skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're at your max level then you need to have been profitable quite awhile ago. They aren't and have never really been close.

And if they were to go for profit now they'd be worth of a market cap of a couple billion - many times lower than what they are now.
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Aristotle won in the west. In Eastern Christendom, Plato won.
Congrats on the fundraise, awesome that you'll be creating a CE edition!
I spent half my childhood in South Lake Tahoe and have lived in the region most of my life. During the 80's and 90's, much of which was a period of drought for the region, beetles were a problem and being actively mitigated by the forestry service. You can go through the national forest all through the sierras and see trees that have been tagged for removal due to beetles. The problem is very severe right now and certainly the worst I can remember. I've got a couple of friends that work for the us forestry service and they say it's so bad they can't keep up with it. Other sources point out that beetle infestation is part of the problem.

Local news site for Tahoe specifically:
http://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/california-tahoe-area-...

SF Chronicle on the beetle problem and commenting on the excess wood:
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/California-has-66...
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Isn't that simply begging the question though?

If you adopt a geocentric reference frame, then the Sun appears to rotate around the Earth, and all the other planets also appear to follow epicyclic paths around the Earth. You can predict the motions of every planet and star equally well, the equations are just different.

So again, why is one more 'correct' than the other, besides calculational simplicity?
"For smaller projects like microservices, isolated applications, even parts of the UI that most users don’t see, experiment."

I agree with this part 100%. We're still rocking BackboneJS that we chose in 2011 or so. Sure it's behind the times as they say, but it's rock solid for our uses. We're in too deep to convert now and the cost doesn't outweigh the benefits. Clients are happy and we're happy.

In other newer areas, we're experimenting, mostly with RabbitMQ for small things on the backend and React Native on Mobile. With UI on new projects not in the core web app, we experiment. Works rather well and keeps us sane with the pace of JS frameworks.
Indeed. I think a lot of the ASP.NET tooling (particularly around Razor) was rewritten in Visual Studio 2015. There are ton of bugs and other annoyances (for example: https://github.com/aspnet/Tooling/issues/116).
> economic value is potentially infinite

Do you mind explaining how? I'm not sure I understand.
The next time you'd like to diagnose, you can reboot into Recovery and use "csrutil enable --without dtrace --without debug" and you should be able to avoid those issues.
There's this thing called "glowfic" which is essentially that.

http://belltower.dreamwidth.org/8579.html?style=site

http://alicornutopia.dreamwidth.org/31812.html
I'm not installing 500 MB of fonts without a flipping contact sheet on the page :(
Islam at times has been a motivator for science and other intellectual endeavors. I don't need to be from another culture to say that, and I'm not wrong.

What actually bothers me is that what I said was true, yet some people are unwilling to take even a superficial look at the evidence.
>The 1000 new people also need to buy goods and services

How do people without jobs, and therefore without money, pay for goods and services?
After the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, the HRE effectively sanctioned the ability of princes to choose between Catholicism and Lutheranism. It should be noted, though, that the Emperors tended to be fanatical Catholics, which leads to the Thirty Years' War (tl;dr: Protestant King of Bohemia dies, gets inherited by Catholic Emperor, Bohemia rebels). At the end of that war, the Peace of Westphalia effectively guarantees freedom of religious worship for Catholics, Lutherans, and Calvinists, independent of the religious beliefs of rulers.
I mean, Trump has also talked about banning legal muslim immigration from places like Syria; does that not count as anti-immigration?
Comic author here. For the command-line I use a post-checkout hook to display the build status of a commit whenever I switch commits:

https://bitbucket.org/tpettersen/bitbucket-build-status-hook

That way if I update master before starting on a new feature, I get a notification if the tip of master is broken (or still building).
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Indeed but worth it if you are Google though.
All features RhodeCode has for long time ;)
To be fair - this 20-year-prediction-to-home-robots has been happening since the Jetsons aired in the 1960's.

If anything, the Roomba proved that there is small niche-market demand for robotic automation in the home, and economies of scale for goods follows the demand. Consumers simply aren't going to spend the equivalent of buying a new car for something that can be done by a minimum-wage maid service.
What you want is a font subset and google even provides[0] an API to get one.

[0] http://thenewcode.com/878/Slash-Page-Load-Times-With-CSS-Fon...
I follow too many people to read all the tweets and I expect many people do. I created a list of people I don't want to miss tweets from and that helped, but I love the new feature that basically does that for me
They were also really expensive, and there have always been people who hated Lisp for the syntax.
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My time horizon is "Do we have enough trees sucking carbon out of the air before we cross the point of no return?" and "Can we plant enough trees before we lose all the coastal property?"
All I can think of is how cool it was when D.A.R.Y.L. learned to play Pole Position [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3whW65Xl54
To expand on this: there's a difference between being interested in something, and being motivated or driven to become something. I'm kinda meh on all sorts of software engineering fields like networking and systems programming, but I was hella motivated to get into the software industry so I could get a job and become independent. Likewise, I find game dev and design interesting to read and learn about, but I don't really have any motivation or drive to dive headlong into the game dev and design industry like I did software dev. They aren't mutually inclusive.
I'm not defending factory farming of chickens (I actually just adjusted our fencing to double the size of the chicken run), but the answer is: cost.

Chickens in modern factory farms are stacked deep. Each has < 1 ft^2, and their cages are stacked vertically perhaps 10 deep, so they get around 0.1 ft^2 of farm land each.

We have around 15 chickens in our flock. They share a 144 ft^2 coop and have a little chicken door that gives out onto a 400 ft^2 outdoor run.

That's ~550 ft^2 for 15 chickens, or 45 ft^2 per chicken.

That's 450 times as much space as a factory farmed chicken gets.

That costs money.
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And exactly mine, I flashes a ROM with pico Google apps, installed FF so chrome doesn't exist on my phone at all.
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How is this worth it for Google? Honest question, always wondered what Google gets out Google Fonts.
The ironic thing in this debate is that almost all arguments in Galileo "Dialog" were wrong. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/galileo-big-mistake.html

Do 2 wrongs make a right?
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The most interesting thing about it is that at one point people thought it was a paradox.
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As someone who raises animals for food, how would or wouldn't your behavior change if sufficiently cheap and adequately tasty cultured (i.e. var-grown) meat were available?

I ask as someone who eats meat quite regularly, but would prefer not to contribute to the raising of animals for slaughter if I don't have to. I understand that the death of one animal to feed another is part of the natural way our ecosystem functions, but factory farming makes me extremely uneasy. Animals raised in conditions resulting in relatively the same level of comfort or discomfort they might experience in the wild until they are slaughtered is one thing, but being born into an existence that appears to consist of nothing but confusion, fear and pain until death is not something I wish on anything that can feel those.
I think discussions about alt-meat need to discussed in a way that acknowledges they are solutions to a solved problem.

Perhaps my original reply was a bit too down on them, because I do agree that research is good!
It's staggering to me how practice on a keyboard has transitioned to very, very fast train of thought typing. Compared to "thoughtful" writing - such as a fiction piece - it's easily 3 or 4 times faster.
> a unique community for power users.

This hasn't been twitter's objective for a long time now. The idea that twitter caters or cares about power users (in my opinion) was put to rest when they decided to severely limit apis and third party tooling years ago.

As a company, they want to be as big as possible which means power users are not their target audience.
The psychological pricing and consumer behavior principles
If your company is large enough that somebody can be stuck on a problem somebody else knows the answer to (i.e. pretty much any company with more than ~10 people), you should not be committing directly to master. All commits should be submitted via a pull request that passes your CI and code review (and ideally QA review too) before being merged to master.
Oy vey: "The new campus will be made up of bench seating, long work tables, and open cubicle spaces, potentially irking employees used to quiet office environments, two people briefed on the new campus’s plans said."

So grateful for my home office.
Generally it seems that you know what you are doing, so the idea looks good. However I've got few comments:

1. Lack of schema is a horrible idea, especially at the beginning. It may be necessary in some selected places,
but if that's your approach to data design you'll end up with unmaintainable mess that keeps tripping over differences in data interpretation and inserting garbage due to trivial mistakes. Then you'll be the one explaining to your clients that images are not being displayed because "imgaeid":"45" was found in place of expected "imageId": 45. It doesn't simplify anything.

2. I am not sure what resources do you have, but introducing innovative (and largely untested) language and various aspects of architecture all at once is very ambitious. Swift looks nice (though I prefer Rust), but both language and its libraries will be moving target for years, and that's pain even for languages that were well designed. Being event driven looks nice too... but I am not sure if anyone can figure out if its better to be 100% ED or maybe only 45 is just right. This might be to much to chew on.
Ask HN: How did Theranos get to the point that it did?
How did Elizabeth Holmes successfully create the biological equivalent of vaporware? How did she build such immense hype along with a $6bn evaluation for what amounted to nothing? Just trying to understand what the major contributing factors were.
We may lose current coastal property - but it will be replaced with all new coastal property. At a terrible cost, yes.
Your colleague could always push for systemd to be fixed. The world knows the program and the function to fix.

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=825394#221
Environmental engineering is a field that would be utilized for this sort of issue as one facet of a multidisciplinary remedy or study. I do a lot of environmental work but haven't heard much about the tech industry but there is a lot of technology involved with remote sensing, UAS, instrumentation and data analysis. I would love to hear about modern environmental tech firms working on solutions to these types of problems.
The solution (more of a workaround) to this is to cut the font to just JIS X 0208 (containing Kanji level 1 and 2, total of 6,879 characters) or JIS X 0213 subset (containing Kanji level 1-4, total of 11,233 characters). It should cut the character count to the most commonly used ones, which should reduce file size by a lot (or skip JIS X and select only glyph for Kanji level 1 to reduce it even further).

There is a Subset Maker Tool[1] (in Japanese) that can do this. But you need to provide the list of characters you want to keep by yourself (searching for JIS第1第2水準漢字 usually helps).

If you do not want to do this by yourself, Google also provide a version of Noto Sans that has been stripped down to just JIS X 0208 subset in their Early Access program[1].

[1]: http://opentype.jp/subsetfontmk.htm

[2]: https://fonts.google.com/earlyaccess#Noto+Sans+Japanese
The concept is presented in

http://www.langsec.org/papers/Bratus.pdf

I think people have found a number of other, well, weird examples. I found

https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot15/workshop-program/pr...

via Google Scholar and there are more papers on this theme if you search for "weird machines" there. It seems like a helpful way to think about this issue!
I own a Panasonic Robot welding cell, and I keep up with numbers of robots sold like that - I know your numbers are correct. My experience with programming the Panasonic is that there is quite a learning curve to get over, to do the most basic things with it. I think the small numbers of robot adoption could be a reflection on this difficulty, combined with high cost. My cell was $85,000. The robot was a great value at that price though, it generates about $2000 an hour worth of product. Paid for in 40 hours of welding, good for 10,000 more hours before its worn out.

The Baxter should prove me wrong, but I think it is just an underperforming platform. The current owners of robot tech would view it as under capable compared to arms from Kuka or Motoman or Panasonic etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

I think the non-robot users, those companies getting a first robot, would find Baxter easy to use but would be less inclined to go buy one; getting a robot is a big step.

I have to think that ROS getting better and better, with offline programming, will help adoption. We are at the UNIX terminal phase of computing, or at best we are at a Windows 3.1 level. Nobody has made the iphone of robots yet, one that is very capable yet easy to program. Once we can get to a few swipes to get result, robot placement will increase rapidly. I love how repeatable the result is, and how fast it produces parts. It is about 3x more productive than my most productive welder, with equal or better accuracy (we still hand weld a lot of things)

Baxter was supposed to be the super easy to program robot, but he never seemed very precise in the videos, nor very fast (by design, but still - we buy these things to make money).
Occam's razor is not science, but it is rational. Science is about running physical experiments to verify your understanding, and to include proper controls to validate the experiments.

A lot of research does not have a component of science to it, but the studies are rational. Rational != Science
I do the same for my apps, but with a Python "backend". It allows me to use Python on my webapps, and Python on Android through JNI and Java on the frontend (https://github.com/joaoventura/pybridge)
Not to mention each new release of Visual C++ for example require a new CRT etc with different file names.
Most people want to point their finger at Apple here for being the bad guy but the reality is is that we're getting a one-sided view here and we're already getting out our pitchforks. Maybe, just maybe, the developer in question here did what Apple is accusing them of doing and isn't being completely forthcoming and honest about it.
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Great case you make there! I'm off to look into Erlang :)
Well, they can track people across sites that use Google Fonts, so maybe having a larger set of characters and encouraging more use gives them a farther tracking reach.
Surely they'll have no problem with open sourcing it then, right?
Maybe I'm just a crotchety old admin but I really don't "get" the recent tsunami of everything being written in JS.

I mean what is the appeal of node for system applications over something a bit more systems oriented? Is it just an overspill of web developers getting into systems and not knowing any other language? Does JS really offer something different languages don't?
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Software development, the happy path, and confirmation bias
That's true. But too much of a hassle.

One workaround is actually to just cp /bin/whatever to /tmp/whatever and debug that, but in this particular case I needed to follow forks (from zsh to ssh) so that wasn't as easy. Or I guess I could have played games with $PATH. Ah well.

Either way, there is something funny going on with ssh and private keys and their passphrases. Very odd how "-o BatchMode=yes" fails to load encrypted private keys that don't require any user input in normal use. And it's definitively something new because this was never a problem in 10.11 or below.
Or inspect element and delete the overlay. Same effort, less surrender.
Both systems (Copernican and Ptolemaic) had epicycles.
They are probably wrong about the fat causing problems...

That said, if they are eating raw, whole, fruits with most of their fiber intact (and from the look of their site, they are) they are reducing the glycemic index of the foods they eat.

Many processed foods are bad, not simply because they are processed, but that a massive amount of the fiber in the original food is removed. Fiber is a glycemic moderator, foods with high fibers have lower glycemic indexes. For example if you juice an orange, you've pretty much made kool-aid, it's junk food now. If you instead try to eat as many oranges in a glass of orange juice you would feel full before you finished and consumed a lower amount of calories because of that.
Seems to be a competitor to Apache Commons, can decide for yourself whether or not you think it's better.
If my choices were factory farming or vat grown food, I'd choose vat grown in an instant, to minimize suffering.

If my choices are vat ground vs home ground...that's complicated. There's a lot to be said for small scale farming. It brings animals into the world and lets them enjoy life, which I see as actively good. We don't have to go remotely near the Repugnant Conclusion Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_addition_paradox and can just note that the pigs seem to enjoy being alive.

I also think that it's in man's nature to interact with the natural environment. This is really a book-sized topic, not a news.yc comment one !
I took the time to read your article. My thoughts:

Programmers constantly trash and badmouth everything: languages, tools, platforms, frameworks. Name anything and there's a vocal group of people who hate it.

Grow a thicker skin if you want to be taken seriously as a developer. Don't attach your ego or sense of worth or professionalism to a technology or tool -- those are transient things. If you take jokes or complaints (or ignorance) about CSS personally, as you seem to in your article, you're going to get defensive and feel attacked when they come up. Go to any seminar and you'll see the same jokes about HTML, Javascript, PHP, etc. Think of them as in-jokes and bonding, not as personal assaults on your choice of expertise.

I think everyone who works in web development knows that CSS is capable of amazing things. I think most of us know that you can't expect CSS to wrap and fit an arbitrary text string into a fixed-sized container. We all know HTML and browsers have limitations and shortcomings that aren't always clear to print designers and clients looking at Photoshop wireframes. It's part of the job, not something to get wound up over.
I understand that the space is the big thing, but that is the only additional cost. You may actually save on antibiotics and deaths to illnesses. I think you could maybe have your chickens slightly more dense than the example you mention. For example here in South Africa we have plenty of space, and I see vast warehouses go up.
> What was the substance? You said you were throwing a wrench into the cogs of a brain that only mindlessly repeated things. OP wasn't mindlessly repeating, but bringing up a valid point, albeit not going into as much detail as I'd like.

Ah fair enough. So there's often repeated phrase that "correlation doesn't imply causality". That's because often times people make the fallacy of going "A and B always happen together, therefore A must imply B!" (or the other way around). This is obviously wrong. So some people have learned that whenever someone says "A and B always happen together, so maybe one implies the other...?", they can shout CORRELATION DOESN'T IMPLY CAUSALITY and shut down the conversation.

But the truth is that these people for the most part don't understand that phrase very well, right? Because you take conclusions in your life, right? Science has learned many things about the universe, right? So SOMETHING must imply causality. _If it isn't correlation, what is it?_ Think about it, everything in life is correlation. If you open your hand and the stone drops, did the stone drop _because_ you opened your hand? How can you ever know? All you know is that two events "opening hand" and "stone dropping" are correlated, how can we know if one implies the other? But of course we know, don't we? ;-) I think this is a substantive observation :P

> You accused someone of not knowing what they were talking about and using phrases they didn't fully understand, and I didn't see any evidence that that was the case.

Well, he didn't know the answer to the question I posed before. His answer was "I am very very educated, you go read some books." To me that's plenty of evidence he doesn't know the answer. In fact, I would say telling someone "correlation doesn't imply causality" is strong circumstancial evidence to that effect :P

EDIT: If you say that saying "correlation doesn't imply causality" is bringing up a valid point, it must be the first time you see that phrase, am I right? Go on reddit and in every single conversation you'll see someone throwing that around as an excuse to not having to dig further.
That's it - it's not the property, it's the mass displacement and abandonment of cities.
I think that fundamentally this is just a sign of people realizing that the meat industry can't ever be ethical. I'm expecting society to become maybe 50% vegetarian/vegan in the next couple of decades.
Southern New Jersey has the same beetle problem:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/02/science/earth/in-new-jerse...
Alas for the cold nights that would kill 'em all in winter.
His arguments here are really unconvincing. What, we should avoid pointing out the flaws in a broken tool just because a handful of people have managed to do something impressive with it? Whatever happened to the spirit of constructive criticism and general improvement?
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Add this filter to your uBlock Origin "My Filters" tab:

twitter.com##has-recap

Edit: To be clear, this hides the dumb "while you were away" box, which is useless for people who read everything anyway like myself.
I have no objection to anger or even conclusions that the CEO made the wrong decision.

My objection was entirely to how the first commenters in this topic treated the situation as obvious and the CEO as the clear moral antagonist of this story.

One of my life mottos is seek first to understand. Another is that very few things in life are as simple as they appear.

I will forever object to vilification and simplification.
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