skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And just because mergers often destroy value for investors it doesn't mean they don't destroy value for consuemrs and society. They often do both. They allow subverting of the markets and cost customers and society AND management messes up that excess profit oportunity so badly investors loss too.
So, what do you do if you get a job with Java or iOS and 30++ char method names?

(Not being snarky, I would like to do some iOS development for fun but want lines under 78 chars, so it don't go over 80 with diff.)
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The variable name you choose when writing a function may not make any sense when reading it a month later, or to a third party. These rules are as useful as feng shui -- if you have a good design sense, you can produce good results with FS.

The readability wins I've seen come from using common tools; I'm going to be much more productive on a codebase written in a library ecosystem I understand. More generally, a powerful standard library with consistent calling conventions can help a language be useful. It's not productive for me to spend 10 minutes reading a function only to realize 'oh, this human wrote their own string split'.

Tests help too because they make clearer the dependent typing of a function's call signature; stuff like 'don't pass both of these variables' or 'a must always be > b' are never clear (and I've never used a design by contract langauge). Tests are sometimes better than documentation because you can sometimes get alerted if they're wrong.

Most important rule for readable code: hire programmers who know how to read. Reading a large project is a skill and lses people can read than write code. Every project is going to have a quirk of its evolution that's hard to understand without a close reading. (Every large C project contains a buggy partial implementation of LISP). Hire programmers who can survive that.
> But Sunni and Shia get along without killing each other in other
> parts of the world-- what's different about the middle east?

I happily admit my ignorence on this issue, but after some quick
searching I couldn't find any demographic maps of Sunni/Shia
populations that didn't exactly overlap with the current
conflict-areas between Sunni/Shia in the Middle-East:

http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00maplinks/over...
http://thegulfblog.com/tag/sunni-shia-middle-east-map/

I.e. where else in the world is there a mixed Sunni/Shia population?
Nowhere? Isn't that what's different about the Middle-East in this
regard?
Just a minor correction:

The Turkish state seems to have only a problem with the militant Kurds in Turkey and Syria but not the ones in Iraq as it seems that they get along very well and the Kurds in Iraq even allow Turkish forces to launch airstrikes in the region of Iraqi Kurdistan and for their troops to hunt down PKK members over there with the help of Peshmerga, the de facto Kurdish armed forces in Northern Iraq.

So, saying that the Turks are at complete odds with Kurdish militias all over the region is not entirely correct.
> The created a whole new language that happens to be mostly based on Java

That's the "extend" part of "embrace, extend, extinguish."
In my opinion, that's a third type of merger: When two ailing companies merge to try to save each other. Best avoided as well.
And if experts would stop reviewing articles for free...
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I'd argue Manhattan Project and Apollo are tied. They both could be measured in % of GDP, at .4% each.
The Amateur Radio license test in the US is a random selection from a large published set of multiple choice questions. Studying for the test can consist of learning the answers to all of the questions. It's very educational.

http://www.arrl.org/question-pools

I don't know if something like that would work for the SAT, but if the question pool were large enough, it would.
Yeh I don't like abbreviations in code so would have unsafeName = Request("name") etc etc which does not have that problem... unless 'unsafe' is a thing in your business domain then things could get complex :)

The article goes on to advocate prefixing the methods that return safe and unsafe strings with 's' or 'us' I would hate that! I can easily see you ending up with string methods like safePadLeft and unsafePadLeft that do exactly the same thing but are named for where in the code they are used...

Coding is hard, and as other comments have stated all these blog posts and books need to be condensed into 'balance' and that balance point is different for each coder, project and team.
This doesn't sound like a great idea for the U.S. system. Students would have to pay tens of thousands of dollars and spend many precious months for an experience with a 90% failure rate. I have a hard time thinking that anyone with other options would accept that proposal. On top of that, even if you're in the select 10%, you're attending classes where almost all the other students are failing. I can't imagine that class discussions are going to be helpful for you.

If this school was free or very cheap, maybe it's an option for some, but with the way things work in the U.S., this seems more like a scam than a college.
Interesting idea. Right now it seems focused on the pitch. You might want to consider questions and answers post-investment. That's when you separate the great from the mediocre.
I've found that diagrams help. Young developers (in my experience) tend to laugh at the thought of making UML diagrams. At the very least, a class diagram will tell what classes references what. Using some custom stereotypes can help give further meaning.

Ideally, sequence diagrams (or a similar type) can help shed light on just how the project comes together. Explaining how a project works from a high level can leave unintended knowledge gaps. The great thing about these diagrams is that they can largely be automated with very few inaccuracies.

Diagrams are definitely now a silver bullet. I have found that they can easy grow unwieldy when attempting to incorporate too much information into a single diagram. Much like separation of concerns or the single responsibility principle, I believe that diagrams work best when they're focusing on a single piece of major functionality.
What's your primary tech stack?
And some comments included alternatives to npm.
>I find it so frustrating when people conflate "people" with "persons"

They are virtually synonymous. People is a plural form of person. Most people don't speak legalese.
I'd like to know too, did you call? And if you didn't, don't give up, you can still call. It's so easy to take a minor setback and think "yeah, that's me, and why bother anyway?" But that's your illness talking.

It is worth it to try. And it's not that hard. Just call.

You are not at all worthless, you're just ill. Unfortunately the nature of your illness damages your ability to see that. It's one of the most vicious of cycles.

Look at all the people in this thread who are encouraging you to get help, many of us suffering from the same illness you have. You're getting a lot of different advice, but all of it is resting on the idea to take steps, because it's worth it. Because you're worth it.
Haven't the CIA (and DEA to some extent) always been operating in J. Edgar Hoover style crooked, hypocritical, mobster mode, under the belief that laws are for everyone else but them? They seem to follow long-term agendas with zero consideration for material, human, and societal losses.
But is that Chinese prep? Cram school is quite different from what we call prep in the west.
'Don't take it personally' is terrible work advice
"If you’re an iOS user, it’ll cost more, with the company charging $12.99 for signups to account for Apple’s mandatory 30 percent cut."

I'd be a little surprised if Apple will allow them to do this. It's kind of like credit card companies requiring stores to charge the same price regardless of if you use the credit card (which has fees) instead of cash (which doesn't). Charging different prices is a negative signal for Apple's ecosystem ("Why can I get this cheaper if I have an Android phone? Maybe I want an Android phone instead next time....")

While I might argue that the negative signal shoooould exist, I'm surprised Apple doesn't have it in its terms that you can't do that if you want your app on the Apple App Store.

Also, could we please amend the title? It's not a flat $12.99 a month for everyone, and it doesn't even match the headline on the actual article.
It is in no companies fiscal interest to pay their employees more. They want you to work for as little as you agree to while producing as much return for the company as possible.

The real solution is to just do a UBI. If this is not an obvious call sign of how the efficiencies of recent decades are obsoleting human labor in general I don't know what is. Redistribute that money so consumers have spending power again.
$12 a month seems a little steep. Especially when compared to Apple Music and Spotify.
That's meant to be a knowledge test. The SAT isn't.
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The absence of these items from the Constitution does not imply their opinions on the matter. The Constitution sets out a system of government, not a definition of how the economy should be run.

As to what you assert their opinions would be, you'd have to look at their own writings and find something to the effect; noting what many of the constructs you described wern't even being considered during that time. But that evidence won't be in the Constitution.

The Constitution lays out who's responsible for what, and who can make what decisions. It is not a bible stating the mores of the nation.
Well, there is the old story of how AI is always about to happen because everything that is successfully developed by AI researchers becomes mainstream.
Interesting info, thanks.

Cool about FORTH being used. Guessed it would be so about FORTRAN and COBOL.

Awk is great. Used to use it a fair amount for IT data conversion, munging, cleaning, etc., along with other Unix tools like sed.
...or the production quality might degrade to the point of bursting into flames, like those $XXX self-powered scooter boards, which dampens the appeal.
25% is the maximum "aliens" can own or vote in an airline flying domestically in the US, so while it might be a small stake, it's also the largest possible stake.
it's $9.99 not $12.

125m tracks vs 30m (of Spotify) + offline listening (same with Spotify) + no ads makes it a killer proposition!
Honestly given that sci hub exist and is so simple to use, why not just have the universitites promote the shit out of it?
Happens to the best of us! Also, it's very difficult to keep entropy at bay in something that requires so much abstract thought and effort as programming, especially with how broad software's reach has gotten.
Groovy has to be one of the most cringe-worthy names in the history of programming languages.
> They did choose to fight this legally adjudicated and issued order.

IIRC, but wasn't the order issued with only one side present at court (i.e. without Apple's attorneys being present to raise issues before it was issued)?
Even the first example is a bit silly. Nobody is going to not understand that (null == foo) is the same as (foo == null).
yeah, again a case of how dangerous for open source it is to rely on a company, not acting for the good of the community, but for its own good. To rely on a foundation is a much more reliable solution, like Python and the Python foundation.
I've been looking at fares from DC to Rome and DC to Edinburgh. In both cases, there were MANY options... United, Aer Lingus, Turkish Airlines, Lufthansa, WOW, Iceland Air, Delta/KLM.

I also had to book return tickets from DC to Denver. Fewer choices domestically, but still Southwest, United, and Frontier.
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I skipped Bootstrap in favor of Foundation in their earlier days, but like you I've settled in to using Bourbon mixins when I want to get my hands dirty, and Bootstrap when I just want to get up and running (and possibly hand off the project).
why doesn't any music service come up with a less expensive price plan? I would like to try one, but am pretty sure I would not use it so much as to justify paying 10$ (or £) per month. How about a less expensive plan with limited features (e.g. only n hours of music per month)?
Usability testing IS recruitment.
I agree with Andy here. I am finding more and more instances of bootstrap in the wild where I need to double check the source code to figure out whether or not it is Bootstrap. Most instances are obviously bootstrap but mostly because the developer doesn't have a designer involved and doesn't need one which is the beauty of it.
Before i tell you my opinion, I want you to know that I spend most of my day learning (still student) and when I'm not in university, I am learning from MOOCS, and to take this a bit further, I have done more than 100 MOOCs on all the three platforms Coursera Edx Udacity, each of these has its own PROs and CONs, learning in itself is awesome, it has made me in more knowledgeable more than most my peers, but one thing to note, is that while the content might be amazing, the certificates or whatever you get from it are mostly not recognized and doesn't really have value in the industry, what I can suggest you to do, is to use your knowledge from these courses to build cool projects that can show future employers how skilled you are and your mastery to that specific domain, That's my experience, I wish you good luck learning.
this is not directly related to the OP article though, which was about profit rather than cash reserves
Joel advocates for correct Hungarian Notation, unfortunately people took it to put the language type of the variable (the compiler will check for that, obviously), but Hungarian Notation actually means you set a subtype to the variable so it helps with reading the code

You're not supposed to write

iLength = iCount * iSize

but rather (something like)

meterLength = unitCount * meterSize
That takes care of the language but none of the API's. I suppose that would be the second step.

It sounds like this all would take a lot of time to complete. What would be the point for Google to do all this work?
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I think both should be at the focus as they are often two pieces of the same part.
After working in the banking industry writing regulatory software, I realize that these regulations, while sometimes needed, can often be a way to keep other rivals out. There is no way a smaller bank can handle some of these without teams of hundreds.
I argued in a similar thread that universities should use tests just as a minimum filter. Sample equally from the top n% of scores. If you just take the very top, you just get people who have trained for that specific test, not necessarily smarter students. Or even self motivated students if their parents put them up to it.

But it really does suck that testing is so unreliable. Like for those merit based certification ideas, where they want people to pass a standardized test to get certified for a job. Instead of going to an expensive prestigious university to prove the same thing.
>They were JIT-ed for a while. That's what the "optimizing apps" modal dialog after updates is about

I think you meant AOT-ed. The language really doesn't matter though, as long as it can be converted to Dalvik bytecode.
"A sales-(end of comment)"

Looks like your product (comment) was not yet ready. Where's your salesperson? :)
Glad seeing there is somebody interested.
I havent not actually choose which graphics library to use for backend.
Feel free to email me

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>political science

And political science isn't concerned with the behaviour of people or groups?

>benefit greatly from a more unified theory.

Economists are generally concerned with things that can be measured. As others have pointed out, psychological findings are often irreproducible. So what's the point in incorporating them into models?

And this all ignores the fact that behavioural economics is a popular and growing field...
How much Spotify cost in the states? As a Swede it costs 99kr which is more than $9. I use Groove and that costs $9 which translates to about 79kr or something like that.

It's 20% cheaper for a little less content and a not as good client. The lesser price alone makes the service worth it.
I've seen very few constructive comments about this entire tempest-in-teapot. Nothing horrible happened. A few devs who relied on fragile build techniques were momentarily inconvenienced. That's all that happened, and that seems like a "zeroth-world problem" to me. The less time npm-Inc. people spend on this, the more they can spend on literally anything else.

We who do not pay them money regularly are not their customers. I count myself fortunate that they do so much for me anyway.
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I think it might have been better if the "largest" claim had not wound up part of the title, because it's led to a great deal of distracted quibbling. NASA claims that the Webb is its largest-ever science project, and others have judged it to be the largest in US history. If it's important, we can note that the Manhattan project was military, not science, although of course plenty of science was done there. Apollo might not be counted as a single project, or perhaps put in a different category (exploration rather than science?).
125m tracks made mostly by guys dinking around with Ableton in their bedroom vs 30m tracks from artists you might actually have heard of. Whatever the proposition in pure numbers is doesn't matter when your experience will suck.
I think that isn't fair assessment of what happened in Balkans. The nations in Balkans aren't that delineated by blood as they are by religion, which implies the divide is more or less artificial. Some national tensions will always exist, but they were stocked by Miloshevic and co.

Imagine if Trump realizes that he can't rule all of America, but he could totally rule Southern States. So he devises a plan to divide the states and cause a rebellion. Eventually he manages to persuade some Nothern States officials that they are better off without Southern States and that they implicitly or explicitly agree to divide the USA between them. That's a more accurate version of what Miloshevic did.
What is a stereotype?
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regulations are also important to ensuring competition
This is my thinking as well. Everyone worries about robots taking their jobs in the future, but we've had "robots" since office automation began in the 70s and 80s. Its a bit more obvious in the blue collar sector where a literal robot can take your welding job or whatever, but in the white collar sector, its still the same. There's so much more efficiency that people aren't in high demand anymore. It used to be even a "small" company was a few dozen people. Everyone needed an assistant, you had a whole team of people to do graphic work, a whole team of people to make copies, etc. That's a pretty far cry from a handful of people, a handful of computers, and a decent laser copier.

There's no fix here. The genie is out of the bottle from an economic perspective. We just have this long slog ahead of us of working with this new reality. I imagine things like guaranteed minimum income will be the fix here as these jobs are never coming back, nor will new jobs come and replace them as things become more and more efficient.
price is the same with Spotify. But SoundCloud has 125m tracks vs 30m from Spotify
> Having been through extreme depression multiple times,

Have you been diagnosed with depression by a mental health professional?
I expect you'd be easily traced by this account number and then face charges of producing counterfeit official documents.
"I’ve built for hundreds of platforms and any changes to those platforms by default suck. At IFTTT, we've been on the receiving end of platform changes too many times to count."

Isn't that the entire premise of your service, providing this glue? Yeah, it's painful work. That's why people like your service! Sure, it would be great for you if the other services would do some of the work. But I'm guessing that you would not go along with Twitter requesting all intellectual property rights to your integration code for the right to use their API. Why would you request it of the services that integrate with you?

But the biggest problem here is that you changed the game. You created and maintained the Pinboard integration. You should own up to not wanting to maintain it. The message you sent to Pinboard users about your decision was... "misleading" is the nicest way to put it.
I honestly haven't taken it out of the box since I moved a year ago. I'd have to look for it.

Though that doesn't address the point of my post. I'd be more inclined to use it if software through other stores (Windows Store, Steam) had Leap support built-in. Having a third-party store just for your hardware is off-putting.
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Kotlin relies on the Java APIs and libs, so wouldn't really help.
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Another step: Affordable housing for everyone. How many people can't risk not having a place to live if they loose their income?

Another step: Affordable food for everyone. How many people can't risk not having food to nourish their bodies?

People won't start ventures if people aren't safe from coerced payment to producers of these commodities in order to survive.

How long will we as a society keep playing whack-a-mole trying to stop the symptoms while the disease is looking us right in the face? The problem with healthcare isn't necessarily that it's expensive, it's that it's a privately owned industry, and therefore free to gouge out prices. Internationally, health care is nowhere near as expensive as it is in the US.

The same thing happens with housing. Gentrification is a real problem that prices people out of their own homes. There are more unoccupied houses than there are homeless people. Housing/development corporations are also privately owned and price people out of living affordably.
That sounds doable, actually. Have the NSF only base their grants on publications in open access journals.
Oh, it installs its own Python version? That's great, I needed 3.2 the other day but only had 3.4. I'll give conda a try, thanks!
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Dart is a very viable alternative to Java already for Android. See https://flutter.io/

P.S. Dart actually has a Java-to-Dart converter hidden somewhere. I can't find the link, but the static analyzer was ported from Java to Dart using it. Perhaps they could expand that effort?
Isn't the problem that VCs insist on companies locating near Sand Hill Road?
Than what exactly is it testing?
Each of those should be a separate module uploaded to NPM. That was the versions can vary independently (for max compatibility).

This technique is named 'carbo-loading' (because of all the spaghetti).
Biggest thing for me: have a small number of fundamental, composable abstractions. Be able to reason about how their properties interact when you combine them.

This is the main reason that Haskell is such a force multiplier for me. All the small minutia is well defined and it frees you to think about the big picture. Sure, it's a big learning curve, but so worth it :-)
Wow sick!!
Spotify have the exact same pricing model/discrepancy http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/08/spotify-is-actively...
Agreed. I understand the desire to make the variable of interest more prominent, by putting it first, but that particular bug is well worth defending against.
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