skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weird. I get the opposite. Order a lightbulb. Get a package thats the size of 5 laptops stacked. I get thats its a lightbulb but sheesh...its LED & plastic...you could have drop-kicked that into my postbox and it would have been fine.
There is a line in the film “Interstellar” that stuck with me: “We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars. Now we just look down and worry about our place in the dirt.” Now the film plays in a dystopian future, but I
think the quote is still appropriate for us as a civilization. If Elon can change that, all the better.
That's quite a bigoted perspective you have.
Awesome! Great to see two leads from major reactive libs in the JVM working together !
Google’s New Service Translates Languages Almost as Well as Humans Can
Still a fair amount of the glue and interspersed code that wires it together sits outside, plus the user management code (user, group, identity integration to all the various providers). Also all the out of the box default security. Part of the benefit of being slightly apart from Kube initially (which we did because we had way too many things we wanted to bring together to put into Kube at the time) is that we could be opinionated and say things like:

* every component will use client cert + TLS + specific authorization roles to interconnect

* no ability to configure the cluster without those on

* default to secure by default, be opinionated about authz/n

* lock down everything that could be abused (like letting end users change ingress IPs on services, or direct volume mounting)

* make namespaces the unit of tenancy and restrict regular users from modifying most things in namespaces that impact policy

The raw pieces are in Kube now, but effecting the same opinionated defaults while still preserving the flexibility many in the community want (like direct Keystone integration, or no restrictions on pods by default) will take some time. Our goal is to get there in a way that also makes Kube more extensible and flexible - I don't believe everyone needs everything we believe in, but by doing it in pieces we do get to ensure it's possible for someone else to do it.
There's a huge perverse incentive lurking in there.
I beg to differ....nobody thinks programmers are slouches in the pay and intelligence area.

Plenty of broke ass lawyers running around like Better Call Saul.
> I realize these technologies are not currently doing anything for you. I sympathize. But we need them in browsers now so that we can use them in 10 years.

6 years ago many people didn't even knew what web browsers were (What is a Browser? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ)
The consent forms for surgery and research need to be for whole genome or even multi-omics sequencing. There a bazillion IRB protocols, and they all have their own consent form, wasting the samples on just 10 or 20 genes.

Which would require getting IRBs on board. Which requires working with IRB systems vendors, like iRIS. (google for "iRIS IRB system")

Also, beating iRIS would be nice.

Also, marrying CROs to investigators and vice versa would be super helpful.
> I disagree with the author that this is middle class. A two bedroom apartment is the very definition of impoverished lower class loser, just above homeless.

Apparently I'm an impoverished loser who makes more than 10% of the US population.
I don't think that would be enough.

How do we decide that "high quality" content gets more per view than "low quality" content? We would need a human who makes subsidy decisions. Or if it's just an equal split of each user's monthly payment, then:

* I'm not sure that readers of "high quality" content read fewer articles in total,

* I'm not sure that they completely avoid clickbait, maybe just read a bit of "high quality" in addition to the "low quality" ones. Often I just read comments on HN or browse pictures on reddit instead of a long thoughtful article, because after a long day of work that feels more relaxing,

* The number of people who click on those articles is still going to be a small fraction of the whole population.

So, this can finance a small number of national or even global sites with sufficient readership. Just like the Economist, New York Times, Washington Post, etc still survive on advertising revenue today.

But how do we make sure every small 20k population town weekly paper can afford similar articles on local issues? How do we encourage or guide people to actually read them instead of looking pictures of cats? How do we make a "good for you classical music collective" get paid 10x more than Nirvana when everyone wants to listen to Nirvana?
In InnoDB everything is a transaction. If you do not begin/commit then each statement will be its own transaction.

Batching a group of statements together in a small transaction is usually better because it reduces log flushing. ACID only needs to be guaranteed on commit. Similarly, applying transactions in parallel is faster because of group commit.
What's the purpose of your third line?

Obviously they didn't even click the link at all, but they had a legitimate question to ask the community in hopes of learning more about why the content is good. Your first two lines directly answer their questions, but the third one just seems, well, immature?
...but so many smaller companies and startups use React. Personally all of my employments (five at this point) have used it and none had more than twenty programmers. Has it actually been an issue in real life?
Criticism is good and the world needs more of it to thrive. It's not going to kill you (or Elon Musk, for that matter) to have some disagree with them. Forums were made for this very reason!

1. Part of participating in humanity is being critical. Part of participating in anything is being critical. If people have complaints, it doesn't harm you to hear them out. If you only seek to have your beliefs validated via the internet, you're going to have a bad time.

2. Just because someone criticizes Musk doesn't mean they're not critical of anything else. They're just giving you their thoughts on the subject, which is better forum etiquette than just randomly going on about China when asked about NATO, so to speak.
Intellisense can be difficult with JavaScript inside an IDE. I've had some luck with WebStorm and their typescript stubs though.
Exactly. Everyone in the U.S. gets taxed a couple bucks a month, and it gets apportioned among independent (not advertising supported) content creators based on page views, ratings, and whatever other factors. This is probably the only way to fix the problem.
Underperforming relative to what standard?
I agree, UI development is a different beast.

He briefly mentions hot reloading and declarative UI at the start, but it's drowned out by his ranting on JS and doesn't seem to earn it any points in the end. But those two are huge boons for UI development, to the point where it's worth putting up with JS's flaws as a language. Flexbox and media queries make CSS pretty decent for layouts. Dynamic languages are a double-edged sword - for UI you often want something up and running and useable to see if it actually feels right, without worrying about interfaces and types too much. Objective-C and Java can feel clunky in comparison.
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QQ1: It does not matter.

RQ: In general I think waiting is a mistake, except that you should wait long enough to have a good idea about what you're going to do.
compared to signal, telegram stores all your messages on a server you don't control in plaintext. It's not the answer.
by something...
No preference here.
That's a terrible straw man. My counterargument to the "indeterminate potential for future abuse that makes it important" is that the same logic applies to all human transactions, so it's a moot premise.

Increased security standards on metadata for human transactions is actually the right response to the existence of bad actors, but increased security != forcing bans on the use of metadata.
how many things were invented as byproducts of the space race? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_spin-off_technologies
What if the goal is actually to get away from the rest of humanity (in particular the part of it that would be likely think that colonising Mars is a ridiculous waste of money)? The circumstance that people of most political persuasions except for a very narrow set tend to find moving to Mars ridiculous but moving under the sea realistic itself seems to be pretty good evidence that if you wanted to get away from everyone outside of the narrow set, going to Mars would be good enough but going undersea would not.
What language should you consider using next?
"Disagree" here is not about disagreeing with the content of the linked media, but whether you consider sama adequately credentialed or experienced to speak on the topic.
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Didn't Guido post a tongue-in-cheek ad for Python to a/the Perl mailing list in Python's early days? I tried to find it now but no luck.
Slightly against--we're not sure why it is, but 5 or 6 founder companies have (with some notable exceptions) significantly underperformed our average.
I have my suspicions
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The YouTube app proper can play offline videos already. The catch is, you have to have a YouTube Red subscription.

I don't think it's a technical issue at all, but a "people pay for this feature wherever YouTube Red is available" issue.
That's a strawman if I ever saw one. He never said anything like this.
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Predicting the future is hard. I don't have a great general answer for this, other than to look for highly engaged users. IE, when the iPhone came out, users loved it and used it all the time. Even though the market was small in absolute size, you could be confident it was going to grow quickly.

It could be good or bad depending on details, but it's certainly not always bad.
If you don't know that the eastern seaboard of the USA is a sinkhole of humanity, and a polluted hell, then its because you have not been any where else.

In SF they call LA the armpit.

West coast we call the east coast the arm-pit of america,

What's new here? nada, the issue is the truth cannot be told in SJW forum that is yc/hn.

Anybody that takes a job near DC in defense is a loser.
> They might have had a real problem with his donating to Prop 8.

So what? I might have a problem with my boss' watch or suit or the shows he likes or the newspapers she reads. Who cares? I'm not marrying him/her, I'm working with him/her. It's irrelevant for the work.

There's no single piece of evidence Eich did in any way impede, discriminate against, was hostile to or in any other way hurt any gay - or straight, for that matter - employee, while working for Mozilla. If there were a shred of evidence, it would be unearthed and paraded by now. It wasn't. Conclusion is it doesn't exist. That's what I am talking about "no single instance". I don't claim nobody ever disagreed with him on anything, because a) that's impossible and b) nobody cares, disagreement is completely normal.

> but I could imagine it might make them uncomfortable,

The idea that everybody should behave in a way that makes absolutely everybody else comfortable and never do anything that could cause slightest discomfort to anybody is one of the most stupid ideas that ever come out of American college campuses. Fortunately, even its proponents don't actually believe in it - they are completely fine causing their opponents maximum discomfort. It's only their own comfort that they aim to protect. Which is fine - but I see no reason why their comfort is more important than everybody else.

Of course, some people - including ones working for Mozilla - may hate Eich's views. So what? If you have views, somebody would eventually hate them. And some would love them. And most wouldn't care.

> Mozilla didn't fire him

Technically, no. Effectively, yes. There are more ways to fire a person than yell "You're FIRED!!!!" to his face. This "his own volition" is a pile of bull, just like saying "oh, your honor, this guy handed his wallet to me on his own volition, and the gun in my hand has really nothing to do with the case, let's forget about it. The guy even said "please take my wallet and let me go!" which I obliged to do. So I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's clearly a voluntary transaction."

> but usually when I boycott something it's for real stuff, not stuff I just made up in my head.

I remain grateful to you for this short, but instructive story about your life. It was very educational, truly a people interest story.
Which is why you

A. Don't make the interviews so hard that they require multiple months of preparation. You can be prepared for the google interview by simply having taken an algorithms course and studying for 2 or 3 weeks.

B. Make sure the people you hire are good communicators and are a good culture fit.

C. Try to make your workforce diverse.
> A two bedroom apartment is the very definition of impoverished lower class loser, just above homeless.

Stop trolling. This is the rudest thing I've seen anyone say in a long time and it certainly doesn't belong on HN (but also, it's weirdly classic HN to read things like that here). Socioeconomic class is not defined by who you think is a loser or what kind of dwelling you choose to live in. I would never live in a house like you describe if I were middle class. I would always choose the 2 bedroom apartment. That makes me a loser, just above "homeless"? No, it doesn't.

Stop the insulting nonsense.
By your definition of the middle class, a healthy U.S. economy would need approximately 4,000,000 domestic maids to satisfy the biweekly maid service requirement.
Holy shit you guys, some people actually use our apps from devices lacking an always-on connection! This is the revolution that will give rise to Web 4.0 -- apps that can work without the internet! It'll be the biggest thing since the recent development of Web pages that automatically reconfigure to fit different screen sizes!
He didn't provide any alternative and what I described is the status quo for companies outside of software engineering.
Hilarious, Android developers telling other people their software is unsafe.

The most dangerous software is one you can never update. Android leads the tivoization of devices globally.
By the way – the study that the Coding Horror post is based on has been retracted:

http://retractionwatch.com/2014/07/18/the-camel-doesnt-have-...

But I think it's what spurred all the interest into the "bimodal hypothesis" that the current work explores.
I'm working on a startup that provides live remote video assistant as a service and we piggy backs off of existing technology platforms (FaceTime, Hangouts, Skype) rather than building the tech ourselves for the meantime.

Do you prefer that companies have their own technology or is it okay that a company utilizes existing platforms in the beginning?

My team consist of CS and ME/EE.

It's PokeBin.com if you wanted more information.
I never got this. Coding in Nodejs is much, much harder that in Python, Ruby, C# or Java.

I've seen .NET (and even C) programmers that after a year of coding using node still don't have a clue what the hell is happening.

Dynamic typing vs. Static typing doesn't make a language harder. If you prefer dynamic languages you are just a bit lazier and short sighted.

Async vs. Sync (specially the way node handles it) IS harder, though.
Fees only deter people that are conscientious like yourself.

That's why credit cards are a good business even though they give so much free points and the like to their customers.

They bank on the average person's lack of responsibility.
Why? What would be the source of problems?
> Make no mistake, people are going to die in the first several runs.

I agree, and I would even say this is the main challenge of the project long term - whether we have the stomach for seeing hundreds of people blow up on the launch pad, suffocating in interplanetary space, or dying from exposure on Mars when a hab block fails (and all of that possibly repeatedly). For some reason we don't have problem sending millions of people to their deaths where they don't happen publicly, but that's where we are right now.

You have to weigh these risks (and PR impacts) against the severe drawbacks of civilization-wide stagnation, of which a potential mass extinction event on Earth is just one example.

Personally, I would choose to go even if there was a 50% chance of blowing up on the launchpad.

> The first colonists will most likely not come back.

If they survive for a few years, there will be return opportunities. There is no downside to offering people a ride on returning transports. I would say establishing a reasonable transfer rate between Mars and Earth is vital to the program on several levels. Update: just made it through the QA and Musk seems to agree with me, he says having the option of going back is vital, and they'll be offering free return trips on their transports.

> I don't think Mars is viable until we enter a post scarcity world

That amounts to never. As a transhumanist and futurist myself, I have grown far less optimistic about the political will to even work towards such a state in recent years. People are violently opposed to switching away from capitalism, for many irrational and even some rational reasons. I allege that technologically speaking the industrial nations of the world could switch to a post-scarcity scenario for the everyday needs of citizens pretty much right away if they wanted to.

There is also no compelling reason in my mind why colonizing another planet is something we just can't do using our current means. Some people say there is not enough money to do it, but in reality money is a malleable entity, and we're not batting an eyelash at wasting literally trillions on it. But for some reason investing mere billions into technologically progressive ideas suddenly brings up fundamental questions about the scalability of our economy?

Lastly, I also believe starting self-sustaining colonies elsewhere might be the only way of rebooting into a post-scarcity system. Not saying that's what will happen, but at least there is a chance.
I think Musk must be a founding member of the Human Admiration Society. He's so positive on the achievements, adventures, survival of our species. And, he's on the watch too, warning us about possible looming threats like extinction events or AI run amok.

I want to join Musk's society! Let's keep humankind going!
The big distros are starting to ship rustc and cargo in them, so apparently they don't think so.
So now facebook has your data, has a shadow profile of you (already had that from your friends) and adds your whatssapp metadata to. You have to trust all current and future facebook employees who ever have access to that data. You have to trust facebook can now and will always in the future be able to secure that data. Then you have to trust anyone they sell that data to in all these dimensions. Moreover if data exists it can be retrieved by government through legal or other means so you have to trust all current and future public servants in countries in which you may not even have or want citizenship rights.

If you knowingly made that bargain and said, "Yes, I trust all these classes of people." Ok, fair enouhg. I imagine a number approaching 0% of facebook users, let alone whatsapp users actually thought through that bargain and knowingly agreed to it.

But yeah, you're mom might not see who you talk to on whatsapp via her facebook account. So there's that.
There is no article. It's just disguised advertising which is asking for you to register on their website.

If you really want to crack the HackerRank test, read this instead:

https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/07/13/cracking-the-hack...
Aussie startup “making drones a thing” with the help of Accel and Costanoa
You won't believe how detailed and idiot-proof I made my vehicle description (which is a feature GetAround has that's designed for owners to outline parking instructions, etc.).

People just don't read.
LA has more people, but also much more land. The entire stretch from SF on the other hand is surrounded by water on three sides, and the valley in general is... well, a valley. Surrounded by mountains.

To get a good sense of this, open Google Maps and center it on California. You'll get a sense of how different the two areas are in terms of sprawl. LA is basically one big concrete jungle from Burbank all the way to Anaheim. SF area is much more densely packed.
I get your point, but I wonder how much YouTube content gets watched by the same person multiple times.

Like how long does a single person care about a video? Vlogs are pretty "read once"
Hardly discounting. Or downplaying ability to make a successful huge business from formation - most can't after all.

It's the means to the end. Nothing wrong with that either.

Bezos was being connected with space as the destination in the 90s long before Amazon was even a certain hit or Blue Horizon. Amazon gave him the means to follow his childhood dream. That's not to trivialise an Amazon, but had Amazon failed, which it almost did, whatever came next would try to get big enough to make Blue Horizon. Selling books online wasn't unique, getting big fast was more so, at least for a while.

For Musk, he'd identified as having a dream of alternative energy, solar, and electric vehicles from years ago and mentioning it along the way. No surprise that as soon as he can he's founding Tesla. With SpaceX right after Paypal I cant recall hearing earlier mention, but I'm glad he did.
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> Phoenician was the first wide-spread phonetic script. That, in turn, had major effects on civilizations as it was simple enough for commoners to learn.

The cuneiform of the time was, at heart, a syllabic script; while a phonetic script is arguably simpler, it's not much simpler. The real problem with cuneiform is not that it was syllabic instead of alphabetic, it's that you had plenty of options other than syllabic representation, as well.

(And written Egyptian, the parent system of the Phoenician alphabet, was already genuinely phonetic! It didn't have vowels, but neither did the Phoenician script.)

All that said, that sort of shortcut-encrustation seems to develop naturally within all writing systems. If I send someone "have a good day" and get back "u 2", that's exactly the kind of shortcut that we blast ancient writing systems for using. But that shortcut, in modern English, actually represents a very high literacy rate, and use of the writing system by someone who can't be bothered to observe its formal conventions. Under low-literacy conditions, educated people tend to scrupulously observe whatever weird conventions their writing system might have. That's how you know they're educated.
Does that transfer to code? Should I write bad code for a month and seek to read the worst code samples imaginable? I'm pretty sure whoever will be confronted with my code will not be happy =)
Probably like git but with every commit signed by n+1 / 2n participants.
The main battle occurred after Lincoln took office, sure. But the siege?

Union attempts to resupply and reinforce the garrison were repulsed on January 9, 1861 when the first shots of the war, fired by cadets from the Citadel, prevented the steamer Star of the West, hired to transport troops and supplies to Fort Sumter, from completing the task.[1]

As far as I can see, the war was started by the South almost 3 months before Lincoln took office.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter#Civil_War
I'm looking to buy in LA and everything is old as shiz and over 800k :(

Oh well, at least I can rep the 323 and shout tupac lines
Middle class means you work for your money. Upper class means you have money regardless of how much you work. A family of two lawyers earning $500k a year are still middle class.