skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is only at Aldi where you have no area behind the cashier, all other have those and I hate them. You have to stand in line and wait until some slowly moving /&%%/ is packing all his stuff in slow motion into his much too small bag, while the cashier and everybody else has to wait before he slowly moves back to the cashier, pulls out his money, again in slow motion. Just a waste of time. The Aldi system doesn't allow for such unsocial behaviour.
Yes, and every new nuclear plant has to be mothballed for decades as a vital element to its construction. It's so the concrete can cure properly, right?

You're going beyond advocacy into sheer lunacy. Nuclear power plants do not take longer to build than the WWI, WWII (including incidentally the entire Manhattan project), and the Korean, Vietnemese, Iraqi, and Afghanistan wars combined. And I could probably jam some more things in there, since I'm not really looking up the time frames and just eyeballing it... because that's how stupid your claim is.

I don't know whether to hope that you realize the degree of BS you're spouting and that you're being deliberately mendacious, or to hope that you actually believe it and are at least being honest to what you think about the world.
And conceals the identity of that editor.
> 3) Why does FB only do sweeps annually? Why not daily?

Maybe to avoid giving a feedback cycle on their detection mechanisms?
I use SVGs all the time in Edge, styled appropriately. Edge however considers (as the spec says) that the bounds of the image are at the bounds of the "page" (as Inkscape sees it, in my experience)

I do The Bad Thing™ with inline styling on occasion, but I've had no problems:

<img style="width:100%;height:auto;" alt="header" src="https://zaibatsutel.net/zaibatsu-wide.svg">

Works 100% fine in IE using a layout kit like Marx or Twitter Bootstrap every time.
Your first impression is highly accurate.
It had some annoying CSS quirks that pissed me off last time I had to deal with compatibility issues.
Firefox is a pain to support. Its box model is slightly different than other browser, like shadows take up space and an outline is rendered around the shadow instead of aroubd the border. There are other minor things especially on the drag&drop events (in same window, not from outside) but I can't recall the specific.
Could be even more confusing if Perforce decides to rewrite in P4.
Yes, they could be doing so in this way, and I believe that companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, and such are doing so.

But as long as github retains staff members like Danilo Campos, I have absolutely no faith that github isn't taking a more draconian and explicitly racist approach.
Explosions that light up the sky form Siberian craters
I am curious if you knew about the Lena photo and history. It seems likely this remark by the professor was inappropriate, but given that context, provided by joshvm https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11888153, I think that muddies the water.
The difference is probably the combination of high footfall and continuous restocking in food shops, which results in role specialisation and hence a more static workforce where the role is static.
Tech-free verse: How poet Lisa Luxx made the connection
"Web browsers and other apps would have eventually been developed that work smoothly with such limited HW"

and they would probably feel as fast as today's phones for many applications.
Can Ken just put up that content as his own webpage, which Wikipedia can then reference as a primary source?
At least in the UK that's not true any more. Both Aldi and Lidl have moved out of bottom end discount and now also have premium lines too. So now for many lines you'll find discount, mid and premium versions - all still private label, all still styled to match equivalent brand or competing supermarket range. Lidl's premium meats are suspiciously close to Tesco premium range branding for instance, but vastly better. Still far fewer lines than Tesco or Sainsbury, but a heck of a lot more than five years or so ago when it was typically one of each thing.

Quality wise they beat the other supermarkets by a long way, except Waitrose or Co Op, on most things. There are exceptions, Aldi cheese is awful.
Well typed means nothing. Complete garbage can be well typed. Well typed proves the absence of a tiny, tiny subset of the possible bugs.

A subset which has nothing to do with, for instance, the corretness of loops. Because type checking doesn't verify those. Well typed doesn't even tell you whether a program terminates or not and on what inputs.

A program that is supposed to calculate pi could calculate e instead, yet be well typed (everything is a double-precision float, or a function from several of them to one, check!)
It's a free product. It would be better to spend dev time improving LetsEncrypt, rather than start another one from scratch.
In Australia, there's a far greater yield benefit to be gained from farmers buying a deep-ripper/mulboard plough(break the hard pan and allow root growth), switching to CTF(prevent a hard pan from happening again), switch to a no/minimum till system, spreading lime(correct soil pH) and maybe spreading clay (mitigate soil erosion).

All of these practises are also "low-tech". You'd want to use VR maps to spread your lime[0], and possibly clay (although it's fair easier to pick out soil erosion by eye as opposed to varying pH), so it's probably not needed.

Once you've sorted out the fundamentals, then it makes sense to start more precision ag. There's no point trying to grow a 5t crop when your roots can't even get down to the soil moisture.

[0] Example VR lime maps, pick Lime from the available layers - https://hectare.ag/nooka
You might want to step back and just reconsider how riddiculous it sounds. 5000 soldiers over millions of civilians? Really?
Existential threat would be invasion force / bombing run / missile strike coming to continental US territories. Anything else is just "they took our toys"
"ZeroTier's root servers run exactly the same code as ordinary nodes. They're just "blessed" in something called a "world" (see world/ and node/World.hpp) and run at stable IPs with a lot of bandwidth. There are currently 12 of them divided into two six-node clusters:"

Looks good. I've seen similar things work in five 9 types of setups. Potential there. Some components and clustering might be simple enough for medium-to-high assurance. That nodes benefit from peer review of open code is good. That they're the same is a claim we can't check without trusted hardware plus attestation. You also can't verify that yourself unless you have endpoint and SCM security that can survive penetration and/or subversion by high-strength attackers. That problem applies to most products, though.

I overall like it at the high level I'm reviewing at. Only drawback I see is that it appears to have been written in C++. Is that correct? If so, people can't apply state-of-the-art tools to either prove absence of bugs in code (eg Astree, SPARK), verify its properties (eg Liquid Types, AutoCorres), or automatically transform it to be safer (eg Softbound+CETS, SAFEcode, Code Pointer Integrity). What few tools are available for C++ are expensive and more limited. A rewrite needs to happen at some time to deal with that. Perhaps Rust as it solves dynamic allocation and concurrency problems that even Ada ignores plus was partly validated by Dropbox's deployment in low-level, critical components.

"but we'd want this to be extremely sybil-resistant otherwise someone could take down the whole net by electing a bunch of sham nodes."

I could only speculate on that stuff. It's not my strong area and still a new-ish field. What I do know is that many systems work by (a) having simple, clear rules; (b) maintaining audit logs of at least what happens between mistrusting entities; (c) auditing that; (d) forcing financial or other corrections based on detected problems. Rules and organizations are the tricky part. From that point, it's just your code running on their servers or datacenter of their choosing.

One scheme I thought about was getting IT companies, Universities, or nonprofits involved that have long history of acting aboveboard on these things. Make sure their own security depends on it. Then, you have at least one per country in a series of countries where government can't or is unlikely to take it down. Start with privacy, tax, and data havens plus First World countries with best, cheapest backbone access. Knocks out most of the really subversive stuff right off the bat. What remains is a small amount of subversion potential plus the bigger problem of politics on protocol or rule decisions.

"and we do get attacked. We've had several DDOS attempts and other attempts to attack the system. So far nothing's succeeded in impacting it much."

Glad to see you're making it on that. Surviving those is another benefit of centralized models. Carries over to centralized with distributed checking as well if you use link encryptors and/or dedicated lines to at least key supernodes. That's for the consensus and administrative parts, I mean.
My only complaint with infinite scrolling is that it breaks the scroll bar. It looks like Google accounted for that here by pre-rendering placeholders so the scroll bar doesn't keep resizing and jumping around. (But this wouldn't work so well if they had, say, 10,000 fonts.) Waiting for dynamic content to fill in the placeholders is no worse than waiting for a new page to load.

I just wish we had a standard "lever" widget to replace the scroll bar in lazily loaded pages - similar to the middle-click scrolling on at least some systems that have middle mouse buttons.
Trauma in personal or family history can hold one back in a way no number of Princetons can match.
It's a harder problem than it seems to be as many real Facebook users behave similarly to spammers. If you take some action that affects 0.1% of users, you piss off over a million users.

Also, nobody is screaming about this, and they make money off of it, so I doubt the motivation is there.
Yes, they have these fantastic capabilities, and they are improving all the time.

That said, note that even your example included live updates via comms/satellite links...

Consider the scenario where comms and orbital assets are unavailable/unreliable.

We still need human pilots. We're working to the day when we won't, but, we're not there yet.

(BTW, I'm all for unmanned, and think the F35 is already obsolete, and that humans are the limiting performance factor in esp. fighter aircraft (e.g., limiting it to 10g accelerations, but we're just not there yet for all scenarios, to answer the GP question as to "why not")
heh, brings back memories, we had a real-world Logo Turtle at secondary school in about 1990. This one's a little shinier though.
Fully agreed. I'd rather someone innovate, be passionate yet fail than do the same old garbage (not literally, just so much stuff is cookie cutter these days) and "produce"
Optimism is Good. But that is just marketing.
Or learn how to use the CLI client to connect. No need to install a awkward wrapper software layer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_centre

The answer to most of your questions is, on average, yes.
Medium's Engineering Interview Process
Excellent information.

May I inquire as to what product/service you promote with Facebook ads?
Agreed. We use Perforce at work. I have typed P4 so many times that it will essentially always mean Perforce to me.

For those who don't use P4, imagine if this project were named git (though that might not be as fair since git is much more popular).
> they also sell really odd stuff at times seemingly totally random too. Once I found bird baths there and another week an four post canopy

They buy those items in large amounts very cheap. People love those "bargains" and can't stop to buy it, even if they don't need it at the moment. And they are not randomly, they are seasonal and they do repeat every year. In Germany you get a weekly flyer for those bargain items in your letterbox and I would guess that it is the most read "publication" in Germany.
I think it'll be a while before we are out of the woods on this one. The culprits continue to thumb their nose at the FCC and openly challenge their authority.
I don't understand what the risk is. Are you talking about relocation?
The story of soil is a tremendously powerful one.

Ken Burns The Dust Bowl is re-airing currently (it was originally broadcast in 2012). It tells the story of the combined impacts of: 1) massive immigration onto the high western prarie, 2) mechanised agriculture, 3) hitting a period of higher rainfall, initially, 4) a false belief that "rain follows the plow", 5) intensive crop development, 6) deep plowing of virgin prarie, 7) economic cycles and patterns, affecting lending, loan conditions, ag market conditions, 8) the response of farmers -- as crop prices fell, they planted more -- because this was their only source of income, and their pattern (or antipattern) was to try what hadn't worked, but harder.

The results were staggering. From 1934-40 depending on the area, but most especially over the Oklahoma Panhandle and surrounding regions, crops were lost, families bankrupted, farms reposessed, banks failed, telephone companies failed. And up to 75% of topsoil, a one-time bounty that accumulates at the rate of a few inches per century, was lost. Only 25% of the lost land productivity was recovered.

Human hubris in the face of humble dirt is a category error.
You mean you haven't found any Edge edge cases?

(Sorry I couldn't help myself)
Yeah and the threat of banning Holmes from the industry pretty stern. I'm surprised that the word "fraud" hasn't been used by the investigating bodies yet.
And in the UK, for that, you get health care and other social services, unlike in NYC.
This thread shows how different the shopping culture is in various countries. I love it :).

Seems like something Zizek would use when talking about ideology :)
That video is the cure for depression, in cuddly form.
The VCs generally have board seats to force the issue. At some point employees want exits too. Only the strongest companies can ignore their money providers forever.
On macOS, http://bowtieapp.com is a good free alternative.
Lots of things seem to be starting to become ok under the guise of diversity initiatives.

Reminiscent of how giant corporations funding PACs and lobbying are exercising their rights to free speech.
So can incurable medical conditions.
Something looks fishy, but the author has some unreasonable expectations.

Specifically, if FB is optimizing for click through rate, you cannot expect an even distribution across the demographics. You aren't paying enough to saturate all channels, so you should expect to be mainly shown to whichever segment converts best for your ad.
As someone who used to be suicidal, I'm pretty glad I didn't do it.

Sure life is still pointless and kind of meaningless, but I'm having a lot more fun than I would have if I was dead. Unexistence, while easier, doesn't sound nearly as fun.

And besides, how will I ever achieve all those hopes and dreams I had as a 12 year old if I'm dead? I won't. But the longer I stay alive, the more likely it is. "Survive until tomorrow" is, in a sense, the only thing that matters. Or at least the thing that comes the closest to mattering.
Open plan offices are the bane of work requiring uninterrupted thought. I'd say buy a set of good on- or over-the-ear closed headphones and listen to music or soundscape to drown out the distractions when you really need to concentrate.
The records were not wiped out by a computer crash. They were wiped out by gross incompetence.
If you're going to say something about paper, see also the 1973 Personnel Records Archive Fire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Personnel_Records_Cen...
You can can work on several things at once in your local repo and use "git commit --patch" to separate changes. Of course you never want unrelated changes (different "topics") in the same commit.

If a feature is better implemented after a certain refactoring, then you can do that at the same time locally but still separate it out into different commits.
Ha, finally an opportunity to show this off! My pet parser project has a built-in "unparser" to turn a parser (specified as a formal grammar) into a randomized test-case generator.

https://github.com/Hardmath123/nearley#the-unparser
This!
+1 for not letting yourself be pressured by the queue.
>Germany I never encountered cashiers to comment on the goods I bought (I don't mind much, but it still felt a bit like an intrusion in privacy. I once bought a glass of Ghee - a common ingredient in southern german cuisine - and the cashier went on and on about how unusual it was that a white guy would buy it)

In the US service employees are required to be fake "friendly." This was an attempt at that. I hate it myself.

I always associated ghee with India, I had no idea it was used in Germany too.
I'm curious if Australia is a special case because of the drought [1]. It began in earnest in 1995 and was named record setting by 2003 so I can imagine the farms had to do a lot more borrowing and refinancing at unfavorable terms in order to make it through more than a decade and a half of very low rainfall. According to [2] the Australian government provided $4.5 billion in exceptional circumstance assistance which included monetary payments and interest rate subsidies. Even with that assistance I would imagine that the drought hit Australian farmers really hard. I tried looking at the agriculture.gov.au site for import statistics but couldn't easily figure out if agricultural imports grew during that time period, and whether that hurt the domestic farms as well.

It'll be interesting to see if California farms' debt balloons like this too as they have to borrow more and more to pay for water rights and infrastructure like wells. California is basically the US's fertile crescent so maybe there will be a lot more subsidies and federal assistance just to maintain food security as a national strategic goal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s_Australian_drought

[2] http://www.theage.com.au//breaking-news-national/minister-de...
A commercial for offshoring jobs. Disgusting, even by Medium standards.
She must not have looked very hard cause I found them easily in all shapes and sizes

http://www.brilliantearth.com/round-lab-created-diamond-sear...
The thing that killed ZFS on the Mac was the NetApp lawsuit over it against Sun.
McDonalds has an economic incentive for having all those qualities. Employees get fired for not cleaning the floor. A store goes out of business if people don't feel welcome there. A business wants as little in the way of customers as possible so the bureaucracy is kept to the minimum

A community center however is usually run by volunteers and is funded often as not by government money. The money comes with bureaucracy and there usually aren't enough volunteers to go around.

There are exception to both of the above of course. Some Mcdonald's are dirty and unwelcoming and some Community Centers are clean and simple.

But in the general case the above often holds true.
Black Hole Dark Matter
I think 5,000 friends is the messed up part, not the limit. Humans can't process that many friendships. Why not just have a page if you're blasting out to that many people?
"The music of streams" by Doug McIlroy, an inventor of Unix pipes - http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/powser.html
Air, land, sea, cyber: NATO adds cyber to operation areas
Colwell's presentation from Hot Chips two or three years ago really nails it. There are a lot of potential paths to increased performance/efficiency but you don't just replace the sort of gains that came from CMOS process scaling.
It used to be called "advertorial" or "special advertising feature". It's an ad disguised as content.

Done well, everyone wins: good content that pushes a message for the advertiser. It's not done well very often. Quartz has done it well a fair amount.
Smaller tech companies that exist for decades are generally serving a narrower niche than all purpose file sharing. To a large degree the product you are making informs what sort of growth strategy you must pursue.
All good points, but I believe the goal of the article was to try and survey all the tech changes that have been happening in Ag the past 10-15 years and it was already pushing the word cap for a single magazine article. I suppose if they had skipped genetics, aquaculture, and maybe underground gardening they would have had more room to focus on soil and plants. But that may have been a different kind of article at that point.
Unexistence, while easier, doesn't sound nearly as fun.

We do not actually know that Unexistence would be easier, nor whether or not it would be fun.

I don't intend any disrespect at all. I have attempted suicide and spent plenty of time suicidal. So this is a conclusion I drew in earnestness.

We have no means that I know of to investigate what comes after death, whether or not something survives the physical body, etc. Many people believe in religion and an afterlife or in reincarnation. Others believe nothing survives after the body dies. But, scientifically speaking, we do not actually know.

I am glad you are no longer suicidal.

Peace.
Pythonista 3
"If 7-Eleven is capable of providing a functional gas pump, it is the consumer's choice whether or not they wish to input gas there or at a competitor"

Excellent analogy. Totally agree. The reality is that big companies just bully whomever they don't like and simply win because all they need to do is threaten.
I work for a company where we sell lots of Ag monitoring stuff. We are based in NZ, but sell into Australia and are now also moving into the Central Valley. Many get a lot of benefit from managing their water.
Ex-Pablo Escobar enforcer who killed 300 seeks new career as YouTube star
>People should have an inherent distrust of binary blobs, too, for whatever that's worth.

All you said are true for binary blobs as well. The page could be MITM, etc.

"curl xxx | sh" style deployment has all the same disadvantages of binary blogs, but has the added advantage that you can download and check the code before executing it.
Why I Need an AR-15
How to make Angular faster: don't use it.
Check this: https://medium.com/@diegorbaquero/how-to-create-a-swarm-cdn-...
The "awkward wrapper software layer" has so many workflow enhancements and advantages over the ho-hum CLI client that it's not even funny.
I agree with the overall message, so my criticism is of the writing itself:

(i) The writing is way too vitriolic, and centered around a single experience with a single person. I don't think there's anything wrong with anecdotal evidence from a blog, but I think OP should use more than one anecdote.

(ii) The argument sounds like "this guy pissed me off and was an entrepreneur therefore all entrepreneurs are dismissive".

(iii) The tone of the piece gives off a "oh my god, Stacey's such a bitch. I went to the mall and..."

(iv) What does the image of the friendly looking couple drinking coffee have to do with the writing?
If you're trying to get a job at BigCorp that's probably an HR nightmare to figure out.
I'd agree that it probably is a real photo, but you're right. It even looks like a digital painting - not just a 3D render.

I wonder if the designers picked colors and surfaces that maximize visibility and sharpness underwater for safety reasons.
Maybe compile to nftables bytecode instead?