skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes this is true.

One other thing to look at is fence lines. If you line up a old fence line by eye and look down the line you can see quite small ground shifts. If you do use this make sure you crosscheck with other fences close by to make sure that any deviations are not just due to incompetent fencing.
United Dairy Farmers based around Cincinnati is one co-op you might find interesting. They are an ice cream shop / convenience store / occasional gas station (I know it sounds strange) that has grown to ~200 stores in our tristate area. I wish there more info about them online.

http://www.udfinc.com/about-udf

The founder and family made Forbes' billionaire list.

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2006/10/S22J.html
Worth mentioning https://cipherli.st/ too. But I think more warning about HSTS is needed, since misconfiguring HSTS will cause the domain to be inaccessible for long periods.
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Years ago I was working for the final company to own the project for Trump Tower Tampa. The reason it didn't get built? It was to be built right next to the river. After the initial site survey the geologist weren't comfortable with the original shoring design, thus they drilled more, and still weren't comfortable. Somewhere along the line the rights to the project were sold off and the incredibly small company I worked for ended up with the rights to the project, which was eventually scrapped. Had the housing boom continued for much longer, I'm afraid it likely would have been built.
Exclude filters are awful and very unintuitive if you know SQL in my experience. I'd much prefer to use negated filters like: `.filter(id__notequal=3)`. I'm giving a talk at djangocon AU in a couple of weeks where I'll step through examples like this.
Thanks for pointing out it can be run locally. That's a win IMO.
I was just going to mention La Campanella! My favorite performance is by Dimitrij Romanov (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ABQFNCFCkY). Also, his performance of the first etude (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM_IWEe6AYQ) blows me away when he plays the first series of tremolos with only one hand.

I just also have to say that one of my favorite performers and one of my greatest inspirations is Georges Cziffra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Cziffra). His performance of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L0Rncqx1yQ) is one of the greatest performances I have ever heard.
Yep, I agree with you. Very surprised I haven't heard of this company in the slightest considering someone just bought them for $750m.
This sentence jumped out at me:

>You also have those individuals who are “not rude” but keep telling people to “suck it up”, to get “their act together” or to believe that disrespect is just a question of interpretation.

Sounds like the author has a lot of conflicts. Sounds like he often receives unwanted advice to cool his jets. Talking about "assholes" is somewhat pointless because conflict is a fact of life, and in most conflicts both parties consider the counterparty an asshole.

This author doesn't show any philosophy, self-insight or humility; rather he is surrounded by "assholes" with "inappropriate" behavior. (He keeps using that word "inappropriate" - but if people agreed on what was appropriate, would we still have conflict?)

Here's something I've learned over decades of working with other people: fix yourself first. Become tactful, adroit and thick-skinned. Recognize that absorbing the bumps and jolts of social interaction is part of the job, whether your are a salesman or an engineer. Recognize that the "asshole" is right in his own mind and may in fact be be right, period.
> I think that if you've created a design that requires you to update a 50K row table 500 times a second that itself is heavily indexed and used heavily in joins, you have a software design problem more than a database problem.

This would almost certainly be true if the design were widespread (which it's not as far as I know), but it isn't necessarily true for all cases.

I think it would be better framed as an optimization problem. If you design for a domain that actually models 500 events per second in a dataset of 50K items, the simplest correct implementation will implement exactly that. If that domain also involves reads which benefit from joins and indices that make those writes prohibitively slow, you have a conflicting set of optimization paths. The fact that some tools don't accommodate that well is an implementation detail, and addressing that fact is optimization, not necessarily a primary design consideration.
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How do you plan plumbing and electricity for houses moving several feet?
The Uluburun shipwreck is famous enough to have a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uluburun_shipwreck
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere.

I think Google Docs has all of the above.
This is a really interesting 'real world' anecdote. Do you know of any related data available publicly? i.e. "on our network, X bits in Y terabytes end up with undetected corruption, meaning that approximately Z% of downloads of a 2GB file will have at least one bit error".
>No civilization more advanced than us is going to let stupendous amounts of energy go to waste in the form of star light.

Isn't this implying that any civilization more advanced than us must be able to take advantage of much more of a star's energy? Like say... humans in 6 months?

I see no reason for the band of possible civilizations between current humans and Dyson sphere building ones must be narrow at all. In fact, the vast majority of all possible civilizations might lie in that band, simply because it might be objectively impossible to actually build a Dyson sphere.
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Are there thousands of people on a single flight?
> What are the chances you will ever in your life be able to afford to buy anything bigger than an apartment/condo (aka a house on a piece of land) in Singapore?

About the same as in Paris, London, New York or Tokyo. The difference being there's no "outer suburbs" where you can get a landed property cheap at the cost of a 1h+ commute. At the end of the day, where you live is about acceptable trade-offs. London hedge fund managers bid millions of pounds on houses in SW7 that an accountant in Ohio would pass for $200,000.

I have many friends in Bangkok raving about the quality of life there, but I think it's for an earlier stage of life. At this point in time, I value the rule of law, equality before the law for citizen and foreigners, stable infrastructure, stable non-corrupt government, etc. much more than I used to, and cities like Bangkok (or any PRC city) whilst a bit more exciting are just too much work.

In terms of actually running a business, every company I know of that has its owners in Bangkok somehow has incorporated in Singapore or is owned by a Singapore holding company. I think that has to do with farang ownership restrictions, again, didn't look too deep into it.

Again, it's a very personal outlook and if I could go back in time 10 years, I would head straight for somewhere like Bangkok or Beijing.

The other thing is that when I get box fever (which is rare, my box is comfortable) I just fly somewhere. You can rent a 2 bedroom bungalow steps from the (deserted) beach on Rottnest Island offshore Perth for around $120/night. The flight takes 5 hours and the ferry another 45 minutes. One of many options, including Thailand and Bali.
It looks like they did a Google image search for whatever the subject of the book is, and slap the first thing they find on the cover.

Example: The Agile Samurai https://imagery.pragprog.com/products/176/jtrap.jpg?12985898...

Dart 1 For Everyone is even better. https://imagery.pragprog.com/products/432/csdart1.jpg?140865...
Aren't at this point you doing the job of two people? I have a coworker who would say this when the requirements are well defined. He would say its our job to build the requirements that are given to us. Our job is not to create / define a product. He would often follow this up by saying our company is worth X Billions of dollars, they can afford to hire a Business Analyst/ Better Product Manager.

Personally I don't agree with this. It goes against my core beliefs to make something that I don't believe is good for the end user. I have a hard time however coming up with arguments on why we should as a developer spend our time creating basically a product plan.
The next LTS will be released in about 9 months. If you're willing to make a small upgrade at that time, I'd build on 1.10 and then upgrade to 1.11 LTS, which will give you 3 years (I think..) plus 9 months of 1.10 support.

Moving from 1.8 to 1.11 shouldn't require any changes provided that you're running with 0 deprecation warnings on 1.8. The new release scheme means that if you're running on an LTS with no deprecation warnings, then you should be able to upgrade to the next LTS release with no changes (but lots of new deprecation warnings).

Hope that helps.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/es/1.9/internals/release-proc...
if people agreed on what was appropriate, would we still have conflict?

Yes. It strikes me as a strange question. People act in ways they themselves would consider inappropriate all the time. We're emotional creatures.
Man.. I was wondering who would take google wave to the next level. Wished I had even heard about this company 2 years ago.
I wish I lived in that world. I deal with mobile clients, web browsers, and tls stacks; everything is broken, not just select. I always check to see if it's my software that's broken first, out of hope...
Lol

They better be quick. Unlike wine, the older is not better.
I don't like Quip. Too slow. Collaborative editing works much better in Google Docs. Can't do proper headings/subheadings or TOC. Just a few of the issues that jumped out at me.
A year-long time lapse of the Earth rotating in space
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I've heard this quote a couple times, it seems appropriate:

> If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.
But we are talking about the Copernican principle. Why isn't coincidence a good explanation for ANY such thing?
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Damn straight. Only the good die young.
Of course, all of this landfill area is going to be the first to go back into the sea when the water rises. I figure our house is going to be riverfront property some day.
RPN style thinking is also something i feel that helped.
Because "thinking" has the inputs on tape/memory already, so its matter of bandwidth and pre-processing.

i.e
"lets do the integratation"

becomes

"integration do".
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> While the Millennium Tower’s sinkage into the earth is reportedly not a safety issue for residents, it does pose a problem for investors.

This is confusing to me -- if it's not a safety issue, then why is it a problem?
I'm looking forward to Guile Emacs, if it ever gets merged into mainline, because emacs will then have a JIT (and maybe we can then land things like real threads)
That guy is good for a laugh if you know a network engineer who for some reason has never heard of him... Send a URL and in about 60 seconds get a reply of "holy shit this guy is delusional".
Well, yeah that's a plausible hypothesis. I tend to think the great filter is behind us. Most animals on Earth aren't intelligent, and it took a long time for humans to appear. But I did read something today about how a nuclear war almost happened at least a few times. Though I think that would only be a temporary setback, it would take an awful lot to exterminate us completely.
Help me tell them buy providing feedback in a visible forum. Why have a social discussion tool, only to obfuscate actual requests?
Wow hard to avoid negative people in the workplace and public. Jerks et all usually get what they want because agressive people are rewarded by management as getting stuff done through other people. Sometimes they become managers and supervisors.

Sort of like in high school the bullies and popular kids get what they want and the school does nothing about them being jerks to other students.
Seymour Papert was a great philosopher, whose work on Constructionism has uplifted many children, inspired the OLPC project, and continues to have a huge positive influence on the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructionism_(learning_theo...

Here is the source code to LLogo in MACLISP, which I stashed from the MIT-AI ITS system. It's a fascinating historical document, 12,480 lines of beautiful practical lisp code, defining where the rubber meets the road, with drivers for hardware like pots, plotters, robotic turtles, TV turtles, graphical displays, XGP laser printers, music devices, and lots of other interesting code and comments.

http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/lisp/llogo.lisp

Here is a Logo Adventure game I wrote for Terrapin, the first program I ever sold, which they distributed with C64 Terrapin Logo, because they wanted a simple non-graphical game that showed off Logo's list processing capabilities:

http://donhopkins.com/home/archive/logo/adventure.logo

Seymour Papert greatly inspired me, and I applied his work on Constructionist Education to the open source version of SimCity for the OLPC.

http://micropolisonline.com/static/documentation/HAR2009Tran...
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Do you have specific knowledge that diffuse ground-based access points impair the narrow beam TDWRs at issue, or are you just making a broad generalization? It's a decent analogy, but I can think of quite a few differences between a short range weather radar and a radiotelescope.
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It's a collaborative notes and documentation suite. Lots of people use it -- including the company I work for -- but it's not "disruptive", isn't surrounded by legal controversy that I'm aware of, and mostly just delivers value for money. Which makes it the opposite of what gets talked about on HN.
100% chrismm has a case of lady brain.

you're all idiots.
I'm devastated. Not for KAGI but for the fact that they went dark and took $3,100 of my money with them.
No warning, no attempts to take care of someone who has been a faithful partner for 6 years.
Don't count on getting any of yours back if they owe you.
Here's an email from Kee Nethery, the CEO to me today.:
____________________________________________________________
All payments are halted.

We have not yet signed the documents with the firm. When we do, I’ll make sure everyone knows who they are and how to contact them.

We have maybe 6 months of deposits with the credit card companies. It will take time to get that back. Right now, your safe assumption would be that the money is not going to get paid out. Hopefully that is not true but until everything is finalized, that is the safe assumption.

Very sorry it ended this way.

Kee
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so good luck and so much for my $ 3,100
Wouldn't 16 inches warp the surrounding pavement and street? I imagine there'd be a large dip.
Have you read Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck? I'd throw it in that mix if you haven't. It and the Pragmatic Programmer are my two favorites. Code Complete is too verbose imho.
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I use Spark at work and there just isn't anything super exciting about this release. They did a bunch of work under the hood to make it go faster, and added some more SQL, but there's no big change in capabilities here.

Spark is great if you really do need to parallelize your code across a pile of machines, but besides wanting to play with shiny toys, there isn't any reason to use this unless you have to.

Personally I'm looking forward to see what h2o does with their Deep Learning integration (they're going to wrap Caffeine,T ensorFlow & money somehow) in Sparkling Water, since being able to easily train modern neural net models from Spark would be great, and if they can continue their deployment story into the DL space, that would be amazing for me.
Similar logic has convinced Elon Musk that we're living in a simulation.
http://www.newyorker.com/books/joshua-rothman/what-are-the-o...
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>how do you always rename the correct ones, in every location, and never accidentally rename the wrong ones?

Well to start, you limit the scope in which they are used so that you only use one such object per file, and you import it with a different name if you've got to mix them. This is a perfectly reasonable thing to do regardless of whether you have an IDE or not.

>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?

Rename it and try to compile. :)

I don't have anything serious against IDEs. They're pretty awesome when they are well-maintained and reliable. I just don't think they're all upside. For one, when I was first learning Java and I'd get a compile error due to packaging or import conflicts, the IDE only served to remind me that I was incompetent about how Java actually worked. And learning the IDE meant learning a lot about what the IDE wants in its particular configuration, not what the actual Java compiler needed.

Moreover, if you ever move to a language that doesn't have as high degree of IDE support as Java, you start having to fight with it quite a bit, and many of those wonderful features aren't available, don't work well, or actively undermine your process.

If what you are doing is old news and part of an active "enterprise-y" code process, then it does reduce friction. Otherwise, it can be a source of friction unto itself.
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So I don't clog up the rest of the comment thread I'll add my atom/vscode/sublime thoughts here.

I've been a long time sublime user and found it very very difficult to switch to anything else, mainly for performance reasons. But I decided to give atom and vscode a real try for a couple of weeks each. These are my findings and results.

I started with VScode when dotnet-core was officially released for OSX. The debugging features, performance, and usability were awesome. I was going to stop right here and jump to vscode except for these reasons.

- Tabs. I know they're coming, but every time I had to go looking for the correct file I was ripped out of my train of thought.

- Shortcuts. They're completely different to sublime/atom and I didn't feel like learning a bunch of F-key shortcuts.

So I decided to give atom another go. Right off the bat I had a very nice looking editor. I appreciate the settings UI that isn't just a text file. The project view on the left is way better than sublime's. A major pain point of mine with sublime was opening a file with CMD + T, but then being unable to find it in the project view on the left. Atom has a reveal in project feature that expands the tree and focuses the file. The git status indicators on each file are nice too. The shortcuts are similar enough to sublime that there's no learning curve.

Atom has a lot of really nice quality of life improvements over sublime text. Startup is really slow. Incremental search is really slow. When I'm viewing large text files I still load them up in sublime text. But for the majority of my coding now, I'll be using atom.

I do quite a bit of C# development in a windows VM, so I might fire up vscode for that use case if dotnet core becomes an option for the app I'm working on.
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In the US, IQ tests are not illegal per se, but they're considered difficult to justify. The courts have adopted a disparate impact criteria -- anything with disparate impact requires a justification. Unfortunate as it is, some minority groups score lower on IQ tests, and it's up to the employer to justify whatever cutoff they choose to use. If you use a cutoff of 115, and someone comes along with a 114, it'll be difficult to argue before a judge that the additional IQ point was not just better for job performance, but necessary. As this applies to any number you pick, there's a certain slippery slope to IQ testing candidates at all.

In contrast, a degree in a relevant field is a very yes/no answer, even if the disparate impact is greater.
As Number values?
That's a very blub answer. Regex search & replace isn't in the same universe as automated refactorings.
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Right. Worse case, you can use `~Q` or the like. The way I recall it, this didn't solve the issue (as in: something more fundamental than "using exclude instead of filter"), but I no longer have the example...
"They also face fewer regulations than banks".

Because they're not banks..