skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a stawman, nobody's using these apps to make some guy with an app money. Users are on them because it's convenient and fun to have your neighbor cook an extra few portions of what they're having without necessarily doing the dinner party thing or owing them a meal back. Also, like we're seeing with airbnb, the sharing economy doesn't undo regulations, they just demand new types of regulation. I totally agree that there's a food safety concern with these services, I just don't think we should dismiss them entirely because they don't fit well with our current style of regulating restaurants. For example, a single unsterile kitchen in the food-sharing economy presents an order of magnitude less risk than a high throughput restaurant because they serve an order of magnitude less food. It's a slightly different potato, but if we can manage to peel it there are enormous gains to be had in terms of health and community -- just imagine if a healthy home-cooked dinner was as cheap and convenient as picking up a family meal from KFC or take-out chinese food.
Boston is much less dense than Manhattan and much more pleasant to walk in. Some of it is that there are fewer skyscrapers to block the sun. Some of it is the colors -- more red brick and green trees.
Is there a trend curve appearing? It is obvious that the 3 had massive pent up demand -- it was advertised for over year already! And with roughly first come first served, anyone who thinks they might want one between now and 2018 is going to get in line immediately at preorder launch.
Not who you're responding to, but go's ethos and tooling all seem oriented towards There's One Way To Do It, no cleverness, nothing like C++ where one shop's parts of the language used differs greatly from another's. That makes programmers much easier to swap in and out in a large project. I have no idea how productive go is and can't speak to it, but everything I have heard about go makes it sound like making programmers fungible is a design goal.
It's worth going to "Why Orwell Matters" for much emphasis on this insight. It was written by a (then ex-)Trot, Christopher Hitchens.

It'll sound like Rand, which is isn't really meant to, but the issue is and will always be individualism v. collectivism.
I also worked at a place where we did OTS reviews. In my experience it was really good and it was easier getting deeper/more thorough feedback, since you're basically forced to tell what your code is doing etc.

I'm really curious about how you feel people review more thoroughly when doing an async CR? Do you think there was an issue with people not feeling comfortable criticizing in person, or feeling like they'll just say "go on" even when they don't understand a code block, just b/c they didn't want to feel unproductive having the other person wait or something like that?
On the other hand, why did DARPA subsidize a for-profit industry?
This is the same tech Prof. Katabi demoed to President Obama. She demonstrated using the tech to detect pulse rate if I recall correctly.

Here's a link: http://news.mit.edu/2015/president-obama-meets-mit-entrepren...
I think we can all agree the goal is a good one. Many would disagree this an effective way of solving those problems.

As you say, this doesn't even counter the problem. The "minority" is just skimming the "take" not building a business or anything else useful.
President Obama invites MIT entrepreneurs to give demo at the White House
Those are three different ways of coloring something (and very rarely are exactly the same in my experience). Using variables to make those three the same color is an abuse of DRY in my opinion.
I think your comment is exactly what we need more of in this thread, because it represents the most common kind of experience. All of the data I've seen indicate that overstriding is the most common problem new runners face. This aligns well with my own experience talking to others about running. It comes up so often that I'd say it's the #1 thing separating those who stuck with it from those who didn't.

When people first start to pick up speed, they naturally tend to increase stride before they increase tempo. I think it comes from their experience with walking. Whatever the reason, it turns out to be a dangerous tendency that even runners far more experienced than me have to fight sometimes (and some lose). As more people hear that, fewer will become injured or discouraged. Hearing it from people who they can identify with, who haven't been elite athletes since junior high, is most helpful.
Reborns
There have been many previous times in history when naked obvious extreme inequality and disparity of power combined with drought/war/disease/poverty to ignite a tinderbox of revolution and civil war that led to armies of the poor taking the assets of the super rich by force.

Just sayin' .. perhaps the super rich would do well to look after their own long term interests better by at least _pretending_ to contribute to the societies they dwell in?
Yeah. "Ein Volk, Ein Riech, Ein Fuhrer." It's certainly collectivist no matter which color socialist it may or may not be. If anything, it's a socialism of blood, both in heritage and in the sense of sacrifice of blood (of the individual) for blood ( in the sense of Ein Volk) .
Editor in chief of sueddeutsche.de: "Just wait for what is coming next"

Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/ploechinger/status/71676359582094...
They're both the presentation. Showing emphasis and structuring content is as much part of the presentation as CSS, maybe even more so if you care about backwards compatibility and graceful degradation.

This is just incredibly pedantic. For all practical purposes HTML + CSS is the presentation. Toss JavaScript into that if you want. Front-end work is the presentation.
I lived through the nightmare of cruise control. Kudos to Thoughtworks for writing it as it was the first CI tool, and then actual thanks to JetBrains for writing Team City so we could actually make sense of our builds!
Expensive dinners and entertainment can definitely count as bribes. In certain sectors of government, decision makers are required to disclose things like when vendors take them out to dinner or pay for fancy seats at ball games.
Here's a Github repo apparently: https://github.com/CIDARLAB/cello
That's one of the most complicated situations that's ever been. I doubt anyone can at least admit they're just doing it to get bloody.
This reminds me of the last episode of Mr.Robot
I imagine that if we tried to make programming by voice more practical, that would help solve part of the problem. A few developers have made it work but it requires a lot of setup.

http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html

More resources here:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes/blob/master/progra...
Did you lease the Leaf or purchase outright?
Not by 2050. Maybe 2500.
Of someone discovered a clean synthetic CHEAP hydrocarbon fuel, they could burn it and put it on the grid to feed electric cars.
I use a simple .txt file always open in Sublime!
1 file Chat App in ruby/sinatra, threaded/evented hybrid with puma/celluloid-io
Any links to the 1MDB scandal?
I know I said fuel, but it's not really a fuel. The synthetic hydrocarbon would be energy storage. The energy source would be something else - nuclear or solar thermal probably.
Ultimately that is an issue for car insurance and an extended Warranty form Tesla.
I pretty much figured that out from banksy: https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/716740923615350784
I'm genuinely curious how you would think of three dimensional objects without ever being able to see them...

I guess you would have to describe them. As a suggestion - and not an attack in any way because I'm not sure how I'd do it! - without reference to anything you can see with your eyes, how would you describe space?
Yo app got a $1,000,000 from Andreessen Horowitz, so they kind of got a deal if you think about it that way
That's a problem with everything.

If an obviously junior developer is given an obviously 'fun, interesting' task, they should pair with a developer or have frequent reviews so any problems are caught before pull request stage. You need to catch these sorts of things before you get so late in the stage.

Additionally, you need a structure and culture that is able to hold back pull requests if the code is bad - that's the whole point of code review!
The term "Planet X" predates Pluto's demotion to dwarf planet.
You see. Right there:
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The article publishing charge at Lingua for open access articles is $1,800 USD. The editors had requested a price of 400 euros, an APC that is not sustainable.

..
Morons are as good as claiming Wikipedia is not sustainable because they don't charge editors 1800$ to edit an article...
I did a quick search and it seems there is some general information out there about ocean farming/aquaculture.

There is a Wikipedia article on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture

As well as an office of Aquaculture in the US NOAA (National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration):

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/index.htm

Maybe these resources could help you find information & resources to learn more about ocean farming/aquaculture.
When the first three leaders named are the top 3 enemies/adversaries of the US/Britain - Putin, Xi and Assad - my own little conspiracy canary started chirping.

And the Icelandic PM? The one who really annoyed Britain by defaulting on their debts?

Makes me wonder who orchestrated the leak.
"You can still go to a university and access papers for free"

Yes. I don't understand why you mentioned that. I even pointed out that I could do that.

"In fact, you can log on to their wifi anonymously"

No, I cannot. The local college and the 1-hour-away university do not have anonymous wifi. I have signed up for a library card for non-anonymous access to the local college. It does not carry postgraduate journals in chemistry. The university does, but I am only allowed to read them from dedicated terminals. I am not allowed to copy the articles and I do not have wifi access.

(Why do you think you know more about my local academic library policies than I do?)

BTW, I can make InterLibrary Loan requests if I really want a copy. I believe it's about US$10/copy.

"... would matter for current ethical questions"

I was attempting to demonstrate how your scenario was not a good metaphor for describing the situation with scientific publications, so could not be used to clarify the ethical issues. You can stretch the metaphor to try to compensate, as you did, but there are several other factor which are also not captured:

1) people get jobs and tenure based in part on the significance of their work. Part of that is often based on where one publishes, eg, "Cell", which is an Elsevier journal, is considered to be a prestigious place to publish. Thus, short-term personal goals of advertising one's work may be at odds with long-term community goals of easy access to scientific data. 2) peer review is almost entirely done on a volunteer basis.

Thus, to be useful, we would also have to posit that people's jobs depend in part on running their code on the Amazon cloud and no other cloud provider, and that most people are expected to volunteer their time to support AWS. Perhaps this is something that Bezos dreams about, but it is not the current reality.

This, your AWS metaphor concerns only a part of one facet of the issue. Ethics is very clear cut when there is tunnel vision.
What do you mean, similar price? Tesla's car batteries aren't special, their motors and software are.
There is a very consistent pattern of events with sensitive subjects in the West when dealing with powerful interests.

Step #1 - Report on the people who can't sue you effectively.

Step #2 - Verify.

Step #3 - Report on what you can verify in regards to people who can sue you.

I'd give them a month before crying bias.

Gawker exploited this loop to a degree by skipping #2 and we've seen how well that turned out for them. However, it was largely their own hubris that created the problem that might sink them (Hulk Hogan). Most of the rest of the lawsuits they were able to bat away.

As much as I'd prefer some actual firebrand journalism which is willing to report with less verification (in regards to the people in power, not the general population), I can understand caution.

https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-...

HSBC, Credit Suisse, etc. are named so its not like they are completely ignoring the West.

It also mentions David Cameron's father:

> Ian Cameron, a stockbroker and multimillionaire, was a Mossack Fonseca client who used the law firm to shield his investment fund, Blairmore Holdings, Inc., from U.K. taxes.
As a counterpoint it's routine in topological mathematics to work with 8 or 12 or 11 dimensional objects.
Here's mine

grunt eslint
npm test

I'm using eslint. Example: http://github.com/greggman/twgl.js/
Well, that's a sponsor which probably can't be pushed to drop support. Not ideal, but when people are sealioning their other sponsors...
But what about making it work with existing tools? My u der standing is that when developing software there are a variety of things you must implement so that these tools work well.

I'm interested because LibreOffice has an accessibility layer which I've never explored but that is cross platform.
> so that's enough to replace all US light trucks and cars with a 60kWh battery

I did say it's enough for the US - but the entire world is 10 times that number - not enough.

Plus using it for household storage (powerwall) would be far too much.

Extracting other deposits could come with steep costs both economic or environmental.

It's a good stopgap and worth doing! But lithium batteries should not be viewed as a longterm answer, that's all.
Perhaps controversially, I'd say this is one of the biggest problems facing the world today (ie. inaccessible research papers).

Where is the real money and influence that we need in order to change this?
What code review tool do people actually use for a PR-based workflow? My company has been recently looking for better code review tools than Bitbucket's.

A few key features I'm looking for:

- Incremental review: show what files has changed since last review (ideally what lines)

- Timeline view: See what have happened since you last reviewed it

- Custom "PR Approved" rules + indicator: e.g. 3 approvals + build passed. This gives us an easy way to see whether a change is ready to be merged and released.

A lot of these features can be found in (what seems to me to be) trunk-based, pre-commit style tools like Phabricator and Gerrit. However I'm not sure whether the extra tooling (i.e. ramp up cost and complexity) is worth the return. Does anyone have any experience as to how switching over yielded good gains?
It's about long-lived branch-based development which defers feedback. That's what's dangerous. I don't think OP is claiming that all branches are evil.
It's not a journal, or it's a different kind of journal. I guess it would be like doing the whole review process in a very public way. Would that be worse? I don't know ... has anyone tried it?

I think we are heading that way anyway, the open access publishers are pushing the envelope here by making peer review more and more public (publishing reviewer names, or comments along with the paper).
Part of the problem is that most accessibility software has a hell of a learning curve, that the blind have implicitly overcome already to use the thing at all. (e.g. emacspeak) It can be very daunting to try to use it as a sighted person with a blindfold over their eyes.
> and only a portion of it would be taxable (say 20%)

Well, I think some of these hidden funds were accumulated through outright theft and could in theory be 100% recoverable. (Though in practice any recoveries are extremely unlikely, I'm sure...)
Is echo a profitable business unit for Amazon?

I don't know a single person in my extended network, ranging from elderly family members to colleagues and tech professionals, to my teenage sister's cohort, who considers it anything but an obnoxious idea. I've actually made a point to try and ask people I know about it without sharing my opinions with them first, because I earnestly want to understand if people want these kinds of devices in their homes.

Though the sample of my connections is small (N ~ 75 people), it is fairly diverse and randomized across age, income level, education, tech proficiency, and world-wide geographic location, and it has seriously been a completely uniform, 100% rate of negative opinion regarding the idea of Echo.

I'd like to see more official numbers though, to better understand where the demand does come from for it.
My understanding is that the publisher subsidizes publishing costs and makes it up on access charges. So if the grant didn't pay the cost to publish, the publisher will.

I agree that it's a nice ideal to have everything open, but people need to realize that there are costs to doing so, and merely saying "I paid for it, therefore I have a right to read it" doesn't do much.
"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they're not researchers. They're typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They're not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt."

-- Rob Pike (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Fro...)
If you're a consultant or freelancer, and you're not charging that much to build an equivalent app, you are undercharging.

This is a completely reasonable price. Honestly, it seems cheap.
Feature flags are huge win for building reliable systems. You want them. Incomplete implementations should be modular, like complete implementations. Don't fool yourself, all code is tech debt. If you aren't writing modular PRs, you are in for a world of pain down the road anyway.
At least they were transparent to exactly why the information was filtered. Credibility is certainly a good point but 100 people are going to have issue with sifting through terabytes of data.
This guy is impatient... They learned this from wikileaks: 10 huge headlines spread across half a year is more effective than 1 huge headline today.
Good point! But is this done without any reference to 3 dimensional objects, or does it take the principle and not make any assumptions, or describe it in such a way that the concept is explained without any aspects related to sight?

Genuinely curious...
This to me is almost bigger news than the leak itself. Its so obviously and blatantly stacked one can't help but conclude media has been thoroughly "captured".
You realize that an API fronting service like Mashery alone would cost them several hundred thousand dollars ?

It's not something you hacked up in a weekend in your basement. It's something that requires project managers, business analysts, engineers, sales people, etc. These people require salaries, pensions, healthcare, etc.

You can of course build a competitor if you think you can build something for a fraction of the cost.
I'm not critiquing the website, it looks great to be honest. It's comes across a little odd when you target just a small amount of people, it almost seems like a sales pitch.

The journalists need to be more transparent about the data and why these individuals were picked first, and how the data release is going to work.

I hope for your sake you don't have to vectorize everyone mentioned in the data.
I have yet to drive a front-wheel-drive vehicle that cannot exceed available traction under wide-open throttle at low speeds. I used to own what was once the cheapest car in America (the fourth-generation Toyota Tercel); its measly 94hp could easily perform burnouts when dumping the clutch at high RPMs.

In fact, I would suspect something to be entirely wrong with a car lacking this capability. A vehicle with even less torque than that Tercel would have problems passing, driving up steep grades, and maneuvering slippy situations. No American consumer would purchase such a car (if this were the 1970s I would not be making the same statement).
Or use the relatively new NaN helper TypedArrayContents:

https://github.com/nodejs/nan/blob/master/doc/v8_misc.md#api...
We could solve this "problem" by simply eliminating taxation, and moving to a stateless society[1] and an across the board model of self-government[2].

[1]: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Order_without_the_sta...

[2]: https://www.theadvocates.org/
Sure but the issue with Dynatrace and similar ilk (NewRelic also) is they still attach a profiler and do have some impact.

Now, I wouldn't typically care, but you can get at lest 95% of the same information, including yes, stack traces, with ETW for basically free - in cost and in perf impact on Windows at least. Throw the results in a flame graph and boom, done. Windows in particular has so much great inbuilt stuff for troubleshooting perf but its hard to find and not well marketed, so these other folks make a killing selling an inferior product.
> Where is the real money and influence that we need in order to change this?

Civil disobedience
Wait, they opted to keep the Yarvin guy in the conference?!

This post says readers are "undoubtedly" aware of the decision De Goes made, but I was not (though I was aware of the controversy itself). I read De Goes's blog post about the decision just now, but it's so mush mouthed I still can't tell if they opted to keep him. If so, wow.

The only thing I don't really agree with here is talking about this in terms of labor. I mean, just imagine if they decided to only send the questionnaire to white men, to avoid visiting this labor upon minorities and women.

Usually this logic goes something like: since minorities and women have already suffered oppression and discrimination, they should not also be responsible for arguing against or affecting change against that oppression/discrimination. But if white people and men were going to just do the right thing on their own, then we wouldn't be in this situation to begin with.

I like Fredrik DeBoer on this particular point, he talks about it in this post: http://fredrikdeboer.com/2014/12/26/race-science-and-shoulds...
Apple's Push to Flood India with Used iPhones Ignites Backlash
Wowz why hasn't anyone automated the process of counting reviews?
> What if they did Mossack Fonseca database searches on the owners of all the corporate media and their companies, and all the editors and senior corporate media journalists? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on all the most senior people at the BBC? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every donor to the Center for Public Integrity and their companies? What if they did Mossack Fonseca searches on every listed company in the western stock exchanges, and on every western millionaire they could trace?

This is exactly why the person who leaked this information didn't just torrent it. Not everyone that did business with Mossack Fonseca is guilty of a crime.
To achieve a "screening" carried out by a co-conspirator, through which weapons, etc. could be passed.
https://panamapapers.icij.org/20160403-panama-papers-global-...

> In 2013, U.K. leader David Cameron urged his country’s overseas territories — including the British Virgin Islands — to work with him to “get our own houses in order” and join the fight against tax evasion and offshore secrecy.

> He could have looked no further than his late father to see how challenging that would be.

> Ian Cameron, a stockbroker and multimillionaire, was a Mossack Fonseca client who used the law firm to shield his investment fund, Blairmore Holdings, Inc., from U.K. taxes.

I doubt it was anyone related to David Cameron if that is what you are thinking. ;)