skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracing the Baseband: Part 1
3% is better than 0%, which is your appreciation on renting, no? Not to mention building equity, which will eventually pay you back some
3 months is a long overseas assignment in most roles, I guess your company would have to pay you enough to make it worthwhile. That's not the city struggling for housing stocks problem.

Military deployment, seems reasonable, I wonder how many deployable military are living in these houses; also wouldn't the location remain your primary residence and so avoid the tax?

Wanting to live somewhere else? That's exactly what the tax is for - pay up or change your residence.
Would you rather that Wikileaks kept the information for itself? Wouldn't that be just as much of an influence on the election?
Awesome! What is your extension?

I did look at in-app payments, but because of how the extension is made to be used (click the button, it starts reloading when required) I couldn't figure out a decent way to ask users to upgrade without being annoying.

I went for subscription because I wanted a low price point (It's a simple extension, anything more then $5 seemed like I'd be asking to much), with the potential of having a passive income. I'd love to experiment with how one-off/monthly changes the amount of sales but for now I'm happy asking people to pay yearly.
This is one of those situations where we want the market to solve it, but we probably aren't prepared for what a totally unencumbered market response would be. We've likely over (or at least poorly) regulated drug development, and since most things are cyclical, it will probably swing the other way at some point. That's probably good, as long as it doesn't swing too far. I want a more efficient system, but not necessarily at the expense of a few million casualties from cascading mistakes.

Unfortunately, since it has to do with people being hurt, or the possibility of people being hurt, I think it's unlikely we'll get legislation or a majority of politicians that are willing to look at it rationally. It's too easy to drum up emotional support for some aspect or another for personal gain.
Crashes both IE11 and Chrome 54 for me.
The data science ecosystem: R vs. Python vs. Substitutes
The entire comment thread is about success at work. Aetherson used the word "work" 3 times and was clearly discussing the impact of working long hours on success in the workplace.

Willfully ignoring context to try to make your point isn't clever.
There's a bunch of technical skills you should have, and I'm sure people will suggest some good resources. But there's other skills as well, about how to think about solving problems, and planning your career, and prioritization that you also need.

I've been writing up all the mistakes I've made as a software engineer for the past 20 years so other programmers can avoid them. A lot of them fall into that second category, turns out. Some technical stuff too, of course. Check out https://softwareclown.com if you're interested.
If you found the article to be unscientific, a few specifics would be greatly appreciated.
It would be nice if the examples would have a browser compatibility table.

Without it is is just a waste of time.

The first one I tried (CSS only accordion) takes you to a site where the author himself says that this is an experiment and was not meant for use in production (no IE support).
It's a lot easier to look for inconsistency than it is to look for incorrectness.

Here's a pagerank like reputation system i've built.

http://github.com/neyer/respect
In fact what they said is that AOT only helps in the startup phase, making it 30% faster.
This is why I prefer free to implement open standards that are (hopefully) well designed and specific.

Inter-operablility and interchangeability of parts means that it's possible to validate an implementation to at least some degree.

The best example that I can think of off the top of my head is the OpenGL 4.4/4.5 work that is nearing conformance for the Mesa3D project ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(computer_graphics) ); while the functional coverage for the main modern drivers is 'complete' the official conformance testing has already resulted in some bug fixes and additional areas to focus on improving.

That real life case study is yet another example of how an API and conformance tests built around that API result in better code and in a more consistent experience that isn't dependent upon a mono-culture implementation.
Don't know about America, but in Australia I know it's had overwhelming public support for decades but politicians still won't go near it.
China’s ‘Artificial Sun’ achieves fusion breakthrough
> Not only is Tesla a shinning example of American manufacturing (a main Trump tenant)

Except that they use a ton of automation. I'm very curious how this will play out under Trump. Because even if he does all the things he's been talking about (pulling out of trade deals and raising tariffs) and even if it has the intended short-term effect of bringing more manufacturing back to America, there will be a lot of automation and it probably won't look very much like it did in the pre-globalization good-old days that his base wants to revert to.

What then? They'll need somewhere other than trade deals to point the blame.
MacBooks aren't Ferraris.
Do you have an email to prove those claims?

I worked with MongoHQ before they became Compose (not the free version) and they were really nice people.

Usually when a company does something like this (canceling free or something) they let you know in advance so you can take measures, didn't they let you know in advance?
That's interesting to hear.
I'm thinking about experimenting with different prices next month, I'll make sure to do another write up :)
Are we still using that godawful argument?

* Not contributing and complaining about issues

* Not voting and complaining about the candidate elected

* Not making movies and complaining about the special effects

* Not writing books and complaining about the story

* Not building cars and complaining yours broke down

* Not having prepared food and complaining someone served you burnt pasta and uncooked chicked

* ...

Common point in all of those: they're all stupid arguments.
That argument has never been, is never and never will be valid. Contributing takes time. Maybe said person complaining is fixing bugs in software that you're using. Or maybe said person doesn't contribute at all to any OSS. And that's still perfectly fine, because when you put out software and present it as the second coming of the Christ (or Stallman, depending of your deity of choice), yep, you have a responsibility to fix it. Or to not fix it and to tell the users to sod off. Users have absolutely every right to complain. As a maintainer, you have every right to ignore them.
It's a real shame that it can't handle X11 forwarding, which is pretty much all I use ssh for nowadays.
City CarShare hands over on-demand auto rentals to Getaround
https://wakatime.com/ (Full Disclosure: I built it)

It's fully-automatic, which makes it the best time tracker!
Author is only partially right about TLD being as "doing TDD in your head", since it's (at least for me) in a much more abstract form of a general idea, a concept, of what I want to achieve. When using TDD you need to come up with the very specific results that you will test and you need then to implement those specific tests, to the last line of code. This means that if you make any changes to the logic afterwords, you need to throw away your pre-written tests and write new ones, the time spent on writing them was wasted. TLD is much more flexible and easier to update, no code is thrown away if you change something. Before I start I just need to decide what I'm trying to solve with my current block of code, and then I later write a test to check if I did it properly. Then I do the next block of logic, and the next test. Since code blocks are directly related to the steps in my logic, it's very natural to come up with the tests for them, just test if the things work as you planned it. If in the middle of that work I realize that I need to do something in a completely different way, there's no pre-written tests, so no time was wasted on coding tests that were never going to be used. And, at least to me, this kind of situations happen a lot, I often refactor and improve things as I work on them, so for me TLD is much more suitable approach.
Edward Snowden not worried about Putin turning him over to Trump
Electricity isn't a primary energy source. Electric cars are only as environmentally friendly as the power generation plants that make it. If you're in Seattle, your Tesla is pretty low-CO2 because it runs on hydropower. If you're in the northeast, your Tesla runs on coal, and if you're in CA, it runs on natural gas. But the combustion doesn't happen in the middle of the cities, and is centralized, so some aspects of the pollution can be controlled a little more, there's less smog, etc.

Renewable power plants/companies receive both tax incentives and R&D subsidies from state and federal government, and there is research being done directly by the DOE at national labs, as well as at universities etc. from DOE grants. There are also private companies that get DOE research grants for a range of pure through applied research.

It's unlikely that grid-scale renewables could be developed in a wholly R&D environment then deployed at once. And then what would the government do? License or auction technology that hasn't been field tested at scale? Utilities, local governments and private companies would still probably need intermediaries to set things up. So it makes sense to provide some direct funding and some tax incentives to allow companies to do their own R&D, collaborate with government researchers, and work with utilities to bring systems online. Market disruption due to sudden, untested new entrants is less appealing with utility power than with phones--it makes sense to work for a gradual transition.

As far as consumer-scale power generation (rooftop solar or whatever), I think what you've suggested is pretty much what's happening, but I don't follow it. (I'm not a homeowner but have done DOE funded geothermal research with a private R&D company, Altarock LLC.)

edit: Electric cars are also abstracted from the type of power plant that produces the energy, unlike internal combusion cars, so having more of them is more amenable to a somewhat rapidly evolving power generation landscape.
the lesson there is not to get insurance.
Aaron: 30%?

Matz: 30% is huge.

Aaron: Yeah!

Jonan: That seems like a pretty good improvement to me.

Koichi: I do think so.

Aaron: We just need a few more 30% improvements then Ruby 3x3 is done.

Matz: Yeah, that means 30% of the time is spent in the compiler.

EDIT: maybe they were joking once again?
I know a lot about libertarian viewpoints. I think they largely ignore reality in favour of positing stronger property rights as an unfalsifiable solution to what have proven to be systemic and intractable problems. You don't appear to live here, so you get the benefit of being able to idly perform that sort of theorizing. There's a lot you could learn by engaging with the situation Vancouver has built itself into, but I haven't learned a lot from being told (many times before now, too) that libertarianism will solve every issue we have.

The thing, too, is that I agree that zoning is usually the problem with housing prices. San Francisco and the Bay Area have decided to opt out of building enough places for many decades, to the point where some communities there prefer to push jobs and businesses out and away in favour of getting higher housing prices.

But we aren't San Francisco, because we have no underlying economic engine that's driving in-migration and pushing up housing prices. We're just chilling here, broke as ever, wondering how on earth even a small condo could have gotten so out of reach.
Well all other vendors are selling for much less profit. If margin is really an issue others would end up having windfall.
Thanks! It works with react-native but there is currently a bug in a react-native module loader (according to: https://github.com/amark/gun/issues/236#issuecomment-2555553... ) that is causing some problems. But I'm sure this will get sorted out pretty soon.
AI Revolutionizes Industries, Not World Domination
"OSX ain't done until Linux wont run" to adapt an old saying :-)
Completely agree. He's not mentally ill.

He's a pussy grabbing, race-baiting, wall-building, orange fuck.

Nothing really to be concerned about. It's all good.
Thiel, without question.
They're examples of the technology, not examples of interesting statistical data.
Whether you think it's a big deal or not isn't really the point - after all, do you not believe that, a person who expresses some racist belief, even a true one, about (for instance) a Mexican person feels just as justified in the belief?

You can argue about who is actually justified for feeling what, but crucially, the only impact it ends up having is to further embed the feelings. In other words, it is not a solution to these problems, it is a cause.
I use GitHub projects/issues with the WakaTime integration, but most of my projects are open-source or the company already uses GitHub private repos.

Trello also works well alongside GitHub issues.
When you take wildly changing vote count estimates (from +10 to +2 within two weeks) and turn that into more than 80% of probability of a specific candidate winning, that's a completely special level of stupidity.

Nassim Taleb also wrote about this https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/796357059813974017
Agreed, in my case what ends up happening is I start out with no tests but soon the project becomes huge and i have to start writing tests if I want to push stuff without fear.

The thing is, most large companies have a QA team so this fear is not super tangible to many developers. And small startups are more focused on building stuff quickly (which they should be).

I think this is why this topic has been polarizing. Some people feel the need and some people do, depending on which role you're playing in your organization.

Nowadays interestingly, even the large companies are moving towards more testing because they can cut QA costs that way.
Electron.js: Run Electron apps in any browser.

~~No external dependencies~~ Builds a statically linked Chrome, so just `npm install` and you're good to go
> * British Columbia punishes renters, as it taxes 'passive income' (i.e. rent), which discourages owners from renting out existing properties or building-to-rent.*

There are so many incorrect statements in this sentence, I don't even know where to begin.

Taxing vacant properties does not punish renters. It "punishes" people who buy properties for speculation, or (as the AirBNB trend is going) attempt to control a piece of limited supply.

The purpose of taxing passive income (lazy landlords, rent collecting) more aggressively is because it is not actually work. It is technically wealth extraction. As a renter, 100 percent of your rent is a "tax" (it's not going to offset any of your long-term assets); and when you pay 70-90 percent of your income in rent as a tax (as many minimum wage workers do), it is massively difficult, if not impossible, to save enough to acquire any assets that help you build wealth. On the landlords' side, it's even easier to use all that extracted wealth (from poor people) to acquire assets that build wealth.

No, collecting rent is not work or a job. Even if you have a whole fleet of illegal immigrants scrubbing the toilets, throwing down cheap carpet, and painting the walls of your units every few years. The moment you enter the territory of needing to pay somebody else to manage your asset (even if it is "just" scrubbing the toilets after your AirBNB tenants or renters leave), you're entering passive income territory.
Sure they are. If homes are cheap, you buy a big home and save little. If homes are expensive, you invest in a car and commute or buy a "cute and cozy" home, and invest the rest.
"OMG, Trump has won through lies and deception! We failed to stop him. How on Earth did that happen? We must out-manipulate our opponents next time."

If you read between the lines, this is what the article condenses to.

The discussion here is mostly creepy groupthink shit.

Social networks fact-checking their content? What's next? Should AT&T stop the spread of misinformation over its phone lines? Should USPS fact-check your mail?

Facebook is not a real news source and never going to be one. At best it's a communication medium. At worst it's a giant propaganda machine. Any moves to get it further away from the former and closer to the latter are just machinations to change who benefits from the propaganda and nothing else.

We don't need an "improved" Facebook. We need a working replacement for old-school newspapers, TV stations and radio channels. The "new media" eroded all of those, but failed (so far, at least) to provide anything of equal utility and value. Hence all the issues involved in the coverage of these elections.
Slowdown will turn fairly quickly into a major speedup if you're trying to do operations on multiple files.
They could sponsor a developer or provide hardware to willing developers.
Let's say I have a new theory, called Understanding Driven Development. The system says:

It's a bug if someone needs to change code and they, at any moment, see code they don't understand. Stumbled into the wrong place? Bug filed for better notes on organization. The code you need to touch not understood? Understand what you see before you make a single change. If you change code and don't update docs, or documentation and code out of sync? It's a bug, and changing one to match the other _without detailed understanding_ is a bug too!

Now, that seems reasonable. And if a study comes out and says people can't make program changes faster, on average, when participants are given a bit of code identical, but with more (accurate and non-trivial) comments, that doesn't mean UDD doesn't work. It doesn't test it on real, full size applications. The code was the same, despite clarity of code is one of the goals of UDD -- one of the core claims is that UDD gets you better code to begin with. It focuses on a tiny test of something not necessarily core to the UDD mindset.

But it's evidence that at least one claim I've made is false. In fact, that study would be enough for me to throw that idea set into the garbage.
https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/any/trait.Any.html#method.down... ? :)
Trump Seeks Court Order Against County Registrar in Nevada
If you're trying to stash illegitimate money overseas, would you do it in your own name, or use a trustworthy local stand-in when available?

Secondly, even if the money is legitimate, Canada does not tax capital gains on residences that are your primary residence.

So if one wants to buy 5 homes, one could buy 1 yourself, and find stand-ins for the other 4. Or if one doesn't plan on living in any, 5 stand-ins.
We obviously need a commission that determines what things are facts and which things are fiction. It will be comprised of experts who know more than the populace, so it will be much better. It will be called the Ministry of Truth.
The Oregon/Washington/Colorado vote by mail system is very convenient. We get paper ballots by mail which can be returned by mail or dropped in official boxes and the results are scanned. This leaves a paper trail that is possible to recount if necessary.

Voters in a little over half of US states can vote at home[0], but they need to explicitly request ballots.

The ability to vote at home does seem to increase voting percentages. It is hard to compare before/after since all states that have so far switched entirely to vote by mail had a popular option for a while before, but all three states seem to do fairly well in national rankings, maybe particularly so in non-presidential election years. I found a site that collects such data [1] (relative to voting eligible population not registered voters) and in 2014 Colorado was 4th highest, Oregon #5, and Washington #21. For this election it looks like Colorado was #6, Oregon #13, and Wasington #16. So voting percentages might not go way up if everyone did this, but seem likely to go up some at least.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absentee_ballot#United_States

[1] http://www.electproject.org/home/voter-turnout/voter-turnout...
I think it's pretty clear that when a fair portion of your data (polls) are misleading or incorrect for whatever reason - your algorithm will have a very hard time producing meaningful output.
Power of the Daleks: review of the Doctor Who story lost since the 60s
Agreed, and it's likely more about sending signals to the investor class. And make noises like they're doing something about not being able to afford to live here. The government doesn't want prices to crash, because then homeowners would be screaming. But they do want to let the air out of the balloon a bit.
If somewhere like SF will adopt it although, they will have to make their rent control at least follow inflation. Sub inflation %0.5 rental limit increases are a bit crazy. Even %2/yr is relatively low.
Rust has static types with generics and algebraic data types. 99% of the use cases for that get covered. It has trait objects for when you need runtime type information, but they're used very rarely and you can make that pattern work with a chain of `downcast_ref` if lets or obviate its need by implementing methods.
> Climate change is a sexy issue, but health damage from air pollutants tends to cause more actual health damage.

Except that climate change will ultimately lead to absolute health damage for planet and all of its occupants.

That makes it way more important than health damage in the here and now, even though that's obviously easier to see and relate to.
For the Thinkpads, yes. Lenovo is one of the companies that maintains a list such as this: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/documents/pd031426
(This is a list of computers that they have certified one or more Linux distros against -- typically RHEL and Ubuntu).

Any of the problems that you usually hear are typically on their non-Thinkpad lines.
It is used there to avoid imgur censorship.
Peter Thiel Is Poised to Become a National Villain
I assume the author means you won't be able to boot the machine using Linux until modifications are made to the OS. Linux probably runs just fine inside a Docker container.
Don't forget us genXers.
The latest MBP leapfrogged the rest of the market again
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I don't know about 60 hours per week, but I work 32 hours (four eight-hour days), and it's fantastic. I noticed that Friday was the day I couldn't wait to end, but now I end the week right before it becomes boring. Every Thursday afternoon is "oh, it's the weekend already? Nice!" and I've been doing this for a year or so.

I definitely recommend it if you can take the salary hit.
Haha, sorry I knew this list would cause this sort of trouble. I'm a big believer in pilot wave theory myself, it's just very much not the 'mainstream' view. And I didn't mean to imply that the last two were close together, either. I do think monetary policy probably has some effect (whether we understand or can model that effect is another matter), but I didn't mean at all to imply that it was anywhere near the certainty of the sun rising, it just happened to be the closest :).

I think perhaps we disagree more about the probability of these two:

- The Clinton Foundation has been or is involved in some shady dealings

- Muslims want to implement Sharia law in Europe

Than the other two. I think both of those are, in some sense, almost certainly true. There are Muslims who want to implement Sharia law in Europe. The Clinton Foundation has been involved in transactions that at least have the appearance of moral uncertainty. The headlines that I listed are just overly strong statements/generalizations of those (IMO undeniable) facts.