. And now I would like to fill those holes. I stared with intermediate course on Udacity (it is a bit outdated, but it's fine), I think about checking TreeHouse, Coursera doesn't have courses I am interested soon. And when I listen to Intermediate course basically I don't know one segment, then I know the next one, then I don't know the third, and so on.

So I was wondering what approach would you recommend me? How can I better myself?

Thank you.
> The one thing the pressure groups hate mentioning is badgers

There is a sub-text throughout all of this, which is touched upon but not explicitly stated: culling of badgers in Britain is a highly emotive subject, and it's become one of the touchstone issues for many people, along with (for example) fox-hunting and other so-called blood-sports. (Although the badgers are being culled, rather than hunted for sport.) The UK government seems committed to reducing badger numbers at the urging of the farming industry who despise badgers for their role in spreading bovine tuberculosis. Opponents of the cull maintain it merely disperses badgers, making the TB problem worse.

So if badgers are killing hedgehogs (an even more popular animal due to their role in English folklore and fiction) it might change attitudes towards badger culling. Personally, I think he underplays the role of road-kill in their demise, the "flat hedgehog" has become a cultural reference-point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5tUc1S3cc

It will be interesting to see if this story goes mainstream and affects the ongoing debate in any way.
In my experience, everyone at MacD's actually does already have a proper level of training. Cleanliness and food hygiene is certainly a key part of the training program.

going further, where I am, pretty much everyone in the food supply chain does actually have that training, and the food supply chain is very trustworthy because of it. Perhaps you just didn't notice because it all works so well.
Yes, I've used Go. The compiler is fast and that's really nice; fast compilation was one of their explicit goals.

Pascal and C are fast because they're old and relatively simple, and their implementations are mature.

C++ becomes super slow when you start doing anything interesting, when I tried Rust it seemed very slow, even Java is slow although it seems like it shouldn't have to be. Those languages are all more widely used than D, I think.

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Yes it should be far more open but Brussels knows that if it is an open discussion no one will get in in the meantime. Of course it causes issues but letting people suffer is still something we need to help with. The problem is so incredibly complex that a solution will take a long time and in the meanwhile we will just have to make due. It will probably explode though; too many on/off people who are just angry and have no ideas but war and anger to throw in. A lot of them afraid of losing their benefits because the migrants took 'm. I thought this translates well to the news here; http://imgur.com/a/XxLWO

Edit: yes I am aware of the meme dislike here but this one hits home imho
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> You admitted ignorance of the causes of US poverty and of US history

You're confusing me with another commenter.
It's not so much about where the link goes as in the discussion it provokes, no? It's just another way of saying "let's talk about the issue of shoddy electronics in hoverboards" but you start out the conversation with a bit of visual context.
> I thought these guys are nearly invulnerable

They're not armored, they just have spines to discourage soft fleshy bits from getting too close. They're preyed on by large birds (some owls, golden eagles — >40% of golden eagle preys in Gotland, ~30% in Estonia), juveniles and sick individuals are preyed upon by dogs and foxes. Badgers are strong enough with long enough claws[0] that they can go through the coat, but AFAIK only bother to do so when very hungry.

Also cars and trucks, hedgehogs are not car-proof.

[0] http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/BD/BD56A45A-197D-4EC4-BC79-D052...
The primary factor limiting the scope of Canada's forests isn't logging -- it's farming. A lot of land was cleared early in Canada's history; a few trees being cut down here and there are quite insignificant in their comparative impact.
That doesn't mean that people can't change: as recently as 1995, the majority of Americans did not approve of interracial marriages[1].

1. http://www.gallup.com/poll/163697/approve-marriage-blacks-wh...
I'll second that, and include with San Francisco, beautiful Marin county. That liberal enclave north of SF.

My neighbor is renting out a studio apartment.(1/4 of a basement. One room. $30 dollar parking tickets/ per night.)
He's getting $2500 month. That was one, or two years ago. I don't want to guess what he's getting now. I know there's a procession of renters. I can usually hear the wife of one of the victims begging for baby sitting work from their balcony.

He weaseled the house from a very lonely lady. "I'll remodel the house, if you give me half ownership, and give me your portion in your will. She got cancer. He got complete control of the house, and her kids got nothing. Why did I out this guy; because the way he gets his money is immoral. Getting money this way is immoral. That it--it's just wrong.

As to alternatives, section 8 is closed. Even if you do get a voucher, and get put up in a ghetto, you need to sign the most one sided lease I have ever read, that's 43 pages long. Yes--43 pages of "can't do this". Down to a covered lid on your garbage can that has to reside only under your sink. Two, or three day notice if a relative wants to spend the night. Absolutely no work on your vechicle in the parking lot. I hope a lawyer eventually brings Marin Housing to their knees.

O.k. move! Many people in my county have been here a long time. The one, or two people who care if they are breathing live here. Some are just old.

O.k. Pitch a tent. Where? There not one campground that accepts full time campers. The minimum fee is, I believe $25/night--no shower, just a out house. Don't stay more that three days!

I don't have an answer. These towns weren't built to scale, and there's a lot of NIMBY's. It not just the NIMBY's, it's small town code enforcement squads that make remodeling a room very difficult/expensive. Plus, traffic on 101 has not improved.

I can't fight everything. My gripe is landlords whom are immoral. It's time to out them. It's time to call people out on their greedy behavior, in all aspects of life.
I've never bought this, "If it's legal--I'll do it!".

I see you people daily, and don't like you. I see you in ties at work. I see you with a stethoscope around your neck. I see you going out of your way to screw someone. Someone usually with not much power.

You are not fooling anyone. We see whom you've become. Ever wonder why you are so lonely? Why people don't give you the respect you think you deserve?
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That experience taught me never to stand radially to rotating machinery.

Some old Bridgeport mills I used had power feeds, and if you weren't VERY careful you'd wreck your piece, and the mill, and everything in the vicinity. I hated using those machines. I don't know how they remained in one piece.
> Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks.

This is exactly what pissed me off within the first 3 seconds, that there is no way to see everything they have to say without waiting until the animation goes whole cycle and then waiting some more to make sure I didn't miss anything.

It looks like they took design tips from people optimizing for addictiveness, not usefulness. Hint: you don't need their tips if you are a FOSS project and actually lose money on people spending more time on your site than necessary.
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Fire rate for hoverboards is also very low. There are just so many of those sold.
I applaud both the athlete and the research so please forgive this ignorant question. Even if he can handle the waves, isn't he at a huge risk of being eaten by a shark or other predator as he does a 6 month swim across the Pacific?
I would love to know your justification for regulating barbers and stylist. A greenhouse manager requires certification for pesticides which can make sense, but a florist merely goes out of business if they are awful but require certifications. Regardless, from 2013 here is the list in my state. http://explorer.dol.state.ga.us/mis/Current/cerliccurrent.pd...

The document is a little odd as some jobs specifically call out licensing in the state while others mention national certifications (baking food anyone?). Interesting that Computer Engineer is in there, broad enough to catch a lot of people who might not expect it.
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This is horrible and I feel for their losses.
> When life gives you flammable explosive lemons, what would Cave Johnson do?

Well considering combustible lemons are readily available he'd fire his engineers and skip straight to "burn life's house down".
Which one has been around longer? Think the comparison might be backward.
Yep, I've been using Lithium batteries since 15 yrs, (electrics RC helicopters ) with high volts/amps capacity (10-14s) 5-6Ah, you just need to know the specifications theses kinds of batteries have, and not being an asshole
Also If you dont trust your local chinese batterie dealer use this http://cpc.cx/eA8 it saves my home couple of time, when I make mistakes...
For anyone wondering how come chinese product with Li-ion battery explodes here is a good entry level walkthrough/explanation based on ~$20 LED "20W" floodlight example.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag5XknXGkZ8

Sins:

- absolutely atrocious manual build quality.

- no real load current control, replaced with wishful thinking and best case scenario back of a napkin calculated circuit.

- nasty power supply pretending to be a charger with ZERO protection and NO CUT-OFF. It will charge until something melts or blows.

- all electronic components underrated.

- 100% fake parameters.

Now you might say not everything from china is like that, there are good and bad engineers everywhere. That is true, except better engineers work at Xiaomi, Rigol, Lenovo‎, etc. You simply cant expect any quality from no name fly by night Shenzhen outfits. Just read Chinese reactions to excellent Amazon move from the link Animats gave earlier:

http://qz.com/582542/chinas-makeshift-hoverboard-industry-is...

They are shutting down and moving on to counterfeiting something else instead of working on security of this product!?!?!! Actually hiring an engineer is too much hassle. :/
The problem most people have is how opaque the choices are and how little control users have over them. OP in the linked thread mentions disabling /all/ telemetry options during install, but here we are.