skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like naming a company Death Star.

Or like making a mission patch that's an octopus with its arms around the earth, with the tagline "nothing is beyond our reach"?

It's all about audience, right? Palantir used to have t-shirts that said "save the shire" on the back -- dunno if they still make those.
But as a service it isn't controlled. What if someone took control of it, and then used it to game the system. Security is shot.

Not that I really think that matters at all, but that would be shot down in the first meeting it was discussed immediately, and you'd be considering insane if you kept pushing it.
OP here, you're welcone! I'm thrilled at how many awesome responses there are here.

You bring up some really important questions that I think get at the heart of the problems teams often have with code review. Even if it is valued in an abstract way, it isn't really treated like a first class coding task. It's not measured and planned in the same way that writing code is. It seems like a lot of comments here talk about ways to quantify code review and bring it onto more of an equal footing with writing.

On my team we all informally budget time for reviewing PRs, but we don't really plan and track it with any rigor. I don't think any of us have a very good idea how much time anyone else spends on code review, which can make picking a reviewer awkward.

I'm curious to hear other people's responses to your questions.
Microsoft Password Reset Black Hole
I'm attempting to reset a Microsoft password so I could access my developer account. I hadn't logged into Microsoft in a while and assumed it would be as easy as sending a recovery e-mail. NOPE!

I entered the recovery email address and didn't receive the e-mail (it was to a old college email address that was no longer active).

Called my former college and asked them to reactivate it, but because I failed the first attempt at their bizarre password recovery form (I believe I am locked out, and can no longer receive codes on my recovery email!?)

Now after 3 attempts entered "Subjects of Emails I've recently sent" (No explanation- is this for an @outlook address? Or my gmail?!)

Calling Microsoft support just redirects you to another recovery screen and disconnects you from the phone.

With questions like "Subjects of recently sent emails" and "Recently sent email recipients addresses" It makes me wonder what the hell they're thinking by not telling me from which e-mail address they're referring? Google? Do they have a way of asking Google if this is even accurate?
Ostensibly, these publications are written in addition to the services rendered for grants.

If an author received a grant specifically to write a book on a topic, then I'd say yes. This is rarely, if ever, the case.

With research, however, it is the norm not the exception that they are paid for or subsidized through some form of public funding.
Because people don't think rationally about hosing.

Everyone says "the solution to expensive housing is to build more housing. Supply vs demand".

That's not accurate, it never has been. But if you believe that (as most people do), then you must also believe that building a 15 floor tower will lower land value (since it is "more supply" so demand and prices must drop because of it). Belief in one, implies the other.

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In truth, a 15 floor tower would raise land value, for itself and properties around it. But that also means that "simply building more housing" won't actually make housing affordable. Because the new 15 floor tower and the single family home next door will both be worth more afterwards, making both less affordable.

Repeat that process a thousand times, and you have the US housing market. Lots of beautiful places getting built (and they should get built, because we need that new housing). But almost no one can afford to live in any of the new housing, and old housing never really gets cheaper, so "affordable housing" is this huge issue, despite new construction happening in every city nationwide.
I haven't had good experience with modern post-publication peer review so far.

My biggest complaint is that few know those comments exist. For example, I commented on one paper to highlight methodological problems that make it impossible to trust their results. (They developed a new algorithm for X. They compared it to the naive implementation. The naive implementation was poorly coded. Most of the speedup disappears by in comparison to a well-written implementation.)

I've talked to a few people about this exact paper. None noticed the link to the comment page.

I say "modern" because post-publication peer review isn't new. One of the older mechanisms was the letter to the editor. Those letters (at least in the ACS journal I'm thinking of) have a DOI and are searchable. A few of these letters have proved useful to my research.

But the modern post-publication peer reviews don't have a DOI and aren't indexed by Google Scholar or other systems, so they are less useful than a old Letter to the Editor.

(I once asked about sending a Letter to the Editor to an Open Access journal, concerning problems in one of their publications. They said they don't support those sorts of short communications, and my only option was the $1,500 to publish a full paper, which would have to go through the normal peer review process.)
I would like Debian to stop shipping XScreenSaver
Is it really that hard for a blind person to intuit geometry? I would have figured one does not require working eyes to understand space.
In Enterprise software? You'd be surprised...
That's very limited in scope. It applies basically to home-made preserves, baked goods and condiments. No meat, no food that is cooked to order.

We allow the same things here - you can sell a limited selection of items in a bake sale at a community centre or farmers' market.

But that's a far cry from a home-based restaurant, which goes well beyond the scope of laws like this.
Six of one. Chesterton's fence.
The law exists for a reason, and the law should be enforced or changed, not selectively ignored.
It seems vague but the last sentence describes the reality: discipline.

You can solve a lot of problems through better time management, more efficient processes and improved focus.
It sounds like these apps are targeting high-end experiences. What about fast-food? Could be less hassle
In your above calculation, you're assuming that an object needs to be resolved to be visible. To the contrary, telescopes are able to see un-resolved objects (objects whose angular size is below the angular resolution of the telescope) all the time -- they are called "stars". The relevant parameter here isn't angular size, but flux[0] (brightness).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_flux
okay so taking your logic forward, I dont get it why we need houses, forks and cars? We used to be just fine living in caves, using stones to chase and crash each other skulls for food, and we been fine riding horses too!
> "The damn program should just work."

> "Cytoplasm isn't exactly a eutactic environment. Certain operations just fail."

-- Deus Ex (2000)
How did you conflate free-speech and gambling? One is the right to express your own thoughts (which doesn't protect you from the repercussions of said expressions) and the other is an easily manipulated system to transfer wealth from those who may not understand to those that only care about more.

Governments were set-up to protect it's population from that type of manipulation...

That being said, the method they are going about it—getting ISPs to do the blocking—is just plain wrong. There are other areas of law and control that should be exerted here, not the weakening of net neutrality.
Ruby doesn't look like English. Hypercard:

put word 2 of the clickLine into lino

and COBOL-60:

MULTIPLY A BY B GIVING C ON SIZE ERROR STOP RUN.

looked like English.
> It is easy to pick up, understand and use. But it is also very error prone

These two sentences are badly in conflict. How can you say you “understand” something if you find yourself repeatedly making mistakes when you use it?
Yep, this. I don't care about crazy good performance, but do want something I feel handles reliably in snowy and icy conditions.

Call me an unskilled driver, but I don't feel as confident in bad conditions with rear wheel drive.
Unit prices are trade secrets. If they published that, then someone else getting a higher price could point to it, and say they only charged X for them.
I wonder if it might be worthwhile for sighted developers to set up a system that a blind person would use and then blindfold themselves, and start using the system...

Perhaps that would make it easier for us to develop software that works well for blind people?
When did housekeeping become some sort of unnecessary burden? This is what building a business is all about. This is the stuff that makes a company succeed or fail.

In this case, it's not something to outsource or forget about even when raising money since cashflow management just becomes more complicated and increases the risks of opaque numbers catching up and killing the company when the runway ends.

Growth/product are not nearly the major challenges in business, unlike what Silicon Valley likes to keep repeating.
This has been a UK government stance for a while but the problem is that while the UK gov spends something like 8BN pa on software licenses the amount of new development is fairly low (outside of say the GDS - central cabinet office group pushing all this)

So for example, my local council wants to purchase software to help track customer feedback from dozens of sources (web sites, phone ins etc). Sounds perfect for a web era, message queue based project.

But my council is only interested in meeting its fiduciary duty in buying software that already exists, and has been proven to do the job required. Speculative development is out - even though pretty much everyone of 430+ councils, parishes, towns etc of the U.K. Will want something similar in the next few years.

No one is willing to stump up the cash to start the open source alternative.

It's a tragedy of the not commons.

I think there ought to be solutions in some kind of development bonds or other financing arrangements - but it's not clear how.
Even in suburbia, we are happy with commerce at the mini-downtown at the center of the development, but not right at our bedrooms.
Off the rails: the misunderstood history of the wheel
I have it on good authority (the guy has a PhD and reads cuneiform, Syriac, Hebrew, ancient Chinese, etc.) that one of the early religions of Central Asia which spread to China along the Silk Road lauded farting as releasing the souls of vegetables or something similar, I think it was Manichaeism... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism ... but can't find a reference online. Pythagorus had a lot to say about farts too:

Pythagoras also said that no one was to ever eat a bean under any circumstance! His reasons for making such a drastic statement are based on the theory from a Roman peer of his named Diogenes Laertius. Around the first century, B.C. it was felt that beans are " the materials which contain the largest portion of that animated matter which our souls are made of." Let me explain. The Greek word for soul was "anemos" which also meant wind. The animated matter which Diogenes is referring to is the intestinal digestion that goes on inside us with the beans. Are you starting to catch on? In other words, they believed that the buried dead released their souls in the form of gases or winds, that got absorbed into the fava beans. When you ate these beans, (the intestinal process) these spiritual soul winds got released and then ascended into Heaven. - http://www.brownielocks.com/beans.html
Give it 24 hours until lists of names start to appear.
No, just like I don't believe any reasonable company could be allowed this contract for less money. Having to dealt enough with IBM on contract levels, I rather believe there has been bribes involved, but I can't prove anything.
Actually, the Debian maintainer that made the buggy patch is also a member of the OpenSSL dev team, so technically they are just as trustworthy :)
It's hard to characterize this movement that this article is critiquing, because it is diffuse. But I think it's fair to say that events in Syria and Iraq, and the anti-Russian stance taken by the liberal media, show that there is some consensus among liberals and conservatives in the US and UK around ideas that used to be called "neoconservative".

The basic idea is that liberals want to spread liberal ideas in Russia and other places, and realize that Europe is too tired of war to do this, so they conclude correctly that this requires more US power. Similarly, the neoconservatives would like to increase US power for its own sake, and the pro-Israeli elements would like to encourage the US to be more hawkish so that it relies on Israel as an ally more.

So the net effect is that both liberals and conservatives (of some kinds) would like to move away from a balance of power between the US, Russia and China, and move to a unipolar world where the US calls the shots.
I suppose it depends on how you think laws like these developed. There are people who will place value on living in a purely residential area in which businesses don't operate. In a classically liberal or libertarian society (since they agree here) this would be solved by such people grouping together and/or making contractual agreements with their neighbors compensating them in some way for giving up their right to operate a business at their residence.

Then people come to the conclusion that making these contracts individually or via HOAs is cumbersome, so citizens and their representatives voluntarily vote on laws which grant their local government the power to zone certain areas for certain purposes like residence and business.

This is good in a sense since there is less effort spent to maintain the contracts and disputes of the self-regulated system. But it's bad because individuals cant negotiate with their neighbors for different terms (like if they wanted to run a BnB), but in the past few people wanted to negotiate different terms, so there was more gained than harmed. But the times they are a 'changin and now a non-trivial number of people want an exception but the law is applied globally.

So now we're stuck since what should be a discussion and negotiation occurring on a neighborhood level is happening on a city/state level and the current proposed legislation is all-or-nothing. Since it seems that a majority prefers having residential districts it seems like the most reasonable solution would be having an "as long as your neighbors are okay with it" type law where would-be businesses owners can negotiate some compensation or additional restrictions to assuage their affected neighbors.

I will agree that an essentially default-deny system is probably less liberal than a default-allow system but I'm not sure how to balance with the preferences of the majority and the economic disconnect between individuals and businesses. In a default-allow system a business could essentially make money by harming their neighbors by being dirty, loud, and disruptive and demand that their neighbors pay for it to stop.
You're rather presuming that one would use windbg. That's an unwarranted assumption, given that the hypothetical developer here who is developing server apps using redis and nginx "with Windows, for Linux prod" is likely to think of gdb as the debugger.

Of course, whether gdb would work is something that we haven't yet been shown.
Either they have properly modeled the cost of building a car they claim to be able to sell for $35k, or they are another failed Kickstarter making empty promises.
My friend was/is engaged in tax evasion that HMRC have now declared as tax evasion and they'll be taking all that money for the last 5 years, thank you very much.

He/she said the same thing as you are saying now.

The difference between you and the billionaires is that they can afford to make an offer, a la google to the UK.

You are just going to be completely screwed when they come knocking on the door.
No, but it's not as interesting as it sounds.
I live in this world, and have been in the upper levels of all sorts of these discussions regularly.

I've never seen a direct bribe. If you want to call lavish dinners, drinking, and entertainment bribes, okay, that happens constantly. But a bribe?

No... You don't need bribes. It's quid pro quo all of the time, but bribes?! No...

Maybe you can get hired at a higher pay scale/job title from your work getting someone a deal. There are certainly perks.. but not bribes...
Front wheel drive is the norm for small cars because it is cheaper and more space efficient. Furthermore, the problems with front wheel drive a proportional to the ammount of torque the car produces. A lot of small economy cars are designed not to be very powerful, so front wheel drive is not much of a problem.

But small cars that are designed to be performance cars from the beginning tend to be real wheel drive cars. See for example, the mazda miata, the toyota mr-2, the prosche cayman/boxter, the alfa romea 4c, etc. If you look carefully at powerful small cars, you will notice that the ones designed from the ground up to be performance cars tend to be real wheel drive, the ones that are designed merely as an upgrade of a less powerful economy car are often front wheel drive.

The cost efficiency and space benefits of front wheel drive are mostly related to the particularities of internal combustion engines. For an electric, these are not that much of an issue.

And the steering problems of powerful front wheel drive cars are very real.
How Dell succeeded
Some of the regulation exists to protect the housing stock, so allowing just anyone to open an arbitrary number of unlicensed hotels can (and definitely does) drive up the cost of rent
There is a continuity to human social organisation and behaviours that transcends both time and ideology.
This could be avoided by not merging into your master branch, and having a feature branch, from which subsequent branches are made. Then the dev can open pull requests to merge to the tertiary branch into the secondary one without affecting master.
If we follow your reasoning you could say that about any profession.
Tesla is trying to bring a 70k great car down to 35k. Nissan is trying to bring a 35k meh car up to great.

Both have one of two boxes checked, why is Tesla obviously better a getting their second check?
Sometimes they do.... and they will stop going immediately if they don't follow the script.

You either understand and enable the other people to accomplish what they want to accomplish, or you're not being invited ever again.
The one that hit me like a thunderbolt was "Burmese Days". I
need to reread "Catalonia" though.
Oh, yeah, multiple computer synch is the other reason I use too, and auto-builds.
120 to get back home makes it a 240 mile trip.
It's not a sports car, it's a commuter vehicle. Understeer is safer, since it's less likely to get an inexperienced driver into trouble. Yeah, it's stupid if a little car like that engages traction control when accelerating, but if the wheel is at full lock, it might just be a product of the suspension design and the differential design, and it'll probably be fine for all the people that commute in it.
> it's always tempting to think that we can create a perfect language that would be the best in all situations but we can't

Why can't we design a language that would be the best in all situations? I see no reason necessarily to believe that's true, though I recognize that it has not yet been done.

It may be impossible to create a car that is also an excellent submarine and a great airplane, but software is not subject to the same kind of physical limitations. I see no reason in principle why a perfect language could not be malleable enough to accommodate all situations optimally. I realize that my writing here is not a convincing assertion that such a language can exist. I recognize that. I'm just saying that there doesn't seem to be strong evidence that it can't exist or that we should give up trying to design it.

A person who wishes to argue that the perfect language can't exist should perhaps give an example of two different problems that cannot be solved well by any single known language, and that can be solved much better by two programs in two different languages. I would like to dissect that example and see if we can indeed find such examples of sets of problems that cannot be solved well by one language. If we cannot find such problem sets, then that may suggest that we can indeed "unify" programming under one perfect language, by tweaking its syntax and semantics appropriately.
With Leak of 'Panama Papers,' a Glimpse of World's Fiscal Underbelly
From reading your post I feel like there's this thinking that's ingrained very deep in you, which is that no matter how corrupt or awful the system is, you think the solution is more government and more control... layers of control. Could you for a moment just forget about it all and think, really imagine, what a world would look without governments? But don't imagine chaotic endless tribal wars. Imagine it to be a good place. It's a good exercise: no matter your political views, just imagine a world where there are no governments and just private businesses. Make it work. Think about details. How would you make it work if you knew there is no way you can create a government?
> rapidly growing deficits and receding standard of living

Really? What is it based on? Compared to a period after the perestroika, level of life has greatly improved in Russia, the worst period of crime and absolute horrendous inability of police to prevent the growth of organized crime is not something most of the people of Russia want to experience again and that is why they want to go with stability which they think Putin gives them.

> in a country without free press or free elections

Throwing around big captions like this does not help a single bit, these words mean absolutely nothing to me, what do you mean by "free press" isn't most of the popular media in UK or US owned and heavily censored by corporate leaders or government parties? What makes this media "free" and media in Russia "not free".
I'd like to see your calculations... There's no solid numbers about the total amount of easily accessible lithium reserves, but the lower bound would be 13 million tonnes. It's about 0.8kg Li2CO3/kWh, so that's enough to replace all US light trucks and cars with a 60kWh battery. So as it becomes more important, I have a feeling that we're going to find 4-10x as much lithium, or make other lithium extraction procedures more affordable, just like oil extraction has changed so much in the past decade.

And since lithium batteries are recyclable, we pretty much just need to extract it once.

But extra battery technologies will be good. Batteries will be a commodity, lithium ion batteries will be used both in grid storage, home storage, and car storage. Batteries are the oil of the 21st century.
Nice mounds.

What is the word you keep saying in the video that sounds like "hoboculture"? I spent about 90 seconds failing to look it up.
They could blacklist payment to those sites with the help of credit card companies.

Having a government controlled internet firewall is a Pandora's box that should never be opened.
Grants typically include publishing costs, it's very rare the scientist will pay out of pocket. And because grant agencies encourage high impact publications it's not small amounts. Ironically, grants that require open access while encouraging high-impact publication end up paying more, as high-impact journals charge more for open access.

I agree that money is not the major issue, but the entrapment of useful information in closed systems and its decentralization. We have machine learning systems that could consume the vast amounts of data and come up with potentially life-saving results, but we don't have access to the data, because for 50+ years its been more and more locked in.