skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your reply doesn't address any of the points of my reply. Once more: Why would it be relevant at all that something works for restaurants, a completely different environment? Mentioning restaurants does not work to refute the article's points.

Yes the article is horrible. It's not even an article. But that does not mean you can now go ahead and use anything to refute it. That's illogical. You have to use good logic even when trying to refute something bad.
False Eyewitness: “Who are you going  to believe? Me or your lying  eyes?”
Would it be fair to say that we expect people to really like solving problems, and implementing the solutions, rather than being passionate about coding?

I really, REALLY, enjoy solving problems that will make people's lives easier and while implementing the solutions will frequently get the feeling it's not the right way to code it or it's not the most elegant way, and will devote a sane amount of time trying to make it better (after making it work), which usually ends up with the application of the SOLID principles (fun fact, there are more than the 5 letters).

However, ignoring the rare events where a problem consumes me and makes me go almost a day without eating properly (relax, I drink a lot of tea/infusions and I'm not exactly thin, also not obese) just wanting to make it work and feeling energised, I too don't feel incredibly motivated to put time into coding after work.

After work I usually read about current affairs (politics, economy, science), read some pages of a book, play a game and binge watch something on a streaming service. Not the first time the solution to a problem comes to me when I'm almost falling asleep, or sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night.

Guess people are different, which doesn't mean people that aren't always demonstrating passion are incompetent or will provide worse results. Do I dare to say they will be the most consistent in the long run, though a mix of these types of people will probably be the best combination, as they will support and learn from each other?
Very obviously, yes. Just try reading the article. I couldn't go more than 20 seconds at a time without thinking about how stereotypically psuedo-intellectual the mother sounded. You know the type, who think they're super smart but who behave like they have half a brain.
Yes I see adds for startups wanting developers like "we're disrupting the plumbing business we need a developer that is prepared to sleep and eat 80 hour weeks for equity" and I think pass, who'd do that? There are very few startups I see that are doing something interesting, just CRUD business apps in some business vertical market
What would be the point in that? Security it is not.
(I've never used Go, so please correct any errors.)

> var _ = unusedImport

This is what the devs suggest as an alternative to having a compiler flag to turn off the check.

But with a compiler flag, I can easily discover the unused import when I build for production, simply by turning that flag off. By using the variable in a dummy way, I need to remember to go back and check for such things.

Presenting this as a way to address the problem feels like it's missing the point.
They'll be replaced by people who know Python, r. Excel is powerful, but those spreadsheets are difficult to maintain cheaply. It's like coding without any refactoring tools.

The true skill is organization, imho. Power users are replaceable as tech advances.
This has always been a pet-peeve of mine, watching sports replays. When re-run in slow motion, some tackles seem more aggressive, mostly because of the body motion of the "victim" being exaggerated, while others look benign. The commentators then make judgement calls on the validity of the umpire calls, which is made in real-time, based on their opinion that was formed using the slow-mo replay.
I think the effort to make a "mobile-optimized" website is quite low these days.

Contrary to this article the effort to make a "mobile-web-app" is quite big. There are multiple gotchas like 'tap-delay', cache, session-storage, distribution, you name it.

So far ( I still remember when iPhone OS introduced screen-bookmark-web-apps ) I think there is no business reason to go with a 'web-app' when you can spend that time / dev-money on a native app. Maybe cordova / phonegap still sounds like an option, although I think temporarily, until you can afford making a native one for all platforms.
No, they got large because they weren't previously lead by idiots. Then they get large and then they rot.

History is littered with endless examples: HP, IBM, GM, Kodak, Sony, Xerox, Sears, Pan Am, US Steel, Nokia.

Some of them collapsed entirely, some still struggle on, some recovered only to rot again. It's rare that mega corps don't go through some variation of a rot cycle due to the accumulation of poor leaders at the top once they get large enough and far enough away from the original vision and leadership that got them to the top.
CRUD is a "hard problem". There are currently no RAD frameworks for simple CRUD apps — nothing like FoxPro or FileMaker of their heyday. The amounts of redundant labor being put in CRUD apps all over the world is insane — and no one seems to be doing anything about it.

So yes, I am mildly passionate about CRUD apps development, and it is not hard to imagine someone who is really passionate about it, coding next-gen rapid development environment for CRUD webapps weekend after weekend, and on its way to becoming yet another garden variety tech billionaire.

If some industry is "boring" and monotonous, it is ripe for disruption by something exciting. Truck driving. Filing taxes. Accounting. Paralegal. And yes, CRUD app development — will be automated nearly out of existence soon.
Private equity means leveraged buy out.
These micro:bit look pretty interesting from an embedded controller perspective - does anybody have any useful comparisons between them and others, eg Arduino etc?

I've been working on a project where I will end up having to make a simple stepper motor to drive an analogue clock and I think I can use this to control it (advance x% of turn every minute, currently x=50) though I was initially thinking of a small PICAXE circuit as we have some equipment at the school I work at. I like the thought that I could access it over BLE though, and that it could be programmed to handle DST automatically and even drive a few LEDs for good measure

Also, what is the power consumption? As my project involves a clock, I'm thinking it needs to last a while on some batteries, though at least its big enough that I can pack a few in.
> angry white male

It's pretty telling when one can define their political enemies by both gender and race. Identity politics got it's can of whoppass in 90ties. Are new generations really doomed to repeat mistakes of past generations?
The killer is sharing via a web browser. No word needed ever.
> run a cable up to the "shoffice"

The author says twice why he doesn't want to do this: difficulty of running trenches in basalt. Also it's not clear how far away the shed is from the house.
Introduction video about pentest
Really. Do you not know how MAD worked? Rough parity of force was the whole point - specifically, that neither side could expect to launch a country-devastating strike without receiving one in return. If one missile force turns out mostly not to exist, it becomes possible for the other side to contemplate starting a nuclear war that leaves it, but not its enemy, a functioning country, and the whole Cold War strategic calculus goes right out the window.

That's the same unstable outcome that made things like FOBS and ABM systems
such a matter of concern, and drove the Cuban missile crisis - whose proximate cause was the Soviet Union seeking to achieve parity with short-ranged, forward-deployed US missiles which might enable a decapitation strike, which in turn might allow a full countervalue strike with little fear of response from a shattered government lacking anyone with the authority to launch a counterstrike. (The same fear motivated the creation of the Soviet "Dead Hand" or "Perimeter" system, whose purpose was to ensure a response even after a decapitation strike.)

I agree this has gotten silly, but we don't agree on when that happened. The idea that the US nuclear deterrent mostly never existed is entirely novel to me, and I've been unable to find even one source for it, credible or otherwise. Where on Earth are you getting this crazy stuff?
Nearly everything that is able to be traced to an interested owner has consent. Where no rights holder can be found, we place a "take down" notice on the site that says we will remove offending material. The only time that has happened was with a limited circulation DX publication. We have an attorney who prepares out letters of consent and guidance. Many early radio publications are out of copyright, and many later ones are totally abandoned. Occasionally the owner of a live copyright will right and ask, "why are you not preserving the publication... I have some in the garage you can have."
I don't know who was the better pianist, but Liszt is definitely a better composer.
Mysterious shackled skeletons found in ancient Greek mass grave
"Your" content can't rationally have an owner, because it can't be property: It's not scarce. Copyright is an irrational, barbaric concept that relies on the violence of the government.
Oh many reasons. It is the most colossal waste of money. It is a horrible IP abuser. Almost everything surrounding it is massively corrupt. Some sports don't deserve to be in because they are not about (or less about) individual athletic performance.

Even if you like the competition those seem like strong reasons not to watch.

I personally think that if you are going to allow finely engineered shoes, poles, javelins, boats, balls, bicycles, then you should allow finely engineered bodies.
Thanks for the in detail answer, no I didn't know about the Hofstadter's Law, I will read more about it.

Also about the second part of the answer, when you ship something and fails I feel disappointing about the time and effort that I have put for it and gaining nothing in return, especially about the time which could have been put for something better.
US Corporate Defaults Double in 2016
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How do you see that? It seems like a straightforward shot at biting into office market share at $750MM.
Well, there's Oden experimental language that compiles to Go, but it's Haskell inspired (even written in Haskell itself)
https://oden-lang.org
> Um, it is someone's right to feel offended

Well, doesn't that mean then other people have the right to say whatever they want even if others feel offended?

Which means we don't need to have this discussion and just accept both the offended and the assholes.

This argument seems to me to lead nowhere, unless you say being offended is okay, offending is not. Which I would find quite disturbing, not just because Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (Turkey) would vehemently agree but because it seems wrong to me.
I've seen a few concerts with "fortepiano"s. They needed to be retuned during the performance and looked very diminutive and fragile compared to a modern piano.
Yes I read the post and it's good. But not sure if an idea will be a successful one if it meets all the criteria, but if it hits majority of the criteria then it will be a good idea non of the less.
But the article doesn't explain why it calls it "distortion", and not "clarification".
The memory consumption is a magnitude larger in JavaScript than native.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64/compare.php?lang...
Interesting. Can you provide an example?
Are there Designers here?
Does hacker news provided good articles to read and relevant discussions to participate in for Design?
That is a Dick-from-the-Internet (http://dilbert.com/strip/2015-06-07) kind of reply.

He did not say "everybody". You are making stuff up, see the linked Dilbert cartoon (you are famous).
Nothing like abandoning a company you built right as it hits its stride.
Front End Engineers hiring in Berlin
Any startup based on Berlin hiring Front end engineers, with work visa and relocation assistance?
If you watch rugby union, the commentators often remark how slow motion makes the tackle look worse than it is. I think it's a recognised phenomenon.
Watching videos of the aftermath of the floods in Maryland the other day was telling - the main street had been entirely washed away, exposing the foundations of the buildings. The modern constructions essentially had none and were hanging in mid-air over voids. The older buildings were all sat upon massive and well dressed masonry.

In short, people account only for risks they have experienced firsthand. When you don't see flash floods or earthquakes for generations, you get lax. Sadly we tend to wait until after disasters to learn, and yet we still forget.
Rumour in the crypto-currency world has it that Coinbase may be insolvent due to the recent Ethereum split and replay attacks. ATM they refuse to go under an external audit calming it is too complex.
Having recently sat on a Jury in the UK, deliberating on a triple assault case, the CCTV was the most crucial piece of evidence - eye witness reports were patchy and in some cases contradictory, and watching the events on CCTV was important in deciding what actually happened.

If we had not had access to the CCTV - both in real time and slowed down (which was actually produced by the defence, not the prosecution), then I strongly believe the outcome would have been different; indeed if another angle had been present then one count may well have been judged differently.

It is easy to view something slowly and decide that intent was more severe than may have been planned by the people involved, but in my experience it's also invaluable in seeing what actually happened, as the camera can be the most reliable witness to the facts of the matter.
Agree with you here that CRUD is a surprisingly hard problem. I've been playing around with Rails however and find it really helps with getting past CRUD.
Yes, agreed, the Rust error messages are very helpful. Failure to understand the messages is a lack of familiarity with Rust, not a problem with the error messages.
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Well he helped build google maps. That's a decent example of how small teams can create large value over enough time.

Another example: the original tablet at Apple was built by one guy. Sharp people can focus on good investments and generate disproportional returns, even if they didn't do the work directly.
The very human response. But it's happening to me, and I'm special, therefore the event must be special.
I don't get the 'yuck'. Everything else you wrote is more-or-less on the mark. He was a known celebrity. Although to a degree, we need to remember this isn't Beyonce appearing before stadiums of tens of thousands fans, but rather concert halls of about few hundreds at most. But in those days terms, it was mega stardom.
Vungle’s CEO on China’s love affair with in-app video ads
Tips on UX interviews
yeah i know but some hacker shared it
the thing is he was doing exactly same thing that installer does without rebooting and all other stuff

i am sure it will be helpful to other people who want to try beta without touching their stable version also...
Why don't you hang around for a week and see for yourself?
If the order of the elements in a slice does not matter, this should be the easiest solution for deleting the element "n":

slice[n] = slice[len(slice)-1]

slice = slice[:len(slice)-1]

Probably one should campaign for adding a delete operator to slices, though so far I have never missed it.
not much of an "article", rather "hey look, we can do this stuff with your browser" effort with financial factoids sprinkled all over.
No any reason. RoR is great.
But as a personal experience, most of my pals who came from the academic area ( Python in scientific programming is beautiful...), we felt more familiar with Django because, you see, it's more straight to use Python in producing dashboards or other Web based app. But I've personally found that the main thing is to generate backend data (Json, http request...) with Django/RoR and build the fronted with Js.

If you want to use in an effective manner your Python skills acquired in scientific programming to build web apps,...I would recommend Django.
The auto-adjustment is a problem for fast but traffic limited connections because it detects that the connection is fast, then it switches to HD or even 4K and the traffic limit gets used up faster even if the user don't need the better quality stream.
The term "gain" is a bit unlucky, because it does not really describe what's happening. A much better term would be "directivity". Antenna gain is always with respect to a reference pattern; usually a perfectly omidirectional isotropic pattern is assumed and the gain tells you, how much of the antenna radiation pattern is "compressed" into the spatial direction you're looking at, compared to a plain isotropic antenna.

For example if you're looking at a plain old dipole antenna, then in the plane perpendicular and centered around the dipole you'll see a +5dB gain as if the antenna was perfectly omnidirectional. But if you move out of the plane, say right into the axis of the antenna (but some distance away) there will be very few signal, so what would have gone there has been redistributed into a different spatial direction.

Now consider you have a wireless device sending with 20dB(mW) = 100mW and attach an antenna with a directivity gain of 20dB to it. Then to a receiver that happens to be located within the directivity pattern it looks as if there was a transmitter sending with (20 + 20)dB(mW)=100*100mW = 10W through an omnidirectional radiator.

It's one of the few cases where English is lacking a distinctive term. In German the term used for antenna gain is called "Gewinn", whereas amplifier gain is called "Verstärkung".
Why can't V8 handle it? Too many pointers on the heap?
Jihad vs. McWorld (1992)
> That's not good for users.

Yeah, no shit. But that's not my, or your, point. Do you even have a concrete point you're getting at, or is it just "I don't like Google"?

Android is making it MITMing apps harder if the application itself did not attempt to make it hard. It has ALWAYS been possible for applications to pin their certificates and to make MITMnig them a pain in the butt. On every OS. On Windows. On Linux. On Mac. On iOS. And yes, on Android too. It has always been that way. I already went over this. Here, go read this: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/29988/what-is-ce...

But, there is a solution! One that they (Google) also clearly indicated in the blog post when they announced this whole thing. And that solution is: Install a custom rom which does not have these security features. Bam. Done! That's all it takes. If you care about your privacy you're already running a custom rom. And if you care about MTIMing apps, then installing a custom ROM is not that much of a hurdle either.
Exactly. I've chosen Django because of Python.
https://www.designernews.co/ is more focused on design topics.
I thought concrete buildings without steel frames came down instantly in earthquakes. What am I missing?

Concrete buildings without sufficient bracing at the corners where supporting beams meet floors fail pretty much instantly in earthquakes for sure, but if you put bracing supports in at the corners then that makes them much, much stronger. You’re probably thinking that concrete buildings just collapse from your experience of post-earthquake film footage from countries with poor governance where building firms can cheap out on the construction (lets save 15% of our material costs by skipping the bracing!) and their buildings inevitably collapse when the next earthquake comes along.
>The researchers believe that the slow motion version is giving observers the sense that those carrying out the violent acts on tape have more time to think and deliberate - and the observers therefore believe there is more intent in the violent actions.

Premeditation makes the difference between first- and second-degree murder, and being convicted of the former tends to bring much harsher sentences. The article describes the paper as finding that people who view (e.g. store CCTV) recordings of a murder only in slow motion and without a timecode, thus lacking any clear reference to the real speed of events, are much more likely to impute premeditation than those who don't. That's what "distortion" means here.
If you deign to consider the possibility that providing the infrastructure and training to 10,200 people in dozens of sports in 200 countries on a 1bn annual budget might actually result in a higher level of overheads per competitor than training ~100 footballers at a single club with a $2bn annual budget, it becomes a bit more obvious why athletes get a smaller share of the pie in cash payments than participants in high profile team sports, even without the whole amateur ethos.

Funnily enough, a good friend of my brother's did spend 6-8 years of his life dedicating himself to getting ready for his first Olympics, going into debt in order to do so. Upon gaining a bronze medal he used the sponsorship windfall to cancel his debts and buy a house. I suspect if I suggested to him that the British Olympic team should have cut back on facilities or charged him for training and pushed him deeper into debt in order to ensure there was a moderate-sized lump sum waiting for him in the year he finally started being able to get money from commercial sources, I'd get a very weird look.