skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also have a CS degree and gave up wireless printing in favor of USB printing at home. Wireless printing proved unreliable over many attempts. USB printing works reliably every time. We have to walk to over the printer anyway to get the printed documents out. Taking the laptop with us is hardly much more effort.

I try get my family members to use USB printer over wireless when possible as well. Wireless printing is more prone to failure, as chan happen when a wireless device changes IP, SSID or password.
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563244
Sure, lots of skills are good to have. Not at hundreds of dollars a class, though, and certainly not worth associating with a bachelor's degree. Otherwise my peers would all have degrees in Eclipse and be unemployed right now.
Free society doesn't pay the bills. Might makes right and does amazing things for consumer prices. We are lulled by our proximate pleasures while true freedom and honest democracy remain fantasies at best.
- and stay out of trouble.
I'm a grad student as well, just finished my third year. Yeah it's super fun and I have a ton of freedom, but I make roughly 1/5 of what people I graduated with. I'm sure that holds a lot of people back. That being said, I really enjoy it, especially since you continually get to learn new things.
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I love Gary Bernhardt's writings, screencasts and lightning talks and his sense of humor, especially this one[1]. But unfortunately, some JavaScript developers might feel it offensive.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
> As in, healthier diet of fresh foods, better rest at night, free access to exercise facilities.

Well of course not; it might cost the company money to make those things available.
Write a small TamperMonkey script to fix their BS JS. That's what I did when Comcast wouldn't let me pay my bill without creating a Comcastic!!! Account. My login worked just fine, but they really wanted to block me from paying my bill until I created a separate account with their useless email features and other things for some reason. Killing some DOM elements let me pay their ransom.
Intelligence state would be a much better term.

The police have their own issues, but they are very much in the public eye.
Fair enough, if they can stay in business.

The question is sustainability. Old institutions often reach points where failure, or nearing failure, is the only way forward. So it can be rebuilt into something better.

I see issues with the hyper speed that SV businesses have taken this to the extreme but it's the middle ground that is healthy. The other extreme creates the situation where always having a safety-net no matter what negative downward problems or risks a company is taking creates dangerous moral hazards [1] which compound on each other over time to create unavoidable economic crises, as Wall st generated in 2008.

If you think the Japanese are immune to these moral hazards then you are denying some core principles in human behavioural science.

Japan's core industry seems to be suffering a chronic illness which it's continually trying to medicate instead of moving on and confronting the future. Kicking the can down the road, as others have mentioned. Zombie companies are just the obvious symptom as this dysfunction bubbles to the surface.

Reality will come to bare eventually, it has to, economies cannot remain disconnected from their own tangible output forever. The apparent stubbornness of Japanese culture to maintain the status quo will likely mean it will be the children of the current generation that will be the ones left to pick up the pieces, so you can keep drinking your tea no doubt.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard
Yeah but how? There aren't enough primary care doctors and the work is being farmed out to nurse practitioners and physician's assistants (and anyone who says the quality of care is just the same hasn't experienced it)
The alternative being to do something you don't love?
What's the upside of this over HighCharts which is an already mature product?
Thanks for the insight. I think you bring a very good perspective to this.

Although I am not very sure, what you really mean by saying "a lot of lifestyle changes needed to promote genuine health aren't really incorporated"...do you mean the employers don't promote them? Or the incentives you are relating to don't fall under the "wellness program" benefits in general to receive a credit/discount (from the standpoint of insurance companies)?
That's what their corporately owned, government friendly, media tells them. So a lot of them do.

I think the internet has done a lot to help escape the typical narrative. For one example, there is a stark difference between what young and older Americans think of Israel because of where both groups get their news.

Now, sure, there is a natural tendency with the internet for conspiracies to form. In particular if you hang out all day with extremists. But I'd prefer to have that problem than the alternative problem of most public discussion coming from a dozen or less large corporations.
Selections from an article titled If You're Over 65, You Should Love the Fed by N Kocherlakota, former president of Fed Reserve Bank of Minneapolis:

Conventional wisdom suggests that monetary stimulus is particularly bad for senior citizens: When the Federal Reserve holds interest rates low, retirees tend to get less income from their nest eggs. Over the past eight years, though, they've done a lot better than this simple logic would imply.

Consider the amount of goods and services that seniors consume -- an important indicator of their well-being. According to the Consumer Expenditure Survey, the average household headed by someone aged 65 or older consumed 5 percent more in 2014 than in 2007, adjusted for inflation. That compares to declines of 5 percent for all households and 7 percent for households headed by someone aged 35 to 44...

Seniors hold more assets like stocks, bonds, and homes than do younger folks. All of these assets have appreciated a lot over the past seven years, providing seniors with a source of spending money that offsets some of the effect of low interest rates...

We should assess the appropriateness of monetary policy in terms of macroeconomic outcomes, not in terms of the level of interest rates. And when we judge by outcomes, we have to conclude that monetary policy has not been appropriate for the economy as a whole, because inflation and employment have been too low. Unduly tight monetary policy has systematically shifted the distribution of resources toward people who are not working and who receive payments that are, in large part, not indexed to inflation -- that is, toward retirees.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-03-18/if-you-re-o...
The zero interest rate definitely does contribute, but a bigger deal for mortgage rates is that the Fed continues to buy $24-26 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities. It is keeping its total holdings of MBS constant, but since total holdings are still over $1.7 trillion, that results in a lot of purchases each month to cover the reduction in principal from people paying off mortgages in existing MBS.

This article has a good explaination: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/16/why-the-fed-move-doesnt-matte...
Does your car insurance company require you to install a GPS tracker in your car so they can keep track of everywhere you go? Because that would be much more analogous to what the parent describes.
It wasn't a "Religious flamewars", it was a drive-by of FUD that has been repeated in political threads. I wasn't arguing for superiority of something, I was just pointing out the historical truth and beliefs of a church. Frankly, getting downvoted for quoting the founder/prophet of the church for the origin of the name was a pretty low point on HN for me.
If by people you mean people inside your socioeconomic bubble.
You're assuming car ownership will remain in place as it is now. If vehicles are shared instead of fully owned, you can be more efficient. Think of how many trips are simply transporting a car. For example, let's say I need to pick up a friend from the airport. I would waste a one-way trip going to the airport. I didn't need to go to the airport. The only reason it was necessary for me to go is that I needed to get a car to my friend.

If my fried could have just summoned the nearest self driving car, an entire one way trip wouldn't ever occurred.
This doesn't make me think more highly of your argument. You're so close-minded that your "anticipatory response" is to simply assume that no one has a defense of socialism except a "true Scotsman" appeal.

I'm also left to assume from your comments that you think socialism and communism are the same thing. The defenders of socialism rarely say that no one's done it correctly. They instead point to the myriad of socialist programs in other countries that they consider successful (e.g. Canadian healthcare, German education, even US food stamps).
Anyone with enough capital, though.
Have you tried HighCharts with http://www.highcharts.com/articles/2-news/175-highcharts-per... ?
It would cost no extra time if devs made websites from scratch with performance in mind. Save optimized images, minify code as a build task, etc.
I agree. The article describes pretty interesting cultural problems, makes some interesting points, and then out of nowhere suggests radical political change as the solution.

Still worth the read, especially in the context of tech industry, where personally I see it at a crossroads of cubicle-farm vs artistic-expression. Maybe just ignore the last paragraph.
Has Gitlab done any work on the high availability front? I remember reading a while back that gitlab.com was hosted on 2 servers, or something like that.
There are an awful lot of comments on this expressing disgust and outrage for the "dark patterns" employed by the Boston Globe to increase subscriptions and revenue and my guess is that a hefty portion of the people expressing said disgust and outrage are also using ad blockers.

Publishing is in a very uncomfortable place right now - at the bottom of this comment I've attached a 2014 report from Adobe which, TL;DR, says that most people are unwilling to pay for content online and also unwilling to see ads online. This sort of behavior is forcing publishers to squeeze revenue of any stone they can find.

I understand that this may not be a popular opinion here, but content doesn't create itself, people do, and people need to make a living. Maybe before we all start admonishing the Boston Globe (founded in 1872, btw) for making a close button on a modal perhaps a tick too light, we should consider why these practices are becoming more and more common place.

http://downloads.pagefair.com/reports/adblocking_goes_mainst...
I don't know much about this (it's not my area of expertise), but I thought this G+ post was interesting: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+VincentVanhoucke/posts/6RQmgqcm...

It says that a lot of the reason TensorFlow initially lagged in performance is because a lot of those performance issues only manifested under NVCC, whereas they had been using GPUCC internally.
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I believe that's because devs want to use what they use for their workstation (that is, what they know the best) on their servers. That's understandable, and most cloud services give you boxes that are already usable but because you don't have sth. like the FreeBSD handbook, and because the whole thing is not that thightly integrated, complex stuff requires hacks and dirty workarounds or at least a lot of experience. I have not done any system-admin work, but I can say this: in one week I've managed to make my FreeBSD system completely reproducible after using it for the first time. I haven't been able to do that with any Gnu/Linux, and I've used it for more than ten years till last february I guess.
That research job doesn't give you as much autonomy as you think it does.

Jeff Schmidt goes into great detail on this in his book, Disciplined Minds. I'd recommend everyone check it out.
hum.... well. If you imagine that they are 100% idempotent on every platform and 100% fully supported. It would work.

But as I stated in my example python/Perl/C# and probably others are in the language support dropping either some platform or supporting only x% of the feature on some platform...

I dare you to access you services using C#/mono on openBSD.
Chromium is a memory hog, it is a well known fact. Use Otter Browser or QupZilla instead.
You've missed a golden opportunity to claim "most ironic business model". Go ahead, charge that monthly fee :)
Jaywalking is definitely a crime and a concept in the U.S. In urban environments where speed limits are usually lower, the laws are generally unenforced (source: I'm a serial jaywalker) however you definitely can get a ticket crossing a busy highway.
Unfamiliar seems the wrong word

I tell people you need a place you can trust

Both wholly from a safety perspective to quelch this brain patrol

But also to trust your environments' behaviour

For instance, does your brain trust your phone on the night stand to leave your sleep uninterrupted? Or will it always be monitoring for familiar signals

similarly, can you trust your hotel to have consistent environment, or did you request a wake up call that your brain will be looking out for?
Because it will be pitched as a way to get what few jobs are still available--jobs which don't require all the education people have.
Surely they should be rebranding to 60drives now? ;)
Almost the entire body politic would have to recuse themselves because of conflict of interest due to political contributions?
I feel almost exactly the opposite about the work I published- I don't want anyone to look it up and ask me about it, ever, because I'll be forced to admit that I was writing about things I had no knowledge of by a guy who wanted to be able to list as many publications as possible on his academic website. The work I did had basically no relation to the industry it was for, which is the industry I now work in.

I got the job I'm in because of the work I did, but mostly because the people I work for now are even less technical than my academic adviser was, and were impressed by the people he knew and how long his list of publications was.

Apply this 10x for the patents my name is on.

For clarification, I quit two years into a PhD program and have been working in the industry for the last four years.
No, but many of them give you a discount for installing an accelerometer/gps speed sensor.
Chart.js is open source and MIT licensed, HighCharts is proprietary and you need to buy a license if you want to use it in a commercial product without their logo. Also, Chart.js uses <canvas> and HighCharts uses <svg>, I've found the former to be more performant with large datasets.
Nutritionist is probably a pseudoscientist, because there's no such a thing as a nutritionist anywhere near science.

http://www.badscience.net/2007/02/the-truth-about-nutritioni...

You are giving us anecdotal advice and advice of an unknown authority that can be questioned.

American diabetes association provides its advice given the vast amount of evidence that high-carb diets work for lowering or eliminating the symptoms of diabetes.

Pretty easy to sift through all that beautiful evidence. The fear of sugar is unfounded. But I guess people would rather live in fear than just eat healthy.

https://scholar.google.hr/scholar?hl=en&q=high+carb+diabetes...

of course, there's evidence that low-carb also works, ketogenic too, and paleo even, and all fad diets alike. that's because they are in many ways healthier than what the diabetes patients had before but that doesn't mean they are objectively superior to diets with all various foods without no restriction.

these diets, unfortunately, very often cause orthorexic tendencies, where people become obsessed with the substances they are consuming, they demonize foods (hamburgers, french fries, sugar, etc.), they think there's something natural, organic, healthy or unhealthy, despite the "fact" all foods are healthy, and only diets can be unhealthy.
Yes, and Google's cheaper storage offering as well.
> There aren't enough primary care doctors and the work is being farmed out to nurse practitioners and physician's assistants

Thanks for the insight, but is there any empirical evidence here?
Well let's see if this discussion gets deleted by the government.
The most common definitions of political anarchy (if you will, as opposed to simplistic "anarchy = chaos" definitions) indicate that it's a form of society. Typical tenets include free association and mutual aid, which are inherently social concepts.
I tried something similar with a big bank once. I got calls from collections agencies about 9 months later. I ended up paying them about $50 in account fees to save a black mark on my credit report. They were charging me to keep my account open even though I made it very clear that I didn't want that, but I didn't go through all their proper paperwork.

So yeah, it's not like any of these types of establishments care at all about their reputation. They'll gladly ignore your not-to-their-letter cancellation, stop contacting you, and send your $50 usage fees for no actual usage to collections.
They also gave "points" in this reward system for recording visits to doctor, dentist, proving you had an annual physical, etc.

I'm sorry but while it's great to encourage that behavior it's not my employer's not my insurance company's business to know these details about my healthcare.
The primary answer is buried in the article, in passing: "And when even 10% of Los Angeles’ population got behind the wheel, their presence so slowed the streetcars, which lacked their own lanes, that they could no longer make their schedules, and their level of service declined overall."

European streetcars typically have separated lanes and loading areas and thus don't mix with automobile traffic. That way they aren't in conflict. When roads had largely low speed and uncontrolled use, streetcars worked fine because people were used to and able to stay out of each others' way. The automobile was dramatically faster and more dangerous, and the laws and infrastructure were gradually adapted to it (e.g. traffic signals, left hand turn rules etc).

Streetcars in the US, and I suspect in other places where they have failed, had to intermix with automobiles, which lead them into a deadly spiral.

The other factors mentioned in the article (reluctance to spend, reluctance to run a centralized system, regulation, etc etc) applied in Europe too -- we have a survivorship bias when we see the streetcars in Europe. Look at Berlin as a great A/B experiment: in the west the streetcars were torn up while in the east they were retained. I much prefer living in the east (today!! not under communism) because the Straßenbahn is so convenient. My kid took it to school.

Some streetcars survive or have been revived in the US -- it's called "light rail" because I suppose "streetcar" is a laden word. They pretty much all have dedicated right of ways, and if not (I'm thinking of parts of San Francisco's MUNI) they have dedicated loading areas and exclusion zones -- except for cable cars :-)
>This is a fallacy - self-driving cars may reduce car ownership and may reduce traffic fatalities, but they could only reduce traffic if speeds were extraordinarily high.

That's not true at all. A ton of traffic congestion is caused by people making suboptimal decisions in traffic. Blocking intersections, not merging properly, stooping and going instead of coasting at a set speed, etc. really reduce the speed of traffic.

If you created a self driving only traffic system that guided the cars in an optimal path and speed you could increase traffic throughput by a lot.

But the current generation of self driving cars aren't even close to that task. If anything they will clog traffic even more when they panic and stop in the middle of traffic. That prevents accidents but it also will clog streets during rush hour.

But eventually they may solve traffic jams.
Is there a better BBB?
I only recently found Dan Luu's blog (from the excellent Google SRE book review and the "We only hire the trendiest" posts), and really like it.

Of the listed blogs, I have previously read Steve Yegge, Eli Bendersky and Yossi Kreinin - all three fantastic. I'll have fun going through the rest in the list.
Why would Ethiopian farmers sell for so little if they could sell for more?
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One of the more productive programmers I'd come across primarily used Pascal and PowerBuilder. He was a one-man dynamo.

As to the Pascal language itself: You may want to look into Ada as it shares more than a little in common and can be compiled with gcc. Try it yourself and see what you think.
It's more from a norms / politeness perspective that we don't; it's simply not accepted that you can just walk into the road when you want to get across because (most of us) we don't want to be judged by others for behaving recklessly

Anyone who has ever lived (or otherwise spent a lot of time driving) in a bad neighborhood knows intimately that this is true. People walk in the street in rough places. And there aren't any norms compelling them to get out of the way.
It's sad that you can be sued for using numbers.
You can add to this list websites with programming challenges that also have some form of "candidate profile". HackerRank is one such site.
"... it is much easier to finance mortgages for houses, so the housing becomes more affordable ..."

Not necessarily. Widespread access to greater amounts of affordable credit also means that more people can afford to buy more expensive houses, which puts upward pressure on housing prices. So sure, you might get a better rate, but that better rate may well be negated by a higher purchase price.
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Finally changed for us a few months ago after about 8 years of being happily printer-free. One too many trips to FedEx to print 2 pages of something, can't even remember what it was - probably a Groupon for a cash-only store that would only accept it in print. Also I really wanted a sheet-feed scanner so I can electronically archive the stacks of paper piling up around the house. We got an HP OfficeJet Pro 8625 and have been pretty happy with it on Linux, Windows 10 and Mac.
You're absolutely right. Right now, there is none, which sucks. As Aral Balkan says well and as I'm sure you know, free is a lie [1]. People should pay for services that they use, and services which get used should be paid. We'll get there. But to answer questions about pricing, it's free until we are comfortable enough to charge.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldhHkVjLe7A
I spent the past month travelling, sleeping someplace new almost every night. Did not get used to it. I had maybe 4 hours of sleep per night. Still, I was awake during the day and I had more functional hours to use for exploring, so it didn't bother me. Last night sleeping in my own bed was the first time in a very long time that I've had a full 8, but I don't notice any cognitive difference.
This is great, thanks for the link!
What do they get from that?

I don't think they want to compete with chromeOS, I think they want to sell chromeOS.

The only person who would benefit from that is you which is why people buy them and install ubuntu.

I use a chrome book for my daily driver. I used to want a ubuntu machine with chrome but after a little effort and getting a setup of crouton that works for me, I actually just want a browser with a shell. Which part is primary and which is secondary is really semantics when I get to working. I do everything in the browser or the shell with the exception of password safe which is an android app run inside the browser. I'd also like the android kindle app but that is blocked form working for some reason (I believe on amazon's side).
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