skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Try living your life but disconnected. It's interesting

I found it the opposite of interesting. It was exactly as I expected it would be: like normal life, but a lot more boring and generally worse.
Why would you want strings to be formatted using terminal codes? It's just textual data. It has nothing to do with terminals, other then the fact that terminals need to handle text. I see little reason that text should have to handle terminals.

With that said, CR+LF is just inefficient, since doing both of those tasks together is what is overwhelmingly desired for a newline.
I'm a moderator of a small stackexchange site. When we got started, there were all kinds of "this isn't an appropriate question for our site" arguments. I warned people that if you were too strict about what questions could be asked, nobody would want to stay. The counter-argument was you had to push for high quality questions early on to have a high quality community.

Nobody seemed able to know what a high quality question was, nor could come to an agreement on what topics specifically would be allowed.

I left the community and became a mod a year later because stackexchange asked me to - given that I had a high reputation on the site and the site itself was in danger of dying out. The site still exists today IMO, in spite of the users who are quick to criticize other peoples questions instead of answer them - and really because the topic itself is something a lot of people are interested in without a lot of other communities to go to for support.

Stackexchange's system encourages people to be bitchy and put down other people's questions. They are in the position they are because of SEO - and because google and yahoo's alternative solutions were short sighted. If the monetization model was really all that strong they would lose their market position very quickly.
The about us statement clearly states that it's a place for developers to "Developers trust Stack Overflow to help solve coding problems..." and "...our products aim to enrich the lives of developers as they grow and mature in their careers."

Pretty clear that it's for professional programmers and not beginners. I agree that it is a bit frustrating to google something and have the SO question marked as a duplicate of another unanswered question. There are many places to learn the basics of programming and SO is not that place.
Well it's very likely that within 1-2 generations everything will be USB-C so I don't see the problem especially since Apple has gone with this already in the new MacBook.

Even then.. You don't have to buy it. I didn't feel HDMI had any benefit over VGA for me for years and chose not to use it. You can do the same with this.
The math library AFAIK, in order to provide the same wrong results that the MSVC implementation gives.
> I genuinely don't understand is why lists are more harmful to the community than rudeness and vitriol

An excellent question, which leads us to the heart of the matter ...
Exactly. He just vaguely talks about cool stuff with supposedly cool people. I tried his podcasts and just can't get into him.
Problem is a number of us were parts of the community and now treat it mostly as read only.
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Poorly recalling from my memory. Given that a "block" is a variable metric, the actual number is less important than the concept that it is a static. There are only ~5 cities in the US with > 1,000 of these blocks: NYC, Boston, DC, SF, Chicago (Philadelphia?, Baltimore?)* AND with a transportation network that makes car-free living possible. Developers would build more such areas if zoning allowed.

* Forgive my ignorance for being from the West Coast. Even in SF its difficult to live car free if you don't live on BART or Muni Metro.
People would be getting killed if MLB players were playing baseball with some of the aluminum and newer composite bats that are developed now.

I used to play in a men's modified pitch softball league where, even with the half-drunk middle-aged men that were playing, when the DiMarini composite bats came out, guys were using them and ripping line drives that could take your head off. Had to downgrade to a squishier series of softballs that didn't transfer as much of the force from the bat.
Anyone know why Google's page they haven't updated since 2011 for their illegal trust is on the front page? Doesn't seem to be any new updates on it.
I don't think they have to stay lucky, I think they have to stay calm. The problem is, often when the luck runs out, the calm does too. Amidst panic people seek refuge in tradition, not finding it a place like Netflix could collapse you're right.

But I don't see why these rules couldn't work in a contracting revenue scenario, as long as you keep cutting staffing levels where they need to be to keep a runway.

That too makes it hard to stay calm though. The severance policy helps.
You can't sue someone for speaking or advertising ideas you don't agree with. The NRA could start printing copies of Mein Kampf and cause the rise of a new Nazi movement, and I'd still defend their right to free speech.

I also don't agree with your assumption that conservatives and readers of gun magazines are responsible for most of the homicide rate. If you banned gun magazines and blogs or whatever you think is responsible, I doubt gun ownership would go down. And even if it did, I doubt the homicide rate would go down due to it. Gun collectors are not more likely to be involved in crime.

I believe that if you control for drug violence and poverty and other factors, the US homicide rate isn't that much worse than countries with gun control. And gun manufacturers certainly aren't responsible for those things.
Kind of surprised that this seems to be the sentiment. I rather live in a place where I make less, but the wealth is better distributed. To me a high standard of living is not just a good salary, but also good living conditions of those around me. If Toronto is to be the next Bay Area, and I have to walk over the homeless to get to work, I'm out of here.
For the most part, downvotes on poor questions don't cascade a ton. Questions that go lower generally deserve it.

Of those questions about a day old with score <= 0, only ~30% are less than 0. Of those <= -1, only ~30% are < -1 and only ~10% are < -2.

Your RTFM tag doesn't seem to add very much over a moderate count of downvotes. I believe the rest of what you've said applies when downvotes happen.
How cool would it be to have a recommendation system for music that follows mood? That could be trained on actual music not by me saying "I listen to songs x,y,z when sad, a1,b1,c2 when it's sunny and i'm feeling good etc". If this will ever exist it would probably increase my hedonic index 10 fold
Most routing protocols can remove indirect next hops if the dependent interface has been determined to have gone down.

LACP/Bonding is anotjer challenge that requires either min-links or micro BFD.

BFD is often run at aggressive intervals (less than 1000ms for detecting a failure), and is not best suited for running on general purpose CPUs performing all of the management and control plane tasks. BFD is ideally implementes in hardware.
It mentions Waterloo because it's one of the best EE/CS schools in the world.
First off preceptrons are very simplified models, a first pass really at modeling brains in silico decades ago.

There is a whole field of theoretical neuroscience dedicated to this problem, and have made quite a bit of progress, still a bunch of work left to be done.

The classical introductory text on the topic is the book by Peter Dayan and Larry Abbott called computational and mathematical modeling of neural systems.
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Those cities are actually part of a geographic region called the Golden Horseshoe Area, which is more comparable to Census Statistical Areas in the US (like the SF Bay Area, Baltimore-Washington Area, and Chicagoland).
So what are those hundreds of people doing at RenTec if "the space of unsophisticated strategies is not all that large"? Do you think their $100 million algorithmic trades go unnoticed? A $10,000 trade is going to make someone take notice of a little guy?

At any rate, is there some reason that you are driving the discussion to "it's not possible". No one learns anything by saying "it's impossible". Perhaps we should have ignored the post.
Maybe he is erlich bachman?
Good point - I've been planning to go again for a while, but never do...
They did pass it by, and it was down-voted for its irrelevance to the vast majority of users. Then you went and complained about down-votes (with a dismissive insult, no less), like that was an acceptable response.

If you make a post that most people don't need to see, then don't worry about the down-votes. When you're getting down-voted for writing something most people do need to see, then there's a problem.
Exactly. Developers are economically incentivized to subdivide to the maximum extent. Low minimum lot sizes encourages small lot sizes = high density.
There is a lot of colorful talk in your post and replies about hipster behavior and hip languages. A successful IT career has nothing to do with where you drink coffee, which brand of personal computer you use, and whether your clothing has facilities for keeping the wind off your face.
What really matters is you can deliver value to a business. Yes some companies (or hiring mangers there) don't value that and it is all about ridiculous signalling i.e. what frameworks are cool vs uncool and other such nonsense.
In my experience (my Australian-European experience anyway) most companies just want developers who can solve problems reasonably quickly, fit in with a team, and appreciate quality.

Yes some jobs may require specific experience, like they want extensive React experience for example. If this they are this fussy they should pay more. Most companies will happily see evidence that you know JS well.
My advice is to disregard anything a person who calls you a 'useless lamer' has to say as this person is probably not an authority and needs to grow up.

Instead keep learning on the intersection of what interests you and what will help you get hired. Go to more interviews and take note of the questions they ask you. As an example I was often asked about SOLID principles in interviews, so I took time to learn it. Actually it was pretty useful and I use SOLID in code review discussions now. (This is just an example and I am no sure it will apply to Javascript)

Learning OO is a good idea. C# and Java are probably to most popular and are quite easy to transition to from JS.
In a nutshell fuck this douchbag who called you a lamer. I'd listen to a donkey's opinion before I take this guy seriously. Go to more interviews, find out where your knowledge is missing and fill it in.

Finally don't lie on your CV, you won't need to.
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>Amex must have the highest interchange & fees.

Seems to vary. e.g. My local coffee shop puts a surcharge on all card transactions...except Amex. And thats in freakin europe...so there are definitely case by case deals going on.
Actually you don't have to be working for the company at all for #3. I think he wasn't working for the company until his green card came through.

Basically it's like applying for a green card normally, except your out of the country and you get the visa with "consular processing". I'm not sure if you can work remotely for the company or not while the green card process is happening.

I think most employers don't want to do it although because your not working for them while it's processing. With a dual intent visa you can work for the company while the green card is processing and your in the US office.

This outlines it:
http://www.path2usa.com/employment-based-green-card

*Note: I know technically employers apply for you, not you yourself independently. It's just easier to write it that way.
> there is frequently little patience for questions which you could have resolved yourself.

I don't think that's realistic; it's the rationalization for bad behavior.

IMHO the truth often is that there are many people who want the chance to act out on their frustrations or other emotional problems, and they seek a target they can rationalize attacking - like a guy going to a bar looking for a fight.

Or like the angry mobs on social media who pile on someone they don't know over an issue that doesn't affect them and about which they know almost nothing. Consider why, if it doesn't affect them and they don't even want to learn about it, they attack the object of their vitriol? It's the same motive and behavior, just a different context.
The article included two signs asking people to vote each way.

It's my understanding that a law was passed by legislators and then a vote was made to repeal or keep the law. The public voted in favor of keeping it.
I pay £20 for 20GB of 4G data in the UK (plus unlimited minutes + texts - which I barely use). This includes Spotify Premium (which I would otherwise pay £9.99 for - and was, prior to my network introducing this), so in reality I'm paying the equivalent of £10 for 20GB. It always astonishes me how much people have to pay for data.

It never surprises me how expensive data is in the US.
OK you've mistaken my meaning. I'm saying a line item that says "your credit card fee" with a price that is the actual cost of the transaction fee. Not more, not less. You use a debit card, this would be $0.26, for a typical credit card $3.10. You would have control over this fee.

Right now the federal law actually says businesses can't pass on the cost of the debit card fee, but can pass on the credit card fee (not in certain states). But in either case you learn what your card costs you, rather than passing on that cost to everyone who uses debit cards, cash, or credit cards that incure lower fees to the merchant.
It's not astroturfing when we all admit that we like Peter Thiel. We're not hiding it.
it's the most liquid market on earth, it's 24 hour for the majors, its depth is enormous, and it is less prone to event risk than individual equities (as long as you stick to unpegged currencies) so you can get tons of leverage on it.
That's basically a writ of anarchy. By his reasoning virtually every government structure in existence does not apply to the people who were born after its formation because they simply didn't agree with it.
I must have missed the post about noisili. This is very cool, thanks for bringing this up.
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I also wonder if there is any connection between the low value put on being polite and welcoming and the struggles to create bring more diversity to our community.

StackOverflow is where professional development happens, and so there is some responsibility on them to make sure that development is healthy.
What? Living in a country with a broken financial and banking system I'm relying on Bitcoin for storing and transferring value. Check out Bitcoin search trend for South Africa, North African countries, Pakistan, and Venezuela.

Other reasons to use bitcoin: Drugs, Money Laundering, CryptoLocker, Capital flights, etc...
The ability to apply more force means it's easier to be more accurate in upweight shots. The men's game at the elite level is a hitting game. The women's game is getting closer to that with training and ice conditions, but there are very few teams women's teams in the world that can hang with the hitting of the top men's teams, currently.

Where it's more important is sweeping, up to this point at least. Teams like Jacobs have shown how much of an advantage powerful sweeping is - the range of accuracy is much wider for them compared to me throwing the same hit with two club sweepers. That's the second part of the equation that most people miss in thinking that curling isn't a strength sport.

Of course now, you don't need to be nearly as strong to achieve the drastic changes in rock movement that you did before, and that's one of the concerns.
>I believe this was via debit cards

yup...the point of sale systems skip the cash-back step entirely if the card is a credit or cheque card.
What if you’re neither a specialist nor a generalist?
The objections to the Colemak layout seem kind of bogus to me. I use Colemak and none of these things are issues for me at all.

>Typing ‘HE’ forced the hand to make a very unnatural sideways twisting motion from the wrist and then back again.

Really? I just extend my right index finger half an inch to the left and type the E — my wrist doesn't twist or move at all (at least not perceptibly).

>Try typing “The” with the T capitalized on Colemak and hopefully you’ll see what I mean. Your right hand will move somewhat like this: you swing to the right to get the SHIFT key with your pinky, then you swing back to the left to get the letter ‘H’, and then you move to the right again to get the letter ‘E’.

That makes no sense at all. Why in the world would you use the right shift key for this? I just extend my left pinky a little bit to hold down the left shift key while I type the T.

>I really wanted Colemak to work however I can’t live with the H-E movement and having to reach for D and H often.

There's hardly any movement or reaching required to type D and H. You're just moving your index finger a fraction of an inch to the side. The rest of your fingers and your hands don't move at all.

I can't see anything here that would motivate me to ditch Colemak.
Active reflection on past experiences has many positive effects on psychological wellbeing and I'm quite surprised that they weren't mentioned in this article.

Artie Konrad (disclaimer: a labmate of mine until he graduated recently) focused on the effects of Technology Mediated Reflection (TMR) which deals with user's keeping a sort of personal diary and being prompted to reflect on past experiences routinely. Overall this increases mental wellbeing significantly with some interesting effects on how memories are evaluated over time and how the reflective process affects current moods.
Also corner shops all add a 50p charge if you buy for less than 10GBP or if you buy cigarettes.
Jet charges less if you use a Visa or MasterCard debit card. I wonder if that violates the terms.
> Pretty clear that it's for professional programmers and not beginners.

SO itself begs to differ:

> Stack Overflow is for professional and enthusiast programmers, people who write code because they love it.

So very clearly not only professionals.

Also as lambda points out somewhere in this discussion you might be a seasoned pro in one language and a noob in another.
Oh, amphetamines were huge in Japan for a long time, especially during wwii and the postwar period of recovery, and while the government cracked down on drugs in a major way after the fifties, meth is still probably the top drug in Japan.
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How does that differ from what's been reported is extensive work to appease static analysis tools?
> In the light of a lawful verdict his motive of bankrolling the lawsuit is completely irrelevant.

That's only true if you believe judicial outcomes don't depend on the financial resources of the parties involved.

That's the ideal, but I don't believe it.
You think he's worthless and yet you listened to "a dozen or so of his podcasts". Mmmmkay.
The single best thing you can do for your productivity and peace of mind is leave your phone on airplane mode unless you are expecting an important call, or need to make a call. Anyone trying to reach you that you actually want to hear from will leave a message, and the hassle of having to switch out of airplane mode keeps you from compulsively surfing, using facebook/twitter/etc.
I experience the exact opposite. Maybe something else is going on.
If news is the same a worldnews then hopefully the vocal racists are the ones leaving and the quality of news increases.
There is one sense in which they are almost certainly correct in their claims of being victimised by a group: Trolling.

The article says that Targeted Individuals support each other online. I cannot imagine trolls do not represent a good number of such a support community.
It is not obvious that the Universe is computable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
I have been looking at exactly this type of solution, as I want to use Elixir for distribution of python(numpy)-based computations to clients. Just a quick question.... is ErlPort maintained? It looks like it's been in alpha for 3 years...
toronto salaries would shock most american developers. a startup i interviewed at starts entry level developers at $42k and senior developers were making $70k. i was told my ask of $125k cdn was double what they would consider paying me
If people really wanted or needed those lists, someone would create a site for that purpose. The reality is that such a site would fail terribly, because those kinds of lists are opinions people won't agree on, and go out of date incredibly quickly. If you search for such a thing, you'll find blog posts from people giving such lists, and most of them will be useless because they are out of date.

StackOverflow is a good resource precisely because it's curated and maintained, including rejecting content that doesn't work on the site. Just like Wikipedia doesn't allow you to have your own page listing your opinions.
At work I've started keeping the reducer in the actions file, anyone else do that? This way they can share the same const declarations, and you don't have to toggle between two files when most actions / reducers are pretty small.
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Thanks for the reference.

edit: Thanks very much; if that doesn't contain what I'm looking for, it'll give me further places to look.
That's not true at all in some cases it's actually the other way around entry level xeons are failed i5/7's that can't turbo boost as high.

There were only a few xeons that were made into desktop processors and they ended up as i3's there were a few of those that supported ECC.

The 'E' edition CPU's can potentially be xeons but then they aren't failed ones but highly cherry picked ones as they boot and overclock very high.
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