skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea odd, I blame it on my inexperience with the city. I lived in East Village and Lower East Side and had all of the scenarios I mention. In fact, on a rainy night once I had the "I don't know how to get there" happen twice in a row. On the first vehicle I got out of the car and hailed another, then I responded to the next driver that I would tell him where to go with my GPS.

I got the broken credit card at least twice, both in a yellow cab and green cab coming into Manhattan. I had cash on me and didn't complain until I later found out they're not supposed to do that.

I'm surprised you haven't gotten dirty cabs. I'm certainly not the type that has to be in some spotless car, but I honestly can't remember seeing a clean cab back in NY. The days following a rain storm are the absolute worse too as the floors and seat backs often covered in mud. I think the worst are broken A/C or window-down cabs in 90 degree summer. Those things smell horrible.

Again, I'm not picky by any means but using Uber was better in almost every way for me in NY and I stopped using cabs immediately.
Nanotech bandage heals wounds in days
Not the first time this confusion has come up on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10716102 CO2 emissions are low (which is what this article is about), but particulate and other emissions can be pretty extreme.
> increases in median worker productivity slowed

> fewer and fewer people are needed to make more and more stuff.

You're arguing against yourself, here. The latter is productivity increase, the former is productivity decrease. Also, productivity growth is not new, it has been going on as long as the economy exists. Machine automation has been occurring since the industrial revolution started, it did not start in 1973.

What started in 1973 was that the high end (basically, the owners of capital) stopped sharing productivity gains - meaning that where previously, workers were able to bargain for a share of the increase, now they cannot, because of various mechanisms of taking. CEO pay did not go up 10X because CEOs were suddenly drinking tiger blood and winning the Fields medal.

My original contention was that one of these was the shift away from the Bretton Woods system, with fixed currency exchange rates based on the dollar; going from here to speculative international currency flows and floating exchange rates is one possible mechanism for making workers less able to bargain for those productivity increases.
I use Uber when I occasionally take taxis in Boston, but I never used in NYC. It takes longer to hail an Uber and squint at a hunch of license plate numbers in the dark looking for your driver than it does to hail a cab. There's cabs everywhere.
Investor commentary on the FPGA, http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/09/19/1-more-surprise-win...
A side note is I find it a little odd that bitcoin often gets "hate" from inside some tech circles. From a technology standpoint I was amazed because I was able to set up a wallet, set up a twitter account and get people to send me bitcoin in legal and ethical ways in a very short amount of time. People can actually tweet you "money" very easily with no hassle of setting up bank account or waiting etc. I was able to spend it on things as well. Sure its not the most convenient thing to buy most things with yet but its still very new. I am not some bitcoin advocate or anything but just the ability to do something like that I thought was very useful.
It meets the needs of its users while fulfilling the objectives of its creators.
Originally, Glass-Steagall placed a firewall between commercial and investment banking. That isolated deposit banking from high-risk securities and investment trading.

It wouldn't have prevented every part of the subprime crisis (Bear Stearns wasn't even a deposit bank), but it would potentially have lessened the scope of the crisis.

- Preventatively, it would have restricted the size of the CDO/CDS market. Without access to commercial banking deposits there would have been much less money to invest there.

- Reactively, it would have better protected deposits and saved the FDIC a small fortune. Indymac alone ran the FDIC $9 billion and depositors another $0.27 billion.

Its decline and repeal completely reshaped US investment banking, to the point where the entire industry would have looked completely different if the law had been applied 1933-2008. Of course, that's not entirely a good thing.

Some chunk of the pre-2008 growth has to be attributed to a flexible banking industry keeping us out of liquidity traps, and that was a genuine, non-special-interests reason to alter the law. Clinton didn't (exactly) repeal Glass-Steagall, he formalized a change that regulators had made far earlier by limiting enforcement of the firewall.

I can't say that long-term enforcement of Glass-Steagall would have been better, but I can certainly say that it would have altered the entire landscape that the subprime crisis happened in.
"involved in" - a very weaselly phrase!
Unfortunately, there is something far easier and cheaper (from the end user's perspective) to duming in a controlled landfill: dumping in random places.

It's been a long battle in many places to get people to properly dispose of their trash in a proper way, it's still way too easy to revert to prior behavior. In many places in the US, people have to pay a private company for disposal or haul their trash to a landfill (usually in more rural areas). So it's a very visible cost, making savage dumping more compelling.
Maybe it was a mess anyway, so they went with Swift when rewriting it?
This was downvoted, but I recall it supposedly being an explicit condition of employment that you don't tell anyone that you are going to be an apple store employee?
this is an anachronism, the commission regards reduced rates as "an obstacle to the proper functioning of the internal market"[1]

for quite a while the commission has attempted to reform VAT, ostensibly for a "simpler, more efficient and robust VAT system" with the intent of "broadening the tax base and limiting the use of reduced rates" to "generate new revenue streams", which is reported in the media as "EU wants to add VAT to food, childrens clothes and books".

[1]: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX...
It is pretty good for single-commit branches, though the previous squash commit already handled that case fine.
I just wish local drugstores sold sub +1.00 reading glasses. I've only been able to find them online, so it becomes a game of buy +0.25, +0.50, and +0.75, and then go through the hassle of returning two of them (likely at a loss). Optometrists may carry them, but they're so much more expensive than anywhere else. Anyone know of a better solution to find the strength that's right for me?
Just curious, why is Chrome better for you? I switched back to Firefox after e10s landed, and tbh they are now functionally equivalent (for me, at least). I now choose Firefox because I find myself more aligned with Mozilla's philosophy, and to promote cross-browser consistency.
> People need to remember that work is the place where they have "human resource" departments, where they will make cut and dried decisions on who to retain and who to lay off the moment they want to adjust a budget.

Or looked at from another angle, this is one of the very reasons people want to be seen to be "going the extra mile" compared to their colleagues (not that I'm disagreeing - the point about seeking acceptance is a very important one).
I can only provide anecdotal evidence, and I was not officially diagnosed with it, but I definitely have plenty of the issues listed. Since I adopted the Pomodoro Technique (25min work, 5min break), I have noticed that a lot of my symptoms have subsided. My biggest issues were headaches and blurry vision.
I've read other people make this point. There are a lot of TLS implementations out there but OpenSSL was so synonymous with SSL/TLS for so long that it became a fundamental building block. If an API could be established that lets the-thing-that-does-TLS become a minor detail that's easily configured we'd all be better off.

Removing the dependency on OpenSSL is going to be a challenging, messy job. OpenBSD has mostly transitioned over to their LibTLS API but even they had difficulty moving some projects over.
Many words were once bog-standard that are now frowned upon. I agree though, it's pretty gay that you're gypped out of calling a spade a spade by these uppity, autistic commenters..
> multiple insults, on stage, by the Cloudflare CEO

Interesting. Do you have a source for that? I'd like to check it out.
Its also that while breaking down foods, some bacteria can provide chemicals as by products that indicate to one that they are full. It's perhaps not as clean cut as simple the efficiency of one's biology.
The official link is https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/hybridcloud/2016/09/26/a...

and this is important because it's not actually GA.

From that link:

"Availability

Windows Server 2016 is available for evaluation beginning today and will be on the October price list. Volume licensing customers will be able to download fully licensed software at General Availability in mid-October."
Goal was to have no dependencies.
Not compatible with Firefox... This error in JS console:

TypeError: a.table[b] is not a function

Works in Chromium though.
This would be true if we had one person responsible for the merge! We have a small team of developers and proper rebase and merge is the responsibility of the PR author after it has passed code review + testing.

In short: all devs are admins.

edit: anyway this would still be a huge help to the sole admin if we had one.
Really cool, but perhaps the title should indicate that this is an emulator that works in the browser? Perhaps a short description at the top of the readme before the demos?
To be honest, humor really doesn't have a place at HN when not accompanied by an attempt at a real contribution to the discussion.
With @nonescaping becoming the default, this might become a bit simpler. Not too much, but a bit.
> support fast forward merges without merge commits

Isn't that essentially what this is? It's a rebase followed by a fast-forwarded merge, there should be no merge commit.
You have to manually optimize away unnecessary reference counting without help from the compiler.
That would be more useful, as git log tools tend not to deal fantastically well with concurrently running branch, especially with interleaved side-branches (fork branch 1, fork branch 2, merge branch 1, merge branch 2, history looks like garbage in most Git tools)
> it's good to know that humor has no place here.

If you want to crack jokes, head to Reddit.

I find the lack of that kind of rubbish here refreshing.
Do you normally answer older questions that have already been answered, or newer questions with a few sub-optimal answers?

I find that most older questions have pretty useful answers so I can't really improve upon them.
Is there something particular about your mom I should take away here? Or moms in general? Or women? Or older people?

My mom, like yours, would have no use for dev tools -- because she's just not interested. And neither would my brother, but my grandma would have loved learning about this stuff if she had lived long enough, and my kids have discovered this "secret hacker mode" all on their own and are delighted.
PWLConf 2016 videos are now available
Then please don't use it. In the mean time, here's how a flat tree looks to contributors:

https://github.com/jleclanche/fireplace/commits/master

Versus a merge tree:

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commits/master

Consider that the git log is one of the first thing contributors will look at. The cleaner it is, the better the experience.

I've been waiting for this for a long time. Thank you github!
Because sometimes the admin just tells you "ok, rebase then I will merge" and don't bother doing the rebase himself...
Because I want to go electric to not have to deal with gasoline ever again. I don't want to have anything to do with gas stations. It would almost be embarrassing to me to buy a $100K+ "electric" car and have to visit the gas station at all.

And, yes, it's a hassle. Life with a pure electric is simple: Plug in at work, plug in at home, plug in at the mall, visit superchargers during trips if needed.

With the BMW's you have extreme electric range anxiety (only 80 miles) if you want to "be electric" and you have to now: plug in at work, plug in at home, go to the gas station by work, go to the gas station by home, plug in at the mall, gas-up by the mall, no superchargers during longer trips, so gas-up frequently due to the 10 gallon (or is it 8?) tank.

Then there's the complexity. You are lugging around 2,000 parts you didn't really want to be lugging around. Is that generator built to last like real auto propulsion engines?

Put it simply: It's a pain in the ass, it is likely to require more maintenance and it is embarrassing.
No, they are usually even worse. What I would prefer to see is whichever search results organically rise to the top excluding the huge but more-hype-than-substance sites by default. I often find there is real expert commentary via official docs, blog posts, archived mailing lists, presentations at conferences, and so on, sitting just underneath all those SO links that clog up the first results page.
one of the most essential pieces of software in my opinion:

flux: https://justgetflux.com/

and now that I've been running linux, redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

I find it hard to use a computer without these now
> others (including currently) where `rebase and merge` was the standard.

Isn't the usual standard "rebase && merge --no-ff?" Yielding a merge commit but lower branch interleaving in the logs? This is going to dump all the branch's commit into the mainline.
I won't dispute any of the criticisms of Stack Overflow, but in its defense I'll say that life as a developer in the Stack Overflow era is much easier than it was in the pre-SO era. You could find solutions to your problems online back then, but it took a lot more work. Now, I enter a question or some keywords into Google, click the top SO result, and more often than not, find a well-written and complete answer to my question. I hope that doesn't go away.
Seems good, let these guys sell it as cheap as they can. If you want a coat buy Sugru when you order this thing, and have your case in any colour and shape.
* John Carmack's .plan for Feb 24, 1996
...
* RELEASE QTEST1

It looks so brown and blocky and crude now, but it was huge at the time. Good memories.
How much do you value your privacy?
So are Asperger / ASD mutations, a step back, step forward, or a step in a different direction (evolution?)
The disheveled artist-inventor look comes and goes in a 20/30-year cycle. Today it's brogrammers, in the 90s it was grunge. Before that it was hippies. There is nothing new in fashion.
You joke, but it's true. I've also started sitting in a large room in my house where it's easy to look and focus at a long distance.

The more I think about it, the more of these issues that get solved naturally when working remote/at home.
> In my opinion the sharp symbol is very different from the hash symbol #.

Yes, the pound sign is different than the sharp symbol, just as single quotes are different than apostrophes, and guillemets are different than less-than and greater-than symbols, and the flat symbol is different than "b".

Now, limitations of first common US typewriters and then the ASCII character set have led to conventions where some of these have been used in place of the other because the correct symbol wasn't available, but that's different than the symbols being the same, and in most modern contexts, the correct symbol is usually available.
Ziegler is not just any editor though. There has to be more to the story.
Bonsai promises to make developers into machine learning ninjas
My dog does definitely NOT wait until I lose my focus ;)
People always demand a stable ABI, but I've seen very few use case on enterprise software delivered to the cloud where this is even necessary.

Most people rebuild their software entirely prior to release, and deliver the entire package. Having a stable ABI doesn't do much to help this scenario.

Linux doesn't have a stable ABI, hasn't hurt its success much.
I found a pair at the dollar store once (+1).

My +0.75 pair I found walmart.

That said, I often find the same thing as you, that nobody sells them. It's very hit-and-miss, so I just check the racks frequently and see what turns up.
Agreed, it should be noted that most shipping related pollution has a short half life in the atmosphere and are released far from people limiting it's impact. However, the impact near ports can be rather significant and it will travel over a large area.
I remember reading stories several years ago of Scottish prawns being shipped to Thailand to be shelled by hand, and then shipped back for sale in the UK [0]. I have no idea whether this still happens, but I find it utterly mind-blowing that this process was the most efficient way of getting the job done. Globalisation sure does lead to some weirdly counter intuitive outcomes.

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1534286/12000-mile-tr...
Be Careful with OS X Sierra – file sync has a serious bug
How we scaled our rails back end
Well, what I'm saying is that I'd be happy even if I had to rebase manually in the case that master had moved on since the pull request had been created.
You exaggerating a lot in this article. If anyone will get access to your servers then you have a lot bigger problem than him having your ssl certificate. Point number two is that a lot of companies can't use Let's Encrypt because of agreements signed with payment processors, government agencies etc.
it isn't, the minimum rate is 15% EU wide.

there's a lot of rates which were grandfathered in when countries joined the EU, but lowering the VAT on any new products requires unanimous approval in the council.

all details are here: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/eu-vat-rul...

additionally, the commission wants to phase out reduced rates (see my other comment)
How can services like engagedcount stay in business without shared counts
How can services like https://engagedcount.com/ stay in business even after the announced ending of shared counts via the Facebook API [1]?

[1] - http://www.inc.com/james-parsons/the-era-of-the-share-count-is-coming-to-an-end.html
It was definitely bog-standard at my middle school in the 90s, but it is definitely not in my adult world of people who have learned to empathize with people and avoid pointlessly insulting them. There are plenty of better words to use for this.
> These are rather important commits by themselves and better keep them separated in your history.

Which you could already do with a regular merge. Just because the commits are fine as part of a branch doesn't mean you want to keep them as part of mainline.
This is just paranoid ranting. Google is offering one way to protect yourself from DDoS. Without Google you could still do it.

Pointlessly contrarian criticism with a solid dose of conspiracy theory. Just vague complaints with no threat model. If you think there's a credible threat, provide a sequence of steps that could occur for that dangerous action to take place. Describe a potential PoC.
Evolution isn't directed.
I wonder if it would be possible (and legal) to use machine learning algorithms to determine which driver applicants are likely to have low ratings.
It's hard to take articles like this seriously when they end with affiliate links.
You know full well that he hates being called that.
What started in 1973 was that the high end (basically, the owners of capital) stopped sharing productivity gains - meaning that where previously, workers were able to bargain for a share of the increase, now they cannot, because of various mechanisms of taking.

NO! This is EXACTLY what I (really Scott Summers) am saying has not happened. The share of national income going to labor (vs the owners of capital) has remained almost exactly constant since 1973 (and before then as well).
This is not correct. What you're describing is two different styles of merging: fast-forward and no fast-forward, as indicated by the `--no-ff` and `--ff-only` flags provided to `git-merge`

`git-rebase` will rewrite the history of the current branch. In this case, github will rewrite the history of the branch that you would like to merge such that the base commit (hence the name "rebase") or the commit that was branched off of is the latest commit on the default branch (usually master)

Then when you merge it, you'll get a merge commit or not depending on whether or not you do a fast-forward merge
What? They don't have their own implementation...
Yea, he goofed that one, but if you look at his platform compared to the other two, you'll be impressed. He seems like the only candidate in touch with reality and not a professional con man / woman.
It's often not the navigation directions that suck, but the ability for the driver to drive effectively while glued to the GPS unit.

I remember this one time in an uberX where the driver missed the Manhattan Bridge onramp turnoff 3 times in a row and had to circle around. The GPS directions were good, but inexperience also includes being unprepared to execute the directions given to you.
Where I shop (Seattle, US), supermarkets have self-service check-out machines, and I've never had a problem with bringing my own, non-reusable bag.
Or children (when working at home).

Or managers (when in the office). :)

Joking aside, I view this as a necessary balance required in life. Even if my primary activity needs a lot of solo concentration, I must embrace the distactions as having value for reasons mentioned in the article. We are not ultra-specialized machines, even if we specialize in very narrow fields, we still live a life that comes with variety, diversity and in an environment filled with beneficial chaos.
The "massive weight changes" from stool transplants are most often weight loss, to my knowledge.

If so, this would be consistent with increased biodiversity (from the stool transplant) correlating with reduced visceral fat.

At any rate, the interaction is probably more complex than our current understanding, as this is a very new area of research.
I think there is something with reading angle too:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aos.13148/abstrac...

"Reading in a sitting posture at myopia onset predicted the greatest myopic progression to adulthood and reading face up on one's back the lowest. Reading with eyes on turned more downwards was slightly connected with greater myopic progression."

I had some major vision problems a couple of years ago, to the point I didn't touch a computer for about 4 months. iPad and iPhone screens weren't bothering me so I got to keep working.

My suggestion to people having severe problems is to strip apart every variable and test. A few things I have suspicions about which I have rarely seen addressed:

- switching between low & high DPI screens

- lights/screens which are not on the same frequency

- viewing angle (referring back to the myopia study.) Prior to a standing desk I would always lean back in my chair - going back to when I was like 11 years old.

From my opinion, if you took best practices and worst practices, and then like did all the worst ones you would be fucked pretty quickly. You could take someone in great health and give them chronic pain in weeks or a few month. Doctor's advice shouldn't be ignored, especially when something fatal may be occurring, but in many cases they may have no helpful advice.

Ergonomic / RSI / Carpel tunnel issues apply here as well. I've mentioned before I had severe RSI with chronic, 24/7 pain for years, and exhaustive attempts to fix it eventually cured it. Unfortunately as I get older I've also had to acknowledge that our bodies get less and less capable of fixing themselves. At the least we can try really hard to do things which aren't aggravating the decline.