skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really not important at all... The point is this calendar would line up the week cycle with the month cycle, which has a ton of advantages. You can't throw that away just because you can't agree what day of the week should come first.

Hell, while we are at it we can just rename the days firstday, secondday, etc, and not have to deal with that issue.
I have tried it ~1 month ago and was quite a bit underwhelmed - direct connectivity with Google products is nice, but the data manipulation capabilities themselves lag behind Tableau a big deal (especially when it comes to clicking around in charts and tables to slice your dataset, which is admittedly something in which Tableau excels).

I do believe it is a valuable addition to the GA enterprise tier (especially for customers savvy enough to use BigQuery too), but at the moment I don't quite see it as a serious competitor to other off-the-shelf BI tools - would be very happy to be proved wrong in a few months, though.
I currently work in a good environment where I'm appreciated and paid well. Not many people in the world can say that, so I have a lot to be thankful for. Programming has done good by me.

But I don't love it. Alan Kay is right, it's like building "an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves". There's no elegance and no higher vision. It's an Asperger profession; smart but artless.

I would prefer, if I could retire, to make short films and maybe to write plays. But I can't retire yet. So I'll push stones. It pays well.
It's not a technical limitation, either. There's plenty of cases where they could use use information locally on your device without sending it back to the mothership, but instead they deliberately cripple their services if you don't allow access.

One example - have you ever noticed how Google Maps has barely any street names any more? And the streets that are named are random tiny side streets, no matter how far you zoom in or out. It's because it's designed to be used in Directions mode with location services enabled, and only in Directions mode with location services enabled. You don't need street names if you're a dot following a blue line. Just coincidentally, this is the mode where they get full information about your journey.
Wouldn't that cause horrible problems depending on what the script does?
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You're just calling whatever you dislike "conservative." Left/right, conservative/liberal are all relative, there are no absolute points of reference. In modern US, GOP represent the conservatives and Democrats are liberals.

Thanks to neoconservatives, some younger people got used to the fact that right wingers are warmongers building global empires* but these are not intrinsically right or conservative views. Plenty of truly hardcore leftists, like Russian communists who were so far to the left of Hillary they would have useless bourgeois scum like her executed, loved war. Socialism is war time economy planning applied in peace time. They wanted a never-ending revolution that spread to the entire world, or at least the English Channel since they were better at manufacturing tanks than ships.

* Well, trying to build global empires while in reality bombing a random stretch of desert.
Well another job that will become obsolete I guess.
I have seen quite a few Fujitsu machines on sale at eBay via their refurbished store. Plenty have 2160p displays; I recently got a Q555 made-in-Japan tablet for reading that has a 1920x1200 10.1" screen. My 3+ year old T902 (1600x900) is still superb though I might replace it with a T935 (2560x1440) some day.
> I've been looking at a bunch of the libraries that expand upon mio, but this is the first time I've heard of `rotor`.

The current state of affairs is somewhat up in the air because Alex Crichton (futures) and Carl Lerche (mio) are working on the Tokio project [0][1], which is likely to become the most favored way to do things on top of mio.

[0] https://github.com/tokio-rs/
[1] https://medium.com/@carllerche/announcing-tokio-df6bb4ddb34
Do you think that people with a rodent problem shouldn't invite others over for dinner? Do you think they shouldn't eat in their own home? Are your concerns actually about health or about the sanctity of food being corrupted by impurity?
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Thanks. First big issue for me, it's US only. Why on earth does something like this need to be region locked?

Second is that it's hosted. That makes it a non-starter for enterprise reporting.
Agreed, Awesome Rust is a great resource. Here's the link: https://github.com/kud1ing/awesome-rust

There are also some "Are we X yet?" sites that cover ecosystem maturity for specific topics. Here are all the Rust-specific sites linked from Mozilla's page (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet):

Web Programming - http://www.arewewebyet.org/

Concurrency - http://areweconcurrentyet.com/

IDE/Editor Support - https://areweideyet.com/

Machine Learning - http://www.arewelearningyet.com/

Game Development - http://arewegameyet.com/
Buying and selling shares of companies, I work in a team of 10 and we manage roughly $10b (equivalent in USD).

Every day we will discuss new developments and how they affect our valuations for these businesses. These decisions are then factored into a portfolio model, which is then implemented by the dealer.

All in all, you have a lot of freedom, you aren't accountable for your time. I could be gone for the week and nobody would bat an eyelid, but the work is honestly so interesting you wouldn't squander your time like that.
> but I'd rather the time is spent innovating and trying many different things than spending valuable engineering time supporting projects that aren't going anywhere

Instead, they have some of their engineers do things like remove the ability to do custom grouping on youtube subscriptions. It often seems like they are seeing how badly they can treat their users and still remain the leader.
I'd say this was true a while back because of database lock-in, but most new BI tools have a variety of connectors. I'm working with a non profit right now to migrate dashboards off of Salesforce, for example.
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There definitely are good reasons for a length function to count both codepoints and graphemes. Which is why Perl 6 has a method for both. This is also why neither of them is called `length`. In fact if you ever attempt to call the `length` method on an object Rakudo will ask you "Did you mean 'elems', 'chars' or 'codes'"
Roombas aren't for deep cleaning; they're basically for the light cleaning (crumbs in the kitchen, tufts of pet hair). Newer models are easier to maintain (no brush to cut hair off), but you're still expected to do a proper deep clean (with a more powerful vacuum) regularly.

Also, newer ones are automated, so you come home every day, empty the canister, and that's your floors cleaned.
i really like this guys thoughts on looking at the fundamentals of video games and disectining what they really are. there are a lot of good points. but jesus christ this guy is so brainwashed with liberal politics i can barely read the damn thing.

"Few women, for example, are going to play a video game with terrible portrayals of women. They say things like 'they insult me/my demographic.'"

so oblivion was popular with mostly men because it depicted females terribly? show me one example. perfect dark was popular mostly among men because it depicted women terribly? skyrim didnt have enough strong nord women? morrowind was filled with female tropes? skinny dunmer in slutty g strings in every town? there is one strip club in vivec, yes. but i dont think women bought the game and then returned it because they found out about the strip club.

yeah, there are some games like dead or alive or street fighter that have women who are well endowed. but you dont see people saying that women dont watch movies because every female actor in every movie ever is well endowed, and they are. or because most heroes are men. thats ridiculous.

believe me, im more of a feminist than most people. well endowed women in movies and video games, posters and bill boards, are poison in our society. this focus and obsession with perfect looks and thin figures creates a very unhealthy environment for little girls growing up. comparing yourself and rating yourself all the time must have a terrible impact on girls. and there are numerous other ways in which society fucks over females. but while i am a feminist, i am also allergic to bullshit. perhaps the worst combination ever in this day and age. and people bringing down the whole video game industry and saying that women dont play games because of sexist representations of women is pretty much bullshit. its like anita sarkisian saying that hitman was a game about murdering women. its a topic that attracts a lot of bullshit.

on an unrelated note: how could this female friend of his enjoy bonding with her female companion when she doesnt like swords or fighting or anything like that? what did she do? sit around clicking on the same conversation options over and over again? she must have, at some point, enjoyed going on quests with her and fighting with her. so if you take out the fighting, you just get a movie where you go along, discover more of the plot slowly and maybe talk to your companion about things. in other words a thinly veiled movie.
Logically, you don't even need the first clause, since anything solved "by" the first milestone should remain and be solved "by" the second as well :p
I have been mostly happy with programming in my early days. I’m now 28 years old, and been a programmer for the past 5 years. I mostly code Android apps, and sometimes server side code in Node/ExpressJS. For the past 1-2 years, I really want to change my career into more unique/niche fields of engineering. Programming, as I see it now, does not need a computer science degree or any degree at all, to do effectively. And people from other domains are getting into programming, and doing it a lot better than I do. I considered getting trained in Industrial Automation (PLC/SCADA/LABVIEW) and get into more mission critical domains, where I can work with lot of other Engineering domains as well. Another option I consider is to go for a masters in a niche engineering field. But as I analysed my thoughts, what I really (really) want is a unique engineering job, where the entry barrier for others is high. I don't have any idea if I could be a success in the new field. To conclude.

- Programming is boring after a number of years
- Programming is more of an art-form rather than engineering
- Entry barrier for programming is low, so you don’t have to be an engineer to do programming
- Your programming skills plateau after a certain age
- Your engineering mindset will be lost if continued in certain type of programming jobs.
Nuclear does not mean chain reaction.

I hate these catchy titles.
>The very limited upside of ag companies (or startups like Soylent for that mattter) messing with food and then immediately marketing it as safe and consumable, is irresponsible.

GMOs are regulated by the EPA, USDA, and FDA.

Traditionally bred varieties are regulated by NO ONE.

Traditionally bred varieties routinely poison people. From potatoes (solanin) to celery (psoralens) they produce toxic and potentially deadly chemicals that nobody checks for.

Your perfect "heritage" (do you mean heirloom?) varieties have poisoned more people this year than GMO crops have in their entire history.

Get off your naturalistic fallacy high horse.
I have an uptime monitoring iOS app with bespoke Golang API and Django web dashboard to go with it.

I have discontinued it couple of months ago due to lack of time to concentrate on growing it.

Here's a blog post with couple of screenshots if anybody is interested: http://blog.richardknop.com/2016/05/pinglist-uptime-and-perf...
The wealth that results from private enterprise is very much a social construct
I did consider a career as a lion tamer, but the vocational guidance counselor said I was an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. So I decided to stick with programming.
> Can you explain how focus on a local supply chain, say, as one element of Organic farming practice is detrimental to either of those things, [human] health or environment?

http://freakonomics.com/2011/11/14/the-inefficiency-of-local...

"Forsaking comparative advantage in agriculture by localizing means it will take more inputs to grow a given quantity of food, including more land and more chemicals—all of which come at a cost of carbon emissions."
Disabling safe browsing is bad advice. It uses a local bloom filter and transmits only gashed of prefixes of the URL if the filter says "maybe". It's pretty well thought out and you should not just recommend to people to turn it off, it's a valuable security tool, and certainly preferable to a ransomware infection, wouldn't you say?
Our understanding of the optimal economic model is often oversimplified and stylized by the left and right, alike. "The wealth that results from private enterprise is very much a social construct." - This is a fascinating read - I do not know if the data cited paints a robust picture and there is a question of causation about the gains in quality of life of people in the US in the post-war era. Thoughts?
Most, but not all.
Yes, writing and painting.
They will buy the rounds when they need them until then it's a 'negotiation'.

It's a paradox.

I worked in space systems as an intern. We built the latches - plates that go onto satellites so the robot arm can hold them. It's just a simple piece of metal but they cost $200 000 each. Because they buy so few and a lot of R&D goes into them.

That's partly why the F35's cost so much.

You want 50 jets of one type, instead of 400 of varying types? Well, all those workers still have to get paid ... so, it ends up costing 'the same'.
I agree. E.g. the hyperloop, the concept and technology has been around for 50 years or more, and suddenly he is the inventor of the thing?
CRUD apps are probably not the most creative things, indeed. But I've had a fair bit of problems where I'd say solving them was a creative endeavour. Especially on the UX end there are lots of such problems in my experience.
"I suspect Apple will have to think hard about how to please those who want a portable yet ultrapowerful machine, which is really the even narrower segment that has been criticizing the new MacBooks. The portability/power tradeoff it has made in the new machines seems to be fine for the mainstream, but that’s the one thing that seems to be creating the most problems for the hardcore base, and it’s worth addressing."

I have an idea. They could have a line of Macs for those that care about lightness and thinness and little else. Perhaps they could call it the "Light" or the "Air".

The consumer-class Macs intended for the mainstream could just simply have "MacBooks" with no suffix. The new MacBook Pros actually seem just like this. If Apple is worried about too many product lines, the "Light/Air" and the plain "MacBook" could merge.

But for the professionals, don't worry about weight so much and put a nice variety of ports and great specs on a "Pro" line of MacBooks.
Yep, like the LA Times, it looks like NYT is running this promo as a way to get people to create accounts and/or log in. Interestingly, I'm getting no registration request in Chrome, but I consistently get it in Firefox. I'm running different extensions in each, so it might not be the browser that is causing the behavior.

For the record, I don't mind paying for news, but I don't love the "freebie" tactic they're using here. If you want to activate/bolster your paywall, go for it. But don't try to cover it up with an election giveaway.
Anybody has experience with robot vacuums with ultrasonic sensors? They should be much better at avoiding obstacles. I also guess/hope that recent "mapping" models would be much better at coverage.
That's not misleading, it's a straight up lie. It doesn't say that it would change previous laws. So if there is an existing law that says judges must retire at 70, nothing there says it will be repealed.
> That said, I respectfully don't see the relationship between the source code license and, perhaps, what the software is used for, in particular, the social ramifications of technology that Black Mirror often addresses.

Because you might be assuming that the user always controls the software.

However, as long as the source code is kept secret, the developers/distributors also have some level of control on the users.
It becomes possible (and easy) to insert malware-like stuff in the software (i.e things unwanted by users, like tracking/spying, license checks, forced upgrades, feature removal, remote file removal, malware installation, etc), allowing black-mirroresque situations (software or devices forcing you to watch advertisements before you can watch what you wanted, complete history of your browsing).

If the program is licensed under a free software license, it implies that the source code is public and modifiable. It makes these things are a lot harder to hide, and a lot harder to keep enabled.
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>I'm not going to drop $500+/year to subscribe to all the places I read from when I only read what is posted on HN and Twitter.

Yikes, all your reading originates from posts on HN and TWTR? Seems like that gives you a limited view of the world, no?
Why do I prefer statically typed programming languages?
Not always the case. I did accept counter-offer and it worked out pretty well.
A nicer alternative for non-US folks, or even those in the US, would be DataHero (https://datahero.com/). Less feature rich than Tableau, but also extremely easy to use with practical graphs and data mashups out of the box.

I have no connection to the app, other than I've tried dozens like it, including Google's Data Studio.
The Wikileaks DNC scandal has gotten a crazy amount of coverage, particularly given that we're in an election year.
So "democratic" tools such as these are used to further entrench the duopoly of the Republican/Democratic parties, instead of breaking them apart and helping create more parties that better represent the people?
Well I know that, this is why said study was so surprising. There might be other factors, potentially influenced by the battery pack architecture or whatnot. In any case, it seems to imply that you don't need to be afraid of using the supercharger every now and then.
Q: How do I get a raise without changing jobs?
A: Get a raise without changing jobs.
Let me turn this on its head.

The industry is building games for what market research tells it is wanted by people who play their games. The claim is that part of the market is not being targeted, and this is a group of women who do not define themselves as gamers, nor are they interested in gaming.

It is quite possible that there is no unserved market.
Exactly this. People are trying to sway the discussion with "single mother" and "mexican" implying that "people of color who make unfortunate choices" should somehow be exempt from the uniform and fair application of laws.

ICIM: I'm a "person of color who's made a lot of unfortunate choices" ;=D
Yes, I want to do something more meaningful than build and maintain web CRUD apps. Despite the media perpetuating this notion that there's a shortage of engineers, I actually feel that this field, particularly the web space (where most of the actual jobs are), is starting to get really saturated. And from a job security perspective, the barriers to entry are fairly low.

These days I'm most interested in economics and politics because I believe that our most important problems right now are in this realm (eg. poverty, job automation, healthcare costs, housing prices, college prices). The Javascript framework wars are laughably insignificant compared to these problems, yet unlike web development, there aren't enough logically-minded people really tackling these problems. Unfortunately there's probably no job out there that I could realistically obtain that would pay me to work on these problems, thus I'm just saving money for retirement and learning on the side.
What is that guy doing? Perhaps some sort of SEO exploitation?
The latter will be done with four chords ;)
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Sure. But remember the main topic here is plants, and there are no moral considerations there.
There's a false equivalency issue here. Trump shouldn't get a favourable headline just because Hillary got one. It isn't propaganda to point out that he is woefully underqualified to ve President.
Not parent, but this is one of the reasons I prefer Apple. They have a better track record. Also, they sell hardware, your data is not the primary product.
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Universities have a vested self interest in controlling who can join a profession, they would prefer it if every worker everywhere needed a degree. Just look at the slow assimilation of vocational studies into uni courses (stuff like wine making, nursing, etc.)

It is needed in some cases, you want people to be properly educated, but that's only when the tuition is necessary for that education.

Engineering (software) probably doesn't for the most part, and I think most people resent the hoops they have to jump through because a university wants to stay relevant, hence the down votes.
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I’m no Soylent advocate (I’m a fan of home-cooked fresh food). But...

The mainstream US diet and lifestyle causes unbelievable health problems: obesity, heart disease, liver damage, dental caries, gastrointestinal conditions, some chronic anxiety, skin conditions, possibly some kinds of dementia, osteoporosis, seasonal affective disorder, and on and on..

Modern governments come absolutely nowhere close to teaching people to eat a balanced diet of healthy foods or setting policy to discourage unhealthy foods. Indeed, often official policy does just the opposite.

Compared to soda, fruit juice, beer, cookies, donuts, chips, breakfast cereal, instant noodles, packaged dinners, etc. etc., a few people having temporary digestive problems for a few days before discontinuing their liquid meal-replacement diet because they turned out to have an algae allergy is really the least of our problems.

The main thing our food safety institutions do is prevent disease outbreaks and dangerous food contamination. They aren’t set up to have a meaningful effect on people’s overall diet.
You're right. Labeling is labeling and it has the same effect. I've reread your comment a number of times and am having a hard time figuring out why you posted it, as I don't see the restatement as adding much to the discussion. Would you expand on this? I'm feeling I'm missing something.
Just post The Right Opinion™ and Independent Thinkers™ from the Silicon Valley® California© will upvote you.

Be careful, sarcasm, facts, or the inconvenient truth can cause downvotes.

It is also very important, to always post in a manner which cannot insult a demographic (eg. Independent Thinkers™), unless the insulted demographic does not represent the The Right Opinion™ (eg. realists, conservatives, anti-globalists, Drumpf voters, law abiding tax paying majorities, especially males can always be insulted).
My guess is that this was some internal tool that got cleaned up and opened to the public as a beta.
So do you still program, recreationally?
Really nice concept. I can see myself using a web email client when I need to move between Mac, Windows, and Linux. Features look promising, however I feel like the UI design is a little dated. It reminds me of Outlook 2005. Perhaps if you try moving into a more modern design format, you'll be able to attract users more easily. Other than that, I'd be happy to try it out soon!
How would you sure a company that doesn't exist anymore?