skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly I have not read this book you recommend.

However, my experience with such arguments is that they never persuade me "big government" is suddenly intruding into places it didn't previously, since the truth is more often that government was suddenly being deployed in support of people it was traditionally deployed against, and against people it was traditionally deployed in support of.
The Harvard Art Museums Bauhaus Collection
The Pursuit of Instant Pushes
> The REST-inspired API that requires 10,000 API calls to do something that could be done in 1.

That's not a REST-inspired API. (It might be an API inspired by the kind of naïve mapping of HTTP verbs onto the base tables of a normalized RDBMS schema suggested to people who don't understand DB design, REST, or application design by certain popular web frameworks default "REST" approach, but that's not REST's fault.)
> I've recently begun learning more about electronics for this purpose.

Out of curiosity, where did you start? Any recommendations? The extent of my hardware is custom PC and raspberry pi. I'd love to mess with more than just plug and play.
"A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him."

- Napoleon Bonaparte, as quoted in Civ 4
Facebook ploughed on – before performing an embarrassing 360 and claiming that it was imposing this policy out of concern for victims.

A 360 would be embarrassing as it places you back to the same road. Perhaps it was an "embarrassing 180" instead.
Governments can only force inflation of the currency, not of all assets. That helps to keep value in investments that pay a return and increase real value to society over holding currency which doesn't.
[video] Why Ancient Pacific mariners were the NASA scientists of their day
async VIM - We had it 4 years ago with VIM-Dispatch.

https://github.com/tpope/vim-dispatch
How the Sugar Industry Shifted Blame to Fat
That's a valid point. But why couldn't all of these local governments get together and collectively come up with the standards. If they can't figure a way to come up with the standards without outsourcing it to a for profit organization, it must not be a very important law.

Think of how corrupt the system could be if a bunch of building material suppliers could write the law.
"Buildings must be constructed from brand X materials" Then brand X has a monopoly for the materials. This is similar, only brand X is the only company that can provide you with a copy of the law, a law that you are required to comply with.
> In JS you can define a monad that works only with numbers, which is sometimes useful, and which you cannot do in Haskell without black magic.

What does this mysterious assertion mean?
Check out Quobyte: https://www.quobyte.com/containers
Kinda of a moot point. AS Android phones have already started the move to USB-C, there are already USB-C headphones coming out. Like on the HTC10 for example.
Landings are also mostly automated just through a different system(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrument_landing_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoland
This works as long as your business model doesn't have opening user's URIs at its core, e.g. monitoring service.
Syria conflict: How will the new truce work?
I have only looked at the slides, but sorry to say, I find it very "hand wavy". Don't mistake me. I love Julia's work and her enthusiasm.
Google had come out saying they don't believe that an incremental approach will lead to fully driverless cars; at some point the leap has to be made. Sooner rather than later in Google's case.

Given that Google doesn't make cars, I don't really see how they would go about commercializing L3, even though it's well within their capacity from an innovation standpoint.

I really don't think they expected the auto industry to respond so aggressively with their own proprietary autonomous driving OSs, determined to shut Google out.

At this stage their only option is to get to six sigma level 4 in a way that leaves everyone else scratching their heads wondering how Google did that. It's going to take a lot longer than Google anticipated.

Now Google could probably release level 4 quite soon in a limited capacity that's more an amusement park ride than a relable, profitable transportation service, but it's probably smarter for them to keep their eye on the prize and keep plugging away at it. They're in too deep to throw in the towel.
Safer how? They are missing cameras and sensors, this won't be a simple software upgrade.

I think people are handwaving away the true difficulty of door-to-door (as opposed to lane-keeping) driver-less cars that can operate safely without humans being attentive all the time.
More importantly, if you want women to use your service, how are you going to handle the inevitable abuse problems?
Quobyte 1.3 – Parallel Container File System with Erasure Coding
The state is ubiquitous now, but it also administers with a much lighter hand than it used to--even relatively liberal states in the past regulated public and private morality rather heavily, and even the most authoritarian states rarely police as harshly as the average 19th century government does.
Various DOTs will likely examine before and after statistics, and consider the statistics compared to vehicles without assist systems.

They might get political pressure to consider high attention events instead of the statistics, but they are partly in the business of pushing back against that kind of pressure.
I disagree, except maybe in a class specifically focused on real-world software engineering. Teaching somebody to use git takes an afternoon, teaching somebody to understand programming and computation takes years.
Windows has its own legacy baggage and I wonder about the proposition that the mobile OSes' Unix underpinnings aren't relevant. Depends on what you're doing, I'd think.
This link does not point to where you claim it points.
I got this instead:

https://goodbits.io/pricing
1. This won't last as people will want their own cultural and legal rules to apply on Facebook.

2. Facebook is not just a private company anymore. It's cool to have success, but that comes with bigger public scrutiny, and possibly a lot more obligations than a normal startup who would have only a few users.

3. Don't think this is minor. Facebook will need to evolve, even in the US. This is a matter of Free Speech and Freedom of Thought.
One of my absolute favorite online comments is https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/39wsfi/what_are_pr... :

"Every framework can be viewed as an attempt to say "the hardest part of writing a webapp is {X}, so here's some code to make that easier". ... Backbone is the result of feeling like the hard parts are fetching and persisting models to a REST API, and client side routing; that's basically all it does. Figuring out how to turn your models into HTML is easy (apparently), but models are hard, so it helps you.

Angular is what you get if you think the biggest problem with writing webapps is that Javascript isn't Java; Ember that it's not Ruby. (I kid. But I'm less familiar with those frameworks.) And so on. Everyone has their own ideas of what's hard to solve.

React + Flux is based on the idea that what's really hard with writing webapps is non-deterministic behaviour and unclear data flow. And if you've worked on a large Knockout or Backbone project, you're probably inclined to agree."
Software Engineer Title Ladder
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12476957
Team at TechCrunch Disrupt hacks on the fly communications with Imprompt.io
Various people have tried to charge for "social media within the company", and I think the only one that's really been successful is Slack. Maybe Bloomberg chat and Skype count (although comms is not the same as a social network).
a blacklist is generally not a good idea in any case. You should use a whitelist instead.
Are there good guidelines on complex patterns in modeling your resources ? E.g long-running operations involving multiple entities.
You have to know how git works to use those commands competently...
1) You never know what someone means by 'deep knowledge'
2) What works on a personal project, or microservice repo, might not scale well with many engineers doing overlapping work in the same codebase
3) consider that even if you are perfect, other people can make mistakes that introduce issues
4) 'advanced' techniques can make a complex version history more readable, which pays dividends by saving brain space in the future
Having these billionaires willing to throw money at competitive space flight is pretty great - I'm sure positive effects on commercial space exploration and global internet access will inevitably follow.

I'm intrigued that they plan to go from New Shepard straight to a rocket that's bigger than Falcon 9 (3.85m pounds thrust for New Shepard vs. latest Full Thrust version of Falcon 9 at 1.71m pounds). I was under the impression that New Shepard wasn't as serious as Falcon 1 (.e.g not capable of reaching orbit) and that SpaceX spent quite a number of years moving from pre-Falcon 1 to the regular launch successes of Falcon 9.

Maybe someone who knows more about this can explain - are the technical challenges involved less associated with pure size and more to do with design/fabrication processes etc.?
Americans? How about the British, Mexico, Singapore, China, Japan, Korea, every country in the Middle East except Israel?

Then you have a German freak out over even talking about Nazis.

Almost every country has some hang up or another. Suggesting that 'Americans' have a fear of nipples is short sighted. Every culture has something that causes a collective freakout.
I would simply PATCH { "status" : "closed" }, as that's how PATCH works in rails.

Regarding the deposits, the difference is that 'deposits' is a collection of deposit resources vs 'deposit' as a verb. I think in this case it makes a lot of sense to do it that way, as you can then GET /account/12345/deposits and see all the deposits ever made.
Similarly my jaw dropped when people in 5th years were amazed at Eclipse's debugger. They never used one before.
It was certainly true when I was at university. I encountered CVS through a friend (which was sadly the best free VCS at the time), but pretty much nobody else used VCS. A few students worked out themselves that they needed something like that, and ended up with the chaotic system of renaming their files with a version number at the end.

It's sad that git (or equivalents) doesn't feature more prominently these day. It's as important a tool as compilers, debuggers and editors (although I don't remember being taught how to use them properly, either).
Much like working for a bank, which is also well paid in the UK, doing COBOL maintenance is pretty unsatisfying to a lot of people. Probably why it's so well paid.
Brother printers are great. My black and white laser printer has been great fit 4 years so far.
This I agree with.
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You could say the same for TV or Newspaper. Still, they have obligations.

People are not completely free to use or not use Facebook. The idea that people are autonomous in their choices is erroneous. Thus, the reason why it's fair to apply additional obligations to companies like Facebook.
you know what? I'm prepared to cut Bram Moolenaar a lot of slack given the goodness he gave us for 20 years through 7 versions of one of my top 3 pieces of useful software.
Within my lifetime, I hope to see: private spaceflight a reasonable option for a middle class person, resources mined from asteroids, construction in orbit, and a human walk on Mars. I want to know what's in the oceans of Europa, and I want to see detailed images from all the celestial bodies of our solar system.

I think there's a reasonable chance of all of those happening, and it feels incredible to see companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin building the foundation of commercial spaceflight. Good luck to both as they continue to grow and iterate on their journeys to other worlds.
Which I've always thought was a sign of mediocre software, but HN/Reddit seems to crucify those that criticize git.

I think Git is like Javascript, it takes relatively little time to learn enough to get up and running, causing most people to forgoe learning all they'll actually need to be successful.
Correction: Tim Pope managed to hack in a mostly-functional version 4 years ago.
This is almost exactly the same for me. Except I was 28 when I became a "Development Manager". It quickly became clear that I felt I wasn't accomplishing anything, and the times when I was able to actually code felt completely liberating.

Some people enjoy managing, unfortunately I just couldn't get into it.
North Korea defied world with nuclear test. Now it seeks aid for flood disaster
Comparing what happened on Wall Street in 2008 to what is happening in Silicon Valley is just not even in the same realm. The scale, for one, is not even close. And do you have any evidence to backup what you're saying other than your own anecdote which is surprisingly lacking in details? You just sound generally disgruntled about a startup experience.

I am really not concerned for all of the startup employees that are making six figure salaries, putting them easily in the top 5% of earners in the world. These people have the freedom to do so much more than what most workers do. They are not victims.

Now, if we want to talk about how the work that Silicon Valley is doing will displace non-tech workers, then yes, that is a discussion that is worth talking about.
Project management isn't really a management role. They are usually peers, often on a lower payscale than engineers.
Why can't we just label clothes with an actual measurement?

I figured this out when I started shopping online. I'm a guy, and a Chinese "Large" on Amazon is not the same as a US "Large". If they just put the size in centimeters or inches, all ambiguity would disappear.

As I understand it, women's clothing is equally horribly varied in terms of the abstract sizing scheme. That is stupid.

Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp? Just tell me the measurements of the clothes (and be accurate about it), and I can take it from there.
Yes, so? These are secondary functions.
I've been using git for 7 years now, never had the need to go deeper. Lately, I'm using github and pushing / saving my work every so often [kind of like CTRL + S in Windows Office in the '90s]. If something goes wrong, happy to yank the local git and start with a fresh clone from github :)
> JavaScript - Dynamically typed, does not scale

What does this even mean? I see the phrase "does not scale" bandied about all the time. In what way is a language supposed to scale? It seems like its just the latest semi-technical hand-wavy way to disparage something.
Gene Drives Will Clash with Evolution
Here's the language that the US Federal Government uses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_car#Classification
I was observing that with this new update, VIM is increasingly becoming an inferior Emacs. I argue that it should either die, because Emacs does what it's trying to do better, or distinguish itself in the editor space, like other Vi clones, by emphasizing simplicity over extreme flexibility.
Show nipples in Asia or the U.K. It isn't just "Americans."
Correction I linked Tim Pope's github page.
Those ESPRIT projects I worked on tended to have very nice Sun workstations as their standard machines - when we maxed out the RAM on a 4/330 someone actually flew from London to Edinburgh just to fit it!

Not sure if the research was worth the money but we certainly did eat well.
This sounds like something you could have proposed 15 years ago. It assumes local, custom email clients for "enabled-by-default encryption" and XMPP support. People have moved onto web and mobile email clients, and you can only use whatever is compatible across all platforms.

I also think it overlooks mobile adoption. Many people using the internet today have only accessed it from a phone. They don't necessarily have email addresses. They may not have ever used a full sized keyboard.
7 meter diameter will be a game changer for hauling cargo, that's for sure, now they just have to build it :)
Speaking of TANSTAAFL, what's your brilliant plan to fit the headphone jack into the phone body without raising the price of the phone?
10 Years of Pair Programming
Nope. The only other popular editors I've seen people using is either Sublime which, although highly configurable, just ain't no vim; or, all the emacs users, with emacs being the only real competitor to vim. I didn't mean what I said as a slight to emacs users at all, I respect them and their editor, I'm just a huge vim fan.

Also, the same with Java only being used with Java IDEs, C# only being used with Visual Studio is also a notable exception to my "vim all the things" rule.
As primarily a back-end developer I am being exposed to some front-end work at the moment with AngularJS/CoffeeScript.

I have to agree with you. I'm not enjoying it at all.
Isn't this what is supposed to happen? I mean the whole point of education from the early days is that everyone is collectively standing on the shoulders of the previous generation.

If the idea of accelerating knowledge acquisition - across all domains - is working, then it stands to reason that those with the most plastic brains and access to a wealth of knowledge, as well as tools to figure out what is relevant and contextual, will be able to outperform those who have well worn cognitive paths.

Seems like a great thing to me - but terrifying for anyone who is used to the idea that more time = better.
No, they just won't do turns with poor visibility in the meantime.
As far as I know there isn't any autopilot that can fly a plane unattended unless you are flying on instruments. Collisions are avoided by relying on the air traffic control system knowing where all the planes are scheduled to be. (Plus plenty of backup warning systems.)

You can still use an autopilot when flying visually but then it's up to you to watch for traffic. This is using it like cruise control.
I find I feel rather the opposite - that while Dr. Stallman's technical accomplishments are meritorious in the extreme (especially to a longtime Emacs user like me!), his principles are so uncompromising and lacking in subtlety that they do more to polarize a discussion than the converse. Such, at least, has been my experience.
Exactly, when we use Facebook, we basically make a deal with them - we surrender a part of our freedom (of speech mostly) in exchange for the convenience and entertainment that FB provides.

If people are no longer happy with this deal, they are free to look for alternatives, but instead prefer to complain about censorship. It's like going on vacation to England and complaining about the rain.
A cryptocurrency proposal without a blockchain
As someone standing on the outside looking in you're definitely letting conspiracy theories get the best of you. BBC had an article up while she was still in her daughters house and had a video of her fainting not long after. As did most 'main stream media' sources. I can't speak for Twitter's trending system but mainstream media had the facts up very quickly.
> If "close" is an action or activity that acts upon an accounts resource, then his approach makes sense.

Right. Particularly, if a closure request is a thing that has its own status, identity, and associated data elements, which one might wish to examine and interact with (and, while its possible that such interaction might not be possible for external users with privileges only on their own accounts, it might well be possible for internal administrative users), then it makes sense as a resource, rather than a data element buried in representations of another resource.

Without full behavioral requirements and domain model, you really don't know what makes the most sense.
Failed Tests Аnalysis- Ambient Context Design Pattern
And two days later, their phpmyadmin is still publicly available ...
As others have said, a lot! I think this is what keeps many teachers engaged--they learn from their students as well.
>What better précis of his efforts' market value?

I don't think that's what it is. I think it's pandering thinly disguised as gratitude and pedigree. Otherwise stated, I think he wants us to believe that the market values his work, but I don't believe it actually does. That's the "scummy marketing" bit.

And to be clear this is all intuitive. I can't point to a single thing and say "see? that's proof positive.", but the overall impression I'm left with is very, very negative. Taken in the context of his shoddy writing and "fronting" in the photograph, it suggests a kind of person I truly have trouble appreciating.

I'd love to be wrong about this, though. The point is that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, and my visceral reaction is quite strong and quite negative. At the very least, this guy presents poorly, which is problematic for someone in his line of work.
Though I'm probably wrong, it'd be nice to consider the key phrase in that sentence is "...before (they) seriously considered the technology". While automakers and others have been testing the technology for years, Google was probably the first to drop huge $$ into the effort, with what we can assume was aimed at bringing it to mass-market / production-level. So, yeah they probably were the first to "seriously consider" the idea of mass-market autonomous vehicles.

Likewise, despite Apple's other faults, bringing quality touchscreen technology to high volume mobile devices back in 2007 is the what made that company stand out from those who preceded them in that endeavor.
> The "bad input" is, arguably, no longer bad input.

What? Yes it is! Defined behavior for invalid markup doesn't make that markup valid.

HTML5 doesn't refuse to accept anything that HTML 4 accepted. Defining behavior for invalid markup does not even impact "be liberal in what you accept", the scope of what is accepted hasn't changed. It affects "be conservative in what you send", in particular it more closely matches that half of the principle.
>America’s younger workers have already been “personal technology consultants in their own families, so it’s a role they’re very comfortable playing,” she said.

Fuck all of that noise.

I'll teach you how to use something if you really want to learn it, but I'm not going to be the guy you just hand your laptop to and go "Fix it for me I don't know how to do it you're so much better at it than I am."
Yep. I'm working as a COBOL developer now and the language itself is fairly simple to read and write. The hard part is learning the systems in place and how everything talks to each other, since the systems have been in place since before I was born and have just been growing ever since.
You can try smaller companies. From my experience, they're awesome because they care about teaching you stuff, and also what you do really does make a difference for the product you're building.

Bigger companies will always be less flexible, and especially banks love rules. The bigger the company, the more process (aka. bullshit) can get in the way.
TL;DR: 450 comments "modern web dev is a mess" / "modern web dev is fine".
Take a look at https://github.com/viebel/klipse - everything is explained there
Probably a better comparison is to virt-manager, which is also single-node management, albeit as a native (Python + Gtk) app. https://virt-manager.org/
Also all the time we hear projects lost months / years of code due to a lost laptop.

Version control gives you VERSION CONTROL and a backup.
> In a statement on Monday, the Amazon boss said: "Our vision is millions of people living and working in space, and New Glenn is a very important step."

Serious question because I don't know - seems like it would introduce a lot of overhead into daily life having to support that much life "out there". What's the value prop? Why would I want to live in space (aside from it being cool)?
Kahoot?
i hve mde aproxx. .8% of a kahoot.... Russia???
Is a ship or siderman briother?? Trust??