skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they should be indistinguishable

That seems to me to be missing the point rather badly (by Amazon, not by you). Counterfeits are designed to be indistinguishable, at least to casual inspection. Forging a UPC code is trivial.
Clean Links – Converts obfuscated or nested links to genuine clean links
And will start to pay for itself after repeating 120 times. Although, this assumes the 40 hours includes any necessary maintenance. Let's be honest: It doesn't. Although, your coworkers lack proper checklist vigilance, and forgetting steps may have other costs!
...to fabricate the illusion of intellectual freedom.
I wouldn't bet on us noticing the meteor sufficiently early for an evacuation. We have mapped only a tiny portion of asteroids in our solar system and, iirc, the budget for that program keeps getting cut.
Really surprised the Segway isn't at least mentioned- before its unveiling, Steve Jobs said that future cities would be designed around it.
Ubuntu on Fairphone 2
Bad news: It wasn't a very big rock.

https://share.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/astero...

Most descriptions speak of a single explosion, something comparable to a nuclear weapon. That isn't an appropriate model. It wasn't a single event at a fixed spot, nor was it a series of events. It was more of a continuous release of energy over a great distance. The rock exploded not at a particular altitude, but dissipated its energy into the atmosphere over a period of time/distance, a line rather than a point. Square-area/volume principals therefore do not apply directly. With that understanding it turns out it was probably a much smaller rock than previously though.

The trees were not knocked over all at once. I think of it more as them being blown down in series as if by the wake of a passing boat, that boat being an exploding rock. So you cannot take the total damage area and calculate a single point for the explosion.

Old model: http://www.sandia.gov/videos2007/2007-6514Pfire.hv1.2.mpg

New model: http://www.sandia.gov/videos2007/2007-6514Pfire.hv1.1.mpg
> When they tried to make pair programming mandatory, most of us decided to ignore it.

Oh, it's still doing its job because now it becomes a speed trap. Failure to pair program then becomes something to put on your pink slip when management fears the possible repercussions of "we just don't like you".
> Why would deduplication stop maintenance?

I didn't say it would, I said it would stop repetitive maintenance--meaning you won't have to update many duplicates of the same logic because there aren't duplicates.

I tried to update my comment to be more clear, but I'm not sure that I succeeded. :p
I think a big function of the checkmark is reassuring people that an account belong to who it says it belongs to

That is in fact the only reason Verified Accounts exist, and is the reason that non-celebrities or people otherwise lacking notoriety can not get Verified Accounts. It's not worth Twitter's effort to make my account, or any random user, Verified, it seems. But as Twitter's role continues to expand in the public sphere, it is really the public who gives out Verified Accounts (through making someone famous), and the public should have requirements, such as a certain level of consistency, from the accounts it gives the power/influence of the Verified Account to.
I agree. I follow the DRY principle very strongly, but not on the literal code level - just one level above, on the "what is this doing" level. So in your example, if I see a dozen places where the program is using that URL library to e.g. send requests to get a different dataset from the same API, I'll quickly DRY it into a function. That's because all those places do the same thing - "fetch a dataset named $name from API XYZ". But I'll leave alone all the other places that use the same URL library, even with pretty much identical parameters, if they're doing different things. They may look the same now, but they may start to differ later. And even if they don't, placing them under a common abstraction when they represent different things is basically a lie. I don't like it when the code lies to people.
These comparisons are senseless. We are talking about state violence and fear of the state.

I care far more about an armed agent of the state murdering someone than I do about some random guy murdering someone. Have you been to an inner city lately? Even New York, which is incredibly peaceful, has areas where there are palpable, reasonable fear of police violence from black people. The constant searches and seizures, the attitude of superiority and yes, the physical violence - these are preventable and they're plagues to having a peaceful world.
I'm not sure I get your point or what are you trying to explain / show / support.
Strawman.

It's very possible the guy thought he could figure it out, but discovered he was wrong and mentioned it in the stand-up because it was the first opportunity that day to bring it up (remember, in a lot of places stand-up happens fairly early in the morning in order to give coders the largest block of contiguous time for development).
Climbing on skis is a lot more fun than climbing on a bike, and you have access to much more interesting terrain, as they don't generally build roads over mountain peaks, and certainly they don't build them on slopes nearly as steep as what skis let you access.
Is it anything like being slashdotted?
Ask HN: Tech Crunch's August Capital Summer Party – Has Anyone Benefited?
Wondering if this well-touted event has benefited startup entrepreneurs seeking pre-seed or seed financing. Would love to hear both positive and negative experiences.
My favorite is (open source) netguard. It is really easy to use, nice ui, nice default options. I will be super bummed if this will no longer work.

I guess I was was wondering how Google would resolve the conflict between their basic function -- making money by serving ads -- with a user experience which is almost always improved by blocking ads.

Mobile chrome will never have extensions, excuses side, because Google had the opportunity with a new platform and new browser to make sure ad blocking wasn't as easy as installing an extension.

I personally run mobile Firefox with ublock origin. Wonder if that will be always be possible?

If I need to root my phone to get a system level VPN / firewall / adblocker, I might as well just get an iPhone and jailbreak.
In 2013 in Russia, a meteor exploded over a city and injured thousands of people.

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

Something extra interesting about this is the number of videos that recorded it due to the prevalence of car dash cams. This helped scientists quickly reconstruct what happened and is amazing footage to have of such a rare event.
As I understand it, the consensus is:

1. Quantum computers do exist in reality, as in we can build qubits, shove them through quantum gates, and read the results.

2. Quantum computers that are large enough to do anything useful don't exist.

3. It's not clear if we can practically build systems that hold 000's of qubits without letting them decohere.

4. D-Wave's quantum computer isn't a quantum computer for the purposes of what most people talk about with quantum computing. It also doesn't look better than classical computers.
Why Twitter’s CEO gets back pats, Yahoo’s CEO gets backlash
Something is being done about it, lots of people are protesting and demanding change, writing letters to politicians, many are standing up to the police and refusing to let their rights be infringed, and some people are actually sacrificing their own lives and committing murder just to make their point be heard.

What specifically do you want to be done to change a increasingly militarized institution with unlimited resources and hundreds of thousands of people in it that has unwavering support of tens of millions of people that nearly all accept the myth of their infallibility?

I'm doing nothing and I don't know why. I asking myself why I don't stand up to police when they give orders I don't legally need to follow. I am asking myself why I don't fight back when police departments ask for more money, more officers, more body armor, more guns. I am asking myself why I am complicit (through non-action) in allowing culture of hero worship to circle all uniformed occupations and how this may create the very God Complex of infallibility that needs to be curtailed.

What are you doing?
> Instead, I see people subclassing views to change their behavior and dealing with absolutely mind-numbing behavioral bugs in their subclass.

Because they're breaking a rule of good design, implementations should depend on abstractions, not other implementations. Never subclass a concrete class, only abstract classes.

> Solution? When you have a view class that almost, but not quite, does what you want, copy the entire class, rename it, and make it do what you want.

Better solution, move the duplicate code into a common abstract superclass. Allow the views to differ where they're concrete and keep the common code abstract in the superclass. Then you can't ever break one implementation by changing another implementation, your core complaint.
Since some of their members would lose their jobs or at least some nice toys, I don't think so.
Easy: Get Congress to pass legislation that makes a "week" 14 days long.
The protests, and the black lives matter movement, are in response to particular kinds of state-sponsored violence. Tey tend to cover instances where police had ample opportunity to deescalate, but instead chose to use lethal force. We don't have statistics to cover these instances, but we do (now) have citizen-filmed videos. These videos show a pretty clear story of unconscionable police violence against blacks.
That's the attitude which leads to users who don't know anything, can't easily learn, and can be easily controlled and manipulated. Of course, that might be your intention, in which case my only appropriate reaction is "DO NOT WANT!"
During my time at the Internet Archive when we were working the wayback machine and related stuff, we wrote an arc/warc python library to parse and unpack these files. The library is over here https://github.com/internetarchive/warc. Just in case anyone is interested.
In a sentence, "What is?" versus "What do I do?".

Occam's Razor is a useful -- but not fool-proof -- tool for the latter.

It says nothing definitive about the former. At best, it makes a very broad statistical generalization.

If it's actually statistical (measured), and not anecdotal.
Yeah, but they claim that "URLs are directly available in the Wayback Machine too" over here: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Coursera

What I don't get is which URLs...
" I don't understand this view. If "everybody might have a gun," why are police, who also have guns, more likely to live in fear than anyone else?"

Really? It's not hard to understand at all.

That you might have a gun, doesn't really assuage the fear that some normal person in a bad mood might pull their gun on you.

I live in Canada. Cops are chill here. They are not skittish or scared they might get shot.

When cops pull me over in some places in the US, they act like a goddam swat team.
The UK opts to leave the EU not the single market just like Norway and the Swiss and just like it did before the EU.

But feel free to claim certainty that this will happen where none exist.
Luckily, there are new companies springing up to do work like this because it will be profitable some day. Planetary Resources is specifically looking for big rocks to do mining operations on, but is taking it into their own hands to map for unknown objects with Near Earth trajectories. That doesn't take away from how sad it is that our governments have cut the already-small budgets of important research like this. That's a crime, really.

Edit: here's the startup pitch I added to our last YC application in the "other ideas" section (I wonder why it didn't get funded):

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4) Planetary defense network to protect from asteroid impact. Build small satellites to search for and redirect dangerous asteroids. Rather than last-minute warning systems or explosion/impact-based protection, it would work by slowly gravitationally changing dangerous asteroid orbits so that they will not hit Earth. Build it so that it’s gravitationally self-sufficient and can use captured asteroids to deflect incoming dangers. This is similar to the recent work at Planetary Resources in Seattle - while they prospect for minerals we would direct asteroid orbits. In February of 2016, NASA announced the creation of the Planetary Defense Office to coordinate these efforts globally. Now is the right time to start working on this.

[1] http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasa-s-new-planeta...
Only subscribers can read that link. :-(
Quora is so awful. Can't see anything about who has asked the question. I really hate that site. (Stack Exchange forever!)
That said, that question did get a lot of answers...

But the nerve of some people... Why don't they just hire twice as many developers? (Assuming their sweatshop startup could handle it) And paying attention to Fred Brooks at the same time...
There is a good point made here (that black people are unwelcome in many desirable spaces and that Pokemon GO makes people behave oddly).

The title is clickbait, though. It should be something like, "Pokemon GO could get a black man killed".
I see some new emojis on the horizon!
well, you can reintroduce slavery...
Being young is associated with risk-taking (see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2396566/ for instance for some references. In the article, "young" means less than 25). So you're more likely to ski less safely, for instance.

Young drivers are also really more likely to have a car accident (ask car insurance), not because they are this age or that age, but because they less experienced.
I'm honestly surprised the monorail never took off. The only reason I can think of is that "monorail" sounds like some kind of disease — perhaps "air rail" or "sky train" would have worked better? Safe, efficient, quiet — it seems like these would go far with regard to public transportation in many cities.
America is a very different place now than in 1946.

I googled "most popular people in America" and Google shows me pictures and out of the top ten, half are African-American including Barack Obama, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Ali, MLK Jr, and Oprah Winfrey.

I looked at one page that had top ten most popular people in America in the 1940s and there were no African-Americans on the list.

> Your ancestors dragged these black people from their homes by force

Many slavers were African, particularly the ones dragging people out of their homes, and in 1946 very few Americans would have had ancestors who were either slave traders or slave owners.
I'm surprised by the number of developers who think the "right abstraction" is always attainable now. In situations with complex, shifting requirements, particularly with a new product, it is very easy for a good dev team to lock in on a set of seemingly correct abstractions that make subsequent development very difficult.

I've recently been on both sides of this fight, unwinding premature abstractions in favor of some duplication, and imposing a set clean abstractions on some horror-show code.

The premature abstractions were imposed in a situation where we were trying to map several different application-layer protocols to a common set of functions. The handling of the different application layer protocols should almost certainly have been left "unabstracted" by the original developers at this stage (where understanding is murky, time is short, and complexity is high).

On the other hand, we also had a metrics reporting framework where everyone just kind of rolled their own thing depending on how they were feeling that day. It was a massive mess, it was unreliable, it was uneditable, it was inefficient, and the only cure was to rip the whole thing out and impose a set of clean abstractions around the different reporting scopes that we need. This was a case where requirements were not likely to change, the complexity of the task was relatively low, and our understanding of what we needed to achieve was not 'murky'.

I'm definitely on the side of defensively avoiding premature abstraction in certain situations. I think it leads to healthier, more transparent, easier to change code in some situations, especially in the nascent stages of a complex machine (that nevertheless must function in production).

I'll say also that unwinding premature abstraction just feels.. ugly, politically and aesthetically. But that doesn't mean it isn't the correct decision sometimes, and it certainly doesn't mean that we wouldn't have been better off if we had just embraced the particular during a time when we didn't (and couldn't) know any better.
> It just doesn't work well, and the maintainer / hackage trustee overhead is too damn high.

The trustee overhead is only too damn high if people start leaving off upper bounds more frequently. We're tweaking and adding features into `cabal-install` to encourage proper PVP bounds when uploading to Hackage.

On the other hand, Stack unfortunately undoes this by having harming defaults here.

So, to put this bluntly, by having bad defaults, Stack is actively contributing to overload Hackage Trustees.

> My theory is that the folks who are adamant about the PvP are either damn tenacious and dedicated (hvr, dcoutts, etc), or people who don't deal with projects with many dependencies and custom packages.

Well, that's a very bold theory...
> felt like I was getting fleeced at every turn.

On what? I never noticed Vienna as an expensive place for anything other than maybe housing.
> but discovered he was wrong and mentioned it in the stand-up because it was the first opportunity that day

Exactly. Which means that he's saying that at the standup not because of any special advantage given by it, but just because it's the very first appointment of the day.
Had there been no standup, he would have asked for help anyway.

So either:
1) the standup covers up a fundamental malfunctioning of the team, namely that people can't communicate freely during the day, or
2) useful stuff that people say at the standup is stuff they would have said anyway at that time of the day.
> The only country in Europe with sane taxes is Switzerland.

In Switzerland you have to pay for insurance yourself however.
... again! :)

I'd prefer a german page. And a less clickbaity page.
I just finished type-annotating a 10-year old Python codebase
It could be gender bias, but Dorsey's only been back as CEO for less than a year. Mayer's been there for four. That could explain the "wait and see" attitude towards Dorsey.

That said, Dorsey has been on the board forever and "executive" chairman since 2011, so it's not like he hasn't been involved in Twitter's key decisions.
I thought most realtors earned commission? Does the company keep the commission here then instead? It's an interesting idea, I think I would trust one of their theoretical agents more since they aren't directly incentivized to get me to buy a more expensive property.
Don't Amazon already do this? IIRC from the few things I have sold on Amazon, I had to wait 2-4 weeks after an order for the money to be paid into my bank account.
In my country police definitely has to act more concentrated and alarmed when dealing with drunk people in a bar or in a bad neighbourhood, where somebody might pull a knife or in very rare cases even a gun. In the US this risk is several magnitudes higher, so I expect them to be even more alarmed and trigger happy.
Marriage Inflation
> I have a lot of respect for both Joel and Bill Gates.

Except you question his technical ability, ignore/excuse evidence of said ability, and call him a narcissist.
I guess if you go directly to the URL for a course/video via the wayback machine you get the content as well?
>> >Your argument is flawed in that it reduces the talent competition to just one factor: the tax rate.

> Tax rate and business environment is the only thing that can be changed by at will and perhaps make the rest happen.

But the factors that cannot be changed at will are still factors.

>>It ignores factors such as cost of living (which is, at least, equally important), and quality of life.

> Where Austria wins how? Don't cite average statistics: how is life in Austria better than the rest for someone earning ~€10k gross a month?

That's €5600 after taxes (not counting the 13th and 14th salary, which are regulated bonuses), according to the site you cited earlier. Deduct €1500 for a 75sqm penthouse apartment with terrace in a nice part of town (that's on the expensive side for 75sqm). That leaves you with a discretionary income of €4100/month, since health care etc. are already taken care of.

How much do you have to make in London to have that much discretionary income?

And that's just one factor. Other factors include, but are not limited to: safety (excellent for a city of almost 2m), cultural (art, music), culinary, incredible cleanliness, entertainment, access to healthcare, diversity (Vienna is considered a hub towards the east, and has historically been an international hub).

> Want really cheap living? Go to Bucharest, great internet is a bonus, also many local developers, 16% linear tax.

How much discretionary income does a good developer in Bucharest have?

> Want great quality of life? A waterfront property in Spain, Canarias, or even Bali, some guys work like that.

How safe is Bali? Do I have access to something equivalent to the Vienna Philharmonics, or say a smaller ensemble in the Imperial Palace there? How are the hospitals?

A location cannot be reduced to one or even a few dimensions. The Mercer Quality of Living Survey [1], which has consistenly ranked Vienna #1 in the past years, cites a total of 39 factors, for example.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Surve...
I've wasted a lot of time thinking how to de-duplicate stuff only to have to re-duplicate it a few months down the road (or fill up the de-duplicated version with if statements..)
Can one imagine moving walkways and jetpacks realistically? They look good to the imagination, but, in practice?

Monorail does work in some places, it just never delivered the volume that most lines require. So, low volume lines can make use of monorails.
Well, yes, only then everyone realized it takes you another good 2-3x of the work over and above writing text to put it into a form which is "machine-understandable" with a whole bunch of metadata and requires the people writing the text to be familiar with all of that and have a good idea what is "machine-understandable" and what is not, for..

zero gain. There is just no application. Google works perfectly fine. Give it up already.

And just to take this to another tangent.. Word won the office space. There are no normal people writing LaTeX for their party invitation. And hell, even the people writing LaTeX don't want to bother with the "machine-understandable" thing so they went ahead and made it into a proper Turing complete programming language.
I will offer that platitude over and over again, Einstein's wonderful definition of insanity be damned. If I could end bigotry tomorrow, I would, but what I won't do under any circumstances is ally myself with people who cry racism at the drop of a hat. They do more harm than good.

Call your congressman? Talk about a platitude.