skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excel has had a 1 million row limit for a while. I haven't tried Sheets in 2 years but it was unpolished even for simple tasks.
Wow he really loves Proust
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Excellent points.

Just a comment: you can use a GUI in linux just like in Windows, it's just that mostly everything is CLI-aware, or has a CLI command as well, which is nice when you want to script something.

It would really be nice to see smarter autocomplete on the CLI, hopefully someone is working on it. I can see why it might be complicated to implement though as you'd need better integration with the terminal for autosuggest popups, etc, and this might not work well over ssh.

Also a better way to find commands that you don't know about yet would be nice, maybe searching installed programs by feature? Like "findcommand image" would give you a list of programs that can modify images, and what they can do to them?
I recently read a really good book about the systems collapse that occurred towards the end of the Bronze Age. The book is "1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed" [1]; it provides a vivid look into the ancient world, with some eerie parallels to our world today.

The Late Bronze Age was a fascinating time around the Mediterranean; there was extensive trade between Egypt, the Hittites, Minoans, Assyrians, Mitanni, and others; shades of "globalization" and a multi-cultural aesthetic had emerged, then it all came crashing down in the 12th century BCE.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/1177-B-C-Civilization-Collapsed-Turni...
Atom may not be as fast as some native editors but I've found it to more than fast enough for 99% of the code editing I do and the plugin ecosystem and overall user experience is better than any other editor I've tried. I use it mostly for Rails & React coding and have been very happy for the productivity boost. I launch it once or twice a day so waiting 5-10 seconds is a small price to pay.
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So this is cool...

But if you aren't github-sized try pt-online-schema-change for any and all schema changes to production.

I suspect you'll love it as much as I do.
Uh, no.

Sending a kid to a store has absolutely nothing to do with routinely relying on an electronic device to manage all of their daily activities.

Kids COULD do a lot of things. They might be fine living alone in a box and learning everything online, for example. But that doesn't make it a good idea.

I'm actually glad you bring up Japanese culture. Japan has several forms of institutionalized child abuse, as well as a culture with extreme conformism and too much social pressure for anyone to be vocal about dissent. So yeah, probably a product of the way kids are raised. Also, with the extreme xenophobia and non-acceptance of outsiders, it's probably safer on the streets there than an average US city.

Providing your kid with day-to-day love and attention isn't really related to whether they leave the house or not.
I think it is worth pointing out that 1) you have no idea what Quip does with the data once it gets past their web server 2) there is no mention of "end to end" in Quip's security document https://quip.com/ABbYAZsD8nbt
He has good series and bad ones. If its about science, like his series on the coulomb explosion of sodium in water. Then it can be pretty good. Or military history, UK politics.

If its about social issues. Usually not very good, or insightful with a few exceptions.

Like most people making their primary income off youtube, he needs to grind out content a couple times a week. Not all of it is gold.
> Google spreadsheets does all my organisations budgeting and planning systems.

i suspect this is the #1 use case.... roll-your-own centralized shared ERP with version tracking, permissions, users, etc. it's what we use too, but as we grow we're slowly replacing individual spreadsheets with real/saas tools, but then we're just making new ones for software that doesn't exist yet, so it continues to grow overall.
Only those buildings with 5 or more units, which is only a tiny fraction of the structures. Ideally it should be every building, but it's ridiculously expensive to install moment frames, which is pretty much what every house needs given the typical layout of the houses. Each installation costs between $30k to $50k, and as well-off as you need to be to afford to purchase in San Francisco, that's still an expense few can justify even if they could afford it.

We had structural plywood sheathing installed in our garage, and the typical job is around $10k. The pre-existing sheathing was installed by [presumably] a fly-by-night contractor shortly after the 1989 earthquake. Fortunately I noticed that it wasn't installed correctly and used the wrong materials, and so it was basically useless. But given that the garage door, garage side entrance, and entryway make up greater than 80% of the front wall of our first story, that we have a big window and door on the back wall, there's not much room for sheathing (properly installed or not) to control movement along that axis. The house is now very unlikely to collapse into the street, but we're still lucky to be sandwiched between two other houses. Fortunately, our neighbor on the corner had his foundation rebuilt and a third structural wall installed. I should probably be remunerating him somehow.
cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Relationships Btwn Bike Lane Building, Cycling Rates, and Injury/Mortality Rates
Seems as though they don't want to be a CDN, not that they don't want direct linking from forum users? Anyway I went for a dig through Alan's old reddit posts because I thought I recalled him saying he's fine with direct links

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur...

> Nothing has changed in regards to direct linking. I'm not sure what you're seeing exactly, but we'll always allow you to direct link to any image you want.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/y81ju/i_created_imgur...

> Yes, but you can also look at it as a marketing budget. When people share links, direct or not, the other person now knows about Imgur.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/ea4vi/for_the_beginne...

> People linking to the page rather than the image is what keeps imgur going. If everyone linked to the direct image then imgur would have no source of revenue. However, I want people to use the service however they want, and by no means would I ever force anyone to do it one certain way. So, I like it when people link to the page because that's how imgur makes money, but you don't have to do it if you don't want to. I'm just happy that you like the service.
It's not without precedent.

In Seattle a cost-cutting method was used to build a 25-story downtown apartment building in 2001.

In 2010 it was found to be flawed and unfixable, and so it was dismantled.

And now there's a new building being built on the site.

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/9-year-old-belltown...
Not necessarily. A copy of Microsoft Office Home & Student 2016 is still $150, and Google Apps for work is still $5 or $10 per user per month. Heck, Slack is $6.67 or $12.50 per month per user.
I, for one, would rather be building on sand rather than clay. Clay is an absolutely terrible substrate for construction. Not to mention it does not drain. Hills don't become saturated with water... the water tends to flow to ze bottom of ze hill, where it will saturate things. I'd be curious to know what exactly you are draining into... drywells and clay are not friends.

- High-end residential builder here
They could easily write a <noscript> section but probably don't to reduce bandwidth. Anyway they use React pretty heavily which is why they "need" JS support
The feeling when you overwrite the spool instead of appending to it.
As a fellow layman I imagine that's where incredibly skilled demolition work comes in. There are some wonderful videos of very precise building demolitions out there.
How is it moot? on the Salesforce side Salesforce is giving Benioff personally a huge exit with shareholder money.

On the Quip side he will recuse himself from the final decision, but of course he had insider info, and can offer a lot of reasons board, management might not want to look for a higher.

Seems like a nice exit, but seems foolish to pretend conflicts don't exist. In fact, like someone said "no conflict, no interest."
Slowly?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwf9LoS9Xt8
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i'm curious: what are some of the major costs of addressing it that you referred to?
Companies that make bluetooth ODB2 devices and smartphone apps should pay attention to this too.
Looks very similar to backliftapp which provided Dropbox sync.

how can a user take periodical backup of data?
A truly excellent book. This late Bronze Age collapse is particularly interesting in that so much of the earliest works of "Western" literature arose in this aftermath (Homer, much of the Old Testament).
Indeed, one need look no further than Slashdot to see this in action. 100% community moderation produced a comment section that is all confirmation and no information.
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Well it might or might not be against the ToS. I personally just think it's bad practice to use resources you don't have to.

People just want to share a funny picture and that's okay. But if you already own web space somewhere, use it and pay those extra few cents (if anything) to host your own images.
Isn't Diebold a major contributor to one of the Presidential candidates? Why on earth do they need to use double precision to count votes?
Key there is it was deemed unfixable. $350 MM can do a lot of fixing.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not denying the entire possibility. It's just extremely unlikely, especially given that the tower is currently deemed safe.
Once you start working with a big codebase, it becomes much more difficult to simply use a regex search and replace, especially when dealing with polymorphism as well.

For example, in my current project, there are four classes with the same name ( , each of which are used by a few other classes, some of which use subclasses of the parent rather than the parent itself. With IntelliJ, I can rename any arbitrary class with a single keypress and it just works, including renaming the files in git where appropriate. This is hard to do in vim or any other text editor.

The same applies to functions. Let's say there are ten different functions called getFoo, three of which are in completely different classes and some of which have different arguments like:
String getFoo(int a)
String getFoo(ArrayList b)
int getFoo(String bar)
SomeThing getfoo(int blah)

etc.

how do you always rename the correct ones, in every location, and never accidentally rename the wrong ones?

Making something like this refactoring (and others, like moving a method to another class and updating every reference, including in subclasses and interfaces) work 100% of the time, automatically, through a single keypress completely changes your workflow.

It's like having automated unit tests or a CI tool - sure, you can test things by hand, or do the build by hand, but all of that stuff takes mental energy and it's often hard to execute the same things manually and perfectly ten thousand times - that's the whole POINT of computers.

In practice, what this means is that friction is reduced. If I see that someone has named somethign poorly, or I see a method that belongs in a different class, I can just fix it within literally two seconds and then continue as I was. All the Javadoc is updated and published and everyone else (who is also using an IDE) can hit a single key to jump to the definition or all the usages of a particular reference.

Damn, usages, there is another thing. How on earth do you find all usages of a particular function with only a regex in anything other than a small codebase with only a few developers? Your regex doesn't understand scoping or method overloading or interfaces or abstract classes or any of that other stuff, so you have to wade through a lot of irrelevant data to find all the time where someone calls getFoo(bar) where "bar" is a String and not an int or something else.

There is a lot more, of course - detecting duplicate code chunks and automatically offering to turn them into a function, for example, or the detection of uninitialized variables or just general code smells.

I use VIM keybindings so I get all the benefits of a good, programmable text editor too and I can still do a regex search if I wish, but the power of an IDE (especially IntelliJ) is the reduction in friction and thus the improvement in continuous flow state.
I've been very happy with Brackets. It seems to perform a bit better than Atom.

Also, its instant search across all files is quite amazing actually. Faster and more useful than any other editor I have tried
I fetch coffee when I want coffee. I don't plan my schedule around waiting for things that have no reason not to be completely instantaneous. I avoid any tool that takes longer than 100ms or so to start up. Anything slower than that is completely unacceptable at this point in the history of computing.

> It seems silly to me for someone to adopt a strategy of opening/closing Atom (instead of reusing an open instance) and then complain about how long it takes to boot.

That's not what happens. They looked at the tool, stated it doesn't meet their needs, explained why, and then _did not adopt the tool_. The Atom folks can decide they don't want those users or they can address their abominable startup time, but you can't suggest "change how you do everything" and hope to win friends or users.
Why do you think people should move away from Percona?
True.

I was already aware that they were doing it, but I was still shocked to see it in the Google Maps App (Menu-Your timeline).

Just seeing all that information about me with a nice calendar interface of where I've been on any date, I found very confronting. Up until then I had it in my mind as some ethereal "I know they have that information", but it's just so easily accessible it's scary.

And the creepy notification popups asking me for more information about places that I've been... Creepy.

It's still turned on for the time being, because I'm vaguely curious about the tracking itself, but I'm very nervous about the whole thing...
What I like about this is that it's an integration of Elon's ethos. If you owned Starbucks and the biggest coffee plantation wouldn't you find a way to merge them?
Thanks for creating it. It's one of only 8 subreddits I subscribe to.
A commenter upstream reports seeing the sidewalk being repaired multiple times throughout the last 10 years as well.
That was my initial reaction too, but honestly, it's kind of a cool idea if they do it well. Sometimes I want to play the classics verbatim...but sometimes I feel like an enhanced version of the original games would be welcome. For the first case, I've got original hardware. For the second, I guess I've got emulators with save states and some kind of "meh" auto-scaling algorithms. It doesn't seem like a bad idea to "enhance" the gameplay without really changing the core gameplay.
This is a duty of loyalty issue. When there is a board decision and a conflict of interest arises (like in this circumstance) a court would look at whether the transaction was fair to the company and shareholders to determine if there has been a breach of fiduciary duties. Generally, a board needs to make sure that the deal was both procedurally fair (voted on and approved by disinterested board members, special committees, etc...) and substantively fair (fair dealing, fair price). There is a ton of case law that fills in all the cracks as to what procedurally fair and substantively fair actually mean but that's a high level overview.
> The big argument against intelligent life being common (and us not being unique)

Those are two different things. "Common" is something up for interpretation, especially with the huge numbers concerned. Intelligence being uncommon could still mean hundreds of civilizations active in the galaxy right now. The term "uncommon" allows us to have somewhat meaningful discussions about probabilities. "Unique" on the other hand is an unsubstantiated, almost supernatural, claim of us being the only intelligence in existence anywhere.

> No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light.

That is also a big claim. Yes, a civilization pursuing a maximum energy strategy would probably harness stars, at least from our current technological perspective that seems reasonable. However, very few people looking for signs of this would actually claim that all civilizations more advanced than us must do this. So originally at least, this hypothesis was proposed under the more reasonable premise that for purposes of detection it would be enough if one such civilization pursued this strategy. Again, the claim that all of them would necessarily do this seems needlessly extremist.

> You require a planet with an extraordinarily stable climate to allow a technological society to evolve and I predict this is the filter.

There is a good chance you're at least somewhat correct, but then again I can easily imagine planets with a way more stable history than Earth had.

A sample size of one is always going to be a problem, especially if you lack the means of even knowing what to look for. Making absolutist claims a priori seems to me like an argument to stop looking. Historically, claims of uniqueness and specialness have had a tendency to be wrong. It seems to me like a good default stance is to assume that whatever we see in front of us has a chance of occurring that is significantly higher than zero.
Wasn't this the basis for the movie "I Am Legend"?
Funny, the hottest new thing in UI (React/Redux) loves to be functional.

For what it's worth, nothing matches the Delphi experience, not even today so I don't imagine CL would be any better. I worked for the Delphi guys for a bit and their maniacal focus on the end user is something that few development environments can claim as a philosophy.
The SF Chronicle article that this Curbed article seems to be sourced from provides more information on this.

And while Stanford’s Deierlein doesn’t consider the sink or tilt a safety issue,
he did say, “I would be concerned for my investment.” That’s because a shifting
building can cause walls to crack, elevators to malfunction and all manner of
other annoyances.

P.J. Johnston, spokesman for tower builder Millennium Partners and its principal
owner, Sean Jeffries, said a nine-month, independent structural safety review in
2014 “determined the settlement has not significantly affected the seismic
performance of the building, and does not represent a safety risk.”

The first guy is "Professor Greg Deierlein, director of the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University".

I think this link is paywall-free: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SF-s-landmark-tower-fo...
You should never use CLJS because then you'll hate going back to JS.
A little context, please?
Is this technology good enough to be able to have a relatively intelligent 'conversation' with a real person?
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But the OP is writing about electrostatic shielding too... What makes you think the below section from the OP does not apply to electrostatic shielding?

"The error is that Feynman’s wires have constant charge, not constant voltage. It’s the wrong boundary condition! I think that Feynman, like me and most others beginning to think about this problem, must have assumed that the wires may be taken to have zero radius. The trouble is, a point charge makes sense, but a point voltage does not. (Dirichlet boundary conditions for the Laplace equation can only be applied on sets of positive capacity.) Since the correct boundary condition cannot be applied at points, I’m guessing Feynman reached for one that could, intuiting that it would still catch the essence of the matter. This is a plausible intuition, but it’s wrong."

I'm not an expert in electrical field theory, but a constant voltage boundary condition seems very reasonable to me (and a constant charge one seems less reasonable), also in the electrostatic case.
Do they at least render natively, or do they rely on Blink + (I'm assuming) some crazy JS text rendering & syntax coloring to get it usable?
Nice one, that sounds on the money :)
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If only politicians gave answers like that, country would be a better place. Kudos for the answer. I use both MySQL and Postgresql depending on my use case.
This seems like overly complicated. He could have made the public key extremely small by just placing 0x00s in it so that he could crack it. Easy patching.
Sure, but the salary cap (or lack thereof) isn't decreed from on high, it's the result of a nominally market-based negotiation between each players union and the corresponding league. If NFL players thought they could push the salary cap to $200M without killing the golden goose, they'd do it.
Isomorphic rendering on the JAM Stack
Apparently he's doing an audit on 1Password and doesn't like what he sees.
What if they've got something more-convenient or powerful than going around messing with each star?

I just imagine an intelligent beaver: "There can't be any other intelligence out there, just look at all these rivers and streams!"

Meanwhile, humans are enjoying fusion-power and will take a little while to notice suspiciously-well-engineered beaver dams showing up everywhere.
Not saying it happened in the case of Quip, but last year Google effectively paid $380M for Diane Greene:

https://techcrunch.com/2015/11/19/google-buys-bebop-and-name...
A brief history of the fireball spell
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It's turning out that HTTPS is more important for content integrity than for security. It's not surveillance that's the big problem for static content. It's middle boxes designed with the delusion they're entitled to mess with the content.
For once, on an atom release thread, can we have a discussion about atom and this release rather than endless threads about folks preferring vscode or sublime?
There are ways to look at a number of deleted comments in those threads, and very few if any seem to be deliberate attempts at community sabotage.

On the contrary, most end up being made by people feeling compelled to share their opinion, or some personal anecdote in reaction to a question, which would be completely fine in almost every other subreddit.
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft have never added IPv6 support years and years after saying they were "working on it."
It is a little different because the bulk of their compensation is often in shares or options to buy shares. These are often structured in a way such that they are "free" money. If you have a company with a hundred million shares outstanding, you can make 500,000 new shares and only dilute the total value of the company a little but still add to an employee's net worth quite a bit.