skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the curious, this is a barbecue joint in Redmond, WA, just outside of Seattle and near Microsoft's headquarters. The owner, Porter, is famous for a hot sauce called "The Man" which is served out of a small, beat-up pot with a long handled spoon. If you get him talking, he'll tell you a story about someone trying to sell him capsicum extract-based sauce for his new BBQ restaurant (there's another interesting backstory about it being a car repair place previously). But it was too expensive, so he went upstream to his supplier and started buying it wholesale. He cooks it up with peppers, but the base is prefab.

It's also near-lethal... consume with caution.

Disclaimer: was last there >10 years ago, so much may have changed.
An iconic aircraft. I was lucky enough to see one come into our local airport once, flanked by RAAF Mirage III fighters to mark the rare occasion. Apparently it was on a private charter by a group of extremely wealthy high rollers who were flying around the world visiting various casinos. I cannot imagine a life like that!
But, hours or a day or so of very serious discomfort aside, there don’t seem to be long-term dangers, per se, in eating very hot peppers. Biologists have observed, however, that administering capsaicin over long periods of time in young mammals does result in the death of the pain neurons, Bryant says. Setting the neurons off repeatedly wears them out, and they don’t grow back.

Pff had to almost read to the end for that.
Arbitrary dividers and multipliers are fairly easy to design in a circuit. Certainly far easier than cutting a custom crystal.
That sensitivity to privacy seems to be a US phenomenon? At least, I never noticed that in Germany.
Nowadays we're on the edge to re-using rocket launcher and still not rethinking about how this Concorde could be improved and re-made viable... Too bad...
So you can't selectively stage hunks and discard others?

As other people have pointed out, most new version control tools can do this without a staging area.

This eliminates the possibility of quickly putting away work in progress to do an impromptu demo at your desk,

No it doesn't, and they explain how. With combined branches + stashes, you'd do a checkout of a new branch from the commit before your stashed changes.

So...like Subversion? ... putting training wheels (or guardrails) on a product meant for an expert user seems...counter-productive to me.

Did you even read the article or the original paper?
Coding classes open new doors for Syrian refugees
You cannot copyright a singular word, even a made up one, and sue anyone who says it the universe doesn't work like this.
>We already have people who largely do this. We won't be creating something new, we'll just be expanding it a bit, and raising their quality of life.

I think that "expanding it a bit" is understatement.

>As of right now, people on welfare are allowed to vote, and for the most part that seems to be working out ok (some may disagree here, though).

Is it working? The unsustainable budgets of all Western countries seem to suggest otherwise. The collapse in family stability and the workforce participation rate since the introduction of the welfare state also suggest otherwise. The rational behavior for someone who collects of significant portion of their income from welfare is to always vote for more welfare. It is almost always in their short- to medium- term interests, and in the long run we're all dead anyway.

>I'd say no. It seems to be the case that when people become wealthier they reproduce less. It's unclear why that is exactly, but it just seems to happen that way.

Richer people have less kids because it's extremely expensive and time consuming to raise kids the way they'd want to, investing heavily into their educations and life experiences, going to PTA meetings, being involved with school activities, etc.

I don't think this logic applies to people that are collecting checks for doing nothing.

>Open borders, but you don't get social services until you've been here employed productively for say, 5 years.

As I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, that would be totally unworkable. If the basic income is to become law, then everyone living in the country would have to receive it. If everyone else is pocketing twenty grand a year for doing nothing, then it's going to be impossible for immigrants to afford to live here without that same free money. Much in the way that it's become very difficult for single-earner households, since most households now have two earners.
Unless she had no reputation to begin with and could gain a lot of cash.
Apple makes great hardware, no denying that. That's why my 3+ your-old laptop holds up with features I still can't find our windows laptop.

But regardless of what's in store, or any commentary on the direction after Jobs, the last iOS and MacOS release go down in my mind as the buggiest Apple UX I've ever seen.

Randomly my phone keyboard disappears, I can't delete messages from iChat until I toggle to another message or scroll down then up, my screen saver preferences were deleted, when I add a new virtual desktop it gets some random mountain instead of my chosen background, a lot of my apps didn't work / load on startup without being reinstalled...

Does seem like maybe Apple has bitten off more complexity than it can chew. I'm not used to so many easily noticeable bugs in their software. They get a new QA guy? Ha.

Side note: Apple 2FA is weird. Just weird. What I want is not to come up with a new notification type... and if they can fill a website based on my 2FA code... why can't it to that for iChat messages too? Or at least add a copy button to the notification when it sees a code come in.
"it's hard to believe any sinister theories regarding shipping a flawed product under strong pressure from sales"

But I think pressure could have come from the accounting department ("if we do not ship now, our shares will go down, making it too hard to get the money we need, bankrupting the company") or from Musk ("if we do not ship now, our shares will go down, an I would have to give up control of the company to get the money we need")

Yes, a flawed product costs more money, but even if that is only weeks away, it may be better than facing a slightly less bad situation _now_.
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I mean this respectfully, but have you tried to do some introspection?

If you actually have the skills you claim, there is huge money to be made in hiring you as a programmer making $40k/year. Your background really should not be such a determining factor: I have clients who have literally never met me and have only the vaguest idea of who I am. It's all about making compelling work and demanding compensation for it.

If you think this is impossible, I would happily be that guy and pay you $40/hr (which is under market but a hell of a lot more than $20k a year) to work on client projects.
You actually very well could why do you think you couldn't?
Thanks, much better explanation than mine.

To readers that might think otherwise: while this certainly is a powerful setup to give Tesla a hard time in the market (if you only paid personally relative to initial cost, nothing at all for consumables, would you still want to go electric?), it clearly predates them. I have personally (and legally, I was told) burnt company fuel in "daddies car" (which he did not own) back in the 90ies.
Something this sim doesn't model that plays a large role in real accidents is the speed differentials during merges. If an offramp moves too slowly and gets fully congested, it starts spreading onto the highway, compounding the problem.

Playing Cities: Skylines I've noticed a similar problem when I try to use roundabouts. They're idealized as a way to keep traffic flowing in busy intersections by imposing no stops, but if they surpass a critical mass of congestion, the whole thing stalls, creating a problem worse than stop lights.

(The Cities traffic model is pretty close to how a robocar might behave, as they are polite drivers able to execute apparently dangerous merges with 0% chance of collision, but also have the problem of not detouring when the ideal route becomes congested. As a result, you have to design your city to be decent at diffusing traffic early and not rely on wide roads to do that job.)
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I have not met an non-alcoholic beer which tastes as the alcoholic ones. And there is no bitterness of alcohol, it is the hops which makes (some) beers bitter. Of course there are beers without much hops and consequently they are rather sweet in taste.
I'm not sure that combining stashes and branches wouldn't be handy for advanced users either.
I wholeheartedly agree with setting goals for personal time, scheduling downtime and time with family, and pot. I caution however, as a non-24/running clock disorder/non diurnal individual who worked at night a lot in military and medicine, make sure you're strict with yourself about time and perhaps sey up a digital or analog reminder, a mental trigger to remind you of the currently active task. Plasma Workspaces are one way I stay on track and schedule driven RGB ambient lights which indicate my work mode so if I space out on engineering more disease resistant rice or using phages to kill Zika, I get an unmistakable reminder of what I -should- be doing, and also when to take breaks. Yarn on your finger, persistent Android notifications or whatever would also work.
Most git users commenting on the other hand seem unable to grasp that partial commits and staging areas are different concepts.
Does anyone knows how it's going to work in practice? I presume google would act as a monitor. Does that mean that chrome will download an exhaustive list of all valid certificates regularly? Or does that mean that chrome will verify the validity of a certificate with google's monitor regularly? On every request? Will google log what IP requested validation for what domain? Then isn't that a massive privacy issue? Or will monitors only be used as a ad hoc control tool, when google wants occasionally to check that a certificate is legitimate?
I just learned about Roon from this article, but I don't understand what makes it worth $120/year. It appears to be a music player with apps, good device streaming support, and a nice interface. I understand that a lot of software is moving towards higher priced subscription models, but I don't see the added value "service" that makes this worth such a high recurring fee.
Interesting question. I guess with today's processing power you could have a much more expensive offline preprocessing step and create a much better BSP tree, reducing the impact in runtime?

I don't think linedefs take that much memory, but you could hit the limitation of number of textures in the same level, since I doubt 90's Doom did streaming from disk. So you probably can get massive geometry but a relatively homogeneous-looking level.
Welcome to "Metropoilis".
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UNIX and JavaScript?
Fantastic work, this reminds me of playing Doom after school on the LAN. Good video walk-through but a shame you know where are all the monsters are ;-)
Seriously. Probably the biggest mentality shift I had was when I stopped looking at receipts/prices. At this point, the only prices I ever pay attention to are travel ones (hotels/airfare).
At risk of not adding much to your comment, this really rings true having been a teen when a lot of those names were big on the "scene". This definitely brought me down memory lane, and made me start thinking of finding some of my old local 2600 friends to see what they got up to over the years.

One thing I will add is that the energy and excitement was just so much more genuine and the passion was at a different level than today. I'm not saying there aren't extremely talented and energetic people these days - there are actually more simply due to the sheer size of the industry - but the density of them is far less. The self-selection filter was much stronger back then and while most folks were relatively well paid it wasn't mostly about chasing VC funds and hitting the next IPO. It was about "holy crap, I'm actually being paid to do things with computers!" - at least my tiny slice of the experience.

Things also were a lot more "simple" for lack of a better term. Today I'm not sure how I would have gotten my foot in the door and made myself minimally useful enough to start learning skills and gaining reputation (which then later led to a career) simply due to the sheer number of layers of abstraction on top of everything you have to punch through.

It was certainly a simpler and much wilder time though!
Yes, there is a standard since about 10 years ago. It's not dependent on your router firmware, in accordance with IP's end-to-end design philosophy (keep the network dumb, and hosts smart). Here's some links to get you started:

https://slaptijack.com/networking/osx-disable-ipv6-address-p...

http://andatche.com/blog/2012/02/disabling-rfc4941-ipv6-priv...

As for link-local IPv6 addresses, those aren't even accepted by the socket API[1] in place of normal routable addresses. They're only used for low level things like neighbour discovery (IPv6 equivalent of ARP) and apps that go out of their way to use them. They aren't routable outside your L2 segment.

[1] as in:

$ telnet fe80::something:something:42
Trying fe80::something:something:42...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Invalid argument
Interestingly, Microsoft's ToS:

You grant to Microsoft and will secure and maintain all rights in the Data necessary for us to: ... (iv) improve the Service Components and other Microsoft products and services

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/legal/CognitiveServic...

Google Vision API:

5.2 Use of Customer Data. Google will not access or use Customer Data, except as necessary to provide the Services to Customer.

https://cloud.google.com/terms/
I don't know if it was career changing, but NodeJS blew my mind when at the time our company was using a lot of PHP cron jobs.
When I was a boy, I had a book. It featured the Transrapid (look it up!), the Shuttle, the Concorde ... as heralds of the future.

The 2000s, when all of these things slowly were phased out, were a hard time, making me feel old for the first time. Sure, we got the Internet, we got vertically-landing rocket boosters, we got huge improvements in medical procedures ... but they all look so ... non-futuristic.
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Simple Highway Collision Simulator. Could be a great little game with an educational bent. Personally I set reaction time to 0 and jacked everything else to max. Then I spammed the launch button.
For anyone that thinks Git is too complicated, consider using Mercurial.

Anyone that wants to use TYOOL 2016 age DVCS features should also switch. Like changing history yet still keeping a record of the original one (hg evolve).

Git completely owned all other DVCS with good branching. 10 years ago. But now it's time to move on to better tools.
It compares the top 20% with the bottom 20%. It doesn't make much sense because a son of a doctor that dropped out of highschool is obviously going to earn less than a poor college graduate.

I also don't understand why they are comparing highschool dropouts with college graduates. The article should instead compare college dropout vs college graduate.

The only conclusion you can really draw is that the rich highschool dropouts have a very big safety net which should be obvious.
A person can be privileged because their parents worked hard to provide them with a good life. The person was born into a privileged situation.
> "20% of your customers"
Depends on the product.

Regardless, you can easily transpile a codebase to support those browsers.

If you aren't doing that already, you probably should be. Otherwise you're supporting a codebase that is quickly going to become very dated and (in comparison to a more modern codebase) much messier.
Why was it supposed to be a place for freedom and truth?
Tachyons.css: http://tachyons.io/

Suddenly CSS became fun again and my time designing websites went down by a guessed factor of 5.
No, it's a very common issue brought up within the community that GHC takes a lot of time and memory.

That blog post just says that interpreting Haskell can be faster than compiling.

I worked with Haskell professionally on a pretty large codebase. It was split up into many separate libraries and binaries. There were a lot of coffee breaks when recompiling.

https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/45q90s/is_anything...
Same thing happened to us. We moved a lot of cron logic to nodejs and we were able to increase speed and reduce hardware costs.
More vehicles on the runway equals more chances for FOD on the runway - which ironically caused the Air France accident and loss of one Concorde and all hands on board.
Interesting project! I had fun playing with it. I wanted to test the theory (which I saw in an article posted here on HN a few weeks ago) that a single car slowing right down on a busy highway (e.g. to avoid hitting an animal on the road or similar) can actually cause a traffic jam that goes back miles and can last for hours.

I couldn't prove that hypothesis at this scale. I am assuming that the AI drivers have just too good a reaction time and they can co-ordinate their speeds to each other to keep things moving along fairly nicely. A thumbs up for robot driverless cars, I guess ;-)

EDIT: Actually, playing some more - it does prove it to some extent. If you increase reaction time to ~800ms and let the traffic blitz along at a steady clip, then slow down two cars side by side to almost a stop, then after the initial cascade of accidents, it take ages for the traffic to get back to the same steady pace. Interesting.
It's certainly a lean web site. Or rather, the 503 is lean.
I was at a startup in the UK before the first dotcom bust and we took VC money. It was extraordinary. A key metric that the VCs seemed to be interested in was head-count. We had this system that effectively acted as a trading exchange and I was sitting there saying 'hang on guys, with a little bit of work, this can pretty much be automated and you can sit back and watch the money roll in' but there was tremendous pressure to keep hiring people to demonstrate growth. I was not very young - but clearly naive.
They're (counter)examples. Bad things that won.

"Worse is better" etc.
I would be surprised if it wasn't author's exact intent.
Not really windows the concept was a thing prior to windows tm. Windows 1.0 came out in 85. X windows predecessor W windows came out in 83 and the Xerox Alto was released in the 70s.

This is why windows is a nonsense trademark even in reference to computer software but Microsoft Windows is reasonable.

For a previous exploration of this issue see the Lindows linux distro legal fight which Microsoft lost.
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I bookmarked it. Are you using bootstrap / foundation?
For me it was when I discovered React-Native. As a one man show in the beginning of our mobile application existence, developing both for Android and IOS at the same time was a blessing.
Monotheism is not a good thing.
Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application (NERVA)
Prior art isn't a trademark related word nor does it have meaning here.
Figure 1: oof. Vector graphics are your friend.
Not cool for Twitter employees to learn about such thing from the press, not officially from their management.
Inheritance is the opposite of meritocracy, which we supposedly believe in.
So, a JSON AST. The whole point of programming languages is to give you something better than an AST to work with. Code is already data and we have functions for evaluating/compiling/interpreting said data natively/in-vms/in-interpreters.
For me: https://d3js.org/
Once i learned how to use d3 i was like: This is what i want to do.
Django faster than raw PHP or Phalcon. I find that hard to believe. Are we talking PHP7?
This is a great idea. We are already using Zendesk for our main product, but I could see me using that for side projects, as it's much less bloat!
Kivy (https://kivy.org) changed my career too. I make now a living mostly due to this project :)
I'm lucky enough to have flown on the Rocket once. A fun added benefit is that in any typical company I will still (after 13 years) retain the bragging rights for highest altitude (55500 feet / 17 km) and speed (Mach 2 at 1330 mph / 2140 km/h).
I've used bootstrap in the past, but not anymore.

Tachyons is different, it doesn't give you components but single-purpose classes and a font-relative layouting system:

http://tachyons.io/docs/layout/spacing/

It takes a while getting used to the names, but after that it's just awesome that you don't have to think about padding, margin and font-size values anymore. Just slap "pa1" or "pa2" there and everything looks pretty.
There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TaxiBot. In 2011 Lufthansa also did some tests with an electric taxi system in the main gear of an A320 but I couldn't find anything more recent on that.
I'll take this walled garden any day over Android's open community garden where the neighborhood stray cats have turned it into their personal litter box.
C# + Visual Studio (2010 back then). I used to code in PSPad (Webdev, Python), then Emacs (C, Shell, Python). When I discovered VS with its debugger and C# with all the sugar, I was changed. I never stop using them since.
You reminded me, should add these to the lit section:

* 2600

* Cult of the Dead Cow

* Phrak
This is a bitter comment, but it's so very true. The only thing I disagree with is the assumption that this is just a problem for companies that want to scale or - as someone commented down below - businesses that are "only" worth a few million a year and are presumably too small to attract VC attention....

Because maybe that holds for B2B businesses where no-one outside of the industry knows you exist, but for any B2C startup the reality is that there are a ton of people with connections and stupid money (or pre-funded teams looking to "pivot") that will throw lots of resources into competing with you. These teams tend towards self-delusion (over-estimating market size, pretending that it is a world-changing product, imagining it as a stepping-stone to world domination) because this is necessary for them to raise capital.

Lots of people romanticise lifestyle businesses, but it is miserable competing against funded businesses when your competitors have free money. I have done it twice and one of the worst feelings you can have as a founder is when you've spent a year building a business and your customers start complaining because your service is more expensive than your funded competition. It is psychologically taxing.
Thanks. Last time I looked at JS in Sun Java, it was in interpreter mode only due to license issues, so I always bundled Rhino with my projects to be able to precompile JS code, so it will run faster. But now performance of Nashorn is pretty impressive: https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/entry/nashorn_performance_w... .
Clojure and Rich Hickey's sermons from the Mount. Absolutely game-changing.
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Not that. Watch being waterproof has to do with not needing to take it off. For shower, specifically, but this extends to sleep as well.