skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I Will Teach You To Be Rich" by Ramit Sethi (http://amzn.to/2aF1vjF). It's a fantastic, easy read that takes you step-by-step into automating your finances and making smart decisions toward not necessarily being rich, but being richer and having some financial security on a month to month basis.

Every once in awhile, I'll have a conversation with friends about finances, and they'll complain about how much work it is to manage money, and I'll go home and order them this book. It's an easy $10 gift, and they've all told me it changed the way they approach finances. Good stuff. Cannot recommend it enough.
Friend of my mother's who could not receive treatment for cancer because she could not afford it (Indiana).

I'm somewhat surprised you think you live in a country (I assume you're in the US) that everyone gets care regardless of their financial circumstances.
Why I left a job I love
Would anyone recommend a book about mathematical thinking? Basic, intro level would fit best.
Yes, agreed. Though, it's important to note that the number of honor's programs without that class of drama is small without expensive schooling or certain types of homeschooling.

Not having to do 'difficult' homework was the catalyst that gave me the freetime to work on programming which is another reason why getting kicked out was great.

Not sure why I'm thinking about it or why I'm even mentioning it, but this happened in the same city Ray Bradbury grew up. Everybody in the school was required to read 451, which was treated as a homework with uninterested students' contempt. It's very interesting to be raised in the city that influenced much of his writing.
COI: author is a "data science" recruiter and the field has not coalesced down to a static definition. Caveat lector
A Better Way to Learn Programming? Notes on the Odin Project
Been there, done that. Here's a video where I run Counter Strike through steam in a docker container.

https://youtu.be/ZHWsR8TnKsw?t=801

PS: Audio is in spanish.
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Context? This has been true for years...
Drivers are cheap. Eliminating them won't yield much. Improved safety will be the biggest gain

The article cites $40k average pay per driver. That's fast-food wages
Mostly 'Hackers and Painters' and 'Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman'.
A detailed guide on how to pace yourself while learning how to write software code from open source material. TLDR: A learning path for the autodidact
I discovered the series earlier today on HN and the discovery could not have been any timely-er. I am just about to embark on the first six to eight months of a learning journey and see immediate utility in insightful series such as this one.
I also came across a really helpful post that gives recommendations on progress markers for the self-taught developer [A Better Way to Learn Programming? Notes on The Odin Project;http://everydayutilitarian.com/essays/notes-on-the-odin-proj...]. Guides like these, while they take a lot of time to write and refine, are complete lifesavers for entry-level professionals and prospective practitioners (and especially if they come from professionals that have been "tried and tested").
I have updates: https://twitter.com/rabbitsescape/status/762416396290719748
I can now search and find my main-twitter...but that's what it looks like right now.
"this user does not exist"; I can't follow my account via my back-up one..
UPDATE: I DIDNT SIGN OUT ON MY TWITTER MOBILE, I TWEETED AND IT WORKED??
I tried it multiple times, but out of ~10 tweets only 3 got published...

(I still can't login though..)
Fiction: Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny.

Non-Fiction: How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Technical: The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Richie
IT spending and Cloud services in the future
Guides like these inspire me to quit being lazy and get back to writing one!
The Pragmatic Programmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
How many people do you know that don't have a computer?

It's not "obviously" declining because of smartphones and tablets, at least not to me. Pretty much everyone has a computer (in the US), as it doesn't make sense to do many things on your cellphone (like write emails). They just aren't upgrading because they don't need to.
Ramit doesn't mess around.
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand is one I've given adults. For kids, every year a local group called Book Harvest does a thing with Barnes & Noble where if you go in a B&N store, you can donate a book straight to Book Harvest which gives books to disadvantaged kids. For them, I usually grab a few books like A Wrinkle in Time or some Choose Your Own Adventure books or something.

I also semi-frequently buy (by accident) a second copy of a book that I already own. Usually instead of returning those to the store, I keep them and just give them to somebody as a gift, where the "who" depends on what the book is.
It is not hard too look like a giant when surrounded by midgets. I think the American people are looking at what they have a choice of next and wishing that the 22nd amendment had never been passed [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty-second_Amendment_to_t...
On Post-Modernist Philosophy of Science (2000)
Book of Proof by Richard Hammack[0]. It's free.

[0] http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/
Your argument seems more like one against transpilers in general.

Contracts are useful during development, they're typically stripped out in production builds, so there's no performance overhead there. If you find a bug in production, turn on your contracts and you'll quickly discover the source of the error. Contracts can validate the state of the world at runtime in a way that can never be covered by unit tests, unless your tests cover all possible inputs to your program. It doesn't mean you don't need unit tests too, they are yet another layer of safety.

I use this in combination with Flow, which means I have to transpile regardless, so the overhead is very low for me. Of course I'd like them to be part of the language proper, but for that to happen there needs to be developer demand first.
I've literally just bought someone "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. It was the first Murakami book I read, and I've read plenty since. Wonderful.
Nevermind, it's gone again ((((:
Please don't apologize for your posting. So far it is the best/most interesting part of the whole thread.
Mine reappeared too.. but now it's gone again? D:
"Ishmael, An Adventure of Mind and Spirit" by Daniel Quinn. The book that created and destroyed the Turner Tomorrow Foundation Fellowship Award. It will make you examine some of the most profound myths at the center of our civilization and how those myths will determine our destiny, for better or for worse. It's a book that changed the way I think fundamentally. I will never be the same because of it.
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> even faster is Ubuntu. it runs incredibly fast

Heh, I use Linux (NixOS) with XMonad, st and Emacs, so it's always pretty responsive. Not used Windows in over a decade, so I can't comment on its speed.

> But for more apps heavy users most apps won't work if the phone isn't on the latest OS version, and most old phones can't upgrade to the latest OS version.

My phone runs Debian, so I haven't had any problems keeping up to date :)
Economics in One Lesson by	Henry Hazlitt.
Many countries including Italy, Turkey, China and UK.

Also as another commenter said, there is little different between a drone and a cruise missile (other than reuse).
usually people took about trends that is seen in decades, not 'recently' where recently here means a couple of years. If you look at food expenditure as a percentage in the 90s and now, there has been progress.
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source: http://mobile.httparchive.org/trends.php#bytesTotal&reqTotal
> It's not necessarily the new shiny rather than just the next step to making things easier for devs

It's more testable, maintainable and reusable, but easier certainly not.
Professional market is not their target audience. They are not failing on anything.

They design for people who have the most money, who pay them most often and the ones there are the most.

Some bloke wanting 16gb of ram doesn't meet that criteria and never will.
In China, they always collect payment before treatment, at the hospital door, oh and that ambulance will be prepay. And that's not even getting into the red envelopes that must be given to get decent care. The Nordic systems are not communist at all, they are socialist. The use communism in this context is just ridiculous.

The USA is nowhere to being as bad as a typical communist country.
> What exactly is the savings here? I fail to see it.

Huh? Did you read the article? One answer (which as a React user I think is the main one) is right there. To quote them,

> The central idea of React's API is to think of updates as if they cause the entire app to re-render. This allows the developer to reason declaratively, rather than worry about how to efficiently transition the app from any particular state to another (A to B, B to C, C to A, and so on).

If you disagree with this, you should explain why.
Do you feel your use-cases can't be met by existing protocols (or toolkits built on top of them) like HTTP, AMQP, MQTT?
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What is the "incremental rendering" that this article is talking about?
Care to point me to a Russian drone- strike report?

They do have UAVs for surveillance, but I've not seen any report of them using them for targeted killings.

I think only USA and Israel have such a program, that is, used atively for targeted killings.
or...

decreased shipping costs will go into the pockets of the business owners as additional profits.

Since I'm already used to paying $X for that, why would you necessarily cut that out when you can keep it?

Just another possibility.
Ask HN: What book impacted your life the most and how?
Ask HN: Small company done well releasing product as Open Source/Free Software?
By well I mean I mean being able to support the founder(s) and employees. I have been looking around and while there are a few examples of such a model working they seem to few and far between and usually require a large sales/marketing department.
Russia has loitering munitions, you can technically classify them as "drones" but they aren't really the same thing, mostly since if those are drones then any modern missile today is also a drone.
China can has drones that can potentially be armed, but China hasn't really engaged anyone kinda well ever.
Israel has operated drones for longer than the US has, and it's bigger drones like the Hermes 900 and the Heron TP (and probably some of the smaller ones) can be potentially be armed with munitions considerably bigger than the Hellfire missile, but there has never been a single confirmation of this, the IAF seems to be against it and the current legal framework in Israel doesn't allow for armed drones to operate within Israel or the "territories", and they are not allowed to be used for targeted assassinations either.
this resource is the best i have seen on the actions relating to drones:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/category/projects/dron...

the site can be difficult to navigate, so here are some quick links the cleanest lists:

pakistan:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/01/11/obama-2016-...

yemen:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/01/18/yemen-repor...

somalia:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/01/07/get-the-dat...

afghanistan:

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2016/01/07/get-the-dat...

and they also have the information in accessible datasets, here is pakistan's:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NAfjFonM-Tn7fziqiv33...
Awesome, thanks for sharing! And congratulations on graduating.

I'm an undergraduate, so my experience with PLUM is just that of an admirer looking in ;)
I'd change it to "quality food." Junk food is cheap.
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two sides of the same coin

Actually, I was describing the progression from government run to "competition wins!" to commercial actors to commercial actors barring competition. Net result: effectively replaced something government owned (accountable to people, non-profit motive) with something privately operated (accountable to investors, sole profit motive). But you seem to have missed that, instead spending three paragraphs attacking your perception of my person.
I bet there are dozens or maybe even hundreds of people who run CS in a container. What, I believe, makes the difference is that when one shares with the reproducible results. :-)
Looks like they have mostly begun to reappear, mine included.

Here's some data I've collected about the distribution of the problem:

Germany unknown personal affected
USA Pingdom business unaffected
Turkey Turk Telekom personal affected
unknown Comcast business unaffected
USA Keybase business affected
Catonsville, USA Internet2 business unaffected
Newark, USA Linode business unaffected
New Orleans, USA unknown personal? unaffected
DC, USA Verizon personal affected
Maryland, USA T-Mobile personal affected
United Kingdom British Telecom personal affected
Maryland, USA Verizon personal affected
Boston, USA unknown personal affected
United Kingdom unknown personal affected
USA unknown business unaffected

The only pattern I see is that all business networks other than Keybase are unaffected.

Edit: I still can't log in though, successful login redirects me to the homepage (which is different from what happens when I enter the wrong credentials) without logging me in.
I've given Flatland: an adventure in many dimensions on some occasions.

I think it's a wonderful and amusing book, full of philosophical and political meaning that can be read at almost any age.
Are you sure compilation is the bottleneck? 2.5s seems way too much by an order of magnitude.

Have you looked into compiling during your build step instead of at runtime?
For the under-4 set: The House In The Night. It's a perfect new-baby book.
How much of this book applies in a non-US context? Is it worth reading anyway?
Albert Speer's Inside the Third Reich is a good accompaniment, too.
When I've had friends interested in learning to play chess, I've given Play Winning Chess by Yasser Seirawan. It's great at explaining what to think about when playing the different phases of the game, with no emphasis on memorizing particular lines.
There is still no war in Odessa. There is tens of thousands of victims in Donetsk. Some of them are burned alive.

Odessa people are crying and waiting for Russian army to come. (J)
Strange loops
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop
I pay taxes but for ambulance I paid around $750 for a ~8 mile trip. I think everyone.has to pay for an ambulance. Not sure about senior citizens
You've worked with a sociopath haven't you ;)

It's a great book.
"Oh gee, people were so much more talented when they had to build a chair by hand rather than run a whole factory of chair building machines. If only those modern programmers working on LCH/ATLAS had the chops to compute some moon landing trajectories."
Or you know: lack of access to birth control, particularly the pill. A high infant mortality rate doesn't actually explain anything, particularly in developed nations where that's not true.
Given that the Guardian still pushes Marxism: Mote. Beam.
None of those countries, with the exception of China operate armed drones.
The UK's drone is the Skywatcher 450 which is a homebuilt version of the Israeli Hermes 450 and it is not armed.
Italy's homegrown drones are still in development and are primarily for export and by default unarmed, it does operate a few Israeli Hermes UAV which are again unarmed.
China has quite a bit of UAV's they seem to mirror the same form and function as the US ones, they also routinely buy UAV's from other countries primarily Israel but the only "armed" UAV that Israel has sold China is technically a loitering munition.
And while China did showcase a few drones that were armed it doesn't actually operates them anywhere, not that it won't in the future but currently it's pretty much only the US which uses armed drones on well a daily basis.
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So that's what Lennar is up to at Hunters' Point.[1] Build high-end condos on the waterfront, downsize the public housing,[1] push out the low-income black people. With the head of the project now a "senior fellow" of the Brookings Institution, it's easier to sell this.

[1] http://thesfshipyard.com/
[2] http://hope-sf.org/hunters.php
I gave this to my colleagues when I joined the my current development project, the lessons about trying to scale development teams remain pretty sound.
I always have copies of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" to give out. As I get older, I love seeing younger people flip out when they read it and see how applicable it is in modern life.
There's nothing wrong with 4 year old computers. They are fast enough for many tasks and have some life left in them. The issue is that Apple is pricing them and marketing them as brand new computers. It's true that people are keeping computers longer than they used to, but that doesn't change the fact that Apple is asking new computer money for something that's way more than 50% of the way through its useful life. Anybody trying to sell a 2012 car for the same price as a new car would be laughed out of town, and cars still last quite a bit longer than computers.
That or it's Sunday...
those who never been there (low income background) will never get it.

it's not just income,it's the network the ghetto,the mindset,the culture...

it's just so hard to move up...of those stories? probably less then 10%
A5/1 is probably perfect example of what I had in mind as it generates output one bit at a time and it's output has quite large period, the fact that in GSM it's used to generate pair of 114bit keystreams is somewhat irelevant to that. All three ciphers in eSTREAM hardware profile are specified in same way (although all of them are designed in a way that allows for more output bits to be computed in parallel)
"The Four Agreements", I wish I had read it when I was younger, I give it to anyone who seems to feel other people are their problem.
> All states provide services, or they wouldn't exist.

Sure. There are vast differences in the amount of services provided, from minimalist contract enforcement all the way up to full government control of everything in the economy.

> The internet, wifi... many interesting modern developments have been government funded.

Yes, and they generally only saw consumer adoption once for-profit businesses got involved. I can't imagine the nightmare that a government-provisioned Google would be, for example.

> No, SpaceX and NASA are very different. SpaceX is a for-profit business

They operate differently, yes. But the service they provide (space exploration) is largely identical. By all accounts, SpaceX has been much more successful at that and has dramatically lowered the cost of launches.

> You are incorrect.

No, I'm not. I have studied Chinese history in depth and have visited many times. I recognize that many services are government provisioned, but that doesn't change the reality that the market is more capitalist than it was 50 years ago.

> You know, medicine or food or real estate or whatnot. We were not talking about cars.

You think under UBI people would use their limited income to hoard medicine?

The idea that some central planner knows better than people what they need is the height of arrogance.

Where did I argue that all services should be privately provisioned? It probably makes sense for governments to build roads, since that's something that really does benefit from central planning. Even for things which I think the government should do (ex. universal health care) I think it should do it through a free market (ie. provide a national insurance company which competes directly with private insurance).

Capitalism does not automatically imply corruption or inefficiency. The Japanese rail system, for example, is admired around the world. Yet it's entirely privatized.
I do not just mean increased cost. I mean houses have literally gotten bigger on average, while holding fewer people. Meanwhile, supply of affordable housing has shrunk and homelessness is on the rise.

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/money-is-not...

http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2016/07/minimum-dece...
I'm curious, answer my question. You sound like someone who's making a argument based on zealotry instead of pragmatism.
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Wow. I am clinging to the past JS development model? I said nothing of technical substance? If you want to develop a large and "simple" application look at Aurelia. The whole point of a web app, large or small is to keep it simple.

What you're misunderstanding is the basic foundations of solid software principles. Popularity does not equal tried and true. That's not logical. I understand React, or else how could I possibly nail it to the wall? You assume I use some sort of JQuery paradigm to develop UI applications, that a pretty presumptive claim on your part and it is absolutely not true.

>Working directly with the DOM means mutating it in-line and your state and you have to become a manual book keeper to make sure your App state and DOM mutations stay in-sync. It's slower, more tedious to maintain, harder to debug and visualize your App's state, etc. There's a reason why the world and all major SPA fx's has moved on from jQuery, you're clinging on to the past JS development model.

No, this is not what it means, this is your opinion. What do you think you're doing when you manage the state of a React component? If you cannot debug your app and understand its and runtime state, you need to look at your complexity bottlenecks. The browser runtime is an event-driven framework. Custom events avoid implicit calls and runtime race conditions.

What I am clinging to is the living standard and a clean separation of concerns in software development. I am standing on the shoulders of giants. I cannot help what choices developers make and what shortcuts they make to understand the browser's inherent technology. I've actually built enterprise SPAs and I have been doing it for the last 16 years, since the DOM was actually introduced.

Decompose React yourself. I've laid out my argument. It's not a rant, it's reality. React may have attractive advantages, but I don't think its adoptees understand the seriousness of the trade-offs they're making.
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Okay. But how do you know what components to call setState on then? Is state spread over components, or is it stored centrally?
Can confirm that as a younger generation representative. Read it like five times already. I liked it more than 1984 and I have two copies of it in my book shelf (English version, and translated to my local language).
wait so uber is legal and licensed to taxi in europe?