skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very rational thing to do if you live in an urban area. Individual owned cars spend most of the time parking taking precious space inside cities. Car sharing combined with non-shitty public transport to also reduce moving traffic could make cities a place for humans again, not a place for cars like it's now.

I also prefer not to own car as an individual (if not necessary because of lacking infrastructure). It's stupidly wasteful from a monetary point of view to not use the thing most of the time. You have to take care of maintenance and driving in an urban area is also not fun (ok self driving cars would fix this). This "everyone should own a car" as a status symbol thing is/was fabulous marketing.
Scott Adams in his own words: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/150919416661/why-i-switched-my-...
1Mile app concept review
A text editor with DOM-based search and replace for HTML.
Xfwm (part of XFCE) but that's kind of useless w/o the other components around it such as the panel, the config, so you probably want the full desktop environment (don't worry, it's rather lightweight).

I also used Fluxbox and Openbox and like both very much, but they are kind of basic.

Working with any of those is both faster and easier than any of Windows or MacOS, for me at least.
For basic CRUD apps, choice of language is arbitrary.

At my company we have a mix of python, PHP and JS devs. Node is great for a lot of things, but it's better suited to smaller apps that do one thing. Cue microservice debate.

We have a lot of worker services written in Node, with a majority of our API services using PHP (Laravel/Lumen.) That's starting to change as some of our developers see the benefits of not having to context switch between languages when working on front and back end simultaneously.
I speak 3 languages fluently (English, French and Italian)

My mother tongue is Italian, however it's since been superseded by the other languages.

How do you accomplish this? Travel.

You absolutely need to immerse yourself to be fluent. Save your money. Make hard choices. Pick up and commit to spending 2+ years in a new country, society and culture.

It will be hard, but you will get a perspective that is lost on so many: what is the immigrant experience really like? what does it feel like to be victimized or discriminated against (assuming here that you're a white, English speaking American)? what does it feel like the first time you can successfully tell a joke? the first time you can give a presentation? the first time you can seduce a partner?

Get out there snowdragon, immerse yourself!
Clearly there was some sort of sponsorship here, would be nice to see it explicitly mentioned though.
Look back also in the early 1900s where all major newspapers were proclaiming the end of world and massive famine if we ever reached 1 billion people on Earth"

"It is estimated that the population of the world reached one billion for the first time in 1804." Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_milestone_babies
How much power does the president of us as a person wield? The us has numerous powerful institutions and checks and balances. Thats probably why many people dismiss the fear of authoritarianism.
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You don't need to use direct translations of those words to express their purpose in the process. After all, if you're explaining what tinder, kindling, and flint are you wouldn't use those words in their definitions.
When I've posted criticism of Hillary on Facebook, I've gotten savaged in the comments by my liberal friends. It's a sobering and depressing experience and I'm sad to realize that my respect for most of them has declined, as no doubt theirs has for me. Periodically I will post a defense of freedom of speech, and I'll remind people that I'm willing to fight and die for their right to disagree with me, with which they tend to agree. But they also believe that anyone who doesn't toe the party line is practically an enemy of the state.
Don't you remember that crowd-sourced stock predication website that publish the anonymized data and let crowd build model without knowing which specific stock/portfolio is used?
Oh they make a difference. Young white heterosexual males are now even better to hire than before because you can fire them without the risk of a lawsuit if things go sour. There's no risk! We get our foot in the door easier than ever! Thanks, Civil Rights Act!
From page 29 of [1]:

"The Committee is concerned that OFCCP has lost its focus on
identifying and addressing real employment discrimination and is
imposing excessive compliance burdens on contractors. More specifically,
OFCCP appears to prioritize specific quota results rather
than equal consideration and opportunity because of its reliance on
statistical analysis in evaluating contractor hiring practices.
OFCCP should focus on actual discriminatory treatment instead of
presumed discrimination based solely on benchmarks that may not
be uniformly applicable. Strict and exclusive use of statistical significance
tests effectively requires contractors to use a quota hiring
system in violation of the Civil Rights Act to avoid adverse impact
claims by OFCCP. The Committee is also concerned about reports
that OFCCP is increasingly subjecting contractors to overly broad
and unnecessary document and data requests as well as unreasonably
numerous and lengthy compliance reviews. The OFCCP is directed
to cease utilization of this de facto quota system for evaluating
hiring practices and to report within 120 days of enactment
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives
and Senate on steps it is taking to enforce non-discrimination
standards on a more fair, case-by-case basis focused on evidence of
actual discrimination rather than on statistical generalizations and
quota benchmarks."

[1] https://www.congress.gov/114/crpt/srpt74/CRPT-114srpt74.pdf
What makes you think the German grid would not be up to charging electrical cars? In most places it is in an excellent state and as electrical consumption overall is sinking (getting rid of incandescent bulbs and wasteful electric devices helped there).
On average, an electrical car would need about 10kWh/day to recharge, based on the average mileage. This does not put high loads on the electrical networks, especially as most cars would recharge over night, where the networks are mostly idle.
Nice writeup. Elixir definitely seems like a solid language for web dev. For the frontend, I prefer Scala.js since I'm kind of a Scala fanboy, but I've heard great things about Elm.

One little comment. At the beginning of the post, you make it seem like the app needs to scale with the number of viewers, when in fact it doesn't. I think you should clarify this to avoid confusion.
> not something you take on

For parent's generation it seemed to be very much something they took on. Or there was an expectation to progress through phases of life/clothes/attitudes. As I've got older it's apparent just how much wider the gap was compared to us and the next generation. To look at my parents I see a different world, with the kids it's very much the same world we just disagree on some details.

Tattoo? Probably not - but for the same reason I didn't in my 20s either. I change mind on what I'd like too often to commit to skin!

I agree on tinkering, the enthusiasm has faded a fair bit. I can't remember the last time something seemed genuinely new rather than yet another variation on a theme. Yes I can see how pointing out the latest framework is a silly idea might get interpreted as killjoy! It does get too easy to see the negative sometimes. On IoT and security, to name but two, a little less blind optimism and a bit more criticism wouldn't be a bad thing!

I've long known I think a little different. I prefer a healthy diversity and range of perspectives to homogeneity. If I were recruiting at a company of mostly 50 something males I'd be hoping to bring in some women and younger people. By the same token most startups of 20 somethings could benefit from the odd wise uncle or aunt even if they don't have reaction times to win games sessions!
Ultra-conservative? Not by a long shot. I was a Ted Cruz backer and Trump to me is as bad as Clinton.

Trump isn't conservative. He's a big government populist. Completely different despite him having an 'R' next to his name.

He is about as close to Cruz as Sanders was to Clinton (in terms of policy philosophy.)

By the way, I understand downvotes because I mentioned Cruz in a positive way, however let's keep in mind that we can disagree with economic philosophy and role of government and still be friends!

I want a flat tax and a repeal of FATCA and Cruz was the only candidate that supported that. If some Democrat comes along with that proposal, they'd get my vote too.

FATCA and it's unintended consequences have caused serious harm to many Americans overseas, so that was my primary issue this election.

The only reason I support the RNC this election is because they have FATCA repeal in the platform while the Democrat side both enacted FATCA as wel as expressed support for continuing it.

Here's an article that delves deeper into FATCA if anyone is interested: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21605911...
Mmm. Besides, I find my programming/work/etc. improves when I read novels in my spare time :)
Any bank account will do. Savings or checking? Who cares these days?
Depending on details, content addressing could make it very hard to not be ACID. Here's to hoping.
That may in part be the net and globalisation. I saw more differences travelling in the 90s than I do today.
Neither are race or gender an active consideration for the vast majority of hiring managers. Just because it isn't among the criteria that they actively apply when filtering candidates doesn't mean the bias doesn't exist.
I live in Sweden, which means I've had to study English since I was nine years old. Disregarding that, I also speak fluent Dutch (with a Flemish accent).

The way I learned Dutch came from having a long-distance relationship with a girl from Belgium. When I was visiting her on vacation her family would speak Dutch with one another at the dinner table and I would sit and listen. In the evening they would watch TV. Sometimes we would sit with them and I'd look at the subtitles in Dutch and try to map that to the English audio. At this point I didn't intend to learn the language; I simply saw it as an intellectual challenge to see how much I could make out. At times I'd even join to watch a programme in Dutch. I found that very helpful since they always had subtitles turned on and this helped me with one of the more difficult parts of learning a new language: parsing the steady stream of sounds into words.

Through this simple manner of absorbing the language I started recognising an increasing portion of the vocabulary. Once I felt comfortable forming a few simple sentences, I asked my girlfriend's mother to speak Dutch with me. She was all too happy to use her own language, rather than being forced to use English.

Once I felt able to speak in a limited manner about a few everyday topics (and I was living in Belgium as an exchange student) I took a course called "Dutch for foreigners". This was great for learning grammar.

Finally, after a year of living in Belgium I moved back to Sweden and my girlfriend soon followed. Since she had to speak Swedish all day at work I suggested that we would speak Dutch at home. That way she got to use her own language and I got to practice my Dutch.

We have now lived together in Sweden for five years, we're married and since Dutch has become the language I use at home I've found it difficult to remember to use Swedish when speaking to our son.
Elixir and Phoenix are stable and by now they're a solid choice (more than enough warranted praise on HN), but I'm still skeptical about Elm from a "platform" perspective. From what I can tell, Elm apps are a single blob of JavaScript that either loads or doesn't (e.g. you can't read the Elm site without JavaScript enabled), while the JavaScript ecosystem is moving towards server-rendering, dead code elimination, and "progressive web apps" so to speak. PureScript for example has dead code elimination—you can make a <1kb PureScript "Hello World" app.

I know the Elm team is capable of all of these—I just haven't heard of anything yet. While they're "nice to have" now, these features might become crucial and important.

Another interesting thing about Elm is its progressive removal of features (I think the infix operator was or is going to be removed soon) in order to make the language more approachable. I actually support this because if you need "true" ML/Haskell features, there's PureScript.

Anyway, glad to see Elixir and Elm being used productively!
How about removing referral headers, report back very common user-agents, accept headers, language headers, screen resolution, etc. Take a look at https://panopticlick.eff.org/
You must be talking about specifically your area. I live in Europe and most central and western Europe (maybe north not so much) is filled with cars and cities are big enough to provide enough parking spaces.
Only UK and Ireland are the countries in the west that are not like this. Cant think of any other.
Over the weekend? I can't do it. Even if I forced myself to read for 6 hours Saturday and Sunday I'd forget everything during the weekdays.

An hour or so every day is much better and realistic.
I started just after footpad tracking was disabled, but now "Sightings" lets me track down 'mons just fine. Maybe it's more work than footpad? I wouldn't know.
Shen & Lipasti, an under appreciated book.

I like Hennessy and Patterson Computer Organization more than their Computer Architecture, especially the last edition. I'm looking forward to reading the ARM version of COAD:

https://www.elsevier.com/about/press-releases/research-and-j...
Not ready? Most electric clothes dryers, heaters, and air conditioners already use 4500 watts each. I'm sure the grid may notice an increase, the utilities will charge for the extra consumption, and upgrade accordingly. The common 200 ampere service in homes should handle another 30 amps...
One wonders what Nixon's legacy would have been if he just hadn't gotten caught. He wasn't a complete fuckup, and did actually accomplish some worthy things, but Watergate casts a shadow over it all.

Meanwhile, look at his opponent in 1960. JFK is practically revered as a saint because he had his brains blown out on national television. We largely forget or excuse his intense sex addiction, or that he very nearly pushed the world over the edge of Armageddon, or that he was instrumental in escalating the Vietnam War. To the benefit of his legacy, at least, he was killed before his chickens came home to roost and became a martyr figure instead.
>He feels that the political agenda has been overrun by distractions, like "who can use which bathroom", at the expense of real problems, like the stagnation of median wages over the last forty years. He prefers the days when the national conversation was about how to beat the Soviets, and sees the lack of substance in our political agenda today as tied to a slowdown in progress.

Yes, and I agree with him. Strangely enough, when I thought about how to have a substantive politics, it led me to support Bernie Sanders. Now, you may not like Bernie yourself, but he sure as hell wasn't a climate-denying wannabe-dictator with a habit for sexual assault.

If you believe politics ought to be about policy, then the Trump candidacy has been miserable for your goal. I can't see how Thiel can hold that goal and support Trump, unless I posit that Thiel is choosing attitude ("MAGA") over substance (mercantilism and a typically Republican dislike of science and technology).

>He's often said that one of his favorite interview questions is, "tell me something you believe to be true but which nobody agrees with you on".

Our society cannot grow or move forward until the finance/real-estate capital complex is removed from control.
The Letter to Optica...which seems as substantial as many scientific papers: https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/097C4470-E105-...
Also interesting to me in this area was the emergence of the so-called IP卡 ("IP card") referring to pre-paid long distance telephone cards sold within mainland China. These were big business until the mid to late noughties.
Well, hopefully you're not just using an incrementing user id field. Twitter's Snowflake format is much closer to "definitely unique". So then you have a very simple set, which you could very simply merge with other sets. So that might help you get started with merging those pieces of data.

But I agree, there are certain kinds of data that you can't so efficiently merge. Your best bet is to try to adapt it into some sort of known, proven CRDT. (Dunno how you do that with this database, haven't really read up on it.)
I think this applies to whole Asia.

This is how Japan was pushed into WWII, and how China right now is being pushed in arming up.

Quick history lesson:

China, basically dominated the world, even when the world weren't aware of China's existence for most of the history, then when England and US came knocking into China's door, they managed to force China into a mix of submission, collapse and opening.

Then US tried to repeat the feat with Japan, starting with the infamous "black ships" (how the japanese called the mysterious US warships when japan still used wooden ships).

Japan then started a serious attempt to avoiding "being the new China", and started to literally imitate US and Europe: invade everywhere, and attempt to become a colonizing superpower.

This in the end is the reason why Japan ended in WWII.

Russia saw what happened to countries around them, Iraq was literally created by England, with borders intentionally crappy to create internal problems (Lawrence of Arabia publicy proposed this), US and Europe actions in Japan and Korea region basically turned Japan and Korea into virtual US colonies, in fact, Japan plans I mentioned earlier failed, badly, Japan DID became a "new China" that must obey US interests, and instead of "black ships" at their ports, ended with a permanent base in their territory.

Not only to Putin, but to the russian population, stuff like trying to sanction Russia, is viewed as an strongarm attempt to pull Russia into submission, to the russian population, the fact that they are becoming poorer due to US sanctions, and US allies oil-price meddling, isn't a reason to become angry at Putin, to them it is reason to consider US the ultimate enemies, and do their best to support Putin no matter what happens.

US, England and France seemly doesn't understand that after 2 centuries meddling in Asia in a imperialistic manner, one country that always has been very imperial themselves, will see them as a major threat and will never, ever, back down.

To Russia, nuclear war is more desirable than "slavery", it is better to die, than to submit.

(this is not even counting yet the psychological effects of Russia terrain... Russia geography is so fucked-up that only people that are mentally resilient and willing to endure famine, poverty and extreme situations will live there)
The thing with fluency isn't that you know all of the language or can explain everything. A person can be considered fluent and not be able to explain that sentence - mostly because that is pretty far outside a situation most folks find themselves in. Heck, in English I'd not use words like tinder and kindling. You might not know obscure words for some things, and you get to words you don't know.

Fluency means that most of the time you understand the conversations around you, about a wide range of topics. You can understand not only the local dialect, but others as well, and communicate effectively. You understand slang. When you don't understand, it is usually just a subject that is new to you or the usage is wrong.

Think about what age people understand children to be fluent in a language. Most folks by 14 or 15 (in English) have enough vocabulary to get by without learning more the rest of their life, but won't know specialty terms such as the one in your firestarting example.

I've not personally reached fluency in my second language, I just can see the goal. My spouse is fluent in English, though, and has a wider English vocabulary than I do. Lots of work on his behalf and years more practice and an interest in archaic terms. He still gets stumped, forgets a word here or there, has an accent, and all that, however, and likely reached complete fluency some time back.
Killing the Soul -a worth watching short movie on suicide of students
> When you say "the obviously erratic, racist, bigoted, tax-dodging, incompetent, incoherent, sexually assaulting idiot", you're taking the opposition beliefs as fact,

That's actually the way most people in Europe see him. Our source is not any opposition but Donald himself: listening to his interviews and speeches lets him certainly come across as "erratic" and "incoherent", he bragged about "sexually assaulting" women, and how he talks about and treats minorities makes him seem "racist" and "bigoted". As he has no clue about the state of world politics and no coherent policy proposals (flip-flopping during the same speech, interview or even sentence) the "idiot" label seems hardly avoidable. You could argue the "tax-dodging" though, for all I care.

I also don't see him as a new Hitler, more like a Mussolini type.

>just like the Republicans who claim Clinton is an "obviously erratic deathly ill man-hating murdering warmongering power-hungry alcoholic liar."

In Germany she would clearly be a conservative, which I'm not, but listening to her she comes across as extremely smart and very coherent, so "erratic" really doesn't apply. No idea why I would think she is "deathly ill", never saw anything that made her come across as "man-hating", no idea where "murdering" comes from; "alcoholic"? Never heard about drinking problems. That leaves "warmongering", "power-hungry" and "liar": maybe not more than the average American President in the last 200 years.
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Undoubtedly, enforcement of immigration law can only take place in two types of venues: places of employment and public services such as schools, law enforcement, and social services.

Employers are already required to effectively vet applicants for legal residency. They have all sorts of tax forms to fill out and they can be severely fined for hiring illegals off the books.

Obviously, as well, if a LEO discovers a faked driver's license during a routine traffic stop, the illegal is in big trouble.

Interestingly, deportations have greatly increased during the Obama administration.
You don't get continuous control of flares' brightness and positioning, though?
>Although my perspective on him has changed, it seems to me that the American left has turned into the authoritarian controlling power they so often claim to fight against.

Only if you consider Clinton to be leftist, which really doesn't make much sense.

https://www.politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Yeah he seems more of a Mencius moldbug dark-enlightenment type.
With single cell data, gene expression data from each cell is considered a dimension. So you end up with something in the range of 20-30k genes and possibly thousands of cells (~25k x thousands matrix). I don't think the technology is at the scale of hundreds of thousands of cells yet. So I am not sure if this package will handle 100k-1m dimensions.
Yup, reckless to add features, not to ship a fast, good quality browser.
I imagine that this is exactly what we'll see developing over the next decade or so: electronic sensors to identify the attacker, and/or provide a little bit of early warning when an attack is imminent.
When for only a few thousand dollars you can permanently equip against millions in potential losses? It's a no-brainer.
Remove in Java in Otime instead of O
That caused a lot of pshycological damage.