skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drinking culture also varies extremely from country to country.

As far as I can tell "going to the pub after work" is relatively widespread in (some parts of) the UK whereas in the US there seem to be more extremes (i.e. either binge drinking or barely ever drinking).

In Germany in developer circles I have yet to find myself in a situation where "I can't have any" isn't accepted as an answer. Although there can be some playful challenging ("C'mon") I haven't yet seen anyone be actually pressured into drinking (neither through relentless pressure nor out of fear of being excluded). Except, maybe, in high school.
American prisoners are teated like a royalty and not sent to prison camps with NK citizens.

You can read more about this in Kenneth Bae's book 'Not Forgotten: The True Story of My Imprisonment in North Korea' that he earlier this month.
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I feel like the author extrapolates her anecdotal experience in a dishonest way.

First, as others have said, this isn't so much a drinking problem as often a culture problem ("asshole problem"). The first "start-up" I worked for didn't allow alcohol in the office, period.

Second, as a 24 year old now 3 years in the professional world and two jobs (so limited exposure), I can honestly say I have never been pressured to drink or go drinking at either of the start ups I have worked at (thus far). In college I joined a fraternity so I'd like to think I have seen first hand what that looks like.

I don't want to belittle the discussion about the bigger picture issues of start-up culture (as well as the bigger picture benefits), but the author here seems like she had a bad _work_ experience that just happened to be at a start-up and now has a chip on her shoulder when it comes to _all_ startups.
which i use in a lot of projects that need simple charting. i really don't know why google doesn't dogfood this product more, its a great, simple, easy to use charting system.
Why not? If you're way underwater, default can often be the smartest resolution long term.
It's funny how different backgrounds give different perspectives. When you say "real" division I think of ALUs and if it's real it's "really what you meant" when you had two integer operands. Or did you not mean "actual" when you used "real"? Did you mean like Real numbers?

I get that it's confusing and a little subtle to new folks that "1 / 2" is not the same as "1.0/2.0".

But if I wanted float division I would've coerced one or both of the operands to floats.
We are talking about online video, where DRM is astoundingly ineffective. Any release is almost immediately available to download.

Whether or not piracy is a problem is immaterial to the importance of DRM if DRM has no effect on piracy.
I agree with you and the article and further...
Many companies are trying to take search, for example, to the next level by brining predictability through your history as well as your graph. It takes decisionmaking out of people's minds.

"You show a history of reading this and that book, have watched these movies and your circle of meaningful people have influenced you thus, so we have this book on its way to you now."

It looks like it's really intelligent and offers convenience, time-savings, "efficiency". You don't even have to think of what you want, it knows already. You have an appointment in LA in 3hrs, don't forget your [whatever] and the mother of the person you are about to meet is in the hospital, take something appropriate for the occasion, we also suggest the following lamentation "...".

This kind of thing is taking the humanity out of being human. People are reduced to a basic animal framework and the machine is adding humanity for you, so you don't have to bother. In taking the "tedium" out of daily living, people are reduced to a sort of best on a pedestal.
Just looking at your first point, She dispelled rumors left and right: "fracking causes earthquakes!" - actually it's poorly built injection wells and wastewater storage that causes earthquakes

In your mind fracking is separate from building injection wells and wastewater storage? All of your examples are the reasons why fracking is dangerous. Just because people get confused about whats being pumped in, doesn't make them wrong that 'radioactives' are appearing.

I think you have been duped by the power of the p . . .
What genres have artists that do not sell anything outside of their music?
Surely this is sarcasm
The “uncertainty principle” is a mis-translation (2014)
Those sites will likely adapt or go obsolete.

There are game engines now that can compile to a pure HTML / css/ Javascript runtime.
I remember being surprised by this and then realising, "wait, of course it's in the kernel -- that's so much nicer from a usability and sanity standpoint".
You should get a download link from Manning in your email, let me know if you dont!
Hydroelectric generation is not the major source of energy. Wind is, and I think it was that unusual amount of rain, coupled with stronger winds and the occasional good days of sun that contributed to this milestone.

Besides the sun, I think the ocean will be our safest bet. The technology seems to be lacking though.
Absolutely. The only case where (I prefer to call it "morally ambiguous streaming") wins is in series with ongoing seasons. But Netflix is so fast and convenient, I usually end up waiting for it to appear on Netflix, or rewatching it there.
I can see the definitions being copyrightable yes, but I don't see how an alphabetically arranged list of words (just the list) would classify as copyrightable:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_in_lists#A...

Hence the question ..
The actual round trip time to the satellite and back is about a quarter second.
I don't think you're giving the parent enough credit. People didn't leave North St. Louis because of economic decline. There was never any such thing. People left North St. Louis for the suburbs on their own accord -- for lots of reasons. They wanted the new housing that the suburbs had to offer. They wanted to be further from blacks. The car made for an easier commute.

This created an oversupply of housing in the region. St. Louis doesn't have too many houses because people went to other cities. It has too many houses because people abandoned the housing in the urban core and built new suburbs. That obviously did cause a loss of economic opportunity for the people left behind. But it didn't happen the other way around.
It's implemented in the kernel. Look at fs/binfmt_script.c in the Linux kernel source tree for an example.
Usually I would agree, but it is written in the context of SymPy, as symbolic math library. There I would expect 1/2 is the solution to 2*x=1 .
That sort of thing happens all the time too, as he mentions. Only he has the reach and audience to rightly raise a stink about it. Most who have their content stolen in this manner really have no recourse.

The damage is done, the money is made, and the perpetrators can just say, "whoops" and absolve themselves of any wrongdoing while they take their ill-gotten gains to the bank.
Building a Voice Assistant in JavaScript
Lemme guess, Scrum Master?

Although those faux titles may be technically wrong, the use of capital-A Agile usually implies association with Agile the brand (the noun), not "agile as in agility".

> That is so catastrophically false that I don't even know where to start.

Doesn't sound like a great argument. The highest performing teams I've worked with were small groups of highly skilled, talented (IQ and EQ) and passionate people. These groups are usually familiar with various development methodologies and able to come to agreement on which processes to adopt and which are cargo-culty and should be thrown out. I don't think OP is arguing for zero process. In fact the opposite is clearly stated in the Agile Manifesto list: "They figure out the process that works for them and for the current problem they are working on."

Here's a much better articulated criticism on Agile that I enjoyed:

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2015/06/06/why-agile-an...
Unity is itself a proprietary, single-vendor, closed-source plugin.

Though I don't disagree at all, transitioning from one proprietary, single-vendor, closed-source plugin to another isn't actually going to solve the problems that killing Flash is supposed to solve (apart from the one where Flash is also a gigantic legacy-code monument to all our sins, of course ;) ).
DSL and the ISPs that love it
They do maintain their own blacklist, which doesn't seem to be listed on any of the public monitors. When I had this issue it did give a helpful bounce message:

Client host blocked using
FBLW15; To request removal from this list please forward this message to
delist@messaging.microsoft.com (in reply to RCPT TO command)

I did as it said and forwarded the message to that address, and got an automated reply and my IP removed a few days later.

Maybe your situation is different since you're not getting a bounce message, but try emailing that address if you haven't already.
Hard to tell, my first guess is that hiding the karma points will help. Perhaps replacing it with a comment reply alert.
until it is widely used and supported, there is a big cost to adding features to a CDN. the means dont justify the ends.
No, you are not, as evidenced by the presence of escorts throughout your stay and the search of all of your digital media upon entry and exit of the country.
Yes but that's for him. He's talking about asking other maintainers to sign some sort of pact to coerce the community into migrating. He can drop Python2 support if he wants. Go ahead, live and let live? He knows that will grant his library overnight irrelevance.

If he's so committed to Python3 he can sink on his own. Guys like this, GvR, core dev team ALL think that this is a top-down affair rather than users-up. Wrong. That's the truth regarding the 8-ball he's behind and why his harebrained scheme was hatched. Python3 landed in 2008, people are just getting delusional at this point.
I lived in lower Manhattan for 20 years. I know the region well.

Perhaps you would consider places like Forest Hills, Queens or Bushwick, Brooklyn or Staten Island or Hoboken or Teaneck or Westchester to be the "most beautiful, safest, most walkable, best-educated (with good public schools), most politically-engaged, and community-oriented towns in the country". For me, none of those places are within even the top 200 "most beautiful, safest, most walkable, best-educated...etc." places that I've been to in America or elsewhere.

Do I have high standards? Yes. My personal opinion is that the area around NYC sets a low standard and achieves against it, and that comments like yours perpetuate the fundamental issue, which is essentially a stubborn kind of underachievement.
> MTA is actually funded/managed by Albany instead of NYC

The MTA board has six members appointed by the governor, four appointed by the mayor, and 1 each appointed by the county executives of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester. There's also four members appointed by the county executives of Dutchess, Orange, Rockland, and Putnam but they all share one vote. The funding situation is even more complicated.
I can't come up with a sane reason why opt-in privacy is acceptable. Signal is handling the issues that may arise without any issues and whatsapp is just hiding complicated errors from it's users per default so they aren't confused, but they still get encryption by default in both cases.

Opt-in end-to-end encryption is an anti-feature.
It's always interesting to see the only people who ever talk about JavaFX are either Oracle employees or people who have a financial interest in JavaFX, such as the author of this piece whose business is based on JavaFX.
meat + potatoes
I met Nassim Taleb a few years ago. He was doing due diligence on a fund I was working at.

He's an incredibly colourful character. We chatted about various authors in the statistical space, and chastised them all! "What about (this guy)? Idiot!" It was a rant worthy of a Hitler parody. "Everyone who believes in standard deviation, leave the room!"

It was hilarious. He had a point, too, about our statistical methods. A few months later the fund blew up in a textbook way. He'd have made a packet if he followed his own advice. No idea if he did.
Not surprised by misinformation; people rarely fact-check posts that support their political position.

On the other hand it's hard to get responsible regulation when the dispute is so polarized. Unbiased information can be harder to find. You get one extreme or the other. So a delay doesn't seem so bad.
Just a bit of an understatement. That's the point of this blog post.
Given what I have been hearing on the voice/chat bots/digital assistants, it seems to me the landscape of competition is already shifting.

Amazon Echo. Potentially bypassing Google for people searching for things.

Viv. Same.

Google. Kubernetes, GCE, open sourced Tensor Flow, revealed TPU and how AlphaGo ran on it, right around Allo and Google Assistant.

Apple Siri. Have not heard from Apple, but I doubt they are just twiddling their thumbs.

Facebook.

Microsoft. Maybe they will bring a working Clippy back.

And lots of other chat/voice AIs. There are different advantages to each. Competition here is heating up.

Just as how smartphones changed how we primarily access information, voice-first interfaces will as well. How will ads work in this world?

The antitrust regulators seem a tempo beat behind. Same with that shopping comparison site.
> Those were not good developers

Nailed it.
What do you mean not just propaganda?

The Chinese nationalism you talk about has strong roots in propaganda. Its the very purpose of propaganda.

Its also the same communist party which caused the great famine that are in power now. Different people, same party.

The amount of doublespeak in your writing makes me question if you really believe what you write. why are you defending propaganda?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublespeak
But that can't be left to the claimant. So Google should charge a fee for each complaint to cover the cost of the verification. But then you could make the company pay more simply by uploading thousands of infringing videos…

In any case a simple air date sanity check would have prevented this particular case.
> Agile as a noun
> How to Agile?

Lol
The US government doesn't need to do this. It has press conferences and gullible journalists: https://theintercept.com/2016/05/20/pentagon-official-once-t...
Ok, you'll pass but how will you get through the advanced courses? I don't really understand the point you're making. If I combined these two statements together, I get "it's the exception to the rule because most grads just memorize enough to pass"

No, we don't have varying views of what abstract thought is (let's drop the "difficult" cause it's irrelevant). Your view is simply wrong because even your "how would you build an inventory system" takes a tangible (inventory system) and asks you to come up with a programming (abstraction layer above 1s & 0s) solution.

Some examples of not abstract thinking:

* Memorizing (good one you nailed it; bad that you insinuate most engineers coast through 4 years only learning to do this)

* Observation

* Memory-recall

Some examples of abstract thinking:

* Math

* Imagining something

* Philosophizing something

What you're referring to is abstract problem solving, which involves two things specifically for engineers: math & imagination.

You didn't answer the question. Do you have a CS degree? I don't think you know what you speak of, and I would not go around telling people "most CS grads just coast thru never abstract thinking." Your fictional split of programming VS abstract thinking I already proved is false with my painting analogy.

So again -- do you have a CS degree? What was your experience like? And if you don't, well, maybe you shouldn't be talking.
I like the fact that #!/proc/self/exe causes the interpreter to be the calling program (since the interpreter is evaluated in the context of the calling program, from the kernel).
But isn't it a huge change to make json not be valid javascript? These days no one in good conscience just uses "eval()" in a js app, so maybe it doesn't matter anymore, but still, it seems like that is suggesting a massive departure.
Ah, I see, my bad
What's the incentive? How discoverable is that? As someone not familiar with Python, I certainly would never guess to type 'python3'.
"Let that sink in for a moment: The selling point of this app is that Google will read your messages, for your convenience."

If that's the author's objection, it's like the author never heard of Gmail.

https://developers.google.com/schemas/tutorials/google-now-c...
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This is another one of those cliche questions along with "how do you build a URL shortener" and "what is a process" etc., that demonstrates a complete lack of originality of the interviewer. "Oh I have an interview, let me google some good questions. Seriously is there a list somewhere of these for lazy interviewers?
I believe this has more to do with supporting old browsers that don't have support for HTML5 video.
I have joked many times that I would gladly pay more to have less food served.

I find most served dishes are too big for me, and end up sharing w someone.. but sometimes that's not an option, so it will be good not to waste half of the food, even of it cost more to me.
Implying that Google's cars will have a driver...
I did not know this. Makes sense but also seems fairly weak/overly specific given it basically only targets movie theaters.
> Now obviously what browsers are missing is the UI responsiveness, efficient hardware performance, and OS integration.

> It will take far less work to make the discoverability and acquisition of native apps as convenient as typing in a web address.

I don't see that as the case at all. The UI libraries are just the tip of the iceberg.

In fact, I think CSS is better suited to hardware acceleration with modern GPUs than these native libraries, which date back to the '90s, are. That's because they're declarative instead of based on imperative systems like GDI that were designed for rendering on old CPUs.
I am aware of the suggested services; however, the ideal would be to have them seamlessly integrated to Firebase.
Scientists and inspiration
No reason, just think it'd be neat.
Plus it's MIT licensed. You can fork this easily and maintain its behavior the way it suits whatever you're building even if the upstream changes in breaking ways.
jup, i used http://www.premeforwindows.com/ for a while. But i mean the drag anywhere to scroll.
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I think that is true, but we can still distinguish between the false positive rate of the testing mechanism vs. the false positive rate of a particular series of tests (where this would depend, somewhat, in the underlying distribution). I'm not sure what the correct terminology is for this distinction, but I still don't believe Bayes' Theorem would come into play.
Exactly. This is one of those things many people assume and it causes them problems. The assumption that people these days always stare into their phones. Some people do that, some do it a lot less, some barely, and some never. Reality offers more choice.

Maybe OP should write a post on intersection of common assumptions with marketing tricks. There were a few embedded in here. Our assumptions get us just as often, though.
Proof that there is no performance improvement? There are some changes in PY3 making CPython more performant in some areas, but in some other areas PY3 may perform worse. There was a PyCon talk about this a few years back.
So how often are these bogus takedowns rectified? Will this be? Seems blatantly easy to fix if someone at YouTube just gives it a 5 minute look.
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Flash is only required when subscribed to Google Play Music All Access / Youtube Red, otherwise a free account can readily enable HTML5 audio in the options, which works in Chrome/Safari/Firefox (just tested again to be sure) and probably Edge also.
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Correct, Bill Gates also recently stated that companies such as Apple should decrypt people's devices if the government asks for it as long as it's 'really' important to the government, a statement said publicly such as that from such a huge 'enterprise' - you know it's deeply entrenched.
One of the most attractive features of netflix is the ability stream movies on the browser. Why would we want to move that to a separate app?
Why is your username green?
Biggest telco in Indonesia injecting advertisements for years
I actually think that CSS is better for drawing with modern GPUs than native UI frameworks are. CSS is declarative, which enables global optimizations--very important on GPUs, where state changes are expensive and overdraw hurts. By contrast, native UI frameworks were designed for slow CPU rendering in the '90s via legacy APIs like GDI.
Dangerous doesn't mean too dangerous. Nuclear energy is dangerous but any projection of energy use that accommodates growing population and energy usage AND expects carbon reductions AND doesn't include growing nuclear use is simply impossible.

EDIT: Also worth noting that there is a clear correlation between the increase of electronics/battery recycling in the West and lead poisoning cases in Kenyan children where the recycling is done. America cleaned up its sooty and smoggy cities by exporting the freedom to pollute to China and Mexico. No such thing as a free lunch.

Burning fossil fuels in perpetuity is dangerous too.

The point is, fracking can be done safe, it can be done properly. The only reason we see these hyperbolic results in places like Oklahoma is that states that tend to allow fracking just so happen to be the ones that couldn't give a rat's ass about effective and proper regulation.

We've come a long way from rope seat belts, haven't we?
Whether or not SymPy gives int(1)/int(2) as a float or Python gives int(1)/int(2) as an integer are wholly different things.

In the context of a programming language, I have to agree with wyldfire that int-on-int operations should yield integers.

Now if SymPy wanted to override the base behavior, I think they absolutely should! I could even understand that the context of symbolic math makes this the least surprising outcome.

But Python is a programming language, not a Domain Specific Language.
The ZX Spectrum ASM is ubereasy if you know a very little of Z80 ASM :)
I get all that. I will note that what you say is phrased like talking points from Cruz' enemies designed to make him 1-dimensional, but at least you provided some simple examples to back up some of your statements.

Back to my original question: how does the GP figure that a Cruz presidency would be worse than a Trump one?

Does Trump have any negatives for you? Can you weigh Trump's policy statements, demeanor, and history against Cruz'?
>wich is not exactly a public building (and illegal in every country I know of).

Which is still all kinds of fucked up. If you don't want your government facility to be photographed build it underground.
There are other possibilities. They could have a registry for allowed keys, or allow them but only under "extensions".
Hitting the nail on the head.

!important isn't intended as a workaround for your own code. It's for an external asset to override an internal one.
Even if it's true that they are under the thumb of the evil media companies, Google has billions in their war chest to fight legal battles like these. Why aren't they?

Apple seems willing to fight legal battles on moral grounds; why won't Google?
I was (I am?) guilty of that mental prejudice. A buddy poked me in the eye on that once, and now I make a conscious effort to realize that they're separate things as you've laid out here.

There really are multiple overlapping skill sets at play.
Nonce-misuse resistant cryptography 101