skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_unions_in_Germany

"Trade unions in Germany have a history reaching back to the German revolution in 1848, and still play an important role in the German economy and society."

Yes?

Welding properly is difficult and takes hundreds of hours of practice (at least). I encourage everyone here to take an intro to welding at your local community college to round out your skillset.
Change regulatory and tax policy to make it less expensive to hire.
He greatly overestimated the amount of fuel SpaceX needs to land a Falcon 9, and especially overestimated the amount of fuel needed for the SES-9 landing attempt. The implication that fuel even matters is pretty weird too; The fuel for a ~$60 million Falcon 9 launch costs about $200,000. He also says that SpaceX loses a quarter of a billion dollars per launch, which makes very little sense.

Really, the fuel thing sticks out at me. Maybe I'm making too big of a deal about it, but reuse is going to be very important, ULA is working on their own version of it (recovering just the engines, not the entire first stage), and he ought to know about it. Or if he doesn't, because details are for underlings, he ought to know what he doesn't know about it.
Yeah, but that's less fun than complaining! You're right, though.
Yes you can, but only by Subject (at least that's how it seems to me after some tests)
Ah the Nordic Self-Selection Paradox showing up in AP studies. Not shocking. Notice too that the writer is not horrified that men don't want to join AP Art History or AP Psychology.
I see electric cars as the first of a pair of technologies that will dramatically improve emissions. When combined with renewable energy like solar, wind, etc. you get the ideal situation.

Since both technologies have to be developed, what's wrong with one maturing first, even though not perfect.
>The plants would be built and operated by an outside company

What are you, a capitalist? That won't work in Venezuela's current political climate.
Corollary: this only works if that corporate mindset becomes recognised as an economic and political liability, and not as a relentless driver of increased productivity and GDP.
Chinese young lady got racist discrimination on Virgin Atlantic flight VS250
This advanced editing thing has completely evaded me. I'm a long time Windows dev and never got to terms with emacs due to non standard (i.e. non Windows) default keybindings etc.

The editors and IDEs I do use likely all have very advanced text editing ability but I just never reach for them! Not once have I felt "now I'd really like 3 cursors". What are the normal use cases? Maybe I'm leaning on auto-formatting and refactorings more that lets me do things you would otherwise do with e.g regexes, multiple cursors?
RentHop (YC S09) Is Hiring Statistical Data Analysts
Or like a way for unhappy employees to seek to improve their situation through rearranging deckhairs instead of jumping ship.
It was a dumb pun on the last letter of "emacs" being left off. :P
Going from Python to Guile Scheme
Faster than Lucene
I run a portable browser in an encryped drive, even then I turn the caching on it off to it at least doesn't leave as many traces.

I'm in IT so I know what we monitor.
Agreed. The H1B push seems to be solving a short term problem while leaving our domestic educational problems unaddressed.
> I check in every so often, and want to scroll back to the last post I saw, so I can know I saw everything.

I am on the same boat. I'm not sure how they don't see the contradiction in pushing mobile more and more at the same time ignoring the problem that their default newsfeed is stale. They still have the option to switch between 'Most Recent' and 'Top Stories', but it defaults to 'Top Stories' which wasn't the case a while back -- it used to default to whatever I last chose.

Now I don't check Facebook that often mainly because there is nothing new, and its always the same handful of people I am forced to engage with.
One of my personal failures was that I interviewed at danger years ago, but I was deathly ill with the flu, but I wanted to work there so bad I went with the interview regardless and did extremely poorly as I had a fever of 103 or so and I was hardly able to answer questions....

I wish I would have rescheduled that interview as I believe I would have got the job had I not looked like I was about to expire.
A lot of people have the "get it done so I can get out the door" mentality and cut corners which they obviously wouldn't/shouldn't do during their interview process.

Though them not doing it and spending the energy to "complain to management constantly" might be a problem too. I'm sure we're all familiar with terrible management practices, but some people are complainers and some people are pushovers and you don't want either (or at least you don't want to bias your team towards one or the other).

Being able to calmly explain a process problem and demonstrate why is a critical skill. If you're in a company where that's a waste of time, don't complain, just leave. If you can't fix or guide people, your code still won't get shit done.

I think a lot of people, ourselves included, think that we're in the business of writing code, but this is actually a mistake. We're doing business Operations, yes, with the capital-O. The only difference is that our tools to get the job done are "our software, our people and other people's software" instead of just "our people and other peoples' software".

Developer is the right title for us most of the time.
Open source makes it is easier for security experts to review the code and determine whether it meets its security claims. If it is closed source, then there is no guarantee that the code the experts review is the same code that is used by the service. And also it is at the company's discretion whether to allow a security audit or not, and then which auditors to allow or exclude.

But if the whole of the client software is open source, then it also eliminates the need to trust binaries provided by the vendor (which can be MITM) because you can build the software yourself or use a version audited by an entity that you do trust.
U.S. corporations have a much higher tax rate than the rest of the developed economies. The vast majority of corporations aren't sitting on mountains of cash like Apple. Additional tax expense is financed by a combination of higher prices, input cost cuts, and reduced profitability. You're not going to get much there.
I'm a fan of https://twitter.com/PLT_Hulk and https://twitter.com/jsjeopardy
The power cable contains a fiber optic cable within itself. This fiber cable was a major fiber route for Tasmania.
That's an economists view of markets, the reality is that the fluctuations of stock every day illustrates the irrationality and near randomness of markets in reality.
This article is bad. The "threshold of utility" that you have to cross is VERY low. If you previously could justify a startup that competed withe very minimal features of many of these facebook products, than that says more about the startups market than anything else.
> Geoffrey Brock’s rendering of Pavese’s collected poems, Disaffections

I haven't read such a translation but I am extremely impressed that something like this could be accomplished. Poetry relies on language-dependent idioms and subtleties that would seem to be untranslatable. I can imagine the translation being a somewhat new awesome work but I can't imagine it being the same work.
http://www.epi.umn.edu/cvdepi/study-synopsis/london-transpor...
Why AlphaGo Is Not AI
Proxima Nova, ca. 1981
You're a poet, sir.
all successful software is crufty. django os not perfect but it's a very solid option. the fact that it's taken websockets seriously means that building real time apps became easier.
Then reddit is doubly a competitor, because they're apparently stable with 0.05% of Facebook's revenue. Facebook might falter if their financials go south, reddit has no where to go but up.

If your customers don't buy your product because they can get it for free on reddit, it doesn't matter how much they pay reddit for it.
Original text in Chinese, translated summary:

"The young lady took a flight Virgin Atlantic VS250 from London to Shanghai on March 1st, 2016. The insult occurred when she just boarded on the plane and was looking for her earphone under her seat. A white male around 50s, stood up from his seat 64C, walked towards her, pointing at her and said “You fcking Chinese pig. Get the fck of here.” She was shocked first and then felt angry, and inquired:” what did u say to me?” The old man repeated his words. At this time, she tried to turn to the crew for help while the man kept abusing her with F words. During the time, there was a couple trying to stop him however was even threatened by him. Soon after, a male crew came over and talked with that old guy and then came to the young lady, asking her to stop arguing with the old man otherwise she would be expelled.

She explained to the crew that it is that old man who started insulting her and he should apologize but the crew did not give a shit. When the couple told the crew what happened, the crew came over to tell the lady that he would later try to move the old man to another section while he added that the old man seemed to have mental problems.

Almost after 30mins, there was no further action and that old man was still there. The young lady tried to ask any crew members when a Chinese female crew came over and told her better not to continue because she might be expelled according to that male crew’s words.

Thus, this young lady who got no help from the crew, was in fear for further possible insult or threat from that guy, suffering as much as 11 hours on the plane, as well as being angry that how this well-known international airline can behave like this. When she finally got off the plane, she asked many times about the male crew’s real name and he is called “Nathan Smith”, according to his colleagues."
> our industry and government focus on filling those classrooms with Americans and hiring Americans first

While there might be some consumer preference to a "we hire americans" and "made in america", I think that typically loses to things like price and quality, and if a business is seeking maximum profit, they're not going to limit themselves when it comes to hiring

I guess the tragedy as mentioned in this article is that universities are businesses and international students are more profitable
No, even out-of-bounds arithmetic is undefined. 6.5.6 Additive operators paragraph 8 (cribbed from Stack Overflow [1]):

When an expression that has integer type is added to or subtracted from a pointer, the result has the type of the pointer operand. [...] If both the pointer operand and the result point to elements of the same array object, or one past the last element of the array object, the evaluation shall not produce an overflow; otherwise, the behavior is undefined.

[1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18186987/decrementing-a-p...
> to get more women in CS

As a single male I admit it would be nice if there were more women in CS, but ultimately why does it really matter? Men and women are interested in different things and most women I know just aren't very interested in CS. Is there also a push to get more men into French language culture or studio art drawing? Even though most men would find it boring.
Someone just opened an issue:

https://github.com/eudoxia0/corvus/issues/7
The same thing will come to Hungary in 5 years. Mark my words.

Edit: who the hell actually downvotes without a response?
I'm okay if my household robot is stuck in my household, and basically consists of very long arms.
> Education is a business model

This is from a country that pioneered universal public education. This attitude disgusts me—the exact same arguments apply to health insurance companies. It's a social good with immense effect on our society, and yet we still attempt to drain money from our neighbors to justify its existence.

This is the type of attitude that allows an elite upper class and inspires Trump-esque populist angst. The economy should never be the country's primary concern but balanced with all the citizens' needs.
> Google didn't notice the importance of social networking before Facebook did.

Google Buzz? Wave? Orkut? Don't remember the exact timeline for all of those (maybe some were slightly after Facebook?) but I find it difficult to suggest they were late to the game. It was more like they didn't figure out how to play it well.
AI that raises our intelligence. AKA better video games.
We seem to be best adapted to squat and hunker, not sit in a chair or even stand straight.

No studies that I can find, but when I lived in Asia, older men who gathered to chat, play cards, etc., tended to squat. There were still lots of squat toilets around, too.

I'm thinking of building a platform so I can squat at my desk rather than sit on my tush. Alternatively, would like to power my computer by pedaling or cross-treading, but that's probably a bigger project than I have time for.

But squatting, that's underrated in Western culture. It feels great; more should do it, and not just while on the toilet.
Google "the socialists", is what I imagine I'd hear from the media.

That vision is nice and all, until you have to tell all the rich people and corporations that they must give away most of their income to sustain a "guaranteed income" future for everyone.

I'm not saying I disagree with it - in fact I agree - I'm just saying Google would have to be ready to fight for that and ask for higher taxes to pay for that income and other benefits for the whole population.
It's not what they can't do, it's what they WON'T do. They must decide your idea is bad and you must prove them wrong.
The Apple Fight Is About All of Us
I just use real URLs that resolve when you navigate back to them... https://www.zadieheimlich.com (terrible use case as clicking a heading takes you to the same thing you see currently on the homepage but you get the idea.)
Strange, I have the reverse! Carrying to many heavy loads when I was stupid/young means that standing is actually quite a lot more tiring for me. I can walk for miles without problems, but /standing/ for a few minutes is really painful on my lower back.

There is a case of wear an tear on the mechanical bit of the body. Sitting has it's issues, but standing put a lot of unnecessary strain on many sensitive joints. You /will/ pay for it later on...

Getting older sucks ;-)
Subcurrent: Polling and feedback on Slack
The Single Piece of JavaScript on HN
I just realized that I do this by habit so maybe that's why I never see the problem. I'd just as well see all clicks go to new tabs. It's just as easy to hit ctrl-W as it is to hit backspace.
Yeah, that's the thing about this problem, virtually infinite payoff if you succeed and virtually zero chance of success. The human mind isn't very good at dealing with that kind of cost-benefit ratio, it can drive people a little insane.
I have friends who not only login to all of the services at work, but use their employer-provided laptop as their ONLY computer. It kind of blows my mind. I'm not as strict about the separation as some, but I can't fathom using my work computer for all of my personal stuff outside of work.
I think that the reason people want this stuff is that they don't understand how much effort it takes to prove that underlying UB is not triggered in a branch and optimize out checks. Code size would explode, too; decimating the usefulness of embedded platforms, and eviscerating instruction caches. In that way, it would also be an ecological disaster.
If that's true, then what's their programming called?

Programming is their product, and customers buy it by paying attention (or to netflix, hulu, comcast, etc more directly). Attention is the currency, and ads let them exchange attention for USD.
If you are part of a conglomerate you also have to consider the possibility that another IT group is snarfing your traffic for employee monitoring and IDS purposes. I've actually seen an overeager IDS I didn't even know existed shut down network access for legitimate services.
Don't create new rules, just keep existing ones. The rules I found on worldchessboxing.com (every time I see the phrase "chess boxing" it makes me laugh) say that the chess clock must be pressed with the same hand that moves the piece, so apparently the computer is going to need hands (well, one hand). They also say that it's the player's responsibility to press their own clock between moves, so that rules out any outside help for moving pieces.

I note that the players are allowed to bring water to the chess table. I'm not sure if there's a rule against pouring it on your opponent. The computer might need to take this into account.
Yes, and when a person like that is calling the shots on strategy, the song is over. Companies lead from the PR department are on trajectory to crater.
You shouldn't be. Executing builds on Kubernetes is not the same as deploying an application :) We will solve that need with plugins :)

GitLab CI Lead
Really? I'll have to check my paper copy at home, but Wikipedia seems to agree, with a quote from the standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_character#C.2FC.2B.2B Maybe it was in C90 (ISO) but not C89 (ANSI)?

For trigraphs see the Rationale at http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/rat/b.html#2-2-1-1
The graph accompanying the article indicates that we need a global campaign to persuade more men to do "studio.art.drawing".

At the very least, we need an article in the Communications of the ACM on the Top 10 Myths About Teaching Studio.Art.Drawing.
Same as with Single Page Apps - websockets have their place but shouldn't be abused.

I can imagine a large Django app that uses mostly plain request/response but needs, say, a small customer service bot or occasional real time notifications. This new feature is perfect for that.
What does facial hair say about your sex life?
Is anyone recommending standing all day long as an alternative, though? There are a number of middle-ground options, and studying people who stand all day long doesn't really help with evaluating those.

It makes intuitive sense that mixing postures and moving is the optimal approach.
The docs are sadly very incomplete still. :-(

How do I go about sponsoring a technical writer to complete them?
Should be possible with FQL I think? Just query the stream table.
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MAC address and traffic patterns. Also corporate wifi often requires logging in with your company credentials.
I've had group projects where I couldn't communicate effectively with half of my team.
"I fly a lot, and I've always been in awe of airplane wings. Did you know a Boeing's wings can bend enough to nearly touch each other at the top before they snap? I fly over 100 times per year (for 6 years now)."

I thought this was amazing, so I looked it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rak2HldVp9M

It is indeed impressive, but by no means nearly touching each other.
EAP or meta data.
I've used both fastmail.com and pobox.com (who are now actually one company, although their systems remain separate).

They're both good.
World's Top Arms Exporters and Importers 2013 – 2015 Visualized
Some humble things I can imagine a robot doing:

- Mow my lawn

- Stain my deck

- Paint my walls

- Roof my house

- Spread moss killer on my roof

- Clean my gutters

- Spray Raid into hornet nests

- Hunt down and destroy dandelions

Maybe some of these I buy it, and others the painters/roofers buy it. But it seems like there is a lot of opportunity here as hardware prices fall.
I work with various languages and frameworks. Django is great for general web CRUD systems. It being opinionated and somewhat inflexible is a blessing and a curse. No framework is perfect.

Flask provides the basics to build Web apps. It's low on opinions and flexible. I mostly use flask for systems that are very specific about their functinality and use case.
As others have said, the answer to the question is simply training. But the better question which is hinted at in the article is "How should America rethink skills that disappeared?"

One of the things that "drove out" manufacturers in the Bay Area were a slew of environmental regulations which added cost to the process with no customer visible benefit. That pushed manufacturers to use the same process where they didn't have those costs. And surprisingly places that witnesses the environmental impact of these practices didn't preemptively implement those controls themselves. So we have identical environmental damage elsewhere which was regulated out in the US.

So a more interesting question for me is how do we rethink this stuff in a way that understands the external costs of the activity and works in a way that makes those costs containable?
There is an interesting documentary series based on that quote. Started in 1964 and every 7 years after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
> there is only one word. Corruption

The word I would use is Socialism. They are of course related.
The answer is simple.

Pay them money.

Why is it businesses never seem to see capitalism as the answer when it means they have to write checks instead of cash them?
Your main beef is that Alan was "either naive or not truthful" or that things changed over the course of 7 years?
> ULA is courting Aerojet Rocketdyne with little intention of actually going with them

This is likely because of a requirement that ULA put out a bid to multiple candidates. This sort of thing often happens because of well-meaning rules that aim to prevent croneyism in subcontracts or procurement. It's unsurprising, and -assuming that there's no other US supplier that is willing to build the engines for ULA- is not at all controversial.

However, such rules can be a pain in the ass when you honestly know that there's only one entity in the world who can do the entirety of the thing that you need to get done. If you're really unlucky, your procurement rules will be written so that some bozo can come along, promise everything on your requirements list at a lower price than the only guy who can actually do the job, win the contract, and string you along for aeons while they attempt to build the capabilities that they promised they could supply, and that the other guy already had ready to go.
So "bad news" is that they added a feature to a framework you don't use?
Really cool. I actually hand rolled my own solution using a Node CLI and the AWS API.

What features/problems does Runnable solve over https://elasticbox.com?

Also, who did your promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBR-_5dXH4w&feature=youtu.be)? They did an amazing job.
Agreed. Integer overflow, in particular, should be implementation-defined, and implementations should have a means to indicate whether they wrap around in two's- or ones'-complement, clamp, signal, or do something else.
Microsoft had the luxury of offering it for free because of revenue from Windows and Office.

I could agree that the browsers were at least comparable, until Netscape disappeared and MS had little incentive to improve IE.

Which led to feature stagnation until the Firefox rose from the ashes...
I'm not very familiar with Venezuela's history (I have a vague notion of events like the "Caracazo", but not too much). What was there before the rise of Chavismo, and was it successful and good for the country?
Requests is or has been the most downloaded egg from pypi. If you have used it, you'll know why: it makes dealing with http requests a pure pleasure. Dead easy to remember how to use it, and dead easy to read it. So discouraging this kind of library seems misguided.
Err, not really, the "boomers now in power" are the ones complaining about an excess of political correctness. See Donald Trump and his supporters, Fox News, UKIP or Tony Abbott in Australia.
I successfully avoided ever working in Excel when I worked in quant finance, and I also do not have a Facebook account. So... for me anyway, the title checks out.