skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a front-wheel drive. Do you consider a '95 Integra to be sufficiently decent and modern? It's of course now 20 years old.

The front end of the car slide off the driveway into a ditch full of snow. There wasn't enough traction to back up and out. I don't see how a 2015 car would do any better.

Just last December I was in an ice storm. The day afterwards there was a quarter inch of ice on the road which made everything slippery. A car slipped off the crown of the road in front of the house, and over the curb. (No, not everyone can take the extra time off and stay home until the local streets are all clear.) Sand adds that extra little traction that would help a car, even an AWD car, get up the driveway slope.

In some snowy areas, the municipality or county even put containers of sand on the side of particularly steep slopes to motorists with slick roads, like http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4358579 . I don't think that it's only RWD cars which need that extra help.
It appears to have been edited out, but that looks like a remnant of someone probing for cross-site scripting vulnerabilities by putting mismatched quotes and tags into places they don't belong.
And now that comes back to the problem that was pointed out in the other thread: Which one do you join?
I'd say Intermediate level developers. Advanced developers that haven't written Laravel or Lumen APIs can benefit.

I've geared the book towards the bigger PHP audience on purpose because I have found an amazing productivity boost in using Laravel for web apps and Lumen for APIs. The workflow is the same.

By itself, Lumen provides a solid developer experience with database migrations, the Eloquent ORM (optional) and service providers.

I have found a huge productivity boost in using Laravel + Lumen as my go-to development toolkit for APIs since I don't have to switch mindsets when writing APIs vs web applications.

Those who write Laravel
How do you know what is and is not a rare word.
There is only one two word answer on the national scale: income inequality.

The dysfunction of current capital accumulation is driving roiling discontent: witness the 'unlikely' (not) success of Trump and Sanders.

Prediction: it's going to get worse before it gets better.

The drama IMHO this go around is that last time we had a populist backlash (100 yeas ago), it was not actively monitored and suppressed by a comprehensive suite of behavior analysis and sentiment management professionals.

I predict the existence of those things now is going to keep the lid on the pot a lot longer than previously. When it does blow off, it might be a lot more destructive. Where we once had a boiling pot, now we have a pressure cooker.

As with other systemic ills (e.g. climate change), the individual players are trapped in the necessity of maximizing for their perceived local best outcome... unable, even when very aware of it, to accept short term or proactive losses in the service of avoiding a catastrophic systemic failure...

Interesting times, etc. :(
> How is this related to the article?

The article compares Rust vs C++. No surprise that the [potential] language in the middle of these two extremes is mentioned....

> And what, exactly, does Rust sacrifice for safety?

Clarity, usability... Here is Alexandrescu's quick overview of it:

https://www.quora.com/Which-language-has-the-brightest-futur...
Every time I see a story about miniature homes in Hong Kong, freight containers, Manhattan, etc. is that I would have to give up almost all of my hobbies if I lived like this. They are really only convenient for people who spend very little time at home.
> > "Yes, if the content is good enough to warrant paying for a subscription. "
> So if it's not, you just view it anyway?

Yes, because I decide what authors and publications I choose to support based on what they publish. You might think I'm "taking free samples too far", but you can always flick through a magazine before buying it in a store -- what is the difference here? Paying for a publication when you have no idea what they produce is just being a bad consumer.

> > "Nope, and there's no reason to muddy the waters with terms like crusade. "

> It's pretty rich to make a moral argument the way the parent did and have a problem with a term like crusade, which is a precise and correct term to describe this.

Well, to be fair GP made a similar moral argument, so I guess they also have a crusade?
The best "radical" quotes you have from this person are criticisms of video games?

Your initial argument about this person is facile. A pretty solid chunk of the "mainstream" throughout the world would also have problems with the "radical politics" of GLAAD.

It is fine for you to disagree with any or all of the organizations on this advisory committee. It is less fine for you to pick out individual members of it and try to make your problems with them the subject of the whole thread.

You should cut your losses on this unproductive subthread, which, as you clearly knew when you started it, can't possibly remain on-topic.
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Holy crap! I only wrote that half-jokingly, not expecting that you were took objectivism seriously, but you do!

I don't take Rand's philosophy seriously for much the same reason I don't take postmodernism as a whole seriously: the Continental approach (which she employed) lacks any real rigour[1]. Great for fiction, but not so good for being useful. As well as that, we objectively (see what I did there!) know that some of her important points (such as on causation, determinism, and free-will) are bunk, and it's not as if she was even particularly consistent on them anyway.

The best I can say to you is to go read Hume and come back to me: he was a much better philosopher than Rand, and had much more interesting and useful things to say about the world. Alternatively, maybe try to broaden your horizons with the Rationally Speaking Podcast (http://rationallyspeakingpodcast.org/). But if you don't want to, that's fine: you do you.

[1] Even with the continental school philosophers I do take at least a little more seriously, such as Nietzsche and Camus, it's more on the level of 'oh, that's an interesting idea', 'hmm... that's an interesting line of though', and 'oh, that's an interesting story' rather than anything seriously useful. And Rand doesn't even get to that level. I'm totally OK with her loathing Kant[2] and thinking Marxism sucks, but she doesn't offer much else of any depth, which, I guess, at least nothing that's been published.

[2] My personal opinion of Kant is that he was a stick-in-the-mud prude, and that deontological arguments, such as those Kant made, fall down when exposed to the real world, even though deontology itself can be a useful tool.
Prices in manhattan & co are less than SF, and the rate of increase is in the single digits per year vs. the doubling we've had in 3-4 years here in the bay area. That is why it's not much of a price shock for NYC.
Sometimes you can know the likelihood. It's not a nihilistic hole that you throw things at and see what sticks. Stuff that people go out of their way to do, even though it isn't supported is a good clue. Stuff that someone keeps ranting about in your meetings is another. Stuff that bugs the hell out of you personally is a third. Iteration is more important than inspiration, but you certainly don't go into it blind?
Why did you decide on that server, out of all the others?
Updated link - https://www.fi.edu/history-automaton
Got it, not all works then.
LinkedIn has become such a joke now, even literally with comedians making fun of all these LinkedIn invites. Plenty of people who don't know the phrase 'dark pattern' have experienced it and know they've experienced something truly messed up. I have no doubt this has been reflected in their recent stock price--rightfully so. I hope this is a lesson to other purveyors of dark patterns, but I doubt it.
I think this person managed to both hit upon and miss a key point.

> It's a mess and it makes it difficult to figure out what this world is when there doesn't seem to be any natural way those names could have emerged in one culture. It's fucking weird.

I think that's the point. There's nothing natural about that culture. It's very much artificially imposed over what had been a set of distinct and different cultures. The apparently nonsensical naming is traces of that showing.
I thought the "problem" with Nightfall is not that Asimov used "human" words instead of "Alien words", rather that there seemed to be almost one-to-one correspondence between the Earthly things and Kalgash. Kalgashians act exactly the same as humans on Earth(or rather 50s Earth) and have a concept of newspaper :)

> If you prefer, you can imagine that the text reads "vorks" wherever it says "miles," "gliizbiiz" wherever it says "hours," and "sleshtraps" where it says "eyes." Or you can make up your own terms. Vorks or miles, it will make no difference when the Stars come out.

That reminds me of "How Things Are Made" from Rick and Morty:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE
My experience is that you don't. Ecuador is a lot of fun.

That said, you should always be careful. In Ecuador, particularly in Guayaquil, be careful what taxi you take. Make sure it has a meter, and if possible use a radio dispatched taxi (i.e. call). Beyond that, it's like most places you're likley to visit: Stay away from "bad" areas late at night, be aware of your surroundings, etc.
"Good people" don't work for Evil. They tear it down.
Finding secrets in Python source code
While it might be frustrating, this kind of question is entirely appropriate. Even though there is an ambiguity in small component of the question, when you take it in the context of the rest of the question, the ambiguity is removed. As a result, it tests your ability to reason about the intent of the author.
There's a point-based skills assessment for skilled workers. If you get 67 points you can immigrate to Canada and become a permanent resident. Once you're there you have complete freedom of movement - it's like a green card as opposed to being on a work visa. You may be able to qualify for a NAFTA work visa as well, but if you want actual residency as an engineer you're probably better off applying for permanent residency.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/apply-factors...

Canada isn't Utopia - it can be hard to find engineering jobs, housing is expensive in big cities and cost of living is higher than the US. There's a reason why so many Canadian engineers end up moving to the US.
> Getting comfortable with these types of questions is very important.

It is important, but I think that a question is whether it should be important. That is, what is the value of a test that only, or even just primarily, evaluates how well you've prepared for it? One (or at least I) would like a test that somehow evaluated only actual knowledge / skill, so that one's score couldn't be improved by drilling. (As showerst (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067591) points out, the reason one wouldn't like drilling to improve the score is because it's the rich kids who are able to afford the time and resources to drill, and so you're testing the wrong thing entirely.)
You can also look at the preceding sentence:

>Each week, she receives a batch of phones that need repairs.
Ok, trying to get Raspberry Pi work. Perhaps netbsd is better?
836.50 = 6.5 * x + 2 * (209 - x)

Find x
Neither US political party is Nazi. The unthinking demonization of 'the enemy' lies at the heart of this problem.

Clearly too many of us have become fond of identifying ourselves through membership in Party X. Shaping my world view around a political agenda by wholeheartedly embracing their entire platform is unnatural and illogical. But to take the next step and label nonparty folk as unbelievers and infidels creates a problem that's impossible to fix through rational discussion, much less leading to the design of workable policy. At best it's bad policy.

But party-based exclusion really isn't politics. It's just gangsterism.
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Cool. We're working now to make this possible.

(And, in fact, to work at all when compiling against 1.9.11, since the addition of dynamic modules broke us: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/issues/1110 )
Actually, it's still a pain for package maintainers. Take a look at mod_wsgi for apache as an example, it's maintained as a completely separate package (the rpmspec and dist-git trees are totally independent from apache) - when the httpd package gets upgraded mod_wsgi doesn't have to be rebuilt at all. This is important, in fact, because rebuilding a package means updating the spec file, bumping the release, and submitting a new build to koji - not something you want to do for loadable modules every time httpd is updated.

This is going to create headaches for anyone wanting to package nginx, either they will have to compile all the modules when building nginx (creating many sub-packages) or there will have to be coordination between package maintainers to do a mass rebuild of all loadable modules every time the nginx package gets bumped. Neither situation is desirable, and I hope they release a stable ABI because until then nobody is going to waste time packaging loadable modules.
Try Hiwaiian history some time. With only twelve letters in the alphabet, and every important persons name starting with a K....
"Where d is the number of days she has worked that week"

Substitute d = 0, meaning she has worked no days yet. Then P = 108. Thus when she has worked no days yet, she has 108 phones to repair. Alternately phrased, Kathy starts each week with 108 phones to fix.
It's great that the Parse server got open sourced, no doubt. But a lot of people rely/relied on Parse for sending push notifications... you know, that pesky little item listed as "unsupported" in the parse-server README.
> I don't believe any of the answers. … I think it is a flawed question.

Genuinely curious, not confrontational: why? That is, why do you think that the answer that is marked correct is not, or might not, actually be correct?
ZeroMQ is a community of projects that has grown and evolved significantly in the last years. It was never threatened by Nanomsg, which we saw as an interesting experiment, and potentially an engine for a pure C stack. We have pure Java, C#, C, and C++ stacks, and a new pure Go stack.

Above that, you will see many language bindings, especially PyZMQ and CZMQ, each with a large community on top. CZMQ provides things like actors and CurveZMQ authentication, and has wrappings in many languages. I'm writing a Node.js one at the moment, and did a Java one a few weeks ago.

Above that, we have Zyre, a clustering library that is somewhat like Nano's bus pattern, yet rather stronger. It was designed for flaky WiFi networks, and does not lose messages as long as a node reconnects within a reasonable time.

And above that, we have a message broker, Malamute, which does pub-sub and workload distribution.

All the C libraries have rich packaging (builds for every conceivable platform, and bindings in a growing number of languages), provided by zproject. So you can start a Malamute server (a CZMQ actor) from Python, or Node.js, trivially.

We have run Malamute on a $25 OpenWRT router. This stack is small, efficient, and very alive.
Not at all. Memory management for games is something you have to pay close attention to, no matter what's your strategy for dealing with garbage. But this whole GC discussion is missing several years of technology development and best practices.

Besides, it is not guaranteed that you'll succeed with a manual strategy for dealing with garbage. Naive strategies have a really low throughput. They may not stop the world, but will be slow.
Being critical of, and believing that those systems can better work for most people, rather than those at the top, isn't enough to make someone anti-capitalist.
There's degrees of NIMBY-ism. "Don't bulldoze my house bro!" might be seen as NIMBY-ism, but IMO is a lot easier to sympathize with than total & complete anti-development.
How Much Hospitals Charge for the Same Type of Cases?
Very sad. Wish I could have met him IRL then.
> The best "radical" quotes you have from this person are criticisms of video games?

She's a video game critic.

> It is fine for you to disagree with any or all of the organizations on this advisory committee. It is less fine for you to pick out individual members of it and try to make your problems with them the subject of the whole thread.

I'm not familiar with all of the other members. Feminist Frequency stood out because they're an organization I know about.
> Why is this going "so far"? Anita Sarkeesian has been the source of a bunch of online (and offline) harassment, and has been outspoken against it, especially on Twitter.

Except of course that she's cried wolf on many occasions (going so far as to /invent/ threats and then pretend that she called the police about it and they advised her to tweet about it) and in general has incredibly extreme views (which IMO don't hold up to even cursory scrutiny, but that could be my bias showing). The point is that a "trust and safety" council should also protect people from lynch mobs created by people like Feminist Frequency, right? So maybe we should get thunderf00t (not going to happen) to be part of this council?
Having attended school in California at a community college, UC, and finally an elite, private university I couldn't more agree with your characterization. I don't know how much I would agree with the claim that the stratification was purposefully constructed (I'd argue it's more of a reflection of American society writ large - i.e. successful parents have more resources to ensure their kids are successful), but otherwise this rings very true.
As an individual, not much.
Though I sometimes wonder what the rent landscape would look like if people with moderate amounts of money were more flexible in their neighborhood choice. A lot of these crazy high prices are driven by people wanting to be in specific neighborhoods. Sometimes driven by cultural niche, sometimes convenience, and sometimes mostly just race.
Funny, I just saw this post yesterday by DARPA about preventing GPS issues: http://gazette.com/defense-department-researchers-push-plan-...
Without a comma, I believe, 'salads and drinks' must be parsed as belonging together and are modified by the most recently occurring number (209).
Could this be even better than parse.com since you can program the server? That's what I never quite understood about Parse. It seemed like you had to do pretty much everything in the client/app which seemed like a severe limitation.
>>Think about what life savings are for a minute.

They are means to buy the financial independence to free up your time, which you would have other wise spent on that job. Now you have time and resources to chase your dreams.

To be able to romance with a dream, you need to be pragmatic first.

Any dream of any magnitude requires ingredients most of which people neither have the drive to work for, nor the resources and most give up not long after they start when the realize the magnitude of the struggle the lies ahead in getting to it.
And I suspect most of this isn't anything new. What is at least somewhat different is that, in general, a Robert Moses [1] can't come into a city and remake it to his vision while largely ignoring those who think differently. This change is not entirely a bad thing. On the other hand, it often makes things like large-scale transportation projects much more difficult to accomplish than in the past.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Moses
10,000 sf Office Sublease
I think it depends on the product. There are times that I want a Swiss knife. The office suite is a good Swiss knife for me, I want it to do a bunch of stuff ok, I don't want it to be the best layout tool, or presentation builder, or editor, I just want to be able to do something ok looking fast for a number of varied cases.

There are times when I want the really great at one thing too and I don't want my Trello board to be a social network or so. I think it is more about identity of the product.
But that's what NYC life is about for many. Rents are so high that having a lot of space means you have to be quite well off. But for most, the magic of NYC is outside your home. When you throw a party, you don't do it at your place, you do it at a bar. Minimizing rent means you can spend more on going out. It'll be wildly popular for the unmarried/childless set.
I've never understood why so many people allow abortion to so heavily influence their choice of party/political candidate. So few people will ever have abortions in their lives and yet everyone will pay taxes, receive health care and most of us will know someone in military service. These issues affect our lives in ways that are so much more profound than abortion does and yet we continually allow the two parties to distract us from these issues with the issue of abortion.

Note: I say this as the grandchild of someone who attempted to abort my mother after being raped by my grandfather. My grandmother's life was basically ruined when she was forced to marry her rapist after the then-illegal abortion failed. My mother, and transitively, me, would not exist had safe, legal abortions been available in 1940. Even with this intensely personal connection to the abortion issue, the issue has zero influence on how I vote. It boggles my mind that those with almost no personal connection to it let it influence their votes to the degree that they do.
Usually the staunch free market advocates don't want to do anything about those externalities, though. They accept that they exist, but that doesn't stop them from fighting whenever regulation or taxes come up as a way to fix those externalities.
What's interesting is the number of people posting here who found the questions ambiguous. One assumes that your average HN poster may be a little overly detail oriented (and privileged), but even so... what this seems to be testing as much as algebra skill is correctly parsing the question (assuming there is a single 'correct' way to do that). Shouldn't that skill be part of the reading comprehension testing? Ask any customer facing developer and they will tell you there is no single interpretation for most customer requirements.

My other concern was the answer to #1, namely, "4m + 5b" vs "5m + 4b". I feel like if you know it is in that form (sum rather than product) the two answer choices are just intended to trip people up who are moving through the test at speed.
Looks good, but why does it use npm for installation?
Two questions about the different positions put out by Sanders and Hillary - throwing it out here in case anyone has answers.

- Given the current political context (Congress controlled by GOP for foreseeable future) how likely is it that Sanders can implement his key policies? How likely is it Sanders' supporters are sacrificing real, incremental progress in favour of idealism?

- Hillary is targeting the shadow banking sector, Sanders' doesn't seem to have anything on this topic, how important is this omission in terms of better regulation of the banking sector?