skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry I presented them as mutually exclusive, you're correct that they are not.

The difference is that one is already illegal - stopped, as it were. I postulate that this law will not significantly reduce distracted driving, but that it will primarily serve to perpetuate our government's apparent war on privacy. To be clear: I'm perfectly fine with a warrant-based search, particularly of carrier records. All this law does is grant individual law enforcement officers yet more authority to judge and immediately punish.
There's a popular Quaker anecdote in the OP which is worth quoting in full:

"Many years ago, when William Penn converted to Quakerism and pacifism, he was troubled by the thought of having to give up the sword that he wore, a great honor at the time. He asked George Fox, the founder of Quakerism, what he should do. Fox told him, 'William, wear thy sword as long as thee can.'"

It's ultimately the choice of each individual to determine when they can no longer bear their sword.
That's a great way of putting it.

It was really a shock to me that the implied values of an organization could be wildly different than that of the individuals involved. I had just assumed that they would naturally be the same.

In retrospect, that seems ridiculous. Even making my own values and actions coherent is a ton of work. The bigger the organization the harder that gets, and most companies just never do that work. Everybody responds to their local incentives, and they're generally pretty decent to the people they interact with. But they very quickly stop noticing the broader context they're part of. Which shouldn't surprise me either; Upton Sinclair wrote: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Author is breathing the same air, as bunch of obnoxious idiots breath too. That might cause some discomfort, should we leave the planet? I think he pays too much attention to the platform. All most people see is just a link. They click it, if they like what they see - they stay. And it doesn't bother them a bit if some obnoxious idiot has a blog on the same domain. I think author should let it go and focus on his work rather than on watching who else is standing next to him in line.

PS And, what is wrong with being dressed as a biker?
Interesting, it's kind of what clothing retailers have been doing especially in the past ten years or so. I think the access to more shopping options have led consumers to expect "large discounts" so maybe companies benefit from high original MSRP more than "pricing right".
Amazon's high-end Kindle Oasis is sleek, sharp and pricey
Great product and great team, go!
Working on interesting problems and being paid a fair and competitive wage are not mutually exclusive.
It seems you are right about hospital evacuations. From 2012,

"A hospital [Futaba Hospital] near the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant made no mistakes during a hasty evacuation in March 2011 during which 40 patients and nursing home residents lost their lives, according to a report released on Sept. 30 by investigators commissioned by the hospital."

Unfortunately, that hospital is within 3km of the reactor and was evacuated between March 12th and March 16th. It's also worth noting that the radiation level on the day of the disaster, March 11, was 1,590 uSv/hr at a point 5km away (normal background radiation for a city is 0.25 uSv/hr). This is, per hour, more radiation than background exposure for a year in most cities.

Fukushima Prefecture is the third largest prefecture in Japan, and most of its largest cities emerged from the disaster with minor earthquake damage. Also, luckily, the area around the reactor is made up of small towns and villages, so I would like to believe the community's support has aided most of the refugees, but obviously it was a hardship.
100 Years of Breed “Improvement”
Definitely.

It's hard to imagine a salary of $125k/yr being competitive for senior developers or directors in NYC, whether we're talking about a startup or a billion-dollar company.

Moreover, people capable of working remotely can participate in job markets (and benefit from their corresponding pay rates) not only in NYC but also places like San Francisco and Boston.

From a personal perspective, when job postings mention 'competitive' pay but won't establish a baseline expectation involving concrete numbers, I generally feel safe making the assumption that the salary on offer is on the low end of average; otherwise, mentioning it explicitly would be a great differentiator.
If internal IPS are critical security info, something is very wrong.
java or python , I know also the basis of php.
preserve some freedom and democracy

Right.

Even Robert McNamara, with the benefit of hindsight, finally figured out we got stuck in someone else's civil war.

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

I'd hope that your world view permits that there's some room between Christ's pacifism and Genghis' genocidal rampaging.

For those of us who simply don't want to be a tool in someone else's war profiteering machine, pacifism (even if only in word) is a nice counter point to our society's doctrine of total war.
The only time it makes sense to me is when the minor issue gets an unreasonable amount of attention based on emotions rather than science to the point that other issues that may actually be far more important are ignored. Such as shifting limited resources from the major issue to the minor issue for little gain.

Then there's the problem of the minor issue involving a law that can be used for revenue generation.
Relevant explanation of the issue from In a Nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7tA3NNKF0Q
One of the creators here.

94% of browsers now support [1] the CSS Flexible Box Layout Module Level 1 (Flexbox for short), yet only 3% of all sites use this new technology [2]. We decided to create a visual UI around flexbox to mimic the Illustrator/Sketch alignment and distribution tools, and hopefully get this into the hands of a lot more people - even those who don't write code.

Best of all, we no longer need entire blog posts on how to vertically center something in CSS :)

For some ideas how this can be applied in real-world scenarios, you can see some practical layouts and video tutorials on how to reproduce them here: https://flexbox.webflow.com/

[1] http://caniuse.com/#search=flexbox

[2] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
Aren't new domain names exciting?
I love NPR, but I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't support my local station financially. We were subscribers up until the flap with Juan Williams, who I continue to believe was wrongly terminated from NPR.

NPR's news reporting and insight is as good as any broadcast network, even if they're a bit left.
And WHATWG is more relevant? Have you ever heard of Chrome? Whenever WHATWG decides on something different than what the Chrome devs wanted, they implement their solution anyway and ignore the decision.

Anyone trying to develop for the web constantly feels the pain of trying to get something working everywhere.
Truecaller appears to be built into my Cyanogenmod OS. I certainly appreciate it since ~90% of my phone calls that are not immediate family seem to be spam.
Does anybody know what native feature is missing in Vim that makes Ctrl-P (with all optimizations) slower than Emacs ido-mode?
High-level GPU programming in Julia
Two Weird Tricks with Redux
Meteor, Typescript, and React – Keep It Simple
Yeah, my experience with 14.04 has been seriously sub-par, 12.04 was much better.

Seems Ubuntu and desktop Linux is seriously regressing, with the newer kernels my laptop won't suspend any more (Thinkpad T530 w/ Ivy Bridge and Intel graphics), after 4+ years of flawless usage. Seriously, nothing went wrong for years and now there's some horrible regression that has fucked up the whole experience and I can't suspend my laptop. WTF (and I have checked mailing lists, it is an upstream bug of some sort though some blame the kernel, others blame systemd).
Who knows. Maybe this was put together last minute with little coordination with engineering.
Is it just me or do most of his issues seem video related? In which case that would probably be a driver issue which would be poor vendor support and not necessarily a problem with Ubuntu.

Why not switch to onboard/integrated video card and see if he notices any difference?
It's not like you can't use keyboard shortcuts in a modern IDE. And for some tasks using the mouse actually is faster. I think there's some research by Apple (?) that shows this.
All of the images show it being held with the right hand. Can it not be turned upside down and held with the left?
I was really annoyed when a meeting I scheduled for 2:00 every Friday changed to 1:00 after falling back from DST to standard time. Google's helpful explanation: "Google Calendar uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to help avoid issues with daylight savings time."
To quote this site: "Review the intuitive definition. Rephrase technical definitions in terms that make sense to you."

I openly admit that the technical definitions are often how I imagined the material intuitively when the material was taught in school. But first when studying mathematics these definitions occured. I really wish that calculus (and the rest of mathematics) would be taught in a much more abstract way in school - it really makes understanding the material much easier since the "intuitive" definitions suffer a lot from being leaky abstractions (and mathematics is all about banging to the boundaries of the definitions until they move or fall down).
The price includes the cover. The Voyage price doesn't.
Nice to see deb packages.
The making of 'Photogrammetry to VR' teaser
"Radioactive waste" (industry term is spent fuel). Is stored in a spent fuel pool and then moved to dry cask storage. (A concrete and lead reinforced shipping container).

No barrels involved.
(At least in the US).

In other countries they recycle the fuel in fast breeder reactors to make more fuel.

The real issue is what do to do with the steel from decommissioning reactors, as it is radioactive and can't be recycled into new fuel or non radioactive steel.

Tldr; nuclear plant operations are not like they are in cartoons.
Point-and-click is definitely THE next technical milestone. And I think it's essential, because right now I have a bit of a conflicting message to QA analysts: stop fumbling with writing automation scripts and come into my environment and ... write automation scripts!

I think such a feature would go a long way in eliminating that initial "so I have to write the automation?" hurdle, and I agree it provides a clearer and shorter path to extracting value from the product.

I appreciate the feedback!
I would like to see a comparison between

Trix : https://github.com/basecamp/trix (From Basecamp)

ProseMirror : https://prosemirror.net/

Draft.js : https://facebook.github.io/draft-js/
Like the author, I also tried to upgrade from 12.04 to 14.04. The difference is I was on a desktop VM. I went with just upgrading the existing VM thinking it would take less work than spinning up a new VM and transferring all my files and settings, but that turned out to be a huge miscalculation.

Originally left it to upgrade overnight, only to come in the morning (this is on my work machine) to see that it hanged somewhere in the process and wouldn't move on without user input. So I proceeded with clicking through all the prompts, and when 14.04 first loads, it's SO SLOW. Long story short, it took me 4-6 hours to finally get it usable. The whole time I was thinking, "how could they mess this up so badly?"

The host OS for the VM is Windows 7, and I have to agree with the author, it is much better to use. I only run the VM for the command line, but may upgrade to Windows 10 when Ubuntu on Linux comes out of beta this summer.
Dont use PHP for that ;) Python is always a good language for Networking (Java too, but Python is cuter)

This SO answer should have some directions for you:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30604192/creating-a-real...
We hope to do that in the future!
What happens if you simply don't have a phone with you?

I often leave my phone at home when going on short (say, 30 minutes, tops) trips: to the grocery store, post office, bank, etc.

Statistically, I'm way more likely to be involved in a crash on one of these short trips close to my home, I've heard. Let's say that I was. How would the police know if I legitimately didn't have my phone with me or was refusing to hand it over? Short of searching both my person and my vehicle (which now gets us into other legal territory), they wouldn't know. Could I then face possible repercussions for _NOT_ having my phone with me? (i.e. "He admitted to owning a mobile phone but, when asked, refused to present it for inspection.")
> Most Verizon employees are probably paid closer to min wage.

You have a misconception here. The average Verizon wireline employee is making more than $70,000 a year. Not minimum wage or even close.
I think when most people say "unbiased", they don't mean the dictionary definition which is, as you say, unattainable, but they instead mean "without pushing a political agenda".

The best anyone can hope for is a diverse enough staff (with all definitions of "diverse", not just the popular ones nowadays) so that enough people get input on what stories are coming out that the broadcast isn't the result of one or two people's opinions.
> Also when you're young the pay differential between working at a startup and Google is smaller. If you're experienced enough to make Staff Engineer or something the economics of a startup look a lot worse.

Here's the thing, though. IMO successful entrepreneurs (startup or otherwise) have to want to be working for themselves. Money as a concern is of the form "Do I have enough money to make this work?" rather than "Can I make more money at MicroAmaGoogBook?". Personally, as someone who ultimately wants my own company and doesn't really want to sell portions of it to get there, I see the high-paying BigCo jobs as stepping stones to get to where I ultimately want to be. I don't see them as drawing me doen an alternate path.
> Underfunded pension liabilities will likely take down several large cities over the coming years.

No, they won't. As usual, the federal government will step in as the insurer of last resort, just as they do with the pension guarantee corp [1].

It's almost like HN gets off on people's retirement compensation being cut. Don't blame the people who were promised benefits, blame the politicians who did so, and the apathetic voters who allowed it. If your returns forecasts were wrong because of lack of growth, guess what, you get to make up the difference. That's how business works.

[1] http://www.pbgc.gov/
Fuck. This is why I'm struggling, after 6 months, to get back into the jobs market...

I can't believe this is a revelation, but I was burned out worse than I've ever been before!

Seriously, I can't understand how I didn't recognise this. Perhaps it's the surgeries that coincided after I quit?

Now that I'm picking myself up again this article is my epiphany? Man - I am totally kicking myself!
This is what happens when people try do to arithmetic in a typeless language. Javascript does not really have a number type; it just has values. Sometimes it infers that you want to do arithmetic on them.

What is the correct order of the items ["2", 10, "banana", [[]], "", 1]?

See also https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Bonus: sometimes you can get the same kind of behaviour in Excel when importing CSV.
I don't have any trouble with pointers. I can understand C programs just fine. But Modern C++, as the evangelists love to point out, is specifically about avoiding raw pointers in favor of smart pointers, value semantics, etc. That's the stuff that I find difficult to use.

I did buy Stroustrup's post-C++11 book, "A Tour of C++", which is supposed to be the compact "how to do Modern C++". It provides tips, but as I mentioned above, I did not find it comprehensive enough. Terse recommendations like "Prefer returning by value" may be great small-scale recommendations, but they don't explain how the big picture is supposed to come together.
> The few terrorists that there are, just aren't very good at it.

Sure, but let's say we take the "stop freaking out about it" approach and it enables further mobilization. Suddenly those things change in a hurry.

> The idea of terrorists getting hold of a nuke and actually being able to use it effectively is, frankly, ridiculous.

Unless a terrorist organization is able to morph into a pseudo-state. Which sounds a little less ridiculous than it did five years ago.

The point is primarily that chastising fear/effort/resources/counterattacks based only on the current statistical threat level is short-sighted.
Imagine Meeting John Lennon When You’re 17 and Stoned
I've been working on a similar tool for my own personal use, and have found it's MUCH easier for "pop music" which tends to always be diatonic w/ only a few borrowed chords at most, not to mention basslines almost always reaffirm the chord progression.

I've found it harder to figure out how to distinguish the upper harmonies over a pedal in terms of algorithmic writing, since I still associate certain chords with "feelings".
Previous discussion (two weeks ago) of Netdata: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11388196
Yes, on firefox also.

This must be hurting their business pretty bad...

Hope owner receives some alerts whenever client-side errors happens...
I doubt that's the key factor. If it were, we wouldn't have aggressive outsourcing and layoffs be endemic in the Fortune 500.

I suspect the more likely explanation is that they have enormous influence because they have a lot of money. We certainly have a lot of evidence that people with lots of money continue to have a lot of influence even when they don't employ a lot of people.
Yes. I would value 1 year of actual professional experience over having a 4 year degree. A CS degree teaches you CS. Most software engineering jobs are <5% CS. It's all about being able to deliver. Don't sell yourself short.
Looks like both the Android app and the web app (via Google login) require full access to your contact list. Though it looks like the Android app still works if you manually disable that permission in Marshmallow.
Corporations span national boundaries and can arbitrage legal regimes to their advantage. This gives them a competitive advantage over governments. There are two ways to solve this problem: ever-larger, approaching world-scale, government or limiting the international rights of corporations. The former is horrifying to me because I believe plurality of power is the best defense of freedom and against corruption. The latter is far more palatable.
Eiffel Tower weighs less than the cylindrical column of air that it sits in
I imagine Firefox's marketshare dwarfs both vim and emacs
The labor dispute primarily (only?) involves workers in the wireline division. That division made about $1 billion in operating income (before taxes), on almost $40 billion in revenue. The division's operating profit margin is a razor-thin 2.7%.
There are a bunch of bugs immediately apparent. Try typing while making a selection with mouse. Is that expected behaviour? nah.
Most of them seem to be overly detailed. A couple were great, usually I TLDR.

The newyorker is the worst.
My local NPR affiliate (ncpr.org) is, by far, the best local news source available to me, and I give to them twice per year. Beyond the 5 minute NPR news breaks, however, I'm not too concerned with the national coverage.
A failure to serve poor neighborhoods actually is a criticism people have of Google Fiber (search for "google fiber digital divide" for examples), and it's something they attempt to combat by providing free service to libraries, community centers, and low-income housing in some places.

I do think that trying to shame or regulate companies into serving unprofitable areas is the wrong way to go about it. If it's that important, then subsidize service in those areas so it's actually profitable. But Americans seem to hate obvious subsidies, and prefer to make them weird and convoluted instead.
For Windows, Glasswire has been pretty good, but eventually I'll move to monitoring it all at the router level. I do like the idea of being able to monitor individual applications though.
White collar unions are quite common outside the US, too. The thought never even seems to cross the minds of professionals in the US, though.
It doesn't matter if there's a few there, you can't have a few good apples in a bad bunch. If you want to be taken seriously as an academic, you have to be one at a real university, i.e. a non-religious one. Religious universities are oxymoron's.
Lawmakers Say Redacted Pages of 9/11 Report Show Saudi Official Met Hijackers
Ergonomically looks great. They have fixed one of the issue with Paperwhite by adding physical page turn buttons. I prefer to use my Kindle Keyboard instead of Paperwhite everywhere but in bed. Accidentally touching the screen or tapping on a link when you wanted to turn a page is just too annoying.

Now I wish that they had re-introduced Text-to-Speech feature, I would have bought it then. At present, I think it is too overpriced.

There are many times when I get tired of holding Kindle and want to rest my hand. I simply plugin headphones and listen to whatever I was reading. Kindle's TTS is amazing and almost sounds like human.
Pretty standard modus operandi for technology start-ups, 'disrupt' the scene (AKA enable illegal/unlawful/unethical things). Then years later, officially notice you've been turning a blind eye and provide tools to discourage it.
You are in the middle of it right now. I'd suggest you get some help or take some time off because eventually once you hit the tipping point you may find recovering is very difficult.

I'm speaking from personal experience here!
Yeah, but isn't it super annoying to people who want to contact you (family, friends, etc.)? I haven't changed my cell number in over a decade, and rarely (if ever) get spam calls (never texts). Seems like a high price to pay for something that probably won't happen much, anyway.
I definitely don't think it's black or white. If you could have the power of vim (all vim, not just the basics) within an IDE, I'm sure a lot of people would be significantly more productive than only using vim or emacs. I think part of what neovim attemps to do is bringing all vim inside IDEs. That said, I have a feeling that people believe that all vim users use the editor with no plugins or config whatsoever. There are a lot of plugins out there that, while not bringing all an IDE has to offer, provide a lot of what someone would expect from an IDE, and if that is enough, I don't see why someone couldn't be more productive in it than in an IDE.
Well if you weren't in their database before you sure are after you allow full access
Draft.js does (or did at some point) have some affordances for this so that it could handle mobile devices.

Keyboards on Android Chrome used to emit keycode 0 for every character that was inserted and then mutate the DOM directly. And spelling corrections just mutated he DOM without firing events.